Elden Lore To Study and Relax To - Nightmares of the Lands Between

Looking for more Elden Lore to Study and Relax to? We've compiled all of our spooky videos in order to create a delightful little nightmare before Christmas.
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Timestamps per video:
Intro: 00:00:00
The Dragonkin Soldiers: 00:01:24
Dominula: 00:09:55
The Fingercreepers: 00:20:59
What Lurks In Caelid: 00:29:51
The Erdtree Burial Watchdogs: 00:39:39
Curse of the Dung Eater: 00:48:53
The Abductor Virgins & Inquisitors: 01:05:11
The Royal Revenants: 01:15:49
The Claymen: 01:25:38
Astel & The Fallingstar Beasts: 01:35:18
The Ulcerated Tree Spirits: 01:44:37
The Imps: 01:54:12
Giant Creatures of the Lands Between: 02:02:58
The Rune Bears: 02:14:36
The Death Birds: 02:23:17
Patches: 02:36:25
The Finger Readers: 03:42:30
Thank You To Our Members: 04:02:32
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[@MomPleasurer]

just an idea, maybe the giant octopuses homes were giant reefs, destroyed by radahn after his gravity magic ruined the even flow of the tides

[@OvRedux]

Hell nah

[@christophermurray9581]

Looking back at the dragonkin soldiers, their stomachs are hollow much like trolls and giants that lost their connection to the fell god.

[@belaeisenporth4593]

I am now in the phase of Elden Ring in which I watch videos like this one because its interesting af to me and not because I want to sleep to it. Good work brother keep on with it! Elden ring's worth every minute it takes from my life.

[@seanmarkovich7563]

I always hear everyone talking about vaty, zio and rusty, but I think its high time Square Table takes it spot amongst or even at the top of that list. Bravo to the person/team behind this channel

[@square-table-gaming]

Thank you! I work my ass off on this series haha

[@devonmarcus101]

I've seen many of your videos before, never saw the one on the Dominula. Sooooo good!

[@eburel506]

The dung eater gives me the absolute creeps.

[@avecenix85]

The best lores of ER😊❤... The musics, the narratives & story lines suits awesomely.. Well done STG🎉

[@square-table-gaming]

Thank you!

[@qmati5373]

So cool! The art, the timestamps, the music. This video is truly a gift from a higher being

[@square-table-gaming]

C'mon I ain't all that

[@intotheunknown8774]

Amen

[@xavier84623]

31:59 this is a classic elden ring hitboxes moment!!! xD

[@tibby7709]

love this stuff so much, adore long form lore videos, just something to lose myaelf too in thought about some other far off world that doesn't affect me really, just pondering it's implications and other mysteries. keep up the amazing work !!!

[@Game_Daily18]

Such a beautiful surrounding game enjoyed the watch bro 😊

[@danieldanielson2324]

The stakes that are decorated and scattered throughout Dominula, does anyone else see the resemblance to the Rune of Death you touch after felling Maliketh? Is there a connection between Death, dominula, godskins nobles, celebrants and deathbed companions?? Edit: Also wanted to add if no one pointed out before. The fog is so dense that you can’t see the Erdtree. Are they lost from Grace? Are they tarnished????

[@dylanpfeiffer4539]

Didn’t the godskins take the rune of death to create the god slaying black flame. Hence why maliketh says “I won’t have it stolen from me again”

[@danieldanielson2324]

⁠@@dylanpfeiffer4539that’s the Black Knife Assassins. They stole the Rune of Death and used it to slay Godwyn the Golden.

[@TheMarauderOfficial]

yes there is, the godskins were the children of the gloam eyed queen, who was probably marikas sister and held the rune of death

[@xavier84623]

3:30 i feel like this could proves the opposite. if you partake in dragon communion, you become draconic. in the old days of the erdtrees order, dragon worship was allowed and part of the order, so just from appearance and description of the dragon knights, the most obvious answer is these are old warriors from back in those times, half transformed by dragon communion, but taken slightly less far than the magma whyrms, and also they were respected enough at the time to be given armor. perhaps after dragon communion and worship became taboo they were driven underground to hide, just like the omen.

[@MrAshCarr]

Except that the dragon communion cult and Godfrey's cult would be naturally in opposition, one coming closer to the dragons by befriending them and the other by killing and consuming them. Godfrey's cult is one of the ones I suspect is behind the "It is said" part of the whole "dragon communion turns people into wyrms" thing

[@DefonotMax]

This is EXACTLY what I wanted. Thank you❤

[@square-table-gaming]

Happy to provide!

[@BrassMaster117]

Love your content as always

[@KnowerOfThing]

Spooky lore is the best lore

[@MrJohnmirelli]

Rykard seems to be able to grow limbs what if he just kept cutting his own hands and they grow back

[@marystone860]

YAY! I LOVE these! (added to Elden RIng Playlist!) Wow! I never heard that poor Dragon Ezykes's story told like this before! When you called him a Revenger, I was like:' WOAH!' That means he would have a lot in common with the Recusant Bernahal, and Bloody FInger Hunter Yura! (ESPECIALLY Yura!) It's a shame he was SO infested with Scarlet Rot, maybe Ezykes and Yura could have worked together! They had very similar methods and outlooks, going after those who took Dragon Communion too far!

