10 NEW Mind-Blowing Elden Ring Discoveries! 

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What I discovered in Elden RIng is if I get bored of the game, just start a new playthrough.

In regards to the red aurora, the Helphen's Steeple references a lamplight similar to grace, that leads the dead to the spirit world. The ornamental sword also has a red jewel at the top. I think it's a fair assumption that this lamplight could be red, and that's the aurora we see. Or, inversely, it's a natural phenomenon that they built a religion out of

The Flame Cleanse Me effect makes sense, but it may not even be "intentional". It's just that fire damage resets the frostbite effect, no matter who causes that fire damage (Which is why pro gamers in build videos will occasionally warn you against mixing fire and frostbite weapons/spells). Possibly, they just added that self-fire damage to give the spell some trade-off in comparison to limited cure items (and/or as a bit of flavor for "burning out the poison from your body"), and having it work against frostbite was just a happy accident.

Just wanna mention i appreciate the Credit given to people of the community that discovers these neat little secrets, props for that

If anyone wants to master parrying in this game, the underground area with all of the Omens is perfect to start learning how to time it

The Goldmask poses (if not a bug) is meant to indicate that he truly is a higher being that lives across all player worlds, as in one being and mind in many worlds instead of one copy per world like we(?) assume for every NPC. it could give a lore reason for his lack of movement ie. he is busy "doing stuff" in another world. it could also explain why he doesn't take care of himself if he has near infinite bodies in other worlds.

The double helix thing about the haligtree relates a lot to the Erdtree (as in the two in harmony in a helix with each other). In the dlc photo we see a tree that most people agree is the Erdtree with a twisting vine seeming to choke it (probably deathroot). For me at first I couldn't understand why people thought it was the Erdtree because I was seeing it as one tree no vine wrapped, and when you look at it like this it is very obviously the haligtree. Its probably meant to be both, Elden Ring is always using dualities (helix, Marika/radagon, malenias eternal rot/miquella's eternal abundance, outer gods/their worldly vassals, the physical lands between itself being a literal ring, you could go on and on), so its likely meant to be both the Erdtree wrapped by deathroot as well as the haligtree. The helix thing plays into this heavy for obvious reasons but as well as the fact that the section of the Haligtree that is missing (which in game looks like almost half of it) is the exact section in the dlc photo that is taken up by the Erdtree when viewed as Erdtree/deathroot. I think this is a strong indication that Miquella's goals may have involved balance with the golden order moreso than a second "better" great tree. Balance is a huge piece of Elden Ring so i think this will play a big part in dlc. Also farum azula was in caelid and I found pretty definitive proof, but that's for another time

In 9:21 the helix looks likes it's formed by a pair of braids, and the braids are very very similar in style to the ones we see on Miquella, in the image promo for Shadow of the Erdtree and the opening for base game. It's know that Miquella embedded himself in the Haligtree to grow it even more, so maybe after Mogh kidnapped him, part of the Haligtree fell apart lacking the power of Miquella, and as Sir Gideon said "So. The Haligtree, now but a husk..." As always, more questions than answers

I think that the character depicted in the farum azula statue is actually miquella, because in the dlc image fromsoft published, we can see that the person riding the horse is (most probably) miquella, and when ranni gives us the spirit calling bell and the three lone wolves ashes she says that the ashes belonged to the precedent owner of torrent (probably miquella)

The Orb on Gideons staff also looks a bit like the "eye" of Astel or the starfall beast

Another secret is when you alter Alberich’s helm to remove the helm, you can see that his entire skull is made out of red glintstone that he damaged so he could put his hat on, making him the third primeval sorcerer you encounter in the game. Going near a wall to manipulate the camera helps you see it

Ranni says that the Spirit Calling Bell was from Torent's former master, and then she gives us the three wolves Spirit Ash. So, if Miquella is Torent's former master, then the three dogs are as well, which means that the statue in Farum Alzula is of Miquella and those three dogs. I think that makes the most sense.

Speaking of unique handles, I noticed recently that the Scavengers Curved Sword has what appears to be a statuette as it’s handle.

