Elden Ring's Weirdest Enemy (And Its Lore)

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    Chapters
    Intro - 0:00
    What's In A Name - 2:20
    Fairies - 4:30
    Wisps - 6:09
    Anti-Erdtree - 9:13
    Ancestral Religion - 10:18
    Trees - 11:39
    So What Are They? - 12:07
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  • @MadLuigi
    @MadLuigi  Рік тому +12

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  • @voraito
    @voraito Рік тому +181

    The most striking sight related to the dead white trees is at the source of Siofra and Ainsel rivers where you find the ancestral infant head. The reoccurring motif in Miyazaki's games of myriad primordial trees in a sea. The two rivers were a large part of the pre-writing culture in lands between; the ancestral followers even specifically eschew writing. The time before there was the one tree to worship, instead of the many. To them, the moving waters are a force balancing life and death. An imbalance brings about corruption and stagnation. This ancient animistic culture of many gods and many spirits rooted strongly in real-life Shintoism and the efforts to preserve it is very much a parallel to the attitudes of many Japanese ever since the introduction of monotheism and organized religion to their lands by outsiders. With all this Shinto inspiration in Miyazaki's work, I'd wager the wisps might even be partially based on raiju, the thunder beast spirits who are often depicted as enveloped in ball lightning. They are naturally calm and passive but are easily agitated by loud noise. Thus when Raijin the storm god creates thunder, the raiju zip across the sky in rage.

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +15

      Great comment! I know of raijin, but not of raiju if thats distinct/also havent heard of thunder beasts/spirits as opposed to just a god. But it does present a strong parallel

  • @Tilespawn
    @Tilespawn Рік тому +86

    I'm surprised there was no mention to the real life phenomenon of "ball lightning", that might be what visually inspired these enemies and I hadn't given these guys much thought more than that but the lore implications fit pretty well now that I saw this video.

    • @amadhollow635
      @amadhollow635 Рік тому +6

      That’s because ball lightning is a likely source for the will-o-wisp

    • @ademasdanjuro
      @ademasdanjuro Рік тому +3

      I saw one once, half a second it was bright, It sounded like electricity, no effect afterwards, that was very weird but felt pretty common, it was during a storm

    • @sanguinetales
      @sanguinetales Рік тому +2

      aka St Elmo's Fire

  • @teslobo
    @teslobo Рік тому +26

    Couple of points:
    1. You're right that these are the only 2 locations of the wisps
    2. The trees are called ancient bowers by cut NPCs, and they seem to be a stand-in for the Nimloth in the Tolkien mythology.

  • @elijahcafazzo-joyette8226
    @elijahcafazzo-joyette8226 Рік тому +174

    These things have single-handedly ended 50% of co-op sessions with randoms. The host gets to Siofra for the first time, summons me and then proceeds to walk into one because they didn’t know what they did.
    Also kinda hoping to get the ability to summon these with a spell, like the pyromancy the demons used in Dark Souls 3

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +8

      I guess they are pretty good at will o wisping people lol

    • @LokiHades
      @LokiHades Рік тому +3

      Wisps get me when connections are bad between me and the host either as a hunter, or in co-op hahaha

    • @skydonkey9515
      @skydonkey9515 Рік тому +1

      I believe those monsters are called smoldering preachers, and we do get that spell in the Ashes of Ariandel it's a severely gimpy spell called Floating Chaos 😂🤣

    • @elijahcafazzo-joyette8226
      @elijahcafazzo-joyette8226 Рік тому +1

      @@skydonkey9515 yeah, forgot the name of them. Floating Chaos was a massively disappointing pyromancy. These wisps feel like they’d be a lil more effective, so I’m hoping if we get them as an incantation or whatever, they’ll actually be useful. There’s only one ice lightning incantation atm and it feels weird being by itself as its not connected to a particularly singular boss.

    • @skydonkey9515
      @skydonkey9515 Рік тому +2

      @@elijahcafazzo-joyette8226 I agree with everything you said, I'm honestly kind of surprised they don't have dark damage in Elden Ring, we have Magic, Holy, Lightning, Ice, Fire, and even Gravity but no Dark damage at least to my knowledge lol

  • @whatimthinking
    @whatimthinking Рік тому +211

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    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn Рік тому +2

      Love that "babe wake up meme" so thanks

    • @talkingmudcrab718
      @talkingmudcrab718 Рік тому +7

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    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn Рік тому +3

      @@talkingmudcrab718 babe wake up someone replied to my reply about babe wake up memes

