Hey just a few notes on the secret swords: - They were apparently part of a cut quest tied to turtle pope, where you would find the sheathed version and depending on some unknown parameters he would give you one of the two swords depending on some choice. - The sheathed sword model was actually reused for the sword monuments around the lands between.
Interesting. I remember covering the sword quest line for Miriel, but I don’t remember there being a connection with these swords specifically. The would be really cool if so
imagine thops in the afterlife seeing he invented a spell that could deflect destined death. "who's the bluntstone now you pretentious burger king heads"
4:17 not like anyone is going to go back to do a Santier's Spear run in DS2A, but the actual fastest way to break it is to go to the Forest of Fallen Giants, slaughter the hollows in one big pile, then go ham on the corpses. Weird interaction that shreds durability significantly reducing the time it takes to break. I only felt the need to point this out because i found it incredible that i had a memory of something so trivial embedded so deeply in my subconcious that simply SEEING the Spear immediately brought the knowledge back to the surface. I havent played DS2 in almost 10 years now and i still remember stuff like that. Crazy.
the black flame is still the flame of destined death, the red one is simply the more intense one directly connected to the rune of death such as thre wthe black knives(which have pieces of it) or malakiths powers as its guardian, so its possible the black flame on ijii is simply because its been sitting their a bit and has died down some to the weaker black flame
You cannot deduce black flame being a part of destined death from anywhere. It's just mentioned that Gloam Eyed Queen had BF and Maliketh defeated her and the apostles.
@@a5hengaming the godskin apostle set says "The apostles, "once said to serve Destined Death, are wielders of the god-slaying black flame. But after their defeat by Maliketh, the Black Blade, the source of their power was sealed away." which they served destined death and their power was sealed away, the only sealed power we know is the the rune of death also just gameplay and lore wise,both manifest as black flames(one just has red as well while the other is pure black, the red flames in addition to there max hp reduction have the exact same dot effect as the black flame, and well the black flame is specifically called a god killing power, not hard to link it to the rune of death which can be used to kill the gods
@@Lampaluile its the same power but different aspects, the rune of death is holy because its part of the elden ring, the black flame is more a pale reflection of it and thus is closer to mundane fire
Altering the helm of Alberich’s set reveals that his entire head is made from res glintstone, just like Lusat and Azure, making him the third primeval sorcerer
@@vladislavgilyov6626 ooh! But there is more to that! According to the lore of the staff of the guilty, and grouped items, gouging the eyes with the thorns not only creates red glintstone…but it allows them to see the blood star. And let’s not forget Mogh’s gouged eye and him seeing the formless mother…a god that craves wounds. There is a lot to unpack, but ultimately…primeval sorcerers try to become like the stars and Alberich came just as close as they did. the Briar sorceries are awarded to the guilty in a similar fashion as Azure getting his comet spell
About the mystery of the tree on the surcoat... perhaps it represents the 3 branches of Marika's children? The roots could be Godwyn, Morgott and Margit; one branch Ranni, Rykard and Radhan; the other Malenia, Miquella and ...Melina.
Ye the 3rd sword really looks similar to how Vyke's armor looks after being embraced by the three fingers. So maybe you wold transform the sword from that polsihed clean look to the twisted look by the same process.
The tree surcoat symbol looks small and young. It was beloved in the early days of the Erdtree when it was smaller but that symbol has long been forgotten as the tree grew in size but was beloved at some point in time. This chainmail armor was made from long ago and now stands as a one of a kind as no one now would remember it.
Making the connecting between Roderika and Farnese this late in the game is like just now making the connection between Andre and Godot. Not to mention Farnese’s fiancé is RODERICK. I mean it doesn’t get anymore obvious
I recently discovered you can instantly poisebreak Bloodhound Knight's if you hit them in the air when they lunge at you. Make for an easy lv.12 win when going straight for Latenna's set
Did u know u can get out of a trap teleport chest by rolling backwards (not sure if it works on patches one) and if u stun tibia mariner before he teleport u cancel his teleport.
The question about the 6 branch weirdass Erdtree coat is a good one. The answer is terrifying. Sometimes a 'tree' is not a plant. In mathematics & linguistics, a tree is a model for organizing knowledge. It is a literal path that connects ideas and directs their flow. This item is pointing us towards an understanding of the Erdtree as an abstraction. A sort of metaphor for something other than a normal tree
A good example for this is Chomsky's linguistic trees (which isn't super complicated in its basic form) which are explained on Wikipedia. It goes to the difference between arborescence and rhizomatic thinking - thinking like a tree vs thinking like a root.
For the Malenia comparison, only the "1-2" leaping diagonal combo looks similar, and the animations are still clearly not the same. The stab animation also differs, and Malenia's is both far less telegraphed and a technique she does in phase one, with the hop and dash being the source of the momentum. As for Waterfowl Dance, Malenia does a chasing series of actual sword swings, while the other boss just stands in place and a very brief "bubble" of air slashes appears in one spot, more akin to Maliketh and Alecto's Rune of Death attack. Regarding Roderika, her Berserk inspiration feels like something that has been covered a lot on other channels, and even mentioned on this channel, already, and it's a super clear one. The Tree Surcoat oddity and the section about black flames appearing by mistake on large enemies like trolls are good, but it's perhaps a misnomer to call them "secrets." The Maliketh section is neat, but it feels like you could have done more research to see what else can stop the projectile blades other than Thops' Barrier, and to see if anything can stop the melee attacks as well. For example, I've heard that Immutable Shield can allow a shield to block a Rune of Death attack entirely, even preventing the 10% HP reduction. You could also test if Law of Regression, if used quickly enough (such as by a summon), can stop the DOT from Maliketh's attacks. You could also test if the blooming Erdtree Guardians, who can further bloom if they take damage but survive, thus healing and gaining new attacks, can be sent back to a pre-bloomed state.
