One thing to note about the tombs at 11:20 is that the "twinsage" was technically two people, so it might not make sense that they receive one tomb dedicated to them. Still, interesting that there are 7 tombs..but of all the things in this video, I think this one might be overthinking it a little 😅

Do you plan on making any “Lies of P” lore videos? Or no

We’re here for the overthinking!

2 tombs for the twin sages plus an empty spot a tomb could go for a clean 8 for when Sellen dies?

im saying this now that aura is part of the elemrs weapon its ither the sword or greatsword its red glow gives it away

You can find the same tombs before Malenia's boss fight. Just go left from grace and go up the ladders. It's in the same room with the bloomed rot flower.

I didn’t even know about that illusory wall in raya Lucaria, just goes to show how vast this game is

What’s the item you can get there tho?

​@jankiba6548 pretty sure it's a rune arc

3 play throughs and I accidentally found it. Nothing usefull there at that point but it was great to find.

It’s a rune arc

i think you can see it from the rooftops so you can guess where to access it from

Miquella being Torrent's owner actually makes so much sense. With speculation about Melina being sister to the Empyrean twins, Miquella would sensibly pass Torrent down to their sister while they slumbered, perhaps knowing her plans to give him to a worthy tarnished. Does that mean when Ranni refers to Torrent's previous owner entrusting the spirit calling bell to you, is that actually Miquella, not Melina like we (or at least I) had assumed? Very interesting.

Also worth noting that the only enemies in the game (besides spirit caller snails) who summon spirits are Commanders Niall & O'Neil who follow Miquella & Malenia. Also multiple spirit caller snails are found at the Haligtree. It seems very possible that Miquella was learning about manipulating/summoning spirits in order to help revive (or fully kill) Godwyn and fix TWLiD, and to speculate further, his alter-personality St Trina is someone who wanders the world of dreams/spirits in order to interact with them directly.

Oh man. When we get the inevitable time travel DLC I hope we can talk to Miquella and he addresses Torrent.

"Arteria Leaves" for all rare items had me cackling

Aeonian butterflies too

Its a practical joke, you will die countless times trying to get the rare item, only to find its "Arteria Leaves".

but it’s the best game ever created right

​@@morganfreeman5260...? Huh?

​@@morganfreeman5260 the comedy is a part of its greatness. elden ring is a comedy game where the joke is you

For golden eye effect, it shows up on the crawling hands in the center of their open wrist wound where the critical hit area is. My favorite though is the slugs that have them show up on the end of their eyestalks, as they should of course, but it's nice to see the attention to detail.

Real life box jellyfish also have four 'eyespots' arranged around them like the jellyfish in Elden Ring' eyespots show. Just because they aren't normal eyes don't mean they aren't eyes!

The fact Vaati still finds secrets in Dark Souls and Elden Ring when he did so many documentaries is admirable

Very thankful to those who help discover things in every corner of these games - definitely check out the links in the description as you'll find a lot more great things on their pages

​@@VaatiVidya you're a class act, man.

I love his vids, but I was kinda disappointed to see this list is all about cut content and what words in the game mean in Latin. Idk what kind of cool secrets and mysteries I was expecting, but I was definitely expecting something more lol

he doesn’t find any of them people send it in 😂

@@VaatiVidya It's always great to see how adamant you are about crediting the people who work with you and make these discoveries.

Here's a fun detail that I never see brought up. Margit's 4 spectral weapons are all copies of real weapons ingame. His hammer is the Giant Crusher His dagger is an erdsteel dagger His greatsword is (likely) a banished knight greatsword His longswords are likely either carian knight swords or noble's slender swords

Yeah that's a great one. Someone modded the Giant Crusher spectral weapon into the game as well, it's cool

Also the treespear

Aside from the Erdsteel Dagger, all of the weapons Morgott conjures are found within the hearses pulled by trolls that contain the bodies of fallen heroes. He uses the Giant Crusher, Carian Knight's Sword, Treespear and Erdsteel Dagger.

