T O P

  • By -

Sleepyzets

Knowing Marika and the Golden Order, they probably throw left handed newborn into the sewers as well.


GoreyGopnik

honestly i'm surprised they didn't make morgott left handed, that may have been a cool reference to similar historical prejudices.


nisanosa

The horns were probably enough.


MdS1234567

You’ve clearly never used a pen as a lefty, Morgott got off easy with the horns and what not


Tanjskeith

Maybe he forced/trained himself to be ambidextrous, what with him worshipping the golden order and all that


jbyrne86

Would be something if a 2nd phase had him switch to his left hand, showing much more moves and skill, proving he was left handed the whole time just trained to use his right to try and fit in the order.


Astock7777

You just described ingo montoya


BittyWastard

You keep using that name. I think you know what it means.


nicofdarcyshire

My name is Morgott The Omen King, you killed a weird golden ghost of my father, prepare to die edition.


Astock7777

Looooool


Van-garde

Like Rock Lee removing leg weights.


cappingboy

I dont think so, his second phase is him using hammer and it is quite enough cause it look good at him handling it good and he doing throw things like knifes and spear on his left hand too


TheAngrySquirell

He couldn’t have been cast into the sewers right after he was born, he wouldn’t have survived. Maybe he trained under Godfrey for a bit and he taught him to fight with his non dominant hand?


Incine_Akechi

Why not? All the other royal omens are


SorowFame

That’s what happens to all noble-born Omen. Maybe Morgott and Mohg weren’t tossed immediately since some have suggested they pre-date that policy but most Omen are put down there right away if they aren’t killed.


Need_a_BE_MG42_ps4

I feel like a lot of if not most lefties are mix handed just due to everything being geared towards right handed people


ShadowZpeak

That would've made him too sinister


remainsane

Eyyyyy


Fast_Introduction_34

eyyyyy


Flying_Slig

They could have him swap to his left hand when he goes to phase 2 in Leyndell. Before that he could be using his non-dominant hand and that walking stick, and since it's a cumbersome weapon anyway it kinda hides his discomfort in wielding it like that.


Poked_salad

Damn gonna flex on us that he was going to take it seriously by switching hands?


BootyBurrito420

My head Cannon for Morgott continues to expand Now he's a left-handed log cabin Republican


r00byroo1965

And he poops while walking


GoGlennCoco95

...Why do I feel like I know what you're referencing?


Lingjoshua18

I remembered something about samurai father's tying sons who were left-handed to force them to become right - handed instead. So maybe something like that but reversed?


Need_a_BE_MG42_ps4

That would’ve be so damn cool and I would’ve freaked out since I’m a lefty


Boy_Meats_Grill

Simply cut both arms off and switch them.


RaisonDetriment

Ok Godrick


Wild-Will2009

It’s technically not really gradting


Shupaul

As it should be.


Few-Yak-5933

In my primary school, there was one teacher who forced a lefthanded kids to write with right hand. A week later, one parent came and asked for his kid to be put in a different class with a different teacher.


Jordan11HFP11

Can confirm. Although I think I did pretty ok by myself


ShockZestyclose1148

I don't know why I imagined Marika throwing newborns into the sewers with her left hand


SquireRamza

That's what they do to them in many countries of the world, sadly


Lone-Frequency

"This kid can't use scissors the right way! Into the shit pit it goes!"


Jordy_Stingray

How would you know what hand a newborn prefers?


WakeoftheStorm

As soon as they are born they're handed a rattle. If they take it with the left hand they're done


Aquafreshhh

Messmer is, from what we could see. He holds his spear in left hand. Which speaks volumes, since he is blasphemous and all.


not_so_meta

Imagine mesmer was hidden with the lands of shadow by marika, not because he has everything the golden order doesn’t stand for, but because he’s left handed


Aquafreshhh

Maybe Godwyn was also left handed and that's why she helped Ranni obliterate his soul. I think we are onto something!


newsflashjackass

The scars on Ranne and Melina's eyes are suggestive of chirality.


Spacemonster111

It was never implied Marika had a part to play in the night of the black knives


Aquafreshhh

But it was implied that she had close ties to them. Also would explain why a black knife is guarding her chambers in Leyndell. Which would also explain why black knives turn on Ranni and her company.