[@poppapiltch5601]

I also wonder if the poles/posts in dominula were once adorned with (g)od pieces, long since deteriorated and now covered in flower's, an echo of what once was there

[@captainxit5573]

Thank You So Much. Big Time Love From Aboard Ship Lost!❤

[@MrJohnmirelli]

What if it’s a giant that did dragon communion? They have a hole in there belly. Maybe there body’s were stronger to still maintain a humanoid figure. I think it’s a possibility

[@rotcehlobo8311]

Yay more lore!!

[@GeniusInALamp]

Have you done a video on the pumpkin heads yet?? Something about them makes me so curious, I’d love to know more about them.

[@square-table-gaming]

We have not! But I am not sure I could stretch them for a whole video

[@cliftonjackson441]

They're the Evas of the lands between

[@gavyncarter9461]

I think rykard was and administer of justice for the golden order before his discontent with it. Hense why john fingerman and his buddies were in the sewers and mountains. Maybe he's directly involved to why the dung eaters physical body was there, maybe the trial we see in the intro was spearheaded by rykard, and the war with the giants sounds farther in the timeline before he fed himself to the serpent. so he could have been convinced that the war was just at the time. There's really no theory why they're in the manor, as it's been stated, it seems he was on good terms with his full siblings so it makes sense why they're there to grope us

[@krystal7916]

Yes another great long form video to sleep to .... Maybe lol😅

[@c-los2639]

More spooky stuff

[@damienservidio2488]

Bro patches is a multiversal scoundrel lmao

[@travisf2240]

Okay but what’s the gorgeous piano in the Patches section?

[@square-table-gaming]

Identity Crisis by Myuu

[@travisf2240]

@@square-table-gaming Thank you so much I love love loved the video but the music moved me

[@Tortuga2223a]

Myuu has been making masterpieces since the Creepypasta days 😌​@@travisf2240

[@jonathanbaker4361]

I think Elden Ring needs to do a better job of what exactly a "god" is.

[@OwenHooper-mv4fm]

For the Royal Revenants- I always assumed they were from the time of spirit flame burial- same time as the birds etc.

[@twinlyplays_backup]

Completely unrelated to the video but just a heads up that the description say its about the knight factions 😹

[@square-table-gaming]

Appreciate that! New description didn't carry over haha

[@ReddAngry]

Is there a lore reason for felled enemies disappearing?

[@square-table-gaming]

Enemies who fall in battle do die. Their essence is returned to the Erdtree feeding the cycle of death and rebirth. In canon, the only people who revive are the tarnished, and that's only those of them that still see grace.

[@Twiztdo.o]

​@@square-table-gaming Well now i feel bad for the sheer amount of genocide ive committed grinding for runes

[@jare2067]

they don’t follow the golden order.. also demigods don’t count as they aren’t bound to the rules of the golden order. The golden order is basically just “the laws of nature” in the lands between.. as far as i know

[@ReddAngry]

@@square-table-gaming thanks!

[@ReddAngry]

@@jare2067 thanks!

[@Haseebv]

I want you to read me bedtime stories

[@square-table-gaming]

Currently only my daughter gets to hear that, but if enough people commentsl about that I would consider doing it as a secondary channel haha

[@WargRider20]

Padme Amygdala

[@MrAshCarr]

For some reason I'm the most suspicious about any description that includes the words "It is said". Especially in Elden Ring, Dark Souls 1, and Bloodborne where there are players involved who definitely want to push a certain narrative, such as Merika and The Fingers, Gwyn, and the Healing Church. And especially when GRRM was involved with the story development. Take the magma wyrms and dragon communion. There's no actual proof besides the "It is said" that wyrms are the actual inevitable outcome of dragon communion, but we do know groups that would definitely want to push a narrative against it. There are a plethora of different energy attack types, so why are the wyrms all fire based? Meanwhile our Tarnished can eat all the dragon hearts in the lands between and all we get are the eye effect? The finger creepers are found in many places primarily associated with Caria and the astrologers before them, but we see blasphemy in the description and automatically go to Rykard. But why would Rykard give a damn about Ranni (a direct competitor for power and in any case she's been keeping herself hidden) or Renalla (who everyone thinks is kinda pathetic)? He might know how to create them, but I'm not sure I believe he's responsible for any of them outside of the Manor. Up to the Astel part, and I thought the nameless eternal city where we find the corpse of Godwyn was originally part of Leyndell? It more or less lines up with that section of the city just behind the gates where there doesn't appear to be anything when we look at the map. Astel could have still had something to do with that, but given the opening cinematic its just as likely that section was collapsed either on purpose or accidentally during the siege. 1:54:00 I think theres a small but vocal and over represented part of the overarching Souls community that thinks using any enemy, especially the bigger ones, more then exactly once is using them too often.

