ELDEN RING | 8 NEW Secrets and Discoveries!

[@Ziostorm]

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[@newtonslore]

Dual weilding gransax... cmon, man, surely you're better than that. 😏

[@opcanabss]

another awesome video! I think the frenzied flame ending is the "true" one for many reasons but the details you pointed out adds to the theory!

[@SocraTetris]

That glintsone does somewhat look like a fetus, however it also could look like a parsed pair of lips. Could go either was, because life and breath metaphors are a thing, but the cosmic/lovecraftian theme holdovers from Bloodborne could also be the case.

[@nerfer200]

The whistle is actually sadder than you realize It's not torrent calling for help, is the wind blowing through the whistle. Meaning Torrent was called while the frenzied flame was burning in the tree, and consumed Torrent in it.

[@seb-pj1563]

To me, it's even sadder. The wind simply goes within the whistle, the sound is supposed to summon him and Torrent doesn't appear as it should.

[@alchemy5750]

I think Zullie the Witch mentioned in a video that Tree sentinels share the same AI and animation rig with the horse. It is technically a single NPC, allowing it to do more advanced jumping attacks and unique animations only seen with that enemy (like the large shield slam). All other mounted enemies are separate NPCs with their own AI, that's why they can be dismounted.

[@todd5purlock497]

Yeah but that's the technical reason not the lore reason, still valid though

[@cloudstrife6911]

A true warrior cannot be dismounted, it's the same with Radahn

[@aligmal5031]

Zullie talks about game files detail Ziostorm talks about visual details

[@stephenmarley3313]

The face on the helmet doesn’t have to be Rykard. It could also be a previous person the snake could’ve devoured. I wouldn’t be surprised if events probably keep repeating themselves. It could just be a previous time the snake devoured someone, then was killed and then revived and devoured Rykard.

[@stephenmarley3313]

Actually I’m pretty sure this is the case because the Serpent hunter spear says “thought to have been used to hunt an immortal great serpent in the distant past”.

[@remingtondellinger3980]

I had a theory that maybe the events of the game have happened before, but either completed incorrectly or incompletely. The lands between, to me, almost eludes to this in its name. From soft has a lot of rebirth allegory, both in Elden ring and the souls series. Cant wait for the story dlc to drop and get more insight.

[@felipetorresalarcon1422]

Maybe, but in line with the status of Rykard, could be him, its a preator and following the rol of preators of ancient rome, its possible. "Praetores, in ancient Rome, a judicial officer who had broad authority in cases of equity, was responsible for the production of the public games" (encyclopedia britannica)

[@Ziostorm]

My only problem with this is that the serpent devoured NUMEROUS people in its life. Rykard was special because he was both a demigod and possessed a great rune which is why he was able to retain control on an equal status as the serpent. I doubt anyone else would be capable

[@stephenmarley3313]

@@Ziostorm Do you not think that there were not other people or dragons that wouldn’t be considered powerful enough to be gods/demigods in the past? There could’ve been another Lord of Blasphemy during the time of Placidusax. But of course the face on the helmet is human but there could’ve been a lot of time between then and current day of Rykard. Obviously we can’t know this so it’s just fun to speculate.

[@SolHeiM]

I climbed on top of the Walking Mausoleum in Deeproot Depths and took it down. All of the souls in the entire area I had avoided were just gone. I never knew that it was because of the skulls being destroyed. Great discovery. :D

[@aiellamori]

Also another thing about the summons, there's a ritual pot that you can throw on someone to make your summon more aggressive and focus on whoever you threw it on

[@plantman1093]

What's it called?

[@Gante_Gato]

@@plantman1093 blood...something pot or something. Its the one with the Moghwyn dynasty symbol

[@valorune]

@@plantman1093 Cursed-Blood Pot. You need Nomadic Warrior Cookbook 12 (found at Rose Church in Liurnia of the Lakes) , and requires 2 mushrooms, 1 beast blood and 1 bloodrose, and an empty ritual pot

[@chuckkunsman9467]

use mohgs great rune wich boosts the attack and defense of your summon, also you can buff your summons, that includes useing a bewitching branch on an enemy you can buff bewitched enemys also. use golden vow or lords boon for healing over time.

