Elden Ring - Trust me, it makes sense

[@ZullietheWitch]

The individual characters that typically make up "Shirogane", 白金, essentially mean "White" and "gold", and the same actually seems to be true for "Albinauric", which is based on the Latin words for white and gold, album and aurum. Interestingly, the game uses hiragana for Shirogane whenever referring to the Albinaurics, so it's significant that it's written like that on the crabs. If you're interested in seeing more about the translated guide pages, check out Ivi's twitter here: twitter.com/sennoutantei Your reward for expanding this comment is crab gang: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6GXXnugo8aCfK8

[@Celt420]

The final stage of the evolutionary cycle is always C R A B

[@spookmeyer970]

The question the sorcerers ask isn't "why?" It's "why not?" Why wouldn't you create monstrous albinauric crabs?

[@PUMPKINGz]

@@Celt420 Carcinisation! it's what I was thinking! the final generation of Albinoric may be the ultimate life form! crab!

[@TheCrewExpendable]

And the final, highest economic system is not capitalism or communism, but crabitalism!

[@Superabound2]

@@spookmeyer970 people gotta eat

[@603840Jrg]

"Let Carcinisation take the world!" - Crabriri

[@minimodecimomeridio4534]

May Crabbos take the world!

[@lasoulsbornering]

"I am cancer incarnate I cannot die"

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

Even artificial life forms are turning into crabs

[@venn2001ad]

Time for a Decapod Revolution!

[@Ahrpigi]

"Crabriri" is my new favorite Elden Ring reference

[@ThanatorRider]

“The next question is why Raya Lucaria would choose to fashion artificial giant crabs to begin with.” I mean, why NOT make artificial giant crabs if you can?

[@TonyRedgrave]

Evolution tends to do it, so who are we to disagree?

[@deer8071]

@@TonyRedgrave Took the words right outta my mouth. Crabs truly are the ultimate life form.

[@elijahcafazzo-joyette8226]

Obviously as a limitless food source to serve in the Raya Lucaria cafeteria

[@pebbles133]

i like to believe that they used them as mounted cavalry or some sort of beast of burden, like an ox covered in bullet-stopping armor.

[@JunpakuKarasu]

Create the ultimate Crab Rave!

[@ApetureTestSubject]

I love that the Consecrated Snowfield, the place of salvation for the Albinaurics, even has these crabs. It just conjures the image of these little crustaceans, a cute little silver crab, making the pilgrimage all the way there, trying to find its place in the world.

[@SorowFame]

Maybe they’re pets?

[@ApetureTestSubject]

@@SorowFame Aww. Cute little crab pet.

[@user-bw4jm1bv1i]

The Albinauric archers should ride them too 😁

[@nangsanbhalangblah333]

Haven't played the games but you're right. They're cute af

[@sebastianestrada3697]

@@user-bw4jm1bv1i You just made me think of the most horrible enemy pairing. Albinauric archer riding a railgun ice lobster.

[@love_otter]

Some really funny images in this one. The albinauric floating in the water with the crabs, the crab on the table being created in a "ta-da!" pose

[@yvaskhmir]

He's invoking the Outer Crab.

[@Zaxophone32]

Zullie's ability to make little dioramas with the game models is top tier. The albinauric sitting, staring at the crab was perfect as well

[@termanaterbob]

Universal crab pose for "fight me scrub!"

[@alantremonti1381]

The "Don't talk to me or my son ever again." image was a banger, too.

[@davidhong1934]

@@Zaxophone32 1:34 A deep, intellectual conversation

[@maskedmenreiki]

Another thing to note is that a lot of the crabs that breathe sleep-gas can often be seen in the vicinity of Trina's Lilies, most notably in the swamp near the Albinauric Village, where they can be observed eating the lilies outright.

[@ace-smith]

this game's environmental storytelling is crazy

[@SaHaRaSquad]

And the courtyard of the academy also has multiple Trina's Lilies.

[@j.pedrotti1649]

And the concept of "Sleep" is also deeply intertwined with sorcery and the Wisdom of Stone. From what I could summarize, it seems to be a state akin to being half-alive, inspired by the spiritist beliefs of the spirit leaving the body during sleep.

