Seeker of the Crucible's Origin

[@anhad004]

> Venture shadow realm to find your origin. > I like this rock, I'm gonna stay here forever.

[@MitridatedCarbon]

I like to think they found the crucible and it is, or part of it is, in Enir-ilim divine gate. like the eternal sun we find there might be the crucible.

[@arceus1385]

to be honest, it is a good rock !

[@GangStalker17]

@@arceus1385 well he shoulda trained more on that Rock cause I used it to cheese the absolute fuck outta his ass

[@aj1046]

Now I feel bad for stealing the rock standing spot from them

[@genericcatgirl]

@@MitridatedCarbon The sun part is really interesting because of a random item called the Sun Realm Shield that drops from skeletons. "Shield of honor depicting a city crowned by the sun. It has seen better days. Much like the wear upon the shield, the Seat of the Sun is long faded away" So perhaps it could reference Enir Elim before the land of shadow was hidden away from the mainland, since Enir Ilim is eternally sunny. The Crucible Knight armor also kinda looks like it has a sun with tree roots on the chestplate

[@StretchDude]

*FromSoft:* finally gives everyone the Crucible wings *Also FromSoft:* adds multiple new enemy-exclusive Crucible spells

[@Invader_Hex]

You can use the flower that she uses

[@ZealothXyven]

@@Invader_Hex Fair, but not the beast transformation jumping thing going on that Devonia uses.

[@Invader_Hex]

@@ZealothXyven yeah that would be cool, although I'm not really sure how thet could make that a move for the player

[@ZealothXyven]

@@Invader_Hex They made Romina's ability, Messmer's ability, Radah's abilities, I think they could do this.----

[@Floodsye]

BASED.

[@andreaslois3074]

I did not consider the idea of a flower beast centaur

[@jub8891]

now you will think about it for another 5 seconds

[@Neo2266.]

Florataur

[@DooDoo-f4v]

Look up the origin of cabbage patch kids. Nothing new. There are strange medieval manuscripts and depictions of plant hydras.

[@luciusdebeers6176]

I do not consent to the idea of flower beast centaur

[@TOUGHEYES]

Uh, thanks, I hate it? Wonder if it likes fire at all.

[@conspiracypanda1200]

> Crucible Knights in base game get cool wings "maaaan, I wanted those cool wings!" > Enemy in DLC drops Wings AOW "yaaaaaaay!" > New DLC Crucible Knight shows up with a freaky centaur body "....... MAAAAAAN, I WANT THAT FREAKY CENTAUR BODY!!"

[@IamlordEVIL]

3:13 we can hear a discord bi-doop.

[@lemonlordminecraft]

discord PTSD jumpscare

[@beefsnort]

No that's just what the flower does.

[@tiacool7978]

Thought I got a steam message... Glad to know it wasn't happening to just me.

[@patrickhall5121]

Don't judge! She has to keep in touch with the other knights somehow.

[@luciusdebeers6176]

Ruined my immersion completely 0/10

[@immagical7036]

>Turns into centaur >flower erupts from them chestburster style

[@inasilentway9835]

Miyazaki be like “Aspects of the Crucible: Feet”

[@screamthesecond3946]

the crucible knight stomp AoW would lowkey go hard

[@Rjkay45]

I like that the DLC has these unique knights and that you can discover some their names in item descriptions. Makes you surprised there wasn’t a healthbar at the bottom at times.

[@Dinoman972]

Meanwhile, two random Black Knights with one new move each and no descriptions elaborating on their lore do get boss healthbars.

[@protonjones54]

​@@Dinoman972black knights? What black knights are you referring to? Because when you say that I think of the tree sentinels, and they definitely aren't black

[@Dinoman972]

@@protonjones54 ...the Black Knights. The guys with black and gold armor all over the DLC. Wielding Black Steel greathammers, greatshields and twinblades. I'm a bit surprised you don't remember them. Two of them, Garrew and Edreed, have exactly one extra Crucible attack each (wings for Edreed, the infamous unobtainable tongue for Garrew) and apparently that was enough for them to deserve a healthbar.

[@m0fn668]

@@protonjones54 I've seen random ass knights use LICC on me as well, same for the wings - it seems this is just their respective movesets (twinblade and hammer), nothing about those two named ones was actually unique except their boss health inflation as far as I can tell. Shame, really.

[@protonjones54]

@@Dinoman972 where are they a boss?

