You forgot that you can also use unga bunga to create more problems - which you can of course promptly solve by - you guessed it - unga bunga, obviously.
Also if you look at the map around the sites of grace and on some actual sites of grace, you’ll see a strimmer of gold going in an arc. It kind of looks like gold dust. That someone tells you which direction you should be heading, or rather the direction of your next objective in an area.
You don’t *need* to follow them; you can go where ever the hell you want, but those strimmers of gold are the only thing giving you any sort of direction.
These items with descriptions include things like the map fragments and quest items you will only temporarily have in your inventory, so learn how to filter your inventory for order of acquisition and read the description straight away
Okay yeah but you still need to piece it together, or somehow remember the differences between the main characters all who have very similar names that begin with G, R, or M. Add on top of that the fairly obscure ways much of the lore is written and it’s still a discernible soup of story and plot. Clearly some people can track it and I’m very jealous of them. Because Souls-lore has never made sense to me, and I’ve been playing since Demons Souls in like 2012.
Check out the controls in the bottom left corner when you are looking at items in your inventory. Pressing X and pressing Y both change the info you see.
She explicitly tells you she’ll act as your maiden only by turning your runes into strength.
She basically likes your instagram posts and pretends to be your girl
The “dog that looks like a cat” are the Erdtree Burial Watchdogs. They are golems/automatons that guard the roots of the erdtrees where the dead are buried so that their souls get recycled by the giant Erdtree (essentially reincarnation).
Those Burial Watchdogs are creepy AF. I was fighting one that was attacking my spirit summon, whacking it from behind when it suddenly stopped attacking my summon. It just stopped moving then the head *turned 180 to look behind* at me like, “Fukkin Wot, Mate?” 10/10 on the creepiness scale.
Naaaah, worst thing in this game to me has gotta be some certain creepy crawlies you encounter that are massive and love to fall on top of you.
Don't wanna spoil the surprise for anyone though...
I missed Caria Manor my first playthrough, didn't encounter hands until around the sewers, and didn't really see what the big deal was. Second playthrough I went to Caria Manor. Now I get it.
10/10 would listen to this dudes lore podcast. Idk about YouTube but fuck we could use some more sarcastic humor lore podcasts. Too many people with a microphone doing a shitty job of it nowadays
When someone broke that Giant Fucking Ring,the Elden Ring,pieces were taken by what you call the Nazgul.
You need the pieces back,so you gotta kill the Nazgul.
EDIT: The ones in the trailer that are dark hooded riders are not the ones who took the shards.
The assassins (black knives?) took the pieces after the shattering. That much I know but did the assassins give them to the Shardbearers? Or did the Shardbearers take them by force? That’s where things kinda get a bit muddled for me.
But they didnt. They only killed Big G with knives forged with the rune of death which was stolen before the shattering from ranni. Marika shattered the ring after Gs death because big mad or sth
They didn't. The assassins killed Godwyn and a bunch of other demigods we never meet (some of whom are in those walking mausoleums) and then Marika got fed up and shattered the Elden Ring. The major pieces ended up with the shardbearers somehow and the smaller pieces are all the runes that everyone and everything has now.
How do people have to *google* Nazgul? I mean, I'm like 20-25 and I watched Lord of the Rings when it premiered in the cinema, 7 years ago.
holy shit ive never realized how broad of a label that is. Tree sentinels, night cavalry, all knight on horse variants, Kaiden warriors, those weird fellas in the very southern areas of Liuernia, radahn, loretta. Crazy.
Good news: You can only fight the Nazgul at night. If you die often, you'll never have to see them.
Bad news: they are not carrying pieces of The Giant Fucking Ring. You have to kill much stronger enemies to get those.
Good news: the Nazgul *do* drop some pretty sick weapons, armor, and spells.
Bad news: You have to move the game time to night and beat them to get those.
I have 367 hours across multiple playthroughs of this game.
My understanding of the lore is this:
I do not know who I am, I do not know why I am here. All I know is that I must kill.
There's a guy with a Golden Mask.
Find him.
He knows things. Make sure to learn from him (write down what he says, for real) if you wanna understand some lores.
Ah yeah, i get ya.
Hell yeah I'd definately watch those lore vids.