[@redglintstonescholar7605]

Something to tag into your erdtree find. Note Miquella literally uses his blood to grow the Haglitree. I think the Erdtree is no different, hence the erdtree burials and the living jars purpose. I also have a lingering theory this could potentially be part of what the formless mother would want. No doubt the mother of wounds would have loved these arenas. Just imagine if her blood could be within the erdtree itself. Almost something to akin to how Godwyns corpse being at the roots of the erdtree allows him to taint the rest of the world above. Just replace Godwyn with the now cursed blood filled Miquella

[@Ziostorm]

I go super in depth on this in the mushroom video if you haven’t seen that yet. Definitely in line with your points!

[@redglintstonescholar7605]

@@Ziostorm sometime else I would have brought up that could connect the formless mother to a garden is the blood roses, that could be her plant of decomposition. Hence why they grow out of blood. And there’s a lot of connects between roses and their thorns to bloodstar/formless mother (Of the camp that believes the bloodstar is a vassel beast of the FM)

[@TheBl00D1u5t]

@@redglintstonescholar7605 the flaming monks use a rose thorn whip on the mountaintop of the giants. This could be kind of a hint toward the idea of repentence through flagelation or possibly just a way to facilitate blood spilling for sacrifice. They are also surrounded by the briar witches which are entirely fuled by blood. That leads to the thought that it could just be a resource the cursed witches and monks use, and might be a reason for their curse. Much to speculate.

[@redglintstonescholar7605]

@@TheBl00D1u5t the fire monks and thorn spells actuall share a similar casting sigil. You also have the candlestick which is literally a dudes head that he willingly removed. Eecolaid (I forget the name atm) but Elmer’s homeland also holds to aesthetic practices, hence wearing literal iron briars when a sinner/guilty. House Hoslow also uses flowery weapons like varre, pedal whips, that proc bleed. Their house is one told in blood, and their armors adorned by red jewels, possibly red glintstone( considering their blood affinity). I also have a small theory that the omen curse could be loved by the formless mother. There’s the idea that the omen twins could use bloodflame long before Mohgs communion to the formless mother. You even find normal omens using bloodflame in the fell twin boss fight before the divine tower. Most incantions will tell you if the stem from her but bloodflame comes from Mohg, and Morgott is clearly able to use it even though he never contacted the formless mother. And something about them always being called fell omen or fell twins. Makes me wanna believe their curse and the omen curse stems from the curse of the giants. And their firery omen blood is a ill omen of the burning of the erdtree. Something I always found curious to tag into this for symbolic purposes is dung eaters armor, he’s literally got a sun/star covered in dried blood on his chest. And it even in description says it’s a symbol of his path in life. Would also make more sense why Liurnia and Raya Lucaria would have a blood church nearby and also have the church of a vows for redemption of sin. Seeing as they have close ties to the Giants

[@tinminator8905]

I have a really unique secret that I found about just today after over 550 hours of Elden Ring. There is a special interaction with an incredibly rare enemy variant that only exist in one very specific spot in the game. Next to the frenzied flame village if you follow the path that the scarab holding the frenzy flame bolt would hold there is a very unique frenzy variant of the miranda flowers. Their "poison" now afflicts you with frenzy and they look black, sort of charred. This is already very obscure and I assume many people don't know about these. But there is an even more obscure interaction with these frenzy flowers. Both the small and the large flowers have a special interaction with when hit with a fire type attack, which is usally the miranda flowers weakness. The small one's explode into a frenzy explosion and the big one becomes enraged, flayling around instead of being stunned like the others. Would be interested if any of you guys knew about this before. This is in the wiki but I have never heard any one talk about or mention this before.

[@joyless95]

They’re in siofra I think it is as well and it’s similar to how godwyn affects the crabs with deathblight just shows outer god influence

[@CleopatraKing]

Buh this is not unique, nor requires time in the game.

