Elden Ring - Behind the Eyes 

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The transition from Roderika's lovely turquoise eyes to a diving attack helicopter gave me such whiplash.

Flirting in The Lands Between must be such a hassle. You can't even admire their eyes without seeing horrors beyond your comprehension.

4:11 Rya's dialogue heavily implies that she expects us to kill Boggart to get her necklace back, and she even assumes that we killed him when we give it back to her. She even says that we're exactly the kind of Tarnished the Volcano Manor is looking for, indicating that this whole thing was a test and Rya may have intentionally let her necklace get stolen in the first place. Furthermore, maybe Rya allowed Boggart specifically to steal the necklace because he actually was on Volcano Manor's hit list.

3:27 interstingly, when you tell Varre you have doubts about the Two Fingers at the Rose Church to begin his quest, he says that they "harbor no love for our kind" - meaning he may actually be Tarnished after all

2:46 Dood, Vyke has been looksmaxing so hard beneath that helmet.

This video had to be reuploaded to correct an error with the sponsor segment. I apologize for any confusion. I've also taken the opportunity to move the text on the first slide to the bottom of the screen, as some viewers had noted that the sponsor notice was covering it in the initial upload, particularly when viewing the video on mobile, so I'm interested how that feels.

The dragon eye peeking through the brim of the witch's hat goes hard.

Worth rewatching every time just to be reminded of how beautiful they made Sellen for no reason~

We see Millicent in several different states throughout her questline: Initially she's ailing in the church with unkempt hair, then we see her standing up with her hair neatly done, and again a slightly different model after she receives the prosthetic. I wonder if her eyes change over the course of the questline or if it's the same all throughout.

I clicked again because of Sorceress Sellen ✋

I feel like what I got from this is that Sir Gideon Offnir the Somewhat Well Informed, is an escapee from a Dethklok concert.

I love when I’m staring into the eyes of a fair maiden and then a helicopter swoops into frame to remind me to stay focused.

The fact that red eyes being related to Mogh doesn't seem to match up with everyone makes it feel more like it has to do with the blood god, not Mogh himself.

thank you zullie for your contributions, I was wondering if you could check out what's behind the Fia door in Roundtable hold, the thing visible through the door gap isn't what's visible in videos where people out-of-bounds explore behind the door

Miyazaki putting in the tiniest details knowing damn well some random hacker will discover it years after the game is released.

I wonder what color Miquella's eyes might be. Gold is a safe assumption, but considering the other Empyreans we meet, I suppose it's not guaranteed. We never truly see Ranni's eyes, just the doll she inhabits modeled after her old mentor; Malenia's eyes are rotted over; we never actually see Marika's eyes at any point (Radagon's are depicted as pure black in both the Radagon Icon and in his portrait at the Roundtable Hold, but he isn't an Empyrean himself). If Melina is an Empyrean as well, this would at least establish a pattern of sealed/missing eyes between her and Ranni, assuming the spectral face is Ranni's true self. Oddly enough, Marika's fractured form has her entire left eye removed, socket and all, perhaps reiterating this trend. Concept art depicts Melina with a violet right eye, though, so perhaps it's not implausible that Miquella could have a violet eye as well... That is, if we ever actually get to meet him, lol.

>"Error" with the sponsored segment >Sponsored by War Thunder Did... did classified documents get leaked in the sponsored segment?

It's simple: the witch uploads and I watch.

i love the ways eyes taste

Sucks you had to reupload, but I'll gladly give it a rewatch. I'd be back around to watch it again in a couple of months anyhow 😂 Thanks for always having interesting, quality videos, Zullie!

This gave me an interesting idea. Milicent is "an offshoot" of Melania but it's hard to know exactly what that means. However, what happened to Malenia's arm that was replaced with a prosthetic? Specifically her hand and fingers... I think that somehow Milicent and her 4 sisters grew from Malenia's rotted off arm-specifically from the fingers of her rotten hand. Then they "sprouted" up and grew with Gowry's rot invocations, which would make the "offshoot" description make more sense.

Moongrum looks exactly like what I thought he would 🗿

It's a shame that we got special unique eyes for things like getting a certain number of dragon incantations but never a glintstone themed eyes for something like learning all spells or finishing Sellen's quest.

Hey Zullie thank you so much for making a longer Video, i look forward to every single one so this one is a special treat! Thank you so much for your efforts :)

I think that hair color is important too, at least when it comes to the divine family. Each of the descendants inherits from one of the parents with some curious symbolism. The easiest one to see is Radagon's fierce red, passed to Malenia and Radahn, both great warriors alike their father. It can also be seen with kind and graceful gold of Marika, inherited by Godwyn and Miquella, who are associated with kindness and how closely they are associated with Erdtree and the Golden Order. The next to are less apparent but I think they make sense too. Godfrey's grey is color of rulers, he was the first Elden Lord, and it can be seen on Morgot and Godrick (even if he was a distant offshot), both of which we find ruling over certain place. And lastly, Rennala's black of defiance, who fought with the Golden Order at first, later inherited by Rykard who joined with the Serpent to fight the Erdtree. That also brings to another conclusion. I think that Ranni's original hair color is not red as suggested, but instead black, signaling her absolute betrayal she commits against the Erdtree and all of her family.

