>kill her husband who she literally worships
>doesn't sentence you to death
>literally doesn't give a shit and just tries to justify your actions for you
>says she admires you
????????????????
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According to the philosophy of the Volcano Manor, if Rykard was beaten, it means he was weak and deserved to lose
>he was weak
>everyone just mimic teared and stabbed him with le serpent spear :^)
Actually I mostly Moon'd him.
Most people aren't like (You)
If they just get randoms who did that and he actually loses then he does deserve to lose, even against a weapon that is made to be his bane.
>mimic tear
yes
>serpent spear
no
dumb intcel
What in the frick? The range on that Comet Azur looks huge, I swear it was much shorter. Is that just a Rykard hitbox thing, or is the webm older and the spell range has been nerfed since?
It's from launch and I haven't played since, so I don't know if they nerfed the range on Azur.
>le serpent spear
correct, he literally has a weakness
therefore he's weak
Accurate to a woman.
>dedicates her life to the greater will by interpreting the two fingers who are envoys of the greater will
>tell her you want to burn the erdtree
>helps you to burn the erdtree, where marika and the elden beast reside
???????????????????
she's her own person and realizes the finger's bullshit
she's based af, I love this granny
She literally says the fingers can't communicate the greater will's intention and that the player has to take the matter into their own hands.
You are a fricking moron, people still mostly view the greater will positively.
So the fingers are bullshit. What was the point of this post?
The two fingers weren't listening anymore, which is why she helped you out. She wasn't wholly devout. If they were still listening she might be dismissed.
Dont the two fingers frick off halfway through the game and stops talking to her?
they were consulting the greater will. which takes a long time.
I thought the fingers were an avatar of sorts to the GW
No they are literally just fingers that go up butts
They sound more like angels. They're obviously divine and cannot be killed by normal methods, but they're also fallible.
It's interesting to note that they need interpreters but are there to interpret an even greater power that they aren't wholly accurate in interpreting.
The fingers have biases and resort to hiring mortals to try and pull the strings, such as their confessor police that popped up to stop Tarnished from actually using their second chance at life to not die in pointless wars.
That was a massive cope and you know it
She's clearly sick of it. She turns 180 the second she's able to. Her bosses are some giant fricking fingers and she has to translate twitching all day, I'd want to burn everything down too.
You think she ever had a go on the Two Fingers? Just a little rub, maybe?
She makes it all up. Plus the Roundtable Hold serves to put a Tarnished on the throne, no matter what may need to be done.
no they don't. gideon literally kills you for trying to become elden lord. and the rest of them frick off and die.
he said "A" not "the".
Gideon tries to kill you because you made a fool of him.
The Finger Readers and other direct servants of the GW have no true devotion to Marika or the Erdtree, just the Elden Ring.
When will people learn that the Erdtree != The GW. It is Marika's own personal god tree thing and solely her bullshit.
>But the fingers seem to want to protect it
The Fingers inside the Round Table are all but confirmed to be Marika's own personal fingers, as in the fingers that chose her as empyrean and assigned her Maliketh and shit. These fingers have a bias towards her, is unironically rooting for the age of fractures ending and is completely delusional about restoring the Golden Order. Of course it would object you destroying the tree.
Probably my most shameful fap.
Burning the erdtree is literally prophesized by the most faithful. Trust the plan
Gideon turned her against the Fingers
The GW just wants some kind of order. It doesn't have to be the golden order.
becuase she realized that after (you) discover that the way to the tree is barred, the fingers legitimately had no idea of that fact and abandoned the world to try and contact the greater will. She basically lost her faith in the fingers and said "our mission was to put a tarnished on the throne so frick it"
She sees the world is fricking ruined and god abandoned them. She was smart to realize the fingers were worthless
>Lands in utter shit
>Badass actually getting the shit done
>At critical moment where he can hopefully get shit in order the Fingers go "lol no gonna frick off debating for a hundred years because they're a Tarnished. Have fun dealing with the shithole until then!
>Lady goes "frick this, and frick them" the second they frick off and points you in the right direction so shit can get fixed up.
Loyalty wears out after 500000000000000 years stuck eyebrow deep in shit.
about 5,000 but yeah point still stands
she just liked your two fingers more
>Kill her DEMI-GOD husband
>absolute fricking chad nobody comes back and waltz right back to her
>absolutely panicking, not a god damn chance in hell can you fight this monster
>kiss the absolute shit out of his ass in the hopes of mercy
>when he's gone run to your husband and try to take his power for yourself
Is probably what happened in that chain of events.
that doesn't come across in the performance at all. she sounds sad but completely unthreatened.
She's a great actor, but make no mistake. If you can kill Rykard, you're one scary ass motherfricker no matter how you slice it.
does she know you used a bullshit OP cheat weapon to do it?
The last guy that used the serpent hunter failed and died, so that just gives the player character even more credit.
I beaten my first rykard without the cheat weapon because I hated how bullshit OP the cheat weapon vs Yhorm was. What now?
I don't believe you
I found out about volcano manor after the fire giant so i had some levels
Rykard gimmick is Yhorm done right
yhorm is yhorm done right, rykard is something else entirely
yhorm fricking sucked, tooks years to charge the fricking weapon
yhorm sucked, shit fight and shit area, he was ROBBED
it's so not fair
It's kino if you do the Siegward quest
it's not a bad fight as far as souls fights go, which is really fricking bad
Except that one giga shockwave move he can do in phase 1 by burying the snake head into the dirt and using it like a shovel. I'm pretty sure it is literally fricking impossible to avoid damage from that attack. I died once because his AI chose to spam it nonstop until my health dropped to 0 and I will seethe forever about it.
The only time it was done right was for the Storm King.
Storm King is a painfully outdated fight though.
They legitimately did a good job of balancing rykard's moves, reach, damage, etc. while taking the serpent-hunter into consideration. You think you're gonna just waltz in there and squish him with your epic meme beam sword. And suddenly he's chasing you around that massive cavern while you're running for your life
The gimmick weapon also has a nice and varied moveset. It's good even outside of his fight.
I had massive problems with Rykard but that stemmed from over-relying on the spear. He scared the frick out of me so I spammed the weapon and fricked over his stun gauge relative to his moves so he managed to summon the skulls legit a million times.
it just works
her lore says she was a dancer/prostitute Rykard met, she's a good actor
>We're gonna take down the GODDDSSSFZDXFZFG
>All the quests go absolutely no where
>Tanith's quest doesn't even finish, there's just an empty flag at the end that leads to nothing.
Bravo retarzaki.
it's a pvp covenant, all the targets you kill are literally just a warm up for pvp
>it's a pvp covenant
There isn't a single PvP-related thing in the entire fricking covenant and that also doesn't explain why it's blatantly unfinished.
>makes you invade people as a red phantom
>nothing to do with pvp
c'mon use your brain
>There isn't a single PvP-related thing in the entire fricking covenant
Wrong, there is the invade item you can use to invade other players. Its obvious fomsoft made it as an invasion covenant then scrapped covenants at the last second as well as left the quests unfinished, too bad, hopefully the DLC expands on it.
