I think that may be how Metyr communicated with Greater Will. And since it's an outer god and if they are similar to how gods are in Bloodborne for "water" to be there would make sense since the Bloodborne gods are quite aquatic in shapes.
The assets under the map are likely the parent assets to a lot of the duplicates above. If you look, likely there is one of each unique model below that is copied above. If the parent asset is deleted, so is all of the references in code to the children (aka duplicates). They’re likely moved to a different location as well to prevent accidental deletion and hold uniformity.
They could also just be one of each different type of asset in the set, left underground for easy copying and pasting. No point in deleting them since they're so few, and they can be later used if they need to make any changes. Easier to look through a set of a 6 unique assets than 100 randomly placed assets.
What is the point of listening, if fingers doesn't have ears? When TwoFingers was trying to communicate with GreaterWill, tey didn't go I AM ALL EARS all of a sudden...
@@Mikael_Ore sure. But how? With fingers? No. Goldmask was standing all over the map listening to vibrations? No. He was READING and SPEAKING with his finger motions. Braille shrift. FingerREADERS not FingerLISTENERS. Its a solid theory from OP, i guess, but its just doesn't make sense to me. Or maybe im just spittin nonsense. We will see.
@@sherkecringemonger9872 I think you are giving it a lot of thought from a biological point of view, BUT lets not forget the spicy ingredient of this game, maaagiiiiic, the way the fingers speak through Enia like using telepathy could be the way they communicate with others and it could function as a radio, if so, then those tubes could work as radio wave amplifiers to communicate among themselves, or even other beings such as the greater will.
I think they are tubeworms, specifically the species Escarpia laminata. They have growth rings that look a lot like the giant tubes in Metyrs arena, and they live 1000-3000 meters(3000-10000 ft) under the ocean. Another notable thing is their extremely long life spans, most around 300 years. Some are believed to be over 1000 years old.
Perhaps a cool parallel to the field of erdtrees seen in the elden beasty’s arena, except these are shriveled, warped, and abandoned; just like Metyr itself
this is what i was thinking too. it should honestly be the primary theory people try to rule out first given their other similarities instead of speculating on unrelated ideas
The Scaduview map swap event reminds me that if you go from the Charo's Hidden Grave site of grace, and head into the archway with the lake, but turn right and North follow right along the very edge of the cliffside, there's one TINY little spot which will swap your map to the Gravesite Plains. A super weird little bug and I have absolutely no idea why that particular location triggers it - especially since it's so incredibly tiny. As always, an interesting look at another rather intriguingly out-of-reach area!
Fromsoft really loves there vast endless sea realms that are deep under the world and connect to the surfaceworld through extremely long cylindrical objects
The arena itself looks like it takes place underwater which is usually a running theme for things associated with spirits and death whic gives Interesting implications. Those tubes reminds me of glass sponges or similar organisms. though rather being in the ground they they seem decend from above
The tubes immediately reminded me of the Elden Beasts arena, with the rows of Erdtrees surrounding the arena, which is conveniently a lake of water that only the Elden Beast can descend under. I think it’s safe to say Metyrs “tubes” connect to each of these trees, one of them, being our own Erdtree.
The tubes under the Arena, I think, are the original models for each variation of tube. Then the programmers could copy one of them and paste it above the arena. Rinse and repeat. It was just a convinient place to have a "stock" of all the assets you need. Specially because they are so similar its useful to have a look at them in game to chose and pick when placing them on the arena
Great catch! It makes sense with the aquatic theming as well since the spectral worms use an attack where they spit out their insides, like sea cucumbers.
That's a possibility too, But i do keep in mind in a lot of half visible/half not objects in Elden Ring usually some important ones always fully rendered even in the hidden side, there is also the fact that they are so long and stretched far above the ceiling which seems odd since you don't really need them to be that long if the player is not gonna see them anyway.
They specifically made them tubes, with modelled ends. And they already had existing giant finger models that they didn't use or base it on at all. Considering how they modelled scars onto the faces of npcs whose faces are already covered, I think its safe to say that if they were fingers, they'd look like fingers.
Thanks for the deep dive into Mother Metyr's arena. Still so many unanswered questions about the fingers and now those strange tube-coral-like husks. Could you perhaps take a look at Bayle's arena? What it looks like from the top down, and if those strange geometric holes lead anywhere/form a unique pattern? Thank you.
