Inside The Jagged Peak - Elden Ring Shadow of The Erdtree

[@theopeneyes]

I love that Bayle's arena looks like a primitive mockery of Placidusax's area and also feels like a colosseum in contrast to the "place of worship" feel of Placi's.

[@theticksquad8218]

Bro couldn't take the win so he had to remake his whole arena smh.

[@laary7589]

I actually beleive.... that this is where the original farum azula was before it launched to the sky... Personally

[@irisachternaam]

Because this was where Placi's arena was before he teleported it to being lost to time. The rest of Farum Azula was built around the peak

[@SpremeCalami]

@@laary7589 Farum Azula is far bigger than Bayle’s arena and it wasn’t just Placidusax’s arena either, it was an entire city. It definitely would not fit in that volcano

[@GreenTheem]

CUUUUURRRSSSEE YOOOOUUU BAAAAAAYYYYLLLEE!!!

[@DarknessIsTheTruth]

The further up that mountain I climbed, the more I felt like I was trespassing somewhere forbidden. That was a hell of a build-up to a dragon boss.

[@Kami.Sensei]

Yup, The Ancient dragons corpses scattered there helped setting the mood too

[@jordyy01]

This location has become one of my favorite fromsoftware mountains my only issue with it is is how little there is to do on it, If it was a massive legacy dungeon it would've been amazing.

[@razz5614]

just wait until the convergence dlc update comes out with the "improved" version having ten times the amount of enemies and plenty of jumping puzzles

[@major3835]

​@@razz5614 as console player idc (cuz i wont be even able to play that mod😔😔)

[@moonlightning8269]

vibe of climbing a mountain during a storm was immaculate and felt like classic fantasy. Really helped build up the atmosphere before Bayle. There def could have been more done with it but i still enjoy it as it is

[@arcmen2275]

The dragon boss rush is the dungeon.

[@Lamajmassar]

honestly not calling it a legacy dungeon feels wrong because it definetly feels like a valid legacy dungeon

[@PierceArner]

From above, Bayle's arena reminds me of Placidusax's arena with all of the entombed Beastmen as his guardians - except that with Bayle all of those are empty. Really surprised that the arena changes in Phase 2, and reminds me of how the Scadutree Avatar's arena has all the shining golden amber fade to shadow after it's defeated. That might be interesting to explore in a before/after, especially since you can only explore a bit of the golden arena before the boss fight first activates.

[@Solibrae]

You can actually run around the arena to your heart's content before the boss fight starts, as long as you don't approach the Avatar itself.

[@homelessathome]

to me it appears from above like a huge iris

[@coolio6855]

Wait the arena changes? How?

[@PierceArner]

@@coolio6855 It shows in the video how parts of it get set on fire.

[@Wizard_Graphics]

I actually thought it was a big volcano the first time i got there, but i guess Miyazaki said one volcano mountain is enough for one game

[@KitsuneShapeShifter]

Make another swamp tho

[@embargovenom9948]

@@KitsuneShapeShifter Never enough swamps.

[@irenafarm]

Swamp volcano mountain when

[@berserker_bo]

I believed it was a vitrified impact site. During Placidusax and Bayle's battle, the place was shattered, and Bayle crashed down with a piece of Farum Azula which is now fossilized due to vitrification (which is why the arena appears to have once looked like a structure similar to Farum A.)

[@irenafarm]

It looks like it was once underground. The geology is karst, ie limestone hollowed out by water erosion. It matches the extremely folded and eroded limestone from Dragonbarrow to the Moutaintops. Maybe when this was a part of Farum Azula, Bayle was imprisoned here similar to how the royal Omens were kept under Leyndel.

[@ASquared544]

It’s most likely a very dormant volcano. This is mainly due to the whole Flame Lightning aesthetic and the magma produced by Bayle’s Tyranny. I mean, Volcanic Smoke from eruptions or even dormant volcanoes often produce thunderstorms, so it tracks.

