The Elden Ring Boss That DOES NOT Belong! | LORE

[@simonealcazar816]

*About the Rot Crystallians* , I do have to remind people that Scarlet Rot isn’t just a Biohazard like poison it’s decay given physical form. It’s corrosive in nature giving how it eats through earth but also how Jerren and Redman Knight need Iji to design weapons that wouldn’t rot. It’s more just that they’re “stained” with rot and crystal is known to be very slow to decay. I don’t think it says much about whether they are organic or not.

[@Ssosmooth69]

Scarlet Rot is basically the essence of the Rot God, so I think it goes beyond organic.

[@jim0_o]

Yeah this, they don't seem affected by the Rot, they just seem like they've been dipped in it and that filled their cracks.

[@-thebatman-]

Rot is a curse from the outter god of rot.

[@jim0_o]

​@@-thebatman- (If that was directed at me here is a clarification) I'm talking about the liquid rot that makes up the Rot Lake and that one place that seems to be the sewage of the Haligtree.

[@-thebatman-]

@@jim0_o true but all rot that exists in the lands between is actually a curse put there by the outer god of rot. It didn’t originate in the lands between.

[@Niglet_killer69420]

Bro we should have got that ring like blade they got

[@chriskotte8468]

We still can there is a cool shield/weapon from dark souls where you throw it kinda like captain America. Could be something like that.

[@carseatgaming]

Maybe a dlc item.???

[@jacklu2344]

If there is DLC I will be crazy about it

[@simonappel2599]

Heard someone have a cool idea where (if they add it in dlc) if you two hand the ring blade then you get their small chakram in your off hand. Would love more weapons with unique two handing movesets etc

[@jacklu2344]

​@@simonappel2599Special knife setting I hope

[@Solar_WolfGaming]

The thing about the lore in Elden Ring is that it is very interested in providing internal logic to how life and the universe is from the standpoint of understanding alchemy before chemistry. Everything is metaphor for natural processes. The lore we explore with the magic in this game is intrinsically linked to mind and consciousness in relation to subdivision of different parts of the wholeness of things. Mind, Body, Spirit/Soul. The Primeval Current must be referring to where consciousness flows. Just pure mind without soul or physical form. Now, to understand what this is in relation to the Graven Mass, it's like an idea that persists and outlives a person. A piece of written information that is inscribed on stone, an engraved and unchanging peer reviewed objective factual truth of the universe. Sellen is trying to become that as the Graven Witch, an indelible mind that is pure consciousness, but the problem with being set in stone is a rigidity that can't easily be changed or amended. Just knowledge that is forever recorded as it was written, a biographical piece of mind that lives after the physical death of a person like watching a movie of an actor that passed away but they live on in their representation on the screen. A recorded eco that is not able to be interacted with, just as a work of inscription and ideas to be interpreted from a book or stone slab rather than an animate conscious person. In Sellen's case it's like the steps she takes in transferring consciousness between bodies and Ranni's case of her mind inhabiting the Renna doll. This may be seen as unnatural, as in the cosmological sense of the game, when a person dies their physical body is returned to the earth/world tree, the memories/identity of their past life are washed away in the lethen water currents to rejoin a river of primordial consciousness, and their soul migrates to a new body to be reincarnated as a new person (but with the same soul as the last one). That's the natural order of things represented by the closed loop circles of the Elden Ring as rules governing everything including the cycle of life and death.

[@TheNonAestheticWitch]

Elden Ring was my first FromSoft and I didnt know the crystallians had to be shattered first- they killed me so often that now I avoid them like a trauma scar. 💃 Here's to the DLC coming soon plz 🥂

[@Kolket1389]

You are lucky, you can play other From games while you wait for the DLC. What are we who played them all gonna do 😂

[@jaycobobob]

​@@Kolket1389that's what I've been doing. Picked up DS 1-3 and Sekiro on the Steam Summer Sale last year for like 60 dollars total. Currently at Lothric Castle in DS 3.