If the DLC expands on the factions in the main game for everyone regardless if they buy the dlc or not and gives a whole new area with 30 bosses to people who buy the DLC it would be pretty sweet and that sounds like something fromsoft would do.
This would be the best-case scenario, and I pray for it to happen.
>Questlines fixed & completed in the base game
>Side content/minor locations improved a bit (like missing dungeons in Snowfield)
>DLC buyers get access to all the new gear & enemies from the new map
>like missing dungeons in Snowfield
nani?
Wont be any DLC, if they did they would probably have to pay Martin royalties
>it's a pvp covenant
ER doesn't have covenants and Volcano manner has absolutely frick-all to do with invasions
>has absolutely frick-all to do with invasions
>as you complete assassination contracts by invading
anon...
>invading npc's*
>invading
>"invade"
exactly, it has something to do with invasions
>"invade" some NPCs
>via a method completely different than actual invades
>in a late-game optional area
>as part of a group of quests, none of which have anything to do with other players
moron-kun, I...
Two types of invasions. One with rykard who just wants to weed out strong folk to devour, and one with bloody fingers on moghs behalf.
you get the infinite invasions item by joining the manor frickwad
>all the targets you kill are literally just a warm up for pvp
They're a bunch of cheating npc phantoms with bloated stats like in every other From game, they don't prepare you for shit.
In the Volcano Manor the strong literally eat the weak so you did nothing wrong in her eyes.
Were Rykard and Tanith good parents to Rya?
no, she wears shoes
were we supposed to be sad when she died? it wasn't even clear that she died. not that I cared since she was a glorified exposition spouter like half the characters in the game.
I guess that was the intention, but seeing as how you see her like 2 times it’s kinda hard to care.
i feel like i'm moronic emotionally when i read posts like this. like, yeah it was kinda sad, she wasn't constantly talking to you 24/7 but the implication was that she was journeying with you throughout your entire adventure. she also gave you her horse, and helped level you up. so her dying, while it didn't make anyone sob, made the world feel more lonely. but when i read posts like this i feel like im just being a supergay
>she also gave you her horse
She had no power over the horse. She was ordered to give the ring to anyone the horse likes.
>the implication was that she was journeying with you throughout your entire adventure
really? thats what you got from it? i mean i guess but really she could've been doing literally anything in between meeting me at sites of grace every couple of hours for our regular exposition dumping sessions. she felt like less of a person than most of the cast. like some outer god's golem or something.
>really? thats what you got from it?
yeah, you know how in some RPG games you can switch between multiple characters but when you're playing as one the others disappear? i just assumed that's what they were doing. they should've just made her sit at grace's with you though if that's what they were going for, and maybe the fact that she doesn't proves me wrong.
She really should show up every time you level up at least.
Its hard to build a connection when you only talk to her once every 10 hours at best. I dont think they realize how much time can elapse in between and thats even assuming the player RESTS at the Grace sites because I sure as frick didnt in my first playthrough.
Fromsoft has been overly moronic by this idea of "oversimplifying storytelling" to death. She was cute but it was like hearing about someone moving away whose only communication you had with them prior was a dozen emails. More cutscenes were needed and Melina acted deadpan and hard to interpret for 90% of her interactions, which were supposed to feel meaningful. Unironically I partly blame the Japanese for being autistic on the idea of being intimate with girls
It was more like I saw her every 20 hours...frick me. Which drug were the devs smoking while making this game?
That melina thing made me mad. Only after multiple playthroughs i realized that she was supposed to be on a voyage with me for the entire time.
Before that I thought she just gives you the horse and fricks off
>Berserk created "one eye closed"
I hate you Black folk so much it's unreal.
I only felt bad when Melina lamented Torrent abandoning her with me when I chose to go full Chaos. Hyetta is ironically a better character to feel attached to just by her asking you to be her lord.
Don't judge your own emotions against those displayed by posts on Ganker. You should know better than this anon.
Man this game is great but the NPCs were really lacking, seems like she had a bunch of lines before too
Woah, wtf
Spoilers
if you choose the schizo path does she really come back to fight you? never saw that happen.
It's just an extra cutscene at the end. Plus you have to meet the three fingers before she burns herself.
Very poor implementation of a """"companion"""".
Needed to be always present at Sites of Grace.
Also, having a few lines for every locations would help too.
That's what happens when you don't characterize a character for shit. You don't care when they die. It also doesn't help that most characters in souls game don't speak directly at you.
Autism
She's a lot more compelling once you realize she basically is Marika's ghost atoning for her sins in life.
goldmask ending is the only ending. but frenzy is also pretty based because you get to destroy the shitty island that is the lands between.
women would kill their husbands without a second thought if it means they can be with chad thunderwiener
she's still loyal to rykard and carries out his will after his death. sorry your ntr fantasy doesn't play out ig.
Pretty much this.
You see it online even today. Pic related.
There is no way that isnt a larp.
first day on the internet?
Makes more sense once you start understanding the nature of women op
see
you're coping so hard rn
greentext your trauma please
Imagine being so much of a cuckquean you not only simp for a serial killer, but a GAY serial killer. Even if he wasn't a serial killer, she'd have no chance at getting into his pants. I really don't get opposite sex yaoi/yuri fetishism.
>I can change him
Society is just a chain of men submitting to other men, so the first men who say lol go frick yourself are seen as attractive. Monkeybrain doesn't register prison as getting killed.
>lost weight, jawline visible
>got a decent stubble
>waring a tailored suit
those are the things making him attractive
>burn the erdtree
>teleport to farum azula
how? why? did they forget to give a reason as to why you were teleported or were they just phoning it in at that point
Heat rises, duh
smarr indie studio puhrease understandu
Makes more sense than making a broken bridge and putting a teleport to the other side on the broken edge. What is even the point of it being broken to begin with.
I read somewhere that farum azula is supposed to be jail. Anyways it's dumb and jarring.
Farum Azula was actually the center of the map before the Erdtree. It was ejected some time before Marika took over and thrown by a tornado to the east. I'm not joking.
Time is convoluted in Lordran
I feel like they might have intended another stretch for you to get there after burning the erdtree, considering it first is just lightly embered up before you release destined death.
They probably ran out of time to implement an alternate way to get you there.
>Burn the Erdtree
>Tree doesn't burn because death was broken by some dude
>Get teleported to the place where said dude is so you can kill him and finish the job
i thought melina teleported you there to protect you from the flames
I guess in the final version it's just Melina teleporting you there. One of the last thing Melina says is that the world needs "Death indiscriminate." Then, she burns up, and teleports you to where you can unseal the Rune of Death.
The precedent for her being able to send you to place that you haven't been to before is when she teleports you to Roundtable Hold.
or you know souls lore has never made sense
It did in Demons Souls.
this makes the most sense to me
I don't know why you're trying to make sense of the game, are you a zoomer and this is your first souls game?
here's a blackpill for you zoomie, it's all made up. it has no meaning. Every character and area in every souls game has been based on something Miyazaki saw on TV or in a game then he cracks out the lore in a weekend
>fictional story is made up
holy shit I am le black pilled now
bloodborne is ripped entirely from a Cthulhu novel
>the lore is fictional
>the lore is actually compeltely asspulled to explain why peter griffin and Arnold Schwarzenegger are in the same game
congratulations, you can make a souls game
>why peter griffin and Arnold Schwarzenegger are in the same game
I think I read this isekai LN once but I don't really remember, who was the author?
miyazaki's intern and lover larry the cable guy
see him his new hit game, larry the cable guy fights nega-godzilla to save the shard of reality, the new hit souls-like
nice 🙂
>it's all made up.