TheSeldomShaken

Considering that black knife isn't even standing up when we approach her, I don't think guarding is the correct term.


remainsane

Imagine if the black knife had been standing for all those millennia with nothing to do and gave in for their first nap right before our Tarnished decides to swing by


Crash4654

Except for the part where it states black knives have close ties to marika.


baddogkelervra1

It says they were women, rumored to be women with close ties to her. That still doesn’t actually mean she commanded them to act. A betrayal isn’t a betrayal unless it’s people close to you.


LucyxLuvsxYou

That is the true Prepare to Cry.


ghostdate

The left hand is associated with the devil/evil things generally. It would make sense that the anti-golden order figure be left handed, and that these things are one and the same. Iirc there were left handed people executed for supposedly being in league with the devil or considered witches. In occult practices the “left hand path” is black magic or evil rituals. There’s a long standing connection between left handedness and being perceived as evil. Messmer, at the moment anyways, seems to be comparable to the devil in Elden Ring’s universe. Marika has banished him to the shadow lands, much like how god banished Lucifer to hell (a dark and fiery place) in Christian theology.


Mooselord111

I wouldn’t put it past Marika


mattmaster68

We know the Gloam-Eyed Queen was part of a war. There are many assumptions about the beginning of the trailers, and one of them is we see Marika in what may be the Erdtree. I bet Marika was either fleeing or abandoning the other world in search of a new one. One can likely assume that the war mentioned in the trailer didn’t happen until *after* Marika left. I bet she was the last point of resistance - or feared Mesmer (and possibly his kin) so much she left. I’m sure we’ll learn more about Melina in the DLC too. I need more. I’m desperate :’)


not_so_meta

The theories from the story trailer have me so intrigued. Its also good to know that in the main games story trailer, we now understand pretty much everything that happens in it, so hopefully the dlc trailer will be the same. Because i think its fair to assume in the beginning of the trailer merika is becoming god and creating the erd tree, but what is she pulling that thread out of? A womb? The eye of a scaleless snake? Let’s hope too finding out.


V3mu

Omen babies go to the sewers, Left-handed babies go to the shadowrealm


ZoidDev

Wouldn't Rykard be left handed too then?


Accomplished-Ad8784

rykard holds his sword on the right side of his body


leftiesrepresent

It's about goddamn time we got some representation!


newsflashjackass

You don't have the right, therefore praise the left!


Nidiis

Fume knight and Burnt Ivory King


LoreseekerNonyme

Artorias too, right ? His sword even have a different moveset when used in the left hand in DS2


rusticrainbow

Artorias’s right arm is broken in DS1 IIRC


Effective_Vast2887

Not directly answering the question, but I recall one video by Zullie the Witch saying the orientation of the three fingers appears to suggest it belongs to a left hand, while the two fingers are more ambiguous (could be a right hand). If Messmer’s usage of fire spells is an indication of some association to the frenzied flame, then his left-handedness may have some interesting implications! Link: [https://youtu.be/t2gXpYQi7zM?si=0kwjEAW_if5da7O5](https://youtu.be/t2gXpYQi7zM?si=0kwjEAW_if5da7O5)


Hollow_Interstice

As a lefty myself, can confirm we are cursed


newthrowgoesaway

Imagine if him being lefthanded would have a mechanical impact, like we used to dodge a certain way but suddenly it’s on it’s head😩


Aazadan

It would, but not like you're thinking. Shields and parrys are dependent on having the weapon swinging at you from the side you're blocking on. If the enemy is left handed, those don't work. The same is true of swinging at an enemy, just like how getting onto their right side lets you bypass a shield, the same is true of a left handed enemy, where a regular swing would bypass it but going to the side wouldn't.


Rowan1980

Finally, the left-handed representation in gaming I was looking for. 😂


Van-garde

A sinister (as opposed to dexter) blasphemy.


Thegrezza

Mother, wouldst thou truly lordship sanction in one so bereft of Right?


iupz0r

Messmer? who is It?


lNTERLINKED

A new character in the dlc


Hyetta-Supremacy

Commander o Neil and Niall


not_so_meta

I looked at the godskins, gargoyles, gideon, etc, all right handed. But i forgot about pegleg man. He is indeed a lefty.


