More Weird, But Interesting Stuff in Elden Ring

[@agtjake]

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[@snazz2133]

anime elden ring BR

[@dumbassery1]

Happy Birthday, Naraka! I love the creativity, both to the visuals and gameplay, to this great game!

[@gd_renatozd]

Happy birthday Naraka I really love the use of the grappleshot in the game it’s so fun to use and the automatic crossbow is my favorite weapon they both make a killing combo

[@miniturtle0275]

Happy birthday Naraka, I really love how many different styles of play there is, no matter how you like to play you can do exactly that or something very similar

[@epicguardian44]

Happy Birthday to Naraka! With it becoming free. Entertainment in college will be a lot easier to reach!

[@JohnWayneBrady]

Trying to uncover EVERY secret? Easy there, Gideon.

[@roguexivan2909]

FIND THE ALBURNAURIC WOMAN

[@Mae-Muki]

@@roguexivan2909 Did you check the Laskyr Ruins? Or near it?

[@eldiandevil]

He’s not Gideon. Gideon is too busy uncovering what happens when Ranni the Witch uses four hands on a Tarnish’s Tackle.

[@benwil6048]

Lol

[@kylejohnson3889]

@@eldiandevil she can use those four hands on me in other ways…..

[@ViroVV]

Im glad someone has finally taken note of the ocean hole north of volcano manor. It feels like a place that if they explore it will be tightly tied to the aliens like the Astel and fallingstar beasts. Plus I think its time we have a truly underwater area in Souls. Granted it would require some mechanics changes but it would definitely be worth it

[@elleofmusic]

and they did it somewhat in Sekiro, so it's totally possible!

[@ViroVV]

@@elleofmusic Ahh. That makes sense. Given the mechanics of the game being in direct opposition to my personal play style I still have yet to open my copy of Sekiro.

[@a_jerry808]

DLC spot. Entrance way or Added boss.

[@Insp.CountMortisWinshipKlaw]

They are archons not aliens. Basically energy vampires. They are written about in various old texts. The lands between is Twilight, where the separation of dimensions is at its closest. The tarnished are the fallen angels. I could explain the fingers but its too disturbing for young minds. Souls games are directly related to the Kabbalah Talmudic Babylonian mysteries.

[@santiagojara8056]

​@@Insp.CountMortisWinshipKlaw Elaborate

[@CassieTheCasserole1]

The cloud in the middle of the ocean is also situated directly in between the divine towers

[@flipphonestudios3934]

The thing at 9:08 is actually a ship capsizing. what you are seeing is the rudder side of the ship in the air as the front part gets sucked into the vortex.

[@ThommyofThenn]

I remember thinking that was where the meteor impacted the land.

[@RafaelRodriguez-np4cf]

Your content is getting a lot better, the quality, and lengths your going to find new things is quite admirable. Keep up the good work & you’ll definitely uncover more secrets!

[@BrassPetals3Voices]

I heard singing (?) in the Frenzied Flame too - just the right amount of ambiguity to drive me mad. I used the mimic veil to creep up the hill to avoid frenzy damage so it lasted a long time. It’s like those audio hallucinations you can hear in ambient sounds - like faint music or muffled talking when a fan is going. Makes me wonder if this sound design was on purpose.

[@tibby7709]

i think its shabriri humming

[@Teyters]

Im so glad im not alone in the experience of hearing music/conversation when a fan is blowing! XD Never thought to look it up for some reason

[@mfu3415]

The "singing" could be there on purpose. Some hours ago I visited this location for the first time. I climbed on the tower‘s top and there were a few "cultists" summoning the flame. It disappeared after I killed them.

