Bayle The Dread Lore & Story Explained - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree 

messmer or meytr pls

Golden hippopotamus

Romina tbh, I'm honestly confused to their place in the Rot lore

Mother of Fingers

Romina!!

Btw that npc’s name is Igon

Fr rent was around the corner😭

I love Igon.

BAYLE!!!

Apparently its his first acting credit in a video game Edit: his name is Richard Lintern

I took Igon as literally just Captain Ahab. A harpoon-wielding, one-legged madman obsessed with revenge against an enormous creature.

That'd be dope if bayle had tried to rid himself of the half he rendered weak like miquella and st Trina or marika with radagon

@@conwaysquest6961CURSE YOU MOBBYYYY DICCKKKK!!!-

Very intersting theory and I like it a lot actually!

I love this, kind of is a testament to Bayle's power. Very poetic!

I HEARBY VOW! YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY!

BEHOLD, A TRUE DRAKE WARRIOR! AND I, IGON!

YOUR FEAR MADE FLESH!

YOUR FEARS MADE FLESH!!!!

​Solid of scale you might be, foul dragon...

I personally would love to see some form of art of Prime Bayle and Prime Placidusax. Even better if it was a full 3d model.

That’s the next dlc Age of the dragons it’s hinted everywhere

Placidusax as Elden lord! Maybe bayle fought him first which then allow marika to move in, so Bayle fought an Elden lord!

@@tankbeast8480they’re not doing a second dlc. This is it

@@ndoe5219 Actually no, there is a possibility Miyazaki said. They have no plans for another DLC right now is what they said.

I killed Igon in my playthrough. I regret that decision now

CURSE YOUUUU BAAAYYLEEEE. Did you manage to get his dialogue if you got him to live through the fight? Damn his voice acting was so good.

True, but Bale has lost more and yet he continues to strive for strength to take revenge. The dude is really angry.

It was a sneaky atack them he fled away. Pacidussax was his lord at that time

​@@Artem-eu3uvpretty sure losing two entire heads/brains is a worse injury than losing your hands and legs.

​@@renefelipe922it was stated nowhere that it was a sneak attack.

2 Plac

His HARPOONS PIERCED HIS SLIMY SCALES !!! BAYLEEEEEEE

Bayle lost both his wings and a leg, but he continues to fight, get stronger and strive for power and revenge. Bayle the dragon is worthy of respect, I felt his rage through the screen.

"Bet." Final Flashes Bayle and sends him running like a bitch to the Shadow Realm

​@somersaultinggiraffe1901 Bayle is GOATED though, Bayle also has nukes and final flashes

@@TheHandofDestiny I mean being able to mess up Placi that bad just puts him above literally every demigod and Malekith too lmao

A cold one liner suggestion: The descendants of Gengis Kahn would stand outside the walls of people they were invading and say shit like, “if your god wanted you to live, he wouldn’t have made me.” Bayle could totally be a Kahn

The black Blade would have ended both dragons lol he was feared by everyone

I found this so funny 🤣

​@@HallstaR35how?

@@Crimson_Fatalis is it not funny that theses dragons are basically handicapped, and.. we continue to struggle… until eternity…

Yep

Why would you think he wrote anything about this dragon? He didn't have a part in the dlc

Not talking a about RR here but some.of the content in this DLC was already wrote for the main game, sooo

@@daardarkness4230Miquella story line is apparently one of GRRM contribution and apparently dlc is supposed to be telling that

@daardarkness4230 the lore was wrote as one, the DLC lore was bot added after. George R. R. Martin developed all of it at once, so yeah, probably he did. And if his was not responsible for that, my boy you have to admit that a gigante black dragon called "the dread" that are related to someone called aegon or Igon its not a coincidence.

Question is tho is greyoll an ancient dragon as well? Because how would lesser dragons and drakes exist if bayle is the father of them all. And they didn't exist before bayle having children so greyoll is a what?

@@imbangmaynn5705 Greyoll was that giant drake we see in Caelid surrounded by her children.

Greyroll wasnt an ancient drake, not immortal and another lesser race. Mother of all mortal dragons not all dragons! Mortal drakes are related to ancient dragons but they are younger and less powerful Ancient drakes have four wings and stone scales. So Greyroll is likely a offspring of Bayle and another ancient female dragon or the dragon god was female who is the mother of all dragons maybe It’s only true if Bayle is the father of all mortal dragons not all dragons but which isn’t mentioned explicitly

@@TheSolarium18 the dragon priestess literally says “Bayle is the father of all Modern drakes” meaning that he and greyoll are the parents of the mortal dragons. As ancient dragons are not “modern”

@@theredknight9314 ah ok thank you for clarification:) Next question was Bayle an ancient dragon? (he has four magical wings in phase two and i would say stone scales) And if bayle is the father of all mortal dragons is greyroll his daughter or where did she appeared from? and how did he produced her if so did he had a female follower ancient dragon and his offspring was cursed after his betrayal and his first daughter was greyroll? Because otherwise it makes zero sense

Bayle is said to be the father or original Drake. And his kin are dragons like Agheel and Greyoll. Placidusax and the others who look similar to him like Fortisax and Lanseax are ancient dragons