The Erdtree Surcoat shows a emblem of the Order before Marika founded the Golden Order. The emblem of the Age of Plenty, if you will. Check it. Theres two branches and 6 leaves, one for each Divine tower. Theres also three roots. One for each Eternal city. I got another secret for you. If you draw parralels between Darksouls Gods and Elden Ring gods, Marika is most similar to Fina (the goddess of Lautrec) the are Golden Goddesses, they are fickle (you lose Fina's favor if you remove her ring, and Marika divorces Godfrey) they bestow Favor and Protection, and they kill Firekeepers.
Elden ring feels especially real and alive compared to other lively open world games because much like the real world there is a surface level path much like the lives of ordinary people. But there's also an underworld of ancient civilizations and sinister secrets of hidden societies that can be compared to the shady underworld of corporations, politicians and other billionaire elites.
The secret swords were most interesting to me - honestly, I think that the swords look like they could be a pair of swords tied to the Empyrean Twins. Miquella’s beautiful clean white blade and Malenia’s gnarled blade of discolored steel. They’re VERY pretty, though. Shame we didn’t get to use them! Here’s hoping we get them in the DLC!
One thing that always stood out to me about Iji’s demise is his death pose. It looks like the puppets to me. It had me wondering for a while about the implications of that. For the black flame I’ve wondered more than once if the Godskin Noble at the Liurnia Divine Tower had anything to do with that, and if the Assassins had been fighting with Iji instead of against him in that fight. I think one of my favorite things about this game is that the lore is presented such that imagination and speculation is all you will have to fill the gaps of the ‘unknown’.
I'm not so sure about the black blades fighting by his side. We did steal the finger slayer blade, which is a sacred relic of the Nox with whom they are more closely aligned. To me, it seems like he might have barely held them off only to have his strings cut when Ranni killed his puppeteer, the two fingers at Manus Celes.
I think that specific surcoat refers to the time or age when the erdtree was still growing and it was probably the age of plenty where gifts and blessings were passed out and when the new age began the design was changed. Ppl love bc it’s like a form of nostalgia in the lands between but that’s just my theory. Like if I was a soldier in the current age I’d see that and be like “damn remember when we wore those! Those were the days”
8:06 About that surcoat design, and the fact that it shares its model with the Eye Surcoat, to me it looks like the design is actually refferencing the three fingers, it might be a stretch, and the blue color doesn't quite match. But maybe it was designed at an early stage of development when there was going to be a three finger allied army or something. And it was later repurposed as an erdtree design
Yeah, I can see there being a bug or glitch with all the different types of death related flames. There is the ice cold ghost flame which is a pattern of black, grey, and white-cyan in tint, there is the black flame of death from the Godskin cultists which is black with shades of gray and white, and then there is Destined Death which is black with red highlights and gold sparkling embers. God forbid you are colorblind, you may have some difficulty determining which flames are which.
The erdtree surcoat likely was an early version of erdtree depiction in game development that they kept like an Easter egg that only they would know, somewhat how corhyn’s robe is the original design for the prophet robe
The tree surcoat insignia - Maybe it's the bird's-eye view of the erdtree? Or the connections the erdtree has with all the minor erdtrees (ME). Try connect a line between the Erdtree with these three minor erdtrees for the big branches, then connect the branch with the other 3 ME for the twigs: 1st branch, ME (Caelid) = ME (Dragonbarrow) , ME (Mistwood) & ME (Weeping Peninsula) 2nd branch, ME (Liurnia Northeast) = ME (Liurnia Southwest), ME (Mt. Gelmir) & ME (Altus Plateau) 3rd branch, ME (Capital Outskirt) = ME (Consecrated Snowfield), ME (Mountaintops East) & the destroyed ME (Flame Peak - there's an Erdtree Avatar underground guarding the root, I guess)
In regards to the erd tree sur coat, I think it represents Marika and radagon (the dual branches at the top) and coming together to form the single root system at the bottom
gargoyles do not have destined death , it is just red flame cause the damage done by them do not lower your max hp, second having some random npcs using the greatest weapon in the lore just destroys malekith's role as marika's executioner and doesn't fit he narrative of the night of the black knives
"We are now sponsored by Displate." That's how you know the channel has made it 😂 Also, I wonder if Estelle in the Rupture Tear would be a reference to Miquella/Trina? I only say that because of the kamikaze soldiers in his Haligtree that pretty much do that 😅it would make for a potentially interesting connection between the Avatar that drops it in Liurnia of the Lakes on the Southwest (paired with a Cerulean Tear) which makes it also potentially related to Carian lore and the one that drops it in the Consecrated Snowfields (paired with a Thorny Tear that functions like items related to Malenia). And considering the references of how it was a lesson learned and that Miquella is a Demigod that likes to experiment (see Minor Erdtree Church video)...
Referring to Iji’s burning in black flame. When it comes to From. There are no bugs… Remember these are the guys that changed the cutscene with Morgott and cut entire quest lines because it doesn’t fit the lore. They patched the Great Club to scale with faith etc. I’ve come to accept everything is deliberate with their games, we just need to unravel the mysteries
For the surcoat I think either it's due to sentence structure, mistranslation or your own perceived focus, but I think it's actually the Erd Tree that is the subject not the surcoat. "The Erdtree is Beloved by all and widely used as a design" is how I see it. And as you've said it's not seen anywhere else so that would further support they don't mean it's this design that's wildly used, rather than at the Erd tree is often used as a design.
4:48 The three swords remind me of how Lorian and Lothric’s swords could be combined in DS3, and the colouring of the third sword reminds me of Morgott’s sword.
It might just be wild speculation on my part, but there's something about the hilt design on the three swords that makes my mind jump to Marika's Hammer. That worn, smoothed and stony visual design really suggests to me that it was in some way an old heirloom from the lands of the Numen. No hard evidence there, that's just my hot take.
