Elden Ring - An extremely cruel design 

In addition to the Omenkillers using the Capra Demon animation rig, it feels like at least one Omenkiller may be a direct reference to the infamous Capra Demon in the Lower Undead Burg. Like the Capra Demon, the Omenkiller in the Albinauric Village is notably accompanied by multiple dogs, though the arena is much larger than the Capra Demon's.

Given how much the Golden Order hates and spurns animalistic features, the Omenkillers secretly having tails is pretty ironic

00:17 the idea of an Albinauric, a Demihuman and an Omen sitting together somewhere around a campfire I find strangely endearing

Is sad how some Omen told to a "friend" his nigthmares and that person used the info to make them suffer more.

Fromsoftware is a truly ecological company Their animations and bosses are reusable and come in an equally reusable tote bag with a "zero waste" sign

One detail is that being an Omen is not exclusive to humans. The Guardian Lions have horns growing in their manes, and drop Old Fangs and Budding Horns upon death

There's just something about Omenkillers simply being labeled "Slaughter" in their AI file. Terrifying stuff

I think it’s very ironic how omen are seen with the golden aura in their eyes, while the omenkillers’ eyes are not visible but completely black.

0:55 I love this visual it shows how much omen killers terrify the omens

Morgott's deal is that it reveals the omen curse COMES from grace. After we beat him, we take his Great Rune, and his Omen Curse along with it.

Technically, the omens have the highest elemeantal resist for holy damage as well. Quite fascinating.

Such a sad fate. Born into a world where everyone and everything, even the gods, despise them. No wonder they're so aggresive.

Forsaken Depths was always my favorite dungeon, I love fighting the omen so much, their design is amazing.

my interpretation of omens and other peoples being shunned is that it has nothing to do with the greater will or the erdtree, it's simply an invention of marika's golden order (which itself is only her own interpretation of what the greater will wants). because their existence isn't easily understood or explained, they have the potential to call the golden order into question if they're accepted, as such marika refuses to let that happen and persecutes them. and my own personal theory is that this ties into marika having an obsession with her order lasting forever, hence the name eternal, which is very similar to other doomed efforts to seek immortality in some form in these games (like gwyn desperately clinging to the fire). in a vain attempt to make her perfect dream last forever she corrupted it with inequality, and sealed away the three fingers and the rune of death to prevent the end of the order, which led to her eventually realising this was wrong and breaking the ring in the hopes that someone could fix her mistakes and create the change she resisted

The Golden Lineage seems the most influenced by the Omen curse, which appears to have something to do with Godfrey's days as a warlord during the Crucible Era. Perhaps Omen were first deemed impure by Radagon himself, to delegitimize the claim of Godfrey's descendents?

"The Omen share animations and rigging to the Capra Demons" Me - "I KNEW I had a reason to hate them outside of Lore!"

I knew i recognised the Moves from the Omen Killers from somewhere. Damn Capras

honestly, the fact that the tail _does_ get acknowledged in some of the new animations makes think they _did_ once have a tail - or at least, there was a stage between the capra demon and the omenkiller that retained the tail, either as an earlier part of elden ring's design, or an enemy cut from an intermittent game alternatively, perhaps there was the idea for a branch of omenkillers, or a specific unique one, that have grown a misbegotten's tail. it would fit a "he who fights monsters" spin and / or further reinforce the golden order's hypocrisy, and would make the reuse of the capra demon's assets even more economical

I never thought about how the Omens are born with horns. Those poor mothers, that must have hurt

Thanks for using Miner's Graveyard from King's Field! One of my favorite tracks out of all of From's games.

The Omen are children of the Primordial Crucible, the font of life that gave birth to the original Great Tree. Animalistic traits were once seen as noble and honorable things (see: Crucible Knot talisman and the entire design of the Crucible Knights), but with the Golden Order supplanting the Great Tree, that way of seeing them has been replaced with hatred. Nevertheless, the Omen ARE blessed by the Crucible. Even if the Golden Order would deny them their heritage, they are inherently a blessed group of individuals, so it's no surprise they seem to have remnants of Grace in their eyes.

Bro the clip at 1:00 is so good, trailer worthy

I wish we had naturally these infos playing the game. I loved searching about in dark souls for lore but it somehow felt unnatural to me in elden ring. Since the world is so big it's too easy to miss these kind of information and everything felt really disconnected. Bottom line is : thanks Zullie !

I always enjoy it when you throw in interesting scenes like the one at 0:54. Keep up the good videos!

whoever designed the omenkiller mask did a bangup job. thing is creepy as hell.