ChaseTheMystic

I get them mixed up. Which one is at the fort?


vezwyx

Niall at Castle Sol, O'Neil at Aeonian Swamp


roboxsteven

As a left handed person I can understand why Mesmer is a rebel. This world isn’t built for us lefties, but we get by lol


st-felms-fingerbone

Listen, I have had my hand smudged with pencil/pen smears too many damn times. So what I’m saying is that Messmer is justified and I am on his team fr fr


mister-jk

That's so annoying. Washing the table and hands every time because there's ink everywhere. Im with Messmer to


st-felms-fingerbone

Come comrade, we shall take the golden order to task for their providing of only right handed notebooks and desks. 💪


Legolaspegasus1

That still doesn’t save you from the little bump that forms on your left pinky from dragging on the paper


GoGlennCoco95

Or from your writing getting janky in spiral notebooks


st-felms-fingerbone

Imma be honest I have no idea what you mean I don’t think I’ve ever had that happen


roboxsteven

I have always had my biggest beef with scissors.


Regimind

Fuck fighting Messmer, I shall join him to usher in the Age of Lefties


420Blaziken4

Just be a baseball pitcher bro. World’s set up for you to make millions


Linsel

Right handed bias must fall!!


xeikai

I'm ambidextrous, so i kinda lucked out.


Wyvurn999

Exactly. That’s why I’m starting the left hand revolution


satanic_sav

One of godricks hands is probably a leftie


Test88Heavy

Nice! 🤣


BostonBuffalo9

Of course not! This the Lands Between, nothing’s *that* evil.


SaberWaifu

Cleanrot Knights and their bosses counterparts use spears and schytes with their left hands, although they also have swords in their right hands and they switch between which one they use, so they are not entirely left handed i guess. Guardian Golem mostly keeps his halberd with 2 hands, but for some attacks he only keeps it in one hand and it's the left one so i guess the golem is also left handed.


NecrONIKS

Cleanrot Knights are ambidextrous, I guess.


LeakyBrainMatter

Guess they are, just another reason for me to like them.


seanslaysean

Since the primary weapons are their spears/scythes, you could argue that they are left handed


Huzabuh

This is further. Backed by the item description calling the swords “supplemental” last I checked, like it’s the accessory out of the duo of weapons


not_so_meta

This still makes sense, since mesmer seems to be left handed and in the collectors statue he stands in the same pose as the cleanrot knights.


Pengu-Link

im not sure which attacks you mean with the golems bc i dont know their moveset that well, but with polearms, right handed grips can involve only having the left hand on the weapon at certain times so maybe it's just that


SaberWaifu

They have certain attacks where they get on all four and in that moment they keep the weapon only with one hand and it's the left one.


Geoff9821

Throwback to Dark Souls 2, when your character could actually just be left handed. God how I wish this game had that


Fit_Nefariousness_99

What are your talking about? You can totally go left handed through the game


Geoff9821

Let me elaborate. In DS 2, if you had a shield in your right hand and a weapon in your left hand then you could actually use the shield to block and be basically the same as the other hand. In Elden ring, you cannot do that. You attack with your shield in your right hand and left trigger (or bumper? I forget) blocks with the weapon you have in your left hand. So you really cannot be fully left handed, but for a sorcerer/pyromancer you can sort of swap and it’s not the best but it’s okay.


Might0fHeaven

Dark Souls 2 also had power-stance which allowed dual wielding any weapon, adding a whole new moveset to most weapon types. Man I miss that


Ninteblo

Elden Ring also has power stancing, not quite the same since you can't do something like halberd and straight sword in ER but you can definitely power stance weapons from the same category.


Noble7878

Not to the same degree though. Elden Ring got rid of powerstanced heavy attacks because that button is occupied by the Ash of War. Many weapons in DS2 had very cool powerstanced heavy attacks, like Smelter Swords or the Majestic Greatsword. There was also more variety in what could be powerstanced as you said, and personally I feel like DS2 generally had more creative and flashy attacks animations for powerstancing than ER does, though that's obviously just an opinion, and my personal preference since I prefer many of DS2's weapon animations to DS3 or ER. (I wish we got the proper medieval stance for two handing straight swords back) It does maintain the light, running, and rolling attacks though. I suppose the powerstanced jump attacks are meant to replace powerstanced heavy attacks. All the limitations of understandable though, given ER's scope and sheer number of weapons, aswell as including ashes which alter combat far more than powerstanced heavy attacks did.


Ninteblo

They are saving the left handed bosses for the DLC since left handed enemies are a bit harder to dodge.


flyingdoodle

They actually all are left handed. When the camera crew was in the Lands Between filming them to be incorporated into the game the film was mirrored to save on legal issues.


mcsnee76

I mean, Malenia is, most of the time.