[@JonScrapper]

They're also in the consecrated snowfields

[@josephhausser3096]

Shoot the poison worm looking things in limgrave and then they will explode in poison, causing a chain reaction, which causes the others to explode as well

[@joyless95]

@@josephhausser3096 I would not call those “worms” they’re poison pustules or something

[@mt2r-music]

The frenzied flame is one of the best lore thingies they ever put into a game. I just wished they would’ve done more with it in the overworld like that one tower. By the way in the first trailer the narrator said ”look up at the sky. It burns.“ Could this be referring to the flame ending? I mean it could also mean the sky of Caelid which was seen in the shot during said line.

[@youtubewanderer3347]

I think the Frenzied Flame was going to be (or will be) important. I mean, I think that the whole thing with burned Melina talking about killing you is much more foreshadowing than any of the other endings.

[@hansschnee]

There was a bigger traider quest in the game. The one in limgrave next to the start (idk, kayle ?) . U can see this quest on KZbin bcs it's in the code of the game and modder got it back. I like it more how it is now bcs it's so secret and mysterious .

[@DrunkedOwly]

3:25 the technical reason is that they are just 1 npc, rather than the 2 that the dismountable enemies are

[@AegisKHAOS]

I knew about the secret with the walking mausoleums thanks to the one in Deep Root Depths. That area was full of those headless knights more than any other, so it was blatantly obvious that they died after I took down that mausoleum. I didn't see those knights die the first time, though, so I made it a point to do it again on a second playthrough just to watch it happen while taking off those skulls. Sure enough, saw the knights collapsed. That was a very awesome sight to see.

[@222LoneWolf]

On the small chance that it hasn't already been discussed elsewhere, one interesting little environmental detail I recently noticed was on the Forge of the Giants. On one side, you have a fairly conventional looking crack in the forge. On the other side, however, right by the Site of Grace, you have two cracks. I never noticed this before my most recent visit, but the two cracks are actually connected to two troughs running down towards the embers, and they look suspiciously like claw marks left in the forge by a Two Fingers entity. The implications from this detail are fascinating and disturbing. What exactly happened at the climax of the war against the giants, and did the Two Fingers entities play some kind of active participating role in all of it?

[@xer0smythe]

The thought of Torrent dying in the frenzied flame ending is the saddest thing in Elden Ring

[@tomschlaiss5735]

Great video like always. There were definitely some things I didn't know. Cheers 🎶✌

[@Bloxro_orxolB]

Glad that fist weapons are much faster, I’ve always loved putting on the caestus when fighting horah loux

[@PancakeBreakfast]

Gonna be honest, haven't heard anything new in like 6 months. But the chain around the tree sentinel was something I hadn't heard about before. Honestly never wondered about it. I just figured that tree sentinels wanted to stay on their horses because every single time any enemy falls off their horse it always ends badly for them.

[@josephhausser3096]

Here's something new. Kenneth Haughts questline has been expanded. You can now acquire land from him.

[@kommi4219]

Bro I swear elden ring will never not surprise me with these discoveries

[@draghettis6524]

It is its fate. 5 years after BoTW, another open-world game joins the ranks of the games with an endless amount of discovery.

[@icetide9411]

I actually started playing the game post-coliseum update, and when I found claws I fell in love. Their bleed build up almost perfectly lined up to kill all basic enemies right when they hit the threshold, and it was extremely good at building bleed in general with the high attack speed and decently high build up

[@tripleohno]

Something fun to try, seamless coop mod. No limits of coop like orginal game, mobs have 2x life to off set 2 of you.

[@jhsrt985]

I think before rykar melded with the serpent it use to eat the strongest gladiator, or all of the loosers...or both😅

[@m.ghazianhindami5834]

8:48 those are skulls? I thought they were just pale barnacles

[@victorprati7908]

Very cool! You definitively show some new stuff I didn't knew

[@AmericanRoads]

The headless Mausoleum knights dying like that... *MIND BLOWN*

[@Psychx_]

Regarding new ER secrets and lore information, I am still looking forward to the new videos of "the tarnished archeologist". He can put the information provided via the game's environment into some good context by knowing the real life inspirations.

[@9Flour]

Amazing dude!

