To the sponsorship people: I actually like Zullie's ads more than a typical sponsorship bit. Zullie's style of video means I can appreciate the music of a game more and I like the information Zullie gives over the usual sponsorship that sounds exactly like every other sponsorship that I've heard.
Elden Ring's list of characters has over a dozen entries that are simply named "Someone Yet Unseen". Presumably they had several NPCs planned that didn't make the final cut, and some of these faces may have belonged to them, but this could also point towards the many character's we're likely to meet in the DLC, and some of them may end up using these faces or some iteration of them too.
Or just a bunch of placeholder faces made so there was a stock available to be slotted in as needed. That's what I would do in this situation. Well that and spend hours horsing around with the builder tools just to see what I can get it to spit out.
It’s wild to think there is story written that isn’t used but hinted at, it makes me think there could be another DLC to just use up the last of the written story
Zullie, this is a big ask, but could you do a comprehensive video covering the interesting changes made by the day and night cycle? I think most people know about the unique bosses at night but there even are different enemy placements which still surprises me. For example, the church of dragon communion has spirit jellyfish spawn there at night. Surprised me quite a bit as I had never been there at night. Made me wonder what other changes might be made in different areas of the games. It would be a big undertaking, but I don’t think anyone has tried tackling this yet. Appreciate all your hard work!
Makes me wish that NPCs with helmets took them off even if only once and for a short time, like Lucatiel did. I wanna see the face that I'm talking to dammit.
@@joebykaebyi mean, it's lore from the base game. We don't know a lot about the dlc, the rest is speculation. We don't know if the shadow lands are a physical place, or some kind of parallel world, or a dream/nightmare sustained by an Outer God. We don't know exactly why Miquella is there either.
@@tweeeeeex I'm fully expecting Miquella to actually be evil. He has the power to control dreams and compel people through them. What if...what if Mohgs dynasty wasn't even his idea. What if Miquella planted that seed.
I recently made a second character to play around with magic a bit since I'm typically a pure melee character and I don't feel like reallocating stats on my original character via Rennala. I did dark purple hair on the second character and it actually looks really good on her. I mean, now it's covered with the Astrologer set, but it does look pretty good.
I wonder if they were going to use the twins as another instance of a male/female being, but abandoned that idea later, maybe leaving the big reveal for Marika/Radagon be more impactful and unique
I mean... the twins are still regarded two people with one soul. It's in their armor description. In fact, the suggestion that they "never speak, nor stand together" implies they aren't even blood relatives, but were connected by this shared soul, and feel the other's existence without ever having crossed paths. This would explain why Radagon is a human champion descended from the Fire Giants, while Marika is an Empyrean from Numen, outside the Lands Between. They could cooperate at a distance, but weren't truly united until fracturing into one, sometime after Radagon was crowned King Consort. D and his brother were rejected by all orders as abominations except the Golden Order-after all, its godhead is a similar "abomination."
Like, it's not perfect. Modded games like Skyrim and The Sims 2 and 4 have more options for faces. But, for an UNMODDED game? It's pretty damn good. Only gripes I have are the eye options.... It's hard to get the exact eye shape I want. And for some reason, side profiles... my characters tend to look good from the front. But the side profile looks janky. And there's usually no fixing it.... It's just too bad that, like the devs. To play optimally, you spend an hour or more making your character.... Only to slap a helmet on them and NEVER see their face again.... (Luckily, I don't play optimally. I just slap a Commoner's Headband (Altered), or an Aristocrat's Crown on them and I'm good to go. =V)
@@DataDrain02 Ain't that the truth, lol. I got lucky with that stone cat imp head dropping for me in an early catacomb and I wore it for so long that I honestly forgot what my character looked like. I then got Radahn's set and haven't really switched to anything else, but I still have forgotten what hair I gave her. I also did the dragon heart stuff despite playing a pure melee build, so I've also forgotten what her eyes look like since they've changed from the dragon communion. I could go get rid of that though to see what I put them as. I mean, I've already had to adjust her once, because originally she looked quite a lot like Helen Hunt, lol. I made some adjustments and she looks better now.