[@Greywander87]

Use a weapon that deals strike damage, it does almost full damage without needing to shatter them first. Hammers, great hammers, flails, and whips all shred through them and won't bounce off.

[@Joshua_Shadow_Manriguez]

I still wonder if the Crystallians are actually the result of one's body becoming fused with the Primeval Current, like the process that Azur and Lustat were undergoing. I mean, it still fits the lore of the "creator", even if the "creator" itself is just the Primeval Current.

[@Eizengoldt]

That’s a pretty weak result then

[@Joshua_Shadow_Manriguez]

@Eizengoldt I'd imagine that the wisdom and knowledge gained would be the primary benefit.

[@mattb6616]

There are Crystalians in the Sellia Hideaway. Is this some kind of engagement trick? lol. You also get the Crystalian Ashes there.

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

I’m thankful so many caves exists. It means that a smaller portion of the community fought the 3 Rot Crystalians while under leveled. Elden Gank can be sinful at times…

[@homiespaghetti1522]

And before they nerfed gank fights, like when they were all equally aggressive.

[@KittyCalibur]

@@homiespaghetti1522 I swear some of those fights feel just as bad or worse than before. Dbl Crucible Knight boss fight had me laughing last week and backpedaling for 3 minutes because I couldn't even parry without getting hit by the other one because they kept spamming attacks through one another while chasing me around. It was goofy.

[@nameinvalidLOL69]

Yeah, nowadays you just fight the spear one first and the others will remain extremely passive. In the gank in Sellia Hideaway, if you fight the staff one first, it's like the prepatched fight. There's still randomizer runs which keep them all equally aggressive. Fun times

[@KittyCalibur]

@@nameinvalidLOL69 I was focusing the sword boi but then they went full tank squad mentality. I ended up using the age old strat of short bow and pots until the first one died since he was at a third of his health by the time the other rushed me too

[@kanseidorifto2430]

Even with the mist spell I found, it took a bit of patience to get to that point in which I could beat them. Practically 2 hit at the most for their attacks due to low vigor, but I thought it was worth it so I stuck to the fight

[@MiquellaTheUnannoyed]

Crystal Bro summon got me through most of my first play through 💠

[@sephi7ac]

Chakram(s). That’s what the ring weapons are called.

[@MennydorgesERArchive]

The lore of these guys, ironically enough, reminds me of pokémon with the Regis 😅

[@spicygaming3783]

One of my favorite things about elden ring, is that so many enemies feel out of place. Alien, it just makes the world more diverse and interrupt, id actually hate if the craziest enemy you saw in elden ring was just a dragon, or the soldiers

[@jpcsdutra]

Despite maybe being written "around" their designs, I think they fit quite nicely. With Astronomy, Stars and Gravitational magic, they have a bunch of things that are either directly or tangentially connected to them. Subject of studies by sorcerers; taboo subjects to the order because they're pretty much alien; proof that there is more out there than the will of the gods of the fingers. Heck, they might even be directly connected to beasts like Astel and the whole race of Fallingstar Beasts, that are also crystal-like beings that evolve. With the mention of Amber Glintstone, I hope that means we get a Golden Crystallian boss in the dlc.

[@Greywander87]

Probably not this DLC, which seems to be centered around Miquella and the spirit world. But if you think about it, the only great runes we can't get right now are Miquella's* and... Ranni's. Ranni put her great rune on the moon, so I think it's possible we could see a future DLC were we go to the moon to recover Ranni's great rune. That would be the perfect place to include more stuff relating to outer space, such as the crystallians, astel/falling star beasts, and onyx/alabaster lords. *You'll notice that most of the great runes seems to form into near-identical pairs that seem to be shared by siblings. Morgott's rune and Mohg's rune look very similar, and likewise Radahn and Rykard's runes look very similar. The only odd one out is Malenia's and... Rennala's runes. One would think that the matching symbol to Malenia's great rune would be the rune belonging to Miquella, and indeed the Rune of the Unborn would actually fit thematically with Miquella. Perhaps it was originally going to be Miquella's great rune and it was changed at the last minute. Or perhaps it _is_ Miquella's great rune, and Rennala has it for some unknown reason. There's also the fact that we don't know what Miquella's rune would look like, and all pieces of the Elden Ring are already accounted for (including Ranni's rune, which can be seen on the surface of the moon). Miquella's rune, if it exists, would either be something not represented in the Elden Ring, or it would overlap another existing piece (much like other sibling rune pairs do, but Malenia's rune already has a matching pair in Rennala's rune, and Godrick's is the only unpaired rune (technically Ranni's, Marika's, and Radagon's runes are also unpaired, but they're unobtainable anyway)). If it's not represented in the Ring, then it will probably work like a mending rune, unlocking a new ending.