[@whatsnewbois9814]

The crime worse than promised consort radahn: Not getting that Centaur incantation

[@afk2402]

The tongue is also missing

[@whatsnewbois9814]

@@afk2402 would have been a cool pvp incantation

[@afk2402]

@@whatsnewbois9814 grabbing the invader in the void would be fun for real

[@rafsandomierz5313]

*Host of Fingers* *Gimme that kiss has invaded*

[@protonjones54]

​@@rafsandomierz5313My man's was REALLY in a rush and had to get that comment out without fixing the typos lmao

[@mars4852]

3:12 i cant believe miyazaki foreshadowed discord being discovered by the seeker of the crucible. truly a genius

[@trapygamer1]

Lmao 😅

[@PierceArner]

1:53 - I never noticed that the hexipedal form seems to run in & fuse into Devonia's body, rather than emerging out from it like the other Crucible Incantations. I really wish that we got access to this, the Black Knight Lizard tongue Crucible incantation, and the other new Death Sorceries.

[@KingBurgers]

"Sorry, didn't quite catch that! You said you wanted only the flower spell, right? We got you!" - FROM apparently

[@Ketsuekisan]

On one hand, I agree, I really want the centaur and tongue spells. On the other hand, the DLC already added twice as many incantations as it did sorceries, please don't make things worse.

[@PierceArner]

@@Ketsuekisan I mean, my comment does mention 2 different Incantations, but there are at least 4 different new Death Sorceries that I also mentioned wanting… so how would that be that making things worse?

[@callanlandis4300]

i bet they ran out of time and had planned to make them spells but of course as always fromsoft is incredibly ambitious and bit off more then they could chew

[@PierceArner]

@@callanlandis4300 The Starcallers in the base game feel like that, since they also don't drop their armor sets or their unique weapons either.

[@nelprincipe]

NFL I'm still salty with FromSoft for teasing and denying us the Crucible aspect: tongue.

[@adrianburvall1495]

And Aspect of the Crucible: Centaur! So sad we missed out on those

[@malikhittam1440]

Imagine the meme run potential....

[@anonisnoone6125]

@@adrianburvall1495 Were they gonna be in the game or did they just bother giving them to players?

[@anonisnoone6125]

What's the point of giving players every crucible incant but then u introduce new ones that we can't get? Y?

[@Neo2266.]

Try tongue but hole

[@TheWarmachine375]

0:13 Patrick Star: "He's just standing there... *MENACINGLY!"*

[@gennontheboyhunter]

Imagine you came to the forbidden land with no honor, no return and still seeking for the origin but some random T*rnished shows up kills you because of your weapon got the drip

[@fallatiuso]

Really, it's their own fault for attacking first instead of conversing. Easy way to bite off more than you can chew.

[@periwinkle2486]

why did you censor tarnished

[@dopeyal4755]

​@@periwinkle2486 it's clearly a slur

[@SyncF]

@@dopeyal4755LUL

[@FlameForgedSoul]

🙄​@@dopeyal4755

[@Whyiseveryhandletaken6942]

Man, the animation of the centaur is so dang smooth, it looks like something you’d find in a dreamworks film or something.

[@axios4702]

I love how you kinda just run into her and kill her. The oldest of the crucible knights just gets wasted on the road with not even a healthbar to signal her importance, first time around I thought she was one of several new crucible knights I managed to miss, but then I read the description of the items she dropped and was like "what...?"

[@bypyros1933]

Where does it say she's the oldest?

[@axios4702]

@@bypyros1933 I don't know if it's the weapon or the helmet but it's stated she is "the longest serving" So, oldest alive.

[@chiikkenn]

welcome to fromsoft storytelling where dreams go to die

[@axios4702]

@@chiikkenn I'm not new, but like... Ordovis and Siluria got health bars, this was just mean 😂

[@shivermetimbers9316]

Not trying to brag or anything but I beat her so fast that I never even saw the beast form and didn't know she could even do that until now

[@Cozonac3000]

I want Fromsoft to add the 3 sorceries from the Putrescence Sorcerer, aspect of the crucible centaur and tongue and Midra's head and dive bomb

[@splishsplash3492]

So many opportunities missed for whole new categories that now too have 1 spell

[@Cozonac3000]

@@splishsplash3492 I still hope for an update that will add these spells.

[@DooDoo-f4v]

​@@Cozonac3000I doubt. It's over. Took 2 years to deliver. It's done. This is all they could whip up for the players. Enjoy the single thorn sorcery and single Mohg incantation added 😂

[@Cozonac3000]

@@DooDoo-f4v 🤣you did not play the game didn't you?

[@Ketsuekisan]

Big fan of how FS added twice as many new incantations as sorceries. /s Where's my dumbass ricochet spell and the sorcery version of Spira? Why did they only add INT/FTH and FTH based sorceries, but not more Arcane sorceries or INT and INT/FTH incantations?

