A scion is a descendant of a noble or reputable family, but it's also a term in gardening for a cutting of a plant intended for grafting. Considering the importance of trees in Elden Ring, I wouldn't be surprised if the process of grafting branches from one tree to another inspired the grotesque art of grafting we see employed by Godrick.
Could it be that these are Godrick's children forces to undergo grafting? They have somewhat similiar crowns and mantles resembling that of godrick's and they also have white hair like he does
The problem with detailed, horrifying enemies in Souls games is that I'd never get the chance to see one up close myself, in-game normally. It's hard to notice all the disturbing details when they're currently trying to play fruit ninja with my intestines
From all the times I've fought the scions. The only detail I could make our here was the face. Thought it was the face of a lady, which made it more disturbing since I thought it implied some kind of experimentation on young noble women. Either that, or possibly indoctrination, cult style, towards grafting of oneself for some reason.
But isnt this the Charm of Fromsoft? That they put so much Work in stuff that we in Normal means cant look at properly? I love stuff like that. Yes People like Zullie can look at it better and show it. But Fromsoft could also be lazy and dont go into detail like that at all. Cause as you said, we wont normally notice that stuff, cause we cant look at it properly. (Sorry for all the errors in spelling. Im not a native English speaker + the ' doesnt work lol. Needed to copy it from your text :,D)
@@Meyphold I personally really like that. Makes for more and more things to learn as we get invested into the series. I'd even go so far as to say the same for the fake walls. Putting so much work into places like ash lake in DS1 and then hiding it behind a fake wall. It sounds a little dumb from a work perspective but it makes finding it as the player so much more awesome.
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Grafted scion is an excellent dnd miniboss. Necromancer or... I forgot their names. They make intellect devourers. The squid people who are actually worms (yeah, that probably didn't help)
What fascinates me the most is that the Scion's cloak is clearly tailor-made for its inhuman shape. Not only this, but the elegant garb was fashioned with a great deal of skill, as well. This implies that before Stormveil fully went to ruin, there was a point where it was still fully staffed, and these horrible creatures were being tended to like nobility.
Godfrey and Godrick wear a very similar 'draped' cloak, so you're absolutely right-in addition to many of the bosses, such as Mohg and Radahn. Even Morgott/Margitt has one, though his is simple and has no patterns. The 'nobility of the golden lineage all seem to wear these capes-though in their present state, they all seem to be made of fairly poor materials.
What an excellent detail, it really adds to the existential horror. No wonder the ghosts and the few common folk left alive all are mourning- look what they were forced to serve for so, so long
JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS! SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM & HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT GOD OR PEOPLE... YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER! GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON... ONLY GOD IS GOOD! WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS! MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/NO PRIEST/NO SAINT/NO ANCESTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, MARY DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS OR FALSE gods DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO MUSICIAN OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO INFLUENCER OR UA-cam STAR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO SCIENTIST OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR ACTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS! STOP WORSHIPING THESE PEOPLE! JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON WITH JUDGEMENT (THESE ARE END TIMES)! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, HE WANTS TO HEAL & RESTORE YOU! TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU! Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6 "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33 “For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
Surgeon: "My lord, why would they need arms dangling in the crotch area?" Godrick: "To make the other arms stonger, of course!" Surgeon: "Yes, and what about the single chicken wing?" Godrick: "AERODYNAMICS! God, it's like you weren't even paying attention at the body-mutilation conference!"
The implication that haphazardly sticking a wing on something improves its aerodynamics no matter where the wing is is fucking hilarious to me for some reason
I saw grafted house IRL, it had wooden walls, brick walls, and some metal walls and parts and a small balcony from whatever it was. Sadly I cant post image here. That thing look terrible🤣
one of my biggest elden ring gripes is the lack of other grafted enemies in stormveil!! feels like they set up this whole grafted thing and they barely go into it :
I'm so glad that more folks these days know what goes behind the development of a game and not just a programmer dude coding shit in front of 8 monitors.
Such a shame we didn't get more grafted enemies, i was fully expecting things to go mental the closer i got to godrick. Though maybe there are so few as its a particularly difficult and magical process that often fails. That or godrick is greedy and these guys only get the limbs he doesn't want.
I'm inclined to think it's something closer to the latter. Particularly since it sounds like they only use the Tarnished for grafting, so there's probably not that much to go around.
Yes but it does fit the lore, this is a process reserved for the nobility as an alternate strategy to family trees where the spider monster lives for a really long time.
The feathers make sense, too! Stormhawk Deenh’s item description tells us about it being a mighty, noble hawk familiar that only obeyed the true rulers of Stormveil back when the winds blew the strongest. So hawks would likely been seen as sources of power, meaning graft some feathers on!
it's very interesting how grafted beings don't seem to have any ultimate design or goal. It seems to be almost random what is grafted where, without any thought about if it'd be useful or not. It adds such a tragedy to it.
makes sense, considering that they're children. they probably just thought "oh that'd be cool" with things like the wing that wound up going nowhere, like when a kid asks for something like a guitar and never bothers to learn to play it. its a shame, because i can totally see a kid deciding that they're gonna graft wings to themself and fly, only to keep adding parts, never considering that the extra weight would crush that dream of flight they had.
@@quanariin1290 Godrick the grafted is as slapdash as well, so either their vision is beyond what we could possibly imagine or there's just a madness to it.
@@quanariin1290 I'm not sure the children would have much choice. They're probably just manipulated into this to try and get more power for their families
"Grafting" as a concept in ER is definitely odd. At first it seems like a physical process of just sewing dudes together human centipede style, but Roderika's dialogue about crysalids and Godrick just absorbing the dragon in the boss fight make it seem like a spiritual or magical process.
I think that by grafting you take a portion of the power of the person whose limbs you're grafting, not just the physical limb for you to control. Grafting steals some sort of petaphysical power. After all, Godrick began grafting Tarnished into his body to become more powerful. So there's definitely some magical thing involved.
I'm starting to think it's for a Philosophers Stone from FMA vibe going on where as you combine the bodies and souls together you are able to produce greater energy outputs.... Or something.
Something to note about grafting trees in real life is that the soft tissues inside need to be exposed in order for a graft to take. Similarly, as seen in the Godrick fight, it seems like open wounds are needed in order for a graft to take. I find this little detail to be really interesting, and it's that kind of thing that makes me love this game so much.
What’s even more interesting is that after the fight, we see only godricks torso is left, but only his collarbones and up were visible. Considering what you said about open wounds being needed, dude literally SKINNED HIMSELF COLLORBONE DOWN in order to graft himself onto the troll, which is insane. That, or maybe burned his flesh or something, but considering that open wounds are needed makes it a lot more disturbing when we realize that his torso is still intact
@@vaclavsoukup7302 yeah exactly, and I feel that really shows his state of mind and how truly desperate he was to be strong. He was in agony from chopping off just one of his arms in the fight, let alone all of his limbs and skinning what was left
It's likely the wing mentioned (and subsequent feathers) may have come from the Misbegotten, the race of lizard-bird-lion hybrids who you can find all over. The wing in particular looks like the ones the smaller flightless misbegotten enemies have. Which would make sense as to why the Misbegotten of Castle Morne flipped their shit and rebelled, if they found out their people where being grafted into something like that, likely against their will considering Revenger-Boy calls them servents/the help during his dialogue. The monster designs in Elden Ring really go that extra half-mile in storytelling as well as visual design!
Wonder if that’s related to why Kenneth is siding with the primitive people Ie, he’s still rems days when all worked in unison before shattering while misbegotten given the chance all like “f that noise, our show now”
This made me think of something my dad told me once as a kids when talking about dinosaur bones. He said all the dinosaur bones ever found belonged to only one creature that had spread itself across the world. Really messed up 7 yr old me 🤯
Oh God what if that was legitimately what happened. Just one huge out of this realm monster that separated itself and is what we now call dinosaurs.. That thing vs the meteorite that wiped them out.
God, fromsoft's designs are so elaborate. Pity I miss like 80% of those amazing details, because the object of that design is hurdling towards me at mach speeds, usually spinning at something like 9000 rpm
On one hand they have brilliant elaborate designs, on other the world of ER is filled to the brim with slightly recolored soldiers and knights. Makes you wish they could set their priorities and spend human resources better.
JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS! SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM & HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT GOD OR PEOPLE... YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER! GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON... ONLY GOD IS GOOD! WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS! MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/NO PRIEST/NO SAINT/NO ANCESTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, MARY DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS OR FALSE gods DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO MUSICIAN OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO INFLUENCER OR UA-cam STAR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO SCIENTIST OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR ACTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS! STOP WORSHIPING THESE PEOPLE! JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON WITH JUDGEMENT (THESE ARE END TIMES)! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, HE WANTS TO HEAL & RESTORE YOU! TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU! Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6 "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33 “For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
You know it's kinda hard to appreciate the details when every enemy is aggressive and has multi hit combos. Glad this channel exists or I would never have got a detailed look at the scion or other enemies for that matter.
The monocular is the tool of the curious, my friend. That and a good, healthy helping of stealth on the side. Can get a real good look at the most freakish of foes that way.
@@Zombied77 One of the most striking enemy designs in the whole series to me was the Monstrosity of Sin in Dark Souls 3. That game had some of the wackiest enemy designs imo.
without the cloak its interesting to see how all of the models line up, the hump makes a lot more sense when looked at as a troll torso, really adds to the design.