[@shiroamakusa8075]

I like the theory put forward that Bayle's arena used to be the foundation on which Farum Azula once rested before it took off to become a floating city outside of time.

[@SpremeCalami]

1) Placi’s arena alone is far too big to fit in the volcano, not even considering the rest of the city 2) Placi’s arena isn’t the entirety of FA, it is an entire city and land mass that likely fit into the gaping hole in the centre of the lands between map (suggested by the strange elevations in the sea in that area, the divine towers, and Gurranq’s bestial sanctum). Even if the 2nd point is just a theory on where FA originated, it is 100% certain that the entire city, and Placi’s arena, is way way way too big to fit on top of the Jagged Peak

[@shiroamakusa8075]

@@SpremeCalami You have forgotten that its current form has all the parts drifiting apart from each other. It used to be more compact since when we are in the past in Placidusax' "throneroom" we don't see any other pieces of the city outside, so we can assume Farum Azula's original form was that of a round tower that flared up at the top. It might have even be a spiraling tower if Farum Azula followed the design aspects of other "ancient" structures in the Lands Between.

[@SpremeCalami]

@@shiroamakusa8075 you make some good points but I think the architecture of crumbling FA says otherwise. Almost every building there has a roof, which would be very counter-intuitive if it was all covered by Placi’s arena at the top of the tower, and also how would the buildings be on top of each other if they had roofs? Also, most buildings stand on a piece of rock, which would be weird if the buildings were built high above the floor. I’m pretty sure Placi’s throne is just in the centre of the city, and the rest of it spreads far and wide outside, but we can’t see it because of the wall around the edge of the arena. In my opinion this is just looking too hard where there is nothing to see

[@bdbgh]

Your videos really scratches that itch of wanting to know more when you look at a game's scenery, thank you.

[@Kami.Sensei]

Thank you glad you're enjoying the content 😄

[@outerheaven4384]

4:18 its interesting that from above you can see that this structure is clearly broken into pieces. Suggesting that it fell from the sky, likely from Farum Azula. Or could’ve been made by bayle in an attempt to create his own Farum Azula.

[@gamerbrothers6545]

I think it could be it's broken from time or the boss's insane attacks!

[@SpremeCalami]

The second theory you suggested is definitely the one I believe, it is far too worn and earth-like to be a piece of FA that fell from the sky

[@landrycormenier4813]

The arena is an eye

[@CocoNut-yd1ri]

Heck yeah, been waiting for this! Seeing it from above, I can see why some said it looks like the Pacidusax arena. It looks like it was crafted, ans I never noticed those pillars all over that part of the map! This is exactly what I wanted to see. Thank you Kami! Can't wait to see where you explore next

[@SpremeCalami]

I think instinctively Bayle carved out the rock to simulate Placi’s arena so he could feel like dragonlord

[@rcking2368]

Bayle's arena looks like a collesium

[@Terror_Official]

It mimics the "throne" room of Placidusax, probably since they were rivals and Bayle lost.

[@Dracozauryks]

It is a tower of silence, a zoroastrian type of something-like-a-graveyard. This is further supported by the ones in Farum Azula where we actually see exposed corpses

[@fables_5028]

The crystal peaks theme song while exploring the jagged peaks is very clever lol

[@kevinsyoutube634]

THE MUSIC IN EACH VIDEO OF YOURS IS A STRAIGHT UP BANGER

[@nightscout9979]

Bayle's arena seems to be both a volcanic crater, as indicated by the second-phase fires, and an attempt to emulate Placidusax's arena at Farum Azula. Even the pillars with the indentations could be crude attempts to mimic the FA pillars. However, this poses curious things for the timeline, since IIRC, that area was meant to be Placidusax's mausoleum. Was Placidusax already considered to be dying before Bayle's uprising? Also, regarding the Jagged Peak, is it the tallest place in the DLC? What are the elevations of Bayle's arena and the highest point on the mountain? I'm curious if the Jagged Peak, Shadow Keep, or Enir-Ilim is the tallest area. It'd also be neat to compare the highest elevation of the monolith in front of the Scadutree Chalice, though said monolith can't be entered (tunnel aside) or climbed at all. Thanks for another interesting video!