[@genericcatgirl]

it would be really cool if her centaur model had some fish or amphibian traits to it considering her name is Devonia, which is based off Devonian. (the time period when fish started to become extremely abundant and amphibians first evolved). But Ordovis doesn't have arthropod traits and Siluria doesn't have any plant traits, so it wouldn't really be in line with the other knights.

[@halcyon1644]

I'd say Siluria has some plant-like features, even if they arent completely accurate to the Silurian Period

[@genericcatgirl]

@@halcyon1644 I'm an idiot and forgot she was the TREE crucible knight lol

[@halcyon1644]

@@genericcatgirl You're all good lol. Although I'd love to see a mod or something that makes Ordovis' armor more like an arthropod, that sounds awesome

[@kayhaich]

They all say they're on a spiritual quest but are really just looking for a bonk and no chit-chat.

[@KATinBLACK]

Hippo- is the Roman prefix for horse. Hippopotamus literally means river horse. FS took that and made the TRUE centaur: half man half hippo

[@nicov1003]

Huh I just realized she's staring at Enir Ilim when we find her. Maybe that's where the crucible is/was?

[@afk2402]

Maybe since [big golden horned birds]

[@rwberger6]

The Crucible IS the Erdtree after it became infused with Grace. Forget the specific item but one item description directly refers to it as the primordial form of the Erdtree.

[@biovalve1410]

​​@@rwberger6 It's actually pretty contentious of what any of that means though. What we know for sure is the Crucible becomes the Erdtree. So it BECOMES a Tree which implies it WASNT a tree before the Golden Order. Given item descrip saying Elden Beast was a falling star many believe the Crucible was a Sun, hence why Enir Illim is reaching towards the heavens. Gate of Divinity likely viewed the Star directly I'd imagine

[@DreamersOfReality]

The Golden Order stole the Crucible. Perverted it into a form they could control and use to shape all life to their whims.

[@Stormmblade]

​@@biovalve1410 The Crucible is described as the place where all life was once blended together. We also know that the Hornsent Potentates were trying to blend life in the jars in an attempt to make saints or a God. Perhaps the Divine Gateway was the Crucible at one point? Or perhaps the Hornsent attempt at producing a God/Goddess by re-creating the Primordial Crucible in concept?

[@KATinBLACK]

I didn’t even get to see this. The furnace golem burned her right in front of my eyes and I was just like, “okay…”

[@foxygrandpa8188]

The Miranda flower connection to the crucible always makes me wonder why the image of a flower is associated with the crucible

[@jeffphisher3801]

What you mean? Miranda flower is a flower lo

[@foxygrandpa8188]

@@jeffphisher3801 the Miranda flowers are all over rauh which is heavily implied to be the place the crucible is from, the crucible bloom spell is very obviously a Miranda flower, they seem to be connected to the crucible in some way

[@remilenoir1271]

​@@foxygrandpa8188 What's there to wonder about ? The crucible is nature in its primeval form, there is nothing surprising about flowers being associated to it.

[@Kelpic]

Not much to wonder really, the Crucible is an amalgamation of ancient life. Bloom, just like Breath, Tail, and Horn, is just one of the aspects of that original Crucible that presumably eventually became distilled into modern life in the form of Miranda flowers.

[@axios4702]

The Crucible was a melting pot of ALL life. That includes plants. The fact Miranda flowers can cast a miracle shows they are intelligent, they might be one of the most primitive forms of life.

[@TheWarmachine375]

*thumbnail* Special Crucible Knight: "STOP! HAMMER TIME!"

[@thehunter8417]

3:13 I checked to see if that notification was real, even though I'm on my phone...

[@Chaarad]

Same, though I'm on my pc and have Discord up on my other screen XD Still had to check

[@Αστερίων13]

Devonia is such a wasted miniboss imo, no healthbar, no music, no unique chestpiece...I think that a unique second phase in which she stays in centaur form would have been better and more memorable, I was expecting more from the first crucible chad. I hope that they buff her bloom incantations at least :/

[@chemiocremblac5527]

Yeah the fact that she uses the axe chest piece and it doesn't quite match irks me. Its especially noticeable on the player. The color tones are noticeably different

[@nonna0157]

I feel like she was wasted potential tbh her lore seemed really interesting

[@marc.vonwyl]

I would have loved having a conversation with them. But, like everything else in these games, they see us and think: "F*ck this guy!"