I'm pretty sure that's where placidusax's arena came from. The jagged peak used to be next to Calid before the shadow lands were hidden, and things like the Ruins greatsword hint at structures having moved over Calid's sky to where Farum Azula now is.
I assumed the tubes were the bottom parts of the giant fingers that stick from the ground around the land of shadow. Considering Metyr is the mother of fingers it would make sense if they all "sprouted" from her area. But this is just a theory, as you showed they are just tubes all the way up, very interesting video, thanks for sharing!
I love how long and intensely you inspect the tube forest, like you're so mesmerized. Kinda cute, with the music. The tubes at the bottom could also be just there for the level artist to copy paste from easier, is my guess of why they might be down there.
There was a theory that the tubes led up to the trees in the Elden Beast arena, but the striations make me think of horns - both the calling kind, and the gnarled sign of the crucible.
Dunno if anyone's mentioned this before but the tubes above Metyr's arena resemble the body of underwater tube worms. So the game is doubling down on the Greater Will having some sort of aquatic theme to it.
I find they most closely resemble the slime tunnels that certain animals, like tubeworms, Bobbit worms and garden eels, make for themselves in the sand. These animals coat their burrows with a thick layer of slime, to make a smooth ringed tube like that in order to make sure they don't collapse or cause chafing. Some species of spider, like the trapdoor spider, also do something similar with silk. My best guess is that these are tunnels Metyr either uses to traverse the shadow realm, or that her offspring use to spread across the lands between like scout ants.
Oh, man. U did me service, thanks. I was analyzing in which direction the statue "oh mother" and the tree at bonny village near the snake skin is pointing. And I was disappointed it was not directly in line to metyr but shaman village... And now you showing, hey it's on the same place beneath :D But still unsure to put a deeper meaning to it, because it's something u can impossible proof without free cam and clipping mod. But it's a step in the right direction :)
The tubes remind me of coral tubes, but actually they remind me a lot more of the tubes that large dinosaurs used to lay their eggs. I think that with this being the mother of fingere, those tubes are actually the mechanism by which new fingers are born/come into this world
Just some leftovers used to "build" the arena is my guess - you know, they made that specific bunch so they can copy-paste them into the arena, to speed up the process.
My schizo theory is that these are just air pipes maintaining atmospheric pressure in that pocket dimention. There is water above and below, but not in the arena of Metyr itself.
I think mtyrs arena was the original “passage” that we fight the elden beast in, at one point the flames of life and gold of stars would funnel though the now withered channels. Basically these are mtyrs garden of erdtrees to the elden beast, like I stated I refer to them as channels personally but I won’t deny it looks like coral but it looks dried either way.
Dude you're my new favorite channel for elden ring now. Would love it if you expand this to more games since your precise but not too short video are great ngl. Keep it up
It reminds of those slugs near active volcanic vents. Possibly predating eldenbeast and maybe alongside with the cirucible. Biology is a weird inspiration for this game and i love it. Matyr also means mother in greek (im assuming) which the Etymology elden video explained about how the older the names the older character or monster. Wo knows how consistent is that.
@@Kami.Sensei I’ve seen it in my recommended many times but I always thought it was about seeing Farum Azula from various places so I didn’t watch it. But just then I did watch it and it was far from what I thought. It’s a great vid btw. And it answered my question which is good. Ig I shouldn’t judge a book (or video) by its cover haha
the tubes under the arena might be the original assets for the tubes above. when setting up a scene in a 3D modeling software you have a few object variations stashed somewhere and you just grab one, copy it, then resize and move the copy. idk if thats what it is in this case but that would be my best non lore-based guess.
The reason there are some tubes under the arena is because they're originals that get instanced (copied without requiring multiplicatively more space in memory) into the level
They remind me of tube coral shells/exteriors? Fingers are similar to coral and anemones in the way they branch out. Maybe like the fingercreepers, the fingers are hand versions of a different animal, coral. Sentient coral is certainly an interesting and cosmic/alien idea
I think the tubes below the arena are the tubes used to copy-paste them above arena and they were just left forgotten there. It's easier than drag and drop assets from library than just copy-paste object in the world editor.