    • @Prod.SEMAPHORE
      @Prod.SEMAPHORE Рік тому

      Don’t act like you got a babe

    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn Рік тому

      @@Prod.SEMAPHORE shut up chad

  • @Hobocufflinks_art
    @Hobocufflinks_art Рік тому +38

    I had a theory that the ball lighting was a byproduct of whatever the process of making the Dragonkim is.
    My only support for this is: they're blue lighting like ice lighting, and they're found where the Dragonkin are (underground, and the Consecrated Snowfields where their ghosts are). Very minor connections but in game there isn't much to go on

  • @Demokaze
    @Demokaze Рік тому +6

    The lands between rune description (the starting item) specifies that runes are the grace that dwells in the eyes. They're more like gold eye lenses than energy balls, the lord's rune even looks like an iris. And few side notes: 1) Rennala has gold eyes during the first phase but later has her natural eye color (blue) which suggests she becomes a tarnished after we take her great rune 2) if Melina is still alive for the chaos ending her gold eye appears blind because we've destroyed the source of grace and the lack of natural eye color implies she's not human 3) Kenneth Haight and Thops who aren't tarnished have the yellowish gold color of golden rune 1~13 whereas strong characters like Millicent and demigods have the amber color of numen's, hero's and lord's runes 4) the grace that the tarnished lost is likely what is gathering at the table of lost grace

  • @zacrichards5031
    @zacrichards5031 Рік тому +24

    My best guess on the tree thing is that it's kinda like the people in this area. The Nox had their potential, their ability to grow, cut off. The stars were bound, and they were attacked by fallen stars

    • @Calx9
      @Calx9 Рік тому +1

      I hate when I'm just walking down the street and a falling star attacks me...

  • @scorchinorphan1687
    @scorchinorphan1687 Рік тому +3

    I honestly immediately registered them as Wisps, I called them that the moment I saw one, asking "Is that a wisp? Are they aggressive?" Before being blasted. One guy I met called them Anomalies or Dark Stars, after Metro 2033s roaming orb of lightning.

  • @dire2293
    @dire2293 Рік тому +5

    blue fairy is a contender for siofra, lots of stuff there with the blind swordsmans lore, still i think those dudes being called wisps is a good call

  • @p.r.9991
    @p.r.9991 Рік тому +11

    9:00 I really didn't expect a Quantum Mechanics analogy in an Elden Ring lore video

    • @sterquiliniis7583
      @sterquiliniis7583 Рік тому +2

      The past almost year of my life has literally been the rabbit hole of[ Elden ring > Hermeticiscm > quantum mechanics > ... ] *skipping a few* It's all connected, but seeing the connection is actually what inspires faith or understanding of the "micro-macrocosm model" , or "as above so below", or the "flow" and that is what I believe the creators of this game are trying to provide us, challenges that inspire us to notice, that these themes of rebirth, fire, stagnation, corruption, etc., but to feel them inside you as a real human being.

    • @KitsuneShapeShifter
      @KitsuneShapeShifter Рік тому +1

      @@sterquiliniis7583 finally someone gets it, I've been sea deep into Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Demon's Souls, Elden Ring lore too

    • @sterquiliniis7583
      @sterquiliniis7583 Рік тому +1

      @@KitsuneShapeShifter I've beaten everything but demon souls and Sekiro, which reminds me Buddhist themes are super relevant too and the themes in From Software are reused in every game yet make them new in such profoundly interesting ways each time.

    • @KitsuneShapeShifter
      @KitsuneShapeShifter Рік тому +1

      @@sterquiliniis7583 I think Bloodborne was the most esoterically nuanced game (I love the ''moon, blood, womb, matrix, mind, dream, reflection, water, ID, beast'' rabbit hole), but Elden Ring has such a huge body of information within it's insane.
      Sekiro really goes heavy on the stagnation/flow symbolism, makes me wish I knew more about Japanese cultural references

    • @sterquiliniis7583
      @sterquiliniis7583 Рік тому +1

      @@KitsuneShapeShifter dude, yes. You're speaking my language.

  • @matthewbailey8367
    @matthewbailey8367 Рік тому +12

    They kind of do lead you astray in the consecrated snow fields so it seems they are connected to most of the folklore including the spirit idea for the ancestral followers and the spirits that lead you astray as well. There are also spirts in the town north of the snow fields so more spirit connections

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +1

      And so far it has sounded like quite a couple commenters have gotten lured in to the wisps!