Got a little lore-play for you; There are multiple paintings scattered across stormveil castle. But there is one in particular, that tells us a bit about the analogy in history. It is located just before the secret path to godwyns corpse, just above the bats. It depicts the stormhill and the divine tower of Limgrave...but without stormveil castle. The Erdtree is also missing, with only the moutaintops of the giants visible. This indicates, that the divine towers existed before the Erdtree or the golden order did. I'd go even as far as saying that they were there before the greater will even send the elden beast to the lands between and chose Marika to be the elden rings new vessel. As a sidenote; In the painting, the bridge to the tower already is pretty damaged, so it didn't happen during the shattering or the drifting of Farum Azula. All of this combined leads me to the conclusion, that all six of the divine towers, as well as all the monuments scattered around the lands between, have been built either by the Firegiants, which would make the most sense, or by a much older civilization. P.S.: One could also argue, that there is a giant visible in the top lefthand corner raising it's arm, but that is a little far fetched because of the low quality. It might as well be the chapel of anticipation.

idk if you've ever covered it but I learned the other day that if you get knocked off your horse next to a pumpkin head they have a unique critical animation they can hit you with

About the double helix Haligtree: Helix and Halig also sound extremely similar, especially when you combine them with -tree. Helixtree. Haligtree. And in case you don't know, and that has nothing to do with helixes, Halig means Holy or Sacred in Old english and proto-germanic languages

The flame cleanse me works against frostbite because any fire damage does clear up frostbite too (and it worked that way in DS3 too). Because of that, I really often play a character with a cold weapon in the right hand and a torch in the left, to reset frostbite after every proc to be able to proc the ailment again for more damage.

i want, SOOOOOOOOOOOO badly, to play an elden ring 2 prequel that shows the world pre and during the wars. live and vibrant, life everywhere, non ruined castles, non dying lands, i wanna see the world in its apex. then i wanna watch it die during the wars. then end the game with how the tree got the elden beast.

Are we just gonna ignore the fact that Miquella is literally Griffith? Double Helix tree, androgynous appearance, Castle Sol's Eclipse, Rebirth, charismatic and manipulative.

You really blew my mind with your Minor Erdtree Church video, pointed out so many interesting details I missed! 🖤

Any translation of the inscription on saint trina's sword?

My thoughts on the red lights between Layndell and Mountaintops was that it was remnants of the flame of ruin and the previous burning. Leyndell and this area are both grey and ashen, implying previous burnings of the Flame of Ruin. That said, the militia there do have Death on their weapons, so maybe somehow it escape here, for example if this is where the Knifeprints were used to forge the black knives.

Combo Lazuli/Olivanus crowns would probably do variations of Primeval sorceries, like the Graven Masses do, given these are the crowns making up the Masses/Schools. so Carian/Star sorceries

Has any one ever mentioned or talked about the multiple Placidiusax corpses protruding from surrounding cliff faces in and around Farum?

The most powerful weapon I’ve discovered for use against the storm hawks are my legs. They seem to carry me far far away from them.

I think people are overthinking the statues intent. It being Miquella makes absolutely no sense seeing that he was long after Faram’s destruction as well as having statues that ACTUALLY depicts him and they didn’t make. Neither does Marika or GeQ, all are very flimsy at best. The woman in the statue has no stand out features especially in relation to any character in the current game. It’s no one, the point of the statue is very likely to link the concept of Emypreans (in general) and beasts in relation to Faram Azula and Golden Order/Greater Will. It’s also there to hint at the connections to Faram and Greater Will. Along with the Older version of the Elden Ring and many similarities to the Dragons Culture and the Golden Order, it’s also likely the “fled” Placidusax’s God was the Greater Will. Especially since the Elden Ring is a Greater Will unique concept.