I can see the swords being rewards for the different endings or something. The 3rd one definitely reminds me of the frenzied flame and/or margots cursed blood sword
I learned just now about that Santier's Spear trick, time to play DS2 again. I do know about the trick with getting the spear and only spending one lockstone.
_Estelle,_ just like _Astel,_ comes from a latin word, _"Stella",_ meaning star. In english it obviously became _'stellar'. In french _étoile_ and *_astre_* also both come from that word and mean 'star', the latter of which if you pronounce it with a heavy japanese accent give you ... *_"ASTELU"_*
When I was playing Coop with my friends, I threw a glintstone pebble at Radagon. He caught the spell and threw it back, killing one of my friends… one hell of a bruh moment
I agree that the 3 swords appear to be the same one, but the one on the right looks too regular to be simply from being burned. It looks like it was designed like that and the white layer was put over the top. Also just under the hilt you can see an element of the design that carries from the middle one to the right, giving more weight to the idea that they're the same sword. I think it's more likely to be a weapon like Morgott's sword than what you described imo.
Honestly i think the erdtree surcoat is just a design based on the erdtree, which is a pretty popular thing to have on you. Considering the surcoat set is part of the chainmail+greathelm set, seems like a low ranking or poorer persons getup. After all the blue and gold kite shield depicts the erdtree and (thankfully) that design is used on one thing.
The black flame on Igi after he dies , I always thought it was a nod to maybe the black knife assassins blades no longer wield the true power of destined death. Idk. Could just be over thinking
I've had the black flame glitch happen a few times if the past. I think what's happening with Iji is that since his Troll model is unique, it uses old code causing the visual glitch and the devs haven't bothered updating likely due to time and possible difficulty.
Not a secret but an interesting interaction I found. I was in the Moonfolk Ruins on the Moonlight Alter when I kept walking over some magical traps. I used Mogh's Shackles accidentally and it actually triggered all the traps in the area. It only seems to work on magic traps like ones in the Moonfolk Ruins or ones in/by Caria Manor but its just something I've never heard about. I did try it with the Vulgar Militia traps but it didn't work, that would have been really nice if it did.
Please do a video on magic the gathering influences on elden ring! I would love to know more and cant find anything else on the topic. Thanks for all the hard work
I had a weird interaction with Roderika once. I was summoned into my friend's world in the beginning of stormveil castle, right past Gostoc's secret passage, and she was sitting on the edge of the cliff, just before the bonfire. I've never seen her there and have never been able to replicate this, but the weirdest thing was that she was labelled as an invader, and since she wouldn't interact, I kicked her to get her to do something but she just returned to her world. I can't find any info about this anywhere, and I can also confirm it wasn't a cosplayer since we had already killed an invader prior to this event and there was no prompt to announce this ''invasion''
Everyone keeps talking about Roderika removing her hood once she finds her new purpose but I think there's a much more simple, and likely, explanation. She took it off when she settled in, in doors. Much like hats are worn outside and taken off indoors, same concept. She was no longer traveling (and no longer in stormy weather to boot) and so the hood came off. There, of course, is a correlation with her becoming a spirit tuner, but that's probably not the cause. An ex patriot is not necessarily someone unwelcome in their former land. It's just someone who no longer lives there and now claims some new land as their new home.
As a Brazilian, it's always interesting for me how some descriptions and conversations are so much different in english when i watch videos about it. I have no idea why this happens, but the Brazilian translation seems more similar to the japanese original intention and that's amazing. 😅
Why the flame burns black and white is not a bug, I believe. Black flame was the original god slaying flame, but Destined death gave it its red tint and ability to slay Ranni’s flesh and Godwyn’s soul. I conclude that during the story at which Iji dies is when the Godskin and Black Knives combine forces to kill Ranni because she seemingly crossed them both to serve her own agenda. The Godskins killed Iji as he guards the entrance to Caria Manor to help the assassins get closer to Ranni but Blaidd would be there to stop them.
about the three swords, the third one has that same twisted and oily look that Morgott weilds on his sword. just a small observation, could have been part of the cut noble questline involving the omen king himself and the sword being different based off the stages of said quest? dunno tho
My blue tree surcoat theory is the merchant made it himself and the description is actually his own... the often say "im starving" so the description entices us to buy lol
Iji is sitting just like one of Selivus's puppets too, also Selivus sits the same way. No idea if Iji is a puppet but I think Selivus is one of Pidia's. No idea if anyone pointed that out. Also no clue what-so-ever who Iji's puppet master is. Kinda makes me wonder if puppets can feel the effects of destined death.
The intended implication was always clear as day, the dead black knife assassins killed him it was only really a question of who sent them to kill Iji.
I'm positive that Ranni sent the black assassins to kill Blaidd and Iji. She mentions several times that they trust her too much and would give everything for her. And Iji says something similar. She does love them, but she has to cover her tracks completely to accomplish her goal, and Iji knew this all along, I think. The only reason she doesn't send the assassins to kill you, as well, is because you've chosen to become her Lord.
@@urbanexotic I'm almost positive she didn't, precisely because Blaidd and Iji are so loyal to Ranni that it would be entirely redundant to have them killed by another party. Ranni would have but ask them to off themselves and they'd happily do it themselves. Something Iji all but confirms as he knew he was going to die and readily embraces that fact when you tell him of Blaidd's fate... yet Iji still kills several Black knife Assassins in his death? No that doesn't add up. Iji would have only gone out fighting if he thought the assassins were sent by someone in opposition to his mistress. Besides which given Ranni's apparent imprisonment of their leader Alecto in an evergaol seemingly immediately after the Night of Black knives, Ranni seems to now be at odds with the Black knife assassins. We see in the present day of the game only one faction that ambiguously has Black Knife assassins in their service and that's Miquella as 4 Black Knife Assassins are guarding the seal to his Haligtree in Ordinia. and Miquella's subordinates trying to take out the lone Empyrean and their that stood in opposition to his order to be upon the cusp of their ascension to becoming God of the coming age makes more sense than Ranni needlessly hiring assassins to take out her literally suicidally loyal subordinates to cover up tracks for her all but completed plan whose lone dangle threat is the Tarnished who she leaves entire to their own devices...
