Elden Ring Lore - What Lurks In Caelid

What happens to the creatures living in a land of eternal rot when they themselves cannot die? How does the constant decay affect them? Do they live in anguish, or thrive in disease?
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[@blank7508]

First time going through caelid was like a nightmare safari, except i never stopped moving and was increasingly appalled and horrified by everything

[@Big_MON-KE]

Beware tarnished the lands of caelid are a foul rotten place thou shall think twice before traversing the rotten lands

[@ericjensen7580]

A nightmare safari that many don't choose to go on...I got teleported there. I remember after I finally got out of that cave emerging and being like "TORRENT WE'RE LEAVING"

[@swordmastersam483]

Something interesting about the giant crows is that they will pretend to get staggered, making the guard break noise and everything, and if you get off Torrent they will immediately go for a grab attack. To make it more convincing, they only do this move when their stance is close to actually breaking.

[@mcprawn]

So that's what happened ! I was so confused

[@swordmastersam483]

@@mcprawn The ones at the lake of blood near Mohg's Palace will do it too

[@biscuit2595]

Something interesting I noticed is that when you hit the white and red growth of caelid it actually bleeds, showing it has some sort of veins or other structure inside of it. Maybe it's supposed to symbolize the life within rot like how the dogs adapted.

[@davidedmondson8839]

I always thought it was like rot juice instead of blood. Kinda like everything was completely broken down and all that is left is the rot

[@Lihatesmen]

I love your channel 😊

[@LtCdrXander]

One of the ideas followers of the rot worship is the idea of "life, death, and rebirth." I believe sage Gowry has some dialogue regarding this. Maybe the fungal growths are all the organisms that died to Scarlet Rot in the past, now reborn as fungus and are a part of the rot itself. Arteria leaves also seem to have blood flowing through them. So maybe beings that succumb and die to the rot continue to sorta live on in a sense, but they're not really sentient anymore and their organic matter such as blood is not their own blood anymore, but rather fuel for the fungus and rot to thrive. Sorta like in death you are living on by literally becoming one with the rot. I believe this is what Gowry meant when he talks about the rot creating life as much as it takes away life. While the rot kills this world, new life is born from it, so as much as the rot is a destructive force it is also a life-giving and creating force, just in a way which is abnormal and disturbing to most people who aren't followers of the scarlet rot.

[@Retr0Nerd]

I never thought of that until you mentioned it. Everything that is infested with Rot, cannot die in the Lands Between. Makes all those infested all the more tragic.

[@Mistercodmobilefan8378]

Ikr like I thought scarlet rot would kill everything cuz it's like more dangerous than poison but wow the creatures there make it as their own instead

[@pilotman9819]

I find it sad what happened to Great Wyvern Greyoll. She was a majestic giant dragon that hailed as the first of her kin just to be found in such a dreaded and rotting state, unable to free her massive wings and take flight once again to the Lands Between or even beyond.

[@mellowyello1478]

Caelid is... whew. The moment you cross the threshold and everything has a red tint, and suddenly there are gross zombies everywhere.

[@averagecarpentryskills7148]

Elden Ring's areas can be viewed as seasons. You start out in spring and summer type areas that include Limgrave, Liurnia, and the Weeping Peninsula. It's advised to wait a bit before going to Caelid which is the late Summer scorched earth area. The sky is red there like late August and the scarlet rot has acted like a blight a drought on the area drying it up. After that the stars return and you can venture into night in the Eternal Cities. Then there's the Autumnal areas of the Atlus Plateau and the royal city. Followed by the harsh winter of the Mountain Top of the Giants and Consecrated Snowfield. The Haligtree area is like a frozen in time area where it's the end of fall and the beginning of winter's cold embrace. Very funerary too and deathbed like. The poison of the scarlet rot flows through the tree like a disease through a person and at the bottom are the graves of fallen warriors and a resting place / place of rebirth for the brother and sister demigods.

[@Reverandfatdave]

Man, I remember when I first crossed into Caelid and thought, "Wow, cool!" For like 15 minutes. I noped out of there with my level 15 tarnished. It's such a well designed area, the motif is so well executed. After some time, I stopped worrying and learned to love The Rot. I use the gladiator hammer and the rotten breath as often as I can now.

