Flute Player (Page), Royal Capital Leyndell, Elden Ring
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2022
- Heard this flautist from afar, winds nicely with the area bgm.
Kinda want to capture all the ambient music players, I've seen 3 and feel there's at least a handful.
I love Leyndell so much. The whole city almost seems heartbroken. You can just feel it in the air.
Heartbroken is a very fitting word for both the city and the game world as a whole.
Forlorn is another fitting word.
so lonely, too. it’s as if all its civilians and bustling inhabitants who made the place feel so alive evacuated, and now it’s just a few slow, tired townsfolk who are barely hanging on. and of course, a group of guards who are too loyal to abandon their duty to protect the city
Leyndell>Anor Londo. I will never forget the experience of rising over the wall from sens fortress. The pure spectacle, amazement, and intimidation was extreme. All of that pales to what I felt during my entire time in Leyndell.
@@Shyvorix Also nostalgic or yearning, yearning for former glory that will never come back as the city lay half in ruins.
In Portuguese, we call that feeling "saudade".
Yet it's still a holy place. You can hear the chorus in Leyndell's soundtrack bringing those vibes.
This IS peak souls. While not as opressive as Bloodborne and previous titles, Elden ring is a somber game, where you must come to accept that every grand spectacle has suffered against the passage of time. However, like ocarina of time, you stick with it, for every time you see a spark of humanity flicking in this dark landscape, you are filled with newfound courage to save this world. This extends to the enemies, with this lone page showing artistic merit that could have been developed if it had not been his duty to fight. Its a beautiful and tragic moment.
Well fucking written
it's just a shame you don't get to see what happens after you become elden lord.
@@johnny-yj7ku You never see what your ending ultimately affects in a Soulsborne game. It's a common theme.
dude.... you should be a fucking writter this was amazing to read with the music on the background
Save the world by killing everything that moves.
I wish you could see the world before the shattering.
Maybe in a future TV show or movie or something.
I hope they don’t make it a TV series though because they would 100% ruin it.
@@afungai1649 Maybe a dlc, when you go in the past, as it was in the first Dark Soul. That being said I didn't have finished E.R so no spoils please.
@@afungai1649 movies and shows typically ruin video game source material for profit
Just like we wish we could see Bolitaria before the fog, Lordran before the curse and Yarnham before the hunt.
@@afungai1649 On the next episode of Elden Ring..
The Tarnished ventures to the Academy of Raya Lucaria, where he faces the descendants of Giant Dad and Burger King, as they calmly load their Glintstone MG-42, calmly spamming pebbles at the Tarnished. Will their FP run out? Or will they continue to gank? Find out next time, on Elden Ring.
I discovered this page's flute when i invaded a world, spawn right next to him.
I just stopped and listened to the song. Sit down gesture and all. eventually, the host and his buddies found me, then we exchanged pleasantries while the page was still doing his song.
I dropped a warming stone for them and left. This page is a peace maker.
Same, I sat and listened until the light began to fade.
As a flute player this completely blew my mind. I randomly found him. I did not kill him.
I was afraid he would attack me later, so I just did lol... But I regret it. Quite a lot. I hope he respawn.
@@alucard197 he does, and i emphatize w you we all done things we regret in Souls games. but thats part of it too. Now i even sometimes leave some item behind when i dont feel like killing a monster in the way of it for some dumb reason i have
Flutes for life. Kill the violin
Everytime in my runs, this guy lives
I love the Pages, such interesting and skillful enemies. They always seem to surprise you with how smart and deadly while calm in a fight they can be
I hate them so much that I love them
I always saw them as a homage to Hunters
They suck to fight but i like their street music
I think you can tell how much the designers loved Leyndell, because of little details like this, the envoys, the praying knights...
How many times have you felt like you had to stop and soak in the atmosphere in a game? Leyndell will forever, to me, be one of the greatest levels ever made. Overwhelmingly sad, almost hopeless, but still containing beauty.
I agree!
I was floored to discover that the flute playing in the background music actually came from this page. I noticed only after I killed him(her?) the first time, to find that I had also killed the mournful melody.
I was instantly riddled with guilt. It was bad enough, as it were, to see the frozen bodies littered about the streets of the capital before I got to this lonely garden, and the perfumers apparently doing what they could to tend to the remaining wounded (not that it mattered, everyone had long since lost their wits after the Shattering, but still).
In Leyndell, more than anywhere else in the Lands Between, I could truly feel the heavy sorrow of lost grace. The last days of the siege of Leyndell must have been truly horrifying, to the extent that what few commoners still left alive are either comatose from the trauma, or literally reduced to ravenous revenants wandering the lower slums.