Half-baked theory based on the location of Metyr's arena: What if the fingers/Metryr communed instead with Marika herself as a "mortal" when the Greater Will abandoned them? They were like "well hey SOMEONE is answering, might as well give her godhood"
My first thought was they're roots from the Erdtree, cut off from Metyr; which could be from being sealed in the lands between, or she was sealed in the lands between because she lost her connection with the greater will
Could these possibly be the "arm" connected to the two fingers throughout the lands between? I think we see most, if not all of them with the wrist implanted in the ground (aside from the three fingers) Perhaps the two fingers are sort of antennae and these are the "cables" that bring the information back to Metyr?
They look like some sort of capillaries to me, to transport something to...somewhere, like blood to and from the heart. Messages from the Greater Will perhaps or even orders from Metyr to the Two Fingers...before it all went so very wrong I suppose and communication broke down. Man I hope we get more games in the Elden Ring mythos, there's so much to know and explore...like what happened to the Greater Will, is it dead and if so...what killed it? Another Outer God?
So it's the giant pillars in the Hunters Dream all over again, where never going to get official lore, well seeing it's head cannon time i think seeing where basically dealing with cosmic horror like Lovecraft's nightmare worlds what we have here is a area/space staked onto another and above Metyr's boss arena is where the Elden Beast is so these tube like structures are the roots of the tress like struct's in the Elden Beast's boss arena.
The pillars in the hunters dream were broken world trees like in Dark Souls and resemble ashen/faded erdtrees from The elden beast’s fight. Head theory’s that every single souls game is connected.
The most probable reason why there are giant pillar areas in these games is because Miyazaki saw Nausica had those giant pillars and he thought they were cool.
Personally. They look like withered umbilical cords. The first connection a mother has with her budding offspring. They could have multipurpose. Being a connection to her children of fingers. Communicate with them. Supply them with power or nutrients from afar. Vice Versa They could be root like. Much like the root system of the erdtree reaching far and wide.
on the way to get the twinblade europia，there is a statue covered by cloth，at the place where you fight a giant scorpion. can you check the statue that is under the cloth ，i wonder whether that statue is as same as the statues we see in enir ilim
Concerning the Interesting Event at 5:06 of the video: Taking into account other sources of information about Arena placement in FromSoftware games a similar strategy was done during development of Dark Souls 3 where High Lord Wolnir's arena was placed near Anor London despite the boss fight being at the Catacombs of Carthus.
Maybe each of those tubes is sending out a beacon of some kind trying to find the greater will, just based on the many different directions of the tubes
Well, she is the mother of fingers. It would only make sense the tubes are way for her to disperse her children without having to physically leave her realm.
I just assumed they were like communication vessels/devices between metyr and the various two fingers, as she relayed information from the greater will to them if im correct?
It's fully possible that they are still supposed to represent the bottom portion of the fingers, because the player is not meant to see the above portion. Thus, no reason to model the upper part.
surely they're horns, right? horns that make a sound when you blow into the fingers at the finger ruins? that was my initial thought and it still feels correct
@@Heowolf you are right, but you get those talismans somehow, right? maybe there's some more obvious contraption for how you get it but i sort of assumed that the horns carry the sound of your bell through to metyr, who then gives you the talismans. and then in the last case, it summons you to her
@@turquoise7817 I get the thought process, Ymir does say something about sounding the bells lets you receive guidance from the stars, and Meytr was the first star to land. Edit: Checked the other 2 Talismans locations, and unfortunately I can't see any link that would explain why you get the boosted versions there.
@@Heowolf lol i didnt even remember that, i must have internalised it for my headcanon i guess. personally the way these things curve and flare out slightly makes me think it's the extension of a horn, and is the way beings communicate with metyr, and yeah that comment from Ymir just bolsters this argument
looks like tube coral to me, and given that the ceiling looks like water too, it might be their inspiration
I think tube worm tubes look a lot more similar, but definitely an organic aquatic feel regardless of the inspiration
I think that may be how Metyr communicated with Greater Will. And since it's an outer god and if they are similar to how gods are in Bloodborne for "water" to be there would make sense since the Bloodborne gods are quite aquatic in shapes.
came here to say that they look like corals. You're spot on!
The assets under the map are likely the parent assets to a lot of the duplicates above. If you look, likely there is one of each unique model below that is copied above.
If the parent asset is deleted, so is all of the references in code to the children (aka duplicates). They’re likely moved to a different location as well to prevent accidental deletion and hold uniformity.
They could also just be one of each different type of asset in the set, left underground for easy copying and pasting. No point in deleting them since they're so few, and they can be later used if they need to make any changes. Easier to look through a set of a 6 unique assets than 100 randomly placed assets.