[@ThreeLeggedBear]

Dr. Strangetarnished

[@alphadoge3604]

Pretty sure that the marionette soldiers used by sorcerers are simply a means to be protected in melee combat. Your theory is plausible, but when you realize the dolls also exist in Liurnia around the Academy, it shows that the dolls are more as a means to keep themselves safe when someone gets too close

[@staticerror3613]

Interesting thing to note about the dino dogs: It seems that their minds may still be somewhat intact despite their extreme changes to their bodies. Going into Dragonbarrow from the Caelem Ruins (where you fight the two pumpkin heads together), go up the path to the grace, then travel left towards the isolated merchants shack, you'll find a large area with several spaced out Caled dogs. If you look carefully though, they aren't just mindlessly wandering, and instead protecting groups of goats and rams. It seems like they were once herding dogs that became corrupted by rot but continued with their duties.

[@lucamckenn5932]

Good eye. The men of Cealid found it difficult to tend beasts of burden once wasting disease showed up. An actual real life thing where you are essentially rabid and mega hostile to yourself and anything visible. Deers infected with it are like zombies, and bash their heads on rocks or charge things.

[@futuristicbus61]

Elden ring needs a full geographic documentary series.

[@Mistercodmobilefan8378]

Love the lore of caelid! I honestly never thought that the creatures there would be able to have scarlet rot to make it as their own. And even the dragon that shoots scarlet rot at the cathedral of dragon communion his backstory is tragic. And I can't wait to see more elden ring lore videos from u!

[@AirSoftFattyIsMyDaddy]

I would love a speculation video about what Caelid was like before Malenia's bloom

[@The_pitbull536]

Probably just limgrave with a poison swamp

[@The_pitbull536]

@David Diaz yes I am here

[@fakechloe207]

Well, we know for a fact that the sky was always red.

[@prestongiles9917]

When I started my Sorcerer/Faith build, and went to fight Ezykies, I saw it as putting an angry, wounded, sick, once majestic creature out of it's misery.

[@blobbything2986]

I think maybe the rot isn't malevolent itself, but is simply trying to exist and is naturally competing with the nature we perceive as "how it should be". It reminds me a lot of the Shimmer from Annihilation, how it transforms things incidentally. "I don't know if it wants." The scarlet rot can create life, as seen by the fungi, kindred of rot and millicent and her sisters. Who are we to judge what deserves to exist and what doesn't? Chances are there's a thriving scarlet rot planet somewhere with its own fully functioning ecosystem that while harmful to us is equally valid as being alive. In conclusion, send the scarlet rot god to the moon or something where it doesn't interfere with what's going on on the ground

[@kidam8438]

There are a couple issues with your explanation on the dogs' evolution. The ones found in the mountaintops are to show us that the dogs were already megafauna, not that the rot caused their creation. If that were the case, we would have seen rot dogs or giant dogs in consecrated snowfield, which is actually connected to Haligtree, rather than the mountaintops that overlook it. Instead we only find wolves and dire wolves, the latter serving as Albinauric mounts, and neither are suffering from the rot. However, we know the astrologers considered the giants their neighbors. There likely was a land bridge between mountaintops and upper caelid/dragonbarrow which linked the two lands. That's why they share certain megafauna like the giant crows and giant dogs. Another issue is that the giant dogs don't cause rot with their bites, unlike the rotten strays you mention. Even Gowry's giant dog doesn't have a rotten bite. It's only method of rot is coughing, much like Ekzykes. And like Ekzykes, it seems to be an change on an already existing species. Both the dragons and giant dogs were that size before the rot goddess, since you can find giant dogs in a land untouched by the rot, and you can find similarly sized dragons in dragonbarrow. The most unsettling thing about Caelid is that most of the creatures are unbothered by the rot. The megafauna could take it or leave it, and the dragonflies are just as annoying there as anywhere else. The rot obviously affects humans, but it's effect on animals in the region is strangely light.

[@buggy5079]

please watch my caelid theory on this topic, I want to hear your opinion.