It’s really cool they put so much detail into portions that are covered by the cloak. Reminds me of the quote about real craftspeople caring about the back of the cabinet even if other people never see it… they know it’s there…
Designing most or all of the body in a painted or drawn concept art also helps with visualizing the shape of the cloak or placement of other details over it, but I imagine it becomes a bit more redundant in a 3D model - guess From's 3D artists think a lot like regular concept artists though and don't skip out on the detail.
@@sofija1996 Also modeling the covered portions also allows for more flexibility since they might decide to reuse the model without the cloak or with the cloak positioned differently (for example as a corpse asset, or boss variant), which wouldn’t be possible if there’s a gaping hole at the top. It’s pretty good practice to make as many game assets as reusable as possible since it’ll save you time in the long run.
@@sofija1996 from soft is known to stay very true to concept art, to almost every detail, even the poses of the concept art sometimes gets translated into the animations
I always kinda imagined that the grafted scions are just Godricks own children. They are quite few, and grafting seems like it’s reserved for the elite. The scions have the same golden crown that Godrick does, so maybe they were little lordlings of Stormveil at one point.
Grafting could have been a time-honored tradition of the nobles, a way to pass down their power as well as their inheritance to their descendants and honor the Erdtree by emulating it while doing so.
Add in the fact that the Erdtree’s primordial form, the Crucible, is said to have expressed aspects of all forms of life, and it makes sense that its power could be used to perform the rite of grafting.
After all, “All things can be conjoined,” as Miriel said. Furthermore, the game’s focus on the laws of regression being a metaphysical concept as well as a theological one, well…
They also use Ornamental Straight Swords, which mention "the dregs of the Golden Lineage" in their description, implying they are part of said lineage just like Godrick. Dunno about the children part, though, it's hard to imagine Godrick getting laid.
The key part that makes these monster designs work is that the heads are still normal sized. Making the heads proportionally sized would be the obvious instinct for any designer, but not doing so is what makes this so good. Particularly in the case of Godrick, seeing a regular human-sized head on such a grotesquely enlarged body makes it very clear that this isn’t some giant creature, it’s just one body with countless others stapled to it. Genius.
It's not soo much that his body is enlarged, it's just that he literally grafted his own tiny head and torso into the torso of a troll to give himself a big tough body. it's also why only his head and torso are lying on the ground in the mud after you reset the area after the fight, because those are the only bodyparts that were actually his own in all that mess.
Why do you think the 'obvious instinct for any designer' would be to make human heads larger? It sounds like you didn't even understand the concept behind the creature bud...
After seeing this video, I have to say this may be one of From's best enemies in terms of art direction and design. It's actually crazy how much detail there is on the enemy and the story that is told by it
Godrick's twisted fascination with arms is seriously underrated. While a person with no arms would be absolutely feeble and pathetic, he drives the exact opposite of this sentiment up the fucking walls, where according to him, your might is a direct proportion to how many limbs you have. His perspective of power is so perverted that he views arms and legs like it's some sort of metric for power level like some bland shounen enthusiast and it somehow just works out for him. All of these perfectly functioning limbs being grafted and rooted to a singular psychopath really drives the theme of corrupted roots all the way home.
Also he was defeated by Malenia, and she has almost no real limbs. But she didn't kill him and that led to so much tragedy. Or she would have challenged Radahn anyway
@@metalslug97When he fought her, he was normal form and not grafted at all, as the sword plaque says “Godrick the Golden” instead of grafted. He has 10 arms also
As someone who lives on a farm, and has grafted branches onto trees, it is a really cool and creepy concept. Very creative, as is most soulsborne body horror
Yep, it's a creative and gruesome twist. I'm honestly morbidly curious about the limits. The grafted dragon head. It's been dead for a while. It's certainly not tarnished. Plus the troll and bird arm. Lowkey would not be opposed to a grafting based dlc. Imagine if he had grafted the arms and legs. Or the wings! (In proper place). Dragon cult taken to a whole new level...
@@KaseyC. most normal fruit frees (such as the ones you find in the wild) do not produce edible fruit. But by grafting on branches from specially bred trees, we can produce what ever breed of fruit we want. For example, an apple tree must have apple branches, but one tree can make red, green, and yellow apples. If we didn’t graft branches onto the tree, it would make these tiny apples that are neither tasty or good looking. Our lemon trees don’t even naturally make lemons, yet we can grow these lovely large lemons every year.
@@KaseyC. to expand a bit on whay JN said, branches from closely related, but different, species of fruit trees can be grafted together. Stone fruits with other stone fruits, citrus, etc. I believe apples and pears are close enough related, but I learned this years ago. There's actually several trees at a university that are called "trees of 40 fruit," since each has 40 varieties of stone fruit grafted onto them; Over the course of about five years the tree accumulated branches from forty different "donor" trees, each with a different fruit, including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.[3]
the gold circlet the child has on their body is exactly the same kind as Godrick's, along with the grafting itself there is a very clear motif and parallel between the two. Scion means a descendant or relative of a notable lineage -- if this creature was not Godrick's Child out-right he was certainly grooming it to succeed him through grafting.
I know this comment is 2 years old, but I want to clarify a misconception here. The crown of Godrick, the crown of the grafted Scions and the crown of the wandering nobles all have a different, albeit similar model. It's not the same per se. I think saying that they're all the same is just unfair to that team at from soft that modeled all these things by hand. It kind of invalidates their work, if that makes sense.
This is horrifyingly beautiful, I was expecting more of these grotesque, nightmare fuel enemies like in Bloodborne but Fromsoft seemingly went for a high fantasy theme in Elden Ring. Great content as always!
Now it makes sense why there are one or two beheaded Troll bodies in Stormveil. They didn't just kill them for no reason, they were going to use them for grafting. It's also very close to where you find the Grafted Scion in Stormveil as well
Yeah that room of horrors. They say things are better when you turn the lights on... but they lied. Drop a glowstone in there but close your eyes first.
Also some of the decapitated were Mausoleum Knights that willingly beheaded themselves to serve their dead lord. Some of the Fire Prelate stuff talks about a dude mad the other monks didn't take their jobs seriously so he cut off his own head to put them into zealotry Shits crazy. Everyone in the Lands Between has weird ideas and connections to Death. Or the lack of it.
I think this was one of the most interesting enemies in the game. The combination of having a rather child like face with such a horrendous body was a cool idea. Definitely great as the first main boss(ish) enemy of the game
i think my favorite detail is that the arm holding the sword has two arms resembling the bone in a forearm. Like how two grafted arms form a complete one. Idk if I explained it clearly but it’s awesome to see that planning went into these creatures and not just the work of a madman with glue
I'd like to see a close up on Godrick, he's basically the most detailed boss with all his grafting. Every other boss either could be easily observed and understood with their human appearance or the small details in them are just their reoccurring motif (Astel's entire body is just orbs or Placidusax is just a meatball), but Godrick is just filled with so many little details like the amalgamation of legs on his leg.
@@combastion5227 Five headed, then one was cut off, then a talisman was made in his image, then the war where two heads were cut off. He has three stumps, one of which is different than the other two.
What's interesting to me is that before they do their aoe scream attack, they grab their head like they're having a headache which, I, at least, think is them regaining some semblance of their consciousness and remembering what they actually are which gives them a momentary glimpse of absolute hopelessness and desperation which is why they scream and then obviously they immediately forget their own vile nature and return to being mindless monsters
I'm pretty sure "Spider" is more poetic than literal. Roderika, when you first meet her, refers to her companions having their limbs cut off to be grafted to "the spider", by which she likely means one of the Scions. Let's also take a moment to appreciate the horror of the "Chrysalids", as she calls them: the corpses you find piled in Stormveil, their arms and legs removed, then wrapped in rope and canvas like a butterfly's chrysalis and discarded.
@@combativeThinker It's probably not great, but it's kind of hard to know how terrible it is in contrast to how things normally work. From what we know, Death just works really strangely to begin with in the world of Elden Ring - It's not fully explained, but the overall implication is that beings need to be processed in order to die correctly/permanently (such as by erdtree burials in the current age, or being burned in ghostflame in the time before the erdtree). If they ever do DLC, I really hope they explore the metaphysics of it all a bit more clearly.
Right next to the room where you find the "Chrysalids"- and I agree, really crazy to go back to what she says and look at the room again - there was originally a "spider" or "crab"-like mini-boss that doesn't respawn after the first time you kill it. I'm pretty sure that's what/who she meant by the spider
@@BackwardsPancake Marika deleted the Rune of Death that's why those who have Grace of the golden order cannot die, those who don't just die and cannot be reborn.
I really wish Stormveil wasn’t so early on and that the legacy areas were more fleshed out. Stormveil is one the most interesting concepts in awhile and the whole idea of grafting is brilliant, but it doesn’t feel fully realized.
Grafting is what they call joining multiple plants into one, typically trees. With that in mind I'd say there's significance in making one like a human tree essentially, possibly an act to bring the Nobles closer to the Gods. The Elden Tree is an extension of the Great Will afterall and how they made contact with the world in the first place. Very interesting to think about!
@@Mitsu852 nah they're just outer gods, several exist, namely the formless mother, the frenzied flame and possibly the moon aswell as the greater will, these are all separate deities
@@Mitsu852 actually the Elden Beast came from the stars, and there are other entities up there like Mohg's blood-gifting source (Blood Mother or something; e: Formless Mother, thanks friend)
Grafting is also what you do when you have to replace lost skin, so no, this has literally nothing to do with trees, since they are grafting live animal tissues to live animal tissues. This is just a regular medical practice that takes place in the real world. From just took it to the body horror conclusion. Why would they be trying to make themselves more tree like? Just because you didn't know that skin grafts are also a thing? 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I think it could have easily been expanded upon a fair bit. But currently I think the lore doesn't go that much further than grafting being sort of a ceremonial practice that some nobles partake in, to become stronger.