[@sethstewart9704]

Torrent doesn't whistle. He is a horse. What we are hearing is the wind blowing through the whistle. This is how Melina was able to locate it.

[@Baehellet]

Stormhawk Deenh is my personal best choice for spirit summon arena matches. For the most part spirits in the arena are very "set and forget" meaning you just summon them and ignore them and only focus on the other players. Deenh is great for that cause he starts off every match by giving you a pretty large buff to physical attack (takes my heavy greatsword from 875 AR to 1050, so 175 extra damage) then just starts flying around, being a high annoyance for any opponents who are on melee builds, and moves around enough to give mages a little concern too. The buff is so nice there were very few times I wasn't able to sweep the whole opposing team.

[@The_Fat_Turtle]

I made a claw build using 1.07 and thought it was fine. My major issues with the build are the weapon reach, but that's not something that will get fixed in a patch. Some bosses are ridiculously easy and some are way harder than previous builds, much like most interesting weapon types in the Souls games.

[@cayteo]

I never knew about that big seat belt on the Tree Sentinel, I just heard it was designed as one character model :V

[@eetfuk3571]

I still cannot believe we're still getting fcukloads of secrets weekly even though the game was released by about a year already. man, Miyazaki really put his whole heart into this one and I will be forever thankful about that.

[@elibrown1818]

I’m not sure about the Rykard symbolism on the duelist helm, but I think you’re on to something about it being foreshadowing. We know the serpent existed for a looooong time before even Godfrey, so its image is likely what made serpents reviled, so the face on the helm could be another way to make people hate the duelists and want to see them defeated; imply through their helmets that they’ve been devoured. Just a thought

[@peterfthagn3646]

10:54 Finally. Was waiting for someone to mention that for ages.

[@vycanismajoris6871]

Another not so known detail, the skill Kick, does not scale with strenght, or dex. It scales with Holy, or sacred.

[@Ziostorm]

Really?

[@anthonyshelly4718]

Another great video! Thanks Zio!

[@MrParac]

Zullie the witch has a video on mounted enemies and it results that the tree sentinels are only one object in the game files while the the enemies the you can dismount are two distinct objects, the horseman and the horse

[@TopazIngenious]

Can’t dismount Loretta either

[@JoshuaGraves113]

He's literally talking about the stirrup, which doesn't even prevent the rider from falling of their horse... lol

[@ashenknight621]

In that shot before the closeup of torrent's whistle, there's a shape in the ash which looks like him lying down on his side

[@penngwinn]

The frenzied flame playthrough was rough. All the players begging you to stop. I definitely didn't notice the whistle. Makes it so much worse.

[@shiftybat7318]

I have loved the spiked caestus from the get go, including making a magefist build modeled after Aoko Aozaki from Melty Blood, so if they're even better now that's all good by me.

[@GoochberryPie]

Ahhhhh you answered a big question of mine about the bewitching branch, thanks!

[@joshk494]

I've been doing a fists playthrough and the heavy star fists with Braggart's Roar are MIGHTY now.

[@crilleedara]

Huh wow, good vid! Yeah, I had Noo clue about that gladiator snake grab, that was very cool

[@iamsovereign2612]

Love the Metroid Prime music in the background throughout. Nobody seems to appreciate MP OST enough.

[@Saturno0507]

You alweys keep surprising!! Thx form this great work!!

[@javelin28]

If Melina does turn out to be the Gloam eyed queen, it would really give us insight to her depth as a character. Maybe the opposition to the Golden Order weren't trying to destroy everything and that they were attempting to save it from the Golden Order diminishing the lands between, or someone using the frenzied flame to burn it all into one. And perhaps the taboo practices of the Nox and Volcano Manor were there only way of fighting the Golden Order as everyone worshipped the Erdtree and its following, so no one would betray it's glory from either love or fear. 🤔

[@sk8legendz]

she wields death. i think she mercy killed Torrent as the ring only vanished upon her touch

[@javelin28]