  • @PETHRIS
    @PETHRIS Рік тому +9

    5:26
    I think the best alternative option for the Fairy reference would be that of the Blue Fairy, the one referenced in the Blue Dancer Charm in association with the Warrior in Blue who taught Malenia and sealed the Outer God of Rot. It's possible that this fairy was a spirit of the river (flowing waters) that taught the Warrior in Blue his fighting style, as the Ancestral Followers also seem to have some connections to the Lake of Rot through cut content

    • @porkt3887
      @porkt3887 Рік тому +4

      I'm almost certain "blue fairy" refers to the river itself, not these. the blind swordsman learned from the blue fairy (again siofra means fairy) that they only way to fend off rot is to be constantly moving and flowing

    • @viviolet7
      @viviolet7 Рік тому +2

      @@porkt3887 thats an awesome connection, im absolutely assimilating that into my lore beliefs.

  • @pieoverlord
    @pieoverlord Рік тому +4

    So this is probably just a cute coincidence but something that stuck out to me during the video is the fairy thing - namely that it instantly reminded me of the blue dancer charm which represented the fairy (speculated to be the Siofra river itself in some form) that bestowed the flowing sword onto the blind swordsman who went on to teach Malenia. We know that Malenia's weapon is highly dex-based, and the flowing sword definitely favours it... which then reminds me that in this game, lightning weapon skills scale with dexterity. And wouldn't you know it, instead of fire and ice like in most fantasy games, the wisps in Elden Ring use lightning.

  • @thexdfacedgamer2306
    @thexdfacedgamer2306 Рік тому +1

    *The word "wisp" now gives me unlimited electrifying PTSD.*

  • @sadhomie9294
    @sadhomie9294 Рік тому +16

    It's possible that the white trees in Siofra and in the Snowfield are part of the primordial crucible, which was shunned with the tarnishing of Godfrey. In the Nameless Eternal City, there's a crucible knight in a hollowed tree trunk, and the water around the ruins of the city is white, like those trees. This color connection is admittedly thin, but the ancient nature of Siofra, the Mountaintops, and the Eternal Cities seems like they could all have a crucible connection.

    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn Рік тому +1

      Which would also tie in to the ancestral followers living there, as they are unwanted left overs from a by gone age.

  • @Shmeky.
    @Shmeky. Рік тому +3

    Evil ligtning ball be like: you should roll around NOW

  • @BrassPetals3Voices
    @BrassPetals3Voices Рік тому +21

    I’ve seen a Marionette in the Mountaintop of the Giants playing with (or studying) some small blue spheres. I wondered then if those blue spheres were connected with the wisps. Maybe they contain them? Hard to say, and it’s a stretch since the similarities are just round, blue and magic.

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +1

      I dont know if i ever ran into that enemy. Gotta go check it out

    • @schrodingerskatze6487
      @schrodingerskatze6487 Рік тому +5

      There is also a Marionette with those orbs in Hands near the south gate that leads to Sellia. It drops them once it engages with you and I think I heard a breaking Sound like glass, maybe those are glintstone devices. Maybe like a Palantir, to receive orders or something?

    • @virtem7686
      @virtem7686 Рік тому +4

      @@schrodingerskatze6487 I remember run from those marionettes in Aeonia, but I am sure they are glinstone orb they pet to cast spells.

  • @dynactin8908
    @dynactin8908 Рік тому +17

    I honestly think that the orb disappearing sounds like the initial part of the Spearcall Ritual Ash of War on the Death Ritual Spear.

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +1

      Another sound for me to check out!

  • @DerpyBerb
    @DerpyBerb Рік тому +5

    They’re ball lightning. Plasmids. Will-o’-the-wisps. Real and deadly phenomena. Is there more?

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +3

      Solid notes! But missing some in-game connections. Hope the vid adds some substantive stuff

  • @heideknight9122
    @heideknight9122 Рік тому +2

    The potential tie to the scarabs sound is they are teleporting. I always saw them as a spell that fades after using it's power. Now I feel they attack then flee.

  • @errantsorcerer
    @errantsorcerer Рік тому

    the fur raiment description of their armor describes "The ancestral followers keep their distance from the Erdtree,
    awaiting new buds. They are certain to sprout from their very
    flesh, and indeed, their souls."