I really thought they would make a bigger deal out of it. I originally thought we would pull up to Rykard, and he would be grafted with several demigods or something (which would be his blasphemy), but nope, snakeman.
The Japanese for this one is 接ぎ木の貴公子. 接ぎ木 = Grafting (explicitly horticultural; literally joined-wood or joined-tree), 貴公子 = Scion/Noble Child. The translator may have been quite happy that while the English term "grafting" is less specific, they were able to squeeze more nuance into the "scion" instead.
@@steirqwe7956 I believe they outsource to other studio, that's how the ranni's ending is mistranslated (English sub and Japan sub has completely different meaning), some of the enemies also has different name like malenia blade of (whatever is I forgot) is malenia, daughter of marika
@@steirqwe7956 As far as I know it's a separate (small) translation agency that's been working with From Soft for a long time and they have a lot of back and forth during development, but not actually in-house.
@@pandemoniousivy4651 it is that obvious? XD i am malenia, blade of miquella i am malenia, blade of miquella i am malenia, blade of miquella i am malenia, blade of miquella i am malenia, blade of miquella NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Regarding the resemblance to birds, the description for the Crucible Feather Talisman reads: "A talisman fashioned from feathers that embody the aspects of various creatures. Said to have grown on the human body long ago... A vestige of the crucible of primordial life. Born partially of devolution, it was considered a signifier of the divine in ancient times, but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced." So maybe that wing wasn't grafted, or maybe it was grafted at a time when it was considered as a divine attribute.
It mostly reminds me of the misbegotten. They have these strange features like wings and a tail for making contact with some primordial crucible. The Erdtree is a crucible, which makes me think these creatures came before, birthed by the crucible of an older great power, like the dragons. To solidify the connection they drop the old fang, which reads "These multiple, overlapping fangs grow from a single root. Perhaps they're a vestige of the primordial crucible."
The wing talisman sounds like it's saying the misbegotten are devolved humans. I wouldn't be surprised if the idea was that the elden star hit and made a big pool of cosmic radiation/crucible that mutated anyone who came near it. Probably how the demigods got their powers originally, as well.
@@Ravenicus Nah, you don't need radiation to explain the demigod's powers. We are told that Rahdan and Ranni studied sorceries since they were young, Godrick was a weakling who had to graft limbs onto himself to get stronger, Malenia and Miquella were afflicted with their curses since birth, and Rykard just let a snake eat him... Add to that their great runes and there is nothing more to explain really.
@@kendlerkendler2667 There's clearly more than "It was just magic" going on in Elden Ring. They made a point of separating the sorceries up into different catalysts to show the origin of where those spells powers come from. They were even originally going to use different states, until they were consolidated for gameplay purposes. Not only that, the golden eyes thing is very similar to GRRM's earlier scifi stories with alien cosmos magic stuff. Besides the elder gods, there are also a lot of scifi things like the fact that devolution is even mentioned at all in a medieval game, an incredibly anachronist branch of philosophy, which serves no purpose in being mentioned other than to hint at some kind of mutation and evolution in the same description as the Crucible.
Flavour text also describes Stormhawks (the birds atop Stormveil) as having their claws removed so blades could be grafted on. So maybe the feathers on Grafted Scions are simply from discarded Stormhawks.
Yeah, her idea of grafting seems to be a lot different than Godfreys version. She willingly came to be grafted-and all her men seemingly died defending her from what they realized was an abomination. It seems 'true' grafting produces spirit ashes, like what she gives you-the jellyfish spirit-which are essentially holy relics that allows you to summon someones soul back, which is still alive and sentient. It is essentially a benign form of necromancy between two willing people (The spirit jellyfish is named 'Aurelia'-she was perhaps 'grafted' to Rodericka, and is nothing but kind to her). I don't know if normal grafting involves 'organ donation' but I suspect it does, it is merely by choice and not forced. Like a father might donate a hand (and the sword skill in the hand) to his young son to help him on the battlefield, or a vital organ if they're injured/sick. And they in turn are allowed to take the form of a spirit ash, when summoned to help, for their ancestors. The result isn't supposed to be monstrous. Though it still might have been outlawed under the Golden Order.
A friendly reminder that what the Loathesome Dungeater does to his victims is apparently much much worse according to Roderika. Also, can you have a look at the holes in the chest of various trolls? The Carian trolls, (which include Iji) seem to have some kind of Tombstone in there
Cursed observation The corpses you find seedbed curses on have blood in their laps between their legs.... and theyre always tied to a chair And its called SEEDbed curse. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@tarille1043 He basically causes a bootleg version of destined death. By cutting them off from the Erdtree, they can no longer return from death and die permanently.
I kind of want it as a figurine with a removable cloak; I love how this game went "Yeah Bloodborne was just the start of the body horror, kids" right off the bat and you don't even really notice as you struggle to figure out whats going on.
Bloodborne wasn't even close at body horror than this game and Souls series, the enemies are mostly wolf-like beast and alien-like kins which are still bearable to look at
@@DC1lowerslaveofkys yes, one of the most horrifying design in the game, still pretty normal compared to Grafted Scion, wretch, or some enemies in Dark Souls 3
@@ant3910 I think I feel like the Amygdala, The One Reborn and Ludwig were big influences at the very least. The Winter Lantern has a similar grotesque fusion design and Mergo's Wetnurse's skeleton + moveset may have also given them ideas. From DS3 I think the Deep Accursed and Corpse Grubs might have followed their evolution path until Elden Ring's Grafting finally resulted.
I came here to say the same thing. I never noticed the kids face at the front of this monstrosity. No one has a happy healthy life in the lands between but damn, even the noble children were turned into monsters and I doubt they had much say in it.
Those feathers and wings are really significant finds. I always thought the feathers were part of what it was wearing. It might indicate a connection to the crucible - maybe that’s how they’re getting the ability to perform these anatomically nonsensical surgeries. Also the troll torso is a good find, it tracks with the giant hanging troll corpse found among the other grafting refuse in stormveil.
Godrick’s entire deal is so perfectly placed at the start of the game. It almost comes off as some weird unrelated zone that has very little to do with the rest of the main lore events of the game, but the themes of desperately clawing at lost glory and trying to regain a romanticized image of the past is a HUGE through-line for the entire game and is epitomized by Godrick attempting to manually increase his grace by just adding more Tarnished parts - plus the idea that other nobles are doing it to their children to give them grace at the cost of countless lives. Social inequality and abuse of power is another big topic in the game. This enemy is a perfect visual metaphor for like 80% of elden ring’s main themes.
There's a lot of things that just kind of feel like dead ends or aren't quite explained, even in the lore. For example, is Godrick the spider? Is the Scion? I always found it kind of weird that the NPCs you talk to never really comment on any of the events that happen in the game, so any little bit of potential lore or dialogue is just kind of missing or void. I do love the designs and concepts in the game, but man... sometimes I wish there were lorebooks throughout the game where you could learn a bit more about what's going on, because there's so much interesting going on but not near enough answers.
@@Murasadramon Nah, the game is very consistent and clear about what’s going on, it just splits it all up among item descriptions because the idea is to convey the world from the perspective of someone already living in it. No one living in Washington DC would say “ah visiting DC are you? Well, the president (that’s the leader of the country we’re in!) lives in the big white house over there! He was elected when everyone in the country voted about it!” Just like how no one in Limgrave feels the need to exposit about Godrick and his grafting.
How much they move around your so busy fighting them you never get the chance to really look at them. But looking at it like this I bet this creature if any of its human thoughts remain it would be in constant pain
The main body seems like the one of a large demi-human, like the one that lies in castle Haight. This also explains why the two long arms on the left and right are so skinny, whilst still being ungrafted parts of the torso.
Even since I first laid eyes on this poor, unfortunate soul, I was excited and waiting for you to reveal them and show use in detail what they look like! Thank you so much!!!
Grafting is like the coolest concept Elden ring has introduced (to me) it’s just so scary and rousing and creative. It’s genius really. It reminds me of the incredible movie The Thing. A creature so horribly disfigured and unrecognizable it’s just a… thing
Details that can't be seen in normal gameplay are a Fromsoft staple. For example: every single NPC in the game has a unique face, despite the fact that most of them never remove their helmets/masks.
The cloak makes it look cool and mysterious so. Besides, they even modeled a pair of slutty panties for Fia, that you can only see with a very finicky camera angle
Another fantastic video Zullie! You referenced its name in the files as grafted spider. Roderika when you first meet her at the shack says all of her comrades are all grafted to "the spider." Which I had assumed was the Scion already. Godric does something similar with the arms and legs and body parts he graphs onto himself. In the cut scene where he takes off his cloak and exposes all his arms, the gloved hand that grabs the axe has six fingers. One of his leg looks like many legs put together and the other one resembles one of the trolls. There's also that troll in Stormveil Castle which is dead and hanging by a chain with both of its legs gone. Last thing I noticed in regards to grafting early in the game is Gostoc is missing his left hand. He clearly hates godric and his grafting and it can be safely assumed that godric even took one of his hands
Funny enough the face was the first thing I noticed about the scion, and that right away told me we were in store for some fascinating horror. It's really cool they went into that much detail for the body under the cloak, too.
When you take off the cloak it really gives off ludwig vibes. Especially how the head is on the right side of the main torso and theres a spot where you could put another head on the left side.