For player centric weather, it's a good bit cheaper and a LOT easier to implement. And much smoother when having a world with parts loading in and out. Basically, there's a couple methods. 1. Fully pre baked. Everything has it's own settings given in advance, for wind, etc... and it sticks with that upon being loaded in as it's default settings. This is cheap enough to load in, barely ups the asset/level size for the extra info, and is a good option. However, dynamic effects on things or alteration mid level like changes to weather, wind, etc... aren't being included. So to have these we can't be fully pre baked. 2. Dynamic local, each object in the world that CAN interact with the environment or weather, does so on it's own. Every tme you move towards an area, all objects that load in, must also check for the local enviornmental control object and ask for it's weather, and then register themselves with it so if it changes it has a giant list of things to go through and update to the new condition. Doing this for small maps is ok, but for giant open world maps with tons of objects you might see at any point in time from a distance, or not see do to obstructing obstacles, it's pretty expensive with lots of extra calls and checks going on as you load in/out the world, and that's already a point where hitches are at risk of happening in most such games, so you really want to minimize this performance cost if you can. 3. Dymamic central. All enviornmental items still have their default state, but can be changed, and do so from a single central system. The idea is now things just need to do their own thing, until the player can see them, and they start getting rendered, or are close enough to always be loaded in even if not currently looked at (means you spin the camera around and things don't suddenly reset from starting poses or stuff). If everything just asks for it's updated weather data when it's being loaded in, from a single central player controller, than that means even as you run through the world all these different areas around you only need a single controller managing them. So that's a bit less overhead, and being tied directly to the player helps you optimize what it controls and updates based on the players location and what they'd see. In some engines LOD and occlusion systems could be used to cover for this, while for others it'd be much easier from a central player controller that can just reference the player directly. Now as the player walks around, they update as they overlap/enter a new trigger enviornmental area, however you set up your weather data locations. That one trigger on the player, tells it to update it's values, and possibly send out an update to registered environmental objects it's currently referencing to use these new ones if needed. If done poorly, it's as many calls as the dynamic local system, but if done as well, it's much fewer and more optimized compared to it. And then lastly, for the developer themself, it just might be easier. Instead of all particle systems needing to have an attached code object that finds nearby weather control system and asks it for stuff, or that they must manually link it to when placing it in the world, they can instead just have particle effects reference one global variable for "wind strength" and "Wind direction" or such. And those variables are controlled by the player. Now, drop a fire effect in anywhere, and it just works... from the players perspective. No hassle, it's quick and easy and pretty robust against bugs or oddities happening. Then just have the player modify those universal variables based on their locations supposed weather. This is... for a game developer, a lot easier and quicker to setup. And for a level artist, much faster and easier to set up all the fire and trees and other art in the world if it's just drop in and it works without any extra steps. And having extra code running objects associated with all of these that you drop in with them that might automate, would add notable overhead when loaded up and run in game otherwise. So it's just ease of use, and performant, a nice combo, that does have some limations like you show in the video of all visible fire and trees being affected by the weather the player at their own location is experiencing. But in the name of quicker development, for a big game like Elden Ring very important, and performance, also very much important, it's a decent trade most devs would argue, and most players will barely notice.

Real quick about the weather - it's a pretty common technique in games to have the weather be tied to the player, or more specifically the camera (usually - there's clips going around of Starfield tying it to the player instead of the camera). It's a lot less processing to make it rain in a small area that the player can see as opposed to the entire world, it's a neat trick devs have been doing for a while now.

The galaxy in Gideon’s staff is a very cool find! I feel like making a new build around it just because of it haha

I'm amazed I was seemingly the only one theorizing the Haligtree, as is, was an offshoot of what it failed to become.