  • @puzzleheaded6195
    @puzzleheaded6195 Рік тому +2

    These things are tough. Like they deserve their own Great Rune and Divine Tower tough

  • @holyspear26
    @holyspear26 Рік тому +1

    The ancestor followers indirectly worship death birds. “golden winged envoys” “reap” Intentional wording. Check winged scythe and eclipse shotel as well. I’ll also point out that death does not oppose the erdtree, so much as the Golden Order has removed the rune of death and cast them out relatively recently. There’s a reason only certain holy spells dismiss undead and those are of the golden order.
    Eternal life has caused stagnation, a blight or rot on the erdtree, starting with Godwyn. The wisps are fairies and the nomadic warriors, warrior starting class, fight stagnation. A fairy helped the blind swordsman seal the rot God who entered Siofra. Check warrior starting gear, blue dancer charm. It is interesting to note that lightning scales off dex for a very specific reason that’s been unspecified. Fast water and water boosts lightning damage? Pure speculation on the last part of course... but it has little to do with dragon cult.

  • @viviolet7
    @viviolet7 Рік тому +1

    "i dont think siofra river has any better candidate for a fairy" i want you to tell me right now the dragonkin soldier wings arent a spot on fairy cosplay.

  • @leviklopfenstein8158
    @leviklopfenstein8158 Рік тому +5

    Something interesting about the locations, both Siofra and the mountaintops where the wisps are have those sickly, slender silver trees/spires. I wonder if there's a connection between them?
    Edit: just saw this part in the vid, lol. Nvm

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +3

      Yeah i mentioned it but really dont know what their significance/meaning is. The tree connection is obv important in ER but i dont see any immediate explanation. Other than them being in anti-erdtree areas. Maybe theyre attempts to grow new trees

  • @jameslagervall9227
    @jameslagervall9227 Рік тому +1

    I think another interesting thing is that wisps in DnD shoot lightning like the wisps here! Perhaps some inspirations?

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +1

      I think another comment mentioned it in DnD. Definitely a possibility!

  • @johncra8982
    @johncra8982 Рік тому +2

    *PEAS IN A POD*

  • @Al_Mighty8686
    @Al_Mighty8686 Рік тому +1

    alright hear me out. The erdtree used to be far more prominent, but its reach/influence has been dwindling for quite some time. When this began to show, the carian royals began attempting to capitalize on this, looking to the outer reaches where the erdtree's influence was already weak. But moving traditional forces to these distance regions just wasn't feasible, so they began trying to find ways to ahcieve their goals over long distances. One of the creations was the wisps, creatures made with souls that never reached the erdtree (anthesis of the golden runes). They, along with other soceries, blocked out the erdtrees influence in certain regions, leaving behind empty husks of the erdtree saplings with the golden aspect of them (the leaves) being stripped away, leaving just the souless white trunk.

  • @Liednard
    @Liednard Рік тому

    Thanks for the nice vid :)
    My theory on the white tree stumps:
    - Initially thought these were attempts to create the Haligtree, since I noticed them first in the Snowfields.
    - Now I just think these are fossilized tree, showing that these areas haven't been civilized, hence landscaped, for a long time, unlike everything Leyndell and around.

  • @Knurlurzhad
    @Knurlurzhad Рік тому

    I think the red flowers around the trees in the snowfield are more linked to blood than the strange ancestor trees. You find the same flowers in Fort Haight where the blood-crazed knight took over, and the rose church where Varre and a Sanguine Noble hang out. The flowers in the snowfield are also concentrated around the blood-stained portal to Mohgwyn Palace.
    That note out of the way, this is a very interesting theory, with a lot of thought provoking ideas teased from so little concrete data. Well done!

  • @ecthelionalfa
    @ecthelionalfa Рік тому +2

    i hope we could get an inc for summoning those wisp, i want more blue lighting incantations

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому

      tht would be fire

    • @StormhawkJuzo
      @StormhawkJuzo Рік тому +1

      Like Floating Chaos from DS3 but lightning

  • @DaxterL
    @DaxterL Рік тому +2

    It makes me think of Will o' Wisps from dnd which do have a lightning attack.

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому

      I didnt know that, a nice connection

    • @briggy4359
      @briggy4359 Рік тому

      Knowing Martin's and FROM's love of DnD (mimics, anyone?) this is almost definitely the answer.

  • @J1NN_M3SCA
    @J1NN_M3SCA Рік тому

    At 12:47 it very much looks to me like a cluster of fairies

  • @r3turnfyre426
    @r3turnfyre426 Рік тому

    When I got to the consecrated snowfields on my first playthrough, these things made me rage so fucking hard while I was trying to find a site of grace

  • @dogalolo
    @dogalolo Рік тому +1

    What's interesting about those white, dead(?) trees in Siofra and the Consecrated Snowfield is that both of these places are close in proximity to places or peoples that exist outside of or in opposition to the Golden Order and the Greater Will. The Ancestral Followers are close to these trees, and have found a way to exist away from the Erdtree. But more notable, the Nox also exist underground, awaiting their Lord of Night. Miquella's Haligtree is accessible through the Snowfield, and is like a mirror of the Erdtree. It could be these dead trees are or were the beginnings of forming their own Erdtree, in both these respects, or in the case of the Haligtree, the beginnings of Minor trees.