Yes
>it has no meaning
Wrong.
You write like a teenager having his first existential crisis. You mistake your cynicism for maturity. You believe your dismissive, aloof attitude is a result of intelligence, but it is the roadblock preventing you from truly understanding anything.
Being made up does not erase meaning.
Elden ring was made by people who have at least cursory knowledge of spiritual alchemy.
>it's not devoid of meaning!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
>Has a meltdown when confronted with an argument.
What argument? You pissing you pants because something you've wasted hundreds of hours reading about was shit out of some soulless bugman's ass in a weekend?
That some stoner could make a better plot in a weekend combining cartoon characters?
The only one pissing their pants here is you, dude. You're getting awfully upset over this for no real reason.
I'm still wondering why you don't just make a discord because this shit is pathetic
not even past lore trannies were this autistic
eternally seething
Why are zoomer memes so bad?
I just realized basedface is just king crimson’s album art. An expression of fear hiding behind excitement.
imagine taking bait seriously
Yes but extend that to everything in the world and cell phones are a hivemind collective consciousness that can steer idiots.
Then how are you still alive and teleported there if you chosen the frenzied flame?
I have never seen the frenzied flame alternative, how does that work? You beat the Giant and then piss into the thing and it ignites?
You put yourself on fire and then you are in farum azula
Lol IDK maybe Marika sent you there?
Maybe it's the Fell God, then? Beats me, man.
The problem is that you're still sent there when Melina abandons you on the Frenzied Flame path, though the fact that you survive self-immolation at the Forge also doesn't really make sense. Though maybe it's the 3 Fingers keeping you alive and sending you there? Maybe in-lore you're not even wholly "you" after your sacrifice at the forge, which is the precedent for the complete body hijack in the ending cutscene.
you aren't set on fire, your "maiden" is.
everywhere there is a teleporter, assume it's due to deadlines
>Farum Azula
>Renna's rise to underground area for Ranni quest
>Warp to Radahn's arena
>warp from Farum Azula to city of ash
>warp from snowfields to Haligtree
teleporters were glue to patch things together, the goal was obviously something similar to DS1 so it would feel natural but they ran out of time
They are satanists with a little bit of Ragnar Redbeard
>Not killing her and her bodyguard while she feeds on her husband
?????????????
oh i did make no mistake
Rykard is truly immortal beyond anything else. Even after you kill him you see him slowly coming back to life. Tanith even tries to eat him to fuse with him like he did with the serpent.
>has reached the final boss before you even appeared in the game world
>Gideon is the same
Why doesn't anyone outside the player want to become a Elden Lord
Forgot pic
Well he had abandoned it for the Manor. Gideon probally knew what was waiting and was too scared to face it
Because most people have had their shit slapped already by somebody
almost everyone lose their sight of grace
Most don't have the guidance of grace anymore, Gideon is a pussy b***h. He doesn't think anyone can kill the Elden Beast so he doesn't even bother.
She then tries to eat Rykard (the flesh of his decapitated head). I talked to her a final time, then I put her out of her madness-induced misery. Then her knight appeared and I killed that bastard. Volcano Manor was one of the more interesting places in the Lands Between imo. Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree and Farum Azula take the cake, though.
>place is about whoopin ass of people that arent strong enough to survive
>whoop dudes ass
>expecting her to be sad about it
DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
i heard someone say the serpent that ate him or he ate or whatever was a female so rykard is constantly fricking himself and that’s where the snake people come from. is that true?
The serpent people come from horrible degenerate snake sex. Rya tells you as such.
Want to make snakes with Rya.
Daedicar's woe seems to imply that regular women can birth snake people if they engage in some kind of unspecified horrifying cenobite ritual sex. Apparently that's where rya came from
There's two theories, either the World Devouring serpent Eiglay is either female and as a result of Rykard's fusion with it keeps producing unwanted children or Rykard is just raping women with a snake wiener and letting them live long enough to birth man serpents.
The latter is suggested only by Daedecar's Woe which talks about a depraved woman who birthed monsters and was flayed alive. Obvious Mt. Gelmir is notorious for being a torture den especially since Rykard was once the Inquisitor of the GO so this seems to make sense that he had this prostitute he continued to rape for a bit.
On the other hand though, the Serpent's Amnion seems to imply that the snakes were brought about in an unwanted birthing ritual. Raya evens tates that the manserpents have no place among man or snake, so it's hard to figure out of this means that if it was unwanted for the mother or unwanted for the serpent. Serpent's Amnion sounds like its referring to the snake as the mother, rather than a woman. Rykard isn't the serpent after all, he's just a part of it.
shouldn't you trannies have a lore discord by now
>stop talking about videogames
Why bother using an apostrophe if you don't capitalize or use ending punctuation?
shouldnt you trannies have a lore discord by now
Thank you.
t. Black person orphan who has no lore irl
okay but how about setting up a troony discord for this game's moronic lore so you can circlejerk like gays
>I hate being wet, says the man in the pool
okay but why haven't you made a discord yet, you seem mentally ill enough to do something like that
lol
seriously, then you can ban people that call you a mentally ill troony
lol
cope dumb troony loser
how about reading a book how how to get your penis back
lol
>troony
>troony
>troony
Can you guys just shut up already? It's just meaningless syllables at this point.
maybe if you put time into something other than the worst lore on the planet you wouldn't be a loser
>games out a year
>still have no idea why Melina and Ranni share the same missing eye shit
I hate this company for making such fun games but with such threadbare bullshit, and unfinished lore stories
Because Ranni's doll and Melina's body are based on the same person the - Ice Witch.
Ranni's eye has no explanation. Melina's eye is sealed by the beast claw mark. This is because Melina is the gloam eyed queen who was defeated by Maliketh. In the frenzied flame ending, Melina 'lives' while Maliketh is dead, allowing her to regain her true self.
Melina is a third child of Radagon and Marika, she says her mother is inside the erdtree
Marika yes, Radagon no. Melina is a spirit shadow clone that Marika made much earlier on, akin to those her omen sons can make or Malenia's spore daughters.
She has butterflies associated with her like Miquella and Malenia do and she never mentions a father, so it's logical to assume
She also has that pink, strawberry blonde hair which implies Radagon + Marika.
Or, maybe that's what Marika's hair looked like before she absorbed the elden ring
and where is the possible evidence for that?
Radagon was created of Marika and gas red hair, which he resents. Perhaps because it's proof he's not really god?
and that means Marika might have had pink hair?
Why would Miquella be blonde then
He's albino
But Melina doesn't have a body, was created with a specific purpose in mind, posesses Marika's memories or whatever is that allows to repeat what she said in the past, and is physically much less impressive than the other demigods.
