Elden Ring - Blind Playthrough #61: Giants’ Mountaintops III (Giants’ Gravepost to Giants’ Forge)

[@MrYadaization]

Holy crap I never thought I'd see a neighbourhood I'm so familiar with on youtube lol. Yknow I never really appreciated how large and beautiful the trees are here, to me it was just a normal part of the city since I've lived in the lower mainland my whole life. You've opened my eyes!

[@IrvingIV]

I won't explain how to do it, but that crimsonwhorl bubbletear you found can be used in a glitch with other items to negate non-physical damage until you die, teleport, or rest at a site of grace.

[@montyawol]

I believe that crimson tears purpose is for counteracting that move Mogh does between phase 1 and 2.

[@808brian5]

For that missing cave that leads to the hanging void beast thing you saw, I suggest you more thoroughly check out the area around the main stairs running from Altus Highway Junction grace to the Outer Wall Phantom Tree grace.

[@808brian5]

In the future, I'd love to see an episode with you learning/exploring/discussing the mechanics in Elden Ring. There are many that you didn't explore in your first play through. I'd enjoy seeing you learn more about all the new mechanics and hear your thoughts about how From has evolved their mechanics over the years. Just a thought. Thanks.

[@joshk494]

I think at 37:00 you're conflating Destined Death with Erdtree Burial. Destined Death has been shunned for a long time by this point, ever since Marika removed the rune of death from the Elden Ring during or following her conflict with the Gloam Eyed Queen. In doing so, she seized control over the life/death cycle, seemingly intending to keep the demigods (as well as warriors of her choosing, like the Tarnished) immortal while recycling mortals' bodies and spirits through the Erdtree itself via Erdtree Burial. Destined Death was meant to be confined, but, as Ranni has explained to you, she stole a fragment of it from its guardian (whom you already know) and unleashed it back into the world on The Night of Black Knives. The Shattering followed that tragedy. This is all stuff I think you know, or would know if you had the information you've already gathered laid out in front of you. Like you, I am of a mind that death is VERY canonical, but resurrection is enable by Grace. The vast majority of people who at one point could see Grace, including Tarnished who were not too long ago guided back to The Lands Between by it, no longer can. In fact, Tarnished supposedly had Grace bestowed and taken away twice in history, it was taken once when Marika exiled them and Godfrey, and again if they returned to the land but proved somehow unworthy. That we still see Grace makes us very special by this point in the story of the world. This pretty well explains how other Tarnished we meet can die and seem to stay dead while we repeatedly return. Almost every Tarnished we meet specifically tells us they used to see Grace but lost it. The Greater Will also seems to have deprived the Demigods of Grace when it "abandoned" them and the land, following their fruitless warring and descent into varying levels of madness. I think of seeing Grace as similar to being a Moon-Scented Hunter in Bloodborne.

[@TheRealFacemanguy]

ah, Didn't expect regret. I do so love aegon's obsession with boluses it brings me great joy. I can't wait fo you to finish the game so you can start participating in lore discussions.

[@Trimmbot]

Im helping setup/in a wedding all day so all my downtime I’m gonna sneak bits of the video in. It’ll be just like Aegons recording sessions, just little bits at a time. Hope you guys all are having a good day and thanks for the video Aegon!

[@HeevaEgo]

WOW! Quite the different approach to the opening segment of a video.. I love it!! It’s great hearing you speak your thought process more in-depth

[@ajsynn]

Isn't it amazing? I've been watching Aegon's videos for what must be very close to a decade by now and I haven't found anything else quite like it. I unfortunately don't have the bandwidth in my life to even play Elden Ring right now, but I'm still here (albeit a bit behind) for Aegon's playthrough.

[@jonathanrcd]

I'm happy that this series is getting near the end. Eagon made a tremendous gameplay, reading every item, looking in every single scenario, talking to npcs. You surely played the game taking the most value os every single bit of content, you almost didn't miss anything, and you did a great job in understanding the history. Better than 99% of player who finishes the game without knowing what is happening in the world. In general, I'm very excited to see your reaction at the end. But otherwise... The series is ending. What am I going to watch now?

[@genkaioftheforest]

Not ending yet...still a bit left

[@Lindoge52]

I believe you've come across a vessel for Sellen before, you may want to retread some areas related to magic Edit: I hadn't gotten to the point in the video where it said her body had died, don't think its possible anymore

[@4blasphemy]

it literally said after the burning of the erdtree that Sellen's body has died, he was too late

[@kingnro1]

@@4blasphemy I think that means the body he already found

[@4blasphemy]

@@kingnro1 the primal glintstone was in his inventory, he did not put it into the new body, what else could that message mean, if not the fact that he can no longer put it into it, because it died

[@kingnro1]

@@4blasphemy I think the text is supposee to hint that Jerren has killed the body that Aegon already saw, but I'm not sure, since I've never seen that pop-up myself.