[@Marriwil]

If you compare Fortissax's roar to other ancient dragon roars you can notice there is something that "resonates" in background

[@darkhobo]

You want a secret? The Rennala we fight in Raya Lucaria is a puppet. We get her remembrance, so she is for sure dead... but she is still there after our fight. Her phase 2 looks exactly like a spirit summon looks. Which are summonsed with someone ashes. Most of Ranni's forces are puppet soldiers. Her perspector is a puppet. She is a puppet herself. So she has the means to do something like this. Loretta, Rennala's personal Knight has abandoned her. Why would she do that? Ranni was raised by a Snow Witch. Why wasn't she raised by Rennala herself? The answer of course is that Rennala is dead. Ever her design. A stretched out neck (I believe she hanged herself) and barefoot. And she never touches the ground unless you force her to... Ranni's Darkmoon spell even says its the spell of the Carian Queen. Which is what tipped me off in the first place. Look into it. Im telling you man. Its all there.

[@samueltitone5683]

Something I’ve wondered: is Gideon being manipulated by Miquella? It feels implied that Miquella’s ability of infatuation is ultimately the reason he was kidnapped by Mohg, so could that power be the same one driving Gideon to seek out the Haligtree and ultimately destroy the Albinauric village?

[@grimecube]

Nah, Mohg probably went after Miquella because he was both an Empyrean and easy to grab (relatively speaking at least).

[@declicitous1763]

@@grimecube I mean he has an outer god backing him, omen blessing and golden lineage blood so not much can kill him apart from us

[@heyiamtalkinoverhere]

@@declicitous1763 Isn't the golden lineage Godwyn and his descendants ex godefroy and godrick

[@declicitous1763]

@@heyiamtalkinoverhere golden lineage is Marika and Godfrey and their descendants as they started the golden lineage

[@plumbus7253]

But miquella is against discrimination

[@joyless95]

The banners with the words written on them are actually probably just the names of each location because if you zoom out on the map the names of the areas appear above them

[@vagranthippopotamus2738]

The Flame of Frenzy almost sounds like distant screaming, which could also make sense, since using those incantations causes madness and pain to those who use them. A pretty unsettling detail, regardless.

[@Dev_Six]

I thought up something few weeks ago, that the fingers remind me of the marionette type of dolls that are moved by using fingers or wooden sticks. The fingers are perfectly aligned like a hand that guides a marionette doll with the big cloud between them all.

[@Apollofish_games]

the runes have been figured out by another streamer. some of it is names of staff.. one is about warning ships about sirens. it's pretty interesting.

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

The runes say "Speak Friend and enter". What's the elvish word for friend?

[@mmyr8ado.360]

@@victoriousf.i.g.3311 Mellon

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

I noticed Torrent has a unique animation where it will slow down and kind of "E-brake" with its front hooves when you use L3 to jump off. I got to see it when I jumped right as I was being summoned and, instead of disappearing instantly as per usual, Torrent did the above-described "skid to a halt" animation as the screen faded to black.

[@getsueinaito]

Probably doesn’t want to become another yoshiband potential fall off a cliff

[@Miriam_J_]

There was a time my game bugged for a little bit and didn't despawn Torrent at all when I got off of him. It was only for a couple of seconds, but he almost immediately started doing some of the idle animations Zullie The Witch had found

[@darkhawk2463]

It’s great fun to look around the map with you on stream.

[@tydr0]

I seriously love this game, approaching 500 hours total on 4 different characters and I just found several different areas and battles last night I’ve never seen before.

[@rznbl1992]

Regarding the celestial dew, in my playthrough I straight up killed blaidd early in nokron thinking I'd get his sword. I obviously didn't, but the celestial dew did bring him back to life and let me continue Ranni's questline

[@vantavermillion4183]

He won't fully die when you kill him, he'll just come back every time when you reload. It's not cause of the celestial dew, just the nature of his character

[@tschatman123]

If you kill the BLOODY FINGER HUNTER YURA he quotes that he can't die until "she" is eradicated. Maybe that has something to do with the frenzied flame and the sound we can hear. Shabriri also takes over his body later.