@@sk8legendz I've had the theory for a while that the Gloam Eyed queen was able to control death, which is why her, thye godskin, the nox and the volcano manor were such huge issues to the golden order, so i definitely agree with you brother. They seemed to exist as opposites to eachother, one could say this is a balance with the theory of this game being heavily based in alchemy, and that gold and silver mixed become platinum (correct me if im wrong). Envision a balancing scale, both of these sides exist in harmony, but when gold seals the power of silver, it off sets this balance and throws everything into chaos. To put it simply, I believe Marika and Maliketh Sealing Destined Death was the mistake that began the domino affect we see happen in the lands between.🍻

[@rexsimia4575]

My first playthrough I went with prophet and the cipher Pata for a monk type build but I'll be damned if by the end of the game I felt like I was falling behind, now I know it was just the holy damage 🤣

[@darkmystic7764]

"There might not be many left" - Ten videos later "There might not be many left."

[@remingtondellinger3980]

All of those were new to me, that bit about the Erdtree basically eating corpses under the guise of a hero's death actually haunted me.

[@coldblizzard5880]

The mausoleum fact was actually VERY cool. Dope

[@MarshyoftheBlobs]

I'm gonna be crying about Torrent for the rest of the evening now

[@Beeyo176]

Aw, that Torrent bit made me sad

[@lastsecondhero87]

Just came back after a long hiatus. Had 200hrs played last time around. Excited to put the new knowledge to the test in this playthrough. Thanks for everything you do!

[@oinobares]

Incredible how you're able to reinvent yourself (sorry for my bad english). Hats off^^

[@soliderack]

Are the chains not stirrups for mounting in which you rest your feet?

[@Nathan_Coley]

I got these game on sale for Christmas & am playing through it for the first time. It's been super fun so far

[@doubleh3978]

There are other two options that come to my mind regarding the helm with the serpents: 1) With this snake depiction being so prominent i would say is possible that the god devouring serpent was actually a race so there were multiple of them and that was the image of another serpent who devoured someone else in the past. 2) It actually was THAT serpent but before Rykard it already had a face, maybe of someone else he already devoured and then it became Rykard's.

[@lorenzmaut3708]

I have a wild theory about the last finding, and that is that the God devouring serpent always had a face to show, like the snake wasn't just a creature that lived in the volcano, most likely it was the snake that at some point ate a demigod and Because of that it has that name. And then Rykard joined the serpent and was able to control many aspects of the snake, but he completely lost his mind. "Join our family" is not the same as, join me and my snake in our search of power.

[@eldiabeto2960]

Yeah no, this theory breaks a little bit of lore, rykard. If you see the first few cutscenes rykards being eaten by a tiny snake, because of the great rune the snake grew and rykard took control. Rykard was the only demigod eaten by it, every body you see is just food that gives the snake energy and rykard power (souls). He wanted us to join since we’re filled with power by the time we meet rykard.

[@murderycatdoll1380]

The Detail with Torrent made me tear up x.x

[@ddangho914]

I find it unlikely that the duelists would be updating their gear when they themselves are already repurposed old warriors who are still using their old tools. Rather, I feel like this hints that there's a pretty huge chunk of forgotten history before the reign of Godfrey. Maybe the battle between Marika's Golden Order and the Gloam Eyed Queen's Godskin Apostles was a much bigger event than we initially thought, and maybe under the ranks of the Gloam Eyed Queen there was another Lord of Blasphemy before Rykard.

[@michaelhaley1612]

That metroid music takes me back man

[@thelaggiest]

It's interesting that the coliseum combat and therefore ritualistic punishment of snakes was outlawed under Radagon, since his own son is Rykard.

[@shanefarmer805]

I am not a PVP player whatsoever but you make me more and more every day. Want to jump back in and do some PVP, which is a really good thing because I love Elden Ring so much thank you for the inspiration and thank you for your time making these videos it doesn’t go unnoticed. Everybody watches your video should give you a thumbs up all it takes is one second not even that anyway long time subscriber long time supporter. Love your constant brother keep it coming I watch them all. The only thing is now I got to get used to the buttons again after playing over 11000 hours in the game in Amman new game +8 you would think I would have a memorized like the back of my hand but I’ve played so many games besides Elden Ring since then, I’m gonna have to relearn the buttons. Laugh out loud again love your contact my friend. Sorry for the long message.