I always figured that the reason Old Knight Istvan looked young was because he was Numen. So he looks, like, 30 but is generally centuries to millenia old. Similar with Vyke's skin. I don't think it's ashy because of Frenzied Flame, I think he's just Dragon-blooded.
Adore your work, thank you so much for the care and effort you put into each one of your videos❤ Every upload adds more unique insight into what makes this game so wonderful to so many. The attention to detail you bring is quite charming. I’m sure it’s pretty taxing from time to time, but rest assured that you’ve got supporters that really appreciate what you do ✨ Thanks, Zullie
I'm glad you liked it, the long videos like this can be an ordeal and I had been worried whether my style would even work well in a longer format, but it's been nice to see how people have responded to them.
As an albino; we do not actually have red eyes. That is a misconception. At certain angles they may appear pinkish due to visible blood vessels, however we have the same eye colours as everyone else. Even purple. In fact: Albinos are the only people who can have naturally occurring violet eyes, thanks to the pink/red of the blood vessels mixing with a natural blue. I made my Elden Ring character albino. White hair, brows, and lashes, and very pale skin, but with icy blue eyes with faint purple clouding. Quite pretty.
@@StephanieJones-vo3zbalso made one of my OCs who happens to be albino in ER, and the option to actually make all the hair and eyes look realistic kickstarted me in using its editor for OC ideas in general
I think they were going to lean into how close the twin’s situation was to Marika and Radagon, but changed gears to make the reveal more impactful. Also, I don’t want to imagine a world where most players know D as a woman because the Waifu wars between her and Fia would be catastrophic
@@lm7677D doesn't even pop up that much and iirc dies early game too, so it would be funny watching people lose their heads over a woman they spoke to once to unlock early Dragonbarrow and then never talked to again again in their playthrough. Like okay dude try to sell me how much you love the girl you only listened one line of dialogue from, I will totally believe you
@@nintilla9973 besides, we can change gender at the mirror. My lesbian ass would just start as a male warrior then change gender just to accommodate a possible headcanon with a Female D (unless D copies my changes too)
The kintsugi idea is so cool! Theese unused characters might've been tried as concept of repairing broken vessels with gold. Which links to Marika and Radagons bodies (apparently broken beyond repair).
How wonderful a Zullie upload on a Sunday, y'know it's gonna be a great day but interesting to know there are unused faces in Elden Ring, always amazes that there's still stuff to find.
I know this is an odd request and likely not easy to do, but could we get the sliders for some of these faces? So many of them are drenched in potential for characters and perfect to be used as bases
The blue haired - blue eyed lady NPC made me think of Ranni. Not that they look anything alike, but the colorset matches. Doesn't necessarily has to be Ranni per say, could also be "the Snow Witch" from which Ranni's doll form was based on.
I like this kind of videos in a way. They are 99% speculation but that's what I find awesome about the franchise. I don't need a character talking for 10 minutes before the game ends so I understand every single detail. I prefer to see something and think hmmm, this might be this, or that, or maybe something I still hasn't seen.
what would really be incredible, would be a gallery for us to look at and check out their values to use for our own characters. some of these look really inspired! nice vid, per usual
I think the blue-haired woman can actually be real Renna, the real Snow Witch who is the prototype for the doll (with blue hair and similar eyes) that now hosts Ranni's spirit
@@Aurosteel They were referring to an entirely separate NPC known as the Snowy Crone, who tutored Ranni, and whom her doll form was modeled after. Not Ranni herself.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem I think it's worth noting that the marionette soldiers have 4 arms as well, so Ranni's doll body could simply be a heavily modified design.
Thank you for (thoughtfully) not trying to derive lore and results from these faces. I know certain communities are utterly rabid about "cut content" and so forth, so It's a very interesting look at the design and dev process, and shows what the did and did not cultivate to make the game.
i wonder if 3:54 is Asimi, before and after getting the items for her cut quest? The white-faced red eyed woman isn't blood crazed, she's clearly made to represent *albinism.* her "other" form has natural pigmentation.
Thanks for the video! I love the Dragonic features and the gold scar so much I immediately logged in and put one on my main Tarnished. They are from the related race as well, so that went perfect together!