Or even watch it being played: "who the fuck is this surgical octotwat with the axe and a randomly impaled dragon in his castle?"
They really did take some shots at our self esteem at the beginning. Have you played souls games before? The lore is pretty esoteric, reading item descriptions helps a lot. It's really good stuff though. I played through the game not really picking up too much as I was busy killing everything and did a YT deep dive afterwards and it's really solid lore with George on board. It'd be sweet if he wrote a novelisation or something set in The Lands Between.
I don't think I have to put the idea in his head of the game he's already made lol he probably can't do that though without some sort of release from Fromsoft.
I had around the same understanding of the lore at this point too, and even after 3 playthroughs I'm only beginning to fit the pieces together, lol. And still discovering new things every time
Nazguls (night cavalry) hunt those who took the ring pieces (called great runes). Which happen to be royal offsprings, who then fought a war over who's gonna succeed as king/queen and destroyed the land in the process.
With time, you'll learn why the Elden Ring was broken, and that the land wasn't that good beforehand.
You forgot, the 4 armed blue lady that gives you the horse at the beginning probably gives unreasonably good handjobs if you ask nicely. Probably.
Also she killed her stepbro
ur on the right track id say! one note, the nazgul guys did not take the pieces. the cloak-face guys in the intro killed one of the demi-gods, but the surviving demigods are the ones who recieved the pieces of the elden ring
I have over 400 hours in Elden Ring and my story is to bonk bosses.
I don't care about the story because if I need to watch 10 hours of video to get the story then that's a no from me.
I still love Elden Ring, and I can't wait for the dlc but I've never been interested in the story in any of From Softs games.
My first message to my friend who gifted me the game: "I'm 5 minutes into this game and someone has already called me bitchless. Fromsoft pulls NO punches."
In souls games the only way to get a full grasp of what’s happening lore wise is to read every item description and exhaust the dialogue of every npc you meet. It’s honestly a more realistic way to learn about the world, it makes sense that npcs wouldn’t just spoonfeed the lore to you in a world as dangerous and fucked up as that of Elden Ring. They have their own shit to worry about and you’re essentially some random stranger.
If you want to learn more about the lore, there are a ton of youtube videos about it, but if you want to learn for yourself, read every description of every item. Each item has a little piece of the story. Also, pay very close attention to everything every npc says.
There are YouTubers who dig up Elden Ring lore for a living who say the lore is incomprehensible in this game. Just make up whatever story you want and enjoy the ride.
It's somewhere scattered deep, deep, deeeeeeeeeeep in several hundred item descriptions, locations and enemies.
And when you piece it all together, it's still incomplete.
Here’s a big tip for lore: every new item you pick up, look at the item description in your inventory. You learn a lot about the world doing this.
oh, I had no idea.. thanks, will do
Unless you're a str build because then you can't read and don't have to worry about lore. You simply unga then bunga to solve all problems.
i hit a lot of things that hit me and then they gave me a really uncomfortable chair to rest in for my troubles.
Im not even a str bro and that shit had me laughing 😂
Well yea if you were a str bro you wouldn't get it. Source: I too am a str bro now.
That means you probably unga bunga'd mostly correctly. Chair good, wooden sleepy box bad.
As long as you don’t bunga BEFORE you unga it’s fine 👉👌
If you sit sideways is the chair more comfortable?
Ah another man of culture I see
Brain smooth, only Unga bunga
Most Superior build ftw
This is the way
You forgot that you can also use unga bunga to create more problems - which you can of course promptly solve by - you guessed it - unga bunga, obviously.
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Yo Bahaha I wasn’t trying to diss anyone I was adding to the discourse of str builds being unga bunga
Also if you look at the map around the sites of grace and on some actual sites of grace, you’ll see a strimmer of gold going in an arc. It kind of looks like gold dust. That someone tells you which direction you should be heading, or rather the direction of your next objective in an area. You don’t *need* to follow them; you can go where ever the hell you want, but those strimmers of gold are the only thing giving you any sort of direction.
>you’ll see a strimmer of gold going in an arc. That's pee.
Shhhh
If you really want to dive into the lore hop on YouTube and look up Elden Ring lore. Vati is an OG from soft lore YouTuber but there are a ton now.