Your close-up videos are my favorites; it's often difficult to see the details of things in normal circumstances, since they're flailing around and swinging for your neck, so it's nice to be able to appreciate From's hard work.
I always wondered about Limgrave as well. The underground you start I'm after the initial Scion fight is full of bodies and limbs. Limgrave. Limb grave.
Honestly, after replaying Souls games and watching their intro cutscenes again... A FromSoft film would be dope. I imagine something like Clash of the Titans, only darker and more monstrous.
Baby born with funky horns: Golden Order: What an abomination! Kill it with fire! People getting dissected and fused together to become unholy beings: Golden Order: Lol Godrick is so silly
@@aswifte5743 tbh pretty sure they hated Godrick too considering Malenia publicly humiliated him, and he fled when hearing Radahn was coming, Eina even said he was the runt of the litter.
The trailer showing a king in the act of grafting a limb onto his body and then revealing he had several more attached to him already, and then also showing a one-armed valkyrie attaching her prosthetic made me think, before we knew anything else about those characters, that the king probably stole the valkyrie's arm. Turns out I was way off the mark.
@@ZullietheWitch Saw a lot of people who made the same assumptions, thinking that Godrick overpowered Maleina and took her arm Maleina in the actual game: lol I don't even need both arms to beat that fool.
Godricks inspiration for grafting comes from the hero of castle Morne. Who first used grafting as a power up in the form the grafted greatsword against Godfrey. Godrick had the arsenal charm in his body when he died, which was inspired from the grafted greatsword. Godrick, in his inferiority complex, likely figured that if the hero of Morne was able to stand toe to toe in battle against Godfrey with grafting just swords, just how strong could he get if grafted all the tarnished into him. And when that didn't do enough for him, he looked for dragons too.
I wonder. The Crucible Feather Talisman says the following: "A talisman fashioned from feathers that embody the aspects of various creatures. Said to have grown on the human body long ago." And the Grafted Scion had feathers on it's side...
No offense, but have you read the full description? It clearly says it came from the primordial crucible, "where all life was blended together" according to the Aspect of the Crucible incantations, so it's probably unrelated to Godrick and the scions.
@@jooot_6850 Huh, fair point, especially since the Crucible Knights that wielded its power served Godfrey and Godrick seems obsessed with living up to Godfrey's legacy.
A scion is a descendant of a noble or reputable family, but it's also a term in gardening for a cutting of a plant intended for grafting. Considering the importance of trees in Elden Ring, I wouldn't be surprised if the process of grafting branches from one tree to another inspired the grotesque art of grafting we see employed by Godrick.
One can't truly imagine what goes in the mind of Miyazaki
The council has allotted the Grafted Scion a single Yike.
Skin grafting...
And then you unlock bleed & frost and Godrick becomes a joke.
Could it be that these are Godrick's children forces to undergo grafting? They have somewhat similiar crowns and mantles resembling that of godrick's and they also have white hair like he does
The problem with detailed, horrifying enemies in Souls games is that I'd never get the chance to see one up close myself, in-game normally. It's hard to notice all the disturbing details when they're currently trying to play fruit ninja with my intestines
had no idea this thing even had a face
Thankfully Zullie gives us a chance to see em 🙌
From all the times I've fought the scions. The only detail I could make our here was the face. Thought it was the face of a lady, which made it more disturbing since I thought it implied some kind of experimentation on young noble women.
Either that, or possibly indoctrination, cult style, towards grafting of oneself for some reason.
But isnt this the Charm of Fromsoft? That they put so much Work in stuff that we in Normal means cant look at properly?
I love stuff like that. Yes People like Zullie can look at it better and show it. But Fromsoft could also be lazy and dont go into detail like that at all. Cause as you said, we wont normally notice that stuff, cause we cant look at it properly.
(Sorry for all the errors in spelling. Im not a native English speaker + the ' doesnt work lol. Needed to copy it from your text :,D)
@@Meyphold I personally really like that. Makes for more and more things to learn as we get invested into the series.
I'd even go so far as to say the same for the fake walls. Putting so much work into places like ash lake in DS1 and then hiding it behind a fake wall. It sounds a little dumb from a work perspective but it makes finding it as the player so much more awesome.
"Depending on how you count them." Thats how you know you're in true body horror.
JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS! SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM & HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT GOD OR PEOPLE... YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER!
GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON... ONLY GOD IS GOOD! WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS!
MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/NO PRIEST/NO SAINT/NO ANCESTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, MARY DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS OR FALSE gods DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO MUSICIAN OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO INFLUENCER OR UA-cam STAR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO SCIENTIST OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR ACTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS! STOP WORSHIPING THESE PEOPLE!
JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON WITH JUDGEMENT (THESE ARE END TIMES)! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, HE WANTS TO HEAL & RESTORE YOU! TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU!
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6
"But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33
“For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
POV: where’s the reply?
@@Tweedle-Stupid so..... Where's the reply?
@@JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVEN Is this Jesus guy the final boss of elden ring or something ? Must have missed it, what a bummer :(
@@aliceguichard9367you have to do gold mask ending to fight him
I love the idea of Godrick just slapping a bird in there like “Aye that’ll do”
You just know that he asked for a volunteer and everyone took a step back except the bird.
@@lapelcelery42 thank fuck i hope it was one of those with fucking blades for feet, get that shit outta here
"But people need to know what a Grafted Scion would taste like, we have to keep the chicken wing!"
Godrick slapping a bird in there and going “Aye that’ll do” is exactly how he picked his castle guard.
most likely when the child was first being grafted, it was given wings, then gradually the child was grafted beyond recognition
"12 limbs as a minimum, depending on how you count them"
I'm going to remember that description next time I need to truly horrify my D&D players
Oh god that’s evil DO IT
Grafted scion is an excellent dnd miniboss.
Necromancer or... I forgot their names. They make intellect devourers. The squid people who are actually worms (yeah, that probably didn't help)
@@darkfox1861 Careful how you say his name dude
Read John 3:16 🙏 🙏
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 no
What fascinates me the most is that the Scion's cloak is clearly tailor-made for its inhuman shape. Not only this, but the elegant garb was fashioned with a great deal of skill, as well.
This implies that before Stormveil fully went to ruin, there was a point where it was still fully staffed, and these horrible creatures were being tended to like nobility.
I think they're drapes
Godfrey and Godrick wear a very similar 'draped' cloak, so you're absolutely right-in addition to many of the bosses, such as Mohg and Radahn. Even Morgott/Margitt has one, though his is simple and has no patterns. The 'nobility of the golden lineage all seem to wear these capes-though in their present state, they all seem to be made of fairly poor materials.
What an excellent detail, it really adds to the existential horror. No wonder the ghosts and the few common folk left alive all are mourning- look what they were forced to serve for so, so long
These "horrible creatures" are Godrick's direct children, since a scion is the future successor of the head of a noble house
@@slayeroffurries1115 "children" could be a loose interpretation, but an interesting thought
“The bulk of the Scion’s body is thankfully hidden under its cloak…”
Oh that’s a relief.
“…but if we remove it”
Now why the _fuck_ would you-
"Welcome to pimp my spine, we heard you like spines so we gave you at least 3!!!"
@@Lachlan.David2k NOOOOOOOOO
It just works
JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS! SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM & HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT GOD OR PEOPLE... YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER!
GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON... ONLY GOD IS GOOD! WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS!
MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/NO PRIEST/NO SAINT/NO ANCESTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, MARY DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS OR FALSE gods DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO MUSICIAN OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO INFLUENCER OR UA-cam STAR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO SCIENTIST OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR ACTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS! STOP WORSHIPING THESE PEOPLE!
JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON WITH JUDGEMENT (THESE ARE END TIMES)! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, HE WANTS TO HEAL & RESTORE YOU! TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU!
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6
"But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33
“For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
Also the fact that they put work into creating their body under the cloak, which I'm pretty sure isn't able to been seen naturally in game.
Their arms taken, their legs taken, even their heads, taken. Taken and stuck… to the spider!!!
It’s quite a lark when you think about it.
I'm nothing but a craven
Lol I read this in her Irish accent.
I like how it's this grotesquely horrific body horror thing and she just describes it as a "lark", lol. Kinda an understatement
@@CelestialDraconis Her accent isn't irish at all - it's midlands/birmingham in England
@@CelestialDraconis Birmingham accent
They really should add a gallery that updates with every defeated enemy so you can look at the models at your leisure.
Yeah, with such detailed designs, it seems like a waste not to let you get a closer look at them...
Go full BotW compendium, give the Tarnished a camera :P
Hell, even if it only unlocked in NG+ it'd be worth it.
That's why we have Zullie ^^
Surgeon: "My lord, why would they need arms dangling in the crotch area?"
Godrick: "To make the other arms stonger, of course!"
Surgeon: "Yes, and what about the single chicken wing?"
Godrick: "AERODYNAMICS! God, it's like you weren't even paying attention at the body-mutilation conference!"
Other max surgeon… this all sounds bloody brilliant…. When do we start
The implication that haphazardly sticking a wing on something improves its aerodynamics no matter where the wing is is fucking hilarious to me for some reason
they warned you about grafting bro, they warned you!
I saw grafted house IRL, it had wooden walls, brick walls, and some metal walls and parts and a small balcony from whatever it was. Sadly I cant post image here. That thing look terrible🤣
@@letwolf Most aesthetic house in the Balkans.
one of my biggest elden ring gripes is the lack of other grafted enemies in stormveil!! feels like they set up this whole grafted thing and they barely go into it :
The birds breath fire - I assumed that was a graft.