2:46 Radagon's eyes aren't ever shown... exactly. But in the Radagon icon and in his portrait at the Roundtable Hold, his eyes (or at least his right eye, as he's only shown in profile) are pitch black. Even in the final battle, his gold left eye is really just shards of the Elden Ring arranged to resemble an iris. (Funnily enough, even the manga depicts him with black eyes.) By contrast, Godfrey's portrait shows him with gold eyes, from before he was exiled with the Tarnished. I feel they must have been very careful in how they chose to depict Radagon.
@@daniil.dankovsky I just know Radagon was an absolute godly lay. Ran around everywhere with his tits out like a massive sl**, and everytime he swings his weapons he makes sure to raise it up high and kind of stand at an angle to you to put his muscular body on full display. Rennala probably spent more time almost biting holes into her lower lip watching him decimate her army while barely dressed than actually fighting herself, and went into a catatonic state after he dumped her ass. He can't have done much more in their marriage than lie on lounges like Gwynevere, massive muscular pecs bared for her to oggle, while their kids did shit like go to war with stars and shit. The homewrecker was Marika, who is Radagon, and I assume she had some degree of awareness of what he was doing with Rennala, because there's little other rational explanation for her doing a selfcest with the literal dogmatic half of her still shackled to the Greater Will. It completely screwed her over in the long run, so getting literally screwed for a bit must have been really worth it.
Just something I was thinking abt, could Mesmer be the one who stabbed Marika? The Elden beast was damaged where she was stabbed, so it couldn’t be the greater will. Also, the spear was red and it seems too perfect that Mesmer was hiding in plain sight the whole time.
The npc’s with the golden facial scars made me also immediately think of ichor (the Japanese gold repairing technique you mentioned also popped in there too), the blood of the gods in the old Greek pantheon (Hera and Zeus and all that), as it’s supposed to be golden in color. I know that thematically that would be out of left field but the thing of godliness and golden blood is why I thought of it.
Lovely video. I especially liked one of Tanith's supposed drafts - at 2:28. I kindly wanted to ask how to access these files myself, so I can figure out the sliders of it. Thanks in advance!
I'm really glad to see you bring these videos out showcasing the hard work the devs put into the game that we wouldn't know about otherwise. It also makes for some great speculation!
I know it'd be a lot of effort, but would it be possible to get a video that gives the numbers for all these to base as a template? Some of these are really good bases.
Thank you so much for this. Might it be possible share some sliders for the more unique among these faces? (I regularly use your NPC sliders - thank you for those!)
I wouldn't be suprised if many of these are placeholders for cut and/or future content. It's well known that developers will often work on large portions of the game and then cut it off due to time constraints or some other set backs only to finalize and release it later as a DLC. Just look at what happened with Destiny. Almost all of the DLC in the original game was accessable from release but was blocked off in one way or another. That didn't stop basically everyone from checkin it out though lol
Among all theses, I'm sure one of them must belong to Bloodhunter Raz! It's a shame they got rid of him before release though, still very sad about it.
I luv your videos! fr, you put so much effort to discover lore related thing based on data that I really hope tha Myazaki or his team put someone named Zullie in the game hahaha
i'm not surprised to hear that miyazaki had instructed designers to make characters look like real people, several of the faces in this and other videos do look like famous actors (sellen is a dead ringer for kristen wiig)
Love the kintsugi style one! I’m still baffled that with all the themes of shattering, mending, and gold, that Kintsugi has no thematic mentions in the game!
Zullie is the slider data there for these? Because releasing a database of each of these with corresponding sliders for cosplay or roleplay runs would be absolutely MASSIVE. Just a few gave me so many good ideas, but I am absolute dogshit at using the Fromsoft character customizers without a guide.
As you mention at the end, it's wonderful that we're able to see all these faces that someone sculpted but never made it in game. While this kind of work isn't it necessarily wasted without being seen by the audience, it's nice to acknowledge behind the curtain work.
Please do a video on Dark Souls 2’s map design. It’s the most confusing map in any souls game and has always been an enigma to me. Would be really interested to see a breakdown
Burn scars can make skin much darker, so it's still a possible before and after, but it's most likely a face they used to make Adan rather than a real face they were going to use, yeah, I don't think they probably planned on having a pre-burnt Adan as an NPC in the final game or anything.