I have always assumed the red lights were that of the flames of ruin atop the mountain

I was once a phantom in my friend’s world and the giant Pot boy in calid appeared to be doing the animation of the same one as when Alexander is collecting flesh after Radahn fight

I think the statue is Miquella. He had the ability to coerce or change people to his ideals and follow him. If you look at the wolves they aren't angry and also have no teeth, which I believe means they aren't a threat, but enthralled and are looking to him in reverence. 😎🍻😎

You found some great little details this time! I knew about the rare Twinsage Crown, but I only ever saw the Raya Lucaria one using Spiral Shard, not one of his Sellia counterparts. I wasn't aware that "Flame, Cleanse Me" did a tiny amount of damage either -- is that also true for the other Flame body buffs? The new Goldmask animation was amazing -- where was that found exactly, and have people tested all of his appearances for secret poses? Regarding the Runes, I think they're also reminiscent of a spinal cord forming, perhaps indicative of a "trunk" for non-plant life. They might also be reminiscent of the Elden Beast's grab attack, where a golden orb forms around a dark core akin to a black hole. Perhaps it's depicting a galaxy in some way? The find with Gideon's scepter is also cool. As for the Haligtree, I think the tree is actually bifurcated and grows into two major groups of branches. As for the color of the energy in the Forbidden Lands, considering that the place leads to the Mountaintops where the Fell God resides, that likely represents Giants' Flame. Some people have theorized that it's the lampwood of the Helphen, but the Mountaintops don't seem naturally affiliated with Elden Ring's spirit world, the place is just suffering from Deathroot and the Castle Sol ritual. Finally, regarding the Farum Azula statue, I believe that represents Placidusax's god, the Marika figure of Farum Azula's civilization, when she was a child. The stonework of Farum Azula appears to be extremely old, so it's unlikely that the figure is meant to be a relatively recent figure. Additionally, we can see that the depictions of Miquella at the Haligtree differ from the Farum Azula statue regarding their hair, face, and clothing. The mural of the Elden Ring is also likely relevant, as it seems to depict the Elden Ring among a series of roots, akin to later eras depicting the Elden Ring within the grown Erdtree. If you look closely, there are still only four rings in the mural, and everything else is a root that grows from the Elden Ring and either stops or deflects whenever it comes back in contact with the Elden Ring. Thanks again for finding all of this and crediting people. I'm curious if the Goldmask pose indicates that he was trying to hold onto a cliff, or if he was climbing down or up one instead. That definitely seems like an intentional animation, not a glitch. After all, Goldmask in the distressed pose is only visible at the point of his quest where he's shocked that Radagon is Marika, suggesting that the animation is meant to show him wracking his mind at this revelation and realizing the Golden Order is dysfunctional.

When you pointed out the Helix shape probably being the true form of the Haligtree, it instantly reminded me of the Shadow of the Erdtree art. Went to check it out and, yes, this might be foreshadowing confirming that the tree in the art is in fact a complete Haligtree. Might not be the same but it's Helix shaped.

The flame cleanse me for frostbite makes perfect sense. I’ve used it forever and never tried it. You just cleared up a quick slot for me

All of the red aura in the mountaintop area is probably because of whatever spell was used to kill the giants those thorns (that killed the giants cause as far as I can tell we do not have access to those exact thorns, we do have access to another form of thorns, just not the one used on the giants) aren't exactly usable by the player

Great vids ZIO cheers bro

For Flow of Death: Red is not just the color for Destined Death It is also the color for the Crucible and for the Formless Mother and blood Red with orange like in the Forbidden Lands aurora, stands for the Fell God of the giants so I don't think it is a warning for death - it is the warning for you, that you are about to enter the land of the giants

Game dev here with 13 years experience in the industry. For the weather thing, it's a resource cost issue. Creating worldwide weather is a huge resource hog and doesn't add much value to the player since they can't see the weather happening out of their line of sight. You also have added issues like making sure global weather doesn't go inside of buildings. Player centered weather effects are still a resource drain, but they're more manageable with trigger volumes turning them on and off. The old way of doing it was a screen filter, but it was pretty easy to notice that there wasn't real rain. Player centered has that problem as well if the weather radius is too small. I want to say that happened on horizon zero dawn. I was able to see the weather cone around the player and noticed it didn't affect the area past a short range.

I would love to see a lake of mud video on elden ring discoveries and secrets. They're that channel that did those videos like "183 Dark Souls 3 discoveries and secrets." Those videos are great for secrets in these games. Maybe you can even work with them on it, if they're ever gonna make one on elden ring.