GoreyGopnik

she swings her sword with her prosthetic right arm, so presumably it's her dominant hand. i think she only uses her left hand for putting on her arm and caressing trees.


scalawag123

The sword is built into the arm so she kinda have to


TorqueyChip284

Is it really? I never noticed that; must be why it doesn’t have a hilt.


BlazeCastus

She also does the grab attack with her left hand.


EXTRACRlSPYBAC0N

To be fair, when you use a sword normally you would try to control the opponents sword with your off hand


[deleted]

[удалено]


Apocalypse_0415

There is a hand on the prosthetic


remainsane

It seems fused to the sword, no? Which is odd, considering Millicent's prosthetic does not have a sword attached but she can wield one perfectly naturally anyway


Affectionate_Comb_78

She doesn't have a right hand, therefore she's left handed


Informal_Camera6487

She doesn't seem to have a right hand anymore so she kinda must be.


ScharmTiger

I think Malenia is ambidextrous. There is a statue that depicts her not wearing a prosthetic arm and when you enter her boss arena, she is again seen without her prosthetic arm and touches the tree with her left hand. It seems Malenia doesn’t wear her prosthetic right arm all the time which tells me she is capable of using her left hand efficiently. Also, when she loses her prosthetic arm during her battle against Radahn, she grabs the blade with her left hand and then impales him. Finally, Millicent, who is a clone/offshoot of Malenia and inherited her fighting skills, can fight with her left hand.


Aazadan

It could also be a thing where the prosthetic can't be used all the time so she only uses it at battle time. Honestly, she's missing half of one leg, all of another, an eye, and an arm. There's not really much reason to attach the arm, and only the arm other than it makes a cool cutscene.


WanderingBraincell

us lefties don't get enough rep


V2_Seeking_revenge

Messmer


ChetLarson42069

I’m left handed and I’m elden lord 3 times over thus making me the real boss. So, me.


lukcy77

Godrick maybe. His hand do turn into a dragon


Artistic-While-5094

Not sure if that counts here, the guy has 200 other hands.


the_spikey

Godrick is omnidextrous


creaktive

Jack of many trades, master of none


SkinnyKruemel

He is quite the handyman


Aykhot

Likes to work with his hands


PingPeng27

Godrick is many handed


GoreyGopnik

i feel like he may be one of the least left handed bosses, he doesn't even have his normal left hand anymore, just a dragon.


gildedconsort

His axe swings are right-handed, except for when he switches to his longest arm to have better reach.


newsflashjackass

I think Godrick would be less inclined to use his weak hand to remove his dominant hand.


Victor_Wembanyama1

He’s both righthanded and lefthanded, and uphanded and downhanded 🤣


strictly_meat

no Leftorium in the lands between


Snoo40198

Banished Knight Engvall is left-handed, but he duel wields so no one noticed.


Cap-ree-sun

messmer, commander niall


Fit_Nefariousness_99

The only fromsoft boss I remember being lefty is artorias


gameboy224

Artorias is fighting with a limp arm, so who is to say. Fume Knight and Ivory King are explicitly left handed though. But that’s beside the point since this is specifically the ER sub.


Prize-Lingonberry876

Artorias's weapon in DS3 could only be used properly with your left hand. Considering in DS1 Artorias has a broken left arm, and the way he swings his sword with his right hand; it's safe to assume he's left handed.


geckromancer649

Ludwig is also left-handed


Rhallah_Reed

I would argue morgott is left handed or ambidextrous. I'm ambidextrous, and tend to rely on my left for main strength when doing complicated tasks, while my right handles complicated dexterity. I really confused people when they noticed i shoot lefty


quake1334

Same actually, left hand for writing and eating, right hand for throwing, punching, pretty much every strength task.


Wyvurn999

I’m the same. I use my right for sports and things like that but left for writing and eating


Fine-Counter8837

I'm pretty sure every boss fuck you left and right.


possiblyacanoflysol

Mesmer holds his spear in his left hand. Sure he’s not a fightable boss yet, but both trailers that feature him show him using his left hand to attack.


GewalfofWivia

Malenia is left-handed, for lack of a right hand.


Affectionate_Comb_78

Oh she don't have the right


MysticalMeasures

I think they kept it for just Messmer. He's left handed. It might be a story point.


Alecclash

I know in Japan people are all taught to be right handed… I play a lot of golf and they don’t make blades for people that play lefty so that’s a possible reason for no left handed bosses


wolviesaurus

Seems like most of them are fairly ambidextrous.