Imo I think FromSoftware just didn’t have a model of the red Destined Death flame. So they just used the black flame because they already had the model and they were already crunched to release the game after the long wait.
The third secret sword doesn’t really seem like it was burnt by the frenzied flame to me. Personally it reminds me of the sky in the Lichdragon boss fight or during the ending you get from dung-eater’s quest. Another possibility is that the pristine version could be a sword of dreams and the twisted on could be of nightmares.
It features swirls that are similar to that of the swirls on the fingerprint on Vyke’s armor especially on the lower one but that’s really it. Don’t really believe it either tbh
I went through the entirety of Elden ring four times and to be honest this fifth time that I started since it’s been about a year since I touched it once I got to Lindale I don’t know why I just didn’t want to continue but I know 100% sure that once there’s some type of news on the expansion game play something I’ll be back in that game in a heartbeat. I just need something to motivate me Regarding ER because it is my number one of all time
If you really really want to understand Elden Ring, you have to read this which is primary source material - it's an impossibly difficult text written by French post structuralists in the 70s but is the intellectual structure for both Berserk & Elden Ring. Easiest part I think is the chapter explaining the lone wolf metaphor but honestly none of it is very easy - it is on my to do list to make some content showing how Elden Ring teaches you the ideas in the book
The Black Flame, as we see it now, is the flame of destined death with the power of the rune removed. The black flame is depleted destined death. We don’t know that every Black Knife was enchanted with Destined Death or if the enchantment was the same strength on each.
I think that the reason of the black flame on Iji's body is because the black flame of the godskins was created directly by the red flame of the Destined Death. We know that the Godskins and the Gloom Eyed Queen were servants of the rune of death and probably, to follow their absurd god-slaying legacy, they created a lesser powerful version of the god-slaying flames of the rune. Probably, some of the Black Knife assassins who killed Iji did not have a fragment of the rune of death big as that used by Alecto, like in black blade kindred sword, so those little fragments were not powerful enough to generate the red flames of Destined Death, but instead a lesser flame enough to slay gods and a troll servant of Caria. Hope that helped.
it could also simply be that the godskins were trying to come for ranni, and ranni and the black knive assassin's seem to have worked with each other based on everything we know. so potentially, the black knives were trying to aid one of their allies.
There is a fine line between plagiarism and 'inspiration'. I do think Miyazaki often crosses that line. I was uncomfortable seeing that character from Vindictus.
What if the flames on Ijii are black because we've released the death rune? And it's red form is when it's seperated, like we know before the erdtree the ghostflame was that black colour and is another form of death, so maybe the colour is a reflection of who controls it or like what state it exists in
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Yep I will do that
The three swords? 2 actually the first is clearly a scabbard
Great video as always!!
It's cool to see the secret swords made it to the DLC as the stone sheathed sword, the sword of light and the sword of darkness
Hey just a few notes on the secret swords:
- They were apparently part of a cut quest tied to turtle pope, where you would find the sheathed version and depending on some unknown parameters he would give you one of the two swords depending on some choice.
- The sheathed sword model was actually reused for the sword monuments around the lands between.
Interesting. I remember covering the sword quest line for Miriel, but I don’t remember there being a connection with these swords specifically. The would be really cool if so
imagine thops in the afterlife seeing he invented a spell that could deflect destined death. "who's the bluntstone now you pretentious burger king heads"
It even works on the Elden Beast spells, man literally created a spell fit to challenge a god
4:17 not like anyone is going to go back to do a Santier's Spear run in DS2A, but the actual fastest way to break it is to go to the Forest of Fallen Giants, slaughter the hollows in one big pile, then go ham on the corpses. Weird interaction that shreds durability significantly reducing the time it takes to break. I only felt the need to point this out because i found it incredible that i had a memory of something so trivial embedded so deeply in my subconcious that simply SEEING the Spear immediately brought the knowledge back to the surface. I havent played DS2 in almost 10 years now and i still remember stuff like that. Crazy.
This man managed to do the impossible, have an Elden Ring lore channel and a genuine, real, actual child at the same time. How?!
Right!? It's unheard of 😂
Doesn’t Vaati have one too
Not everybody is a basement dweller who games all lifetime. Some have actual lives and families . Go try it out buddy .
@@SoulInajar it could be worse, he could be going on the Internet to intentionally be a dick and insult people (I.E. you).
I'm watching elden ring lore videos. And I have a life, kinda
the black flame is still the flame of destined death, the red one is simply the more intense one directly connected to the rune of death such as thre wthe black knives(which have pieces of it) or malakiths powers as its guardian, so its possible the black flame on ijii is simply because its been sitting their a bit and has died down some to the weaker black flame
You cannot deduce black flame being a part of destined death from anywhere. It's just mentioned that Gloam Eyed Queen had BF and Maliketh defeated her and the apostles.
@@a5hengaming the godskin apostle set says "The apostles, "once said to serve Destined Death, are wielders of the god-slaying black flame. But after their defeat by Maliketh, the Black Blade, the source of their power was sealed away." which they served destined death and their power was sealed away, the only sealed power we know is the the rune of death
also just gameplay and lore wise,both manifest as black flames(one just has red as well while the other is pure black, the red flames in addition to there max hp reduction have the exact same dot effect as the black flame, and well the black flame is specifically called a god killing power, not hard to link it to the rune of death which can be used to kill the gods
Destines death is holy damage and black flame well is fire damage
@@Lampaluile its the same power but different aspects, the rune of death is holy because its part of the elden ring, the black flame is more a pale reflection of it and thus is closer to mundane fire
I thought black flame was from a different God. The rune of death was part of the elden ring
Altering the helm of Alberich’s set reveals that his entire head is made from res glintstone, just like Lusat and Azure, making him the third primeval sorcerer
or the unknown fourth
@@Butcher_Of_The_Sands who is the third then?