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To the sponsorship people: I actually like Zullie's ads more than a typical sponsorship bit. Zullie's style of video means I can appreciate the music of a game more and I like the information Zullie gives over the usual sponsorship that sounds exactly like every other sponsorship that I've heard.
On one hand, glad that you’re popular enough to get sponsorships.
On the other hand, ew no.
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Elden Ring's list of characters has over a dozen entries that are simply named "Someone Yet Unseen". Presumably they had several NPCs planned that didn't make the final cut, and some of these faces may have belonged to them, but this could also point towards the many character's we're likely to meet in the DLC, and some of them may end up using these faces or some iteration of them too.
Or just a bunch of placeholder faces made so there was a stock available to be slotted in as needed. That's what I would do in this situation. Well that and spend hours horsing around with the builder tools just to see what I can get it to spit out.
It’s wild to think there is story written that isn’t used but hinted at, it makes me think there could be another DLC to just use up the last of the written story
Sounds like a good name for forlorn type invaders
Umm, Zullo, I can see them. Am I going to die now? 😢
"Yet unseen' most likely means we will see them in the DLC or sequel. I'm excited
I’m always hoping that one of the unused faces is just Miyazaki
Nah, it's gonna be Rick Astley with a FromSoft version of a Rickroll
He's not like Kojima who puts himself into his own games
Big burly japanese man with a big ass hammer
@@arbiter- Solaire
@@arbiter- You're right, he just puts his fetishes in instead.
Zullie, this is a big ask, but could you do a comprehensive video covering the interesting changes made by the day and night cycle? I think most people know about the unique bosses at night but there even are different enemy placements which still surprises me. For example, the church of dragon communion has spirit jellyfish spawn there at night. Surprised me quite a bit as I had never been there at night. Made me wonder what other changes might be made in different areas of the games. It would be a big undertaking, but I don’t think anyone has tried tackling this yet. Appreciate all your hard work!
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7:04 when Mads Mikkelsen invades your session
Well, we've confirmed that Hideo Kojima snuck into the FromSoft offices at some point.
he's coming after my BB
I love that there are prototype Gideon faces and then a final Gideon face, despite the fact that we never see his face.
The one Gideon to rule them all
Makes me wish that NPCs with helmets took them off even if only once and for a short time, like Lucatiel did. I wanna see the face that I'm talking to dammit.
We're gonna be dissecting dlc characters months before it releases aren't we
That's what I was thinking lol
Given the chance to ruin it before we even play it, why wouldn’t we? There are hour-long videos about the lore of the DLC already.
@@joebykaebyi mean, it's lore from the base game. We don't know a lot about the dlc, the rest is speculation. We don't know if the shadow lands are a physical place, or some kind of parallel world, or a dream/nightmare sustained by an Outer God. We don't know exactly why Miquella is there either.
Oh yea
@@tweeeeeex I'm fully expecting Miquella to actually be evil. He has the power to control dreams and compel people through them.
What if...what if Mohgs dynasty wasn't even his idea. What if Miquella planted that seed.
@5:15
...Huh, I never realized dark-blue hair looked this good in-game; might be worth considering next time.
I recently made a second character to play around with magic a bit since I'm typically a pure melee character and I don't feel like reallocating stats on my original character via Rennala. I did dark purple hair on the second character and it actually looks really good on her. I mean, now it's covered with the Astrologer set, but it does look pretty good.
The Grey skin/Gold tattoo combo looks cool too!
Just did a build that was all Sonic the Hedgehog Blue, except for the eyes being blood red
@@Fool408 Sonic.exe
@@bubble_espeon Actually wasn't sonic, I'd say quite the opposite
I wonder if they were going to use the twins as another instance of a male/female being, but abandoned that idea later, maybe leaving the big reveal for Marika/Radagon be more impactful and unique
I mean... the twins are still regarded two people with one soul. It's in their armor description. In fact, the suggestion that they "never speak, nor stand together" implies they aren't even blood relatives, but were connected by this shared soul, and feel the other's existence without ever having crossed paths.
This would explain why Radagon is a human champion descended from the Fire Giants, while Marika is an Empyrean from Numen, outside the Lands Between. They could cooperate at a distance, but weren't truly united until fracturing into one, sometime after Radagon was crowned King Consort.