They aren't all physically impressive, Ranni and Rykard presumably just looked like normal firecrotches before their transformations and Godrick just looked like some butthole before he started playing frankenstein. Miquella also just looks like a kid
Miquella is cursed and he's not short, just unaging. The demigods are otherwise all very tall. You can find Ranni's burnt body on the tower and she's 9 ft tall easily, you can assume Rykard was the same way in the past
He is short, there are statues of him and Malenia at the Haligtree and we see Mohg carrying him in the opening cutscene and he very clearly looks like a small child
>He is short, there are statues of him and Malenia at the Haligtree and we see Mohg carrying him in the opening cutscene and he very clearly looks like a small child
That's what I said, he's short because he's a kid not because he's a midget.
You said he isn't short
Also every human in the Lands Between is taller than you except for other tarnished for some reason, if you put on lordsworn armor for example and then go stand next to a lordsworn enemy they're easily like a foot taller than you
Do you think Godrick was a hot femboy before he grafted all those arms to fist and prolapse himself with?
Why then she isn't moronic like other kids from Marika/Radagon self-incest?
She exists in an incorporeal form which I imagine is her curse, she says she doesn't know why she's existed "burned and bodiless" for so long
She's burned and bodiless because she is the gloam eyed queen and was defeated by Maliketh. That's also why she bears his mark on her eye and why the seal is broken and reveals her gloam eye in the frenzied flame ending, the only point in the game where she exists but Maliketh is dead.
She has no association with blackflame or the godskins though, and if she were killed by Maliketh ages ago then why would Marika guide the two of you through the whole game to burn the erdtree? Why would Melina want to do what Marika says?
She fights with a black knife moveset and has an otherwise unexplained ability to manipulate the flames of ruin. She also wants to destroy the erdtree not only to follow Marika's will, but her own. Old habits?
>and if she were killed by Maliketh ages ago then why would Marika guide the two of you through the whole game to burn the erdtree? Why would Melina want to do what Marika says?
Because Marika has been trying to undermine the fingers and the GW all along. You'll note that it was not Marika who slew the gloam eyed queen, but Maliketh, her appointed shadow. Marika's equivalent of Blaidd, a watchdog who exists to control their master as much as protect them. Marika and the GEQ were not actually enemies, quite the opposite.
The black knives have nothing to do with the godskins, and she fights with the blade of calling which just happens to have the same special move animation as the black knife and fires a beam of gold instead of destined death
>GEQ were not actually enemies, quite the opposite.
GEQ had the rune of death which is how she created blackflame, and Marika wanted to seal the rune to create faux immortality. They weren't allies
VOLCAINOU MAINOUR
>zero barefooted waifus
Im out.
Am I wrong or do the quests in this game suck? I found out after my first playthrough that a bunch of NPCs I encounter early in the game actually had questlines and you were supposed to find them somewhere but it never gives you any indication as to where they are. Did the devs expect you to look it up online?
Souls sidequests have all been pretty annoying to follow.
it was more acceptable in demons/dark souls 1, when you actually had a good chance of bumping into NPCs at the right time for their quests, and i think that actually worked in a really cool way for those games. but elden ring for some reason mindlessly copies this quest design, like it does for a lot of other souls mechanics, and it sucks ass because the world is fricking giant and you couldn't realistically expect the player to bump into anyone at the right time
if an npc has 9 places for you to find them you typically only have to find them in 3 to complete he quest. ie alexander quest you only need to find him at radahn, at mt gelmir, and at farum azula, to get all of his rewards that arent generic consumables.
Yes fromsoft likes super sekrit quests that are hard to figure out and take a community to complete but they chickened out like a week after launch when everyone complained it was impossible in a big open world so they changed most quests so you can skip steps.
I never found that knight guy who hangs out with the jars, who I also never found until I used a guide to clean up quests before finishing the game. It's really goddamn random where they show up.
>wolf guy? Oh you need to talk to the first merchant long after you outgrew the need to actually talk to him anymore
>shrimp guy? of course he moves from his shack to some pond way out of the way by the capital!
>irina fails if you walk into a shack early
So, yes, they expect you to look it up online.
Live by the world of STR, die by the world of STR. Simple as.
So in this game is time convoluted too like in DS? Because I still can't find a explanation as to how Gideon could farm two demigods before you.
the tarnished player comes way later in the story.
>Gideon could farm two demigods
huh?
When you kill two demigods the old lady says it's the second time she seen such a feat and then says you are as promising as Gideon.
she says it's the first time she's seen 2 Great Runes together at the same time
oh ok
do they ever explain who the demigods were?
Pretty sure the first was Vyke though, since he was right on the cusp of taking the throne before the three fingers killed him out of stupidity.
What are the three fingers? Are they just like an avatar of crazy or is there a different kind of greater will or what
They claim to be the messengers of the original order before the Greater Will reshaped reality.
He's dead? Wasn't he on the evergaol?
You're right, sorry, I meant turned him into a moron, not killed.
>turned him into a moron
Sorry but the TRUE LORD OF CHAOS your talking about.
He didn't take the throne though even though from what we're told he was right on the verge of doing so. Presumably getting burned by the fingers with his armor on fricked him up.
Nah, Vyke is the true incarnation of CHAOS the player is just a FedEx delivery man for the three fingers.
If that were the case he'd have gone ahead and taken the throne, which the three fingers obviously want because that's what we do.
is he really dead of he is an invader up at the church near the eye of sauron?
Vyke's maiden locked him the evergaol and killed herself.
The only tarnished to accomplish that was Vyke. Gideon was just as useless as the people he criticized. He only gets into the capitol because you killed its protector and burned the place down.
Doesn't explain why the fingers say you are now as promising as Gideon to them.
Nobody else is pursuing the demigods. Fia, Rogier, and D are all more interested in the undead. Corhyn and Roderika aren't accomplishing anything either. And then there's the other psychopaths who nobody wants to even associate with.
The Erdtree didn't become the foundation of the Golden Order until after Marika started dicking around with the Elden Ring. Its significance is overblown from generations of familiarity. Like most religions where people can't imagine the current status quo ever being different.
>Because I still can't find a explanation as to how Gideon could farm two demigods before you.
Regardless of whether it was Gideon, Vyke, or someone else, the thing to remember here is that Demigod and a Shardbearer are not the same thing. A Demigod is any of Marika's children (including Radagon's), plus Godfrey for some reason. The only requirement to being a Shardbearer is somehow getting a Great Rune, like our Tarnished player character, or Rennala.
Demigods apparently all have Great Runes because they have the means to protect them. At earlier points, though, there could've been Great Runes that belonged to Shardbearers who were even weaker than Godrick, and that maybe even changed hands a lot. Shards like that would've been the first targets of ambitious Tarnished like Vyke and Gideon.
I think this has to be what happened if two shards had been gathered before, because the alternative is for a Tarnished to have gathered two that are known to us, and then given them up to the bosses we fight during the game. The explanation for that seems like it would have to be way more convoluted and convenient.
>Win the game
>New ELDEN LORD is a murder hobo
so was Godfrey, all that matters is you're strong enough to take the reins.