I'm surprised no one thought of the runes being annual rings, based on everything else it seemed pretty clear. Then again, I don't tend to talk with people within the community so I never heard anyone refer to them as eyes 😅

I literally watch your videos for two things. Elden Ring news and discoveries and every banger from the Metroid Prime soundtracks.

11:00 The weather being player centric is the benefit; the fire blowing in the wind is just an artefact. The game Warframe is switching from ambient effects to player centric ones in the next update, and they described some of the benefits: its easier to load, the lighting can become more realistic, and environmental effects become easier to mix with the lighting. You see the effects of this in coop; I‘m sure you‘ve noticed that the falling grace/sparks depend on where the host looks. My guess is they programmed flames to behave based on host location for the purpose of torches - and in most cases (i.e. any moment where you can not look from one weather zone into another) this takes away any effort necessary to edit flames to fit the weather. So the ones in the beast sanctum are just an oversight.

That one about the soul consumables looking like cut trees is very interesting to me. It makes sense thinking about it

the sword of saint trina having wolfs makes sense with the statue being michella. we see michella with torrent and ranni gives us the bell that was of torrent's previous owner together with the 2 wolfs summon

I came for the Elden Ring secrets, and I stayed for the Metroid Prime soundtrack. Amazing video man!

To add to the Helix part the Shard Spiral(another helix) was a failed attempt to create a new comet by attempting to create a new celestial body you are trying to change fate

The Glintstone Crowns are both at locations where you find the Imbued Stone Keys, how cool!

Gideon's staff reminds me of the egg that you touch at the end of Dark Souls 3 Ringed City DLC. The one that turns the world to ash.

I think the red auroras seen in the forbidden outskirts could be from the frenzy magic being practiced and foreshadowing the meeting of shabriri

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I swear I got that glintstone crown in 1 of my playthroughs, now I gotta go back and check all my builds lol

0:07 BANG!!!

Vaati has a video about what the red glow in the Forbidden Outskirts could be, or he talks about it at one point.

The orb of Gideon's staff reminds me of Angel's Egg (Anime) and the egg in DS3 Ringed City before you fight Gael.

As someone with prob well over 2500hrs I have to say there were some of these that I did not know about - great vid

The red mist is destined death yes. The kindred at the end inflicts the death effect when hitting I.e. reduces the size of of the health bar same as Malaketh and Alecto. Both of the latter carry destined death

Alberich also has red glintstones in his headgear, you can see it quite clearly in the altered version.

The red glow in the forbidden outskirts might also be a residual effect of the forgotten era of when Radagon was still the Sun-King of the Sun Realm, and connected to the eyes of the fire giants.

3:09 the gravity spell (the one that pulls enemies to you) instantly poise breaks flying enemies. Very ez to take out birds and bats

Apologies for posting on an old video, but I just finished watching this entire series and I just wondered if you had seen/remembered the little hidden grave site in Caelid Waypoint Ruins right near Fort Gael. Inside are stone sarcophagi overgrown with mushrooms and the room is filled with juvenile Kindred of Rot and one single poison mushroom guy. I had a small thought that maybe this showed how Kindred of Rot are created? Maybe the poison mushroom men have a hand in tending graves where the mushrooms can grow and the Kindred sprout out?

2:26 the depth, don’t think this really was intentional. this property was emergent due to flame, cleanse me dealing fire damage to the player. fire cleanses frostbite there. wasn’t a thought, but it was the game obeying its own rules

Guard counter works really well on the hawks.