D and his brother were rejected by all orders as abominations except the Golden Order-after all, its godhead is a similar "abomination."
The Elden Ring Charchter Creator is so Good-Looking that i honestly dont have the soul to make Monsters like Dark Souls
Weak
Like, it's not perfect. Modded games like Skyrim and The Sims 2 and 4 have more options for faces. But, for an UNMODDED game? It's pretty damn good.
Only gripes I have are the eye options.... It's hard to get the exact eye shape I want. And for some reason, side profiles... my characters tend to look good from the front. But the side profile looks janky. And there's usually no fixing it....
It's just too bad that, like the devs. To play optimally, you spend an hour or more making your character.... Only to slap a helmet on them and NEVER see their face again.... (Luckily, I don't play optimally. I just slap a Commoner's Headband (Altered), or an Aristocrat's Crown on them and I'm good to go. =V)
@@DataDrain02play around with the jaw and cheekbones settings. It won’t be perfect but you can get a decent side profile if you can get it right.
@@DataDrain02 Ain't that the truth, lol. I got lucky with that stone cat imp head dropping for me in an early catacomb and I wore it for so long that I honestly forgot what my character looked like. I then got Radahn's set and haven't really switched to anything else, but I still have forgotten what hair I gave her. I also did the dragon heart stuff despite playing a pure melee build, so I've also forgotten what her eyes look like since they've changed from the dragon communion. I could go get rid of that though to see what I put them as.
I mean, I've already had to adjust her once, because originally she looked quite a lot like Helen Hunt, lol. I made some adjustments and she looks better now.
@@DataDrain02same, I farmed the hell for ONE of those headbands! I made a few insane monster creations but mostly I stick to my pretty character😅
Whoa, now that I know that kintsugi is a thing, it feels massively important to Elden Ring as a whole.
I'm pretty sure the gargoyles being glued together with corpse wax is at the very least heavily inspired by this.
A rabbit hole well worth falling down, also what
@Brown95P said.
WE MUST BRING OUR BOY ALEXANDER BACK WITH GOLDEN GLUE!
It's too bad kintsugi can't save Alexander.
It’s hard for me to picture Zullie playing World of Tanks
Now I'm imagining Zullie making videos about secrets in World of Tanks lol.
Next Zullie video: wot's problem with matchmaking
Zuli out there mercing fools in an m1 Abraham
can totally imagine a tank modded with Zullie's dress
war thunder jumpscare
7:00 if only we could have this NPC voiced by him and make him as our ally like Alexander or Blaidd in the DLC
I always figured that the reason Old Knight Istvan looked young was because he was Numen. So he looks, like, 30 but is generally centuries to millenia old. Similar with Vyke's skin. I don't think it's ashy because of Frenzied Flame, I think he's just Dragon-blooded.
Adore your work, thank you so much for the care and effort you put into each one of your videos❤
Every upload adds more unique insight into what makes this game so wonderful to so many. The attention to detail you bring is quite charming. I’m sure it’s pretty taxing from time to time, but rest assured that you’ve got supporters that really appreciate what you do ✨
Thanks, Zullie
I'm glad you liked it, the long videos like this can be an ordeal and I had been worried whether my style would even work well in a longer format, but it's been nice to see how people have responded to them.
@@ZullietheWitch keep it up, team! We’re cheering for ya~
Shout outs to the Brian David Gilbert preset @ ~3:03.
The characters with white hair, white eyelashes and pale red eyes could just be albino, rather than dedicated to Mogh's cult.
As an albino; we do not actually have red eyes. That is a misconception. At certain angles they may appear pinkish due to visible blood vessels, however we have the same eye colours as everyone else. Even purple. In fact: Albinos are the only people who can have naturally occurring violet eyes, thanks to the pink/red of the blood vessels mixing with a natural blue.
I made my Elden Ring character albino. White hair, brows, and lashes, and very pale skin, but with icy blue eyes with faint purple clouding. Quite pretty.
@@StephanieJones-vo3zbalso made one of my OCs who happens to be albino in ER, and the option to actually make all the hair and eyes look realistic kickstarted me in using its editor for OC ideas in general
3:08 Wow, Borat is in Elden Ring?