@epiccthulu head made from glintstone doesn't make someone a primeval sorcerer. Studying primeval current and primeval spells does
@@vladislavgilyov6626 ooh! But there is more to that! According to the lore of the staff of the guilty, and grouped items, gouging the eyes with the thorns not only creates red glintstone…but it allows them to see the blood star. And let’s not forget Mogh’s gouged eye and him seeing the formless mother…a god that craves wounds. There is a lot to unpack, but ultimately…primeval sorcerers try to become like the stars and Alberich came just as close as they did. the Briar sorceries are awarded to the guilty in a similar fashion as Azure getting his comet spell
About the mystery of the tree on the surcoat... perhaps it represents the 3 branches of Marika's children? The roots could be Godwyn, Morgott and Margit; one branch Ranni, Rykard and Radhan; the other Malenia, Miquella and ...Melina.
Ye the 3rd sword really looks similar to how Vyke's armor looks after being embraced by the three fingers. So maybe you wold transform the sword from that polsihed clean look to the twisted look by the same process.
love the pfp
No the spirle in blade looks intentional
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The tree surcoat symbol looks small and young. It was beloved in the early days of the Erdtree when it was smaller but that symbol has long been forgotten as the tree grew in size but was beloved at some point in time. This chainmail armor was made from long ago and now stands as a one of a kind as no one now would remember it.
Regarding the tree insignia, it could be a translation error and they're referring to iconography of the erd tree in general
Making the connecting between Roderika and Farnese this late in the game is like just now making the connection between Andre and Godot. Not to mention Farnese’s fiancé is RODERICK. I mean it doesn’t get anymore obvious
I recently discovered you can instantly poisebreak Bloodhound Knight's if you hit them in the air when they lunge at you. Make for an easy lv.12 win when going straight for Latenna's set
TIL that, if you're evil, you can kill Latenna at the start of her quest for her armor, rather than just farming it off the archers in the snowfield.
That’s actually very useful. Hated farming for the blue silver mail set
aye it's useful but it's still evil :(
Did u know u can get out of a trap teleport chest by rolling backwards (not sure if it works on patches one) and if u stun tibia mariner before he teleport u cancel his teleport.
The question about the 6 branch weirdass Erdtree coat is a good one.
The answer is terrifying.
Sometimes a 'tree' is not a plant. In mathematics & linguistics, a tree is a model for organizing knowledge. It is a literal path that connects ideas and directs their flow.
This item is pointing us towards an understanding of the Erdtree as an abstraction. A sort of metaphor for something other than a normal tree
A good example for this is Chomsky's linguistic trees (which isn't super complicated in its basic form) which are explained on Wikipedia. It goes to the difference between arborescence and rhizomatic thinking - thinking like a tree vs thinking like a root.
For the Malenia comparison, only the "1-2" leaping diagonal combo looks similar, and the animations are still clearly not the same. The stab animation also differs, and Malenia's is both far less telegraphed and a technique she does in phase one, with the hop and dash being the source of the momentum. As for Waterfowl Dance, Malenia does a chasing series of actual sword swings, while the other boss just stands in place and a very brief "bubble" of air slashes appears in one spot, more akin to Maliketh and Alecto's Rune of Death attack.
Regarding Roderika, her Berserk inspiration feels like something that has been covered a lot on other channels, and even mentioned on this channel, already, and it's a super clear one. The Tree Surcoat oddity and the section about black flames appearing by mistake on large enemies like trolls are good, but it's perhaps a misnomer to call them "secrets."
The Maliketh section is neat, but it feels like you could have done more research to see what else can stop the projectile blades other than Thops' Barrier, and to see if anything can stop the melee attacks as well. For example, I've heard that Immutable Shield can allow a shield to block a Rune of Death attack entirely, even preventing the 10% HP reduction. You could also test if Law of Regression, if used quickly enough (such as by a summon), can stop the DOT from Maliketh's attacks. You could also test if the blooming Erdtree Guardians, who can further bloom if they take damage but survive, thus healing and gaining new attacks, can be sent back to a pre-bloomed state.
The Erdtree Surcoat shows a emblem of the Order before Marika founded the Golden Order. The emblem of the Age of Plenty, if you will.
Check it. Theres two branches and 6 leaves, one for each Divine tower. Theres also three roots. One for each Eternal city.
I got another secret for you. If you draw parralels between Darksouls Gods and Elden Ring gods, Marika is most similar to Fina (the goddess of Lautrec) the are Golden Goddesses, they are fickle (you lose Fina's favor if you remove her ring, and Marika divorces Godfrey) they bestow Favor and Protection, and they kill Firekeepers.
Elden ring feels especially real and alive compared to other lively open world games because much like the real world there is a surface level path much like the lives of ordinary people. But there's also an underworld of ancient civilizations and sinister secrets of hidden societies that can be compared to the shady underworld of corporations, politicians and other billionaire elites.
I love it that's why I watch these and red dead vids still all the time
It goes way deeper than corporations or billionaire elites lmao
Average Fromass shitware slave fan trying to worship Shitzaki for the most normal and common thing in the industry :
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The secret swords were most interesting to me - honestly, I think that the swords look like they could be a pair of swords tied to the Empyrean Twins. Miquella’s beautiful clean white blade and Malenia’s gnarled blade of discolored steel. They’re VERY pretty, though. Shame we didn’t get to use them! Here’s hoping we get them in the DLC!