[@eel-to-eel]

Love this observation! Albinaurics are notoriously fond of Miquella/St. Trina, so an affinity for Trina's Lilies certainly makes sense. Whether or not the crabs are also homunculi, a diet of Trina's Lilies (often found near groups of 2nd generation Albinaurics) perfectly explains their mysterious sleep-mist.

[@adubseven]

maybe crabs are in the game along with the remaining eleven zodiac signs

[@VerbalLearning]

idk why but seeing the big eyed albinaurics placed together with the crabs was extremely cute for some reason. Like a kid hanging out with their pet crab or something.

[@davidhong1934]

1:53

[@BigMac87963]

You know, I’ve heard about the Albinaurics. I hear they have a woman that hides in a cave west of the Laskyar Ruins, which juts from the mist shrouded lake of Liurnia. I’m sure she knows the location of the medallion’s counterpart. I’m going to go find her

[@atomicfireball2302]

Reminds of that one preston garvey meme from fallout 4 lmao

[@Legends4144]

Does that mean you're going to...find the Albinauric woman?

[@Anubis.6256]

@@Legends4144 wait, what's this? FIND THE ALBINAURIC WOMAN!!

[@rainwad3843]

GOD i talked to Gideon so many times throughout the game hoping that he'd have something actually new or different to say, but NOPE, even after finding that very same woman, it's just *Find the Albinauric woman. She resides in a cave to the west of Laskyar Rui-*

[@woffydoggy686]

XDDD My beloved Giddy needs some love

[@mitchmonin2238]

The lil dude just floating in the circle of crabs around the 2 minute mark is absolutely top notch comedy and I'll happily fight to defend that opinion

[@joane.balogna2094]

As is the Creation of Crab at 2:08

[@arobotwithepilepsie6053]

Sound good! You name the place and time. Shall we say, first blood?

[@mitchmonin2238]

@@joane.balogna2094 yes. Completely correct. I felt the need to select only a single instance but creation of crab is more unbridled and definitive art

[@mitchmonin2238]

@@arobotwithepilepsie6053 the dueling grounds on the eve of st. Crispin's day outside the square. Don't be a coward hiding behind a squire.

[@VapidFart]

Your opinion is factually incorrect

[@redred623]

Crabs are foragers so maybe the fact they change characteristics based on location indicates more of what they are eating and not necessarily a unique origin

[@alessandrobaggi6129]

So those Raya Lucaria crabs were maybe feeding off albinaurics' corpses? 🤔

[@ThomasVvV]

@@alessandrobaggi6129 Not unlikely, considering crabs are huge predators

[@bobgumkowski9595]

@@alessandrobaggi6129 coconut crabs are well know for raiding graves and eating corpses.

[@conomann]

@@bobgumkowski9595 damn crabs dgaf lol

[@beefsnort]

How many shrimps do they have to eat before they make their shells turn pink?

[@SharpingtonTheGreat]

When Zullie asked why Raya Lucardia would create crabs, I have no idea why but I immediately thought, "They're making an army to fight the giant crayfish!!" and got super pumped about it. And then Zullie crushed all of my hopes and dreams with a perfectly logical reason supported by the lore. No epic crustacean wars, no one to stop kaiju crayfish from firing their mile-long death beams. The lore is cool though.

[@rabbit-exe3606]

the mages really said "if we can make PEOPLE then we can make CRABS" and went for it. kudos to them for doubling down

[@davidhong1934]

Somehow, the crabs are more physically stable than the people

[@TheEepyMagi]

Personally i think it could be the other way around. Like the crabs were a test run before they tried making humans?

[@winstonsmith3703]

Maybe students have to prove they can make a crab before they can make albanuirics as part of exams or something. Pffft

[@GweniswasntTaken]

I'm convinced that there is a crab/crustacean-obsessed dev at fromsoft with a relatively high position who pushes for the addition of crabs and crab easter eggs in from games edit: it also ties into the carcinization theory

[@Mendoza-yi6qk]

he is called Hidetaka Miyazaki

[@GweniswasntTaken]

I thought this one was the feet guy

[@confushisushi]

@@GweniswasntTaken Crabs have many feet

[@mark0183]

They even make him an NPC

[@GweniswasntTaken]

@@confushisushi how did I forget that *face slap*

[@EnvisageTTV]

One key connection that should be looked into is the fact that in the Zodiac, the sign Cancer is represented by the Crab. Cancer’s sign ruler is the Moon, hence its connection to Raya Lucaria. Just a thought.