    • @LokiHades
      @LokiHades Рік тому

      They also have the same kind of stoney calcification we see on the Erdtree’s textures.
      The importance of the botanical aspects can’t be understated in Elden Ring. Wherever an Outer God’s/force influence is strongest you see the plantlife adapt those traits and I think the nature is both physical and metaphysical:
      Altus has literal golden plants except where Godfrey’s influence is starting to affect the lands, where there’s tinges of gold but also Black Death. The plant life in areas where his roots sprout (revealed by zullie) tends to also appear to being dying.
      Mt. Gelmir being the site of a burned minor Erdtree displays almost no plant life, similarly the plant life the closer you get to the Giant’s Forge is almost non-existent.
      The trees near the crystalline structures in Liurnia tend to have more cyan/aquamarine coloration than pure green, which is inline with the Primeval Current.
      Caelid is obvious with the red form the scarlet rot, but what I find more interesting is that we see Greyoll’s Barrow, connected to the rest of Caelid which is more heavily affected by the rot, has dying plantlife everywhere. Seeing as the rot turns most life into fungus, and that there is no reddening of the plantlife there yet or fungal manifestations, this actually leads me to another theory:
      What we see with the haligtree and the CSC trees red leaves isn’t actually rooted in Malenia’s rot influence. What I think is happening with them is as Miquella is being transformed by Mohg using the influence of the Formless Mother, who we know the Bloodflame stems from, the leaves of Miquella’s haligtree and it’s minor trees are turning blood red, further cementing the metaphysical aspect (Another thing brought up by Zullie for example when they talked about Godfrey’s influence as prince of death somehow reaching Faram Azula despite no physical connection unlike everywhere else his influence sprouts up in the lands between, including Stormveil).
      Siofra is also an interesting case all on its own, plantlife is also tinged by something, from the appearance and description of the gatherable plants to the coloration of trees. It is verdant but the plants don’t look Limgrave green.

  • @TalkingSoup
    @TalkingSoup Рік тому

    it's interesting that the wisp's lightning looks different from most of the other lightning in the game. the natural lightning that strikes near fulgurbloom is yellow; lightning attacks from humanoid enemies is yellow or yellowish gold; lightning attacks from some dragons have a reddish tint to them. lightning spells scale with faith usually, and various item descriptions say that lightning is closely related with holy powers and the golden order itself. and yet the wisp's lightning is white-blue, closer to real world lightning. i'm not sure what that all means, but there's definitely some color theory stuff going on here.

  • @BlestNekun
    @BlestNekun Рік тому +2

    I referred to them as a lightning wisps when I first saw them since that's what they looked like.
    😎🍻😎

  • @MadmaxstoneVR
    @MadmaxstoneVR Рік тому

    You got bro, I agreed on wisp. I was sold since the word manscaped came across my tv screen😅😅😅. I just called them lightning orbs…. Oh and Snow fields and underground.
    But I swear I bumped into the orbs in a dungeon somewhere

  • @ruudur
    @ruudur Рік тому +1

    I believe the magical golem by the Redmane painting reward has an attack that summons three of these wisps

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +1

      Oh really? I got to go check that out

  • @lloydfrazier3682
    @lloydfrazier3682 Рік тому

    A whisp is a formless ghost... it's also why the other definitions say what they do... a WISP of smoke looks like a formless ghost, and the piece of hair whipping in the wind is formless as it flows in the wind... they're nudges to formless apparitions

  • @ranchsauce3232
    @ranchsauce3232 Рік тому

    I heard that noise and immediately thought of the noise the Astel makes when it teleports, I am so certain they are the same, check it out

  • @opalescent4694
    @opalescent4694 Рік тому +1

    I feel like anyone who knows about folklore enough or plays games like D&D or World of Warcraft where Wisps/Will-o-Wisps appear would know exactly what these are...

  • @MySageX3
    @MySageX3 Рік тому

    had to pause at that peas in a pod bit. LOL

  • @GhostEmblem
    @GhostEmblem Рік тому

    The description of Wisps with horns made me think of seelies.

