Elden Ring - It gets weirder

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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
  • The Deathbirds make for a pretty alarming encounter already, suddenly swooping down from the sky unannounced in the middle of the night. It only makes things worse to know they brought friends.
    Song used: Central Tower - King's Field IV OST

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  • @ZullietheWitch
    @ZullietheWitch  Год назад +2680

    The Twinbird bears some resemblance to a phoenix, and her children have an association with fire, albeit the freezing Ghostflame. This could imply something about the nature of the oath of resurrection sworn to their guardians, symbolized by the Death Ritual Spear granted to them.

    • @BrightestBro
      @BrightestBro Год назад +54

      If the bodies inside the Death Bird are the priests that can appear in the wings, then perhaps that ritual gave the idea of Erdtree burial by roots, or even grafting itself? Or is grafting a "gift" from The Two Fingers? Even more so, I wonder why burning human bones produces ghostflame, which seemingly anyone can acquire.

    • @Mecceldorf
      @Mecceldorf Год назад +43

      If it's supposed to be a phoenix, maybe the other half of the agreement involves a hot fire for the rebirth, like the black and red bird on the shield. Not that we have much of an inkling as to what makes the twinbird a twin bird, but if it's a reference to alchemy it could have something to do with the process of separation.

    • @NerdOracle
      @NerdOracle Год назад +38

      Interestingly, we have a freezing white flame that represents the dead, and a burning black flame that represents death itself.
      Furthermore, the ghost flame does seem to offer yet more reasons for the golden order to spurn the idea of fire altogether

    • @steve43ful
      @steve43ful Год назад +43

      If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Miyazaki’s games it’s that if it would be more metal for something to be made out of people then it’s made out of people.

    • @MicK4HB
      @MicK4HB Год назад +6

      The spirits appear to hold spears akin to the spears that have slain majority of the giants. Maybe Marika or Radagon or both used the Deathbirds to rid of the warriors that slew the giants for some kind of benefit and maybe are some how linked to the Twin bird. Also the bodies coming from the torso somewhat coming from a somewhat similar wound to the one housing the Elden Ring in Marika.

  • @OCMOOO
    @OCMOOO Год назад +3917

    I love these videos
    It's like revisiting a PTSD memory but instead of a counsellor, Zullie is just pointing out how much worse it actually was

    • @disappointingperson9162
      @disappointingperson9162 Год назад +196

      Ah so just like actual therapy

    • @OCMOOO
      @OCMOOO Год назад +96

      @@disappointingperson9162 Yesn't

    • @AkuniLesare
      @AkuniLesare Год назад +92

      I gotta agree. I never saw the corpses in their body or wings. It makes them cooler (thinking of their spear rain attack), but also way worse. It's always worse with ER...

    • @peggedyourdad9560
      @peggedyourdad9560 Год назад +22

      @@AkuniLesare It's a bit like the grafted scions.

    • @AkuniLesare
      @AkuniLesare Год назад +11

      @@peggedyourdad9560 We don't talk about those or the RRs. 😤

  • @KuroNoTenno
    @KuroNoTenno Год назад +2738

    Stuff like this is why more developers need to add model viewer modes to their games.

    • @Krystalmyth
      @Krystalmyth Год назад +258

      PS2 games used to include these all the time. It's funny that as gaming gets more modern, thought to this kind of feature becomes less and less important to devs to share with players. King's Field used to let you rotate around all the items in the game.

    • @buggy5079
      @buggy5079 Год назад +53

      nah, it would remove the adventure feeling and these kind of "secrets", there would be no need to adventure in the lands in between in search of its lore if we got a full 3D museum with a couple of clicks.

    • @Scaevola9449
      @Scaevola9449 Год назад +273

      @@buggy5079 make it an unlock

    • @channelblood5088
      @channelblood5088 Год назад +241

      @@buggy5079 Bad take.

    • @florpleborp2275
      @florpleborp2275 Год назад +13

      @@Scaevola9449 I can almost guarantee you you’d hear more people upset that it wasn’t immediately available than you would people who wanted one if they didn’t implement it.

  • @nickstewart1202
    @nickstewart1202 Год назад +334

    I love the game's attempts to grapple with the finality of death. The ancestral spirits teaching about rebirth, the death birds making use of corpses and spirits in their rituals (and I guess lives?), And then the Golden Order just straight up defying death making everyone semi immortal.

  • @PushyPillow
    @PushyPillow Год назад +1376

    The nature of Death in Elden Ring is one of the most interesting parts of the lore. How many types of Death do we see in the Lands Between?
    The cold blue flames of the Deathbirds and old rites, the black and white flames of the Godskins and presumably the Gloam-eyed Queen, the red and black Rune of Death sealed within Maliketh. It seems the nature of Death is as fluid and prone to change as the Lands Between and whatever Outer God influences creep in.