[@Laoruperteen18]

Loretta cant be dismounted because i believe she is an Albenuric and she is paralyzed from the waist down like most of the others, and so as a result her armour is also part of the horse armour, making them fused together, and making it impossible for her to be dismounted.

[@shanedillis153]

Poor torrent could help his master come pack to the path of goodness ): he was prolly so lonely and scared

[@jettblade]

I think Loretta is the only other mounted enemy that can't be dismounted, though I am not sure I've never really staggered her in either of her fights.

[@TheActualMrLink]

As the Lord of Fist Punch, 1.08 pleases me greatly!

[@LegaLImmigrnt]

I created a build with the Katars and cragblade. The running R2 can stun players allowing for a follow up R1 or R2 making it a true combo. It deals tons of damage that I tend to kills players before they have enough time to roll away.

[@siddhantshrivastav]

Hey Zio. Thank you for the content. Appreciate your work a lot. Can you possibly share a link to the google drive with all the in game items you show @9:38. Thanks and happy holidays.

[@erfgs455]

The Sentinels aren't dismountable for a very simple reason, usually it's a combo of the ride and the rider as 2 separate entities with different AIs, but they both have some kind of "link" so the rider can ride the ride (Zullie did a video about that a while back) while the Sentinels (Tree Sentinels, Draconic Tree Sentinels and Loretta) are a 2 in one entity, the model is just 1, so think of it as 1 enemy, while the Kaiden Sellswords are 2 (the rider and the horse) ;-D

[@mcgeiler3915]

that just explains the technical/mechanical angle but not the lore reasons.

[@mcgeiler3915]

@@frankgrimes7388 sauce?

[@dananthony6258]

I finished the game I. The first 2 months if I remember. Definitely my favorite game of all time. I want to play it again.

[@giovannibarel5536]

Out of the 8 discoveries I only knew about one, so now i have to subscribe and like 7 times

[@raffaelbaumkaenguruh2654]

the snake helmet: it does look like the underbelly of the middle snake is seperate piece, as if it was grafted( no pun intended) on. Look at the way the metal curls below the snakes chin, or below the face. i think its a later addition to the helmet!

[@prawn1717]

Man, I thought I was good on these until you showed the mausoleum knights dropping like flies, that’s crazy. In terms of the gladiators, my guess would be that Rykard isn’t the first serpent king and the helms depict a general image of those leaders.

[@AustinLynxy]

I can get behind it being rykards face on the serpent helmet, the underbelly and face almost look like they were forged onto them after they were made originally. So possibly they altered them after rykard became the serpent king to show devotion.

[@DeyanWell]

This clips surprise me every time more and more man this game is better than real life

[@Khalys.]

10:54 perhaps that's what gave rykard the idea of being eaten by the serpent or as you say it was a later addition to the helmets given the fact the color is different.

[@DaxterL]

The face on the helm reminds me more of the troll talisman. Almost one to one. So i think giants could be involved

[@Midaspl]

That one snake on the helmet seems to be slightly different color to the others, so it is possible that it was added later by Rykard forces. TBH if someone outlawed my hobby I would be pissed too and join the other side.

[@darklordnier]

One of the KZbin channels did a mod with the world change mainly the Captial into frenzied flame ending. All the world is ash and quiet nothingness.

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

I was using a claw build from the moment i found them, good damage coupled with a insane bleed effect, it seems they have gotten even more effective.

[@roselia7831]

Definently showed me what I needed to know about those walking buildings.

[@ane404738]

Don't thing i didn't notice the Metroid Prime soundtrack in the background, its so nostalgic.

[@elijahmontgomery4146]

Claw buff was sweet, but I’m stoked about the scythes. Gothic and grim, but quite fun.

[@MrJueKa]

I`m quite new to Elden Ring, but after I dropped the "Hookclaws" from a corpse in the wine cellar of Stormveil Castle and then equipped them for the first time to test them against mobs, I knew that I should definitely level up these claws, because they look very impressive to me in combat and quickly do nasty damage plus bleeding and now with current level "+5" they are real beasts with a lot of fun to use.

