My cousin said “it’s just a little glintstone. You can’t even get addicted to it”. Now he’s living under a bridge and harassing passers by.. Don’t do glintstone kids.
My uncle used to do glintstone. "Just recreational, man." he said. "Helps take the edge off after a long day", he said. Now he just stares at nothing and gives passersby insanely strong spells... GLINTSTONE: NOT EVEN ONCE
my theory is that Azur and Lusat were expeled from the academy for bragging about how they oneshot every enemy with comet azur and spamming stars of ruins in duels
What if Elden Ring 2 takes place in the far future like dark souls 2 and 3 and theres now a new academy built in honor of thops and the whole world worships Goldmask like they do Marika
And possibly Postal 2, as you do kill pretty much everyone you meet if you're playing the game right. Hopefully the forthcoming expansion pack will add some sort of quest where you go to the mall to get a washed-up child actor's autograph. Prepare to cry.
Eh, it depends. He's got the spirit but sometimes he's totally wrong about some things, although this video is pretty accurate. Always very entertaining though!
One detail left out is that the slaughter of the Village of Albinaurics was ordered by Gideon Ofnir as HE was the one looking for Albus. This is confirmed by Nephili Loux, Albus himself, Latenna and a Finger Reading Crone. Meaning that the Omenkillers (or the ones killing Albinaurics) are employed by Gideon. I don't really think there is a connection to Rykard or Ranni with the Albinauric slaughter I just think it's a coincidence of proximity as they have nothing to do with reaching the Haligtree.
I think the Omenkillers are now for-hire mercenaries who like to kill poor people. Theyre not tied to one specific faction, they can be found wherever someone needs a mass kidnapping or slaughter. This includes Gideon, Volcano manor and Leyndell.
You can get to that “secret” boss fight going down the stairs from the godskin past the flame monk and down around the lava through ledge jumps. Found it on accident not knowing about the teleport.
Straight up I really like your ER content because of how you cover it. There’s not a set list, you’ll cover something neat and really go in depth even if it’s not critical to lore. Dung eater, weeping peninsula, now glintstone. No pattern or anything, I like how it’s whatever you find cool instead of covering things just to cover them just because it’s in the game. Big fan DT!
To elaborate- Fallingstar Beast and Astel are indeed the same species. You can even find the in-between stage of growth of this thing, those hanging thing in few caves that throw rocks at you. Thing is inspired by antlions and if the connection runs deeper- then it means Astel spends most of it's life as the Fallingstar Beast (basically an Astel larvae) And I do also agree with the theories of people that glintstone is alive and basically "part of the outer gods" or something like that and quite parasitic (just like the fkin outer gods) Also, Toph is better that Sellen- he doesn't commit warcrimes on his way to make the barrier spell
The Abductor Virgin is not the only way to get to the "Secret Boss Fight" in Volcano Manor, right outside the temple where we fought the Godskin in Volcano Manor, you can jump down and do some normal, non-glitch platforming and get to the lower level to fight the two Abductor Virgins, along with procuring a handful of items et al. The video was hilarious as always, just wanted to make this one part clear.
I remember finding Sellen in Weeping Peninsula and thinking, "I'm such a smart clever boy!" Then promptly killed her trying to free her because how was I supposed to know the quest would continue some 20 hours later.
4:25 I thought Ensha attacked the village of the albinaurics, 'cause as soon as you return to the roundtable hold after getting the half of the medallion, he attacks you.
Ensha and the Omenkillers are on the payroll of Gideon. The left half of the medallion was hidden away from the Alb Killers by the pot guy. Once Gideon is aware that you have it, he sends Ensha to ambush you. I don't think Ensha personally attacked the village. Seems kinda overkill to send the Omenkiller, Profaned Perfumer, and Ensha when the Albs can't really fight back. Just the first two were probably enough.
It's weird, because Ensha seems to be acting way ahead of what Gideon's asked of him and they're in the middle of some kind of schism that ultimately proves fatal to Ensha when the player character walks around, but Gideon also doesn't condemn what Ensha did either, and kicks Nepheli Loux out of his service when she gets revenge on his men that, presumably, participated in the Albinauric massacre. Even besides what it says about Gideon - that he's perfectly willing to use mass violence and intimidation and doesn't morally object to it, even if he doesn't actively want to and thinks Ensha is foolish for being so trigger happy - it opens a lot of questions... Probably the one I'm most interested in: who _is_ Ensha? On the one hand, he seems to have some kind of entirely unique power up his sleeve, in that he can somehow either suppress the Peacebond magic at work in the Roundtable Hold, or else somehow divert the teleportation powers of the Tarnished as granted by Sites of Lost Grace/the guidance of Grace in order to trap your PC in a fake Roundtable. He's also apparently able to use Collapsing Stars which is not only an extremely advanced gravity sorcery, it's also one invented by, and otherwise known exclusively by, Radahn himself - this indicates both incredible intelligence and some ties to the Redmanes on Ensha's part. Lastly, the game classifies him as a "Great Enemy", much like Gideon himself way down the line. On the other, Ensha seems _hilariously_ weak in game, to an extent that I cannot believe it wasn't intentional. But even besides the game mechanics... why does he come after you, an immortal Tarnished, as he himself apparently lacks the same immortality? Clearly he isn't a Tarnished then, and I can only imagine he doesn't actually know how Tarnished work. Or else he hoped to somehow permanently incapacitate your character, like how the second D brother smashes up Fia at the end of that quest? (Or maybe producing a Great Rune cost her the guidance of Grace and therefore her immortality.) So... how, and _why,_ does Ensha do any of these Ensha things?