The question is whether this was for lore reasons, or just because they wanted to save some time reusing assets. (Also I'm sad there's no incantations that lets you do the same weapon-summoning shenanigans, the hammer and dagger would both be really fun to use)

@@GameDevYal I'm assuming it was done for lore reasons, otherwise they could have just used the regular Longsword model etc

I literally had no idea that illusory wall existed. Over a year later and i’m still finding new things, goes to show how absolutely massive this game is.

Wow, it's so cool that frenzyflame actually is inspired by the red eyes! I assumed it was a coincidence because I thought there was no way the team knew what sorcery was, but hearing that it's intentional is amazing.

For the jellyfish, it could be inspired by the box jellyfish which has 4 “eyes” around it. Idk if other jellyfish have it but the eye glow on the Elden ring jellyfish looks similar to the “eyes” of a box jellyfish in terms of placement.

Box jellyfish is the scariest jellyfish.

many jellies have structures called rhopalia that are essentially primitive eyes. They're sensitive to light and allow them to find their way around. This is almost certainly what the devs were going for with the yellow-eye effect

In some esoteric works, the jellyfish is an archetypal image of mans soul. the devs are very meticulous in their design. I think the idea that runes(souls) can exist in large amounts in jellyfish is not an accident.

Cnidarian nerds! ❤❤❤

I was gonna say this as well. Box jellyfish are such interesting creatures.

The correlations and similarities from that Sorcery book to Elden Ring is such a fascinating find.

A possible use for the orange item rarity effect could be things like the Serpent hunter, ie things that are technically optional to pick up but are basically essential to a given area/fight

The Physic too probably

I actually think he was right about it being for great runes, as in the artbook the concept art for the towers shows a golden item effect between the fingers as opposed to the floating rings we have now.

Yes, but that wouldn't make much sense, mostly because it'd be weird for things like the serpent hunter to exert a bigger aura than the legendary weapons/sorceries

This glow has goddamn Three Fingers symbol, so something with madness.

It could also be Story Related items Like items that are needed for MAJOR quest's

So indeed Seath introduced his Crystal Halberd into Gwynevere's Gaping Dragon, that explains also how did Priscilla got to Annor Londo to be sealed in the painting...

Your choice of words aside, yeah Priscilla is generally accepted as their child. Pretty sure the dragon hybrid girl in DS3 refers to Gwndolin as family too, which further supports Seath marrying into the family.

Hope you're prepared to kawaii

Painted with crystal dragon coom

He used it in a DS1 Prepare to Cry or lore video a long time ago and it's freaking funny.

I think this is reinforced by the fact that in DS3 the Queen of Lothric, a Gwynevere-like figure or maybe even Gwynevere herself, has another crossbreed child with Oceiros once he transforms into a dragon like Seath. Quite the parallel there, especially since the queen decides to fly the coop just like Gwynevere does once things start going south.

13:31 The big iron ball in caelid, underneath the bridge where the dragon bossfight is. It’s a early game rune farm and its usually 1200 or 1100 runes (depending on your new game + and if you have the golden scarab equipped). But if it had those “eyes” it’ll drop like 12k runes! I was surprised the first time I got it.

Had Rya, in her snake form, have the golden eyes once! Assume it’s because they just use the same model as the snake enemies but was very fun seeing her like that lol

Honestly that tiny Estus Flask is an awesome little detail. Keep up the good work Vaati! And I’ll 100% gonna be listening to that audio book!

I can only imagine how incredibly gratifying it must be for your fanbase to create a novel series around the lore you've been intentionally obscuring in your own games for decades. Miyazaki must be so proud of the Abyssal Archives project

Cool thing about the genius (天才) is that the term includes the kanji for the heavens. If it is supposed to be the demigod Miquella, makes you wonder if the word choice was intentional.

Learning japanese abkut 7 months just cant get bored

Unfortunately, nah. That's just a general term used to describe geniuses. Nothing special there.

The first letter represents the sky, the god(s), the day, and in some context, the nature itself or fate. The second letter means "Skills" and/or "Talent". It's got nothing to do with demigod. It simply means "God-given talent" or "Blessed with skills".

