Elden Ring: Morgott and the 'Flame of Ambition' Explained
Elden Ring players will face numerous bosses throughout the game, some of them more than once. Most of the time these are “lesser” bosses inElden Ring, but there is one major boss that players will face twice under different names. Many Elden Ring players may struggle with Margit, the Fell Omen the first time they face him, but they will also face him again in Leyndell capital as Morgott the Omen King.
These two similarly-named beings are intentionally so, as Morgott uses Margit as a false name to hunt Tarnished without giving out his true identity. He’s not the first character to use multiple names inElden Ring, but he is perhaps among the most explainable. Morgott seeks to end any Tarnished looking to become Elden Lord before they become too powerful, with his place in the Capital as the last line of defense of sorts. That, and his rightful place as self-proclaimed Last of All Kings, as his demi-god siblings are all “traitors.”
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As both Margit and Morgott, he’ll beat on a simple concept that may sound more important than it is: “the Flame of Ambition.” That’s not to say it’s not thematically important, as it very much is, but it’s not some mechanic or plot device Elden Ring players should get caught up on.
In the simplest terms, it’s a figure of speech. Morgott is wanting to stop the Tarnished’s ambition of becoming Elden Lord, which is the exact same ambition players have for beating the game. It’s not exactly fourth-wall breaking, but Morgott relishes in the fact that he can beat players back. When players first face him as Margit, he’ll say that they are emboldened by the flame of ambition and that Margit the Fell will extinguish it.
Given how Margit serves as the
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