[@diontes1480]

Like Esgar, Yura is driven by seething revenge when you progress their quests long enough. Yura becomes Shabriri, Esgar falls victim to the Frenzied Flame after seeing Irina's death, dropping a Shabriri Grape once killed when he invades you. Chaos. I personally feel this is the precursor of how it plays a roll in Dark Souls. I have a theory where the unique endings of ER are homages to FROMS older games. When you save Milenda from sacrificing yourself, the Frenzied Flame will add on a new cutscene showing the color of her closed eye. Pale blue. Just like a Fire keeper.

[@guardian000]

the "She" he's talking about is Eleonora, that he must kill her before dying, and it's not out of revenge, it's more like a mercy kill because she has gone insane from the dragon communion

[@pintobean6702]

You really misunderstood what Yura was trying to do lol. The she is Elenoir and he wants to put an end to her misery.

[@tschatman123]

@@pintobean6702 oh, thanks. It was just a shot haha

[@tschatman123]

@@diontes1480 thanks

[@EStephensII]

It’s common for developers to put empty spaces or shapes in places where the player won’t see. They generally do it for loading and speed purposes. The game will load unseen things early so they show up faster later, or leave empty space to make loading other things faster.

[@solstafirvafri]

Some of the rune characters strung together on the map remind me somewhat of bind runes, which simply explained are two or more runes combined together to enhance the runes' meaning in some way. Runes can be laid on top of each other, stacked together along a similar line or arranged in a radial pattern. It's hard to tell for sure if this was the inspiration behind these mysterious letters or not, but I figured I'd just throw this idea out there. I'm no expert or anything but being very much into runes and Norse mythology I couldn't help but want to bring it up lol

[@jbrennan381]

Oh hey that's a cool. I never really noticed that but I always loved the runic style writing in the game.

[@notavinav]

Frenzied flame sounds like a waterfall or the ocean waves crashing against the rocks near a beach

[@gagemullis313]

I'm going to rename my character "Carian Papal Guard", place a summoning sign down next to Miriel, and fight anyone who wishes to harm the Turtle Pope

[@Bbmag23]

The merchants song is Somebody, tip her. She’s dancing like a stripper

[@leekelly337]

Flame of Frenzy is similar to the sounds the idols made in Iron Keep DLC, forget what that queens name was…Nedalia? I’ve always wondered about that rock in the middle of the sea, but they’ve been editing map everywhere patch to correct content, so yeah might just be a leftover that hasn’t fallen of the map viewer yet…

[@humanoidapple9325]

3:50 It looks like DS3 Main menu theme

[@mccoolfriend6818]

Ngl, sauron's eye village, I did hear the woman humming great that you said something about it I thought it was only me or something XD probably the souls of the finger maidens that died or the finger maiden of you know who (not OURS of course)

[@incognitostreamer8897]

It's weird. I hear like a distant wail, like from a banshee, as well as laughter. If you listen carefully, it kinda has little dings that sound/ remind you of crystals or like ice. It's actually really just high putched laughter. It's creepy

[@kirasavesmusic]

I love this, it’s almost like the merchants are finishing the melodies that the BloodBourne started

[@liamace1107]

I have 2 pretty cool theories I haven't seen online yet. 1. the gods are actually a spectrum of ONE god, with the frenzied flame tying them together. So, The Mother of Truth combines blood and fire in the red spectrum while also being an invisible "formless" red glintstone star. Red is the highest end of the visible electromagnetic spectrum so it seems to be a reference to the edge of human perception. This combined with the knowledge of how multiple beings can be one with Radagon and Marika, Miquella and St Trina, Ranni and Melina etc and how theres frost lightning as well as other weird, blurred lines of reality. So if beings that aren't even on a higher plane can be 2 or more beings, whats to stop the god of Elden Ring being so complex that its filtered down into different levels of percievance? 2. The Great Tree used to be in the centre of the map, the whole lake/ ocean in the middle was the Great Tree. The strange flaky rock at the edge of the divine towers all surrounding the central lake is almost definitely petrified wood, like the pillars underground resembling the perfectly spaced out trees in both dark souls and bloodborne. If thats the case, the Erdtree wouldve come down on an angle that simultaneously moved Farum Azula to its current location, destroys the entire central landmass and took out the space between Caelid and Mountaintop of the Giants. I LOVE how this game allows so many incompatible theories that dont cause plot holes in the context of the game itself. It's like a testament to the human ability to view things in an almost infinite number of ways

