The Elden Ring Boss That DOES NOT Belong! | LORE 

*About the Rot Crystallians* , I do have to remind people that Scarlet Rot isn’t just a Biohazard like poison it’s decay given physical form. It’s corrosive in nature giving how it eats through earth but also how Jerren and Redman Knight need Iji to design weapons that wouldn’t rot. It’s more just that they’re “stained” with rot and crystal is known to be very slow to decay. I don’t think it says much about whether they are organic or not.

Bro we should have got that ring like blade they got

The thing about the lore in Elden Ring is that it is very interested in providing internal logic to how life and the universe is from the standpoint of understanding alchemy before chemistry. Everything is metaphor for natural processes. The lore we explore with the magic in this game is intrinsically linked to mind and consciousness in relation to subdivision of different parts of the wholeness of things. Mind, Body, Spirit/Soul. The Primeval Current must be referring to where consciousness flows. Just pure mind without soul or physical form. Now, to understand what this is in relation to the Graven Mass, it's like an idea that persists and outlives a person. A piece of written information that is inscribed on stone, an engraved and unchanging peer reviewed objective factual truth of the universe. Sellen is trying to become that as the Graven Witch, an indelible mind that is pure consciousness, but the problem with being set in stone is a rigidity that can't easily be changed or amended. Just knowledge that is forever recorded as it was written, a biographical piece of mind that lives after the physical death of a person like watching a movie of an actor that passed away but they live on in their representation on the screen. A recorded eco that is not able to be interacted with, just as a work of inscription and ideas to be interpreted from a book or stone slab rather than an animate conscious person. In Sellen's case it's like the steps she takes in transferring consciousness between bodies and Ranni's case of her mind inhabiting the Renna doll. This may be seen as unnatural, as in the cosmological sense of the game, when a person dies their physical body is returned to the earth/world tree, the memories/identity of their past life are washed away in the lethen water currents to rejoin a river of primordial consciousness, and their soul migrates to a new body to be reincarnated as a new person (but with the same soul as the last one). That's the natural order of things represented by the closed loop circles of the Elden Ring as rules governing everything including the cycle of life and death.

I still wonder if the Crystallians are actually the result of one's body becoming fused with the Primeval Current, like the process that Azur and Lustat were undergoing. I mean, it still fits the lore of the "creator", even if the "creator" itself is just the Primeval Current.

I’m thankful so many caves exists. It means that a smaller portion of the community fought the 3 Rot Crystalians while under leveled. Elden Gank can be sinful at times…

Elden Ring was my first FromSoft and I didnt know the crystallians had to be shattered first- they killed me so often that now I avoid them like a trauma scar. 💃 Here's to the DLC coming soon plz 🥂

Chakram(s). That’s what the ring weapons are called.

There are Crystalians in the Sellia Hideaway. Is this some kind of engagement trick? lol. You also get the Crystalian Ashes there.

The lore of these guys, ironically enough, reminds me of pokémon with the Regis 😅

Zio, hear me out on this...: the image of Sellen's soulglint has the image of a fetus in a womb, in the center. I'm assuming it's to represent the vitality and soul of Sellen. But what if it's a literal depiction as well... Of what would happen if you put a soulglint like that into a collection of glintstone. What if these creations were born, using this process. A sorcerer practicing making primal glintstones with other creatures and beings, and placing them into collections of glintstones. Then carving their shape out. One could even go crazier, and suggest that this process would exhibit similar effects as the puppet draught, wherein the creator (master), is able to control them to an extent. If that's the case, what if it's only to the extreme that it required a "mission" or a "reason" to exist. And so said sorcerer instilled a promise of more brethren if they are able to protect the crystals. Wild tangent, but would be neat.

This is a very weird take, they fit fine.

Crystal Bro summon got me through most of my first play through 💠

One of my favorite things about elden ring, is that so many enemies feel out of place. Alien, it just makes the world more diverse and interrupt, id actually hate if the craziest enemy you saw in elden ring was just a dragon, or the soldiers

Despite maybe being written "around" their designs, I think they fit quite nicely. With Astronomy, Stars and Gravitational magic, they have a bunch of things that are either directly or tangentially connected to them. Subject of studies by sorcerers; taboo subjects to the order because they're pretty much alien; proof that there is more out there than the will of the gods of the fingers. Heck, they might even be directly connected to beasts like Astel and the whole race of Fallingstar Beasts, that are also crystal-like beings that evolve. With the mention of Amber Glintstone, I hope that means we get a Golden Crystallian boss in the dlc.

Good as usual man! Was trying to remember if you wrote a book? I had this weird memory that you might have…

I've got an interesting bit of trivia or an irritating nit-pick. But you show the cover for Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone as the book from which the Crystal Warriors are sourced, but it's actually Caverns of the Snow Witch by Livingstone. Was reading them back when they cost £1.95 at the local convenience store :-D

Pretty cool seeing Fighting Fantasy rep in Elden Ring - got a little joy moment seeing that illustration again for the first time in decades. The "hair" on them also looks *really* similar to the Golem, from an old movie of the same name.

i think they look like the golem in "The Golem: How He Came into the World" perfectly. also, they are inorganic life like the golem. also, they are a reskin of the ruin sentinels in ds2.