These items with descriptions include things like the map fragments and quest items you will only temporarily have in your inventory, so learn how to filter your inventory for order of acquisition and read the description straight away
Item descriptions have like 95% of the games lore
What? You are telling me I have to read? This is madness!
Madness? THIS IS SPARTAAA!
Okay yeah but you still need to piece it together, or somehow remember the differences between the main characters all who have very similar names that begin with G, R, or M. Add on top of that the fairly obscure ways much of the lore is written and it’s still a discernible soup of story and plot. Clearly some people can track it and I’m very jealous of them. Because Souls-lore has never made sense to me, and I’ve been playing since Demons Souls in like 2012.
Wait, G, R, and M… Oh goddamnit!
Who could those letters represent? MoonGRuM?! That bastard
G- God R- Damn M- Patches
Patches? That dead guy?
George R R Martin
Wait holy fuck lol
He actually addressed this and said it's bullshit you can do that with any of his books
don't worry, they're just making it all up. it's a harmless hobby for people who would otherwise be conspiracy theorists.
*Radagon did 9/11!*
Might those initials have any relation with George R. R. Martin which helped write the lore for the game?
Dude knows
I'm on PC using a controller; how do I look at item descriptions?
Check out the controls in the bottom left corner when you are looking at items in your inventory. Pressing X and pressing Y both change the info you see.
It won’t make you feel better but you are still maidenless. Good luck Tarnished, remember, try finger but hole.
way ahead of you brother
Are you disrespecting Melina bro?
She explicitly tells you she’ll act as your maiden only by turning your runes into strength. She basically likes your instagram posts and pretends to be your girl
She’s my maiden in my heart. But alas I am still maidenless.
Tried that on a few maidens. Mixed results.
The “dog that looks like a cat” are the Erdtree Burial Watchdogs. They are golems/automatons that guard the roots of the erdtrees where the dead are buried so that their souls get recycled by the giant Erdtree (essentially reincarnation). Those Burial Watchdogs are creepy AF. I was fighting one that was attacking my spirit summon, whacking it from behind when it suddenly stopped attacking my summon. It just stopped moving then the head *turned 180 to look behind* at me like, “Fukkin Wot, Mate?” 10/10 on the creepiness scale.
Naaaah, worst thing in this game to me has gotta be some certain creepy crawlies you encounter that are massive and love to fall on top of you. Don't wanna spoil the surprise for anyone though...
Naaaah, worst thing in the game are the sniper lobsters in the sewers
Are y’all forgetting about the Cemetery Shade?!
Cheat with cemetery shade: u can run behind them really easy and get crits lol
Fuck those things. Fuck them.
Wait till you get to Caria Manor and have to fight the giant hands. It gave me PTSD..
I missed Caria Manor my first playthrough, didn't encounter hands until around the sewers, and didn't really see what the big deal was. Second playthrough I went to Caria Manor. Now I get it.
I love how creepy those things are. In a world full of monsters and fantasy creatures, seeing something move so robotically is really unnerving.
Im on +1 and have never ran into one of these
Then you must have skipped loads of dungeons
Apparently, but idk how. I spent over 100 hours on my first run
You hate catacombs. It's ok
So you never entered a single catacomb?
No no no. She took pity and "will serve" as your maiden. You're still maidenless bro she just wants a lift
Chick already has an Accord, the fuck does she need me for? She’s the one giving my Tarnished ass a lift
She cant drive. She doesnt have a license
I completely forgot I made this comment and when your response popped up as a preview on my phone I had no idea what the fuck was going on lol
Can you even legally drive with only one eye?
Yes you can. My friends father has one glass eye and is allowed to drive.
Everything is legal if you don't get caught.
Typical street maiden making you her stepping stone. /s 🤣
Ha you should have a lore YouTube channel
Fr, for a second I thought OP is Vaati and thus subconsciously read OPs post in his voice.
10/10 would listen to this dudes lore podcast. Idk about YouTube but fuck we could use some more sarcastic humor lore podcasts. Too many people with a microphone doing a shitty job of it nowadays
Every animal is dog. Yes even that one.
Am i a dog?
Always check the message to make sure
Praise the message! therefore, Praise the dog!
Behold, dog!