[@chemiocremblac5527]

You're right a friendly crucible knight npc would have been amazing

[@gunsevenwhillans420]

They could have made her a friendly NPC and still shown off her entire moveset by making it possible to summon her for the Romina bossfight instead of/alongside Dryleaf Dane

[@Lazymindflayerwithcofffee]

​@@gunsevenwhillans420 And her quest line would end like a sellen,s in her discovering crusable, and become mess of limbs wings and horns

[@protonjones54]

That's pretty sus bro

[@kingme4201]

@@Lazymindflayerwithcofffeeand the true boss fight is the flower monster she turns into.

[@kagunslinger767]

1:29 one long braid, one short..

[@YouSoSpice]

ah, Silver Knight Ledo

[@Reemon27]

silver knight ledo was a menace 😭 i miss him

[@bloodfarts5317]

Oh yeah, I remember that rat poise having bastard

[@corecriticalful]

It's the Miranda Beast

[@rwberger6]

Devoni's lore and item descriptions actually kind of flip what we knew of the crucible knights on their head. In the base game, it was mostly assumed that Crucible knights were guardians of the Crucible and after it became the Erdtree, Godfrey took them in as his own knights despite them being shunned in the lands between for their relation to the Crucible. Rather instead with this dlc, it appears that they were originally knights of the lands between who intentionally chose to learn Crucible incantations, becoming disliked by the public as a result. And one member, Devonia, chose to seek out the shadowland to understand the Crucible and its incantations more deeply.

[@quint3ssent1a]

Bruh what, original game descriptions clearly meant that they BECOME crucible knights rather than were MADE them, as if their boss commanded them.

[@protonjones54]

I think you need to look up the definition of the phrase "flipped on its head..."

[@dukesilver1189]

Dev: so should we make one of the new crucible incantations the centaur attack, or the frog tongue? Miyazaki: make it the flower bloom holy attack that used to be an item which got removed from the base game because it was terrible

[@RickyTannith]

Elden ring has shapeshifting druid kights which is sick

[@firewaffle720]

I really wanted her to be a full fledged boss

[@stainlessstain9823]

Maybe the real crucible was the friends we made along the way

[@fennec13]

I was disappointed we couldn't get this aspect of the crucible for ourselves !

[@andrevaldez2810]

Man... Imagine a true crucible creature boss fight A monster full of arms, horns and feathers 😮

[@alxsblv6164]

00:10 - for a moment Devonia looked like very tan and muscular man wearing dark blue trousers.

[@dizzyhungry]

I like how she was searching for their origin or whatever and we just kill her.

[@DrSteamCS]

I beat Devonia first try and never daw these, so this video is the first time I have seen these animations!

[@kaleliciousdinerillo8177]

¡Gracias!

[@Kn1ghtborne]

I never fought this one because I was too busy looking for hidden pathways and items. Every time I saw her it was like "wait, one sec" and never came back 😂 I owe her a battle 🤺

[@lorisceleste1860]

Why does she get to be a centaur with six legs and we don’t? ):

[@genericcatgirl]

It's a shame because it's such a good spell idea. Aspect of the Crucible: Hooves. Creates mighty legs to stomp foes. This incantation can be charged while moving, trampling foes as long as FP and Stamina remain."

[@vgman94]

The “true” form at the end is strangely majestic.

[@cyanspartan1757]

The format of this video at the beginning feels like one of the old promos for Apple products.

[@MinerDiner]

The blurred shot zooming into Devonia at the very beginning just looked like a naked guy lmao

[@Jay_Z33]

Thx. My fight lasted 30secs and didn’t had a chance to witness any of these transformations

[@jmssun]

3:12 crucible force is an amalgamation of everything, including the system sound 😂

[@jmssun]

3:28 the flower headed beast from Takeshi Kitano’s 1998 “Hana-bi” one of my favorite movies of all time

[@Reemon27]

after getting lost for 30 mins in the ruins, i hurried TF over when i saw devonia bcz i thought she was a crucible npc 😔 needles to say she wasnt happy to see me as i was with her

[@kindasus3749]

the state I found bro in after he left the party to go do a side quest

[@alihorda]

The random discord notification sound gave me a heart attack

[@diamondj4484]

I want to see the Age of the Crucible so bad. An age where life flourished

[@Eversing]

Hearing a surprise discord ping does sometimes feel like having a flower burst from your chest ngl

[@TheWarmachine375]

1:20 Crucible Knights have cool helmets and armor straight out of Berserk manga by Kentaro Miura.

[@dreamsleeper1568]

Now I want a centaur skill.

[@joeliolioli4156]

She shoulda invaded you when you first reached Rauh and dropped the flower spell when you beat her there, then been a proper 2 phase boss fight where you find her normally that rewards her hammer, helm, and a centaur spell Phase 1 would be as normal, phase two she’d fully transform

[@Radahntheconqueror]

Such a cool and unique enemy but only one of it, in an irrelevant corner that you pass by.