Is very nice
4:26 Makes me wonder if they thought of making D male/female based on your gender like Anri in ds3
I think they were going to lean into how close the twin’s situation was to Marika and Radagon, but changed gears to make the reveal more impactful. Also, I don’t want to imagine a world where most players know D as a woman because the Waifu wars between her and Fia would be catastrophic
@@lm7677D doesn't even pop up that much and iirc dies early game too, so it would be funny watching people lose their heads over a woman they spoke to once to unlock early Dragonbarrow and then never talked to again again in their playthrough. Like okay dude try to sell me how much you love the girl you only listened one line of dialogue from, I will totally believe you
@@nintilla9973 besides, we can change gender at the mirror. My lesbian ass would just start as a male warrior then change gender just to accommodate a possible headcanon with a Female D (unless D copies my changes too)
The kintsugi idea is so cool!
Theese unused characters might've been tried as concept of repairing broken vessels with gold. Which links to Marika and Radagons bodies (apparently broken beyond repair).
07:08 If you forget how limited the options for graphics were at the time, this could almost be an insult.
There is something so great but also a bit funny in how you do not compromise for ads and stick with text. Our Zullie is un-corruptable.
7:17 That's the Undertaker 100%
I dunno, I see Steve Buscemi.
LMAO i see it now, you are totally right
praying that he isn't in his American Badass gimmick here
saw it immediately, that's mark calloway
6:34 Now that the DLC has come out, I wonder if this guy is a rough draft of Igon, or they used him to inspire Igon's model.
How wonderful a Zullie upload on a Sunday, y'know it's gonna be a great day but interesting to know there are unused faces in Elden Ring, always amazes that there's still stuff to find.
I know this is an odd request and likely not easy to do, but could we get the sliders for some of these faces? So many of them are drenched in potential for characters and perfect to be used as bases
They are unique face templates, you can't recreate them in the character creator
DS Map Studio
7:19 was probably made to look like Stannis from Game of Thrones, they bear a striking resemblance
Or Trevor from gta
The undertaker
For anyone wondering, at 2:29 the FaceParam ID of the Tanith pre-draft on the right is 10006.
You're welcome.
Oooh the draconian skin with gold tattoos is definitely gonna be my next look.
Literally half a second before Mads Mikkelsen's picture came up, I practically shouted "That's Mads!" 🤣
The blue haired - blue eyed lady NPC made me think of Ranni. Not that they look anything alike, but the colorset matches. Doesn't necessarily has to be Ranni per say, could also be "the Snow Witch" from which Ranni's doll form was based on.
I like this kind of videos in a way. They are 99% speculation but that's what I find awesome about the franchise. I don't need a character talking for 10 minutes before the game ends so I understand every single detail. I prefer to see something and think hmmm, this might be this, or that, or maybe something I still hasn't seen.
ID 10000, maybe the dev test player avatar? Perhaps the original John Elden Ring?
what would really be incredible, would be a gallery for us to look at and check out their values to use for our own characters. some of these look really inspired! nice vid, per usual
I think the blue-haired woman can actually be real Renna, the real Snow Witch who is the prototype for the doll (with blue hair and similar eyes) that now hosts Ranni's spirit
We don't know that Renna was her name, but yeah, that was my immediate thought.
entirely wrong, ranni's body is in the study hall tower.
@@Aurosteel They were referring to an entirely separate NPC known as the Snowy Crone, who tutored Ranni, and whom her doll form was modeled after. Not Ranni herself.
I doubt it. Ranni's body is based on Renna, so she would most likely have 4 arms and not be a tarnished NPC.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem I think it's worth noting that the marionette soldiers have 4 arms as well, so Ranni's doll body could simply be a heavily modified design.
Thank you for (thoughtfully) not trying to derive lore and results from these faces.
I know certain communities are utterly rabid about "cut content" and so forth, so
It's a very interesting look at the design and dev process, and shows what the did and did not cultivate to make the game.
i wonder if 3:54 is Asimi, before and after getting the items for her cut quest? The white-faced red eyed woman isn't blood crazed, she's clearly made to represent *albinism.* her "other" form has natural pigmentation.
7:17 "...who may be a little less likely to star in movies." Bruh, that's Stannis Baratheon lol
7:58
Pinocchio? Is that you?