[@billionsmustfight]

2:18 These random bits of terrain, same as random underground cubes, are generally used as visual pivot points, or anchor points from which engine artists can manipulate an object or a collection of several objects.

[@kingnarothept6917]

From a top-sideways perspective, it looks like a GIANT tree stump, double the size of the Scadu/Erdtree!

[@jordanbrown3816]

It’s a really unique looking mountain, reminded me of the Erdtree when u blow it up

[@Tbonetron1701]

This video kind of confirmed my suspicion in my previous comment from another one of your videos (which is shown at the 0:10 mark) that it didn’t seem like Bayle’s arena could actually fit at the top of the mountain as it’s rendered from the exterior. This video shows that is in fact the case, as at the 3:00 mark you start exploring the top where Bayle’s arena should be and not only is it not there, but there’s not enough space to fit the arena either. I had figured that to be the case because Bayle’s arena is huge, bigger than the top of the mountain appears from a distance, but also when you’re in Bayle’s arena and you’re looking up you don’t really see any any of the same jagged pieces of the mountain summit you can see from the exterior. I wonder at what point when you’re traversing the mountain that it loads the arena in place of the exterior.

[@Kami.Sensei]

Good catch, I believe the switch happens when you're a little above senessax, I've also noticed The Arena and the spiky top stop rendering and disappear if i move my camera far from it unlike when my tarnished was still at the bottom the top was still rendering cause the Arena didn't replace it yet.

[@ChrisWTFern]

I never realized how much this particular Hollow Knight track sounds like an orchestral rendition of "Chocolate Rain"

[@Master_Weller]

Bayle's arena looks like it has the hole patterns on the Malformed Dragon Armour.

[@Nick.t.S]

Maybe it’s just me but in the second phase the arena somewhat resembles a burning eye.

[@GrandStyles]

Kind of the crazy how Bayle's arena looks like an iris when viewed from directly above. The surrounding structures also looking similar to buildings. Drake worship, true?

[@Goblinboyo162]

So kind of Gwyndolin to ascend beyond regular mortality to give us looksees at unreachable places

[@dankachilles9356]

Freaking LOVE this channel. Awesome content just subbed ❤

[@CordialWyrm]

Crystal peak OST on jagged peak is perfect lol

[@pontiffsulyvahn7442]

Idk why but this channel feels really comfy to me. Moreso than other data miner type channels like Zullie or Bonfirevn. You do great work

[@Dearsoso]

Very nice to see how the arena looks from above

[@krissnoe500]

Looks like gelmir viewed from the four belfry

[@demonicxfire]

The impact on Jagged Peak is amazing... Bro really created Mordor like that and left without saying anything

[@charlafox5701]

The volcano almost looks like a splintered tree

[@zatoro9852]

i like how its just shaped like a gravel stone lol

[@madeline6951]

2:25 this chunk of land looks like an original that gets instanced and duplicated all over the place. Originals often get hidden out of bounds so you don't have to look for them too hard.

[@Writh811]

Folks have noted the arena's similarity. The peaks look like building structures that have been destroyed a long time ago and eroded down a lot. The grooves in them are also very reminiscent of Farum Azula's columns with beastman corpses in them. I don't think Jagged Peak is a volcano. Maybe it was once a Dragon City that is now destroyed because of the Dragon Civil war and Bayle sitting at the peak going heavy on the lava lightning? Which makes me wonder if Farum Azula's land bound state, before the storm of time whisked it away, was perhaps a mountain?