Unfortunately that’s like saying someone is handsome and therefore it has some metaphor/hidden meaning about hands

How tf you comment 2 days ago when this video was released an hour ago?

for #3, my bet is it was a placeholder for the seeds/flasks, before they settled on having glowing trees and churches of marika to point them out. in testing, they probably needed these important drops to be recognizable from a distance, even before they had terrain fleshed out to signify them.

I feel like Miquella creating the pulley weapons makes a lot of sense given that they're cursed to be eternally in a child's body it would allow them to be used by someone not physically strong enough to draw them. Also design wise they are similar to the Golden Epitaph with the filigree etc.

Yeah a lot of Miquella’s inventions and really just everything he does seems to be with disabled people in mind. His quest to cure Melania, him taking the Abinaurics under his wing, bows that can be drawn by the weak etc.

04:48 I wanna add that this weapon is also used in Berserk and called "Urumi" in it. Given how much things are inspired by Berserk in From Soft games that may also be the case here

Yes! I wouldn't be surprised if this was a Berserk reference as well. Additionally the Katar weapons always remind me of the Silat character, who also uses the Urumi

@@VaatiVidya Good point! The Katar does look a lot like the weapons Silat uses, I have not noticed that! Probably not a coincidence then 😄

I literally just read this chapter for this first time last night where Guts fights the urumi guy

10:35 the heavenly hand/god hand is another Berserk reference.

I’ve seen the urumi in video games at least since 2007 from Age of Empires III: Asian Dynasties. There’s an Indian unit consisted of warriors wielding the urumi. Miura might’ve stumbled across it when trying to make characters with unique weapons.

Regarding the golden eye effect, it can actually appear on the ulcerated tree spirits, and it's quite interesting cause they get an uneven amount of eyes on each side of the head, and even some on their body. This may relate to the origin of the enemy being a cut dark souls 3 boss, which seemed to just be a bigger pus of man, and those guys had many eyes

I think one thing you really notice after following these games so long and looking at the fine details is how the souls games are really a love letter in a way to all the things Miyazaki (and the great branch of the people who work on these games at FromSoft) love and want to share their love for. It's really cool that it's a homage in a way of all the experiences and knowledge the people who work on the game have for their craft.

As for number 11, yeah the big balls that roll around in the eternal cities and parts of caelid can have the golden eyes effect, giving more runes if killed

So you're saying the runes are stored in the balls?

​@@TheMuslimMan1337genius

The coolest Golden eye encounter was the invisible Red wolf of Radagon on the Moonlight alter… Had no idea how rare that was insane going back to fight it and just seeing a glowing pair of eyes!

I just about cried finding out about this collection. It is a dream come true. As a librarian, I've always wanted my favorite game in book form. There is a reason I have 3 dark souls tats. That game got me through such a difficult time in my life. It helped me keep fighting a long time battle with Anorexia even. I know that sounds strange, but it's a long story. I am so so excited and thank you to everyone involved in it!

Maybe the unusual Red Item Aura may have also been intended for unique Special items like the Amber Starlight

would make perfect sense for it to have been for the amber starlight specifically tbh.... you're onto something here

The unused orange item effect I thought could have been used for Remembrances. Maybe it was intended that when you duplicate them, instead of going straight to your inventory, they'd be sitting in the weird altar on the center, or something like that. Since you drew a correlation between the crystal effects and the orange hue of Runes, and you can technically use Remembrances for rune gain (as in previous Soul games' Bosses' Souls), it gave me that idea

great video as always, also wanted to say thanks for making the AA audiobook available separately, I love Soul Arts but AA is just too expensive for me. glad i still get to experience it as an audiobook :)

Never knew that illusory wall existed in Raya Lucaria. Makes sense cuz I'm always so anxious about those dolls falling from the ceiling

Hey Vaati I've been follower for quite a while going all the way back to your soul songs. You've been such an awesome content creator and I'd love to hear your opinion on a recent souls like release called Lies of P. It's been such a wonderful journey playing through it and while its story is extremely simple and easy to follow, by soul standards atleast, I'd love to hear your interpretation/ opinion on the game, its story and its overall themes of humanity. Much love

Another fabulous one. I had no idea about the illusory wall and am excited to go see it. Immediately purchased your narration -- thank you!! I wish I could get the whole set too (I think that's a very fairy price, just one I can't personally spend right now) but I am excited to spend so many drives in the car listening to the lore!