One thing that always stood out to me about Iji’s demise is his death pose. It looks like the puppets to me. It had me wondering for a while about the implications of that. For the black flame I’ve wondered more than once if the Godskin Noble at the Liurnia Divine Tower had anything to do with that, and if the Assassins had been fighting with Iji instead of against him in that fight. I think one of my favorite things about this game is that the lore is presented such that imagination and speculation is all you will have to fill the gaps of the ‘unknown’.
I'm not so sure about the black blades fighting by his side. We did steal the finger slayer blade, which is a sacred relic of the Nox with whom they are more closely aligned.
To me, it seems like he might have barely held them off only to have his strings cut when Ranni killed his puppeteer, the two fingers at Manus Celes.
@@NickCombsoh that's an interesting thought
4:40 the pattern of the third sword reminds me of Morgott cursed sword
I think that specific surcoat refers to the time or age when the erdtree was still growing and it was probably the age of plenty where gifts and blessings were passed out and when the new age began the design was changed. Ppl love bc it’s like a form of nostalgia in the lands between but that’s just my theory. Like if I was a soldier in the current age I’d see that and be like “damn remember when we wore those! Those were the days”
8:06 About that surcoat design, and the fact that it shares its model with the Eye Surcoat, to me it looks like the design is actually refferencing the three fingers, it might be a stretch, and the blue color doesn't quite match. But maybe it was designed at an early stage of development when there was going to be a three finger allied army or something. And it was later repurposed as an erdtree design
That merchant probably sells fake Jordans too calling them ''design beloved throughout the hood''
the fact thop's pursuits allows his spell to deflect even destined death is insane, man really is a genius.
Best way to start a Monday morning!
Radagon can parry/block literally everything. From spells to consumables, he even takes reduced damage from volcano pots while blocking
Yeah, I can see there being a bug or glitch with all the different types of death related flames. There is the ice cold ghost flame which is a pattern of black, grey, and white-cyan in tint, there is the black flame of death from the Godskin cultists which is black with shades of gray and white, and then there is Destined Death which is black with red highlights and gold sparkling embers. God forbid you are colorblind, you may have some difficulty determining which flames are which.
The erdtree surcoat likely was an early version of erdtree depiction in game development that they kept like an Easter egg that only they would know, somewhat how corhyn’s robe is the original design for the prophet robe
The tree surcoat insignia - Maybe it's the bird's-eye view of the erdtree? Or the connections the erdtree has with all the minor erdtrees (ME). Try connect a line between the Erdtree with these three minor erdtrees for the big branches, then connect the branch with the other 3 ME for the twigs:
1st branch, ME (Caelid) = ME (Dragonbarrow) , ME (Mistwood) & ME (Weeping Peninsula)
2nd branch, ME (Liurnia Northeast) = ME (Liurnia Southwest), ME (Mt. Gelmir) & ME (Altus Plateau)
3rd branch, ME (Capital Outskirt) = ME (Consecrated Snowfield), ME (Mountaintops East) & the destroyed ME (Flame Peak - there's an Erdtree Avatar underground guarding the root, I guess)
I think it's just three trees in a circle
In regards to the erd tree sur coat, I think it represents Marika and radagon (the dual branches at the top) and coming together to form the single root system at the bottom
gargoyles do not have destined death , it is just red flame cause the damage done by them do not lower your max hp, second having some random npcs using the greatest weapon in the lore just destroys malekith's role as marika's executioner and doesn't fit he narrative of the night of the black knives
"We are now sponsored by Displate." That's how you know the channel has made it 😂 Also, I wonder if Estelle in the Rupture Tear would be a reference to Miquella/Trina? I only say that because of the kamikaze soldiers in his Haligtree that pretty much do that 😅it would make for a potentially interesting connection between the Avatar that drops it in Liurnia of the Lakes on the Southwest (paired with a Cerulean Tear) which makes it also potentially related to Carian lore and the one that drops it in the Consecrated Snowfields (paired with a Thorny Tear that functions like items related to Malenia). And considering the references of how it was a lesson learned and that Miquella is a Demigod that likes to experiment (see Minor Erdtree Church video)...
Referring to Iji’s burning in black flame. When it comes to From. There are no bugs…
Remember these are the guys that changed the cutscene with Morgott and cut entire quest lines because it doesn’t fit the lore. They patched the Great Club to scale with faith etc.
I’ve come to accept everything is deliberate with their games, we just need to unravel the mysteries
For the surcoat I think either it's due to sentence structure, mistranslation or your own perceived focus, but I think it's actually the Erd Tree that is the subject not the surcoat.
"The Erdtree is Beloved by all and widely used as a design" is how I see it.
And as you've said it's not seen anywhere else so that would further support they don't mean it's this design that's wildly used, rather than at the Erd tree is often used as a design.
4:48 The three swords remind me of how Lorian and Lothric’s swords could be combined in DS3, and the colouring of the third sword reminds me of Morgott’s sword.
It might just be wild speculation on my part, but there's something about the hilt design on the three swords that makes my mind jump to Marika's Hammer. That worn, smoothed and stony visual design really suggests to me that it was in some way an old heirloom from the lands of the Numen. No hard evidence there, that's just my hot take.
I wish the NPCs did a bit more. Gideon and Iji just stared at their book indefinitely, Sellen was a statue, etc..
I can see the swords being rewards for the different endings or something. The 3rd one definitely reminds me of the frenzied flame and/or margots cursed blood sword
Didn’t know Radagon was someone that likes to pop bobbles.
I've never seen those sword icons before! What gorgeous designs, I truly hope we get them in the DLC!
I learned just now about that Santier's Spear trick, time to play DS2 again. I do know about the trick with getting the spear and only spending one lockstone.
You know about the corpse trick?
