Elden Ring Lore - What Are The Erdtree Avatars 

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I always figured that one of the purposes of the Erdtree avatars was to water the tree with the blood that’s accumulated in the living jars. Once the jars get large enough they go to the tree and the avatars break them open useing the literal bodies of dead warriors to water the tree.

7:33 This made me think about something, the minor erdtree close to leyndell has no avatar defending it, instead it's an Omen with 5 commoners. They have an attack where they spew deathblight out of their mouth at you. This is a mystery in of itself and I would love a video on them, but maybe the tree avatar that appears in leyndell is the one that used to defend that particular minor erdtree.

Note that the Erdtree Avatars have 3 toes and 4 fingers. This exact same configuration can be seen with Alexander, our Warrior Jar friend. Given how many of these Avatars we encounter near many broken jars and the distinct similarity between their body types, I think it's fair to speculate that the Avatars are created by the warrior jars being sacrificed at the foot of the Erdtree they are assigned to protect.

After 950 hours in this game, I’m just now finding out from the intro of this video that there’s a spirit spring to the left of the frenzy tower lmfao

Brilliantly done !!! I love the idea that the ulcerated tree spirits are premature or malformed versions of erdtree avatars. Always look forward to more Elden lore !

6:40 you're probably right, the Rotten Staff looks like it's depicting the Scarlet Bloom, like the one that's now withered in the center of the Aeonian Swamp; fully grown with it's various buds

One of my favorite designs for an enemy by far, the farther away you see it, the more it looks like some eldritch nature spirit. For some reason, I keep getting Bloodborne vibes from them

A series like this should be made for all souls games. I just feel like a treasure trove of information and lore are yet to be picked from the previous games

I always thought that the Rotten Staff was supposed to visualize Elphael and the Haligtree, but there could always be more to it. On that note, sweet video. I have another suggestion for an interesting enemy, if you are open to the idea. The Starcallers seem to have just enough written about them to puzzle together a vague story, but nothing else. If you aren't up for Starcallers, the Spiritcaller Snail keeps getting stranger every time I see it. The wiki calls it an alien, and that hurts my brain.

I’m pretty sure the rotten staff with its material and shape is depicting the Haligtree symbol as depicted when preforming magic pertaining to it, such as the Golden Epitaph weapon art, and bewitching branch use, along with many moves in the clean rot knights attack set .

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The avatars of all time!

The weapon of the wrotten tree avatars looks like the symbol of Miquella’s Haligtree when as seen in his miracles or ashes of war

Whether they be avatars or asylum demons, the butt slam always gets me.

The rotten Staff clearly depicts the Haligtree instead of the Erdtree, which is curious given the item description. So they are clearly designed to be in the haligtree. Maybe the rotten Avatars in Caelid and the Mountentops should have a rotten Version of the Golden staff, but got the Haligtree ones due to its model beeing done and nit having the resources to change a miner detail. On the other Hand, golden Godfrey has his full Axe, so who knows if it is intentionell ore not. Still, both Places have Connections to the Haligtree and the Twins. Another Theorie i really like is that the Avatars have these Staves to Destroy the Jars lying at the base of many of these Minor erdtrees. Maybe the living Jars collect Bodies for Burial, and bring them to the Minor erdtrees for Burial. Makes sense, since the Erdtree Burial doesnt somehow work anymore. So the Avatars would not Only Defend but care and raise these Trees, so think they really want them to grow. If They are recicelled souls, it doesnt bother them probbably. The minor Erdtrees still produce Treesapp and Crystal tears, which produce Crystal Tears which are Ember. I wonder if one of these minor trees could grow to a Full, new Erdtree which a new Age of Plenty, and if there Roots are Connected or Seperat. I find it fascinating that the seeminly most important aspacts of the World are the least explored in Item descriptions :)

You know, I thought that the avatar is reincarnation kind of thing but I didn’t expect the avatar would be the wooden headless creature holding a giant staff.

Posted a comment on a year old video the other day and got a like from you guys in practically the same day. You guys are too good! Don't overwork yourselves we appreciate you too much to let you do that. Take care and thanks!

Wanted to say thank you again for these lore videos. Keeps us entertained until the DLC drops.

Just an observation: i never any videos talking about the lions. Every enemy has at least a bit of lore videos except these ones

One thought that I had was why the Putrid Avatars never became ulcerated spirits. An idea as to why they don’t become the Ulcerated spirits is that maybe the scarlet rot afflicted them after they were fully developed. If ulcerated spirits are only formed from being disrupted in their development, than this might explain that.