The truth : Gideon is the worst character of Elden Ring. Everyone is his pawn. And he won't cover you. He doesn't care about your life. Only his matters. Ensha failed to kill you, so Gideon is cool with you. Not about to fight a losing battle you see. Which make it particularly impactful when he choses to fight you himself at the end. He knows he'll die. His fight is a joke. But it is his last chance. You are an inch close to becoming elden lord, the purpose of his life. He simply can't let you.
I don't think Sorceries and Incantations being the same thing means that Incantations are powered by glintstone, but rather that Glintstone Sorceries are kinda like incantations of whatever outer god makes Glintstone (propably one or both of the moons)
@@masterzoroark6664 I think Falling Star Beasts actually do fall out of the sky, as you normally find them in craters Also, they're associated with gravity magic, which, while still sorcery, has a stronger association with meteorite than it does with Glintstone I think the same goes for Astels, they also come from the stars and use gravity magic, which is something I don't believe we ever see the big old head spheres using
I think the people balls are what happens when glinstone masters whos bodies get corrupted by glinstone are near each other, they all fuse together to become like a symbiotic organism made of glinstone
You can get to the double abductor virgin boss fight via normal means without getting killed by the one at the academy. I never knew about that teleport though, that’s super neat
I remember when my teacher had glintstones. He probably was looking too deep into the primeval current because he couldn’t do magic and the glintstones hurt his body. He had to have them removed before it was too late
Thank you so much Dark Tark for teaching about the nature of glinstone. All my friends started to smoke glinstone and I was about to join. Very cool, thank you!
I heard that President Marika's downfall was actually due to her son Godwin leaving his laptop full of evidence of his Glintstone addiction with a Raya Lucaria repairman in Delaware.
The Glintstones is an Lands-between animated sitcom produced by Rennala-Barbera Productions. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the activities of the titular family, the Glintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Chubbles. Duh
Please keep making videos like this, not even just on Elden Ring, your delivery, tone, and humor makes me forget to take my antidepressants fr, you're awesome and make great content, much love!
I'm genuinely impressed with how I gain more understanding of the lore in these games through your videos than more serious "lore analysis" channels. Writing for comedy means keeping someone's attention with every sentence, while analysis/academia doesn't mind if you drift off here and there. You keep threading the needle of holding attention with memes *and* showing off all the nuance of Elden Ring's story and game design. 👍 Glad I subscribed, it looks good on my resume.
so in Dark Souls the magic you shoot are generally souls (minus the humanity) but in Elden Ring the magic you shoot are rocks and some magic space beams
Something I haven't seen anyone take note of yet is the possibility of a connection between the living jars and the study of graven schools/masses. When you find the graven school talisman the room is filled with living jars and we know that living jars are filled with the remains of warriors. We can assume that a graven school by its appearance is a mass of sorcerers who have merged their bodies into a ball. Perhaps the people interested in creating a graven school were interested in the anatomy/physicality of a living jar to perform a similar process to become something like a living jar themselves only a jar made of glintstone crowns?
I'm glad you mentioned the thing about the creepy thing teleporting you to the volcano manor because I'm on my first playthrough and heard that was a thing but didn't know it brings you to a unique area of it and so I just figured it was just a cool Eastern egg but never had a reason to go try it.
You can get to that part of volcano manor without getting hugged by the abductor virgin..just gotta burn the feets a bit on the most non deadly lava ever..
You know those situations where you reload and "she's dead?" I often wonder, what happens if we wait… could it actually be something we could have stopped?!
4:58 I'd not say it was a only a partnership, considering the fact that Rykard (along with Ranni) is Rennala's child, so it's likely that the abductor virgins are there to protect his mother along with the hologram we have to fight
Astel and the Fallingstar Beast are said to be two of the same creature, the Fallingstar Beast being at an infant stage and Astel being the adult/final stage. Edit; I didn't wait two seconds to write this comment.
The Sellia Hideaway is up on the cliff overlooking Sellia, so I'd say it's close enough. It even has Sellia in the name. It is hidden though, so it's not exactly easy to find, but it's still very close by.
The primeval current is the same power the outer gods use and glintsone is the crystaline manifestation of this power. For humans using glintstone is like handling AA batteries but tapping the primeval current is like shoving a metal fork into a wall outlet.