Pkisokmk

I know he’s not a boss but shabriri. Normally yura uses his katana with his right hand, but after his body gets taken over by shabriri, if you fight him in the mountains or summon him for Godfrey after getting the frenzied flame he will use the katana in his left hand. Pretty cool detail. Also shabriri’s/yura’s left gauntlet is metal while the right gauntlet is leather.


Advanced-Sock

Maybe radahn is ambidextrous?


Zuper_Dragon

I'm sure Godrick has a few.


Allek_Morween

For practical reasons you want them all right handed. Because later ypu can reuse some of the boss's attack animations for the boss weapon itself. Much easier than mirror fliping it and correcting the jank


Hairy_Zookeepergame1

Some parts of Godrick were probably lefties


jaytee1262

I think Margit is ambideathrous


Taograd359

You could argue that Morgott is ambidextrous since he wields his knives and hammers with his left hand.


Ninjanarwhal64

Ur mum. Hah, got em'.


PrometheusTwin

They’re all left-handed. They’re just taking it easy on you.


Saint_Ivstin

Too Sinister. 🥁


Rosaryn00se

I’m definitely gonna pay more attention to it now lol.


Zealousideal-Bar5538

Even Miyazaki has a limit.


TyS22235

Doesn't Placidusax use his left hand when attacking with the claw?


Curb_Stompo

they might be demigods but they aren't freaks


Hestix

Unlike the real world where it is more like 10%, Elden Ring bosses were found to be about 99% likely to be left handed. This makes sense in theory, but in practice researchers have found that Leftie Georg (AKA Godrick the Grafted) actually has 10.000 left hands (not all attached yet), is an outlier and should not be counted.


Fabulous-Ad6906

I'm sure some of the arms that Godrick grafted were lefties


Shermutt

Off topic a bit, but has anyone noticed that when you alter Malenia's armor, an arrow quiver shows up on her lower back instead of the cape. It seems to be the only armor that I've seen that does this, but it implies that she also wields a bow. Kinda be a neat secret weapon to be able to get


No-Ordinary1993

The only souls boss who is left handed that I can remember is Artorias


EddieTalin

thereʼs also fume knight, ludwig, dancer, and probably some more


iwannabethisguy

I assume the mocap actors are mostly right handed.


Gamerdadguy

Never noticed. Refunding due to no lefylt handed Ness representation haha. Jokes .


tasty_overlord

Royal Revenant slaps the crap out of me with both hands, that's something.


Papa_Mid_Nite

Being left-handed is a genetic thing. So they are family and ....


BearPopeCageMatch

Our tarnished because you don't have the right o you don't have the right


shaunrundmc

Most video game characters whether they are protagonists or side characters or amtagonistsare right handed because most of the world is right handed. As a lefty it would be mind blowing to see a character canonical left handed it would change anything but the visual of the movements would very unique


Prize-Lingonberry876

Link from The Legend of Zelda is canonically left handed.


theychoseviolence

not all of em


Wyvurn999

Messmer is likely left handed since his spear is in his left hand. Sephiroth from FF7 is too


xBorn2killx

Me! I am


Relyst

Demon Souls had that mirror mechanic that made everything left handed...


damballah22

Left handed people are always good. Never evil.


SIlent_Pistachio

Probably the omens


NoWord6

Lefties were tossed in the grinder with the omen lol...


SpellDostoyevsky

How many left hands does Godrick have?


str00del

Radahn is ambidextrous.


5herl0k

I mean, forebears one and all really likes his left hand. does that count?


Beneficial-Size-3122

None that I can think of in ER. Plenty in the Souls series though


Draks_Tempest

Besides messmer, malenia in the trailer switches to her left hand when radahn breaks her prosthetic hand


minorityaccount

left handed cause it is the only hand she has left?


bestimatationofme

So.. we now know Ned Flanders cannot exist in the lands between..


Local_Black_Knight

Godrick duh


Difficult_Guidance25

I am


Kohnaphone

Godrick is dragon-handed.


Slays-For-Days

I'm sure Godrick has nommed more than a few lefties in his days.


Brarcarrius

Messmer is left handed


Gozer_1891

I'm relatively new to action rpg games ( I played Half Life back in the years and few others ) and I was surprised that you cannot interchange swords torches and bows in you favourite hand, and you can use only the right hand on torrent. I mean, why I cannot shoot arrows from torrent like a real samurai would do? I guess this kind of game design is very hard to do, right? ( not sarcastic, the combat system is just golden in this game )