I think they're meant to be rare.
If this truly is a graft of future heirs, it makes sense that there are only a few
Also let us wait on how DLCs might develop around it :) Would be fun to delve in deeper into these mysteries.
@@TomDestry the fire breathing is partially the helmet, you can tell they make a spark by clacking their beaks
@@Flarestar91 "Elden Ring: Curse of The Graft"
The person who designed the Grafted Scion: "Here's some concept art."
Miyazaki: "You deserve a raise."
More like "Here's some concept ar-- Oops I dropped them"
Miyazaki: "Perfect!"
3D artists: aims gun at head
The dude was probably a maniac
@@QDRG64 (at own head)
I'm so glad that more folks these days know what goes behind the development of a game and not just a programmer dude coding shit in front of 8 monitors.
Such a shame we didn't get more grafted enemies, i was fully expecting things to go mental the closer i got to godrick. Though maybe there are so few as its a particularly difficult and magical process that often fails. That or godrick is greedy and these guys only get the limbs he doesn't want.
I'd actually prefer less grafted enemies. Royal Revenants... fuck Royal Revenants. That's the best description
I'm inclined to think it's something closer to the latter. Particularly since it sounds like they only use the Tarnished for grafting, so there's probably not that much to go around.
@@Rigel_6 Has it been mentioned that Revenants are grafted? Other than its design
Yes but it does fit the lore, this is a process reserved for the nobility as an alternate strategy to family trees where the spider monster lives for a really long time.
Godrick is powerless, that why he turned to grafting, remember, he's the weakest of the demigod
The feathers make sense, too! Stormhawk Deenh’s item description tells us about it being a mighty, noble hawk familiar that only obeyed the true rulers of Stormveil back when the winds blew the strongest.
So hawks would likely been seen as sources of power, meaning graft some feathers on!
that could be true, but the wing and feathers we see are way to colorful to be eagle feathers.
I just figured they were stuck in a mid-2000s teenage emo girl phase
I hate those hawk.
My lock on don't work on them fully.
And if I failed to one-shot them... they tend to one shot me.
@@austinjt4264 level vigor more, lol
Ooooooo and in his twisted mind
Grafting a hawk on probably = part of that lineage or legitimizes it someway
Interesting
When Zully said "the bulk of the Scion's body is thankfully hidden under its cloak", I breathed a sigh of relief ... that did not last long.
Imagine the complete and utter pain going through being grafted. I feel like even after being grafted you can still feel pain in certain body parts.
It's even scarier in concept after watching Jacob Geller's latest video
"Yea doc, the pain is in my left arm."
"Alright, which left arm?"
@@MediHusky "the one that doesn't look like the right"
why did you have to talk about it?
can we forget about it?
@UCAiIHX6xpNdxUXHNSud4XLg His screams when he cuts off his own arm to graft the dragon would suggest it does hurt.
it's very interesting how grafted beings don't seem to have any ultimate design or goal. It seems to be almost random what is grafted where, without any thought about if it'd be useful or not. It adds such a tragedy to it.
makes sense, considering that they're children. they probably just thought "oh that'd be cool" with things like the wing that wound up going nowhere, like when a kid asks for something like a guitar and never bothers to learn to play it. its a shame, because i can totally see a kid deciding that they're gonna graft wings to themself and fly, only to keep adding parts, never considering that the extra weight would crush that dream of flight they had.
@@quanariin1290 they didn't graft themselves.
@@quanariin1290 Godrick the grafted is as slapdash as well, so either their vision is beyond what we could possibly imagine or there's just a madness to it.
@@EverTheFractal I don't see any way replacing your hand with a dragonhead to be anything but madness, it's probably an addiction like plastic surgery
@@quanariin1290 I'm not sure the children would have much choice. They're probably just manipulated into this to try and get more power for their families
"Grafting" as a concept in ER is definitely odd. At first it seems like a physical process of just sewing dudes together human centipede style, but Roderika's dialogue about crysalids and Godrick just absorbing the dragon in the boss fight make it seem like a spiritual or magical process.
Could be it originally started out like that, but through the years, Godricks predecessors perfected the art through magical means
Ngl I thought it would play a bigger role in the story but it's never really brought up again
I think that by grafting you take a portion of the power of the person whose limbs you're grafting, not just the physical limb for you to control. Grafting steals some sort of petaphysical power. After all, Godrick began grafting Tarnished into his body to become more powerful. So there's definitely some magical thing involved.
I'm starting to think it's for a Philosophers Stone from FMA vibe going on where as you combine the bodies and souls together you are able to produce greater energy outputs.... Or something.
@@aswifte5743 Pretty sure it was intended to be a bigger theme in the game but was merely relegated to the first area/boss.
Something to note about grafting trees in real life is that the soft tissues inside need to be exposed in order for a graft to take. Similarly, as seen in the Godrick fight, it seems like open wounds are needed in order for a graft to take. I find this little detail to be really interesting, and it's that kind of thing that makes me love this game so much.
What’s even more interesting is that after the fight, we see only godricks torso is left, but only his collarbones and up were visible. Considering what you said about open wounds being needed, dude literally SKINNED HIMSELF COLLORBONE DOWN in order to graft himself onto the troll, which is insane. That, or maybe burned his flesh or something, but considering that open wounds are needed makes it a lot more disturbing when we realize that his torso is still intact
@@izzytoast743 From what we can see on the remains of his body in the arena, he chopped off his arms, legs and THEN skinned himself.
@@vaclavsoukup7302 yeah exactly, and I feel that really shows his state of mind and how truly desperate he was to be strong. He was in agony from chopping off just one of his arms in the fight, let alone all of his limbs and skinning what was left
It's likely the wing mentioned (and subsequent feathers) may have come from the Misbegotten, the race of lizard-bird-lion hybrids who you can find all over. The wing in particular looks like the ones the smaller flightless misbegotten enemies have. Which would make sense as to why the Misbegotten of Castle Morne flipped their shit and rebelled, if they found out their people where being grafted into something like that, likely against their will considering Revenger-Boy calls them servents/the help during his dialogue. The monster designs in Elden Ring really go that extra half-mile in storytelling as well as visual design!
Wonder if that’s related to why Kenneth is siding with the primitive people
Ie, he’s still rems days when all worked in unison before shattering while misbegotten given the chance all like “f that noise, our show now”
This made me think of something my dad told me once as a kids when talking about dinosaur bones. He said all the dinosaur bones ever found belonged to only one creature that had spread itself across the world. Really messed up 7 yr old me 🤯
Oh God what if that was legitimately what happened.
Just one huge out of this realm monster that separated itself and is what we now call dinosaurs..
That thing vs the meteorite that wiped them out.
@@joshuagonzalez2594 yeah I been thinking bout this for 25 yrs lol
Sounds like your dad had the inklings of a Lovecraftian tale. :O
Luckily it was hit directly by a meteorite and exploded.
@@Pinefr0st if it hadn't caught it Earth would've been destroyed.
God, fromsoft's designs are so elaborate. Pity I miss like 80% of those amazing details, because the object of that design is hurdling towards me at mach speeds, usually spinning at something like 9000 rpm
And is thusly often mired in blue fuck-off energy beams as I think to myself "diediediediewhywon'tyoudie" lol
On one hand they have brilliant elaborate designs, on other the world of ER is filled to the brim with slightly recolored soldiers and knights. Makes you wish they could set their priorities and spend human resources better.
But I’m sure we saw and heard every detail possible from The Blade of Miquella
True lmao especially those scions are fast as shit, I had a hard time beating them without magic
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You know it's kinda hard to appreciate the details when every enemy is aggressive and has multi hit combos. Glad this channel exists or I would never have got a detailed look at the scion or other enemies for that matter.
Sometimes I invade just to run around and check out the roaming enemies who aren’t aggroed. That’s one way to get a better look
try invading. one of my favorite parts of it is the face time you get with the enemies without the aggression.
The monocular is the tool of the curious, my friend. That and a good, healthy helping of stealth on the side. Can get a real good look at the most freakish of foes that way.
Its a Dark Souls game with Bloodborne enemies
@@Zombied77 One of the most striking enemy designs in the whole series to me was the Monstrosity of Sin in Dark Souls 3. That game had some of the wackiest enemy designs imo.
without the cloak its interesting to see how all of the models line up, the hump makes a lot more sense when looked at as a troll torso, really adds to the design.
You know it's body-horror when the number of limbs comes with the caveat, "depending on how you count them".
It’s really cool they put so much detail into portions that are covered by the cloak. Reminds me of the quote about real craftspeople caring about the back of the cabinet even if other people never see it… they know it’s there…
Especially since they know someone is gonna try and get that cloak off
Designing most or all of the body in a painted or drawn concept art also helps with visualizing the shape of the cloak or placement of other details over it, but I imagine it becomes a bit more redundant in a 3D model - guess From's 3D artists think a lot like regular concept artists though and don't skip out on the detail.
@@sofija1996 Also modeling the covered portions also allows for more flexibility since they might decide to reuse the model without the cloak or with the cloak positioned differently (for example as a corpse asset, or boss variant), which wouldn’t be possible if there’s a gaping hole at the top. It’s pretty good practice to make as many game assets as reusable as possible since it’ll save you time in the long run.
thats steve job's dad i believe
@@sofija1996 from soft is known to stay very true to concept art, to almost every detail, even the poses of the concept art sometimes gets translated into the animations
I always kinda imagined that the grafted scions are just Godricks own children. They are quite few, and grafting seems like it’s reserved for the elite. The scions have the same golden crown that Godrick does, so maybe they were little lordlings of Stormveil at one point.