[@jooot_6850]

Not “just a thought” that is an extremely direct connection, I’m now surprised crab iconography doesn’t show up in Caria Manor on flags and such.

[@en-men-lu-ana6870]

@@jooot_6850 Dark Crab Greatsword!

[@jooot_6850]

@@en-men-lu-ana6870 alternatively, Moonlight Crab Claw!

[@en-men-lu-ana6870]

@@jooot_6850 Rennala, Queen of the Full Crab!

[@Jamesmc1111]

Agreed! Made me think of this zodiac sample used in a Dj Shadow song; ‘What makes cancer tenacious? The moon rules the fluids Including the inner juices of human beings That which assimilates and feeds the body So the crab feeds his astral brain Assimilating and distributing all he receives slowly Until it becomes a part of him’

[@Kekistani_Insurgent]

I was thinking of Crabs in Elden Ring as something of an Indicator Species (I forget if that’s the official scientific term for it). Like when scientists study a particular species of frog in an area to determine the region’s health, as those frogs are very susceptible to environmental factors. There is one such species I learned about in my area as a child, and to me it made sense to look at the crabs as an indicator of how the area might weather even myself. Being subject to Sleep, Frost, Deathblight, etc. If the Crabs are like that, _I_ might end up like that here.

[@pumkinheadman4320]

Great nickname dude!

[@AGKyran]

Yes that's my opinion too. The flowers are also affected, launching a sleeping mist too in Liurnia. All the zones have different types of flowers, and most of them have different crabs so it seems more like high sensitivity to the environment.

[@Nightmare-pj4fg]

2:00 Aw, I love to imagine that those albinauric crabs each had their own crab mini adventure to get to the snowfields, like a cute puzzle game inside Elden Ring, but you’re a silver crab trying to get to the snowfields from Raya Lucaria.

[@yarugatyger1603]

"Today students you will create crabs using magic. Whoever creates the largest one, gets two Glintstone shards." - Best explanation if there is one.

[@boyo5970]

The crab is false? Oh god don’t tell limit

[@thatsixeyedguyy5480]

Grandpa is gonna weep for the false crabs

[@mark0183]

Only a MIRACLE could help him ;_;

[@maskedmenreiki]

D E E P E S T L O R E

[@FaithEngine]

Sometimes you can just tell when someone had fun creating something. The little moments of pure joy encapsulated in a couple shots in the video. Glad you're enjoying what you're doing here Zullie

[@mynameisconnorimtheandroid6080]

Further proving the hypothesis that crabs are the ultimate lifeform

[@argnator]

Elden Ring feels like a ton of its higher writing and concepts are taken or inspired by both old and modern scientific understandings, like alchemy versus miasma, but then filtered once more through this medieval tapestry-type storytelling and abstraction. Tell a medieval scholar about Carcinisation - the theory that all life forms eventually evolve to a crab-like design. Also show him a crab so he knows what they are. His natural first thought would be "well if a Horse became a Crab it'd be Awfully Large and hard to ride, but would it still eat grass an hay instead of...whatever crabs eat?" And so you get crabs of varying sizes by default. Crabs of different biomes. Crabs that can spit poison or fire because spitting is a thing crabs do. There's just a tapestry of a man with tree branches in his armor riding a human-posture wolf fighting a giant crab hanging in a castle in another timeline and everyone just agrees it was weird then, and weird now.

[@Diamon_Boots]

"Time for crab" - Mage responsible for the creation of the crabinaurics

[@Friedbaboons]

time for crab therefore, praise the crab!

[@PierceArner]

Crabs as bottom-feeders also plays in to how the Prawns & Crabs are cooked by Blackguard as a means of exterminating parasites in them, so they're not transmitted upon consumption. Since a few dungeons have crabs that are worm-infested alongside the rotting but not undead bodies of individuals down there, the whole ingestion theme is a common one that's also used directly by Yura when he's outside of Raya Lucaria Academy. When he says, _"Wretched worms, leave me be."_ he's actually using a term referring to Japanese dragonfly larva that are taken from rivers and eaten. As he is later possessed by Shabriri and the dragonfly-nymph-like Astel's meteor is underneath the madness infested Yelough Annex Ruins, there are even more themes that follow along that same thread.