[@kmsk1999]

When I first saw this mountain, I thought it was the stump of an fallen ancient giant tree

[@invictus_aurelius]

Those holed pillars in Bayle's arena summit kinda look like Micolash's headcages or something, i don't know but thanks for these type of content. Really gives the whole scenery of the game. Have you considered taking wallpapers yourself with the debug cam? Also great choice of OST here! I never heard Paradoxical oddity before but its a banger!

[@DJAlphaOmega]

Thanks so much!

[@trevorp8124]

I love how often even big-budget well polished video games have stage-production energy, where if you look at something from an irregular angle, it becomes really obvious you're looking at a prop

[@funnynickname4005]

It’s to allow the game to not be hundreds of zetabytes large

[@rafsandomierz5313]

Simply it's used to allow for better game performance. Name me one computer and game that was able to run with everything rendered. Considering that the game was able to run Mesmmer's giants from very far away and keep them rendered at all times in all points of the map is impressive.

[@Victoria-vd2li]

I see a bunch of comments saying its funny how it looks similar to Placidusaxs arena. It seems pretty clear to me that this was the original location, and when the two dragons fought, the place was ripped apart. What I wanna know is what the structure was originally designed to do. We had beastmen sleeping in the holes, sure, but what for? Theyre arranged in a circle, but there are also towers around the edge of the arena with the holes too. Was it for creating heat like a crucible? Were they using gravity magic to draw something in from afar? Were they casting wind magic to always keep the peak inaccessible and took the wind with it when it flew off?

[@BayleGlazer-b1n]

I really wish we got more lore on Bayle’s arena/the jagged peak as a whole, there’s so many questions the jagged peak made that just can’t be answered

[@jeffjeff1369]

Goated for using hollow knight ost

[@topnott_4767]

Ngl, the whole arena looks like an iris from a top down perspective, especially in the 2nd phase

[@Dracozauryks]

Dragon architecture is definitely inspired by Towers of Silence, zoroastrian buildings for the excarnation of dead bodies.

[@HML_Secondary]

I actually think that the arena looks like that because Farum Azula was there before thinks got thrown around. If you line up the map, Thr Jagged Peak is around where Dragonbarrow is, explaining the Drakes, and Farum Greatbridge is not far from there, with the Bestial Sanctum having the same Architecture as Farum Azula.

[@SpremeCalami]

Farum Azula is far too big to have originated on the Jagged Peak. Placidusax’s arena alone is much, much bigger than Bayle’s. Not to mention the rest of the city outside of that. Based on the locations of the Divine Towers, Gurranq’s bestial sanctum and strange elevation differences across the sea from Leyndell to the bestial sanctum, it is heavily suggested that FA originally filled the gap in the middle of the Lands Between map. It is interesting though that (as you said) Dragonbarrow, the home of most modern drakes and the mother of all drakes, is situated in the same topological location on a map as the Jagged Peak, home to the father of all drakes. Maybe through instinct the drakes of the lands between were attracted to that area because of Bayle’s aura coming across the veil between the realms.

[@lillonerboi504]

I’m gonna toss a theory into the ring that I think many will disagree with. The Jagged peak, is the cut down remnants of the “great tree” that all other world trees sprung from. Miyazaki has made use of stone arch trees in virtually every game. There’s a distinct lack of stone trees in ER, and no better place for the greatest, most ancient tree than next to the area inhabited by Elden Rings most ancient beings, the dragons.

[@KamilMalach]

"Ignore me dying over there" Are you ok? Like do you need a hug or an estus?

[@Kami.Sensei]

A small sacrifice for the video 😅

[@insanergamer]

I wonder if this arena was actually an arena of sorts (and the slots are seats) Or if it was used like a nest to incubate bayle's offspring (mouth of a volcano would be warm, and when he uses his roar some of the slots start burning)

[@prehistoryenthusiast]

Kinda reminds me of the shara ishvalda arena from monster Hunter world iceborne

[@iveharzing]

I'm not sure how you would visualize this, but I'd love to know how the depths of Stone Coffin Fissure compares to the Abyssal Woods. Both areas are a LOT lower than the entire rest of the map, so I'm curious to know which one is lower. My guess is that Abyssal Woods is lower than most of Stone Coffin Fissure, except for the Putrescent Knight arena & St. Trina.