So surprised Vaati didn’t connect the Urumi in Elden ring to the weapon that Silat from Berserk uses. It is pretty much the exact same thing and as we all know, FS makes no shortage of connections to Berserk. I didn’t personally find this weapon in game but as soon as he brought it up in this video, that’s the first thing that I thought of!

20 hours of beautifully narrated and super in depth Dark Souls lore is precisely what I've been looking for! I get to listen to music/podcasts at work, and long soulsborne lore videos are perfect to keep my mind occupied in what would otherwise be a pretty monotonous job. I'm a few hours in now and I absolutely love it, congrats to Lokey and you!

I wanted to ask how it works if you buy the audio version do you get access to the audio download or?

@@Morrov Okay thanks

About the names some people forgot Ranni. With just one "N" as Rani it means in Sanskrit (oldest language of índia) Queen, probably talking about her ending and destiny. Besides the fact, India mythology have his deities with blue skin and four arms.

13:30 wow this is a great attention to detail! The placement of the eyes is in reference to box jellyfish, which have four eyes just like that.

Very cool

Okay. One thing: Got the Abyssal Archives a few weeks ago and these books are absolutely awesome. Just bought the audio version because being able to hear them read by you when I‘m traveling is just…mindblowing! Love to you. \[+]/

I have a feeling the implementation of the Urumi in Elden Ring is inspired by the Bakiraka in Berserk. I believe Silat uses it against Guts in the Golden Age arc, and Miura did a great job illustrating the dexterity needed to use it. A more recent example is the Love Hashira from Demon Slayer also using one.

Elden Ring never ceases to amaze me with its lore and connections to other fictional and at times real persons, places and things. I really hope we get an actual Movie or TV series one day on Elden Ring … personally I prefer an Anime so I’ll keep my fingers crossed 🤞🏼 😊

The Abyssal Archives set looks really excellent. On the topic of the map though, there's something very similar for the Folio Society's edition of A Game of Thrones, with a companion booklet that expands out into the map of Westeros. It looks great, so I imagine it is probably inspired by that. (They've probably created similar things for other editions of other books, but it was the first example I could think of.)

I think you're half right with the Great Rune item aura. I don't think they were in the overworld, but were instead physically dropped by the bosses (not unlike Heart Containers in Zelda). These were just a beacon to say "HEY, DON'T FORGET TO PICK THIS UP." Which was eventually replaced with just dropping them directly into your inventory, since in a weird way trying to be more immersive probably made it feel more video gamey.

I don't know how many people watched Ziostorm's video about the Minor Erdtree Church next to what is potentially Melina's grave, but the implications would be fascinating. The reason I say that is because that Church was likely a sort of lab experiment for Golden Order Fundalmentalism by Miquella so having Melina's grave by there would be interesting. No one seems to know about the existence of Melina save for Torrent, who potentially has connections to both Ranni and Miquella as well.

That craftsmen one legit made my jaw drop and I got goosebumps. I thought it was a little absurd at first but there are just too many connections to be overly skeptical about it. The mic drop for Torrent's whistle is what really gave me chills. Just like Melina being the third daughter of Marika, Miquella being the previous owner of Torrent and creator of the whistle is now permanent headcanon unless the dlc says otherwise.

I think the reddish orange glow could've been used for the amber starlight, which is a sliver of the fate that commanded the gods.

For me, seeing it now, the unused aura could be for Remembrances and Great runes, maybe you had to loot them, but they decided for them be obtained automatically in the final version of the game.

I feel like the last item aura could have been used for boss souls, but there might have been a problem where if you beat the boss and die at the same time then the soul wouldn’t drop because it would despawn so they just gave it to you

I didn't know the etymology for Miquella, but it makes sense when you contrast it to Malenia. Mal in spanish and french means sickness, pain or suffering.