That's Marika's fetish
Same Godfrey then. Time to eject you from the throne! See you in a millenium.
She only did that so Godfrey wouldn't be used as a pawn against her in her rebellion against the two fingers. Look it up.
Duo bosses are the worst thing From ever created and this game would be a 10/10 if not for them.
Not a single duo boss in this game was fun to fight.
Summon some rats homie
just get good dude
Impressive, very nice. HOWEVER I noticed you using a sleep pot at the start of the clip therefore I've been told by many Ganker users to say that you didn't beat the game.
Tarnished is fricking starved, keeps eating beef jerky mid fight.
I never ate any of those but I really should have.
>using cheat items
yikes
Radahn is objectively a badly design gimmick boss. (Love the asteroid move tho)
What? Fighting him solo is one of the best fight's they've ever made. His attacks are fair, telegraphed and fun to dodge, especially his beyblade spinning.
His first phase is fun, but his second phase is bullshit with the gravity spam
What gravity spam? He rides away from you before using collapsing stars and does it extremely rarely. His giant windup for the forward explosion leaves him open from behind for the entire duration from it as does him summoning the meteors.
>He rides away from you before using collapsing stars and does it extremely rarely
he doesn’t for me.
Do you have a clip of this happening? I've fought this dude over 10 times and have never had that issue before. You're probably thinking of his explosion AOE that he follows up with the giant forward slam
Probably that one I think.
What gimmick?
>AoE spam
>Jumping
The only AoE I remember that required jumping was like Radagon and Elden Beast. Oh I guess Godfrey too but dodge worked just fine there and that fight is pretty easy anyway
Ironic that Gideo was the only trying to fulfill Marika's wish.
What explains the "hollows" and the enemies respawning in his game? Is it the grace bringing everyone back to life (just like the intro says)?
Only Tarnish are supposed to return from death. Dunno why other tarnish you kill die permanently but you don't. The last time the plot perfectly explained all the gameplay mechanics in a souls games was in Demon's Souls after that it became a huge mess.
>Dunno why other tarnish you kill die permanently but you don't
I suppose it's because you are the only one that still see Grace. A bunch of NPCs comment on that. Still it doesn't explain Godfrey which also see Grace.
The respawning enemies aren't supposed to be the same guys.
>elden ring is made of runes
>these runes dictate how every aspect of the world works
>Marika took the rune of death when she became goddess and sealed it away
>now everyone connected to the erdtree in some way comes back to life after after a while
Thats what i got from it.
Me too, but it's interesting to think that if that's true then there were decades and maybe centuries in which nobody died.
Seems weird.
Marika's golden order features respawning after death. You only permanently die as a reward (getting absorbed into the Erdtree in an Erdtree burial aka going to heaven) or as a punishment (getting your existence deleted after death as a Tarnished aka going to hell). People who haven't been excommunicated from Marika's order, that is, people who can respawn, have Grace. Setting this shit up is why she sealed away the Rune of Death btw. You, the player, are a special Tarnished who has had their Grace restored to them. and thus respawns. All the shitter Tarnished you meet have lost their Grace and are thus on their last lives.
>All the shitter Tarnished you meet have lost their Grace and are thus on their last lives.
Anastasia is one tarnish that seems to respawn after death.
Dying as a phantom doesn't count, but only some of the time, since the online stuff isn't nearly as well-incorporated into the lore like in other games.
There's a few brief bits in gear which say they've all gone insane from eternal life but it's moronicly inconsistent.
Miyazaki forgot there wasn't an Undead Curse in this game so here is your hollow, gaijin.
Its weird, they have Those who live in death right fricking there in the lore. But none of the "Hollow" soldiers and shit have a weakness to it.
Actually, a lot of undead enemies don't count as undead. Zombies, the rotting animated corpses, do not even count as Undead. The Skull Snails don't count as undead. Wraiths don't count either.
I'm actually wondering if the theory that the "hollow" soldiers actually are Those who Live in Death and we've been basing the idea that they aren't off of an inconsistent, poorly spread out damage bonus system?
Those Who Live in Death are definitely a distinct thing(s). It's the Ghostflame and Death Blight stuff.
The rotting corpses are just people who've got super bad poison aids and scarlet rot
Shit like the aristocrats clothes seems to imply that the regular beef jerky you find walking around have just gone mad from being unable to die, but it's not quite the same thing as corpses which have come back to life. Presumably they can't die because the Rune of Death got removed, but in that case no one would have died for fricking hundreds of years, which is just something that is never stated or commented on.
Putrid Corpses have countless variations, some of the first you encounter in the game though are people who have washed up from a mass ship wreck.
There is no magic scarlet rot or Formless Mother period splurge to explain that, they're just animated corpses.
I'm thinking From was just lazy with the undead registration considering about half the undead enemies aren't on the list. Looks more like they just straight up ported divine weapon spread sheets from prior games, which was just skeletons and then added the odd ball slots to death birds and spirit caller snails of all things.
Literally all the Godwyn lizards or other mutants also aren't affected by the undead registration and gain no additional damage, though they're all probably weak to holy.
>some of the first you encounter in the game though are people who have washed up from a mass ship wreck.
Shit good point.
To me it feels more like they just made all the human enemies look like raisins because that's how it was in the last few games and failed to give it much thought. If they had just made them look like regular humans I'd have bought that reviving enemies is just a gameplay mechanic or reinforcements being sent from somewhere else; in the previous games the Undead Curse and the Fog were neat explanations for why enemies came back but it's not like there weren't a dozen other random animals that also just respawned, and Yharnam was meant to be crawling with people out on the hunt so it was easy enough to rationalise that you were encountering multiple pitchfork mobs. This time however it was like they just made everyone a zombie, remembered that the lore didn't actually say everyone was zombies, and then very clumsily shoved an explanation for it in one or two clothing sets.
Feels like there was a much bigger round of last-minute rewrites than even DS3. Like, there's the obvious general sentiment that the golden order stops you from dying, hence why the rune of death was removed. But does this mean people respawn after they die, or they're just immortal but still die when they're killed, and if so what determines the cases where people do come back? And does your character respawn or not? There's lots of conflicting NPC dialogues about the topic. I get the feeling that they weren't 100% comfortable with a lot of the material GRRM gave them to build the setting and were trying to figure it out right until the final deadline.
Anon, they removed the rune of Death which makes everyone by default zombies so their juicy souls can be eaten by the Erdtree to perpetuate blessing when the body expires.
But at the same time, they explain away (your) respawning powers as being within Marika's grace, which would imply that the rune of death being sealed doesn't mean you live forever it just means you get eternally respawned like a Souls undead when you die.
But it feels too moronic that literally everyone has been immortal for the last however many hundred years, seeing as Death was sealed right at the beginning of the Golden Order, and this is just never ever brought up outside one set of clothing.
Plus you're already slaughtering Demigods before you even unlock the rune again.
Destined Death being locked away seemed more like it just gave the Demigods immortality (hence why Ranni needed it to kill Godwyn and herself), not everyone on the damn planet.