[@arbitrary2868]

Excellent use of Myuu's "Deadly Sorrow." Makes sense in the context of the region. The sorrow one feels when looking at the blighted landscape and the state of those who live in it. That is, after you're done panicking at the deadly army of murder crows, dino dogs, and cultist centipede men. Ekzykes is a good example of this. Never thought about how terrible his existence was when he was making mine and many others a living hell.

[@gabriellecollier8127]

The Rot appears to me to be a form of stagnated mutation; it isn't as it should be. Gowry says he dedicated himself to the cycle of death and rebirth, but there is nothing of the sort in the Lands Between due to Marika removing Destined Death from the Elden Ring. So the Rot's function seems to be mutation via decay, reassembling organisms after they are sufficiently denatured. Malenia is very beautiful in her new form, and incredibly powerful, so I wonder if the Scarlet Rot could be a beautiful force that seeks to rebuild life into more robust structures. It would be wretched to experience, especially if it was unending, but that's just a theory. A GAME THEO--

[@friendlygamers1743]

The one thing I love about the rot is that it's trying to spread

[@Volti-Vagra]

0:37 idk why "overexposure" got me, like its not j u s t an infection or w/e but just the sheer amount/concentration of the rot was just too goddamn much to even fathom fighting off

[@ethanwintersseveredhand]

Hey man thank you so much for decaying dragon and the zombies. I haven't seen many vids talking about it. Can you also cover poison variant servants of rot? Btw ekzykez is not the only rotten dragon in the game. If you look closely you can also see the rot covering greyoll's body. Great video as always though. Keep it up😊

[@theone3746]

Girl: Come over my neighborhood not rough GPS: Now arriving in Caelid Me: Oh hell naw.

[@Rogue.Rainbow]

The first time I went to Caelid was by accident. I opened the chest in the dragon burnt ruins (at level 17) that teleports you to the crystal mines in Caelid. Once I found the way out of the mine I panicked and ran out of Caelid as fast as I could…unfortunately I encountered every single enemy and monster on the way out. What a fun way to experience Caelid.

[@kalenwilliams5210]

The next video you record should be about the revenants , I feel like those are truely the most feared non boss enemy in elden ring and also the most disturbing .

[@square-table-gaming]

Unfortunately there's literally no information on them. The best video exploring the revenants is Zulies look at their anatomy.

[@kalenwilliams5210]

@@square-table-gaming seriously ?! 😭 That’s a shame . They seem like the most tormented out of all the twisted broken abominations in the game . Everything about their composition screams mad science gone wrong (or right depending on who made them ) . Would’ve been perfect for spooky season lol

[@jeftecoutinho]

These outer god related phenomena look like death itself is trying to come back after being spurned by the Golden Order. And each order appears to differentiate from each other by how they manage death

[@300kyuubi]

What lurks in Caelid Me: EVERYTHING!!!!

[@Mr_Sim]

Nice Australia documentary

[@Dinka_h]

Now I feel bad for Ekzyeks like wtf mans was just suffering...

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

Malenia when fighting Radahn - "You're familiar with Billy Mitchell, world videogame champion. I'm going to harness some of his power. That's right we're gonna cheat."

[@AegisKHAOS]

Having autopiloted Caelid several times with multiple characters, plus the whole Radahn Festival in the middle of a decaying land was an oddly happy moment, I have forgotten how frightening its atmosphere was. My first time in Caelid was full of caution because of all that red, especially that massive rot in the middle. And then you have those giant dogs and crows that initially made me avoid them at all cost. Very scary when under levelled and quite tragic.

[@hungryboi3585]

Imagine being eaten from the inside out, but being unable to die.