[@SleepyMechanics]

Could the dying merchant be an easter egg for sans from undertale ? Sounds really like hin

[@osaasd8018]

The nomadic merchants song is obviously a tribute to "Come get her" by Rae Sremmurd

[@imaginationstation5595]

I just realized that when you are aiming with a bow you can press up and down on the dpad to zoom in and out. As well I never knew that if you backstep(Dodge without a direction) and attack you get a new attack animation

[@ispasmihai-daniel5173]

Happy Birthday To Naraka! What i love the most in Elden Ring is the lore and how it is structured, around the NPCS, quests and items. Also the two majors endings that alter the lifes of everyone of Lands Between forever, from Ranni ending being the 'good ending' by succesfully divide the Order from Lands Between, to the mad and 'bad ending' of Lord of the Frenzied Flame which force all the living beings of Lands Between to succumb in terror and despair.

[@Supstince]

The developers are probably sittin laughing at how 9:20 was just a pit of extra textures and art they threw away and found it convenient cause the were too increasingly rushing the game and joked about it being the "meteorite junk pile" and did a little art on the map in that popular dump spot. Just my crazy theory 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@BajorMellend]

Happy Birthday Naraka!, my favourite thing about elden ring is how diverse the combat is, you can literally pick and mix builds and make anything work and its so fluid its so amazing what fromsoftware has done!

[@Pie_Smacker]

For the humming in the Madness Flame, I did indeed hear something and I'm pretty sure it's a form of humming. I've been thinking about it and I view it in a few ways: 1) Peace in madness. The mad operate under beliefs, emotions and actions we can deem foreign or terrifying but to them is calming and reinforcing, it gives them a new perspective on life. So while many are drowning in pain and begging for help, some are calmed by their madness and the knowledge that the Three Fingers and Flame of Frenzy are looking over them probably soothes at least some of them. 2) Music seems to be a sizeable part of the Merchants and I don't see why the Madness Flame they brought into this world doesn't have aspects of music within it, this aspect being singing. Music is art and many forms of madness can be expressed through art. 3) it could also be a reference to the Winter Lanterns as well, who sing and drive you mad upon viewing them, much like how simply being within view of this flaming orb drives you mad. The song and sight of it is enough to break your character, as you are being exposed to a cacophony of suffering from countless people all bundled up into an aspect of, basically, an outer god.

[@TheGameFreakNJG]

The Frenzied Flame's humming reminds me a bit of the Winter Lanterns from Bloodborne. Fitting, with the shared Frenzy status affliction and all.

[@eldenringpvpenthusiast1710]

Haha I think the whirlpool is swallowing a ship, but I think many meteors have fallen, astel's area looks underwater, maby from very ancient times

[@OJuggernautO]

You can actually respawn some NPC’s after absolution. Any NPC that doesn’t drop any items after you kill them can be resurrected. I accidentally killed Sellen during her quest, but where/when I killed her, she didn’t drop anything. So I was able to resurrect her.

[@scheherazade2291]

Happy Birthday to Naraka! I really like how customizable the game is. While you can actually customize some of the character’s looks beyond just picking skins and accessories (like hair, eye color, skin color, etc), you can play a character in vastly different ways by choosing variations on abilities and ults and by the kinds of weapons you choose. I don’t think it’s often that you see two people play the same character in exactly the same way which keeps the game fresh.

[@morrigannibairseach1211]

Some of the rune letters remind me of Ogham. An ancient Irish alphabet that uses a median line (on paper in lieu of an edge) in which full, half, and slanted lines denote letters.