A real “are we the baddies?” Moment

Alongside the HEAVY parasitic themes in the whole game, I like that Elden Ring's seems to present the idea of Grace being some kind of existential antibody for allegorical analogues of sickness and pandemic, particularly the kinds that gripped our world after people began mass migrations and colonization, ie: - The Crucible's seemingly herpes-like, inheritable debilitations. Omens noticeably look like rabbits do when infected with specific strains of herpes, akin to teratoma. - Godwyn is like a syphilitic teratoma, his very being springing up like lesions across all forms of life. Made even more compelling given his attendant Deathbed Companion literally sleeps with his corpse (and tbh, the visual elements of his presence are also akin to bedsores...) - The hemorrhagic fever that is Scarlet Rot. If you know the theories of these types of fevers points of origin, we could be getting a helluva of a depraved story from whoever that Dancer in Blue was that trained Malenia. - Polio for the Albinaurics. - The Seedbed Curse is Hepatitis. Some other notes I'd posit are that its fitting that the aristocracies of The Lands Between would rather create veils of secrecy and glamers to misdirect its people from the sicknesses taking hold across the land, or create sick gaols/camps/settlements to keep it quarantined. I think there's always more to talk about, also, with regards to hygiene and religion, and how they are inextricably linked, but that's not for youtube comments. Thanks for all the videos Zullie!

It’s really cool how these videos highlight how fromsoft has been able to reuse things like skeletons that probably saves them so much work and it’s such a small thing most people would ever know without a video like this!

My headcanon is that the Dung Eater was an Omenkiller, or going to be, and followed Rollo’s example, but whatever he took caused irreparable damage and psychosis

Knowing the lore behind omenkillers make killing them quite satisfying.

Maybe the developers intended the omen killers to have tails, to show the irony of them also having an aspect of the crucible

Dung Eater's armor is such a strong symbol representing these poor creatures left aside from society coming back to be the ruin of all that is golden. What a twisted revolutionay man!

omenkillers are some of my favorite designs in the game, brutal carnage born of hate.

Imagine poachers killing Rhinos with ivory tipped bullets, that’s how the Omen feel.

Here's a question that has been eating at my brain: first generation albinaurics disappear when you kill them just like Finger Creepers and Iron Virgins. But second generation Albinaurics leave behind a corpse, what the heck does that mean?

I feel like there's something big we still don't know about the omen. I think they are somehow a nod to the phenomenon of atavism, by which some genetic characteristics tend to appear again after generations. But it could be something more sinister. I always felt like their fate has something to do with how they are conceived. If the theory (questionable, I know) about people no longer being born by natural means in the Lands Between is true, I feel like it could be implied that the omen have something to do with natural birth. And giving birth to horned babies must be a bummer. Anyways, I hope we learn more in the DLC.

What for Tarnished Archeologists is talking about videogame statues, is for Zullie zooming in on videogame eyes.

Omen have it the worst I feel had for them even though they could look cool. Honestly the Omen are interesting because you don't seem them alot and usually they're quite strong for some reason.

Developers reusing assets is a vestigial tail as old as time.

The idea that omen had grace all along despite their centuries of subjugation is so fascinating to me

I was looking through the videos and thought "Hey, I haven't watched that video. That can't be right.". After watching the video I remembered why it was right. It is legitimately hard to watch, especially due to how REAL this is. I would not be surprised if people would do this IRL and congratulate themselves for being so "mOrAl", since people do this sort of thing IRL with other stuff anyways.

Thats awesome, I love the Omenkillers and KapraDemon they're such great lore dressing pieces. Its actually so cool those two who hunt "innocents" share the same animation rig.

it's crazy how much world building there is that I completely missed just playing through

This omen killer felt so disgusted by his own work that he literally started using drugs to keep himself from thinking about it. Just think about it for a second.

the idea of a vestigial tail existing on the omenkillers, who are the embodiment of the golden order's desire to excise the traits of ancient bodies from their world, is so poignant the omenkillers are among those who could hide these traits, and were spared the brutal betrayal that they would go on to create

Another thing to add, the loathsome dungeater uses seedbed curses to make people into omen, and sacrifices himself to make a mending rune that make everyone into omen.

To me, Omen appear to be a holdover from the previous era of the Erdtree before the rise of the Golden Order, especially considering that Godfrey appears to be an adherent of that older order (considering his Crucible Knights and the fact that two of his own children with Marika were Omen themselves - Morgott and Mohg specifically). It's likely that when she rewrote the Golden Order, Marika purposefully tried to remove the Omen and those like them in an attempt to shun/subjugate them from her vision. Naturally since they're pretty much rooted (pun not intended) within the Erdtree itself it's not been a successful endeavor.