  • @Scott_Inksmith
    @Scott_Inksmith Рік тому +1

    Hi guy from Japan here I was pretty sure these are onibi which are like a clump of loose souls that are balls of light that are blue and float, but calling them wisp is almost exactly the same as I believe they are as you said a measure of life or I have also heard there is group of lost souls.

  • @vanersal7565
    @vanersal7565 Рік тому

    i was actually thinkkingabout this when i woke up

  • @p.r.9991
    @p.r.9991 Рік тому +1

    With reference to my last comment about a video about the Star caller enemies... Will you do one? I for my part and many others probably too would like to see them covered as they are one of those enemies we don't get much information about.

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому

      I still need to look into them more to see if ill do a vid. Their connection w the alabaster/onyx lords is def interesting, will just have to see if i find enough to warrant a vid. I appreciate the input!

    • @p.r.9991
      @p.r.9991 Рік тому

      @@MadLuigi thank you and from now on I will stop asking so eagerly about it. :) sorry about that

  • @littlechurchlore
    @littlechurchlore Рік тому

    Awesome lore connection :)

  • @Fridge756
    @Fridge756 Рік тому

    The only reason honeybees die when stinging humans is because our skin is real elastic. Let them do their thing and they wiggle right out like a corkscrew. It’s neat to watch

  • @ashtonfeatherstoneandersen4783

    Most likely fairies, was my guess. The dragon kin soldiers are a lot like the fairy-dragon experiments from Kings Field. Created by Seath, and the mysterious Black Moon of Nokstella shares similar themes and tropes that Seath did.

  • @colt4505
    @colt4505 Рік тому

    Siofra River's fairy is the Flowing Water Spirit Fairy that bestowed the sword upon Malenia's master. See the Blue Dancer Charm.

  • @childofcascadia
    @childofcascadia Рік тому

    Ha! Ive been running around the underground. I got hit by one of those yesterday. My spouse goes wtf hit you? Im like that blue thing. My spouse: "wait, thats an enemy? I thought it was some sorcerers magic".

  • @mistersomaru
    @mistersomaru Рік тому

    I straight up called them "will-o-wisps" and "goddammit fuckers why?!?!" when I ran into them the first time.

  • @maudley
    @maudley Рік тому

    Could be what happens when corpses don't get yoinked up by erdtree roots

  • @nevogolan6505
    @nevogolan6505 Рік тому

    There is a few wisps outside the palace in ainsel river

  • @BigHatLoganGaming
    @BigHatLoganGaming Рік тому

    "broken, white and without tops"
    is he describing a tree or my love life

  • @chrismanuel9768
    @chrismanuel9768 Рік тому

    I could swear I've heard that exact sound in Dark Souls 3 specifically, but I can't remember what it was.

  • @pembertr0n
    @pembertr0n Рік тому

    I doubt you’ll see this but I commented on another vid about the blue swordsman/fairy and Melania/rot. If I’m right about the fairy being related to the river, then the ancestor dudes’ cycle of life from death could be what the swordsman taught Melania, which could’ve changed her perception of rot and perhaps gain control of it (possibly explaining how she can gain health when damaging you? Death->Life)
    We also see this theme with the juxtaposition of Caelid and the Kindred of Rot vs the Haligtree. The Kindred despair that Melania has abandoned them, while with the Haligtree we see a sort of purposeful symbiosis of life and death. The Haligtree is also sort of a combination and rejection of both the Golden Order and the Rot God, a blasphemous yet beautiful mockery of everything they represent, hidden away past the snow where they can’t be reached. The snow also denies the Erdtree and possibly Rot (decay slows in the cold), is associated with Ranni, and of course is another form of blue water, tying back to Siofra/the blue swordsman and the ancestral worshippers.
    My headcanon is the blue horn guys and wisps are ancestral spirits called on to protect and nurture the big deer spirits on the spiritual side while their descendants do the same on the physical side.

  • @TheVerendus
    @TheVerendus Рік тому

    I always called these things Will-o-wisps. Right after I call them "fucking stupid ass lightning ball how the hell did that hit me?!?"

  • @lazysunside
    @lazysunside 11 місяців тому

    Wait until you see these things irl. It’s like out of the world and there are very few theories about why this phenomenon happened

  • @comorbiddisorder
    @comorbiddisorder Рік тому

    I'm wondering if the Wisps have a connection to the Dragonkin.
    It's said that the Dragonkin are basically poor imitations of their skyborne kin.
    The Wisps have the exact same look as ice lightning, something only found through Ice Lightning Spear (which you get from defeating a Dragonkin Soldier) and Dragonscale Blade or Dragon Halberd, both of which have Ice Lightning skills.
    If the Wisps are truly made of Ice Lightning, could that be why the Dragonkin are only seen using Ice Lightning abilities, because they either learned it from the Wisps or because the Wisps are their source of power?