Or, they were the children of the previous lord of Stormveil.
Grafting could have been a time-honored tradition of the nobles, a way to pass down their power as well as their inheritance to their descendants and honor the Erdtree by emulating it while doing so.
Add in the fact that the Erdtree’s primordial form, the Crucible, is said to have expressed aspects of all forms of life, and it makes sense that its power could be used to perform the rite of grafting.
After all, “All things can be conjoined,” as Miriel said. Furthermore, the game’s focus on the laws of regression being a metaphysical concept as well as a theological one, well…
They also use Ornamental Straight Swords, which mention "the dregs of the Golden Lineage" in their description, implying they are part of said lineage just like Godrick. Dunno about the children part, though, it's hard to imagine Godrick getting laid.
The key part that makes these monster designs work is that the heads are still normal sized. Making the heads proportionally sized would be the obvious instinct for any designer, but not doing so is what makes this so good. Particularly in the case of Godrick, seeing a regular human-sized head on such a grotesquely enlarged body makes it very clear that this isn’t some giant creature, it’s just one body with countless others stapled to it. Genius.
Yeah, these little "normal" faces are just disturbing.
It's not soo much that his body is enlarged, it's just that he literally grafted his own tiny head and torso into the torso of a troll to give himself a big tough body. it's also why only his head and torso are lying on the ground in the mud after you reset the area after the fight, because those are the only bodyparts that were actually his own in all that mess.
Why do you think the 'obvious instinct for any designer' would be to make human heads larger? It sounds like you didn't even understand the concept behind the creature bud...
@@IJustAteYourGrapesBro thats how you know he has never interacted with a concept artist and lnow nothing about the process of designing characters.
OTOH, making a head proportionally MUCH larger than the rest of the body can also be very effective.
After seeing this video, I have to say this may be one of From's best enemies in terms of art direction and design. It's actually crazy how much detail there is on the enemy and the story that is told by it
Godrick's twisted fascination with arms is seriously underrated. While a person with no arms would be absolutely feeble and pathetic, he drives the exact opposite of this sentiment up the fucking walls, where according to him, your might is a direct proportion to how many limbs you have. His perspective of power is so perverted that he views arms and legs like it's some sort of metric for power level like some bland shounen enthusiast and it somehow just works out for him. All of these perfectly functioning limbs being grafted and rooted to a singular psychopath really drives the theme of corrupted roots all the way home.
Also he was defeated by Malenia, and she has almost no real limbs. But she didn't kill him and that led to so much tragedy. Or she would have challenged Radahn anyway
@@facundovera3227 That is seriously mindblowing. A man with hundred arms gets whalloped by a woman with zero arms.
@@metalslug97When he fought her, he was normal form and not grafted at all, as the sword plaque says “Godrick the Golden” instead of grafted. He has 10 arms also
As someone who lives on a farm, and has grafted branches onto trees, it is a really cool and creepy concept. Very creative, as is most soulsborne body horror
Yep, it's a creative and gruesome twist.
I'm honestly morbidly curious about the limits. The grafted dragon head. It's been dead for a while. It's certainly not tarnished. Plus the troll and bird arm.
Lowkey would not be opposed to a grafting based dlc. Imagine if he had grafted the arms and legs. Or the wings! (In proper place). Dragon cult taken to a whole new level...
Just out of curiosity from someone who has never done farmwork, what's the point of grafting branches onto trees? Just for aesthetics, or...?
@@KaseyC. most normal fruit frees (such as the ones you find in the wild) do not produce edible fruit. But by grafting on branches from specially bred trees, we can produce what ever breed of fruit we want. For example, an apple tree must have apple branches, but one tree can make red, green, and yellow apples. If we didn’t graft branches onto the tree, it would make these tiny apples that are neither tasty or good looking. Our lemon trees don’t even naturally make lemons, yet we can grow these lovely large lemons every year.
@@KaseyC. to expand a bit on whay JN said, branches from closely related, but different, species of fruit trees can be grafted together. Stone fruits with other stone fruits, citrus, etc. I believe apples and pears are close enough related, but I learned this years ago.
There's actually several trees at a university that are called "trees of 40 fruit," since each has 40 varieties of stone fruit grafted onto them; Over the course of about five years the tree accumulated branches from forty different "donor" trees, each with a different fruit, including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.[3]
The youngest children always get the hand-me-downs
Oh you
Secondhand HANDS…
jeez lol
the gold circlet the child has on their body is exactly the same kind as Godrick's, along with the grafting itself there is a very clear motif and parallel between the two. Scion means a descendant or relative of a notable lineage -- if this creature was not Godrick's Child out-right he was certainly grooming it to succeed him through grafting.
That is creepy and wrong on so many levels.
I thought it was generally acknowledged that the scions are all related to the Golden Lineage in some way
If that's the case then im going to buy elden ring just to beat the crap out of Godrick
I know this comment is 2 years old, but I want to clarify a misconception here. The crown of Godrick, the crown of the grafted Scions and the crown of the wandering nobles all have a different, albeit similar model. It's not the same per se. I think saying that they're all the same is just unfair to that team at from soft that modeled all these things by hand. It kind of invalidates their work, if that makes sense.
You know an enemy is seriously messed up if its description contains "it has 12 limbs as a minimum, depending on how you count them"
This is horrifyingly beautiful, I was expecting more of these grotesque, nightmare fuel enemies like in Bloodborne but Fromsoft seemingly went for a high fantasy theme in Elden Ring. Great content as always!
Now it makes sense why there are one or two beheaded Troll bodies in Stormveil. They didn't just kill them for no reason, they were going to use them for grafting. It's also very close to where you find the Grafted Scion in Stormveil as well
Yeah that room of horrors. They say things are better when you turn the lights on... but they lied. Drop a glowstone in there but close your eyes first.
Also some of the decapitated were Mausoleum Knights that willingly beheaded themselves to serve their dead lord.
Some of the Fire Prelate stuff talks about a dude mad the other monks didn't take their jobs seriously so he cut off his own head to put them into zealotry
Shits crazy. Everyone in the Lands Between has weird ideas and connections to Death. Or the lack of it.
I stood and stared at that hung up troll for a while, morbid.
I love the move it makes where it roars at you and then covers it's mouth as if in shame. Really adds to the character of this freaky beast.
On the right side of his torso is also a (nearly) complete dog body!
Really terrifying and interesting model, great work.
Dog ahead.
God you made this so much worse I see it now thank you
legend has it that if you collide hit boxes with that dog body it does 11630 damage
So that's where 97% of it's power come from
Could this be dog?
I think this was one of the most interesting enemies in the game. The combination of having a rather child like face with such a horrendous body was a cool idea. Definitely great as the first main boss(ish) enemy of the game
Absolutely love how freaky and unnatural the grafting looks. Shame we didnt get more enemies like that.
i think my favorite detail is that the arm holding the sword has two arms resembling the bone in a forearm. Like how two grafted arms form a complete one. Idk if I explained it clearly but it’s awesome to see that planning went into these creatures and not just the work of a madman with glue
It does make for some incredible enemy design, though.
Funny how even that grotesque thing has an anime protagonist face
@@matheuscruz8574 looks more handsome than me smh
I'd like to see a close up on Godrick, he's basically the most detailed boss with all his grafting. Every other boss either could be easily observed and understood with their human appearance or the small details in them are just their reoccurring motif (Astel's entire body is just orbs or Placidusax is just a meatball), but Godrick is just filled with so many little details like the amalgamation of legs on his leg.
Placidusax has a lot of detail like scars wounds Gold Covers certain parts a head or more is missing
@@GsByakuya Yeah Placidusax was actually a four headed dragon in the past, as evidenced by the Old Lord's Talisman.
@@combastion5227 Five headed, then one was cut off, then a talisman was made in his image, then the war where two heads were cut off. He has three stumps, one of which is different than the other two.
I second this. Would love to get a better look at Godrick
bonfireVN UA-cam channel has a godrick model showcase
What's interesting to me is that before they do their aoe scream attack, they grab their head like they're having a headache which, I, at least, think is them regaining some semblance of their consciousness and remembering what they actually are which gives them a momentary glimpse of absolute hopelessness and desperation which is why they scream and then obviously they immediately forget their own vile nature and return to being mindless monsters
Christ and all the work that had to go into animating that...
"it has at least 12 limbs depending on how you count them"
quote of the day
That's, like, a spider and a half, right there.
“What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon, and 3 legs in the evening”
A Grafted Scion with a particular preference
"Firsts of all, lets define limbs"
I'm pretty sure "Spider" is more poetic than literal. Roderika, when you first meet her, refers to her companions having their limbs cut off to be grafted to "the spider", by which she likely means one of the Scions.
Let's also take a moment to appreciate the horror of the "Chrysalids", as she calls them: the corpses you find piled in Stormveil, their arms and legs removed, then wrapped in rope and canvas like a butterfly's chrysalis and discarded.
Add to the fact that they’re implied to still be alive and, well…
A hell of a lark, indeed.
@@combativeThinker It's probably not great, but it's kind of hard to know how terrible it is in contrast to how things normally work. From what we know, Death just works really strangely to begin with in the world of Elden Ring - It's not fully explained, but the overall implication is that beings need to be processed in order to die correctly/permanently (such as by erdtree burials in the current age, or being burned in ghostflame in the time before the erdtree).
If they ever do DLC, I really hope they explore the metaphysics of it all a bit more clearly.