[@commissarfox]

Supporting the theory that the consumption of albinauric blood can lead to undue effects in the crabs, a fairly prominent place to find large shirogane crabs is the poison swamp next to the Albinauric village, under the Liurnia Plateau. The poison swamp is full of St. Trina's Lilies, which are used for creating sleep consumables and are, possibly, inherently linked to areas outside the Grace of the Golden Order and especially to Albinaurics. The poison swamp is *also* one of the classic Miyazaki areas where you realize the ground you're walking on isn't lumpy, it's mounds of corpses. As there are posioned mad albinaurics weeping among the dead, it can be *somewhat* safely assumed that these corpses are all Albinaurics, killed during the purge of the village. And the crabs you find there are big, white, and spew sleep. Is it anything? Probably not. But it might be. And that's the fun of a FromSoft title.

[@MrFelblood]

Actually, the sleep gas breath being an effect of eating St. Trina's Lillies makes a load of sense. I always figured the sleep mist arrows and grenades were developed after watching crabs eat the same stuff.

[@MVCx_xB]

It's possible the bodies down there actually died a natural death since albinauric blood is mercury and they all lose their legs and go insane near the end of their life anyways, and the heap is used as a communal mass grave of sorts

[@Saturnus_Ouranos]

⁠@@MrFelblood You can say that those crabs have a Sleep-Breath from Trina’s Lilies, so they have something akin to having a Stinky Breath from eating a lot of onions, lol 😂

[@animeknightx]

there's only one reason why you create a crab homunculus... [CRAB BATTLE]

[@LamantinoElettronico]

It's cool to learn there's so much to these crabs. My initial impression with them was "wow, they added in the same crabs from Ds3, but slightly cuter and more polished"

[@ReneAensland]

Fun fact about the crabs found above Godwyn in Leyndell, they also have his Golden Hair growing on them!

[@Wintercat1]

So fascinating! My mind went to a combination of both interpretations: the mages, aware of the adaptive abilities of the crabs, created crab homunculi specifically to cultivate glintstone! Just like Godwyn is right below the crabs with his appearance outside Leyndell, there is a giant mass of glintstone suspended below Raya Lucaria. Perhaps getting the glintstone crowns from the crystal crabs is less of a "drop" and more a recreation of the way the mages craft their crowns.

[@KuroNoTenno]

Ah yes. Giant artificial crabs. A weapon to surpass Metal Gear.

[@robhubbard4192]

giant artificial crab battle

[@MaitreMechant]

Metal... Gear ?

[@Mewseeker]

An amphibian mobile weapon platform that could launch a nuke from anywhere with its railgun!

[@jstar3382]

Wasn't MG excelsus a crab

[@KuroNoTenno]

@@jstar3382 Looked more line an ant to me.

[@L0rdLexan01]

The Primordial Crucible and Great Tree frequently have animal characteristics associated with it; the Crucible Knights take on tails, wings, horns, fire breathing toad-mouths, etc. Omens have horns, as we all know, and Godwyn, the one most closely associated with the Crucible (through literally being attached to it by the roots) takes a bizarrely fishlike or insectoid appearance. Notably as well, the Crucible is a source of "change", given that the animal traits are frequently an unusual growth on an otherwise humanoid creature. Through this, we can perhaps extrapolate that creatures in the Lands Between are "closer to the Crucible" and thus more susceptible to changes in their environment. The crabs, being hard-shelled, aquatic animals like Godwyn's body, are perhaps the closest beings to the Crucible on a conceptual or magical level. Because of their closeness to the Crucible, they are much easier to affect by the "change" happening around them, meaning they take in their surroundings far easier than other creatures like humans, which are actively resistant to change, as shown in the Golden Order itself. However, I also think a much funnier theory is that some poor Raya Lucaria student needed a last-second senior project and just decided to start duplicating crabs with the Albinauric formula, and it got out of control.

[@halyoalex8942]

"duplicating crabs" sure is a phrase i wasn't expecting to read today, but god damn was it just the right flavor of comedic for my 2 AM brain.