[@platypipope328]

Small correction, greyoll is also infected with scarlet rot

[@xryeau_1760]

I think the megafauna atop Flame Peak *do* contradict the belief that their origin is from scarlet rot, as it'd make more sense to find them in the Consecrated Snowfield - where a putrid avatar can be found - in that case. I instead believe that they're simply a form of primordial life, who later learned to adapt to the scarlet rot after Malenia's bloom. In the Battle of Aeonia teaser, Caelid already had a red sky before Malenia's bloom in Caelid. I believe that Caelid once housed primeval wilderness before it was razed into a rotted hellscape (Alexander refers to Caelid as the "wilds", and if you're a subscriber to Hawkshaw's color theory, red is thought to represent untamed wilderness among other things) It is so that I also believe that the reason we find these megafauna atop Flame Peak is because it too is a rare bastion of untamed wilderness which was never fully tempered by the Golden Order due to it's remoteness (Giants and Trolls also appear to originate from primordial life, given that the former is known to be ancient and the latter have beastly abilities known to normally be exhibited by wild animals)

[@glb1993]

Loved this style of video can't wait to see what else you've got in store ^_^!

[@nightowlmystic9387]

About ezykyke killing all those who worship the dragon communion, that may have been a mercy in his point of view. After all those who partake in this disgusting ritual, will one day yearn for the dragons heart. The more they eat these heart, the more they feel like a dragon until they’re barely what they once were.

[@HanzoHatt]

It would be nice if they added a humanoid dragon form spell you could use and turn into with its own unique attack move sets and whatnot.

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@HanzoHatt that’s post post post post post game content, when your character eventually turns into a Magma Wyrm.

[@HanzoHatt]

@@Slender_Man_186 Not saying that form but one like the dragon statues at the dragon cathedral with the heads cut off but less stone maybe.

[@battlericky17]

The ekzekeys part was awesome, great stuff!!!

[@tangy3366]

Didnt mention that the giant white dragon controlles the little dragons by the burning wall and the same red glowing eyes goes for the dogs too

[@janaguirre4756]

I have a theory that might be wrong but it's also not out of the question. What if the lands between use to be a big ring. There are giant skeletons around Caelid yet no one has explained why they're there. Maybe they were fire giants who lived on some land mass that lead right to the forge of the giants. Maybe while the war on giants was going on, the land mass in between Caelid and the Forge of the giants was broken or cut off, which left some giants behind in caelid to perish, and to make things worse for them, Malenia Nuked the entire land of caelid so even if there were some giants alive, they wouldn't last very long against the scarlet rot

[@fakechloe207]

That's actually quite possible considering that from the description of the map "The dragons that escaped the scarlet rot and made nest of the plateau to Caelid's north. Thus it was named "Dragonbarrow," and none dare to enter." With this in mind, we are also aware that wyvern dragons also existed in the mountain tops of the giants. So not only do Caelid and the mountain tops have similar ecological systems but they also are home to significant races, like the giants and the wyvern dragons.

[@shenloken2]

I’ve played many games in the same vein as Elden Ring. And Caelid is probably what I imagine Hell looks like more than any other game I played.

[@sirmaggot2020]

Thank you so much for taking my suggestion. I can’t wait till the video is out

[@Regibois]

Great job explaining the land of caelid

[@Darien2016]

I wish there were lore on why the sky is blood red in Caelid. That's the most interesting thing to me in Caelid not sure why. People argue and say oh it's because of malenia's rot. But the sky was also red in the trailer before she unleashes her rot. So what makes it red? Its not red anywhere else. Rain seems to get rid of the red skies too so it's very intriguing to me.

[@Issac_The_Last_N7]

I love Caled and i built my Character around the concept of Scarlet Rot and Dragons. Also,one of the daughters of Melania

[@ninjahattori7576]

felt like a pristine example of what will happen to earth after we've polluted it to the point of no return; the planet will live on as it always has healed itself, and only we will perish

[@DuckMcFail]

Love the DOOM reference in the thumbnail

[@V01DShinigami]

Things to do in Caelid Number 1:Leave

[@MarshallPFinch]

The avianette soldiers aren't unique to Caelid. They are also present in Raya Lucaria, with the same design. They are just a mage tool, a construct, which of course is a good choice when rot is covering every living thing.

[@treybowers154]

You don't get the rotten stray ashes off the corpse of that dog pictured in the video. The actual location is a few steps from the Sellia Under-Stair grace, on a corpse NEAR a Rotten Stray enemy. Teleport to Sellia Under-Stair, run north into the mashed up houses and you got it.