Right next to the room where you find the "Chrysalids"- and I agree, really crazy to go back to what she says and look at the room again - there was originally a "spider" or "crab"-like mini-boss that doesn't respawn after the first time you kill it. I'm pretty sure that's what/who she meant by the spider
@@fozzythasalesman6125 That's another of the grafted scions.
@@BackwardsPancake Marika deleted the Rune of Death that's why those who have Grace of the golden order cannot die, those who don't just die and cannot be reborn.
I really wish Stormveil wasn’t so early on and that the legacy areas were more fleshed out. Stormveil is one the most interesting concepts in awhile and the whole idea of grafting is brilliant, but it doesn’t feel fully realized.
I wouldn't be opposed to a grafting based dlc area
well given how there is an obvious drop in quality near the end like all their games you dont want the important parts pushed too far back
@@darussian705 farum Azul is one of my favorite areas, along with the haligtree, so this comment confuses me
I don’t know what’s more horrifying.
The fact that Godrick is sending literal children into places like Mt Gelmir, or the fact that they survived.
The character design in this game is absolutely top tier. Can't wait for more videos exploring the different models!
I felt pure disgust looking at the ring of spines grafted together. So unsettling
The grafted scion is just trying to evolve into a crab faster.
lol, as Miyazaki tried to implement even more crabs, the team told him to stop and gave him a compromise.
@@DimIsHigh I am quite adamant this is the way it happened.
Carcinization strikes again!
Why is it always crab?
TIME FOR CRAB
Grafting is what they call joining multiple plants into one, typically trees. With that in mind I'd say there's significance in making one like a human tree essentially, possibly an act to bring the Nobles closer to the Gods. The Elden Tree is an extension of the Great Will afterall and how they made contact with the world in the first place. Very interesting to think about!
Brother you confused me with "Great ones" i thought i got lost in a Bloodborn Video xD. It's the Greater will not great ones.
@@Mitsu852 nah they're just outer gods, several exist, namely the formless mother, the frenzied flame and possibly the moon aswell as the greater will, these are all separate deities
@@Mitsu852 actually the Elden Beast came from the stars, and there are other entities up there like Mohg's blood-gifting source (Blood Mother or something; e: Formless Mother, thanks friend)
@@Mitsu852 Woops, I had a brain fart there. I'mma fix that! lmao
Grafting is also what you do when you have to replace lost skin, so no, this has literally nothing to do with trees, since they are grafting live animal tissues to live animal tissues. This is just a regular medical practice that takes place in the real world. From just took it to the body horror conclusion. Why would they be trying to make themselves more tree like? Just because you didn't know that skin grafts are also a thing? 🤣🤣🤣
Im impressed that they actually made a full body texture under the cloak.
I wonder how much pain this thing was in just existing nevermind mind attempting move
I wish they elaborated or expanded on grafting more. It was a thing in the early game but then went away, with not much lore given...
That's Elden Ring in a nutshell though. Discarded concepts left and right.
It was a limgrave thing. Like the mutants in caelid
Well, it's kinda Godrick's thing and he was only really present in the early game. So, it's not that suprising we don't see more of it.
Yeah, I think it could have easily been expanded upon a fair bit. But currently I think the lore doesn't go that much further than grafting being sort of a ceremonial practice that some nobles partake in, to become stronger.
I really thought they would make a bigger deal out of it. I originally thought we would pull up to Rykard, and he would be grafted with several demigods or something (which would be his blasphemy), but nope, snakeman.
The Japanese for this one is 接ぎ木の貴公子. 接ぎ木 = Grafting (explicitly horticultural; literally joined-wood or joined-tree), 貴公子 = Scion/Noble Child. The translator may have been quite happy that while the English term "grafting" is less specific, they were able to squeeze more nuance into the "scion" instead.
Aren't from translates their own games themselves?
@@steirqwe7956 I believe they outsource to other studio, that's how the ranni's ending is mistranslated (English sub and Japan sub has completely different meaning), some of the enemies also has different name like malenia blade of (whatever is I forgot) is malenia, daughter of marika
@@steirqwe7956 As far as I know it's a separate (small) translation agency that's been working with From Soft for a long time and they have a lot of back and forth during development, but not actually in-house.
@@kooe9554 I choose to believe this is a diss bc she killed you a bunch 🤣
@@pandemoniousivy4651 it is that obvious? XD
i am malenia, blade of miquella
i am malenia, blade of miquella
i am malenia, blade of miquella
i am malenia, blade of miquella
i am malenia, blade of miquella
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Regarding the resemblance to birds, the description for the Crucible Feather Talisman reads:
"A talisman fashioned from feathers that embody the aspects of various creatures.
Said to have grown on the human body long ago...
A vestige of the crucible of primordial life. Born partially of devolution, it was considered a signifier of the divine in ancient times, but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced."
So maybe that wing wasn't grafted, or maybe it was grafted at a time when it was considered as a divine attribute.
It mostly reminds me of the misbegotten. They have these strange features like wings and a tail for making contact with some primordial crucible. The Erdtree is a crucible, which makes me think these creatures came before, birthed by the crucible of an older great power, like the dragons. To solidify the connection they drop the old fang, which reads "These multiple, overlapping fangs grow from a single root. Perhaps they're a vestige of the primordial crucible."
The wing talisman sounds like it's saying the misbegotten are devolved humans. I wouldn't be surprised if the idea was that the elden star hit and made a big pool of cosmic radiation/crucible that mutated anyone who came near it. Probably how the demigods got their powers originally, as well.
@@Ravenicus Nah, you don't need radiation to explain the demigod's powers. We are told that Rahdan and Ranni studied sorceries since they were young, Godrick was a weakling who had to graft limbs onto himself to get stronger, Malenia and Miquella were afflicted with their curses since birth, and Rykard just let a snake eat him...
Add to that their great runes and there is nothing more to explain really.
@@kendlerkendler2667 There's clearly more than "It was just magic" going on in Elden Ring. They made a point of separating the sorceries up into different catalysts to show the origin of where those spells powers come from. They were even originally going to use different states, until they were consolidated for gameplay purposes.
Not only that, the golden eyes thing is very similar to GRRM's earlier scifi stories with alien cosmos magic stuff. Besides the elder gods, there are also a lot of scifi things like the fact that devolution is even mentioned at all in a medieval game, an incredibly anachronist branch of philosophy, which serves no purpose in being mentioned other than to hint at some kind of mutation and evolution in the same description as the Crucible.
Flavour text also describes Stormhawks (the birds atop Stormveil) as having their claws removed so blades could be grafted on. So maybe the feathers on Grafted Scions are simply from discarded Stormhawks.
I hope we get more in-game about the scions in future, they are so well designed and their design suggest something horrific.
I knew they were disturbing at a cursory glance but this is horrifying. No wonder Roderika was terrified.
Yeah, her idea of grafting seems to be a lot different than Godfreys version. She willingly came to be grafted-and all her men seemingly died defending her from what they realized was an abomination.
It seems 'true' grafting produces spirit ashes, like what she gives you-the jellyfish spirit-which are essentially holy relics that allows you to summon someones soul back, which is still alive and sentient. It is essentially a benign form of necromancy between two willing people (The spirit jellyfish is named 'Aurelia'-she was perhaps 'grafted' to Rodericka, and is nothing but kind to her). I don't know if normal grafting involves 'organ donation' but I suspect it does, it is merely by choice and not forced. Like a father might donate a hand (and the sword skill in the hand) to his young son to help him on the battlefield, or a vital organ if they're injured/sick. And they in turn are allowed to take the form of a spirit ash, when summoned to help, for their ancestors.
The result isn't supposed to be monstrous. Though it still might have been outlawed under the Golden Order.
A friendly reminder that what the Loathesome Dungeater does to his victims is apparently much much worse according to Roderika.
Also, can you have a look at the holes in the chest of various trolls? The Carian trolls, (which include Iji) seem to have some kind of Tombstone in there
Cursed observation
The corpses you find seedbed curses on have blood in their laps between their legs.... and theyre always tied to a chair
And its called SEEDbed curse.
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Well, Dung Eater's curse prevents someone's soul going to the roots of the Erdtree. Basically, he denies the afterlife.
Maybe it's a dirty glintstone, which is why they can use magic...
@@dancreary3340 I vaguely remember a Carian troll casting sorceries at me. Pretty sure they can use magic.
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He basically causes a bootleg version of destined death. By cutting them off from the Erdtree, they can no longer return from death and die permanently.
I kind of want it as a figurine with a removable cloak; I love how this game went "Yeah Bloodborne was just the start of the body horror, kids" right off the bat and you don't even really notice as you struggle to figure out whats going on.
Bloodborne wasn't even close at body horror than this game and Souls series, the enemies are mostly wolf-like beast and alien-like kins which are still bearable to look at
@@ant3910 IDK but The One Reborn is also counted as body horror right?
@@DC1lowerslaveofkys yes, one of the most horrifying design in the game, still pretty normal compared to Grafted Scion, wretch, or some enemies in Dark Souls 3
@@ant3910 I think I feel like the Amygdala, The One Reborn and Ludwig were big influences at the very least. The Winter Lantern has a similar grotesque fusion design and Mergo's Wetnurse's skeleton + moveset may have also given them ideas. From DS3 I think the Deep Accursed and Corpse Grubs might have followed their evolution path until Elden Ring's Grafting finally resulted.