[@celuria4481]

On one hand, I love trying to tie it to the crucible. on the other, it'd be really, really funny if either crabs are just an easier form of albinaurics to make as practice for students, or if you goof the albinauric formula at all, carcinization just takes over and you end up with Crab

[@TekharthaMondatta]

I always assumed that because of the academy's elevation, it was probably raised out of the lake during the war with the Golden Order for strategic purposes. This likely brought some of the lakebed crabs up with it, explaining why they're in the courtyard.

[@Elementroar]

What I’m gathering is that crabs are obscenely powerful in Elden Ring and effectively they are all Empyrean level, able to adapt to any kind of outer god power, even Undeath. Praise crab 🦀 The true Elden Lord!

[@MrFelblood]

Remember that the Outer gods don't want to destroy the world, but remake it in their own image. Tainted order, horned wounds, unalloyed gold, bright moon, dark night, etc. The only thing they can agree on is that there can be no compromise.

[@comorbiddisorder]

Damn, Zullie hittin' us with that crustacean explanation.

[@sirsmaffles749]

Sir Gideon Ofnir when he sees this: _"Okay tarnish, disregard the Albinauric Woman. You must desperately find the Albinauric Crab for it is the true bearer of secrets"_

[@-AD-Astra-0]

Video 'bout crabs? I feel Limit Breaker's presence.

[@GODZILLAmonsoon]

Isn't there a crystal cave underneath Raya Lucaria? Could that mean that Raya Lucaria was built on top of a massive glintstone vein? If the crabs Are What They Eat then them foraging on the Raya Lucaria grounds could essentially be a relatively slow, potentially unintentional, mining operation.

[@Cosmic-Sorceress-17]

Given the amount of glintstone we see in crystal tunnels that is either powerless or unstable, it's possible that it takes a LOT of glintstone for the scholars to preform their research. Besides, it may be somewhat risky to try and chip off bits of the giant natural formations we see: if the tiny unstable gems can cause harm, imagine what a giant unstable glintstone could do if tampered with. With all this considered, the scholars very likely need a number of places to collect their glintstone from.

[@BenefitCounterbench]

The academy is directly above Lake of Rot, but I'm not sure if there's a correlation.

[@Scott.E.H]

I love the little "dioramas" you set up!

[@rjjrob30]

2:15 "the next question is why Raya Lucaria would choose to fashion artificial crabs to begin with." Carcinisation: REJECT MONKE, BECOME CRAB

[@strcmdrbookwyrm]

I love all the scenes of people interacting with the crabs. It's somehow super adorable!

[@billedefoudre]

Your videos are such an amazing journey. I can only reassert the immense love I got for you and all other modders taking us on the paths you make through those dense forests of awe and wonders.

[@realkingofantarctica]

Thank you for making the "baby boy, munchkin" or whatever video it was I asked for. However, my urge to pet the crabs has always been outclassed by my urge to pet Boggart.

[@wealthybone2990]

What?

[@KaptenAmurika]

In the end, all things become crab.

[@BM-yy8db]

I love the little scenes you build for your shots

[@ReferenceMachinist]

All things become crab. Crab is love. Crab is life. Crabs are awesome.

[@ReferenceMachinist]

In all seriousness they are peak evolution. They can survive at insane depths, and then be pulled to the surface above water, and take in air. Crabs are literally some of the only animals that can do that, and not die. Crabs can swim hella fast in actuality. They can burrow. Some are entirely amphibious. On 8 separate occasions, a species evolved into crabs. Coconut crabs, are not actually crabs, but they are evolving into crabs, right before our eyes. Only fitting that the academics would deduce that they should just make the third iteration of Albinaurics into crabs, because crabs are a species that have withstood the test of time.

[@GluteusMasochis]

Gives "imitation crab" a new meaning.

[@TerryHesticles87]

Somewhere out there, in a barren wasteland known as France, Yora is smiling ear to ear.

[@deusexvesania1702]

0:22 The face when you find an especially interesting piece of lore.

[@davidhong1934]

(•o•)

[@Turian_Hustle]

If you open the map at Raya Lucaria, then switch to underground viewing, you’ll see it’s on top of the lake of rot. The entire ceiling of the lake is covered in massive glintstone obelisks. The crabs are feasting on the waters above, as with the Miranda flowers.

[@flurf_uwu]

now this is the lore i'm here for.