[@ultra824]

it seems strange that the gladiators who bear a mark of opposition to the erdtree would oversee the process of erdtree burial. I have 2 theories about this. 1) the armor they wear (which appears to be physically attached to them) can compel them to do so against their will or, and this one is more interesting imo 2) they're actually in the catacombs to _prevent_ erdtree burials from being performed, disrupting the tree's ability to gain power

[@JayBe443]

These AAA games keep killing my horses man. I feel its used as a tool to engage player emotion, but it hurts more than it should, let me down another way 😭

[@isaaclapierre3557]

There are three things that I want in Elden ring. All very small except for one. 1. I want night to be darker. Idk bout yall but I love the idea of legitimately having to use a torch or lamp to navigate the wilderness at night. I think it would make the aesthetic more ominous and cool. 2. I want the time of day in the colloseums to change in duels, so one duel could be in the sunset and another at midnight and so on. 3. I think it would be cool if they had a colosseum game mode with our horse. Almost like jousting, this would make 3 v 3's that much more interesting.

[@AgentSapphire]

As for the snake gladiators being buried by the urd tree's roots, this could be a case of occam's razor. In real life back in ancient rome gladiators were celebrities. There were heroes and villains similar to how WWE works today. It could be that some of the snake adorned warriors were meant to be heel characters. To play the role of a villain so that the person representing the urd tree can beat them up and hype up the crowd. And if you're faith is strong enough to walk into an arena every day to get the snot beaten out of you then you deserve something special. Alternatively it could have been a form of penance. Offering oneself up in the arena in that manner to atone for some past mistake. It's probably wrong but I suppose its good to entertain all possibilities. (Also, I spent most of my first playthrough with the cipher pata... and it was REALLY good. With this update though...)

[@KaitoIsaac1]

Loved the Metroid music!

[@DrDoboth]

I just finished metroid prime again a week ago and hearing one of its main tracks as background music had me so confused for a second trying to figure out if a metroid guide was playing in the background

[@moshehome5221]

This game is insane, keep discovering

[@corentinjourdan5739]

i honestly just like for the metroid soundtracks on the background

[@danielgardner2980]

Nah the Torrent one got me 🥺

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

I like the frenzied flame ending. It's pure Nihilism, turning everything back to 0. Similar to the heat-death of the universe, I think a true end is something soothing.

[@charlesqbanks]

Pure sadist destruction and miserably narcissistic, but soothing. A nihilist always misses the meaning of life and therefore seeks destruction. The most inhuman attitude imaginable.

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

@@charlesqbanks Oh, glad to meet you then, guess you could help a poor nihilistic, narcistic, sadistic fellah out and explain the meaning of life to him? :)

[@Bigboy_smooth]

The snakes could point to the fact that Rykard had merged with the serpent pre shattering the duelist armor says something to the fact that they were exiled or something like that. There allegiance to Rykard could be why

[@PuraCaseus]

well i definetly didn't know you could steal spirit summons, hella interesting lol

[@_Wallace786]

You can hear horse steps as she walks up to it. You can see it's not her steps cause their off beat and a lil faster. Sounds like a horse walking. The ring is Torents ring. I so hope we get a DLC for that ending.

[@totem1]

Hi Zio, just wanted to tell you that the background music you use, there's a sound that kinda sounds like my stomach rumbling or my cat making sounds. I always get paranoid by this lol

[@colorgreen8728]

The snake grab attack I think only happens because of the scarlet rot corrupting their bodies

[@charlesqbanks]

Why would a snake and rot be connected?

[@colorgreen8728]

@@charlesqbanks the body of the rot gladiator is corrupted by rot, which is essentially the nuclear fallout of elden ring, well known to mutate its surroundings a lot, I think it mutated the gladiator enough to where the snake took form on him

[@deadeye5462]

Face on Helm looks like a built in Roar Medallion, maybe the cause for the perm aggro while wearing it.

[@graveyardcook1607]

I. LOVE. THIS. SERIES. !.

[@jdsstegman]

Honestly, hands down the best game I have ever played 5 times. Not new game plus either. All 5 were from scratch.