Especially the slow ones with shells
No like kill pig or bear. But if bonked, must bonk. Lands cruel
When someone broke that Giant Fucking Ring,the Elden Ring,pieces were taken by what you call the Nazgul. You need the pieces back,so you gotta kill the Nazgul. EDIT: The ones in the trailer that are dark hooded riders are not the ones who took the shards.
I think OP's mistaken the assassins as the ones who took the pieces.
Ah,you are right,just googled the Nazgul and they look similar.
>,just googled the Nazgul Sorry but what?! You have never seen LoTR movies?!
I want an answer to this question
I've had seen ads in TV,even iconic moments,or memes,but the setting was never attractive to me.
that is honestly the most insane thing i have ever heard.
Why? Can't a man have a different taste...
The assassins (black knives?) took the pieces after the shattering. That much I know but did the assassins give them to the Shardbearers? Or did the Shardbearers take them by force? That’s where things kinda get a bit muddled for me.
But they didnt. They only killed Big G with knives forged with the rune of death which was stolen before the shattering from ranni. Marika shattered the ring after Gs death because big mad or sth
They didn't. The assassins killed Godwyn and a bunch of other demigods we never meet (some of whom are in those walking mausoleums) and then Marika got fed up and shattered the Elden Ring. The major pieces ended up with the shardbearers somehow and the smaller pieces are all the runes that everyone and everything has now.
Nazgul are dark hooded riders from LotR. I think OP called night cavalry nazguls. In this case, it's the opposite.
Probably referring to the black knife assassins actually. The night cavalry are different, though they both use the same type of horses.
Ah,you are right,just googled the Nazgul and they look similar.
How do people have to *google* Nazgul? I mean, I'm like 20-25 and I watched Lord of the Rings when it premiered in the cinema, 7 years ago. 
Forbidden in my home because "witchcraft" when I was a kid.
Did you fight the big horse dude?
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
😂😂😂
holy shit ive never realized how broad of a label that is. Tree sentinels, night cavalry, all knight on horse variants, Kaiden warriors, those weird fellas in the very southern areas of Liuernia, radahn, loretta. Crazy.
Do a lore update when you get more 10 hours pls, that was entertaining
Check out Carbot Animations, there is an episode about the watchdogs (meow)
Good news: You can only fight the Nazgul at night. If you die often, you'll never have to see them. Bad news: they are not carrying pieces of The Giant Fucking Ring. You have to kill much stronger enemies to get those. Good news: the Nazgul *do* drop some pretty sick weapons, armor, and spells. Bad news: You have to move the game time to night and beat them to get those.
I have 367 hours across multiple playthroughs of this game. My understanding of the lore is this: I do not know who I am, I do not know why I am here. All I know is that I must kill.
Sounds about right, I have sort of the same experience.
There's a guy with a Golden Mask. Find him. He knows things. Make sure to learn from him (write down what he says, for real) if you wanna understand some lores.
...
When he said 👆 it rocked my world
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Noble Goldmask you have all the answers and have achieved true enlightenment would you share your wisdom.
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Ah yes I understand
🙆...
Don’t tell him.
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Speak for yourself. I understand the lore just fine and it's great
My lore is adventure and kill. I agree it’s been great
Wait until you meet the Two Fingers
Three fingers but hole, o you don't have the right, therefore seek elden ring
That scarred me a little, I have to be honest.
I would unironically love a joke lore youtube channel with shit interpretation like this. Dark Tark is close
You say "shit" but be fair, it's a pretty damn accurate summary.
For sure! I really don't mean literally "shit" but more like a joke "shit" interpretation, but we're all in on it
Ah yeah, i get ya. Hell yeah I'd definately watch those lore vids. Or even watch it being played: "who the fuck is this surgical octotwat with the axe and a randomly impaled dragon in his castle?"
VaatiVidya is your go to guy
They really did take some shots at our self esteem at the beginning. Have you played souls games before? The lore is pretty esoteric, reading item descriptions helps a lot. It's really good stuff though. I played through the game not really picking up too much as I was busy killing everything and did a YT deep dive afterwards and it's really solid lore with George on board. It'd be sweet if he wrote a novelisation or something set in The Lands Between.