Everyone in the lands between have immortality, they have been hammering into your head that even small animals stop pro-creating
You are Tarnished, you don't have the blessing of the Erdtree so you are not immortal. Marika's grace just straight up Rez you.
You also don't 'kill' demigods like Goddrick, you probably can kill if you really need to such as by burning the body and bones to ghostflame but this is forbidden.
>Even small animals stopped reproducing
Never saw this, Melina says babies are still born.
makes no sense
The "everyone was immortal and stopped respawning" was the OG pickled turtle neck description on release. They patched that description out and changed it to something else within a month. That's not the only instance of this happening. Like I said earlier, they were still writing the lore literally up to the day of final release, and even beyond.
>fromshit having to patch out intern written item descriptions because it hamstrings the lore
>posting pictures of yourself on Ganker.org
makes no sense
The "hollows" are the normal inhabitants of the Lands Between who don't die/reincarnate because the Rune of Death is missing and the Erdtree is fricked, so at least the ones who haven't been physically destroyed keep on living while still deteriorating slowly as time passes. Those Who Live in Death are the more classical definition of "undead" in the sense that they're actually reanimated remains of those who died before and they exist because Godwyn's soulless corpse, touched and corrupted by Destined Death, was buried at the roots of the Erdtree so his blight is spreading across the lands.
At least that's how I understand it.
>First playthrough
>going 100% blind, havent read a single guide
>havent even watched any reviews
>missed every single sidequest in the game
I dont even know who half these characters you guys are talking about are
Its okay little dude, Fortnite will still be there for you
this is the hard truth for anyone playing without a guide
It gets worse with each new game too. I bet there's literally not a single person in the entire world who got all of Sellen's quest in a single playthrough without looking up a guide at some point.
you are just moronic
Whatever, gay. People didn't find the end to that quest until like 3 weeks after release.
please be bait
Sellen's quest is one of the easiest to follow
a quest I would consider too cryptic would be diallos's, but that's it
1. why would you give a shit about such a shallow quest
2. it's not clear at all unless you look up a guide
eat a dick you moronic homosexual
???
that's right, frick off you moronic Black person
damn
he's right, the game sucks ass, the only reason you know anything about the game is because you read it all on the wiki
>I bet there's literally not a single person in the entire world who got all of Sellen's quest in a single playthrough without looking up a guide at some point.
Dude just buy the merchant hints.
You can lick her ball.
Easiest quest to botch is probably Seluvis. Guy just randomly drops dead while you're dealing with other shit. That and Alexander sometimes taking a permanent vacation in the Radahn battlefield.
me, every souls game
I just youtube it after
Morrowind taught me to write down notes of NPC and quest lines, so I was able to get through it without a guide. (Though Elden Ring NPC quest line is way harder to complete)
Sentence you to death with what? Her single guard? You literally killed Rykard, so there's nothing she can do about it. Other than eat Rykard flesh to try and make him fuse with her body.
>dude you're so heckin powerful no one should ever oppose you ever because that wouldn't make sense
by your logic why do the bosses even bother fighting us? they should just give us their great runes and bow to us! that would make such a great story and fun game right?
MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
Can you stop screaming?
NO
Touch grace you weirdo.
Which weapon should I use for a new playthrough since I did lance+shield and magic before: Grave Scythe, or Greatsword?
who cares
put frost on the scythe and get a 2nd one and welcome to easy mode
I don't like the aesthetics of dual wielding scythes, so nah.
>i dont wanna be too much of a badass so ill hold back
Colossal greatsword for maximum ungabunga
So what exactly did GRR Martin write for this game?
The main story and lore all feel very similar to Dark Souls with a bit of Bloodborne combined.
wrote his name on the box for marketing purposes
Literally just a high-level cliff's notes summary of the backstory and that's it.
He wrote all the events before the game. Marika her husband and children. Up to the point before the shattering. Everything after that is written by from From.
>Godfrey
>Radagon
>Rennala
>Marika
HOLY SHIT
BRAVO GEORGE
the GReateR Mill
>Gall Rearing Runter Melmer
VAAAATI
All the characters with names starting with G, R and M.
Stop.
"Shabriri" is such a fun word to say out loud.
The voice actor takes such a divine pleasure in pronouncing it too.
I like to sing it to the tune of Shipoopi
pretty sure thats the first step on going nuts
Bro I'll be honest these games all fricking suck
what are some good games
I like Dynasty Warriors
take it back
t. filtered by capra demon in 20011
>time really was convoluted all along
Mitsubishi-sama...
let me see Rya again in the dlc
GOLEM GET YE GONE
Is it normal to want to FRICK queen Marika the eternal?
yes, I believe so
It's the greatest prize for going through all the trouble of being Elden Lord
>either stone pussy or doll pussy
Being Elden lord is suffering
IM GOING TO FRICK THAT butthole
I WILL CLAP HER CHEEKS INTO DUST
Rykard didn't die, dummy. He can't die.
That doesn't mean we can't try to see how close we can get 🙂
I want to lick Sellen feet
I just noticed that the dork behind her is a Crucible Knight.
He's not a dork, he's actually really hecking strong.
This b***h is a fricking succubus who gets everyone around her killed, and orchestrated the Shattering, including literally giving the planet cancer. But cause she's got a pussy though, people simp for her.
>cause she's got a pussy
Except she dosen't loool.
goldmask hard mogs her in charisma
...
that's what we've been trying to tell you for the past year
mute simp
Do you mean he's a simp who's a mute, or anons are simping for a mute?
>Do you mean he's a simp who's a mute, or anons are simping for a mute?
yes
Ranni still #1, all others are #2 or lower
I didn't care for her that much honestly, but then I got the ring and read the item description and it had:
>"Whoever thou mayest be, take not the ring from this place, the solitude beyond the night is better mine alone."
And then I thought "I CAN FIX HER" and she became my wife a few areas later.
>Ranni
>selfish, sacrifices those that adore her for her own gain, doesn't care about the terrible consequences of her decisions, is a taker, only after jumping through hoops does she give you an old sword, would be a narcissistic wife and mother
>Melina
>selfless, sacrifices herself for the good of the world, is a giver, gives you torrent and the ability to level up right when she meets you, holds your hand, would be a nurturing wife and mother
If I got Ranni pregnant would that turn Melina pregnant as well?
Melina isn't a real person. Shes a useless spirit.
>Useless spirit
>Turns Morgott into minced meat
her narcissism is what give her that allure, anon.
to each their own I suppose
>Ranni
sends you off to do her dirty work with her other goons
>Melina
>fights alongside you
>would be a narcissistic wife and mother
That’s the appeal anon.
Just like Marika
More like because she has actual content
Not used to seeing woman represented accurately? The Japanese aren't afraid to tell the truth like Americans are.
Souls games have the most boring writing ever. Absolute catnip for midwits though
Bro, she fricking eats him after you kill him.
what's your favorite boss and why is it Mohg?
Mohg was my favourite boss, but I saw him at Elphael, Brace of the Haligtere yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for his exultation or anything.
He said "Oh, like you're doing now?"