[@Conzort_1]

Zio, hear me out on this...: the image of Sellen's soulglint has the image of a fetus in a womb, in the center. I'm assuming it's to represent the vitality and soul of Sellen. But what if it's a literal depiction as well... Of what would happen if you put a soulglint like that into a collection of glintstone. What if these creations were born, using this process. A sorcerer practicing making primal glintstones with other creatures and beings, and placing them into collections of glintstones. Then carving their shape out. One could even go crazier, and suggest that this process would exhibit similar effects as the puppet draught, wherein the creator (master), is able to control them to an extent. If that's the case, what if it's only to the extreme that it required a "mission" or a "reason" to exist. And so said sorcerer instilled a promise of more brethren if they are able to protect the crystals. Wild tangent, but would be neat.

[@joshuahensley9395]

This is a very weird take, they fit fine.

[@fasteddy9789]

ZIOSTORM!!! HAIIIII!!!!! ❤❤

[@OneStarRating]

The 2nd Shattering segregated everything hence why they exist. Before the 2nd happened everything was connected through Miquella (Mycelia) but after Mohg's abduction, Marika shattered the Elden Ring to return all gold back to the Erd Tree but it was only alloyed gold. That is why Miquella never returned and is also why we fight Godfrey's Grace, the segregation created a physical form of his grace.

[@HeevaEgo]

“The second shattering”??? mfs just making stuff up at this point😭😭

[@OneStarRating]

Rogier mentions 2 shatterings and it has confused players for a while. The first shattering was the Elden Beast bombarding itself through The Farum and embedding itself in The Lands Between while launching The Forum into the sky creating Crumbling Farum Azula and TLB we know and love today.

[@andrestoro6341]

Nice theory, but isn’t it kinda confirmed that Mohg’s kidnapping of Miquella is why he never came back? Also, I think the golden Godfrey we fight was conjured by Margot, since we seen him do something similar twice in the game.

[@OneStarRating]

I agree with you that Morgott summoned Godfrey. Miquella, Mohg, Malenia, and Morgott are quadruplets in this timeline after The 2nd Shattering. Before that they were twins, Miquella/Mohg in one body and Malenia/Morgott in another one. The segregation gave Morgott access to summon Godfrey.

[@jacobbenjamin2664]

@@OneStarRatingbro are we playing the same game

[@zack_feldman]

Good as usual man! Was trying to remember if you wrote a book? I had this weird memory that you might have…

[@kayleem9716]

Yes he’s written 2!!! The night of the red sky and the gilded well. The gilded well was my favorite of the 2 but I just like those dystopian settings. I got mine on Amazon idk if they’re available anywhere else though

[@zack_feldman]

@@kayleem9716 thanks! Was trying to find them in his profile a couple of days ago and didn’t stumble upon anything.

[@jacobbenjamin2664]

My theory about them has been that they are a “successful” attempt at becoming a starseed, with the graven mage ball being an unsuccessful attempt. Like someone’s primal flint stone grew, but unlike the likes of Lusat, Azure, and even Albrect, the growth was organized and controlled. I’ve thought they came from really, REALLY old Astrologers.

[@FTZPLTC]

Pretty cool seeing Fighting Fantasy rep in Elden Ring - got a little joy moment seeing that illustration again for the first time in decades. The "hair" on them also looks *really* similar to the Golem, from an old movie of the same name.