@@conspiracypanda1200 you’re right, i even didn’t realized until now
One of the most inspired formsoftware designs imo, the "baby" face is so unsettling
I came here to say the same thing. I never noticed the kids face at the front of this monstrosity. No one has a happy healthy life in the lands between but damn, even the noble children were turned into monsters and I doubt they had much say in it.
I thought it just looked like a a giant raisin with legs… but now looking at it closer, good lord it’s SO much worse
i’d love to see more model reviews like these. you dont really have time to appreciate all the detail in-game despite all the work put into them
No wonder the Frenzied Flame wants to burn everything.
Chad ending
@@atlas4837 honestly wish I could get the ghost rider head as a wearable item
@@dekuskrub2154 same but they should make it super hidden otherwise every nerd will run it
right cause everything in the world is ugly
Kill it with fire before it lays eggs.
Those feathers and wings are really significant finds. I always thought the feathers were part of what it was wearing. It might indicate a connection to the crucible - maybe that’s how they’re getting the ability to perform these anatomically nonsensical surgeries. Also the troll torso is a good find, it tracks with the giant hanging troll corpse found among the other grafting refuse in stormveil.
Godrick’s entire deal is so perfectly placed at the start of the game. It almost comes off as some weird unrelated zone that has very little to do with the rest of the main lore events of the game, but the themes of desperately clawing at lost glory and trying to regain a romanticized image of the past is a HUGE through-line for the entire game and is epitomized by Godrick attempting to manually increase his grace by just adding more Tarnished parts - plus the idea that other nobles are doing it to their children to give them grace at the cost of countless lives. Social inequality and abuse of power is another big topic in the game. This enemy is a perfect visual metaphor for like 80% of elden ring’s main themes.
There's a lot of things that just kind of feel like dead ends or aren't quite explained, even in the lore. For example, is Godrick the spider? Is the Scion? I always found it kind of weird that the NPCs you talk to never really comment on any of the events that happen in the game, so any little bit of potential lore or dialogue is just kind of missing or void.
I do love the designs and concepts in the game, but man... sometimes I wish there were lorebooks throughout the game where you could learn a bit more about what's going on, because there's so much interesting going on but not near enough answers.
@@Murasadramon Nah, the game is very consistent and clear about what’s going on, it just splits it all up among item descriptions because the idea is to convey the world from the perspective of someone already living in it. No one living in Washington DC would say “ah visiting DC are you? Well, the president (that’s the leader of the country we’re in!) lives in the big white house over there! He was elected when everyone in the country voted about it!” Just like how no one in Limgrave feels the need to exposit about Godrick and his grafting.
@@Neptunequeen42 sir Kenneth Haight has a few lines about how much of a loser Godrick is and how the other nobles don't respect him
@@GreebusBleeb The pot calling the kettle black
@@GreebusBleeb Notice that Kenneth only says this after Godrick is dead
Crazy that all that detail is hidden under a cloak. Rip to whoever modeled all that
How much they move around your so busy fighting them you never get the chance to really look at them. But looking at it like this I bet this creature if any of its human thoughts remain it would be in constant pain
Really liked the ring motif with the second spine wrapping all the way around
Looking at the scion's anatomy reminds me of Ludwig. It's hard to imagine how to even begin designing something like this, nevermid ANIMATING IT.
I remember when they showed the rigging for Ludwig. It was so many little points. Just insanity.
The main body seems like the one of a large demi-human, like the one that lies in castle Haight. This also explains why the two long arms on the left and right are so skinny, whilst still being ungrafted parts of the torso.
the face, crown and the drooped arm gives me Miquella vibes
Even since I first laid eyes on this poor, unfortunate soul, I was excited and waiting for you to reveal them and show use in detail what they look like! Thank you so much!!!
Grafting is like the coolest concept Elden ring has introduced (to me) it’s just so scary and rousing and creative. It’s genius really. It reminds me of the incredible movie The Thing. A creature so horribly disfigured and unrecognizable it’s just a… thing
interesting that so much of it is modeled underneath the cloak, which i'm assuming can't be removed in normal gameplay
Details that can't be seen in normal gameplay are a Fromsoft staple. For example: every single NPC in the game has a unique face, despite the fact that most of them never remove their helmets/masks.
The cloak makes it look cool and mysterious so. Besides, they even modeled a pair of slutty panties for Fia, that you can only see with a very finicky camera angle
Another fantastic video Zullie! You referenced its name in the files as grafted spider. Roderika when you first meet her at the shack says all of her comrades are all grafted to "the spider." Which I had assumed was the Scion already. Godric does something similar with the arms and legs and body parts he graphs onto himself.
In the cut scene where he takes off his cloak and exposes all his arms, the gloved hand that grabs the axe has six fingers. One of his leg looks like many legs put together and the other one resembles one of the trolls. There's also that troll in Stormveil Castle which is dead and hanging by a chain with both of its legs gone.
Last thing I noticed in regards to grafting early in the game is Gostoc is missing his left hand. He clearly hates godric and his grafting and it can be safely assumed that godric even took one of his hands
Funny enough the face was the first thing I noticed about the scion, and that right away told me we were in store for some fascinating horror. It's really cool they went into that much detail for the body under the cloak, too.
The way her normal arm just dangles free is just... so depressing.
They finally realised the deisgn motiff that started with Nito all the way back in DS1
When you take off the cloak it really gives off ludwig vibes. Especially how the head is on the right side of the main torso and theres a spot where you could put another head on the left side.
Now I want to see an alternative Godrick bossfight where he grafts a giant peacock instead of a dragon.
Cheers!
And then struts around the arena attempting to attract a mate? *early discarded boss fight ideas*
I want to see Thomas the Tank Engine instead of the Dragon lmao
Giant chicken, make the lore speculations run wild.
The modders better get on this
@@liastaob LMFAO
Your close-up videos are my favorites; it's often difficult to see the details of things in normal circumstances, since they're flailing around and swinging for your neck, so it's nice to be able to appreciate From's hard work.
I always wondered about Limgrave as well.
The underground you start I'm after the initial Scion fight is full of bodies and limbs.
Limgrave. Limb grave.
WOOOOOO YAHH BABY THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT WOOOO
I'd love for FromSoftware to take another stab at a survival horror game. They have some of the best monster designs in the whole game industry.
Step 1) Pick a body part
Step 2) Multiply it by 10
Step 3) Randomize scale
Step 4) Stick it back on
Profit.
Honestly, after replaying Souls games and watching their intro cutscenes again... A FromSoft film would be dope.
I imagine something like Clash of the Titans, only darker and more monstrous.
Kuon 2? Remake!? Get on that Fromsoft!
@@kayvee6292 Wait, Kuon is by FromSoft???? I remember being too scared to play it in the ps2 era
@@tarille1043 i think a fromsoft film would not work at all
Y'know. I thought grafting was going to be more of a thing in the game.
Baby born with funky horns: Golden Order: What an abomination! Kill it with fire!
People getting dissected and fused together to become unholy beings: Golden Order: Lol Godrick is so silly
@@aswifte5743 tbh pretty sure they hated Godrick too considering Malenia publicly humiliated him, and he fled when hearing Radahn was coming, Eina even said he was the runt of the litter.
The trailer showing a king in the act of grafting a limb onto his body and then revealing he had several more attached to him already, and then also showing a one-armed valkyrie attaching her prosthetic made me think, before we knew anything else about those characters, that the king probably stole the valkyrie's arm. Turns out I was way off the mark.
@@ZullietheWitch Saw a lot of people who made the same assumptions, thinking that Godrick overpowered Maleina and took her arm
Maleina in the actual game: lol I don't even need both arms to beat that fool.
What Roderika tells us in Stormhill Shack really hits after I started a new char.
Guess that explains all the troll torsos strung up around stormveil castle
Would love to see a similar closeup of Godrick!
Yea I'd love to see a comparison shot of Godrick and the Scion to see if anything is similar detail wise. This was a great video!
Godricks inspiration for grafting comes from the hero of castle Morne. Who first used grafting as a power up in the form the grafted greatsword against Godfrey.
Godrick had the arsenal charm in his body when he died, which was inspired from the grafted greatsword.
Godrick, in his inferiority complex, likely figured that if the hero of Morne was able to stand toe to toe in battle against Godfrey with grafting just swords, just how strong could he get if grafted all the tarnished into him. And when that didn't do enough for him, he looked for dragons too.
This is some bloodborne body horror experiment shit.
The One -Reborn- Grafted
Remember that Roderika volunteered to be a grafted before we encountered her on her way to Stormveil Castle.
Dead Space level body horror. I like how they actually put detail into the underneath of it's cloak too.
Roderika says as much, buts it’s nice to get a better view of the 🕷
I wonder. The Crucible Feather Talisman says the following:
"A talisman fashioned from feathers that embody the aspects of various creatures.
Said to have grown on the human body long ago."
And the Grafted Scion had feathers on it's side...
No offense, but have you read the full description? It clearly says it came from the primordial crucible, "where all life was blended together" according to the Aspect of the Crucible incantations, so it's probably unrelated to Godrick and the scions.
@@Dinoman972 mmm, could still be the Scions attempting to imitate the crucible in some ways
@@jooot_6850 Huh, fair point, especially since the Crucible Knights that wielded its power served Godfrey and Godrick seems obsessed with living up to Godfrey's legacy.
The same thing is said about the Crucible knot and scale, though the thing about scions imitating the crucible is interesting
As a wise man once said.
"Destroy the child!"
I think what makes this video great in particular is that the most chilling detail is only revealed in the thumbnail.
Wow, the detail in some of these models is so awesome. Super cool to see it this way. Thanks!