As for eyeless enemies, Ive seen the glowing eye effect on the Miranda flowers a few times and it shows up as a glow on ends of the flowers' stamen. Also I've seen it for both for the big ones and the minon tiny ones.

It would not surprise me to find out in the DLC that Torrent is Miquella’s Shadow and that all we did in the lands between was witnessed by Miquella though Torrent’s eyes. He will likely greet us as though he knows us and in time will reveal that he was with us always. Regardless I’m excited for whatever comes!

Even if Miquella and Melania had shadows, they wouldn't have kept them. Shadows are tools of the Fingers, you'd have to think Miquella is too stupid to be aware of that for this theory of yours to be true. Ranni being sentimental is the only reason Blaidd survives as long as he does. That aside, both shadows we see are wolf-men, a full on goat-horse would be a departure from the norm.

Miquella and Malenia's shadows would have attacked them when they chose to betray the Golden Order. They're probably long dead.

11:45 there is an exact same setting in Caelid, right next to the castle where you fight Radahn. The tombstone is the same as well, and you can pick up 8x smoldering butterflies.

I wouldn't be surprised if the cut item drop effect would have been used for the Mending Runes assuming they were granted as rewards that had to be picked up at one time. It's something you wouldn't want a player to miss and signifies great importance AND is related to the runes

Would be awesome to see you do an episode of cut content sometime in the future. Some awesome discoveries like the depths originally being under the sunlight altar and lost izalith being a swamp (likely THE great swamp mentioned in pyromancer lore) have happened recently.

On the topic of the golden eyes effect, I'm pretty sure the giant ball that you can farm in Caelid can have this effect too because I have in the past randomly gotten way more runes than you normally get from it.

Your videos are amazing. Can t wait for Elden Ring DLC to come out, play it, understand like 30% of what s happening and do a marathon on your amazing analysis videos. Thanks!

Going on further, I personally believe that Miquella is the architect behind the journey the Tarnished takes. I am positive that he is the one who created the the finger whistle and tasked Ranni to bring it to a fitting tarnished as chosen by Torrent. Given his ability to compel affection, there's a real chance that he would have convinced both Ranni and Melina to help this Tarnished.

Man the Dark Souls lore really does hit different for some reason. Like an immediate wave of comfort.

With the Estus flask in Elden Ring. It brings me to those theories of each ER ending leading to the beginning of each Soulsborne. If so then possibly the Estus used in ER could be empty, used as perfumes until the Frenzied Flame ending goes into the Age Of Fire. Where the First Flame is discovered by Gwyn in DS, allowing us to heal from the flame itself 🤔

Gotta love seeing a new vid from Vaati. I recently started a new playthrough, this time going for a (battle)mage build. First run was with melee only, so it feels like a whole new game now 😅

The big item marker may have been intended to be used for something as simple as quest items, like the medallion halves you need to access the great lift to Altus, just to make them very easily visible

The Gilded Greatshield in Elden Ring says that the "red tinge in the gold coat mirrors the primordial matter that became the Erdtree", most likely the Crucible, so this unsued, orange item aura might be related to that. Along with the Rune items that turn orange with the amount of runes they give you. The Lamplight, the equivalent to Grace in Helphen, is red/orange. There's plenty of connections to be made here.

Also those runes shown in this cut, rarest item aura are similar to those on Malenia's sword.

Don't know if it might've been mentioned, but in regards to the Red Eyes (of Sorcery) per Elden Ring tied to Frenzy Eyes, this actually showed up in Dark Souls 3 (and 2 to a lesser degree.) Its often overlooked, but if you recall more powerful versions of enemies within Dark Souls 3 (in particular the blue-clothed knight outside Dancer Boss comes to mind) sported Red Eyes as a sign of their stronger power. An earlier iteration of a reference to Sorcery from Miyazaki perhaps that went unnoticed.

I think the item aura truthfully would’ve been for map pieces of the world I think it makes a lot of sense making maps super noticeable truthfully for 40% of my first play through I didn’t have any maps lmao

Vibes-based theory: The cut item affect was related to patches, and the vibrancy and ability to see the item from far around is a cut trap by patches to lure tarnished.