Rotten avatar staff kinda looks like the haligtree sigil

Hey your tree spirit video actually got me thinking, the tree spirits almost look like they could fit inside the avatars. might just be a coincidence but both have dragon and tree like features, both have rotten variations, and the name ulcerated tree spirits could imply it got too big and separated from whatever used to contain it. if you mesh the bodies together I think it would very much resemble a tree like dragon. Also, I might be crazy for this, but I've always believed the "trees" in Caelid are actually uprooted erdtree or great tree roots, that don't like the rotted soil anymore or started growing upwards for whatever reason, but the area with the commander, these roots actually do twist around to form a "tree" which gowry happens to be steady gazing at. So in a way since those are the roots of the erdtree, forming a rot tree, it's still technically the erdtree. Once you have the perspective of those things being roots, it helps you understand what those rotting bloody sacks are near them. The sacks of bodies formed during erdtree burial, also lifted up because its rotting and the golden erdtree probably doesn't want to absorb it. And there's something similar going on in mountain tops of the Giants. The frozen lake where you fight the dragon, look where the spirit trees were growing, then look at the darker "trees" growing straight out of the lake. I believe these "trees" are a product of those tree like spears impaling the Giants unfurling into a tree, or deathroot growing upwards like a tree. that last bit wouldn't make any sense unless the roots of this great tree could produce another seemingly different tree. I cant find too much reason roots would do opposite what roots normally do, but in deathroots case if opposite in nature to a golden tree which probably absorbs sunlight, Deathroot might crawl towards the abyss, which may have been in the sky due to an eclipse. I got no idea about the rot tree but it probably has to do with lotus flowers or something. Sorry for the paragraph lol, but thanks for another great topic to think about!

Dude I love this channel! The fact that you all are still finding things to make videos on says a lot about elden ring! Can’t wait to see dlc and keep growing the lore!

I don't know exactly if there's a video on them yet but the white little men in Nokron. I think they're the hawk soldiers or something. I'd love to learn more about them.

I love this theory by the way, it is speculation for sure but I completely believe it based on my understanding of the putrid tree spirits and erdtree burials in current time.

I have never actually fought one of these things. I always use meteorite of astel or comet azur.

Great video! These were always very visually interesting enemies.

Looks like I'm about to take a 10 minute poop at work. "SHUT UP SHERYL, I CAN'T CONTROL MY BOWEL MOVEMENTS!".

The souls buried ....form these protectors seems logic

The rotten erdtree hammer depict the aeonia tree buds I'm pretty sure

Dig the Erdtree Captain Planet hypothesis

personally I think its more similar to the guardians, perhaps its a more advanced version

I'm curious as to which direction this video series will take when all the major and minor bosses, enemies and npcs have been discussed..GIVE US THE LORE FOR THAT ONE PARTICULARLY LARGE MADNESS RAT

I don’t know guys, but I think they might be Erdtree Avatars.

That's a very interesting theory, although I don't really thinks it's correct but with these games you never truly know.

While Avatars cast miracles with the golden light of Marika's religion, their staff seems to feature the more organic and natural depiction of the Erdtree from a stratem before the church of Marika. Did the Avatars exist before Marika formed her religion? Or are they Avatars of the Elden Beast?

So, both of the Ulcerated tree spirits and the Avatars are spirits, but the avatars are the spirits of the buried people in the catacombs, while the ulcerated tree spirits are the spirits of the Erdtree and the minor erdtrees and they were corrupted by Godwyn,s deathroot 👍👍👍

Ayy,I'm super happy you guys actually listened to my suggestion!I also have a few theories of my own regarding their roles.I think that they serve another rule outside of protecting,and that is feeding the tree.This theory is based on the broken living jars who surround most of the minor erdtree's,and as you know,they are filled with corpses,their rules being similar to the lands between clean up crew,once they are full,they are meant to go back to a minor erdtree and get smashed by the avatars who wield weapons perfect for smashing.Maybe these avatars have existed before the shattering,even if it was one or just a handful of them at the start?I also have a few video suggestions which I think could make for a nice mini series.I really enjoyed the video of the dangers that lurk in caelid,so I thought of what if there was a video exploring the fauna of each area and the interesting enemies/species/factions that are in them to pump fuel untill the DLC comes out?I also thought that a video exploring all the different dragons would be interesting,bc even tho most are very similar,some have some interesting lore like Smarag eating wizzards,adula most likely working with ranni,greyll guarding the bestial sanctum,borrealis and the frost dragons who lived in the mountains before the giants and the ancient dragons!Like always,I really enjoy the effort on your videos and I def love the artwork in each thumbnail!Keep up the good work and I hope to see you guys continue with the DLC :D

I thinking The Erdtree Avatars & The Living Jars & The Watchdogs both made by Queen Marika after Radagon marriage with Rennala. It become system to when Watchdogs protect Catacombs underground. Erdtree Avatars is Erdtree Watchers on ground and Slam Living Jars when them fulfill the task successful to harvest warriors' bodies to fertilizer the Erdtree. But after The Shattering War they forget all Role why them creating . . .