[@FugaxContrapunctus]

As far as I (and certainly some others on the Internet) can tell, these runes belong to the Nuosu script of the Yi language, belonging to the sinitic language family. Some are pretty cool looking, in fact: ꁘꁊꊱꏍꄹꐚꑴꎫꆷꀿꄝꎥꐒꈢꅪꂰꂱꂵꃞꆫꏀꎮꍡꒁꊛꑗꑌꊨꊝꒄꄒꀈꋍꄩꈤꑆꂐꑭꐗꆏꆐꄻꅀ

[@morrigannibairseach1211]

@@FugaxContrapunctus Yeah I had meant more that some of them seem to be written across a line. Those do look cool though. So if yous think you know the base how close do yous think you are to deciphering what is written?

[@FugaxContrapunctus]

@@morrigannibairseach1211 It's hard to tell, but given the dedication of certain lore hunters within the community, one might as well transcribe as much, fill in the gaps and identify whether a real-world tongue was used or a conlang (constructed language) is at play here. It may even be total gibberish, though I would hope that is not the case.

[@morrigannibairseach1211]

@@FugaxContrapunctus I would be incredibly surprised if it was just gibberish.

[@FugaxContrapunctus]

@@morrigannibairseach1211 Indeed. Given the astonishing level of detail that has gone into creating such a masterpiece of a videogame, I should have ruled out that possibility without second thought.

[@mrrd4444]

Here's one I noticed from another playthrough (idk if it's been mentioned yet) but Rennala's full moon has a weird interaction with the armoured silver tears. If you don't kill them but proc the magic debuff it seems to stun them, akin to sleeping them.

[@localfoolthecreature]

For the Frenzied Flame one, I personally think that the strange sound might be wind howling. Could be that the tower is burning so hot that the heated air expands outward so much at such a high speed that it whistles by. However, nothing else supports this, none of the environment moves in response to the fire.

[@w000tFloris]

Love the RuneScape music!

[@Daymon2012]

Not sure if anyone noticed but after the ranni quest if you sit at the site of grace in her camber in the top floor you can talk to the doll again and she will give more info on her plan

[@Worldoftankistenoob]

About the written inscriptions over the map, it used to be more visible during the demo, ppl got interessed and managed to decypher a lot of it bc it was inspired by old langages. some of them were realistic markings to warn souls from a certain fate (vortex sea monsters etc), some others were a bit lore related as descibing other lands or geographical interest points. In the end most of them were developpers easter egg signature/puns. If i remember correctly this was removed when the game was released. There is video on youtube which explains it a lot more accurately than myself :)

[@Tomp4ul]

Relating with your early point about demoralisation, I've been replaying earlier From titles, and it's really helping remind me what makes From's mysterious style of lore/story/context so amazing, and I'm getting really juiced to delve into another ER play through with a refreshed/renewed perspective and vigor, even though (imo) ER doesn't quite do it as well as some of their previous releases, I think maybe part due to seemingly unfinished elements, and part due to the open world allowing players to find more stuff but in a harder to predict order, rather than laying pieces leading through like a story, building a more carefully crafted perspective/understanding depending on how much you discover and learn. Exactly like you said early on, perspective seems to be incredibly important. You can get a completely different experience of the story of many of their games depending on how much information you have gathered throughout your time with it, which NPCs you trust, etc.

[@subtlewill1748]

I noticed the other day that the dead giants have thorns that resemble destined death around them..Has that been covered yet?

[@Lemongrass_gaming]

Actually, it was deathblight not destined death. It could have meant that the golden order had godwym with the fire giants

[@jesterlampoon-t1j]

Pretty sure the center cloud has something to do with the giants. The fire eyeball in the giant's chest has eight "pupils" surrounding a large single pupil. The eight towers are positioned similarly around the center cloud. It's possible the real giant outer god was sealed there like the god of rot was sealed in the rot lake.

