Golden Order = Western imperial capital led by Marika ('Merica). It’s not that hard to piece out. The rest of Golden Lineage seems like GRRM-inbred romance slop writing that goes nowhere. The exception is Messmer, who carried out the Hornsent genocide in the distant DLC Land of Shadow on behalf of America Marika - he’s Israel stand-in.
If you don’t care about spoiler (not that it matters in souls game, most people just play the game, kill things, and then watch lore videos afterwards to understand what they just did) and wants a really good video essay analysis of the DLC with highly relevant IRL implications I can’t recommend enough the following
Golden Order = Western imperial capital led by Marika ('Merica). It’s not that hard to piece out. The rest of Golden Lineage seems like GRRM-inbred romance slop writing that goes nowhere. The exception is Messmer, who carried out the Hornsent genocide in the distant DLC Land of Shadow on behalf of
AmericaMarika - he’s Israel stand-in.I wish i was more up to date on elder ring lore to make more jokes about this; i never played the DLC :'(
If you don’t care about spoiler (not that it matters in souls game, most people just play the game, kill things, and then watch lore videos afterwards to understand what they just did) and wants a really good video essay analysis of the DLC with highly relevant IRL implications I can’t recommend enough the following
https://hexbear.net/post/7528289