What I see when I look at the rotten staff origination is the sigil of the haligtree. The candle like design reminds me of the candles we light in the city in the concentrated snowfields. Why would they be affiliated with the haligtree? Possibly in a way to supplant the erdtree, wherever Malenia already affected the land, they took advantage of the situation and planted their seeds of influence. Hoping to turn those minor erdtrees into minor haligtrees and have haligtree avatars over [putrid] erdtree Avatars. Like many things with haligtree, not everything went to plan. I don't necessarily believe that miquella's theft was the reason this plot failed though. The reason they are still minor erdtrees could be simply that "the seed is strong" and the haligtree is just not powerful enough to truly supplant the erdtree. Another possibility is that the reason we fight putrid Avatars over haligtree avatars is that the corrupting power of the god of rot is more influential than the mind control and persuasion abilities miquella has.

Erdtree Avatars are now "Fresh Boys"

Wait i thought that the description erdtree guardian garb (full bloom) implied that the erdtree avatars are "fully realized" erdtree guardian enemies? You stated that the erdtree avatars could be part human and part tree, and the armor piece says the guardians are already part tree. Maybe make a video on the guardian enemies?

Alright, it isn’t an enemy that I am obsessively curious about. There is a (something) that can be seen if you go to the Academy Crystal Cave, in the day, climb that tower, face south, and look up. It can also be seen from within other areas of the Raya Lucaria Academy. The thing can only be seen in the day. It is not a wisp like those found around the academy, inside Divine Towers, or on the path to the mountains. It is not a starlight beam nor grace beam. It has form of sort and moves in in a repeating… idk. What is it, what is it? WWHAT IS THAT THING? Please grant me peace.

They are priest that turn into them over time. Look at the smaller guys with trees growing outta them. I think they turn into them

Speaking of community requests have you guys done the Tibia Mariner yet?

I dislike the concept of souls being tortured for defence. I feel like Miquella would never let her Haligtree do that. Perhaps Erdtree Avatars are the spirits of the Erdtree incarnate, and that the Haligtree has multiple due to being exposed to Miquella's divine blood and perhaps multiple sprouts were used. Or, just like the Elden Ring has the Elden Beast as its guard-dog, perhaps Erdtree Avatars are those fancy root people who are like higherups of them. They were selected by the tree's spirit to protect it, and to be chosen you'd need ALOT of Faith.

the avatar make sense the name explain it, but the ulcerated spirit kinda confuse me it called spirit but fleshy and physical, but it makes sense when they drop the seed because just like the seed they shouldn't exist but that one spirit in mt gelmir didnt drop seed instead it drop crystal tears, maybe the spirit is kodama gone wrong and turn into tatarigami.

interresting video. im realy impressed. my first playthrough took me over 400h and im still learning :)

Like the whole fusing by the souls of the dead and become the avatar. I also think they came from the tarnished as well coz of how they wield the weapon and spell. I think the tree spirit were fuse not only the souls of the dead but the dragon as well since the tree spirit were look like a lot of snake like being. Maybe the greater will absorbed severed heads of placidussax to obtain the dragon breath and took the shape as well to become elden beast . Then greater share their power to the tree sentinel. Btw I wish it should have been called as The bastard avatar of the erdtree

There plant pokemon of the asylum demon

Do Vargram the Raging Wolf

Of do you get the staff of the avatar?

Roots. Tree. Haha pun

Algormancy!

Could they have been birthed from the Rune of Rebirth?

I said it before and I'll say it again, just what the heck is up with these guys? Such a massive game you forget just how strange everything is.

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I got long speng

First one.....now elden lord

Greetings from the Carrot-Man 👋🥕

Hey, Square Table. If you are done with Elden Ring, why don't you try other From Software games like Dark Souls, Sekiro and Bloodborne. Or maybe, other Souls-like games.

Thanks for lowering the volume of your intro logo thing.

Come back to out roots... Good one

was i one of the people who asked?!!!

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