[@HeevaEgo]

Yeah Miyazaki stated that Fighting Fantasy is the reason why he’s making fantasy games at all

[@FTZPLTC]

@@HeevaEgo totally based

[@delirious4565]

I've got an interesting bit of trivia or an irritating nit-pick. But you show the cover for Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone as the book from which the Crystal Warriors are sourced, but it's actually Caverns of the Snow Witch by Livingstone. Was reading them back when they cost £1.95 at the local convenience store :-D

[@jacobisterrible]

To me,they’re so out of place it feels like enemies that should of been cut content but arent if that makes sense

[@jarnedecock_AI]

6:09 anyone else noticed that the center blue of that stone looks like an embryo?

[@1MNKeyHeart1]

I think I might be obsessed with this game

[@jim0_o]

PreScript: Crystalians... Cryst-alians... Crystal Aliens!! To me it looks like Crystalians move like robots and we find them like groups of guards as if created and placed. The Zamor move graceful AF and seem to "keep to themselves" since you rarely find one outside of the Zamor Ruins where presumably they were found as corpses before they were reanimated, since they are "ancient" could it be they just fought the giants because they were occupying what the Zamor remember as their home? I'm just saying maybe they actually are friendly and chill AF if you just keep off their turf and let them practice their Capoeira-with-contact-ice-and-swords arts.

[@MistahPaul]

You're not going to like their place in the story, but there's a reason for them to be here.

[@pyronautsenshi1765]

I was under the impression the Crystalians are the an evolution of the puppets and the tears as automated guardians

[@lucasbeck1391]

Where did you hear/read this?

[@pyronautsenshi1765]

My own thoughts really as you first find them around Lucaria. Dont know the exact lore off the top of my head, though i remember something along the line of the academy being involved glintstone experiments and developing the automated puppets. So i saw/assumed the crystalians as part of that.

[@jeambeam3173]

You kinda have things mixed up. While the puppets and crystalization of magic wizards is linked the Lurnia tears are tied to the Eternal City

[@KONTAGIONMUSIC]

zio is there any way I can get your OBS settings for recording these? they're so clear

[@Ziostorm]

I keep everything normal, but raise the bitrate to 20000 with max quality. I sometimes apply a tiny bit of sharpening and saturation in my editing software though, but rarely

[@starcrawler77]

i think they look like the golem in "The Golem: How He Came into the World" perfectly. also, they are inorganic life like the golem. also, they are a reskin of the ruin sentinels in ds2.

[@michaelangellstudios]

Crystal golems, fashioned by the intelligence of the crystal itself alongside the will of the Glintstone Sorcerer, imbued with the astral body of the sentient being who agrees to possess it to carry out dual-duties, protection and life-experience-gathering while present in whatever world they travel to and can be housed/hosted.

[@thomasjoyce1659]

Is the gold pile that the crystalliens are guarding gold or a giant meteor ?? I always assumed it was gold but it actually looks a bit like one of the golden meteor chunks :/

[@fullyilluminated]

Dude what ideal stats would you recommend using dual coded swords? It looks very fun lol.

[@monolith_g]

Those are bowl ass cuts and I’m sticking to it!

[@deeptroit_5692]

the dancer castanets that patches gives you probably has something to do with the dlc

[@fasteddy9789]

I'm platinuming all Soulsborne games until DLC drops. Bloodborne, Elden Ring, and DS1 (just platinumed yesterday😊) done!

[@Roxxigaro]

I'm still not over the AI nerf completely ruining the crystilian fights, they were my favourite miniboss.

[@deathpig.9847]

There's literally three of them in the hideaway, I just killed them

[@mattb6616]

The Crystalian Ashes are also there.

[@niidhogg9090]

For me the fact that there are rotten cristalians shows that they thought about what they were, more than what we have.

[@KittyCalibur]

Everything that the spirit snails summon dies when you kill the summoner so I don't think the Crystalian spirit is any more strange than us summoning fanged imps with the starter ashes.