This is exactly what I was thinking
what are these big words
They do look like something for listening to the above / communication
I like this theory, as it brings to mind speaking tubes that were once used in buildings, airplanes, and most notably, ships.
What is the point of listening, if fingers doesn't have ears?
When TwoFingers was trying to communicate with GreaterWill, tey didn't go I AM ALL EARS all of a sudden...
@@sherkecringemonger9872ears are modern ways of listening to air vibrations (sounds), primitive animals had no ears and still could hear
@@Mikael_Ore sure. But how? With fingers? No. Goldmask was standing all over the map listening to vibrations? No. He was READING and SPEAKING with his finger motions. Braille shrift. FingerREADERS not FingerLISTENERS. Its a solid theory from OP, i guess, but its just doesn't make sense to me. Or maybe im just spittin nonsense. We will see.
@@sherkecringemonger9872 I think you are giving it a lot of thought from a biological point of view, BUT lets not forget the spicy ingredient of this game, maaagiiiiic, the way the fingers speak through Enia like using telepathy could be the way they communicate with others and it could function as a radio, if so, then those tubes could work as radio wave amplifiers to communicate among themselves, or even other beings such as the greater will.
I think they are tubeworms, specifically the species Escarpia laminata. They have growth rings that look a lot like the giant tubes in Metyrs arena, and they live 1000-3000 meters(3000-10000 ft) under the ocean. Another notable thing is their extremely long life spans, most around 300 years. Some are believed to be over 1000 years old.
Perhaps a cool parallel to the field of erdtrees seen in the elden beasty’s arena, except these are shriveled, warped, and abandoned; just like Metyr itself
this is what i was thinking too. it should honestly be the primary theory people try to rule out first given their other similarities instead of speculating on unrelated ideas
Left a message in that arena saying "If only I had a birdseye telescope..." so thanks for making that a reality
Honestly the Metyr arena has always reminded me of depictions of the cambrian ocean.
The Scaduview map swap event reminds me that if you go from the Charo's Hidden Grave site of grace, and head into the archway with the lake, but turn right and North follow right along the very edge of the cliffside, there's one TINY little spot which will swap your map to the Gravesite Plains. A super weird little bug and I have absolutely no idea why that particular location triggers it - especially since it's so incredibly tiny.
As always, an interesting look at another rather intriguingly out-of-reach area!
There's also a spot like that if you climb some roots in the canyon at the Siofra river exit in Caelid, where it swaps between Caelid & Dragonbarrow.
Fromsoft really loves there vast endless sea realms that are deep under the world and connect to the surfaceworld through extremely long cylindrical objects
05:18 that scaduview switch jumpscare would have me throwing away my controller thinking my game got possessed by an angry patches spirit
This is how fingercreepers get into the world
I'd love to see the top of Shadow Keep, it's criminal they didn't let us up there.
The arena itself looks like it takes place underwater which is usually a running theme for things associated with spirits and death whic gives
Interesting implications.
Those tubes reminds me of glass sponges or similar organisms. though rather being in the ground they they seem decend from above
It's also properly thematic for cosmic/eldrich horror, the deep is unknown and horrifying to humans on an almost viscerally primal level, kinda dope.
The tubes immediately reminded me of the Elden Beasts arena, with the rows of Erdtrees surrounding the arena, which is conveniently a lake of water that only the Elden Beast can descend under. I think it’s safe to say Metyrs “tubes” connect to each of these trees, one of them, being our own Erdtree.
Yep
The tubes under the Arena, I think, are the original models for each variation of tube.
Then the programmers could copy one of them and paste it above the arena. Rinse and repeat.
It was just a convinient place to have a "stock" of all the assets you need. Specially because they are so similar its useful to have a look at them in game to chose and pick when placing them on the arena
my thoughts exactly. it was clear it was the same 6ish tubes being reused.
I think those tubes are same texture of spectral worms, but without face and arms/legs
Completely agree-they look pretty much like the same model, just different materials.
Great catch! It makes sense with the aquatic theming as well since the spectral worms use an attack where they spit out their insides, like sea cucumbers.
They're called eels in the game files, so the watery origin would make sense
They still might be fingers, they just didn't model the tips because you can't see them
That's a possibility too, But i do keep in mind in a lot of half visible/half not objects in Elden Ring usually some important ones always fully rendered even in the hidden side, there is also the fact that they are so long and stretched far above the ceiling which seems odd since you don't really need them to be that long if the player is not gonna see them anyway.