[@kanaka2010]

I think that the leftover geometry could be a cache issue. A lot of times when geometry is deleted in a 3d world, there is more often than not, phantom geometry left that is leftover that is not initially noticed by developers. A lot of times, this is not able to be found until it's soft published and the player happens upon it.

[@ulyaoth3579]

From Software should make Miriel an Albino Turtle as a Tribute to the Super rare Galapagos Turtle recently born. And let's make him truly immortal.

[@Nezxmi]

The language of the map runes is late 19th century Nuosu-Yi Bimo Manuscript, according to a video titled "The Disturbing Elden Ring "Iceberg" Conspiracies Explained" by FranklyGaming. Apparently a more complete form of the writings was available in the ER beta's map and Chinese players translated some of them back then, they ended up being area labels and cautionary warnings you might expect from mythology, like avoiding the songs of Sirens.

[@labellebryce]

That cloud seems to be in the intersection point of all the divine towers. I'd say its a DLC area

[@coatguy2990]

At 7:32 - 7:33 you can also hear what I think sounds like some kind of squeaking. I don't know if it's supposed to represent wood since it can make this sound rarely when you burn it (I think specifically when you burn wet wood) or if it's supposed to be some kind of animal. It definitely encapsulates frenzy though. It very well could be a women in the background, it could be wood or an animal as well. Fitting for frenzy, you hear a lot but you don't even know what you hear. Dumb example, like really dumb, but when superheroes go crazy, in some depictions they start hearing a lot of voices, so many you can't tell whats going on anymore, I kinda think this here is a similar situation.

[@ashenknight621]

After staring at that meteor in the ocean I realized it looks just like some of the boat on the map but it's sinking vertically

[@winterbalm]

the merchants hand thingy looks exactly like Peter Griffin’s buttscratcher

[@chrisp.9380]

I think the humming you hear is the worshipers chanting to summon the flame of frenzy over the tower.

[@luckykibbles1311]

The Music that the merchant is playing in the sewers sounds like the music at the end of Titanic and its also very fitting 3:36

[@samueljonathan6101]

I discovered a secret way into Leyndell you just have to do Fia's questline and at the end of it after you fight her champions you get a transporter gate that will take you into the capital.

[@Nintaboy]

could the humming noise in the flame of frenzy be actually the guys on the tower summoning it?

[@Recoil1808]

The rune letters, apparently, can be traced back to a map fragment or something along those lines from the beta or alpha. Apparently one of them references a kraken or something similar, and another references sirens or mermaids.

[@fib900]

In the case of the rune etchings on the map, if they are a secret language, you might be using the wrong language to decipher them, no need to localize something not meant to be understood.

[@handgun559]

I still think it's fundamentally easier and less engaging story telling to not write a story and expect viewers to write the gaps for you. That said, I still think a writer, at least one, somewhere in the From Offices, had a story in their head. To make a little more sense of it I have this theory; The item description for Elden Stars says the Elden Beast and the Elden Ring came to the earth together as a falling star. I believe this is revisionist history, in game, by the two fingers and the Greater Will. The Elden Ring belongs to the earth. It always has. The Greater Will adopted the name of Elden Beast for it's auger to sela the connection between it and the Elden Ring. But what happens in all the ending? More to the point, why the hell do we have to burn the Erdtree and slay the Elden Beast to them serve the ErdTree and Elden Beast? We don't. Merikas plan involves us becoming the first Elden Lord apart from the Greater Will. Merikas plan was this; the Erdtree is a parasite, and the Greater Will has usurped the Elden Ring. To banish the Greater Will Merika first shatters the Elden Ring, making it harder for a single entity to control, and effectively giving most of the runes back to the races of the earth or whatever it's called. The Greater Will gets the idea though, and entraps her in the Erdtree. Burning the Erdtree weakens the Greater Will and opens it up to direct assault. Destroying the Elden Beast banishes the Greater Wills influence over the Elden Ring, and we reforge it as the new, and first Elden Lord of Man. It makes it even more amazing that Merika knew to send Godfrey away. She planned for it to be Godfreys descendants, the greatest/most influential of all men, to reclaim the Elden Ring, and it worked. She also had to sacrifice her very being to accomplish this for us. From this angle, I actually like Merika rather than thinking her plan had actually no thought out into it. If this isn't somehow part of the answer then I am totally lost as to the purpose of burning the tree and slaying the beast. Other than "because video game."