  • @alexjedermann2911
    @alexjedermann2911 Рік тому

    I think the Red flowers in the snowfield could be connected to malenia and the scarlet rot

  • @sirrealism7300
    @sirrealism7300 Рік тому

    I would love a spell that lets you summon a wisp

  • @danielcoronado4010
    @danielcoronado4010 Рік тому

    honestly, they should be able to be summoned with an incantation, it would be super cool.

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn Рік тому +2

    Ok this is low key lit af. I've always recognised the wisps as ball lightning "magic land mines"
    As such, these are of great interest to me. Glad you researched them. And I'll have you know I'm already subscribed. However I do all my hair grooming with a small pair of scissors. Is that weird?
    Edit; changed some wording because I said "these" way too frequently.

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +2

      Im glad you enjoyed the deep dive! And lol im not here to tell people their grooming habits are weird

    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn Рік тому

      @@MadLuigi Thanks!

  • @kreadapelu8813
    @kreadapelu8813 Рік тому +1

    The broken white trees I think are in such condition because they are long petrified and the branches either were used or fell and shattered.

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +2

      Wat do u think led to em being petrified?

    • @kreadapelu8813
      @kreadapelu8813 Рік тому +2

      @@MadLuigi time. Mostly time. These trees are older than the Erdtree. Possibly they were grown from celestial dew, lunar silver, or were used in its cultivation for various magical practices. Maybe Miquela found some use for the trees too, grew a few while destroying the minor Erdtree that tried encroaching upon his power. There is probably just coincidence… maybe the leaves were somehow used in making mirror helms to block the influence of outer gods on the mind and the refinement of grace into unalloyed gold that prevents outer gods from influencing things.
      I recognize that Miqualla’s trees would be younger than the big Erdtree but yeah…

  • @Kodama666
    @Kodama666 Рік тому

    i think its objectively hard to connect the scarabs to anything, but it is somewhat compelling to consider their connection to all this, especially thinking about how they disappear somehow
    maybe other people know more lore on them than i do but as far as im aware anything is possible for those little guys

    • @Kodama666
      @Kodama666 Рік тому

      also at least to me the white ashen trees in the CS and the siofra river always invoked images of ash lake from dark souls 1
      and on top of that it also reminds me of the elden beast arena which is also eerily similar to ash lake
      and id suggest that their implication in elden ring is similar to that of ash lake in dark souls
      I WOULD LOVE to have the japanese translations for the lore surrounding ash lake and any of these other implications

  • @NFCloud
    @NFCloud Рік тому

    Just here to say, I knew their name I don't care about your thumbnail, I win.
    I've been calling them wisps since before I knew that's what they were and i'm very proud of that fact. They just look like what the word wisp describes.

  • @siliciaveerah9327
    @siliciaveerah9327 Рік тому

    The wisp almost sounds like a summoned PC leaving

  • @Valdyr_Hrafn
    @Valdyr_Hrafn Рік тому

    wisps are energy in a way, just like the very very similar looking runes (when you pop them they look spherical) and the literal life energies the scarabs roll up into balls as well.
    I don't know if this is that strong of a connection, but I do think they wanted life energy to be represented in a different way than a flame for once so it can be more unique

    • @Valdyr_Hrafn
      @Valdyr_Hrafn Рік тому

      add to this that they only appear in a place where the erd-tree cant absorb life energies from the fallen

  • @sanguinetales
    @sanguinetales Рік тому

    its just an elemental but still interesting that its the only ones and not found in other elements.

  • @kalebradford3859
    @kalebradford3859 Рік тому

    I've always called them anomalies. Considering how similar they are to those of stalker and metro

  • @lowwwery
    @lowwwery Рік тому

    Do one on the crab next

  • @headecas
    @headecas Рік тому

    the fairy in siofra river is the dragonkin soldier

  • @FlashFahrenheit
    @FlashFahrenheit Рік тому

    I wonder if there is any relation between the wisps and the spirits that the ancestral spirit use, besides location and color

  • @Mannnnnnnn
    @Mannnnnnnn Рік тому

    Is that the institute’s theme in the backyard

  • @argosvinandi5064
    @argosvinandi5064 Рік тому

    Iv had this question in the back of my mind for my entire 612 hours of playtime, thank you 👍

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому

      Oh wow, glad to help answer such a long held q

  • @WeyounSix
    @WeyounSix Рік тому

    I always thought they were supposed to be like fairys or something but thats probably my legend of zelda brain acting up

  • @Hexacosichoron12
    @Hexacosichoron12 Рік тому

    I always called em Space Wrigglers

  • @hossdelgado626
    @hossdelgado626 Рік тому

    Maybe they are lightning bugs. I mean, flowers learn magic in this universe, so why not?

