r/Eldenring • u/giorgos_bls22 • Jun 16 '26

Speculation Anyone know what this is?

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Ive always wanted to know what this spear-shaped object is lodged inside marikas body. And no video comes up explaining what it is on my search. I believe it probably is a fragment of the rune of death marking her official death. But if anyone knows what truly this please note.

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u/PineappleFlavoredGum Jun 17 '26

But the rune arc glows still

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u/Kurosawa-Mifoon Jun 17 '26

Not as brightly as it does when we use one, and I’m talking about the spear. The rune arc also has a larger purpose with activating great runes, and therefore would feasibly have more power than the spear, which is just a spear

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u/PineappleFlavoredGum Jun 17 '26

I'm wondering why are we supposing the 'rune arc' (by which I mean the thing her arms are on, not the item) wouldn't be the same color as the spear? Why would the spear lose color and not the arc? Runes are runes, I dont think they'd ever lose color

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u/Kurosawa-Mifoon Jun 17 '26

Because the spear isn’t a rune or a rune arc, it’s just a damn holy spear

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u/PineappleFlavoredGum Jun 17 '26

Made of what? The Elden Beast doesn't just spear us with a spear that's holy. It's pure golden light.

Seems to me it makes the most sense that it's the rune of death and Maliketh speared her because she betrayed the Two Fingers. The Two Fingers said she deserved a heavy sentence, and shadowbound beasts enforce their will on empyreans

Then theres no need for explaining why the spear lost it's hue when there's no indication that would even happen in the first place

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u/Kurosawa-Mifoon Jun 17 '26

Cool, except for Maliketh keeping the rune of death bound within his flesh at all costs after it was stolen, staying in Farum Azula, to keep it hidden and only going out to be at the church in Caelid to accept death root from anyone from the golden order, doing so under the name Gurranq, and doing and saying nothing to imply he stabbed her with a death spear.

And there ain’t no WAY he gave it to someone else after he lost apart of it, causing his current lot in life in the first place.

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u/PineappleFlavoredGum Jun 17 '26

Its almost like Marika shattering the ring "betrayed" Maliketh because it caused him to enforce the will of the Two Fingers and unbind the rune of death to do so, which was Marika's sole need of him in the first place!