Damn. Vargram goes so hard without his helmet

One thing about Thops and Thops' Barrier reflecting incantations is that it isn't actually unique to him because Carian Retaliation also reflects incantations as well as sorceries, just with the additional effect of summoning glintblade swords. It even and especially can dispel Radagon's and Elden Beast's holy attacks, which I don't know about any code flags, but lore-wise would be the strongest forms of holy magic in the world.

Warthunder: zullie uploads twice (I have no issue with reuploads. In fact, quite the contrary if the content itself is good, and zullie never misses)

patches sharing eye colours with the dung eater and godfrey is interesting to me. he was the most enduring of all the characters in his Souls incarnation (considering he was around when the ashen one performed an old growth slash-and-burn on the ringed city [and therefore the world])... tbh id play war thunder again but im pretty sure for me thats the equivalent of growing bangs.

I'm glad zullie has sponsors now, they really deserve to get compensated for the research and theory they do!!

I close my right eye and it is Carrie Ann Moss. I close my left eye and it is Noel Fielding. Fascinating.

I instinctively started humming the Twilight Princess Castle Town music before the video even started. Imagine my surprise when the tune kept going after I’d stopped. Excellent taste as always, Zullie!

"are my eyes graced of gold anon?"

I actually had a similar thought about the incantations and spells that say they only effect Tarnished, I think it does allude to these things being specific in game, but from a standpoint of character models I completely see what you mean by that.

0:25 WHY DID YOU HAVE TO FRAME THAT SO WELL

I always love the music choice in your videos

Man, the moment that T-72B3 rolled across Limgrave, I knew the armored cores were in for a big surprise.

Is this is a reupload? I could've sworn I'd seen this all before.

I dont mind rewatching these :D

1:12 Did not expect this part at all. Glad you got sponsored, regardless of form of your videos, altho in long term it might be a bit of immersive-breaker.

Zullie I’m always so excited to see your work out out on your page. I’m sure we all as a community appreciate your in depth analysis of the games and hope you are doing well!

The mention about certain spells specifically affecting Tarnished reminds me of certain weapons and such affecting only Hollows in the Souls games. In particular I'm thinking of the Hollowslayer Greatsword from DS3. I like that we see its impact in action when fighting Gael. In phase 1 before the cutscene Gael is not considered hollow, but after the cutscene he is considered hollow and the HSGS does its 20% bonus damage against him. Similarly to the Farron Greatsword doing 20% bonus damage against anything abyssal. I like the added effort of spells and weapons affecting enemies based on more subtle details like that.

Legitimately the coolest ad bit Ive seen, Ive never seen a silent one before lol

Hey, nice, a reminder to watch this again. serendipitous!

Hope you're resting well, Zullie. : ) Thanks for what you do.

Just gonna ket this video play by itself while i do something else, since i already watched it but i want you to have the viewtime since your videos are always great. Keep up the awesome work, cheers from Brazil !!!

Thank you again for your knowledge fellow wizard 👌

I was surprised to see the length of this video, I hope we get more 10-ish minute long videos in the future!

Ok i wasnt expecting the war thunder jumpscare, this game follows me everywhere lmao.

Playing in the background to support Zullie 👍

An opportunity to rewatch a Zullie video? Heck yeah lets gooo! 😆

I think the Volcano Manor just assumes you kill Boggart, even if you actually buy Rya's necklace back and let him go

Love warthunder. Get that bag Zullie!

Well, lets watch again.

I thought this was a reupload, and it was odd to not find anyone in the comments talking about it initially, and I'm glad that the description proved me right ahfnfg. That being said, I still rewatched the video, this topic in particular was edpecially interesting when presented in the previous upload so a refresher was nice regardless :)

Referring to him as "The Great Kenneth Haight" was great. Thanks for the hard work on the interesting video!

Eyes are windows to the soul.

I never saw a lot of the NPCs up so close or unmasked. A lot of the guys are pretty handsome. Sellen is so beautiful despite it being impossible without hacking to see her face

Grace has to be stripped from most people, remember? Becoming Tarnished is something unusual. You usually have to either have Grace taken from you or have it be overwhelmed by some other influence. I'd expect most Magic/Cosmos characters to have blue eyes unless they have an exceptionally high connection to some other power. But if NOT for their Magic, they might have had Gold in their eyes.

this says uploaded 10 hours ago but I swear I watched this exact video a few weeks ago edit: just checked description now I understand why anyways good video it sucks how you had to reupload it I dont even know what that does with the algorithm or anything but whatever

Seeing the faces of all of these familiar characters makes me wish the player camera angle didn't obscure them so much

Its such a nice touch that Eleonora has normal eyes, even though she is bloody finger. We only see her after she killed Yura, so maybe something started to happen with her, questioning loyality etc and she just invade us right after battle with Yura as some sort of deathwish?

to the point about thops: his sorceries are green, which combines the blue of glintstone magic and the yellow of holy magic

4:15 Lusat have mercy upon me *eyes pop out of head*

If I had to guess, based on his eyes, I would say the original plan was for Rico to parallel Rodericka in the same way Iji parallels Hewg: the non-roundtable upgrade merchant

I was having really uncomfortable deja vu for the first minute of the video until I finally decided to read the description lol

Very cool

This is a detail that I picked up on pretty early on and from that point on, whenever I made a new character, I paid special attention to their eye color and what it means for them. Even if those eyes mostly stay hidden under a mask/helmet 😅

Zullie be seeking the great ones with this recent obsession with eyes

I see a Zullie video, I click. It's that simple.