To me,they’re so out of place it feels like enemies that should of been cut content but arent if that makes sense

Those are bowl ass cuts and I’m sticking to it!

The 2nd Shattering segregated everything hence why they exist. Before the 2nd happened everything was connected through Miquella (Mycelia) but after Mohg's abduction, Marika shattered the Elden Ring to return all gold back to the Erd Tree but it was only alloyed gold. That is why Miquella never returned and is also why we fight Godfrey's Grace, the segregation created a physical form of his grace.

“Wierd” 💀

zio is there any way I can get your OBS settings for recording these? they're so clear

the dancer castanets that patches gives you probably has something to do with the dlc

Everything that the spirit snails summon dies when you kill the summoner so I don't think the Crystalian spirit is any more strange than us summoning fanged imps with the starter ashes.

My theory about them has been that they are a “successful” attempt at becoming a starseed, with the graven mage ball being an unsuccessful attempt. Like someone’s primal flint stone grew, but unlike the likes of Lusat, Azure, and even Albrect, the growth was organized and controlled. I’ve thought they came from really, REALLY old Astrologers.

There's literally three of them in the hideaway, I just killed them

PreScript: Crystalians... Cryst-alians... Crystal Aliens!! To me it looks like Crystalians move like robots and we find them like groups of guards as if created and placed. The Zamor move graceful AF and seem to "keep to themselves" since you rarely find one outside of the Zamor Ruins where presumably they were found as corpses before they were reanimated, since they are "ancient" could it be they just fought the giants because they were occupying what the Zamor remember as their home? I'm just saying maybe they actually are friendly and chill AF if you just keep off their turf and let them practice their Capoeira-with-contact-ice-and-swords arts.

I was under the impression the Crystalians are the an evolution of the puppets and the tears as automated guardians

“Golden amber contains the remnants of ancient life” So what exactly happens when you find the amber starlight and give it to Ranni? We assume she does but what is it actually doing to her?

I think I might be obsessed with this game

Crystal golems, fashioned by the intelligence of the crystal itself alongside the will of the Glintstone Sorcerer, imbued with the astral body of the sentient being who agrees to possess it to carry out dual-duties, protection and life-experience-gathering while present in whatever world they travel to and can be housed/hosted.

6:09 anyone else noticed that the center blue of that stone looks like an embryo?

Dude what ideal stats would you recommend using dual coded swords? It looks very fun lol.

ZIOSTORM!!! HAIIIII!!!!! ❤❤

For me the fact that there are rotten cristalians shows that they thought about what they were, more than what we have.

9:07 that's gonna hurt

I pray for an all Alien dlc where the crystaliens drop in on crystal ufos

I'm still not over the AI nerf completely ruining the crystilian fights, they were my favourite miniboss.

Is the gold pile that the crystalliens are guarding gold or a giant meteor ?? I always assumed it was gold but it actually looks a bit like one of the golden meteor chunks :/

Hi ziostorm

The crystalians are anoying to fight, but they are cool as hell. One of my favorite enemies to fight while overleveled.

If the crystalians are weird, where does that leave the watchdogs? They have no clear power source

I'm platinuming all Soulsborne games until DLC drops. Bloodborne, Elden Ring, and DS1 (just platinumed yesterday😊) done!

Imagin fromsoft allowed us to use all weapons, spells, & move sets of bosses, but we need to kill them 10+ times to get it in ng+

Wait but there are putrid crystallions as a boss in the selia hideaway.

Bro: exact same shade of blue!! Artists: .... (Just a joke. I'm an artist myself but don't care about such small things)

this enemy is so wierd !

Perhaps they’ll be reintroduced in future from-titles.

Golden amber?? Is that what is pouring from the tree in the DLC???

I used to play those old Fighting Fantasy books. The book in question is Caverns of the Snow Witch. The Crystal warrior WILL kill you if you don't have the war hammer from the fur trappers hut. Still it was great to see something of Fighting Fantasy. I just hope there are more refs like this as Fighting Fantasy isn't well known.

You're not going to like their place in the story, but there's a reason for them to be here.

Low-poly enemy from an earlier time in videogames

Mark my words, we’re going to come to the space in the DLC.

Lore is golden of grace I like grace, she seems cool

What if the fire giants made them

Awright guys Lets talk about flomsoft Also ah had a dream about bloodborne 2 taking place in a large gothic mansion/castle

Does rotland came from terraria crimson?

very cool

The next video, he should troll us with a fake leak that the dlc trailer is dropping during the superbowl lol

ELDEN RING IN QA NOW

weird*

I never really looked that closely at this enemy type, but I always thought they were females. They have Sia's haircut and look like chandeliers.

Omg wtf where is this dlc already

Why are crystallians in elden ring? To get smashed to bits by me giant hammer I tells ya!

I’m surprised he didn’t mention that the Crystalians are a reskin of the Dark Souls 2 enemy the Ruined Sentinels, with almost identical movesets.

Retitle the video, please

what no dlc does to a mf

Joe mama

Where’s the “it’s happening elden ring dlc coming soon” video, I expect one every week to catch the peoples attention

Seath The Scaleless made them. It’s that simple.