If I had to guess, the unobtainable glintstone crown was probably the start of what wouldve been the Sellen/Graven Witch Conspectus, as if i remember right, those same two faces are on many, of not all of the Graven Masses, suposedly created, or inspired by Sellen. The sorcerer in question also uses the Shard Spiral sorcery, and though im aware that this sorcery originates from the Karalos Conspectus, it is also only available via completing Sellen's questline, which sort of hints at the idea that Karalos and Sellen may have at some point conspired together during their time studying at the academy and also that followers of Karalos where aware of Sellen's potential as she became one of the most prominant sorcerers, if not the most prominant sorcerer in all the Lands Between, and prematurely started the foundations of creating a dedicated conspectus in her name, regardless of her reputation. Another interesting thing is that at the end of her quest, she also turns into a graven-mass. Interestingly, it seems Rennala was the one who would've done so, which means that at some point, she had studied how to do so, which also hints at Rennala having a keen interest in Sellen, despite having been expelled from the academy, which again inadvertently hints at the idea that her expellation might not have been from Rennala herself, but instead as a majority decision by the entirety of the academy's scholars, and that so few stood up for her in the end. This means thay Rennala may not really be as emotional as we have thought, if the lives of even the most intelligent minds are expendable as subject to experiements, without even having a word to say about it afterwards. Gotta say, for not having glimpsed the Primeval Current, she sure knows a hell of a lot about it. Maybe more-so than Lusat and even Azur.

6:37 that Statue with the three wolves and the girl is Torrents former mistress, Rannie gives us the 3 wolf spirit ash summon, so it must be the same person torrent and the spirit summoning bell belonged to. Alsp Shadow of the Erdtree DLC inage shows the spirit graveyard with etherial gravestones, makes sense that the spirit summoning bell would be used by Miquella/ St. Trina

Soemone must have said it already, but it has been suggested that there is a spirit-tree of sorts as well. Associated with the Helphen Steeple and Ghost Flame. Mainly only suggestions of relatedness to destined death/black flame, because the Helphen Steeple is found near Castle Sol. Personally, I believe it is not related to black flame or destined death. The pre-erdtree ghost flame may just have had its own tree before the Greater Will arrived. Heck, it may even explain the two-toned color of the Erdtree or the destroyed crucible tree underground. I think the erdtree beast as a kind of parasite on what came before

The lights mirror the flower that grows all throughout the lands between, taking on different colors based on geopolitical factors. For example, most of the astrology towers we find have flowers with the deep blue shade associsted with Carian sorcery growing around them. But the 2 converted towers wjth Marika statues have golden flowers. These are by far the most common variants, but even these raise interesting questions. The carian-blue flowers are just as, if not more widespread and common than the golden variant, though im going by memory, so hard numbers might prove me wrong. But the spread of this variant well beyond the areas associated with Caria or even sorcery at all is another subtle clue as to the state of the lands between prior to the Golden Order. A surprising amount of iconography associated with the GO clearly predates its existence. The main example i can recall are the large statues of the hooded figure, and the smaller statues of the hooded woman or even young girl holding a book or tablet (unless its one of the many instances of these statues that are pristine aside from the consistant lack of hands, always cut off at the wrist. The uniformity of the damage, and lack of any pieces of stone on the ground nearby does suggest that this isnt the result of time. Theres other examples, such as the single golden branch cultivated by the bald figure lookjng almost identical to the death ritual spear (most apparent in the renditions of this statue found in Roundtable Hold) but it looks like the symbols of Gold not only predate it, but are often from cultures totally incompatible with Golden Order tenents. But wait! It gets deeper and even more mysterious. Fort Haight, taken by a Knight sworn to Mohg and granted blood powers, has a red variant of the flower growing on both sides of the fort's sturdy walls. In Dominula, the dancers dance among a pink variant. I cant confirm it at the moment as im in the middle of a move, but im pretty sure theres more of these pink flowers in the hermit village on Gelmir, further cementing the connection between the dancers and the snake worshipping pagans that once lived on mt gelmir. There are also orange variants found sparsely growing around he ruins above where we first meet Sellen (these may admittedly be a similarly designed flower and not a variant. They were the first flowers aside from gold and blue i noticed, but dismissed until seeing the undeniable variants of many other colours), a lavender variant, and a lighter shade of blue, similar to either glintstone magic, lazuli robes, or rannis robes, and I think there may still be a few other uncommon variants. I cant remember their exact locations, and for many of them i cant figure out the significance of the colour to the region they are found. It may end up being nothing, but once you notice these flowers, you cant stop noticing them. Theyre bright and almost glow, their colour is so vibrant, but to a significantly lesser degree than crafting ingredients like rowa or altus bloom. It just really seems like the kind of subtle environmental storytelling that gets From rock hard, so im hoping we will learn what or whom each of these colours represents. Possibly even piece together a story or series of stories that has been omitted from the version(s?) of events we have been presented with thus far

I stopped playing for 3 months (not by choice) I have no idea where anything is and it’s amazing every now and then I remember something but it’s as close to my first playthrough as I’ll ever get

I thought the red aura in the mountains was Helphens Lamplight...