[@silenthero2795]

Crabs are forager in nature and considering Raya Lucaria has graveyards even in their entrance, it's not that far to assume they ate what the mages have concocted there. Just like what the video said, crabs inherit what they ate so there are poison crabs, deathblighted crabs, sleep crabs and crystal crabs. The only place where they couldn't adapt are in areas with Scarlet Rot. Those areas are with different crustaceans specifically the Kindred of Rot.

[@thetimekeeper955]

The Raya Lucario crabs could also be a matter of animal testing; i.e., you demonstrate the feasibility of your hypothesis on a "lesser" being (e.g., an animal) to justify experimentation on a "higher" being. So it could be that the crabs, which may have been known for their adaptability if they were known to have Godwyn's face, were chosen for Albinauric experiments, and the success of those proved people were possible.

[@theformation3781]

About crystal crabs: we already know that there are glintstone mines and deposits beneath Ray Lucaria, because of the dungeons in the cliff it is built in (the dungeon with the onyx lord and the elevator to top of Raya Lucaria and terra magicka) so it makes sense that foraging there might lead to crabs getting crystals on them similar to the Godwyn crabs. As to why these and the ones at snowfields have sleep: we can't know, because the sleep quest and lore was deleted from the game mid development. Edit: should clarify, this is a watsonian line of reasoning; we already have the doylist line of reasoning in zullie's video

[@mb2001]

2:46 Oh god, there's a face on the bottom side?! That's more disturbing than the faces on the crab's top!

[@Biscwutitsutos]

Your videos are so relaxing and a really fun way to consume nuggets of soulsborne lore, thank you for existing

[@Aei144]

Idea: count the spawns of all the soldier and knight type enemies to find which faction had the most forces

[@lordofgeese6437]

Caught homeboy lackin’ with dem Fake Crabs

[@Celt420]

You have to get the catacombs crab to follow you all the way to the lands between for the easter egg

[@_Stalc_]

Still can't believe you can't make land octopus fight crabs in this game

[@eldenring_area]

nice 💫💥💥💥

[@themonsterunderyourbed.7620]

The crab cycle begins again...

[@innegativeion]

I had assumed the crabs were from Raya Lucaria's mess hall, haha, escaped after everything went to hell. I mean they are surrounded by local crab lakes, we know they're good eats (thanks Boggart), and they have to serve the students something, right? Makes the "homonculous crab" theory a whole lot darker, lol.

[@dezmas9332]

No one can stop miyazaki from creating crabs to put in all his games

[@WaldoKrayt]

My guess is that yes, they did indeed created those in raya lucaria but they are also farming them, making them eat glinstones so that the crabs adapt and start evolving into glinstone crabs to therefore have an unlimited source of glinstone, and maybe that expirement failed and led to the albinaurics? could be a thing idk.

[@freyanox9443]

i love the angles and the shots used here, very nice

[@glip715]

The official Future Press guide literally calls them "Albinauric Crabs", so there's not much discussion about whether they are real or not (page 232 in the list of notable enemies for Raya Lucaria).

[@damascusraven]

So what you're saying is, crabs are the ultimate beings and we should forfeit our earthly possessions to them? Gotcha.

[@wealthybone2990]

Even if the crabs were reused from DS3 I still love these crabs especially since we didn't get much of them in DS3 but I'm happy that there's alot of them in Elden Ring now and there also improved graphically compared to DS3. I was intrigued but these white crabs and why they were up there and I guess now we know but still why would they want crabs? Also why are they able to produce something that'll make you sleep? Thanks for this vid Zullie.

[@portalmanHUN]

If you sneak up on the crab in the academy you can see it is eating Trina's Lilies. The other sleep crabs in the swamp are also around Lilies.

[@wealthybone2990]

@@portalmanHUN Wow I didn't know that thank you very much that actually makes sense.

[@mrrd4444]

I love this. I also love that the crabs in Raya Lucaria seem to share the same skin texture as the second gen albis.

[@definetelynotnight7725]

So the crab is a lie?

[@assistantmagus5213]

These may be my favourite background shots you've used for a video something about c r a b just makes it inexplicably funny and endearing

[@averageguy6675]

Why is it always crab?