I was taken aback, and all I could say was "Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going "Tres! Duo! Unus!" and stabbing the air with his trident. I walked away and continued with my exploration, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to the boss room to fight Malenia, I saw him trying to walk out the Haligtree with Miquella in his arms.
Malenia was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Mohg, you need to put Miquella back inside the roots." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and bought Miquella back.
When Malenia took Miquella and started placing him back inside his cocoon, Mohg stopped her and told her to give him Miquella's needle "to prevent outer god infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word.
I tried to fight Malenia for her Great Rune, but Mohg kept interrupting us by shouting nihil really loudly.
I fricking love seeing shit like this, perfectly encapsulates what I love about these games so much. Favorite boss was Malenia, but Mohg and Radahn are super close.
crazy how they put the best bosses outside of the main story path
gotta bloat the game
It's Morgott because his "meager grave" is just cool as shit. It also helps that he's not some 5-story tall monstrosity in a tiny underground cave where the game goes berserk.
Most bosses melted so quickly I don't even know their moves.
Miyazaki
You getting slapped while casting the spell actually highlights one of my major beefs with the bosses: if they finish their attack, and detect you counter-attacking in response, their AI is programmed to unzip an additional attack, and depending on your weapon speed, you may be in for unavoidable damage. If you only attack during 100% safe openings you are either forced to play passive as all frick or are chained to spirit summons or shield countering. "Yeah homosexual that's a nice combo and all you've got there, but when the frick is it my turn to attack": the game.
you're not wrong, but I played like shit and should've used the range advantage of my spells better
Bosses chase you down really aggressively if they catch you trying to find distance. Things can obviously be optimized but what you did was pretty reasonable for a caster fighting the more aggressive bosses solo. Honestly the best way to handle bossfights as a mage is still the kamehameha, if you can get away with it. Mohg is actually really easy to do because of how he casually walks at you from the other end of his giant arena lol.
Also protip: if you freeze an enemy, they can't be frostbitten again until the meter goes down. BUT you can forcibly reset it by hitting them with any fire effect. Like a fire pot or a fire spell. Freeze, then fire, then freeze again. I don't think they patched this out, and you can rack up insane damage like this.
Yep, pretty sure the fire pot and extra frost proc ended up winning me the fight overall
does fire get rid of frost buildup as well or just when the frostbite has already hit?
I don't think it's something to patch out, it's clearly intended. Frostbite deals some % HP damage and while active it reduces damage resistance, so there's an advantage to keeping it on. If they removed these things about it and didn't let you reset either it would literally just be a worse bleed, since bleed deals more % HP damage.
You presumably respawn because Marika actually has your back. The other Tarnished who no longer see the guidance of grace presumably do not respawn, as a bunch of them die during the course of the game. The zombies are alive and live eternally in the sense that they do not die of natural causes, but like graceless Tarnished if they get destroyed I assume they're gone as well.
>even small animals stop pro-creating
Where is this mentioned? I don't remember seeing it, plus the animals in the game look perfectly normal, none of them are the desiccated living leftovers that the people turn into, which suggests they do not live eternally at all. You even get items which explain how some of them bear young and you can clearly see their young in the game as well, which also suggests that their lifecycles are not disturbed.
Your homie Vyke who most likely got deceived by the Three Fingers in order to keep a woman from torching herself?
Whatever. We have glory eyes and got hugged, frick you.
Plus, when people refer to Erdtree related eternal life, they're talking about the murals showing people being reborn from its fruit.
Yeah that shit is annoying as frick. I ended up just using spells that have a bit of a delay like Rock Sling so it baits their dodge well before it casts, or ashes like Bloody Helice where you actually dodge back then lunge and pierce to frick with them.
Yeah who cares, I want to know who the lizard kids mother is
some say it was a lizard with the face of martha stewart that could fart molecular acid
Sellen, Millicent, Nepheli, or Ranni?
Nepheli puppet
It's my headcanon that the land of reeds is where sekiro takes place and the white ogre people with red eyes were people shipped from the lands between
dumb weeb
All the women in power in this game are two-faces c**ts.
I only ride with my homie Vyke.
"Death" still happens you morons. The average homosexual returns to the Erdtree to be reborn. Which is how Omen are born, their "soul" being corrupted before returning to the Erdtree.
Destined Death just means to "soul" isn't recycled by the Erdtree.
>he just realizes most of ER Lore makes no sense
Nice dude where have you been
>His immediate response to not knowing something is to say it doesn't make any sense and to stop thinking about it.
Pathetic.
Why does Melina needs to torch herself to send me to Farum Azula when I can just glitch myself there? Has she not seen the speedruns?
YOU'RE NOT SAFE EITHER
RAW ANAL FOR EVERY BOSS IN THE GAME
Did the loregays ever figure out why she picked a fight with Radahn and marched all the way across the continent to do battle while Miquella sat alone at home getting kidnapped?
probably has something to do with Miquella's interest in solar eclipses and Radahn halting celestial movement, preventing an eclipse from happening
>tries to repair ring after Marika breaks it
>doesn't work cause he needs more Great Runes
>you bring more Great Runes to repair the ring with
>he tries to kill you as soon as he sees you so that he can repair the ring
>you kill him and repair the ring
What's his fricking problem? Is he moronic?
If you repair the ring, Marika will likely take control of the body.
If he does it, he has control over the body.
That’s my headcanon.
I like how this image is a shitpost but still a 100% accurate summary of the lore
He probably knows Marika guided you there and as such assumes no good (from his point of view) can come from having her plan come to fruition. Then again Marika also guides you to meet Ranni, maybe he knows that too and attacks immediately to make sure the GO doesn't get Moon'd instead.
Marika is also Radagon so I dunno. I assume he's just the Elden Beast in avatar form or whatever
Yeah, but if you put it that way the Elden Beast would want the Ring fixed too, wouldn't it? Maybe they just want it fixed exactly as it was before, not with other Mending Runes and shit, plus obviously they would not want the frenzy apocalypse or Ranni removing the GO entirely.
The Elden Beast is the Ring itself, and with that in mind you can assume that whatever form the ring takes is reflected onto the beast. Since the Golden Order is meant to be eternal and unchanging, it'd make sense for the physical manifestation of that to fight against change
Radagon already fixed the ring good enough for his taste. He doesn't need more runes, he doesn't want help. That's why he sealed the erdtree.
you forgot
>she tries to eat her husband's corpse
>be me: OG murderhobo
>kill her too
>her beta knight comes after you
>kill him also
>13 dex
that must look so fricking goofy during the throne ending cutscene
She is better with her hair down
MALENIA IM FRICKING YOUR BROTHEEEEEEEEEEEEER
God, I want to frick Miquella bussy
His little butthole wouldn't be safe. +22 flame longsword
Honestly, unleashing the scarlet rot was worse than Ranni killing Godwyn. The rot's still spreading out of Caelid, isn't it? That whole situation is like if Chernobyl happened, but no one turned off the reactor.
>The rot's still spreading out of Caelid, isn't it?
Yes. They had to build a wall, but if the wall is broken, it will quickly spread like Dragonbarrow
you mean that three foot high stone wall?
Yeah.