Theres one on EldenRing Fights and its just as expect as you’d think 👍

Appreciate you finna check it out rn

while i love that interpretation, Ancient Dragon's arent subject to Dragon Communion on death. Every Dragon Communion spell is channelling the power of modern dragons or magma wyrms, where the rewards for killing ancient dragons are either an incantation they use or one of their scales. This DLC also confirmed that the ones responsible for creating Dragon Communion are the Ancient Dragons themselves, out of the hatred for Bayle and his progeny. Ancient Dragons are incapable of doing Dragon Communion as well. I think it would be odd that Bayle could do Dragon Communion with all of these in place, but honestly, theres not much else to explain why he has Ancient Dragon wings Also something to note, Ancient Dragons dont drop Dragon Hearts either Placidusax's Ruin doesn't count as Dragon Communion as it isnt boosted by the Dragon Communion Seal. It looks like it should be, but the lore of Dragon Communion prevent it from being such.

@@hyperfreeze2714can you explain to me following: Isn’t bayle an ancient dragon? and if so why do you know? Is Placudisax an ancient dragon? and is he just the father then of all mortal dragons? which makes greyroll his wife? what made ancient dragons evolution to mortal ones? and Bales offspring then all mortal dragons are then logically enemies of ancient dragons? And shouldn’t bayle just be cause of his age an ancient dragon if placudisax is one?

@@TheSolarium18 1. Bayle is, to my understanding, the first modern dragon. 2. I know because A) we get his heart which Ancient Dragons dont drop B) he can be subject to Dragon Communion which Ancient Dragons are not. 3. Placidusax is an Ancient Dragon, and Bayle is the father to modern dragons. 4. Its more likely that Greyoll would be Bayle's wife/mate than Placidusax's. 5. Ancient Dragons degradation into modern Dragons isnt really explained to my knowledge, other than Bayle was the first. 6. Yes, Bayle's offspring are enemies of Ancient Dragons, but its because the Ancient Dragons created Dragon Communion to out of hatred for Bayle. 7. Age doesn't make an Ancient Dragon. Bayle is ancient and a dragon, but not an Ancient Dragon. Ancient Dragon is a species, not a way of saying that a dragon is old. Horses and Donkeys are similar, but theyre not the same species, like Ancient and modern dragons

@@hyperfreeze2714 Ok thanks for the answer but i would disagree in two things. First i think that bayle was an ancient dragon because he clearly has stone scales and also four wings in phase two. Which neither of those two are seen on modern dragons. Also i don’t think that a modern dragon would have ever tried to conquer placudisax. I could imagine that bayle started to conquer placudisax after the dragon god left. Then he lost and was outcasted maybe the dragon god who has become an outer god still had the power to curse bayles offspring to no longer belong to his race for him ignoring the natural order or placudisax as new overlord was able to do so. I can imagine that acting against the hierarchy is a big sin in dragon culture. Then this curse caused bayles offsprings to be a degenerate version of dragons without the blessing of stone scales and their immortality (or the power of time which vaati suspects what they really do) I think the thing with his heart is more like he is the first enemy so still his heart is interesting for the dragon communion despite him being an ancient dragon. It would also make sense here that ancient dragons would hunt down the degenerate offspring of bayle AND bayle So he drops a heart for us because we can use it for dragon cult and other ancient dragons don’t drop it not because they have no heart but because it’s not interesting for us in any sense. That’s probably why bales heart has in its desription „the purest form of comunnion“ whereas greyrolls heart is just a dragonheart. And the second thing is that ancient dragon means that they live longer in fact the biggest difference is that ancient dragons are immortal nit touched by time and modern dragons are mortal without stone scales and we see greyroll powerless through high age whereas bayle is still powerful despite his wounds and probably higher age it’s also important that other creatures can become sort of lesser dragons through bales blood or related heart so maybe greyroll was another completely other race turned into a modern dragon by some ritual by bale and they then procreated further modern dragons through more common coitus Which would maybe be another possible reason why there is a cult to hunt down modern dragons and bayle because it maybe was a forbidden sin to turn other beings into kind of dragons and bayle did this because he was outcast without companion and maybe he wanted to create an army to rival placudisax again

@@TheSolarium18Bayle is the lord of all Drakes

I mean to be fair the move sets are completely different styles too DLCs bosses were way more aggressive could just be an effect of the gameplay

Odd. Placi really does nothing much in game. That’s actually a shock win for me

@@microwave4928 what?

​@@orenges7034in the AI battles Placidusax is a bit of a comeback king. In his second phase his teleporting lunge attacks tend do do massive damage to both health and poise.

@@ultramagnus1859 fair point. I just found it odd that even with all those assets he’s very much still capable of beating the really aggressive enemies and stuff. Cause even after all that teleporting he has a lot of down time

and then I realized immediatly after posting this comment, I too, would like to fight Placidusax at his full strength.

Bayle, while he was wounded, destroyed the sh*t out of me with over 50 attempts 😂 I had to switch my strength build to bleed to finally beat him

Ty! 🫡

High disagree mirdir is

​@@tankbeast8480 I love Midir but Bayle genuinely worries me when he appears

I appreciate that brother

He had 5

@@hugo-pg5tv 💀