I would have imagined Gideon had a crew cut like like a military guy

6:15 man’s higher than the stratosphere

5:16 snake 🐍 is like “hello yt”

Not me being so desperate for elden ring lore videos I watched the entire thing through not realizing it was a reupload I had already seen haha. Just thought there was gonna be more added on from last time and it was being gone over again oops

Sellen's pretty. Nice work.

I will gladly rewatch this video and the sponsored segment so Zullie can get that bag! 💰

The eyes, chico, they never lie.

That’s why I gave my tarnished radiant grey eyes like silver and dark hair in the manner of the Noldor elves in Tolkien. Just so happens seeing this video there could be in lore explanation.

Roderika's eyes look more blue at this point. As it appears the camera shot is from when she first arrives at the Round Table Hold, next to the fireplace。 1:08 Then later, when she's taken out of the vicinity of the fireplace, her eyes appear more teal... even cyan。 A blue... with tinges of green。 7:45 It's fascinating to see all these characters unmasked; when... typically... they're *only* found, within the confines of the game, as being covered。 This attention to details for characters, whose features would not be seen by the vast majority of players; makes it seem the nuance was created for those that delve beyond the confines of the base game。 Almost as if the director has been dedicated to creating these virtual realms... of such depth... for years。 All the while... watching... as "miners" tease out story details from behind "the curtain"。 Knowing what color of make-up is used by the actors, only tells us what color of make-up they use。 It's when they are on stage... in their environment... do we see the reason that coloration was chosen。 By a director that is known for being so attentive to detail, that he would personally be involved with character designs; all the way to the style of buttons on a coat。

Perhaps a lot of models were completed before certain story changes, so in in some cases the color might be inconsistent. Or a model (for example Thops) was intended for a different character, so he was left with gold eyes.

I'll do my due diligence and rewatch the video

I didn't expect this video to be how I learned the D twins names

Eyes have rings. Eyes are needed for vision. The tarnish must become lord to restore a ring. lords have vision for their kingdom. Elden lord is a pupil?

funny to see zullie's style do a sponsor segment. an unvoiced sponsor is kinda jarring.

For my DLC preparation playthrough I’ve created my character with heterochromia. One eye is blue, the other is golden. As I can’t decide between my two favorite endings: The age of Order and The age of the Stars

Babe wake up, Zullie's posting about eyes again

Gideon looks so incredibly sinister and judgmental, almost like a Ghoul

Ok so if Reeling Rico and Roderika have green eyes and one is connected to Saint Trina (Miquella) Maybe that eye color has some relation to the spirit/dream realm. I have a feeling we'll see more of these eyes in the DLC, possibly even Rico lol

For those who didn't read the description, yes, "This video had to be reuploaded to correct an error with the sponsor segment. I apologize for any confusion."

Omg i wouldn't have guessed that's what yura looks like 😂

Boggart isn't officialy in the hitlist, but Rya do ask you to get the necklace back, which can be done through murder.

There is a recurring focus on eyes, reminds me of the beast plague from bloodborne

The amount of people I know that would kill for someone like sorceress Sellen is greater than just myself

With Hawkshaws video about the Color Theory in Elden Ring this makes it all more interesting. Eleonora gets her bloody finger severed by Yura, his dying move to save her from the 'cessblood'. Then, all the academy has blue eyes to show their intelligence.

Ah, that first dead finger maiden. Probably the greatest horror we all pass over is the absence of death. She is still in the body, it’s just broken, paralyzed and waiting to decay to free the soul.

I watched through the whole video before realizing this is a reupload LOL

A theory I saw that might hold some value is Boggart might’ve been on the hit list from VM. When you return the necklace to Rya she talks almost like you killed Boggart because she assumed you would. And Boggart having the necklace might’ve been intentional on Rya’s part, seeing if someone would take up killing Boggart and completing the contract. She was looking for someone who the VM would benefit from, as why else would she be there? A little vacation?

Gold eyes seem to be a matter of diet. Basically you eat things heavy in the erd trees influence and that concentrates at the top. Predators, that is things that eat flesh, are the most likely to have gold eyes. And golden poo. Because apparently herbavores just don't get enough golden power in their diet. Tarnish are those with no gold in them. This can be partly because it was stripped away. But another aspect may be because they do not live in the Lands Between and as such cannot eat things with any gold power in them. Given how it is implied cannabalism isn't really stigmatized in the Lands Between we can assume this is also a factor in having gold eyes. That the more of your fellow humans you have ate the more likely you are to develop gold eyes

A new video from Zullie is always a good day, even if it's a re-upload. Rewatched it tho cause it's a cool video. xD