They specifically made them tubes, with modelled ends. And they already had existing giant finger models that they didn't use or base it on at all. Considering how they modelled scars onto the faces of npcs whose faces are already covered, I think its safe to say that if they were fingers, they'd look like fingers.
I think that's how the finger babies travel out of metyr's domain
Ymir's quest line was probably my favorite of the side quests in the DLC. Metyr's arena is so cool and spooky.
Thanks for the deep dive into Mother Metyr's arena. Still so many unanswered questions about the fingers and now those strange tube-coral-like husks.
Could you perhaps take a look at Bayle's arena? What it looks like from the top down, and if those strange geometric holes lead anywhere/form a unique pattern? Thank you.
I'm pretty sure that's where placidusax's arena came from. The jagged peak used to be next to Calid before the shadow lands were hidden, and things like the Ruins greatsword hint at structures having moved over Calid's sky to where Farum Azula now is.
Look up the giant ship worm and look at the structures they create.
It's a pretty good match in more ways than one.
I assumed the tubes were the bottom parts of the giant fingers that stick from the ground around the land of shadow. Considering Metyr is the mother of fingers it would make sense if they all "sprouted" from her area. But this is just a theory, as you showed they are just tubes all the way up, very interesting video, thanks for sharing!
I love how long and intensely you inspect the tube forest, like you're so mesmerized. Kinda cute, with the music. The tubes at the bottom could also be just there for the level artist to copy paste from easier, is my guess of why they might be down there.
Interesting. Wonder if they're used for communication to the Greater Will. 🤔
Also love your content :)
leda's armor with gwyndolyn's head piece goes hard.
There was a theory that the tubes led up to the trees in the Elden Beast arena, but the striations make me think of horns - both the calling kind, and the gnarled sign of the crucible.
Perhaps that's how they chose Marika... by listening in on the Shamans
Theory: Like the Eldenbeast, Metyr's arena is in the Scadutree which is why when you go far off the arena, you get in the scaduview area...
Dunno if anyone's mentioned this before but the tubes above Metyr's arena resemble the body of underwater tube worms. So the game is doubling down on the Greater Will having some sort of aquatic theme to it.
Mother kos comes to mind
You know what? Kos and Elden Beast have a similar ‘winged sea slug’ body shape.
Are those that kind of tubes where you put your fingers in from both sides and try to remove them but you can't? I forgot the name.
Also, great video!
Oh yeah they were called finger trap tubes i think, for me when i first saw these from above they kinda reminded me of chocolate cigar rolls 😄
@@Kami.Sensei Same!
I find they most closely resemble the slime tunnels that certain animals, like tubeworms, Bobbit worms and garden eels, make for themselves in the sand. These animals coat their burrows with a thick layer of slime, to make a smooth ringed tube like that in order to make sure they don't collapse or cause chafing. Some species of spider, like the trapdoor spider, also do something similar with silk. My best guess is that these are tunnels Metyr either uses to traverse the shadow realm, or that her offspring use to spread across the lands between like scout ants.
They remind me of our mysterious blue worm buddies.
Oh, man. U did me service, thanks.
I was analyzing in which direction the statue "oh mother" and the tree at bonny village near the snake skin is pointing. And I was disappointed it was not directly in line to metyr but shaman village... And now you showing, hey it's on the same place beneath :D
But still unsure to put a deeper meaning to it, because it's something u can impossible proof without free cam and clipping mod. But it's a step in the right direction :)
The tubes remind me of coral tubes, but actually they remind me a lot more of the tubes that large dinosaurs used to lay their eggs. I think that with this being the mother of fingere, those tubes are actually the mechanism by which new fingers are born/come into this world
Just some leftovers used to "build" the arena is my guess - you know, they made that specific bunch so they can copy-paste them into the arena, to speed up the process.
Thanks for HANDling the arena
My schizo theory is that these are just air pipes maintaining atmospheric pressure in that pocket dimention. There is water above and below, but not in the arena of Metyr itself.
I think mtyrs arena was the original “passage” that we fight the elden beast in, at one point the flames of life and gold of stars would funnel though the now withered channels. Basically these are mtyrs garden of erdtrees to the elden beast, like I stated I refer to them as channels personally but I won’t deny it looks like coral but it looks dried either way.