Needless to say, I left the flute player alone ever since.
NOOOOOO
Just k*lled him, I hoped he would respawn 😢
Edgelord
What a pleasure to read. *Grace Restored*
finding this on my own while exploring was SUCH a treat. such a small addition but it was so beautiful that i teared up while soaking in the atmosphere.
Love that npcs play instruments
The really interesting part about this playing is that it is accompanied by the background music.. Other enemies do this too like the bat enemy that sings and the trumpeters at the haligtree. Fromsoft implemented songs into their world- INTO their world. Can't really think of another game where background music does that.
Zelda has done it a few times
@@Umz15824 two great franchises
Nier replicant does this too
My games do but you’ve never heard of them
@@FromFame
Who asked?
Sound, O sound
Why is it always beautiful?
Elden Ring is a masterpiece. Among many reasons are the connection between the music and gameplay.
This game is so beautiful
Yet so punishing.. Such is LIFE!
I refuse to kill this one when I see him . I always sneak by or avoid the rout that alerts him . Just too beautiful to kill
Like crushing a flower.
What a moment. After everthing I've been through, finding this random mob giving me a moment of peace and beauty..only video games can bring you this feeling.
And it's a really elaborate, full improvisation too, not just a loop. It sounds like they even took the time to use a wooden transverse flute, though it would have been infinitely easier to find and hire a studio musician on a regular modern flute. They really put everything into this little descant that maybe 5% of players will notice, and it adds SO much to the atmosphere and quality of not just Leyndell but the game as a whole.
They spent literal months on optional places and bosses that only a fraction of players will seek out
This was honestly such a shock to me. Not just this Page, but all of Leyndell.
Up until now I was so used to Souls games taking place in “decrepit” lands that were destroyed long ago and where no sane people reside, and when I went into ER I was expecting the same thing.
At first, it was what I was expecting, all the common enemies were mad and attacked me just like the Hollows of DS, and everything seemed normal.
But when I entered Leyndell and saw this one Page just standing there and chilling, it felt so different and sudden. A feeling that was immediately amplified when I went into a random room and saw a Page and a perfumer f*cking drinking at a bar like a pair of buds who just got off a long work day.
It was so different, going from these broken lands with broken people into Leyndell, who’s residents seemed completely sane and, according to a cut quest line, seemed to have a functioning society with a counsel and a king who actually ruled them and, unlike most From Soft bosses, wasn’t just standing around in his arena waiting for another player to come fight him.
It also kinda made me feel bad because I was actually murdering sane people and not just “putting them out of their misery” like I did in previous games. Especially Morgott, who, as I stated before, was an actual ruling monarch and not just another guard who sat around waiting for players to challenge them. Felt like I just destroyed an entire city’s government just to further my goal
its a terrible dilemma to be in, knowing that the system/governance that is broken and rotten to its core is damaging its reign, but to uproot causes even more misery as a sacrifice for a chance of a better world. Hard hitting stuff.
This turned an enemy I found really annoying in the early game into a "yeah... I feel you bro." moment; the way the page plays it has an undenyable lamentation to its tone, its mournful and sorrowful. Guy has something eating at him but doesn't know how to get it out other than just jamming on his flute. Hits you right in the feels.
I like how their back is turned towards the wall, as if they’re inviting you to pass by, or ignore their duty to fight to focus on their art.
i love stuff like this a lot. like with the bats singing and the merchants playing their instruments. it makes the world feel so much more real, that these are more than just enemies and npc's
I do hope the DLC has more musical interludes like this. Not only for the immersion, but it makes the world seem ever more beautiful too, even amongst all of it's horrors.
entering the catacomb where the three fingers are after murdering the merchants because I was getting tired of traveling everywhere to get one item, and just hearing that one guy just playing his tune; broke me. Genuinely felt like a monster.
I thought this was background music but when I found the guy I was in awe, I didn't kill him. I listned and left
People like you give me hope.
One thing I feel is listening to Page's flute 🪈 in order to find my inner peace to restore for what I lost for I feel unbalanced 🍵 but resting by the golden tree would help me meditate while he plays so beautifully 😢
I decided not to kill her when I went on my onslaught throughout the city. Until she turned around...
One of the best details about Elden Ring is that we see a lot of mobs mourning loss. In Mt. Gelmir, there are a number of Leyndell soldiers grieving their fallen, in the Haligtree there are soldiers and knights mourning in front of graves. At the end of the day, they are people too, they have lost things and people close to them since the Shattering, but they still uphold their duty as best as they can.