[@moneygrowslikegrass]

Everything evolves into crab

[@asherthemad300]

Because Crab is the ultimate life form

[@solarec_5221]

This might be a stretch but theres a theory that everything evolves into crabs called Carsinisation. It could be presumed that since they were artificially creating the Albinaurics maybe they tried evolving them due to the failed attempts which resulted in crabs. idk just a theory that popped up in my head :)

[@kelleh711]

1:57 unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing.

[@ImperialHarbinger]

Sounds to me like the eternal cities succeeded in creating their perfect lord.

[@JusticeforLiberty]

I only get my crab information from the old man. While he isn't busy making the miracle build video , he is studying the way of the crab.

[@NickCombs]

i will call them krab then :) also don't forget about the mimic tears. those are related to albinaurics too

[@zimzamy5212]

This is just my own, personal theory, but I think maybe the silver crabs where a type of prototype albinauric. I think maybe before they experimented with making artificial humans, they started off with trying to replicate something simple like crabs. The most difficult thing to create in an artificial being would most likely be there mind and thoughts, so maybe they chose to replicate crabs because of there simple brains. On top of all that, since the academy is in the middle of the lake they would have plenty of fresh crabs to experiment on.

[@celuria4481]

I almost want to say that the Academy Lucaria is, well, an academy. it should supposedly have students, even though there's a giant red wolf in the lecture hall. maybe students attempt to create Albinaurics, and either crabs are a simpler form to make as practice, or if you do something wrong, caricinization just ends up taking over and you end up with crab? and maybe the glinstone ones stole or ate some glinstone. or stole a student's crown. who knows.

[@planetaoruga]

I loved every framed that made the crabs look like pets to the ablinaurics :c that's gonna be my headcannon now

[@sparklepawz1185]

I wonder how the different crabs taste. I think the sleep crabs would have a sweeter flavor than regular ones while the death crabs have a muddy flavor similar to catfish.

[@SausagecatChannel]

Makes sense since horseshoe crabs makes for good medicine material they just thought horse sized crab was a better idea-🏇🦀

[@grahamseger799]

We found it, the imitation crab meat!

[@abyss5600]

The crabs in the snowfield also make sense because of the frozen river cutting across the whole area

[@TheBl00D1u5t]

The manequins also support this. The idea that they may have been working on constructs to defend while they studied keeping them from having to distract from their pursuit of knowledge is very on par for sorcerers, wizards and the like. There are examples of multiple generations within the academy and the lands surrounding it. There is also Selivis and Ranni to consider. Both being connected/obsessed with puppets and dolls, and both also connected the the academy's past. Edit: there is also the presence of the silver ball rolling down the stairs, which may be conjured in this instance, but does tie back to the balls and mimics in Nokstella, which are another further generation/byproduct of the albenauric creation. And again ties back to Ranni.

[@gremlinman9724]

there's been some delicious crab data coming from this channel recently and im all for it

[@kekedarius]

The mages of Raya Lucaria made the crabs eat the blue flowers so they could get high on the sleep gas the crabs start spitting out in between study sessions.

[@Preston241]

They clean the area around the academy and make cheap guards. Seems like a reasonable explanation to me.

[@Envy1359]

“Homunculus” crabs? Never I thought I see the day.

[@damiencouturee6240]

I love how Zullie gives more videos to watch at the end like we haven't already watched them all a dozen times lol.

[@RhazahLuna]

Amazing video. I've not seen this anywhere else, really cool stuff.

[@thecuza9716]

I've noticed that Trina's Lilies tend to grow in the areas you find Sleep Crabs, so I just assumed they got Sleep breath from eating them.

[@Loop_Kat]

The mages of Raya Lucaria were clearly trying to create the perfect life form and it seems they succeeded, but for all their wealth of knowledge, they just never realized that the ideal form was crabs

[@skibadibapmbapdap]

My lore theory is that they created the crabs so the Albinaurics would have pet friends :D

[@crossbones116]

FIND THE ALBINAURIC CRAB.

[@ps2_majima]

"They're putting chemicals in the water and turning the crabs gray!"

[@pikachus0358]

damn these video's of yours are so damn interesting i love it :D

[@tabula_rosa]

the real Albinaurics were the friends we made along the way

[@universal_wisdom3416]

Such a gem of a game. I’ll always remember Elden Ring