A curious thing about Rollo is that while he's the first Omenkiller, it's never said or implied that he was ordered to be one. Rollo is only confirmed to be a Perfumer, and we can see Perfumers like Tricia and the ones in Leyndell trying to help even the Misbegotten. As such, Rollo may have somehow concluded that he had to kill the Omens and created his physick in response, or he made the gear first and the physick removed any hesitation. Rollo certainly wasn't appreciated by Leyndell's current management, considering that the Fell Twins appointed by Morgott hold Rollo's Spirit Ashes, implying they killed him. Those twins even kill a nearby Leyndell soldier, so perhaps Morgott is trying to wipe out various people he recognizes as corrupt and abusive. Some people speculate that the Fell Twins are intentionally created copies of Morgott and Mohg when they were much younger, and if so, then the royal children killed Rollo themselves. Personally, I don't think Mohg would ever cut his horns, and he looks like they've always been intact instead of having the messy signs of horn regrowth that some Omens in the sewers do, but it's something people speculate nonetheless. Morgott aside, Leyndell might not be too keen on the Omenkillers either -- they seem highly likely to defect for scummy reasons. One Omenkiller can be found in Volcano Manor's town overseeing a burning pile of bodies, implying that he both works for Rykard's blasphemous cause that has long since lost its claims of being a lesser evil and helped massacre a ton of potential civilians. Rykard's habit of devouring his own soldiers makes it even more likely that the people burned in the pile could be his own allies rather than Golden Order elites captured at an earlier time. Volcano Manor also houses a second Omenkiller who seems to conduct tortures and executions in the room with the Albinauric Mask, the flayed skin of an Albinauric. Between this grisly deed, gruesome area, and the former guest hall that now houses tons of Albinaurics tortured with the Black Dumplings, the Omenkillers seem to be freely torturing and murdering any marginalized group in the Lands Between regardless of the Golden Order. Even the Omenkiller found within Leyndell itself is in the ashen lower area that suspiciously has Albinaurics with Black Dumplings, Fingercreepers, and two Abductor Virgins piloted by snakes uniquely loyal to Rykard. This odd assortment of enemies in the city's ruined districts implies they're a small Gelmir group that attacked Leyndell when Bernahl's Finger Maiden burned part of the Erdtree. The Omenkillers don't even have to do brutal actions for a grand cause. As this video shows and Zullie noted in the comments, the boss of the Albinauric Village is an Omenkiller, and thus does mercenary work for Gideon. The entire Albinauric Village was slaughtered just because Gideon fancied learning about the Haligtree and was too brutal, impatient, and vicious to so much as ask the Albinaurics what they had heard or simply help them. One of this Omenkiller's fellow mercenaries is also a Depraved Perfumer, further implying that he's not even remotely doing this for the Golden Order's beliefs. In total, there might be only two Omenkillers actually still loyal to the Golden Order, these being the one at the Perfumer's Ruins and the one at the Perfumer's Grotto. Rollo's experiment, whether or not the physick was unique to him, has seemingly created a lot of people who don't particularly care for any causes or morals, just massacres. Thanks for the video, Zullie! The shot of the Omenkiller looming over the sleeping Omen in the Fell Twins' boss room is an amazing visual.

Does make you wonder: what kind of thing can haunt the dreams of an entire category of people? What kind of monster must it be, to give nightmares to every single Omen?

One interesting fact that didn't go mentioned is that Omenkillers are a sect of Perfumers which makes them an interestingly varied class of people. Fells like a missed opportunity that the omenkiller fire breath attack does not display the spark aromatic particles because that's what I think it's supposed to be

A vestigial tail. I think I have one of those.

If their masks are modelled after a figure from Omens' nightmares, I'm hoping we can face that figure in the DLC and maybe bring them a little bit of peace

the omenkillers and the just the perfumers as a whole such an interesting and cool concept this isn't my bias against the misbegotten or omen talking

i never played elden ring but its still so cool to learn about these little snippets of lore

It's crazy to think they'd have nightmares of anything but Caelid, then again the dlc trailer has some freaky looking monsters, I never could have imagined a giant porcupine hippo with an eerily human face before, the epic music playing while hungry hippo goes nuts is outrageous.

The kingsfield bmg just stokes my desire for a new entry in the series at this point.

Before I watch the vid i'll guess they have an invisible tail because they're a reskinned Capra Demon which had a tail. Let's see if I'm right. e:called it!

Fine. I'm subbing. These videos are just great.

Excising emotions with a physick -- relatable.

I love Omen’s design!

I don't want to know the pain of giving birth to an omen child

every time i learn more about Omens and their treatement, i am reminded of why every ending that doesn't involve the abolishment of the Golden Order and removal of the Greater Will is a bad ending by default. the way Morgott is treated in particular, his faith being somewhat recognised, but not enough to grant him the title of lord he absolutely would have been given were he not an Omen, feels so real in how oppression of hated groups is in real life edit: to people saying the Greater Will is innocent, it did trust Marika with the Elden Ring, and didn't punish her for the treatement of Omens or Demi-humans or Misbegotten, only for shattering the Ring.