[@sk8legendz]

i like this theory an aligns with mine that Melina was Marika's daughter whom she i think had undergo a ritual to become a kindling maiden. her Blade is found in a room guarded by an official said to be involved in dark rituals. she was resurrected by Marika I think to help the tarnished.

[@handgun559]

@@sk8legendz ok, so I'm not the only person who immediately thought that was Melina's room/dagger in the hidden room.

[@unknwnn7673]

Miriel : “I cannot be harmed. I can’t die” *is harmed and dies*

[@watashi1793]

Crazy that they can animate a merchant playing an instrument to perfection, and still be unable to make NPC lips move accordingly to what they are saying.

[@nostalgichris]

holy shit that merchant laugh

[@M.A.R.S.]

About the Merchant song, it's good to know that the composer for Bloodborne also composed for Elden Ring

[@deathmanx8781]

the nomads song sounds like a sadder than the bloodbourne one, which could be because of their past

[@nunull6427]

8:20 the runes look awfully similar to the titanite scrawlings from dark souls 1. I believe there's whole forums and for sure a few videos on it. Edit: the "meteor" looks really similar to an erdtree that's been either knocked down... Or considering it's proximity, eaten?

[@deeezey_2239]

As an active old school runescape player to hear it everywhere does make me laugh along with my ears pricking up

[@Dkwrldwastaken]

Agt Jake could be a stretch but I believe the humming from the girl is hyetta or whatever her name is who is destined to be your characters maiden if you become the embodiment of chaos from the frenzied flames.

[@neerx7902]

Id say the strange sound in the background at 7:22 is pizzicato violins, or at least sounds a lot like that.

[@paralam2175]

9:09 This is a ship sinking perpendicularly into the sea.

[@HANIMEME]

If you didn't know already the entire map of elden ring looks like a curled finger. In the same shape as the finger items in your inventory

[@devinblagg9851]

Haha the merchant’s laugh almost made me spit out my drink! Didn’t expect that

[@sleavercole]

The nostalgic tutorial music gave me goosebumps.. that or because it's chilly outside

[@RJRed]

2:53 I realized this early on when the game released, and have been thinking I was the few to notice this.

[@1stRateSerrvice]

I felt like the meteor in the ocean in the last bit was actually a rock floating and the water being pushed back from it's levitation. Turned out to be nothing so far, maybe like those old world maps that had magical creatures and other crazy things inspired by imagination.

[@exxy9931]

I don't know how much I would call it "accurately" playing but still neat (look at instruments like the guitar, violin/cello/etc - you typically want a fretboard of some degree to play on, fretted or not, to make it eaiser on the musician to play notes correctly and consistently, their instruments seem to have a rounded "fretboard" which is my only real complaint about this). Also, the word you're looking for at 3:12 may be "leitmotif." It's a musical theory that you can find in games like Hollow Knight (really great example, their songs are amazing and very clear-cut examples of a leitmotif - not all of them but you can tell which are) and more classical pieces where songs or melodies are derivative of a specific section of another song or melody. I would argue the top two uses for leitmotifs are either to build upon the original or (in this case) used as a callback (possibly to invoke a sense of familiarity or nostalgia).

[@constipation4650]

Fun fact, Goldmask doesn't get bothered or offended if you "accidentally" hit him. He's but a projection, like every fucking thing in ER. Reloading the game will respawn him and continuing his quest normally. Of course that's pre Snow tops because he will take offense later on and will require a celestial dew.

[@St-Ephan]

That's not a meteor hitting the ocean, that's a maelstrom devouring a ship.