[@AlexHyena1]

Devonia's hammer is definitely one of my favourite weapons out of the DLC but c'mon From you couldn't think of anything better than "Ordovis's Greatsword but it's a colossal weapon"?

[@Lugermorph1497]

that discord notification caught me off guard

[@Xanderj89]

Busts out of the stomach like the fell god, interesting

[@lrnook]

3:12 God dammit

[@dinarramadhan3429]

So what kind of animal is this crucible knight, he has wings, hooves, horns, fire breath, a tail, and now a centaur body, sunflowers

[@GrandStyles]

I've never even seen half of these attacks. Cool stuff. I originally thought she was manifesting a horse but it's way cooler to see a Centaur reference.

[@BlueMagicite]

oh yes, the animorph knight

[@MasoTrumoi]

I had never seen the flower attack. Neat

[@arhangeo]

a Devonimon

[@russian_knight]

I really wish this guy was more than a normal crucible knight. Should've been her own boss fight instead of this random thing on the path to rauh

[@Time4theJuice]

Devonia deserved more. Obviously they are far more in-tune with the Crucible powers than the others and they’re relegated to an almost random encounter that’s easily avoided

[@amassivewaste]

Killed em before I even saw the beast body or flower attacks…

[@Thedeepesttruth]

Really wish they had the centaur rush and jump slam as a crucible ash of war like the wings, only to be used on heavy or colossal weapons. Or maybe an incantation that you can true combo with the hammer strike from the same weapon.

[@DanielGonzalez-wo1ce]

Why this Knight is not a boss? We re fighting probably the most important crucible knight lol

[@usagipoutine]

3:12, why is there a discord notification sound???

[@Arionid]

what did that discord notif say 💀

[@AlexHyena1]

why From, why give us the flower spell but then add the cool centaur transformation that we can't have

[@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA]

The discord ping at 3:12 is devious 😭😭😭

[@mikehat7652]

Fought her in hopes of getting a centaur incantation but no luck

[@BoaeCH]

3:29 would have made a cool phase 2 for a boss fight !

[@unameduser8860]

Random discord notification at 3:12

[@GrandGoblin]

I wish that centaur form was an incant or something

[@alihadadi81]

I like how he can turn into a six legged sentor

[@ambulance_666]

3:12

[@lordtachanka85]

It really is a shame the weapon art wasnt the centaur, we just got the greatswords but in hammer form

[@nthprawn9313]

Everyone knows that the crucible knights served Godfrey. Some have an axe shape on their helmets to show that. But I wonder if she never served Godfrey. What if she left before he became Elden Lord. Unless the crucible Knights were straight up created by Godfrey.

[@protonjones54]

2:21 Devonia kinda dumpy 😳

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

3:12 oof that was an unfortunate timing for a DM!

[@weeville]

The ash on that Hamer is SO lame to me Like not even a unique attack just the sword but less interesting

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

Nvm the fact thats yet ANOTHER faith colossal weapon... Not even a single pure strength one in the DLC. Really? Or even exclusive AoW for the weapon class ? Smh

[@rwberger6]

Its AOW hits like a damn truck in pvp if you can get enough poise to trade with it.

[@weeville]

@@rwberger6 true, like it's not a bad attack numbers-wise, I just want smth new :/

[@sturmmagnunstein1008]

@@rwberger6 it does but counting on your opponent being completely braindead isnt exactly something thats considered good. I mean its so slow that its like pre buffed ordovis vortex...

[@enterusername6953]

She should have been a field boss with alot more health.

[@screamthesecond3946]

STILL NO CRUCIBLE STOMP FOR THE PLAYER

[@caiooa]

not the message sound at 3:12

[@landonw8982]

If only that weapon art didn’t take 5 business days to land..

[@captainteutonica5474]

If Izalith had knights, before what was meant to be the crucible of life became the bed of Chaos.

[@OrcEye]

Hey! I just beat that guy yesterday. It was a good fight.

[@vitorvena]

Couldve been a full boss fight and they shouldve given the Hammer a Ash that didnt resemble Ordovis' so much

[@todd3143]

so does this mean there are 17 crucible knights? the legend of hoarah loux speaks of 16 crucible knights who served him, all of whom can be found and defeated in the lands between. so is devonia the 17th knight, who left after hoarah loux was named godfrey? and the crucible lore deepens

[@photoboy]

I just sniped Devonia from above, didn't really get into combat.

[@seablackmeduza]

Shou Tucker's new "project"? 😰

[@grfrjiglstan]

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing

[@weirdlookindoll]

What is your character’s outfit?