Dude you're my new favorite channel for elden ring now. Would love it if you expand this to more games since your precise but not too short video are great ngl. Keep it up
I've always wondered what mods people use to do this. Great video by the way!
It reminds of those slugs near active volcanic vents. Possibly predating eldenbeast and maybe alongside with the cirucible. Biology is a weird inspiration for this game and i love it.
Matyr also means mother in greek (im assuming) which the Etymology elden video explained about how the older the names the older character or monster. Wo knows how consistent is that.
It’d be interesting to see the skybox and changes to the surroundings during the Radahn fight without running for my life in the process.
their texture reminds me of the spirit eels
They kinda look like hair strands under a microscope
So Metyr is a lice. What if Elden Ring is like Whoville sized
I’ve always been curious to see where Placidusax’s arena is in Farum Azula, idk if it’s already been a vid but I think that would be cool
I have a recent video covering that and Farum Azula on general you can check it out 😄
@@Kami.Sensei I’ve seen it in my recommended many times but I always thought it was about seeing Farum Azula from various places so I didn’t watch it. But just then I did watch it and it was far from what I thought. It’s a great vid btw. And it answered my question which is good. Ig I shouldn’t judge a book (or video) by its cover haha
Metyrs arena looks like you're fighting underwater but without the water.
I'm convinced that a lot of things in Elden Ring make more sense when you interpret them as alien life and alien technology.
Channel your inner space pirate.
TUUUUUBBBBBEEESSSSS!!!
Thank you for taking a look and posting your findings! ❤
the tubes under the arena might be the original assets for the tubes above. when setting up a scene in a 3D modeling software you have a few object variations stashed somewhere and you just grab one, copy it, then resize and move the copy. idk if thats what it is in this case but that would be my best non lore-based guess.
Maybe they are meant to be wormholes of some sort that lead to another dimension
These are the Shai-Huluds of Arrakis, and the blue substance is their poision.
The coral tubes underground are more likely just the sample collection of all the variations between the tube objects.
When I saw it for the first time it reminded me of the esophagus.
The reason there are some tubes under the arena is because they're originals that get instanced (copied without requiring multiplicatively more space in memory) into the level
Good use of the Stray ost!
arigato kami sensei.
the tubes remind me of the exploding worm boys all over the shadowed lands
They remind me of tube coral shells/exteriors? Fingers are similar to coral and anemones in the way they branch out. Maybe like the fingercreepers, the fingers are hand versions of a different animal, coral. Sentient coral is certainly an interesting and cosmic/alien idea
I think the tubes below the arena are the tubes used to copy-paste them above arena and they were just left forgotten there. It's easier than drag and drop assets from library than just copy-paste object in the world editor.
i personally need you to check out the carving above the giant old man statue in the grande cloister
the texture of the interior reminds me of the erdtree. someone did say these tubes could possibly be the erdtree's roots
Half-baked theory based on the location of Metyr's arena: What if the fingers/Metryr communed instead with Marika herself as a "mortal" when the Greater Will abandoned them? They were like "well hey SOMEONE is answering, might as well give her godhood"
Can't help but think that the those dangling things look A LOT like the things coming out of the faces of the Wormfaces
To me the whole Ymir quest felt reminiscent of Uzumaki by Junji Ito ; and the underground at the end also resembles Metyr's arena
My first thought was they're roots from the Erdtree, cut off from Metyr; which could be from being sealed in the lands between, or she was sealed in the lands between because she lost her connection with the greater will
Could these possibly be the "arm" connected to the two fingers throughout the lands between? I think we see most, if not all of them with the wrist implanted in the ground (aside from the three fingers) Perhaps the two fingers are sort of antennae and these are the "cables" that bring the information back to Metyr?
They remind me of the trees from Souls and From the fight with the Elden Beast!
you should find whats above the abyssal woods, since it looks like a canyon above a giant canopy
They look like some sort of capillaries to me, to transport something to...somewhere, like blood to and from the heart. Messages from the Greater Will perhaps or even orders from Metyr to the Two Fingers...before it all went so very wrong I suppose and communication broke down. Man I hope we get more games in the Elden Ring mythos, there's so much to know and explore...like what happened to the Greater Will, is it dead and if so...what killed it? Another Outer God?
im so glad theres a yter that shows these innaccessable places i loved your gate of divinity video
I was always wondering what those tubes are, are they some kind of communication tube?