@@alastor8091 please, do tell
_Estelle,_ just like _Astel,_ comes from a latin word, _"Stella",_ meaning star. In english it obviously became _'stellar'. In french _étoile_ and *_astre_* also both come from that word and mean 'star', the latter of which if you pronounce it with a heavy japanese accent give you ... *_"ASTELU"_*
ASHTERUUU
Like Astro-ology. Its a root word.
When I was playing Coop with my friends, I threw a glintstone pebble at Radagon. He caught the spell and threw it back, killing one of my friends… one hell of a bruh moment
I agree that the 3 swords appear to be the same one, but the one on the right looks too regular to be simply from being burned. It looks like it was designed like that and the white layer was put over the top. Also just under the hilt you can see an element of the design that carries from the middle one to the right, giving more weight to the idea that they're the same sword. I think it's more likely to be a weapon like Morgott's sword than what you described imo.
Finally, more secrets!
Lmao the bubble parry
Zio sponsored by Displate… the transformation to Vaati is complete. 😂😂
Good for Zio, well deserved, keep up the good work, love your videos!
Honestly i think the erdtree surcoat is just a design based on the erdtree, which is a pretty popular thing to have on you. Considering the surcoat set is part of the chainmail+greathelm set, seems like a low ranking or poorer persons getup.
After all the blue and gold kite shield depicts the erdtree and (thankfully) that design is used on one thing.
The black flame on Igi after he dies , I always thought it was a nod to maybe the black knife assassins blades no longer wield the true power of destined death. Idk. Could just be over thinking
The Fernese reference blew my mind damn that truly was a cool one!
I've had the black flame glitch happen a few times if the past. I think what's happening with Iji is that since his Troll model is unique, it uses old code causing the visual glitch and the devs haven't bothered updating likely due to time and possible difficulty.
4:27 My copy of Bloodborne just pushed it's glasses up it's nose and said, "Um, well, actually..."
So funny that someone found that sword from the icon and we have all been walking past it repeatedly lmao.
That piece of armor he was talking about the Elden tree on it it could be a reference to the universal mouth the number 9
Great video as always!!
Not a secret but an interesting interaction I found. I was in the Moonfolk Ruins on the Moonlight Alter when I kept walking over some magical traps. I used Mogh's Shackles accidentally and it actually triggered all the traps in the area. It only seems to work on magic traps like ones in the Moonfolk Ruins or ones in/by Caria Manor but its just something I've never heard about. I did try it with the Vulgar Militia traps but it didn't work, that would have been really nice if it did.
I suppose it’d work with Margit’s Shackle as well, as it was known to trigger traps, useful in 1 or 2 Hero Graves.
Please do a video on magic the gathering influences on elden ring! I would love to know more and cant find anything else on the topic. Thanks for all the hard work
I had a weird interaction with Roderika once. I was summoned into my friend's world in the beginning of stormveil castle, right past Gostoc's secret passage, and she was sitting on the edge of the cliff, just before the bonfire. I've never seen her there and have never been able to replicate this, but the weirdest thing was that she was labelled as an invader, and since she wouldn't interact, I kicked her to get her to do something but she just returned to her world. I can't find any info about this anywhere, and I can also confirm it wasn't a cosplayer since we had already killed an invader prior to this event and there was no prompt to announce this ''invasion''
Every copy of Elden Ring is personalized
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Everyone keeps talking about Roderika removing her hood once she finds her new purpose but I think there's a much more simple, and likely, explanation. She took it off when she settled in, in doors. Much like hats are worn outside and taken off indoors, same concept. She was no longer traveling (and no longer in stormy weather to boot) and so the hood came off. There, of course, is a correlation with her becoming a spirit tuner, but that's probably not the cause. An ex patriot is not necessarily someone unwelcome in their former land. It's just someone who no longer lives there and now claims some new land as their new home.
The middle sword at 3:36 reminds me of the Gilded sword from Majora's Mask
Going through a quest to transform a weapon would be so sick
As a Brazilian, it's always interesting for me how some descriptions and conversations are so much different in english when i watch videos about it. I have no idea why this happens, but the Brazilian translation seems more similar to the japanese original intention and that's amazing. 😅
Why the flame burns black and white is not a bug, I believe. Black flame was the original god slaying flame, but Destined death gave it its red tint and ability to slay Ranni’s flesh and Godwyn’s soul. I conclude that during the story at which Iji dies is when the Godskin and Black Knives combine forces to kill Ranni because she seemingly crossed them both to serve her own agenda. The Godskins killed Iji as he guards the entrance to Caria Manor to help the assassins get closer to Ranni but Blaidd would be there to stop them.
one thing i would add is the flowy sword looks much like water flow when its disrupted
w video i just started playing elden ring recently and it’s been so good so far so this vid was interesting
Great job Zio! I knew none of this!!
That's some synchronicity having your kids name in the game you cover.
about the three swords, the third one has that same twisted and oily look that Morgott weilds on his sword. just a small observation, could have been part of the cut noble questline involving the omen king himself and the sword being different based off the stages of said quest? dunno tho
My blue tree surcoat theory is the merchant made it himself and the description is actually his own... the often say "im starving" so the description entices us to buy lol
Iji is sitting just like one of Selivus's puppets too, also Selivus sits the same way. No idea if Iji is a puppet but I think Selivus is one of Pidia's. No idea if anyone pointed that out. Also no clue what-so-ever who Iji's puppet master is. Kinda makes me wonder if puppets can feel the effects of destined death.
6:00 If you literally throw a rock in Elden Ring it actually is a Berserk reference to Isador lol
maybe the black knife assassins were trying to help Iji, and they were attacked by some godskins? or another baleful shadow?
I love how vaati or zuli or iron pinnapple make an elden ring video,and the click bait copy is just start spaming on youtube.
My impression about Iji's death was that he committed suicide by self-immolation out of shame for his betrayal of Blythe.