Supposedly the only thing that stops (doesn't fix) scarlet rot is fire. So the knights patrolling Caelid burn shit, and set up fiery barriers. Honestly, first fricking priority as Elden Lord is figuring out a fix for that. I'm surprised people in Limgrave aren't freaking the frick out.
Liurnia has an ocean of liquid rot directly underneath it and they're doing fine
>Doing fine
Liurnia of the "Lakes," as in, plural, only has one lake anymore, cause it's flooding, and potentially sinking. You can see that in the town leading up to the academy.
why is it flooding/sinking?
it's built on swamplands.
what a bunch of morons hehe should have learn gravity magic and make the buildings float
the entire lake is actually miyazaki's butthole
I forget where but I think it's implied either the carians or the cuckoo knights blew the entire fricking country up with magic which is why the academy is on a lone standing rock in the middle of what kind of looks like a massive crater
i want to frick her little lips so much just slip and GLCK-GLCK-GLCK
>her
Sorry, he's a girl now.
>Do battle with 3 consecutive 15k hp phantoms with endgame gear and overleveled bleed/arc or frenzy builds that will exploit infinite FP and stamina to cast rot/bleed/chaos AoE miracles literally nonstop until you are dead
Wow what a well thought out encounter
It's not supposed to be balanced. Impress THE GREAT JAR or frick off back to limgrave, homosexual.
I tricked them all into jumping off a cliff. Frick the great jar.
THE GREAT JAR is amused by your guile. Take the jar arsenal talisman, as reward for your entertaining performance.
or just crouch by the cliffside in a corner of the area you fight them in and watch them fling themselves off the cliff
I mean they're fine in regard to the rot, it doesn't affect them
I like that you can see people in Caelid trying to observe the scarlet rot, like near Gael mines. It's clear they're actively trying to do something to help and you killing them is just causing more problems.
I also like the fricked up idea that the scarlet rod spreads over biomass in general, so if your corpse is left, like so many of those virulent piles of fricked up brain fungus, it will grow over you and you will spend immortality as conscious, alive matter trapped within living flesh. And that's what you're looking at when you see much of it, not just the foliage, but the massed bodies of warriors who never made it out.
so walls are good now all of a sudden?
Least it can be repelled by fire.
Godwyn rot is basically polluting the waterhole at its source. His rot is everywhere, to the point that crabs in Liurna have his face on them and basilisks spreading the blight show up on the surface.
Everyone in ER sucks though. Goldmask, Alexander (Though the whole corpse pot thing is a bit on the grey side), the Smith, Wizardboy that dies a few hours in, and the ashes upgrade girl are the only people that don't plan on fricking everyone over.
Godwyn rot? Are you telling me there's ANOTHER WMD fricking this all up?
jesus, these pretender gods need to calm the frick down
NTA, but Goldmask 100% had the right idea. All these fricking demi-gods are shitting up the planet.
Deathblight, it comes from Godwyn's corpse infecting the erdtree's roots
Deathblight, the CURSED instadeath for this game.
ohh so its an actual spreading blight, not just the curse of death. Okay. I guess I better grape Malikith or something
Source? I don't see it on e6
lemonkyubun on rule34, i just wish the artist drew more of that stuff. a
https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=6083174
for some reason its not on e621
Weird, e6 usually has just about everything with a handful of exceptions
Yeah, it's usually sorted better too, way less redundant tags. All it takes is an uploader caring though. Goes for gel, r34, e621, sankaku....
Have you not played the game? You literally see the effects of it on the Wizard when he investigates Stormveil.
If you follow Fia's quest You see his corpse has basically tendrils going around the entire world, above and below ground.
"Oh yeah let me just literally steal life force from people so I can give it to the god of turning people into skeletons, zombies, black sludge. You should help me turn everybody into undead monstrosities that sail on ghost boats! I also killed the guy that wanted to help these people that were obviously suffering. By the way, here's a hug :)"
The fact that her "blessing" saps your life force just for holding it, not even getting any benefits, should be a showing that something is fricked with her.
>You should help me turn everybody into undead monstrosities that sail on ghost boats!
Those guys were there before the Erdtree business, take a guess what their job was.
D and his brother are meanies tho :(.
I meant the only cool guy you meet that dies because you can't have good people in Miyazaki's games. But yes, killing DnD was a bit sad even though they were the setting's version of Fundamentalist Crusaders.
They wouldn't be considered abominations if they would stop turning everyone else into skeletons and giving other people super-AIDS that melts flesh while spreading the super-AIDS through literally the entire planet.
The skeletons aren't spreading deathblight, wormfaces, crabs, and basilisks are
They drop Deathroot, are undead, and are generally fricking things up. Unless there's some item that goes "Ackshully the Tibia Mariners fight against the deathblight by using super bones to repel it and this is all a misunderstanding :(" they are part of the fricking problem.
And again, if this guy is one of your followers then you are probably the bad guy.
>Tibia Mariners
Again, those guys were around long before the Erdtree took over the death business. Tibia Mariners are basically unemployed now and have frick all to do with the Death Blight and Godwyn. They mostly just hand around graveyards and make people frick off.
Only the mariners drop deathroot, the regular skeltals don't. Anyway the point is that deathblight exists because of Ranni and undeath exists because of Marika, no one who's undead asked to be
She doesn't want to turn people undead, she wants the undead that are being created because of Ranni's and Marika's frickups to stop being considered abominations
But they are abominations
Fia doesn't want to frick anyone over
she wants the whole world to be undead necromancy land because they din do nuffin except cannibalize the all life in the lands between
>hey hey people
Actually the best way to cure rot is ice which is why you gotta throw ice pots at Malenia
That actually might be lore accurate. The guy who sealed the scarlet rot in the lake was all water themed. Imagine if the way to fix Caelid was to just have a giant water balloon fight.
japanese can't write, omg I'm shocked
m8, she fricking goes in and eats her fricking husband's corpse. shit's fricked all around.
>kill her husband who she literally worships
didn't happen
>doesn't sentence you to death
because the snake will never die
>says she admires you
in line with her faction's principle
learn to listen to dialogues moron-kun.
What made Marika shatter the Elden Ring?
Is Marika the Elden Ring?
A combination of her firstborn being murdered and a steadily growing discontent with and resentment toward the Greater Will
No, the elden ring is physically inside her body
So she literally hit herself with the hammer? Lmao
She probably took it out of herself, there's a big chunk of her torso missing when we find her
I'm pretty sure she was made to be part of a broken version of it as punishment
She likely tore it out of her chest first, hence why her body is torn open.
Melina is Ranni's twin sister
>crucible knights in all the marketing
>4 named crucible knights
>code that shows they originally had way more to do and were more important
>barely relevant at all in the game
what the frick happened.
elden ring lore is shit. everyone souls game before it made more sense in comparison. elden just seems all over the place
elden ring is just a dominions 5 game gone out of wack all the player pretender gods casted too many spells and now everything's FRICKED
astral horrors included
it's pretty good actually, just a lot more stuff going on than past games to keep track of
If a hung futa she-wolf approached your Tarnished and offered you to choke on her knot in exchange for all the bleed soak in the world, would you take it?