[@square-table-gaming]

Didn't mean to imply that's where you get the ash

[@psvradamlevine6215]

I ended up in Caelid before having fast travel, and having torrent. As a result I had to go all the way back to Limgrave on foot. 4 hours of walking I finally made it back and went inside the building and played the tutorial and avoided going east until I was at least level 50. 🙃 Don't make the same mistakes I made. I will add that this scared me more than Yar Har Ghul in Bloodborne when you get kidnapped and end up there before the blood moon. So props to From Soft. This game scared me more than Bloodborne

[@Primarch_Sanguinius]

Oh geez, I tried to push Yahr'ghul from my memories. Those damn hags whipping out from behind corners to grab you just before you get drop-kicked by the abductors? Hate to say it, but I think I'll take that over accidentally alerting 4 giant dogs any day

[@moomooojoos]

Even as an overpowered Tarnished, I still feel panic whenever I go through this area.

[@bigdrew7942]

To quote a great man "life, uh… finds a way"

[@kerianhalcyon2769]

Funny enough about Caelid...I think that all the animals there are, in fact, native and natural to the Land's Between. Why's that? Because players encounter both in areas not afflicted by Scarlet Rot. You can find Tyrannodogs (Giant Dogs officially) in the Mountaintops of the Giants, while the giant crows can be encountered both at the mountaintops and in the grounds of Mohgwyn Palace. I like to think that the Scarlet Rot hasn't affected the shape or appearance of these animals much...but what it has done is heighten their aggression. They're found actively attacking caravans, patrolling abandoned roadsides, overlooking lost settlements, and even attacking waystations like the fortifications over at the bridge leading to Redmane Castle. This place, the Caelid Wilds, likely earned its moniker long before being overcome by Scarlet Rot. It's just made things that much worse. Edit - Also at 3:40, I feel like that connection's a stretch. The Haligtree's a whole other zone away from the Mountaintops, and while it is connected still, there are no giant dogs in the Consecrated Snowfields, nor evidence of rot starting to spread out across the plateau the Snowfield is located.

[@ENERGYFATE]

I always assumed it was because of fresh meat wandering around constantly. Up in the mountains there are giant corpses that are frozen I imagine late ate night those go for tasty snacks for the dogs and birds . Similar to jerky . And also the arteria leafs seem to grow in caelid (could just be a good excuse to get em early game ,from a game design side of things) but as soon as I got one off a giant body I remembered the stack of three growing on a cliff in the swamp of aonia . Made me think about the size of the dogs and birds and the bloody nature of the plant itself . Idk tho .

[@josem370]

I remember playing elden ring for the first time and when I Stepped outside the mine and saw the red sky I realized that I should get of here😆

[@silvertemplar8061]

Great video. But I’m curious about the crows.

[@sparkyclarkey]

I love caelid its such an interestin spot

[@djwolf3810]

Early Squad

[@CopeAndSeeth]

Tru that my nigga 👍

[@Irreverent_bob]

What’s the deadline on qualifying for early squad?

[@hhowdy]

I remember when I first stepped in to Caelid after a long horse ride through Limgrave I was met with an npc Invader died and went back and when past the invader and then the sky turned red witch kinda un nerved me I think the reason I went into there was to either get Radagon’s sourceseal or the dectus madalion but I soon realized I was way too under level to be in there and I literally ran out of Caelid with arrows and beasts chasing me out

[@lemmingrad]

I rode ro Caelid because I was curious to explore the most Northeast corner of the map. And yeah, everything turning red, and the dramatic stinging of the stringed instruments of the music unnerved the hell out of me. Then I noped after seeing the giant crows chilling on the branches,

[@NedreddDwr]

Ekzykes story really is quite somber

[@carsyneros]

@ me, but I thought the demigods are/were immune to death, everyone who would die a naturaul death get buried in the catacombs to go back to the erdtree, until godwyn died. then it stopped and people lived in death (souless zombies) and because maliketh hide the death rune more people were like that becaus they couldnt return to the erdtree to be reincarnated

[@square-table-gaming]

No one dies in natural definitely it's between. Anyone buried at the roots instead because they were killed.