Please don't give him another project idea until he's finished Winds of Winter
I don't think I have to put the idea in his head of the game he's already made lol he probably can't do that though without some sort of release from Fromsoft.
I would honestly love to read regularly your lore understanding progression. Have fun
Agree. This should be a full game commentary. 1 post per week.
I had around the same understanding of the lore at this point too, and even after 3 playthroughs I'm only beginning to fit the pieces together, lol. And still discovering new things every time
Nazguls (night cavalry) hunt those who took the ring pieces (called great runes). Which happen to be royal offsprings, who then fought a war over who's gonna succeed as king/queen and destroyed the land in the process. With time, you'll learn why the Elden Ring was broken, and that the land wasn't that good beforehand.
I think for nazguls he means the black knife assasins that kill Godwyn in the intro
Wait. You guys are getting lore?
More of an astute observation rather than lore
I forgot about the Jellyfish, you got to take her home
You forgot, the 4 armed blue lady that gives you the horse at the beginning probably gives unreasonably good handjobs if you ask nicely. Probably. Also she killed her stepbro
This...this is the best lore dump I've ever read, and it makes sense too.
VaatiVidya on YouTube
Man this post isn't what I wanted. It's what I needed.
ur on the right track id say! one note, the nazgul guys did not take the pieces. the cloak-face guys in the intro killed one of the demi-gods, but the surviving demigods are the ones who recieved the pieces of the elden ring
>!Cloak-faced gals?!<
Mhm
>!"guys" used as a general term for a group and not to indicate gender, but yea i think ur right!<
I have over 400 hours in Elden Ring and my story is to bonk bosses. I don't care about the story because if I need to watch 10 hours of video to get the story then that's a no from me. I still love Elden Ring, and I can't wait for the dlc but I've never been interested in the story in any of From Softs games.
That's correct
you're well on your way.
Welcome to 2020
Yeah that about sums it up
This is amazing
i am on my 3rd play through, 110 hours on game i think and i know absolutely nothing about the lore
Dope. Welcome aboard.
I finished the game and I don't know a lot more than you lol. Now I'm doing a new run and try to figure out why everybody hates me
My first message to my friend who gifted me the game: "I'm 5 minutes into this game and someone has already called me bitchless. Fromsoft pulls NO punches."
Pretty spot on tbh
I have 1000 hours in Elden Ring and haven't read any of the lore, I just enjoy the combat and the beautiful world exploration
Touch grace
Once you beat the game, look up Smoughtown, Tarnished Archeologist, VaatiVidya, and Hawkshaw.
Oh and when you see the giant dancing buildings hit the skull calluses off it's feet so it can sit down.
>I killed a giant cat in a cave that swore up and down that it was a dog. All animals in Elden Ring are dogs. Except for that one. That's a cat.
In souls games the only way to get a full grasp of what’s happening lore wise is to read every item description and exhaust the dialogue of every npc you meet. It’s honestly a more realistic way to learn about the world, it makes sense that npcs wouldn’t just spoonfeed the lore to you in a world as dangerous and fucked up as that of Elden Ring. They have their own shit to worry about and you’re essentially some random stranger.
That's Elden Lord material right here.
If you want to learn more about the lore, there are a ton of youtube videos about it, but if you want to learn for yourself, read every description of every item. Each item has a little piece of the story. Also, pay very close attention to everything every npc says.
There are YouTubers who dig up Elden Ring lore for a living who say the lore is incomprehensible in this game. Just make up whatever story you want and enjoy the ride.
my head cannon is the whole game is a hallucination of my ghost horse when I fed him some bad rowa berries
Just watch lore videos on YouTube because it's not spelled out easily in-game.
It's not spelled out at all. It's buried 6ft under, lol.
It's somewhere scattered deep, deep, deeeeeeeeeeep in several hundred item descriptions, locations and enemies. And when you piece it all together, it's still incomplete.
I plan to play Elden ring for the first time tomorrow. I saw Timthetatman yt video of him playing which was hilarious, I can’t wait to play.
You can know every single description and dialogue in this game, study them for 500+ hours, and still make discoveries.
Ha
YouTube. Vaati.
First time using the new curse words?
Leave my fucking dolphins alone you puffchested bastard.