Thanks for the video! I love the Dragonic features and the gold scar so much I immediately logged in and put one on my main Tarnished. They are from the related race as well, so that went perfect together!
"Never judge a book by its cover" and here we are judging NPCs by their faces.
Well we literally have nothing else to judge them by.
hey physiognomy is a very real thing
2:46 Radagon's eyes aren't ever shown... exactly. But in the Radagon icon and in his portrait at the Roundtable Hold, his eyes (or at least his right eye, as he's only shown in profile) are pitch black. Even in the final battle, his gold left eye is really just shards of the Elden Ring arranged to resemble an iris. (Funnily enough, even the manga depicts him with black eyes.)
By contrast, Godfrey's portrait shows him with gold eyes, from before he was exiled with the Tarnished. I feel they must have been very careful in how they chose to depict Radagon.
Oh hey, the npc at the end of the first section is Igon from the dlc
The dragonborn with the gold scars is so cool I'm just going to make a new faith build around that
i really appreciate that you use timestamps to skip the thing, most tubers dont bother but its really nice
The Elden Ring characters are all so good looking 😭
More highly attractive men would have been nice, but I suppose that's what the Tarnished is for.
@@thegloriouskingkronk8422 yura, rogier, vyke, d, radagon, Alexander, and boggart just to name a few
@@daniil.dankovsky I just know Radagon was an absolute godly lay. Ran around everywhere with his tits out like a massive sl**, and everytime he swings his weapons he makes sure to raise it up high and kind of stand at an angle to you to put his muscular body on full display. Rennala probably spent more time almost biting holes into her lower lip watching him decimate her army while barely dressed than actually fighting herself, and went into a catatonic state after he dumped her ass. He can't have done much more in their marriage than lie on lounges like Gwynevere, massive muscular pecs bared for her to oggle, while their kids did shit like go to war with stars and shit.
The homewrecker was Marika, who is Radagon, and I assume she had some degree of awareness of what he was doing with Rennala, because there's little other rational explanation for her doing a selfcest with the literal dogmatic half of her still shackled to the Greater Will. It completely screwed her over in the long run, so getting literally screwed for a bit must have been really worth it.
@@thegloriouskingkronk8422bro, loathsome dung eater, no need for anyone else
@@thegloriouskingkronk8422 Messmer’s gonna be one of them too, probably more would be added in the DLC.
Just something I was thinking abt, could Mesmer be the one who stabbed Marika? The Elden beast was damaged where she was stabbed, so it couldn’t be the greater will. Also, the spear was red and it seems too perfect that Mesmer was hiding in plain sight the whole time.
The npc’s with the golden facial scars made me also immediately think of ichor (the Japanese gold repairing technique you mentioned also popped in there too), the blood of the gods in the old Greek pantheon (Hera and Zeus and all that), as it’s supposed to be golden in color. I know that thematically that would be out of left field but the thing of godliness and golden blood is why I thought of it.
Is it possible for you too post the slider values, so people can make them in game? Or is it already somewhere?
For a land with so much light the npcs sure do avoid the sun. Pasty hall of fame.
I want you to know that along with your beautifully simple and short videos, that I love your choice of OSTs! (Especially any Twilight Princess ones)
1:00- EURON GREYJOY SPOTTED 🦑🦑🦑🦑
3:11 wow it's my Bloodborne character
1980s Tetsuo Sakurai?!
2:28 NAAAH the one on the right is Brandon Rogers xd
3:05 - Brian David Gilbert is that you??
Lovely video. I especially liked one of Tanith's supposed drafts - at 2:28.
I kindly wanted to ask how to access these files myself, so I can figure out the sliders of it. Thanks in advance!
DS Map Studio
Don't suppose we'll ever get a list of sliders for these faces or anything?
I'm really glad to see you bring these videos out showcasing the hard work the devs put into the game that we wouldn't know about otherwise. It also makes for some great speculation!
Would really like the sliders for some of these😢
damn, Imma need that Mads Mickleson sliders
7:16 Please tell me im not the only one to see this face and think: _"Bah Gawd, It's the Undertaker!"_
Thank you.
I've never seen a sponsor ad that is entirely text based dialog.