[@MarshallPFinch]

This is a complete misunderstanding of the rotten stray. The dogs we find around most of the Lands Between are normal strays. A variant stray in Caelid has visible rot growth on its body. That is the rotten stray. The rotten stray and a normal stray for comparison are actually visible in this video while the rotten stray topic is being discussed. The two dogs are clearly not the same as one another.

[@square-table-gaming]

While one is literally named the "rotten stray," all of the strays in Caelid are clearly suffering the effects of the rot.

[@Inuzumi]

The first thing that came to mind once I entered Caelid was that I entered hell. And I can't say that I was wrong. Though Miquella's tree gets close...

[@Wolf-bz6kq]

Dogosaur! I finally figured out a name

[@ninjahattori7576]

what dies in caelid, stays in caelid

[@evronian1129]

Please do one on the mohgwyn palace of you haven't already

[@lamontbookman356]

You forgot to mention the giant birds and the people with the rotten mushroom looking headdresses.

[@square-table-gaming]

Not so much that we forgot, just that a lot of stuff in Caelid wants to kill you

[@Raso719]

What could be more horrifying than Cealid? 2 Cealids? If Cealid was a city in Florida next to another city in Florida also called Cealid? 3 Cealids?

[@Slender_Man_186]

Lake of Rot, aka Malenia’s Rotussy Juice Pool.

[@ApexHydra007]

If you can make a video about the giants, that would be great... I eman, think about it. What the hell caused huamnoid beings the size of mountains to just... topple over, and die? How long ago did they die, as most if not all of them are now mere skeletons?

[@square-table-gaming]

Well we know they all died in the war with the Giants. It seems very likely that the rune of death was used against them. All of the corpses seem to be covered in death blight, although some people claim that those are actually blood thorns

[@HenryGreenEngine3]

Scary Terror Gaming lol

[@dragonlordplacidusax9413]

"life finds a way"

[@alexandermorgan5958]

Hey, I liked the burial watchdogs. Why do others dislike them so much?

[@vincentramos879]

My favorite thing to do in caelid is to leave😂

[@hardeepsingh2505]

ER is a masterpiece....pure art

[@joshuagraham2843]

the creepypasta place

[@TiberiusRex182]

Woowoo!

[@thefederalrepublicoferusea3900]

The California experience

[@dragondude9637]

Unfortunately, the music doesn't fit the video. It needs the ost of Caelid to give it that "warning, keep out : This land is quarantined with rotting, diseased, frenzied biohazards."

[@square-table-gaming]

Tried the Caelid theme during mixing. Didn't really work unfortunately.

[@buggy5079]

could you check out my theory on caelid ? really would enjoy hearing your feedback. the wildlife of caelid is something that has always interessed me.

[@square-table-gaming]

I actually remember coming across this theory once before! It's interesting but there's not enough in-game to really back it up. The crows and dogs being the same creatures is a bit of stretch when really, the most compelling piece of evidence is a reused animation. I love this kind of thinking and theory crafting though, keep it up!

[@buggy5079]

@@square-table-gaming ty for your feedback, really appreciate it !! I dont want to sound rude in any way tho but while I understand the "just a reused animation" thing, there is too much going for the theory of these beings who also have zero literal text written on them in game. - The "dogs" are always found where crows are (caelid and mountain top of the giants). -The "dogs" have the same anatomy as a crow (this is why they look like t-rex). -The crows are growing sharp theeth and losing feathers but gaining fur. -The "dogs" have very similar attacks to the crows and even have an attack where they try to stab the ground with their non-existent beak (muscle memory), but since they no longer have one, they end up smashing their head on the ground, getting hurt. -The trolls attack only two enemies, the crows and the dogs. -Some "dogs" breath out rot. -there are no dogs in mohgwyn palace becuase the Crows in Mohgwyn palace die due to the formeless mother before reaching their "dog" phase. So its much more than their animations, theres direct visual, motion and geographic correlations between these two beings. also, i feel this is important, they dont actually reuse animations, they have different skeletons and while the crows stab the ground, the "dogs" bang their head. so excusing it as a dev reuse animation is not entirely true. just a theory tho, but these beings have no concrete lore to them, and I can see no other reason as to why we have T-rex "dogs".