The intended implication was always clear as day, the dead black knife assassins killed him it was only really a question of who sent them to kill Iji.
I'm positive that Ranni sent the black assassins to kill Blaidd and Iji. She mentions several times that they trust her too much and would give everything for her. And Iji says something similar. She does love them, but she has to cover her tracks completely to accomplish her goal, and Iji knew this all along, I think. The only reason she doesn't send the assassins to kill you, as well, is because you've chosen to become her Lord.
@@urbanexotic I'm almost positive she didn't, precisely because Blaidd and Iji are so loyal to Ranni that it would be entirely redundant to have them killed by another party. Ranni would have but ask them to off themselves and they'd happily do it themselves. Something Iji all but confirms as he knew he was going to die and readily embraces that fact when you tell him of Blaidd's fate... yet Iji still kills several Black knife Assassins in his death? No that doesn't add up. Iji would have only gone out fighting if he thought the assassins were sent by someone in opposition to his mistress.
Besides which given Ranni's apparent imprisonment of their leader Alecto in an evergaol seemingly immediately after the Night of Black knives, Ranni seems to now be at odds with the Black knife assassins. We see in the present day of the game only one faction that ambiguously has Black Knife assassins in their service and that's Miquella as 4 Black Knife Assassins are guarding the seal to his Haligtree in Ordinia. and Miquella's subordinates trying to take out the lone Empyrean and their that stood in opposition to his order to be upon the cusp of their ascension to becoming God of the coming age makes more sense than Ranni needlessly hiring assassins to take out her literally suicidally loyal subordinates to cover up tracks for her all but completed plan whose lone dangle threat is the Tarnished who she leaves entire to their own devices...
So the black knife assassins failed to kill Blaithe but succeeded in killing Iji? He took a lot of them with him, if that's the case.@@Terminalsanity
@@KissyKaede Yes, yes he did.
Just picked up Armored Core VI at my local Walmart. You might want to check guys, they might be selling it a little earlier in your area too.
Imo I think FromSoftware just didn’t have a model of the red Destined Death flame. So they just used the black flame because they already had the model and they were already crunched to release the game after the long wait.
Great vid!
Oh shit dude, congrats on your daughter!
You took Varré’s maidenless insult personally and made your own 😂
I guess once u hit that 100k displate comes a knocking. Good for u bro
The third secret sword doesn’t really seem like it was burnt by the frenzied flame to me. Personally it reminds me of the sky in the Lichdragon boss fight or during the ending you get from dung-eater’s quest. Another possibility is that the pristine version could be a sword of dreams and the twisted on could be of nightmares.
Honestly, the third sword reminds me of Morgott's blade.
It features swirls that are similar to that of the swirls on the fingerprint on Vyke’s armor especially on the lower one but that’s really it. Don’t really believe it either tbh
taking a dump off the clock after working the graveyard shift and watching this 👍
Off the clock? Never poop for free.
@@tropezando taking one on the clock right now
What an absolute chad to have a kid and then to name them Estelle. Congrats btw
The swords look like erdsteel like the dagger. But the erdsteel dagger is the only weapon in the game of that name
Did a bubble build. Once he is staggered using the bubble ash of war destroys his health
I went through the entirety of Elden ring four times and to be honest this fifth time that I started since it’s been about a year since I touched it once I got to Lindale I don’t know why I just didn’t want to continue but I know 100% sure that once there’s some type of news on the expansion game play something I’ll be back in that game in a heartbeat. I just need something to motivate me Regarding ER because it is my number one of all time
Nice video as always, cheers from Germany
If you really really want to understand Elden Ring, you have to read this which is primary source material - it's an impossibly difficult text written by French post structuralists in the 70s but is the intellectual structure for both Berserk & Elden Ring. Easiest part I think is the chapter explaining the lone wolf metaphor but honestly none of it is very easy - it is on my to do list to make some content showing how Elden Ring teaches you the ideas in the book
The Black Flame, as we see it now, is the flame of destined death with the power of the rune removed. The black flame is depleted destined death.
We don’t know that every Black Knife was enchanted with Destined Death or if the enchantment was the same strength on each.
I think that the reason of the black flame on Iji's body is because the black flame of the godskins was created directly by the red flame of the Destined Death. We know that the Godskins and the Gloom Eyed Queen were servants of the rune of death and probably, to follow their absurd god-slaying legacy, they created a lesser powerful version of the god-slaying flames of the rune. Probably, some of the Black Knife assassins who killed Iji did not have a fragment of the rune of death big as that used by Alecto, like in black blade kindred sword, so those little fragments were not powerful enough to generate the red flames of Destined Death, but instead a lesser flame enough to slay gods and a troll servant of Caria.
Hope that helped.
it could also simply be that the godskins were trying to come for ranni, and ranni and the black knive assassin's seem to have worked with each other based on everything we know. so potentially, the black knives were trying to aid one of their allies.
@@DatAsianGuyThe Godskins have no reason to go after Ranni, especially long after she shed her own empyrean skin.
The swords remind me of the datamined sword of abundance, sword of rot, and sword of rot and abundance
There is a fine line between plagiarism and 'inspiration'. I do think Miyazaki often crosses that line. I was uncomfortable seeing that character from Vindictus.
5:30 *shocked Pikachu face*
Respect on the outro song
What if the flames on Ijii are black because we've released the death rune? And it's red form is when it's seperated, like we know before the erdtree the ghostflame was that black colour and is another form of death, so maybe the colour is a reflection of who controls it or like what state it exists in
Not gonna lie, DS1 always had reminded me of Invictus. Kinda funny hearing it be brought up with emElden Ring
The ash of war lions claw is a reference the lion dog Ifirits attack on final fantasy 10
The game itself says that thops was onto something big, they weren’t wrong
This the type of content we like to see 💯💯
would have loved seeing iji fighting these