11:27 maybe something to do with the helphen. It does say it looks like the guidance of grace and there is a red gem on the weapon.

Goldmask is a parkour master! He can wall-hang, on air! Is that the secret of the Golden Order?

If I remember correctly, the reason the weather and such is player centric is for performance. Its alot easier for the game to run the weather by having a small area around the player rather then having it completely cover the world.

What is the music playing at the end,the forbidden outskirts..

i just wanna say this because I looked up the etymology, "halig" is just (an) old english way of saying "holy", in old english if the G is before/after certain vowels (including i) it's pronounced like y. So it'd probably sound somewhere between "holy" and "halley", and wouldn't end in a hard G. the more you know ;D

maybe the red flows are caused by the tibia mariner at the mountain top using the helphen's steeple

If we take the Erdtree as a fungus of some kind, I think it also makes sense to read the rune items as a fairy ring of mushroom spores growing into shape.

fire damage unprocs proced frost bite effects even in the player. flame cleanse me's damage tick is recognized as fire damage

For once I actually knew something on this list. I’ve been using flame cleanse me for frost since I discovered it on accident against Niall

When i firts saw haelig tree screenshots i thought "OMG we will be on top of the Erd Tree!?! There's second smaller rotten tree growing on top of it?!" I was really disappointed that it's a separate tree, it would be really cool reference to some depictions of the world tree in real life.

For me, the most interesting theory is melina being The Gloam-eyed Queen. To me, it could make sense with the frenzy ending

I just discovered the flame cleanse me trick a few days ago lmao

Ziostorm, take a look at some images of Beech Trees, specially heart rot, which literally hollows the center of trees. I think that's an explanation for the split haligtree and the missing center of the tree-rune cross hatch theory.

I wish there was a better way to figure out which attacks can be parried without guessing or looking it up online. I kinda want to do a parry based playthrough but don't know when I would actually be able to do it, lol.

Wait a minute.. freeze frame at 4:59. The staff headpiece, when see front view, looks like the symbol displayed when casting blood spells. Is that significant?

great video, dude can anyone tell me the name of the set at 4:00?

The Fobidden lands is, as far as I can tell, the most prominent "liminal space" in elden ring. Really just an area you are meant to pass through.

About the red. Helphens steeple has a description about a land of death where you’re guided by red instead of gold.

The knuckles on Ofnir's staff appear to be eyes, as well, with the wrinkles acting as eyelids.

I got the first incantation on my first play through ever, just randomly exploring throughly. Such a massive help. The lore and attention to detail in this game is next level insane. Absolutely incredible. Well deserved GOTY, can’t wait for SoET

Finished 1st playthrough but still grinding for rare drops before starting NG+

Weather localization in games has been around since the early days of GTA 3. Saves on assets, helps with performance.

This game has been the greatest story told layers upon layers of real stories I guess the true challenge of this game is to figure most of it out

Do you have an idea where the dlc could start? Down on the cinquedea is a platform, in haligtree near the avatar is a door looking alike gate. Where could it be? Do you have any idea?

"Flame, cleanse me" works for frostbite??? Wow

Think you might be onto something with the Runes, which got me thinking - I think they might be closer to a cross-section of a mushroom stem.

That duo of glintstone crowns is what makes up the graven mass in Lenne's Rise, could that be Lenne?

flame clense me deals fire dmg and fire dmg removes the frostbite debuff not them thinking oh this sould work on frostbite too

Legit the first time i saw birds with swords on their feet my first thought was "but can i parry it?" So i tried it a couple times and viola