[@square-table-gaming]

@@buggy5079 I think the biggest leap for me is the idea of wings becoming arms, especially when the wings are enourmous. There'd need to be a reason for them to not only shrink but also relocate from the shoulders to well below the head. Also, the dog heads line up really well with those of the smaller dogs we encounter throughout Elden Ring. It seems much more likely the smaller dogs become larger dogs than the large crows becoming large dogs.

[@buggy5079]

@@square-table-gaming fair enough, the only thing that I can't wrap my mind around tho is the fact that the dogs grow into a T-rex form tho. which by coincidence have the same anatomy as crows. I can see rot making dogs into big beasts, we know it can birth beasts, and deform beings into beasts, but idk just seems too much of a coincidence. another thing is that if the big "dogs" came from normal dogs then why are they in the mountain tops and how did they reach it ?

[@square-table-gaming]

@@buggy5079 so there are 2 possibilities, one which we went over in the video, the mountaintop is close to the haligtree, so they could have been exposed to rot. The 2nd possibility is they were brought there by the fire monks. If you take a look at the ones found near their keep, they all have collars.

[@enigmousb3076]

umbrella corp destroy caelid

[@kyledayton7829]

Why would they? I'd think they would harvest it for their Bio experiments

[@sk8legendz]

decaying ekzykes is a star wars easter egg change my mind. he is suffering a disease that should've rendered him dead or at the very least in the same state as Greyoll crippled and unable to move. instead his hatred for the dragon hunters partaking in dragon communion and the anger from it was so powerful he was able to ward off the power of the scarlet rot even bending it to his own will and benefit utilizing it as a means of attack. remaining strong and deadly even in a state of rot. Now that is a Straight Sith Lord reference if I ever saw one. whether intentional or unintentional lol

[@Slender_Man_186]

It’s almost like Darth Scion, although he was just straight up too mad to die.

[@marcelfedorovici166]

Please remember me when you become famous

[@square-table-gaming]

We will probs not get famous so no worries haha

[@marcelfedorovici166]

@@square-table-gaming You will. The content is top tier, all you need is a great game with a huge fanbase that has even more of a tendency to lore. Keep grinding, I ll be watching you as you shine on the top.

[@lordanonimmo7699]

The probable reason there is giant dogs at caelid and mountaintops is probably because they were connected once,we can also find the same type of giant skulls in both places and only in them. So rather than the rot making them gigantic its possible they are already this way for having to survive harsh climates.

[@kingdomcome3914]

A darwinistic divergence in adaptability.

[@lucatiel2859]

Lore aside, 2:10 is so funny and irritating at the same time

[@square-table-gaming]

Right? The upward swing just makes it wiff

[@stevenfoss3015]

Did you steal the creepy pasta music

[@square-table-gaming]

No? Myuu encourages his music to be used as long as he's credited in the description.

[@McStick7]

music is 2 loud

[@McStick7]

i love your videos though

[@topcat59]

Caelid will never show mercy to noobs.😹

[@alejandrorodriguez3376]

You forgot torrent

[@square-table-gaming]

What do you mean? Torrent does not originate from Caelid

[@alejandrorodriguez3376]

@square-table-gaming i meant as in he's immune to the scarlet rot since he prances through it like nothing

[@square-table-gaming]

@@alejandrorodriguez3376 there's a very real possibility that that's entirely due to gameplay convenience. Also, he is a spectral steed so that may play a part.

[@YelFlux]

Bro please don't return to the old music it make your video look sad . ( My point of view) and to be honest your video have nothing to be sad so please if you and you have the will please change the music that you use for your old video . Please don't take it as in insult itrisd to be as polite and I respect you content . Now let's watch next creepy eldeng ring video

[@YelFlux]

You Halloween video are the Best

[@square-table-gaming]

I wouldn't consider the character creation music to have a sad tone but we'll think about it

[@YelFlux]

@@square-table-gaming it make me wanna cry 😢

[@YelFlux]

@@square-table-gaming but thanks you for not getting offended