[@4blasphemy]

@@kingnro1 i've never seen it either, but precisely because of that, i think it can only mean what i said, since why would it not pop up every single other time someone made it to the point jerren kills that body, so it can only make sense, if it isnt that body

[@4blasphemy]

nepheli loux has a questline that is tied with gostoc and kenneth height, unsure if you could have still done at this point (where you are now, for sure not) but its another thing that should not be forgotten (main thing is that morgott has to die, only after that can you do anything which would be to go to godricks throne room)

[@FCTheHunter]

I hope you remember you saw a Sellen puppet in the underground part of the 3 sisters towers...

[@TheRealFacemanguy]

mission failed we'll get 'em next time.

[@flugga182]

easily one of my favorite episodes. I love when we dig deep into the lore.

[@TheRealGovika]

I never get tired of seeing you upload, Aegon! Thanks so much for another great vid

[@UncleFenris]

Huzzah for Fire Giant! I really need to start (now that the series is almost finished) taking notes as I watch bc I always think of things to comment that I will inevitably forget. Wrt Sellen's quest, once you obtain her soul, look around thoroughly within the confines of The Three Sisters. I hope that's vague enough, but if not, I'm sure someone will scold me appropriately. 😅 As for the Fire Giant boss, a fun fact is that you can find a summon sign from a familiar face, had you taken the other route to the arena. And for all of your anxiety about missing things, you still manage to find things I missed across four or five separate playthroughs-- case in point, the catacombs with the Alabaster Lord. So I wouldn't it sweat it too much, you've seen so much! What you haven't yet can always be seen with a NG(+) and the benefit of your prior experience. Glad your summer vacation went well, BC looks like such a beautiful place! Until next time, take care!

[@Rincewindus]

Beastmen, all over the shop. You'll be one of them, sooner or later.

[@gabrielducros6372]

On the topic of Zamor's participation to the War against the Giants, the Ancient Hero that you fought in this episode received the honor of an erdtree burial, which hints that they did ally with Marika's Empire. On another topic, I hope you go back to speak with Roderika and Hewg at least a couple more times !

[@lute6904]

Another one of the Hero’s of Zamor in the weeping peninsula holds Radagons Scarseal; which could have been given as a reward for participation in the war.

[@casitive]

Ah, Trees in FromSoftware's games my absolute Favorite Subject lol.

[@jlmeyer7]

Lions claw on the greatsword is my favorite :) Artorias them all into oblivion.

[@bludgeon1081]

11:53 this place is really pretty. Kinda cool that in Elden Ring, a tree is an antagonistic force. Trees usually represent purity and nature, but trees can actually be quite savage. Many ants tend to protect trees by killing competing plants in order for the tree's roots to take as much land as possible. In exchange, the ants can enjoy the shelter of the tree. So kinda similar to the Erdtree as well

[@em__dash]

Great to see the collaboration between Aegon of the Slightly More Distant Past and Aegon of the Future-Past

[@kcojco]

Mohg and Morgot are from Godfrey and Marika aren’t they? Blaidd is Rannis shadow from the two fingers, to watch her I believe.

[@ilcorvo9559]

Yes

[@HubbaBubba768]

Maybe the birds have similar behavior to parrots and other birds that mimic the sounds they hear.

[@Mohobofo]

Also i cant imagine using one weapon for an entire run. A basic r1 attack only weapon too lol. There is soooo much fun stuff to use in er and sooo many different ways to approach fights. Limiting yourself to one weapon with no ash and the same buff just seems like youre hurting your own experience.

[@TheLeafar99]

I was wondering how long it would take for the KFC joke lol

[@manasawasthi]

Sellen - Rennala's Library

[@manasawasthi]

Seluvis Puppet - Sellen

[@Hargrada]

Something I like about Melina is how her cutscenes depict her breaking the 4th wall and directly addressing the player. When she first shows up, she stares directly at the camera and offers the player an accord. The scene you see here has her thanking the player for guiding her while again looking at the camera (I like that you can see her eye move a little to focus on us as opposed to our tarnished avatar). There’s another cutscene that involves her talking to the player in the same way, but that might be a spoiler left for a future playthru.

[@kingnro1]

The fact that burning the Erdtree doesn't elicit much of a response in the world is one of the more disappointing aspects of the game.

[@HeevaEgo]

let’s be honest, what exactly will the people of the world even do?… to them it’s the end of the world😭

[@kingnro1]

@@HeevaEgo Acknowledging that their equivalent of the sun faces potential catastrophic destruction would be a start...

[@Mohobofo]

A little advice, you should prob stop using holy damage buffs. Theyre really bad especially late game. Theres fire vlood and lighhtning grease, bliddflame blade is nice and strong. Ashes of war like cragblade. Definitely switch it end game is pretty tough and holy is bad damage type against, you know, gods lol

[@killervic7379]

Ahoy