You make very good videos.
I know it'd be a lot of effort, but would it be possible to get a video that gives the numbers for all these to base as a template? Some of these are really good bases.
I love these videos. They make me think, they have Zelda music which I absolutely adore. And they are about Elden Ring and other Souls games.
6:35 Hi Jschlatt
4:57 Maybe this was possibly what Ranni's original face was going to be revealed as.
Gerudo town night track is my vibe ❤
You do amazing work Zullie. Thanks for this. Hope youre doing well!
It lowkey makes me happy to see you getting sponsors on your videos. Get that bag!
happy you got sponsored! congrats. love your videos
Thank you so much for this. Might it be possible share some sliders for the more unique among these faces? (I regularly use your NPC sliders - thank you for those!)
5:45 That really updated my journal
I wouldn't be suprised if many of these are placeholders for cut and/or future content. It's well known that developers will often work on large portions of the game and then cut it off due to time constraints or some other set backs only to finalize and release it later as a DLC. Just look at what happened with Destiny. Almost all of the DLC in the original game was accessable from release but was blocked off in one way or another. That didn't stop basically everyone from checkin it out though lol
Among all theses, I'm sure one of them must belong to Bloodhunter Raz! It's a shame they got rid of him before release though, still very sad about it.
I luv your videos! fr, you put so much effort to discover lore related thing based on data that I really hope tha Myazaki or his team put someone named Zullie in the game hahaha
3:43 hear me out
Some of these are really nice. I wish there was a way for players to easily access them and use them for their characters
Another reason im looking forward to the DLC is finding out how tall the shadow Erdtree is in comparison to the regular one
I really missed your videos Zullie, sending all my love to you 🫶🏼
Is there any way to make the face in 6:14 ? She's really pretty, and her features are quite unique.
she looks like a jojo character
7:45 Looking back, this could easily be an early version of Leda
It is nice to see their hard work. Thank you, Zullie.
I recently realized that the black wolf mask seems to have some yellow in it's only open eye. Might wanna look at it Zullie!
i'm not surprised to hear that miyazaki had instructed designers to make characters look like real people, several of the faces in this and other videos do look like famous actors (sellen is a dead ringer for kristen wiig)
I wonder if any of these faces were meant for the cut character Sceiron, the Graverobber Lord. I guess we will never know.
The ad feels out of place but I'm not complaining, glad you can make some extra with your content!
It's kind of crazy that they go through all the effort of making unique faces for characters whose faces you're never going to see.
Love the kintsugi style one! I’m still baffled that with all the themes of shattering, mending, and gold, that Kintsugi has no thematic mentions in the game!
Zullie is the slider data there for these? Because releasing a database of each of these with corresponding sliders for cosplay or roleplay runs would be absolutely MASSIVE. Just a few gave me so many good ideas, but I am absolute dogshit at using the Fromsoft character customizers without a guide.
As you mention at the end, it's wonderful that we're able to see all these faces that someone sculpted but never made it in game. While this kind of work isn't it necessarily wasted without being seen by the audience, it's nice to acknowledge behind the curtain work.
Please do a video on Dark Souls 2’s map design. It’s the most confusing map in any souls game and has always been an enigma to me. Would be really interested to see a breakdown
5:51 they are similar, but Adan’s final face is so much darker than the other version, maybe it’s an old version?
Burn scars can make skin much darker, so it's still a possible before and after, but it's most likely a face they used to make Adan rather than a real face they were going to use, yeah, I don't think they probably planned on having a pre-burnt Adan as an NPC in the final game or anything.
4:21 Bottom Left. Can't believe Kurt Cobain was almost in the game.
Could we have sliders for the faces shown? Some of them are legit somthing I would play for the next playthorugh
Have you ever found the face values for the ghost that shows up in volcano manor talking about the serpant hunter spear?
Do you think it'd be possible to make spreadsheets or something for the character sliders? Some of those guys look cool
Crazy to see how you’ve grown and progressed over time. Would be interesting to see you make your own game with everything you’ve learned.
Great vid as usual, its interesting to see what NPCs we couldve seen in game.
I think the fist face shown, the one with frenzied eyes, looks like shabriri's woe, so he might be shabriri