[@justatanuki.6495]

“Wierd” 💀

[@kamantariq2513]

Imagin fromsoft allowed us to use all weapons, spells, & move sets of bosses, but we need to kill them 10+ times to get it in ng+

[@Nephilim27]

“Golden amber contains the remnants of ancient life” So what exactly happens when you find the amber starlight and give it to Ranni? We assume she does but what is it actually doing to her?

[@noblesixes]

I pray for an all Alien dlc where the crystaliens drop in on crystal ufos

[@forest.02.]

The crystalians are anoying to fight, but they are cool as hell. One of my favorite enemies to fight while overleveled.

[@madisarlybayev4208]

Bro: exact same shade of blue!! Artists: .... (Just a joke. I'm an artist myself but don't care about such small things)

[@mohammedmoosa6046]

9:07 that's gonna hurt

[@ariel5301]

Mark my words, we’re going to come to the space in the DLC.

[@jacobisterrible]

Hi ziostorm

[@Skeeterbobeeter]

Golden amber?? Is that what is pouring from the tree in the DLC???

[@hououinkyouma5539]

If the crystalians are weird, where does that leave the watchdogs? They have no clear power source

[@guntere1004]

Wait but there are putrid crystallions as a boss in the selia hideaway.

[@wobblywally-0]

Yup, my thoughts exactly

[@norman3302]

Lore is golden of grace I like grace, she seems cool

[@-thebatman-]

Grace she passed away 30 years ago.

[@Blerwerler]

Perhaps they’ll be reintroduced in future from-titles.

[@AnalogFunktion]

Seath The Scaleless made them. It’s that simple.

[@naxergss2625]

this enemy is so wierd !

[@monsieurstructible3578]

Does rotland came from terraria crimson?

[@steeveo431]

The next video, he should troll us with a fake leak that the dlc trailer is dropping during the superbowl lol

[@aquaticbomber766]

What if the fire giants made them

[@Freyafanboy90]

I used to play those old Fighting Fantasy books. The book in question is Caverns of the Snow Witch. The Crystal warrior WILL kill you if you don't have the war hammer from the fur trappers hut. Still it was great to see something of Fighting Fantasy. I just hope there are more refs like this as Fighting Fantasy isn't well known.

[@miirshroom]

Low-poly enemy from an earlier time in videogames

[@TheWeezyfly]

ELDEN RING IN QA NOW

[@halfamanhalfadog]

very cool

[@blipblop_stop3069]

Retitle the video, please

[@andrewkell6950]

Why are crystallians in elden ring? To get smashed to bits by me giant hammer I tells ya!

[@christmasham4312]

Omg wtf where is this dlc already

[@ohacuuus]

weird*

[@xiTzSethx]

I’m surprised he didn’t mention that the Crystalians are a reskin of the Dark Souls 2 enemy the Ruined Sentinels, with almost identical movesets.

[@draw2death421]

As a massive Dark Souls 2 fan. I have to unfortunaly disagree. Their moves dont really have any resemblement to ruin sentinels attacks, only one that you could say is mayby taken from them is the spining they do at times but even that isint a match because Ruin Sentinels hold their arms higher and dont jump during it. Attack wise the mage and The... circle things, movesets dont match at all to Ruin sentinels (exept the spining but i allready said that it wasent the exact same) The spear comes the closest but even it doesent match at all to ruin sentinels attacks. Ruin sentinels have 1 stab attack and thats a one handed stab leading to swings. Crystalian spear users never attack you with just 1 hand. They allways use both their hands. So no this is just incorect.

[@NemilNihil]

what no dlc does to a mf

[@hydrophobia936]

Joe mama

[@snapfrostzz9946]

Where’s the “it’s happening elden ring dlc coming soon” video, I expect one every week to catch the peoples attention

[@Ziostorm]

Thursday with the new Kadokawa financial report

[@TFCTech]

I’m just glad someone is keeping this game alive since from doesn’t care to

[@Thick1]

I never really looked that closely at this enemy type, but I always thought they were females. They have Sia's haircut and look like chandeliers.