[@Bayle-the-Dread-Dragon]

I just wanna know where he comes from Is he perched on something then jumps down? Or does he spawn in the air?

[@shidfardtv]

The arena looks an awful lot like an iris when viewed from above 🤔 especially when lit up during p2

[@dragonsoul0]

Two locations I’ve not been able to access I’m curious about. One is the small plateau between the church of the bud and Inir Elim. The other is the large plateau just west of three roads cross, we pass under it on our way to Belurat.

[@Gettwobirdsstonedatonce]

@2:15 that's Distortion2's rock

[@koocherry793]

How/what did you use to remove the fog/weather effects. I've been looking for a tool like thag for ages for clean no-clip zoomouts

[@Kami.Sensei]

there wasn't really a specific mod for it i just used cheatengine and changed the weather value of that specific area to a sunny value, it seemed to do the trick but wasn't perfect, some of the ambient fog at the foot of the mountain still remained but it was better than nothing for the sake of the video.

[@todd3143]

the peak looks like a gigantic pile up of gravel stone. maybe bayle or whoever created it was trying to form a second timeless storm?

[@TheOneWhoBugs]

I was always wondering where Bayle is at the start of the first battle. He just drops from god knows where and I'd like to know how his whole entrance looks. Hoped to see that here but, well, time will show

[@Kami.Sensei]

I might make a short about that soon, I will try recreating that animation out of bonds to get a good look at it.

[@oscarbedoya8939]

Can you please put Placidusax's arena over Bayle's arena? It seems like Placi's arena was directly snatched out of that Bayle's, suggesting that maybe all of Farum Azula was located at the top of the Jagged Peak with Placidusax's arena crowning the peak before crumbling beyond time

[@usagipoutine]

Can you try to put farum azual in the hole of the jagged peak? Because it looks like Faruum was there before and maybe was in a tower like form or something

[@AdamMerlin]

1:54 when did you even mention Mt Gelmir tho??? 😭

[@Kami.Sensei]

@@AdamMerlin you're the first to notice haha, i had a previous text saying the spiky parts remind me of Mt Gelmir but it got deleted by accident while editing i think.

[@starchman8758]

I wonder who built the colosseum

[@shafir2]

the arena looks like the plasidusax arena

[@normanbestboi9117]

I bet that hollow inside was gonna be an entire legacy dungeon

[@murderycatdoll1380]

I swear, when i would Work at that areas, i would hide a 'shoo! Get out of Here!" 🤣 What a funny and WTF Moment that would be for the People sneaking in thihiiii

[@technist5246]

Location: tops of Shadow Keep

[@XCrimsonWeaverX]

Are the helmet and sword you wield in these videos a mod?

[@Kami.Sensei]

My helmet is yes, but the sword is The golden order greatsword from the game

[@XCrimsonWeaverX]

@@Kami.Sensei I realized what the sword was after I sent it lol. Thanks! love the videos!

[@justno7958]

Iam really curious about the mask :)

[@Cloudyowly]

Just a big mountain with nothing on it they could atleast pack it with 3 cave dungeons and fill it with more dragons for us to kill

[@imannam]

thanks, but I gotta ask about that pfp, I swear I've seen it before yo

[@scholaroftheworstgame3313]

How high is that highest point?

[@Kami.Sensei]

I haven't checked yet but i have a video planned for size comparisons of the big structures in the DLC

[@DBGT00]

gg

[@ismail.pinkfloyd]

UwU

[@KarmaDama]

Cool videos. A little disorienting though, maybe don't turn the camera around so fast so often. K thx bye

[@thatoneguy8966]

3:24 "giant but hole required ahead"