[@boots_33]

Miyazaki has confirmed that the missing location under the clouds on the map is Gehrman's theme song.

[@SevenPr1me]

The firemonk armor also features the face of the fell god.

[@Dev_Six]

The catacomb musician feels like I have heard it before. It reminds me of an ocean.

[@mimim.2175]

Hearing that sweet sweet runescape music is a balm to my ears

[@algorithmicabyss4150]

Hey just thought id mention it seems that the Erdtree is inspired by the myth of the of the old holy trees of Ireland which where all grown from the seeds of a branch bearing an apple, hazelnut and acorn on the slab at the base of the erdtree we can see a odd tree with a bulge where it is grafted from oak to another kind (looks like a barren hazel), with the eldenring being put into a v shaped gap between the oak and a second set of roots, which are mostly missing due there being a massive hole in the stone This appears to be showing the eldenring being grafted to the base of the “great tree” mentioned elsewhere, forming the erdtree

[@lilstamp08]

Bro I’m in over a year now and I can’t stop with the lore

[@miriamlinn8934]

you can bring sellen back with celestial dew, though, if you kill her "real" body under the witchbane ruins in the weeping peninsul

[@MrManuBracco]

I have to point out that at 9:09 that's a damn ship sinking into a whirl.

[@elleofmusic]

Yeah, I heard the woman humming in the Frenzy Flame when I first found it and it tripped me out! I wish I'd recorded it bc I swear it was clearer back then… And the writing on the map as someone else mentioned looks like Ogham for sure. I haven't looked into if it can actually be translated, but that's a good idea!

[@dillonbarnwell3065]

The cata pita blade made of writing of light resembles the ancient text on the map

[@livegolfismygt]

6:06 Rarest screenshot opportunity. You monster 💀

[@ibeezthecapn]

Happy birthday to naraka!! Favorite moment is how the runes on the map are a broken form of Chinese, the Yi dialect. It talks of sea monsters not in the game. Also this was uncovered before the game even released.

[@LadyAmalthea1977]

Happy Birthday, Naraka!! I Love EVERYTHING about this game! Just when I thought I had found all of the items & special hidden gems; I discovered the Bestial hidden area with talisman & weapon. This game is amazing, and my very 1st video game I have ever played in my 45 years of life. Lol 😂 Watching my son & hubby made me want to try it out, and it was the best decision ever. 💜

[@Darien2016]

I always wondered if Gerhman's theme had any significance but so far I guess it's just an Easter egg. We'll see if the dlc does anything with this. As far as the giant empty hole in the map and other cloud areas on the map. I'm assuming that these will be DLC areas whether it's all released at once or separately or what the areas are remain to be seen. But some things they could be would be the bad lands where Godfrey was exiled to, areas miquella explored that we don't get to, or possibly new areas that rise in the age of the Stars from nokstella and other areas. Of course it's all speculation and nothing is confirmed. I'm leaning towards additional areas from nokstella and those that will open up after Ranni's ending. Seeing as how Nokstealla and them are underground and the areas just seem to be ocean only for now. It would make sense that since Ranni's ending is tied heavily to nokron and nokstella that these areas would rise out from under the ocean once you fulfill her destiny. Alternatively, these could also just be new areas that open based on what ending you choose I guess we'll see.

[@FTZPLTC]

I've no idea why but the bow of the merchant looks like an old backscratcher

[@M.A.R.S.]

At the back of Castle Sol, you can actually see Miquella's Haligtree down below. Is it fully modeled? It's covered in fog so we can't tell

[@hannahshark8080]

It's a very low res texture. Not meant to be seen up close at all, looks like ps1 graphics

[@BeggarsNight]

Those are just two similar melodic rhythms. Considering that the same composer worked on that song in bloodborne and on elden ring, such things are bound to happen. Not a connection that’s made between them. That would be something far more intentional and noticeable, like the actual melody.

[@muhamadluqmaan7361]

The platforming bit is super easy if you have a certain weapon