  • @ChillyReaper
    @ChillyReaper Рік тому

    I knew to stay away from the Wisps because of my knowledge from the Metro games. More specifically, Metro Exodus as, as in the first two games, the electric anomalies wouldn't hurt you as long as you stayed still.

  • @EldenStarsofRuin
    @EldenStarsofRuin Рік тому +1

    First time I wandered into Siofra River I saw them and wanted a closer look cuz I thought they looked cute and monkey brain went "OoOoOoOh favorite color!" My stupid under leveled ass quickly got nuked and then nuked again when I went back to try to kill it. Screw these little wisps...still pretty to look at though...

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +1

      Lol seems like they do will o wisp pretty well!

  • @robrib2682
    @robrib2682 Рік тому

    I always thought a good name for these little bastards was Mr. Zappy

  • @darklordauron
    @darklordauron Рік тому

    A friend of mine says the wisps match the XZ position of another enemy on the Y. I have not been able to figure out a way to confirm this - especially as there is not a subterranean zone where the wisps are in the consecrated snowfield (at least as of this time, DLC might change that).

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому

      Oh that is something to possibly check out. I'll look above ground

  • @edwardconner3335
    @edwardconner3335 Рік тому

    Its Shefra dammit, the O sound in a word is very rare if not nonexistent in celtic or older languages of the area.

  • @baron-chan6484
    @baron-chan6484 Рік тому +1

    We need sir Gideon Offnir and his 1000 Reddit IQ

  • @Issengan
    @Issengan Рік тому

    Do you enjoy being struck by the wrath of god? Just step close enough to the buzzy boi

  • @encinoman903
    @encinoman903 Рік тому

    I learned how to dodge these little bastards pretty quick.
    Zap-zap!

  • @anthemlog
    @anthemlog Рік тому

    I think they just wanted to make a field hazard so they made one in the same way they would make a mob enemy and just took away it's ability to be hurt or killed.

  • @transgender_F-117
    @transgender_F-117 11 місяців тому

    damn, they're just wisps? that's shockingly simple

  • @nickcrane2126
    @nickcrane2126 Рік тому

    What if they aren’t sentient
    Like they don’t really “attack” they are just reaching out with their own energy like how static works normally . . Then they disappear because they just used themselves up

  • @FishyNiden
    @FishyNiden Рік тому

    Is november. Talks about blue balls. It's all coming together.

  • @monk0820
    @monk0820 Рік тому

    can you please do one on the t rex dogs? i can’t find anything about them.

  • @ultra824
    @ultra824 Рік тому

    I don't really see the wisps as being related to the ancestral followers, they're much more closely associated with the dragonkin soldiers. the ancestral followers aren't associated with lightning anywhere else, and theres no followers in the consecrated snowfield, and i don't think there are wisps in the ancestral grounds either. meanwhile the wisps always appear in rough proximity to a dragonkin soldier, and they absolutely _are_ associated with lightning (and specifically blue lightning).
    also the fairy referred to by siofra river's name is _probably_ the fairy mentioned in the Blue Dancer talisman (which may in fact be the river itself or a manifestation of it, given the very strong association between the blind swordsman and flowing water)

  • @ashtonfeatherstoneandersen4783

    If you played Kings field you may guess Fairies and its plausible.

  • @jacksongabbard6059
    @jacksongabbard6059 Рік тому

    As a metro fan I always called them anomalies. I wouldn’t be surprised if the team just ripped them from that universe

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  • @NedreddDwr
    @NedreddDwr Рік тому

    Whether you are right or wrong on this, you worded this all so beautifully

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +1

      oh thank you! thats very kind

  • @TheRickabyTV
    @TheRickabyTV Рік тому +1

    Adding a comment to say thanks for referring to my language as "Irish" and not "Gaelic" as some other content creators like to do, annoyingly. Subscribed and liked

    • @MadLuigi
      @MadLuigi  Рік тому +1

      Glad to get it right! Spent a tad of time in Ireland, so itd be bad if i didnt pick up a few pieces of relevant info

    • @TheRickabyTV
      @TheRickabyTV Рік тому

      Keep up the great work! 😊