They probably use some joints of the tail as reference for other joints, causing them unable to remove the tail or the bone will collapse.

i feel bad for the omens 😓🥺

"Everything is imprinted forever with what it once was." - Jeanette Winterson, _The Stone Gods_

it seems like it's not so much about whether or not the Omens have grace, but about 'pruning' the parts of the erdtree that have ties to the Crucible

Great Omenkiller cleaver honestly looks a lot like a severed tail

that explains why there are 3 dogs in the Albinauric Village near the Omen Killer boss

they have a vestigial tail. amazing.

It's cool how this game displays the dark side of order so well - in order to maintain homogeneity, a quiet genocide must be maintained.

Its things like this that make you want to pick the bad ending in fromsoft games

Videos like this remind me how hard lore peeps carry, wouldn’t know anything about omen killers cause I don’t read

I just wanted to say that I discovered your channel when you started making Elden Ring content. You're the only channel that I watch that does not have any voice-overs at all. Love your work.

1:47 regarding why the tail is still on the omen killers even with new animations is because it wasn't just reused animations but also re-used rigs in 3D animations rigs are basically what you see the skeleton of the animation so what they most likely did was copied the same rig but down sized it some so it would fit omen killers its common in 3D animation to re-use rigs since their pretty hard to make and when on a budget rigs will be very expensive.

I'm interested to see, with all the talk of sleep realms in the DLC, how the Omenkillers discovered what a creature from an Omen's nightmare looks like, in order to mimic them with their masks

I remember a friend of mine presenting the idea to me that Omens are simply the result of natural births under the Golden Order. Whereas those within the Order and blessed by Grace are born and reborn from the boughs of the Erdtree, those on the fringes of the Order like the demi-humans seem to reproduce sexually (see Boc having a biological mother). So what happens if a child is conceived under the "animalistic" and "debased" practice of sexual reproduction, even by an Erdtree noble? The child is born an Omen. If true, this would add a lot more depth to the relationship between Godfrey/Marika and their children, with Godwyn being born from the boughs of the Erdtree as the perfect heir to the Golden Order while Morgott and Mohg, the spurned Omen, were tragically born of their parents' love.

"a vestigial holdover from their predecesor." is VERY fitting considering lore. Poetic almost.

simultaneously funny and disturbing that the omenkillers are simply labelled 'slaughter'.

Have to wonder why in particular Perfumers became Omenkillers. Were they forced to? Their previous talents for healing and physician work was cast aside to focus on their warfare applications. Perhaps if they were made to abandon their old roles by the GO it would make more sense why rebel/Depraved Perfumers exist and why a small number still try to treat the Omen and Misbegotten like Tricia

Easily one of if not my favorite enemy design in the game, both aesthetic and lore. These guys and the Crystalians (love how enigmatic they are) I like quite a bit.

Wow I actually never noticed the Omenkillers reusing animations. I think it's because of their different default stance and different size. Good stuff.

There's just something about a smiling mask... . Thanks for the video.

Welp, time to become an Omenkiller killer

Music for this video is sooooo good

A cruel Omen’s thesis

A fun but probably unintentional tidbit, the omenkiller mask looks a lot like the Vejigante, a character from Puerto Rican festivals.

Not sure if you peruse comments for content ideas, but a video recommendation: A comparison of the highway, bridge, and building floor tiles would be neat if you're easily able to extract those from the world environment. I was trying to map the highway in mspaint and realized that some bridges have tiles sized differently than the highway, that the majority of the highway tiles bear the symbol of the Farum Azula elden ring sigil, and those tiles were laid before the ruins fell from the sky across liurnia, limgrave, and weeping.

One thing that would have been an incredibly detailed touch Fromsoft should have utilized: If the player is sporting full Omenkiller attire and weaponry, the omen cower in fear or are less aggressive/take more damage or are stance broken easier.

i guess they also have a vestigial tail-"bone"

Surely the gold in the omens eyes is that of the raw crucible and not the erdtrees' own (though they have some vague connections)

Wait... it's all Capra demons? Myasaki: *holds gun behind me* always has been..

i hope you have a good day Zullie

Can’t wait to see the dancing lions in the dlc and the horned rune lions/bear… Also senpou temple arts coming back baby!

@0:57 That's a great composition!

Interesting! I had no idea the Omenkillers were related to the Capra Demon model.

Capra Demons possess a design that I find incredibly cool and simple at the same time, so I find it cool to see that they have been partially used in ER.

In more important news I learned that capra demon has 4 eyes.

Boy no wonder omen killer rollo is such a boss against bosses, he's the original darksouls noob filter.

The Omenkillers reusing animations from the Capra Demon feels very fitting, as the Omenkillers are as vile and detestable from a lore perspective as the Capra Demon is from a gameplay perspective.

2:34 it looks like Morgott has an itchy leg