Great video, as always! Can't wait for your breakdown of Shadow of the Erdtree! I have a feeling it's going to be a treasure trove of lore to comb through.

Red-tinged gold symbolizes the crucible, the primordial form of the Erdtree. Fitting that this fifth item glitter-gleam was held in high esteem and is now cast aside.

If Miquella were to be Torrents owner, there are two mysteries left. How did Malenia get Torrent and why does Ranni mention Torrents Former owner as she gives us the whistle?

I put in 1500 hours thinking id found everything then vaati just comes along "yeah theres an illusory wall as soon as you get into raya lucaria"

I think that that red glowing item pickup could have been used for Remembrances after you beat a boss, kinda like how in Zelda games you have to separately pick up the heart containers after you beat a boss, not to mention that remembrances are “hewn into the Erdtree.”

I believe Melina is Marika herself, not her daughter, but kinda like she's an reincarnation. Like she is trying to get rid of Radagon, her other half and opose the greater will. And it's curious that the Frenzied Flame ending is the only one that she active advises the player not to do, as it goes against her plans

I think instead of finding the great runes in the overworld that unused item drop effect would have been what the great runes looked like when you got to them in the same spots. I think they later figured it'd be more impactful to give each rune a unique design before you pick them up.

IMO the orange item effect was intended for the Mending Runes. I did think it was strange that they're the only items you can pick up that aren't represented by a glowing ball.

Something i think no one noticed,the trolls in front of old altus tunnel are different in the release version,they wear a cape like the frenzied ones They don't attack or get up and die in one hit

I can't believe I never knew about that invisible wall at Raya Lucaria... after over 900hrs... still learning new things about this game.

I noticed a little detail no one seems to be talking about... When we defeat Morgott, his body turns into dark drained corpse. Which looks a lot like what we se at his brother's palace - Miquella in his cocoon. I have some theories about it which are not really strong, but you might consider it.

I have always been wondering whats up with elden rings focus on false names. Ranni introduces herself as Renna when you first meet her, just like Morgot calling himself Margit and Rya whose true name is Zoraya. Then there is also the abundance of alter egos like Godfrey and Hora Loux, Miquella and St. Trina, Guranque and Maliketh or most prominently Marika and Radagon. I feel like this should have some deeper meaning but Im terrible at interpreting these kinds of things.

I always believed that when "Renna" talks about Torrent's former master she's talking about Miquella, and also that he's the one who crafted the spirit calling bell.

@vaatividya Been a fan of yours for a minute and I’ve always wanted to ask: what do you think of all of the bells present throughout Dark Souls, Elden Ring and especially Bloodborne (there are so many in the world, on lamps, clothing, everywhere) might represent? Symbolically, from a lore perspective, from Miyazaki’s tastes… anything? Thank you. The work you do yourself and with your collaborators is both inspiring and incredible.

On behalf of everyone that is obsessed with the FromSoft-Games: NEVER stop making Videos Vaati. Thank you for your Passion.

always a blast to watch your vids man, I did play Elden Ring, but I never played Dark Souls. But even so, these videos are always so entertaining to watch.

It was cool to see some Dark Souls content show up again, however briefly. I recently replayed it, and had to go back and check out your old videos on DS1. Thanks for the great stuff, as usual!

Ive had one rare instance where the dead banished knight you first find Nepheli standing over had glowing yellow eyes. Ive only had this happen once out of my over 1000 hours in game.

Always good to see a new souls video by Vaati, and definitely putting those books on my Christmas list.

The game still feels like Dark Souls. It's the reason why i play it, even the story ark just seems like it's an alternate same story. I just love the how the weapons can be welded left or right hand and 2 handed if strength is lacking. Wish Conan exiles plays like this.

Sorcery! was a series of four books written by Steve Jackson, who I want to say invented the Fighting Fantasy series of books from the 80’s. I had the Sorcery! series when I was a kid in the 80,s, lost the books at some point, then was very happy to find them again on Amazon a few years ago. Amazing series of books.