According to a description, "One becomes a page merely by accident of being born into obscurity; nothing is asked of ability, talent, or volition", yet here this Page displays their talent with the flute.
I think the ones in Mount Gelmir are actually eating their fallen. I thought they were grieving at first but on closer inspection they were ripping chunks of meat with their hands.
@@ChuckPalomo If you're talking about the ones with madness, I think they were, but I'm talking about the ones at the place Patches kicks you off.
Isn't it a 'he'?
The pages make male noises when hit.
@@cypher4528 I swear I've heard both male and female pain noises from them. Hard to tell.
@@nobuffer101 no they're eating them there too. Look at their hand movements. Plus you can hear a subtle lip smacking SFX if you get close enough.
His music blends harmoniously with the background.
Finding this dude made me love the game even more!
More like woman. Pagers are mostly women.
Imagin, you enter this new area, where you feel it has been devoided from all life, then you wonder in it cautiously while you hear this beautiful miserable sad melody in the background assuming it is just a background ost, then after fighting hard enemies or sneaking away from them, you came across one of your enemies is the source of this beautiful melody, he is so detecated to his performance like he is expressing worship of some sort that you hesitate for a while, to a point you can't make your mind, do I fight him ? Do I spare his life? Do I even intract with him and interrupt this masterpiece? While you are in this dilemma, all of a sudden you have this deep appreciation feeling like you have been blessed by the developers of the game to make you experience such fascinating choice, and you can't hold your tears anymore when you realise those enemies you fought all along had their own reasons and stories and they are humans after all.
The music itself is vaguely reminiscent of the Regal Ancestor Spirit, with tiny bits of it melody sprinkled in, it seems. Gosh, so beautiful.
this guy cold of been a really cool boss if they gave him giant rats to command like the pied piper and shit loads of health
I love this guy man
I want this as a emote please Miyazaki
I'd be cool if you could get emotes for all the instruments, make a band with your jolly co-operators.
I want more musical weapons with weapon arts that play the weapons as instruments. Actually, scratch that. Better idea: musical weapons that function similar to catalysts, but instead of casting spells they play songs that can be equipped in spell slots or given their own equip slots. Find, buy or be given/gifted music sheets to learn new songs, have interactions with npcs and maybe even enemies by playing music near them, sometimes dependant on the song you play or the instrument you use, that sort of thing. Something like this could add whole new quest lines or give already existing ones new endings. Some things I thought of would be playing a song in front of Hewg would make him stop hammering for a few seconds, just listening to your song, then starting to hammer again in tune with the song, or playing a song to Tanith after giving her the Dancer's Castanets or however it's spelt to maybe bring her back to her senses, playing a calming, soothing song to Blaidd to try and keep him sane, hell, I want this exact page to be an npc, give the man his own quest line, I say! Not to mention the potential for highly comedic online interactions: imagine invading someone's world only to be greeted by an entire band. It could be beautiful, and that's why we need more musical weapons, because Fromsoft should've known better than to give us any musical weapons at all, but it's too late now! I have tasted the forbidden fruit of musical weapons, and now my desire for more will never be satiated! NEVER!
@@liamtordoff9974 this 100%, music in this game could be such a cool addition and having masters/npcs like the page guy could be a super good way to introduce it
Breaking news: Miyazaki has just added an emote that makes the players feet ten times bigger.
@@JumpinJack3769 exclusive only to female characters tho
I still remember sitting here for almost an hour and just vibing
Sometimes I just play the game and sit listening to him playing these magical music 🥹
This ost gives me end game vibes. Like my first ever play through i felt like the game was coming to a climactic end the second i reached leyndell
Love that vibes dmg but hate that crossbow dmg
lmao yeah i hate those crossbows so much
Mfs have crazy poise too
I could hear the flute playing from somewhere and followed the sound out into the courtyard. There was a tree with its leaves taken by a gentle breeze and a young page with a flute to their lips. I was covered in blood and could smell the metal tang of it in the air. This whole city is tired and broken and here listening to this flute player I felt the weight of it. "The final song of the Old Capital" I thought to myself. I stepped forward and the music stopped, the page turned and drew steel.
I did this too. Such an unexpectedly beautiful moment to come across in Elden Ring.
How pissed was I hearing this, not hearing it on the actual Leyndell track, and finding out it was some random enemy playing the flute in perfect rhythm with the actual ost.
I wish I knew the name of the song
I love how the Page playing the flute is in sync with Leyndell’s background music ❤
I couldn't bring myself to kill this guy. I just sneaked by. Didn't even pick the item in front of him, so I wouldn't disrupt him.