[@square-table-gaming]

Rykard and Ranni do maintain a relationship. We can see this through his cooperation on the night of black knives as she leaves him the Blasphemous Claw, "On the night of the dire plot, Ranni rewarded Praetor Rykard with these traces. Should the coming trespass one day transpire, they would serve as a last-resort foil, allowing Rykard to challenge Maliketh the Black Blade, the black beast of Destined Death." If they weren't looking out for each other she'd have no reason to do this.

[@MrAshCarr]

​​@@square-table-gamingDo they maintain a relationship though? The Night of Long Knives was a loong time ago. Ok, so they worked together to get their oh so good half brother killed, which is par for the course for a GRRM story. And they are both working towards similar ends, both want to upend the entire system. But Ranni was working with a lot of people to make that night happen, and look where most of them are now. Just ask Alecto. But that was before her transformation and possibly before his. She is ruthless, intelligent and cunning, and shows absolutely zero problems with discarding allies in the pursuit of her goals when she has no need of them. When out and about she uses a disguise and gives a different name. She's also not arrogant enough to not have a backup plan, so she uses Rykard as a backup plan while neatly putting herself out of his reach by discarding her body for a doll's body, so hows he going to eat her now? Maybe she was the one who put the idea of feeding himself to the snake into Rykard's head. How much did he even know about her plan beyond killing Godwyn? I don't think they're currently working together. Giving your idea the benefit of the doubt, if one even knows the other is alive and active they're probably the least of each other's worries since he can't eat her and she just wants to leave if she wins.

[@twistedelegance_]

Well this is depressing

[@square-table-gaming]

Howso?

[@twistedelegance_]

@@square-table-gaming The Dung Eater story lol

[@twistedelegance_]

@@square-table-gaming I have ADD so it's kinda difficult to understand the setting but your videos help a lot even if I do listen to them several times and only register 10%. The way the tarnished steps into the world where this fracture has happened is confusing. At first I thought everyone was technically dead and some sort of manifestations of their previous self, then someone explained the rune of death was removed and they've all just either gone insane or infected with disease. But then, there are other humans too. And almost all of them have a sad ending. The omen thing I still don't understand. Nor why the enemies still do their thing despite everything having fallen a part. Sorry, just thinking.

[@square-table-gaming]

@@twistedelegance_ No worries. I can help with the omen thing. Basically before a person is born there is a chance their soul can be touched by the primordial crucible. If it is, that person is born an omen and they are persecuted by the Golden Order.

[@hannahshark8080]

The design of the Erdtree Burial Watchdogs are horrifying not only in design but also animation. Very unsettling, 2/10 thanks I fricking hate it

[@SmartenSVK]

Could u make wow lore too pls ? 😢

[@square-table-gaming]

World of Warcraft? That's a rabbit hole I am woefully unprepared to explore.

[@SmartenSVK]

Understandable just like to listín to your voice of u change your mind il be here 😉

[@tjniezek3096]

Is it just me or does the dung eaters armor look like 💩 after too much corn !?!?!

[@titaniumteddybear]

This is a really great compilation. But I wish you'd give credit to the creators and posters whose ideas helped inform these videos. I bet you've watched dozens of 'Elden Ring' lore videos. Don't all those creators deserve a shoutout?

[@square-table-gaming]

I do my best to stay away from other creators content when I write my scripts. If anything is a direct idea I've heard from someone else they do get a shout out in the video but it's rare and usually it's Zullie. I also call out when an idea is popular in the community and try to track down where it started but that can be incredibly difficult. I do all of my own research for these videos and write the scripts from scratch.

[@titaniumteddybear]

@@square-table-gamingI'm glad to hear you're thinking seriously about the issue. Great video btw.

[@Siculidee]

⁠@@square-table-gamingIm not sure what that guy or gal is on about, but the rest of us appreciate your hard work and know you do your due diligence. Some ppl in this community are unable to believe anyone can formulate their own ideas without hijacking others. But that mindset often comes from cynicism and or skepticism, but that’s their problem, not yours. Ideas and theories concerning this game and any souls like game will inevitably often sound similar because we’re all playing the same game, killing the same enemies and reading the same descriptions. Some of them act as if every copy of Elden Ring is unique with different clues for every player, “glad you’re thinking seriously about this issue“ 🤣 there is no issue….Great compilation and great work!

[@user-kq6um6mo6q]

If you are going to make ASMR, or "videos to relax to" can i suggest not doing mid-roll ads? You whisper through the video, which is relaxing.... until the 5x volume mid-roll ad kicks in..... its jarring, and then annoying..... which makes your video that you worked so hard on, and wouldnt be otherwise - jarring, and annoying. I really like the content though, you dont repeat yourself over, and over to pad out your run time on every video - though i have noticed some of that too. But its not bad... the ads are what puts black spots all over your banana.

[@square-table-gaming]

Unfortunately we're really not big enough to sustain ourselves purely through our fanbase. If we ever reached that point I'd definitely stop running midrolls

[@user-kq6um6mo6q]

@@square-table-gaming that's fair.... i wish the app would match video volume, or vice versa.... but the ads all have different volumes. KZbin is just trash... thats not your fault - but im about done with it.... the ads are worse than watching tv at this point. Last year they snuck a mid-roll ad on me that was 4 1/2 hours long - no joke.