It’s likely the unused item aura was originally used for a quest item like the knife that Ranni need for her quest line but it’s possible that most likely use this unused item aura in DLC when it comes out.🤔🐱

Nice video as always, it's good to see more of Dark Souls content even after all these years. For Abyssal Archives tho, only people outside of Europe can get it for now, which is pretty frustrating, but I'll wait, no matter how long it takes.

Wow... always blows my mind whenever you post a vid about souls lore. You've enriched all of these beautiful games that never would've happened on my own accord. Thanks for all the awesome videos

I think I found a hidden passage that went from debate parlor in castle Liurnia, down to grand cloister but is clogged up by those rot barnicle things. If you look from debate parlor, there is a square stone area with candles on it. The map, if you stand on the spot that looks like the center of the lift, is overlapping right over the spot clogged by rot, and theres depictions on the walls down there with people with staffs. I could be wrong but counting the picture of 2 sages as 2, the amount of sages in the pictures in debate parlor match the stone engraving's amount of sages. Which is 8, I think. And there are purple crystals around that lift that look like they came from the bigger one on the ceiling of the lake of rot. The only reason I noticed this is because the skeletal remains in debate parlor don't make sense for there being a rabid orange dog going nuts, instead there's only a few piles of bones near that square stone, that happens to look like a lift that goes down to the grand cloister. It might just be a reference or perhaps something similar is going, but those ruins that use contraptions to raise other structures from out of the rot reminds me so much of the sunken city dlc from dark souls 2. I honestly forget exactly how it goes, but I think a poisonous dragon got awakened by knights seeking dragon blood, in an ancient city deep underground that was already in ruin, but had sturdy structures that kept well over time.

Vatti should get games months early to start lore videos when the game releases...so players could get to a certain point in-game and watch a video explaining exactly what happened and the meaning of everything up to that point. Repeat for the next milestone.

for the Miquella craftsman section- I think its highly likely miquella also created the golden tailor tools, because when you examine them, you can see miquella's style of delicate goldwork, and the needles shown in the kit's art look very similar to the unalloyed gold needles as well.

Double checking the description it says Radagon brought those items with him when he married Renala.

Perhaps the Vulgar Militia are just misunderstood, trying to help we lowly tarnished on our mission to become Elden Lord by throwing Estus at us. 😢

Do you think you'll make a video just about Melina and everything we know about her or what might be true? I still find Melina kind of confusing as to who she really is but also just as fascinating as Ranni who we seem to know a ton about.

There is another rarity item drop, it is white on the bottom and a dark blue near the top, it is only on the dark moon great-sword Enemy’s that can have the glow eyes are the tree spirits, only the one found in miquilla’s haligtree can have this effect because it is not a boss just a regular enemy

The gold eye effect on the jellyfish is awesome. nearly anatomically accurate eyespots on the jellies makes me very happy.

As much as I'd love to own the Abyssal Archive set (& other Tune & Fairweather works), they are far out of my reach, so I'll definitely listen to you, Vaati, ramble on happily about Dark Souls for hours!

The Urumi also appears in Berserk as one of the Bakiraka leader Silat's weapons of choice alongside the Katar, which also appears in Elden Ring.

considering the red tint of the special item it may have been collecting fragments of the rune of death from some earlier version of garangs quest before it switched to deathroot

4:02 Maybe you could have found Ranni's and Miquella's great runes in the overworld. Miquella's would be behind Mogh's boss room, and Ranni's would be by the moonlight alter or with the moonlight greatsword.

About item aura: it reminds of Three Fingers and Frenzied Flame. My guess there was a greater emphasis on this questline during development, as a second main ending (and Ranni’s being the 3rd one -yellow-orange-blue-). Such things as Vyke spear and Shabriri Eyes and even frenzy spells/talismans/armor would have this aura Second guess: erdtree tears for physics flask, because such tall aura meant to be seen afar, alike “markers” in Zelda or Ubisoft games Third guess: after burning Erdtree the world meant to be updated with new items, maybe “burned erdtree stick”

I’ve had the boulder do the glowing eyes thing. The one that you can just dodge and let roll off the cliff. Didn’t look different that I saw but got 5x times when it fell off.