This men is my bro.
The history of leyndell is so well told, a city destroyed by war, ashes piling up, towering entire houses, the corpse of an ancient dragon, and the soldiers and knights who still defend their land despite there being so little to defend
I stepped closer by
Beckoned by the playing winds
Broken by no hush
I love this
This video often gets in my recommendes and then I have to go startup elden ring again and wander the streets for about an hour.
This game does a good job of making me spare enemies
They definitely learned a thing from Sekiro's Nobles at the Fountainhead Palace
I hope this becomes a thing going forward, where appropriate of course
I heard it was removed and/or cut. But a Deprived perfumer in the one village of Gidion attacked apparently plays the same song this page plays. I just wish to share that
@Darkstar I know he is still there, what I meant is. He is no longer playing his violin
@@shadowhunter1429 what the fuck did you smoke my bro, he's obviously playing the guitar
Vaguely sounds like one of the songs from Ghost of Tsushima
Litterally thougt the same! So sad and beutiful music
i actually had the music turned off while exploring the alleys of the capital. I was shocked to find this page playing in this secluded little place. These people have but once source of joy in their lives it seems....
Kinda a reference to the flute players in Sekiro. Even the notes almost the same
The one person still trying to bring some life back into this rotten, ruined, once beautiful place by playing music
Even all this time later, I'm sad that none of the Pages will speak to us. They're some of the most intelligent and seemingly normal remnants left, and I find them rather mysterious.
Protect Miyazaki-san at all costs.
No better feeling than listening to this while Stoney bologna
Reminds me of the force theme from Star Wars
First time I heard this i spent something like 30m trying to find whoever eas playing, not realizing I kept killing him I my search xD
Tear up a little bit every time I see him
A soundtrack to autumn
гарно
Is there a seamless loop version of this?
There are several enemy mobs in the game that will not attack the player until attacked. Sadly, this Page is not one of them; they will cease playing and come after you when they see you.
But I wish it were one of the pacifist mobs.
I’ve heard this song online.it’s so sad and I really love it.But I can’t have her in Leyndell even that I have played for over one hundred hours
kinda crazy that the one i found plays the same song :O
This place is off limits 💔💔💔
it's fun and soulful until you receive ten perfumer's bolts to the face
It’s malenia song
Can you say where he is? Or capture it with music off so you only hear this playling? Would be nice for music producing
As much as we hate Pages with their triple bolt crossbow bullshit spam, they are probably one of the saddest mobs because of their lore. You can read it on their armor set description
I find it sombering that they play in front of a corpse, likely a compatriot and friend. Mourning the loss of both fellow and realm.
Some npc's music reminds Leyndell theme
extend version?
Might at some point. You could also set it to loop, just not seamlessly.
I actully almost fell asleep irl listening to this charecter in game. Glad I didn't tho otherwise my pc would have cooked me alive
Tis very soothing to listen to
Bro was afraid he would wake up in elden ring
omg he's literally me
elden ring didnt really blow me away the way ds3 did (mostly the fault of martin and his painfully cliche worldbuilding) but the moment i entered Leyndell, its enormous culture and character left me speechless. a golden capital in the state of late autumn. bathed in the color and sound of dying nature. of seasons changing for the worse. this flutist is one of the only sentimental expressions of the current order. a person lamenting the passing of the good old days in solitude. you have to ask yourself what is it that they miss the most. their queen? their purpose?
God you are annoyingly pretentious in your speech.
Bruh them creepy ass bat vampires were singing in one area. When i figured out it was them i got kinda enraged and slaughtered them all. Didnt like them trying to seem so human when theyre evil, poison spewing creatures. Genuinely did not like the idea of singing demons
They are actualy mothers who have been cursed to be forever deformed and deprived of contanct with any one
What if I told you they were once humans?
We are very special in our own way. We are the only species capable of creating meaning to our experiences, to our creations, interpretations and to our life. The epitome of the expression of this meaning is art.
This guy playing his flute is telling you, without any words, he remembers and misses the old days before the Scattering and the death of all those he cared about, including their King, Queen and meaning. This person cannot talk anymore for he is not human anymore, but this is a memory of who he used to be. He recalls of something of his past. Miyazaki is telling us all this with an enemy just playing the flute, and who knows what else. He's a tru artist.
Let's be honest, how many of us killed this dude due to either accident or a strict kill on site policy
Should've turned off the background music
Nah dude, it meshes with it so well
ABSOLUTLEY NOT
No.