So it's the giant pillars in the Hunters Dream all over again, where never going to get official lore, well seeing it's head cannon time i think seeing where basically dealing with cosmic horror like Lovecraft's nightmare worlds what we have here is a area/space staked onto another and above Metyr's boss arena is where the Elden Beast is so these tube like structures are the roots of the tress like struct's in the Elden Beast's boss arena.
The pillars in the hunters dream were broken world trees like in Dark Souls and resemble ashen/faded erdtrees from The elden beast’s fight.
Head theory’s that every single souls game is connected.
The most probable reason why there are giant pillar areas in these games is because Miyazaki saw Nausica had those giant pillars and he thought they were cool.
IKEA standing lamp and no one can convince me it’s something else
Personally. They look like withered umbilical cords. The first connection a mother has with her budding offspring. They could have multipurpose. Being a connection to her children of fingers. Communicate with them. Supply them with power or nutrients from afar. Vice Versa They could be root like. Much like the root system of the erdtree reaching far and wide.
I think the tubes made Metyr capable of sending fingers (and finger creepers) everywhere in the world.
Ok Miyazaki, just adapt the whole Lovecraft mythos already, you clearly want to...
They are but the literal manifestation of the message provided to us so long ago of, "Try Finger, But Hole."
Great video! I hated all the stuff but still, thanks for exploring it!
They remind my of the trees from the Elden beast's arena. Maybe they're cut down trees to symbolise the disconnect of Metyr with the greater will?
on the way to get the twinblade europia，there is a statue covered by cloth，at the place where you fight a giant scorpion.
can you check the statue that is under the cloth ，i wonder whether that statue is as same as the statues we see in enir ilim
They must be coral tubes from Subnautica
Could you show the inaccessible plateau near Belurat?
Concerning the Interesting Event at 5:06 of the video: Taking into account other sources of information about Arena placement in FromSoftware games a similar strategy was done during development of Dark Souls 3 where High Lord Wolnir's arena was placed near Anor London despite the boss fight being at the Catacombs of Carthus.
I always thought those tubes were how the fingers get sent to the surface
Maybe each of those tubes is sending out a beacon of some kind trying to find the greater will, just based on the many different directions of the tubes
Can you show us that area in the Lake of Rot that looks like it should be accessible on the map?
I genuinely think that's these are like the pipes from which Metyr sprouts the hands like enemies around the world map.
I think the tubes are fer stickin' fingers in. Becoming whole and whatnot.
Well, she is the mother of fingers. It would only make sense the tubes are way for her to disperse her children without having to physically leave her realm.
pyrosome! organisms made of lots off small lil dudes to form one big creature.
Now hold the phone, this isn’t Zullie
I just assumed they were like communication vessels/devices between metyr and the various two fingers, as she relayed information from the greater will to them if im correct?
Metyr pronounces al lot like Meteor.
Metyr came down to earth on a giant shooting star just north of Shaman Village.
"It's a series of tubes!"
The Greater Will never replied to Metyr's last Private Message. In fact they've never been online in eons!
It's fully possible that they are still supposed to represent the bottom portion of the fingers, because the player is not meant to see the above portion. Thus, no reason to model the upper part.
I wish you'd pause close up to one so we can yet a better look at its textures.
There's a plateau somewhere in Gravesite Plains that you can't get to. Maybe you could check that out?
They’re tube sponges!!! Some sort of feeding thing eldritch horror
surely they're horns, right? horns that make a sound when you blow into the fingers at the finger ruins? that was my initial thought and it still feels correct
You yourself make that sound by blowing into the "bell" with the Hole-Laden Necklace iirc. I'll double check to be sure and edit this later.
@@Heowolf you are right, but you get those talismans somehow, right? maybe there's some more obvious contraption for how you get it but i sort of assumed that the horns carry the sound of your bell through to metyr, who then gives you the talismans. and then in the last case, it summons you to her
@@turquoise7817 I get the thought process, Ymir does say something about sounding the bells lets you receive guidance from the stars, and Meytr was the first star to land.
Edit:
Checked the other 2 Talismans locations, and unfortunately I can't see any link that would explain why you get the boosted versions there.
@@Heowolf lol i didnt even remember that, i must have internalised it for my headcanon i guess. personally the way these things curve and flare out slightly makes me think it's the extension of a horn, and is the way beings communicate with metyr, and yeah that comment from Ymir just bolsters this argument
@@turquoise7817 Perhaps ringing the bells causes the talismans to fall down from higher up within them?