    • @Saurawr
      @Saurawr Год назад +301

      My feeling on this is connected to the idea that Gods require faith to exist, a concept popular in fantasy and Dungeons and Dragons. The more followers, the stronger the god. A non-god can become a god with worship, and a god can weaken and die when they are forgotten. in those settings, its the concept of faith that powers the gods.
      But in elden ring, it feels like its claiming the souls of the dead that powers the gods, and that they fight over that. The Greater Will seemed to be winning with the Erdtree, so many were pledged to its roots, while the other gods had to scrabble for scraps with cults to claim the souls. Its interesting to think of how things will shape up with the erdtree burned, all those gods who were scrabbling at the edges will once again have the ability to claim followers

    • @jurtheorc8117
      @jurtheorc8117 Год назад +72

      @@Saurawr The idea of the souls of the dead powering the gods reminds me a bit of the Soul Reaver/Blood Omen/Legacy of Kain franchise.

    • @KieranSteeves
      @KieranSteeves Год назад +46

      Also the Erdtree death cycle with the bodies in the roots in the tombs

    • @darkstalkerkaathe4582
      @darkstalkerkaathe4582 Год назад +36

      @@KieranSteeves yes, I feel like zullie should have mentioned that. Because the nature of the Great tree vs the Erdtree is an interesting little rabbit hole. In the Great root catacombs around the map. Bodies are fused together in the roots of the physical Greattree

    • @colorpg152
      @colorpg152 Год назад +12

      @@darkstalkerkaathe4582 there is no great tree that was a mistake

  • @freakyzoid3565
    @freakyzoid3565 Год назад +1085

    Literally have been preaching this since the game came out. The Deathbirds and their associated weapons and spells are probably the coolest part of the game for me.
    It's also interesting to note that they have a screech attack that inflicts Death Blight, so there might be a direct connection with Godwyn. Maybe by becoming the Prince of Death he is turning into the Empyrean of the Deathbird's Outer God?

    • @TheKing-qz9wd
      @TheKing-qz9wd Год назад +196

      There is a chance their scream inflicts Deathblight because the Birds qualify as twisted soulless corpses. Perhaps having been lefted unattended has caused their ghostflame to fade and their bodies to wither as the ones in the mausoleum have withered. Perhaps the Birds are meant for a kind of maintence ritual, much like how the Gargoyles nees to be repaired by another. Perhaps the Birds have been left unattended too long.
      Further, I am hesitant to associate Godwyn with the Birds since Godwyn is associated with darkness/eciplses, decay and stagnancy, but still winds even they are immoving winds, and gold lightning even if it is lightning eciplsed in shadow. So they only thing they might share is their nature in undeath.

    • @CleopatraKing
      @CleopatraKing Год назад +121

      Doubt it. Death blight while connected to godwyn, is still just a aspect of death. Death is prolly the most wide spanning force in ER despite having it's rune ripped from the elden ring.
      It's connected to godskins, maliketh, black knives, death birds, godwyn etc.
      We can more see these death birds as powerful creatures in service to the Twinbird, and bc of their connection to death, they can utilize the ghost flame and death blight. Ghost flame, death blight and the destined death are all aspects of the greater, death.

    • @goldengolem4670
      @goldengolem4670 Год назад +17

      Idk dude, fighting them makes me want to peel my facemeat off with a potato peeler. ESPECIALLY THE MAGIC ONES WHICH 2 SHOT YOU IN HEAVY ARMOR.

    • @siegwardinspirit
      @siegwardinspirit Год назад +67

      @@goldengolem4670 honestly they wouldn't be that annoying if the time of day didn't reset every time you died. Running half way to the boss, only to remember that you haven't sat down and set it to night time yet. Bleh.

    • @goldengolem4670
      @goldengolem4670 Год назад +10

      @@siegwardinspirit The same reason i never fight the night cavalry too, like if i am even steven on power with them and die, i dont want to have to wait every bloody time they kill me.
      That doesnt take intoö account that both NC and the birds have some INSANE reach and hitboxes.
      At least the birds have 1 good drop worth getting, the axe with the ancient horn charm passive.

  • @metalmonster9536
    @metalmonster9536 Год назад +184

    My first encounter with them was in the Weeping Peninsula. I was simply riding to the castle when one just swooped down on me. What a creepy and cool experience. Although they are not the mainstream lores and I do not hope to see the DLC focused on their prime times, but I still want to learn more about them.

    • @CleopatraKing
      @CleopatraKing Год назад +4

      What there's one in the Peninsula???
      Fuck

    • @kingdomcome3914
      @kingdomcome3914 Год назад +3

      @@CleopatraKing There's one in Limgrave alongside the path to the illusion of Sellen, and one in Caelid past the Sellia Town path, along the way where a Night's Cavalry lurks.

    • @grimmSOL
      @grimmSOL Год назад +8

      I'd never wanna focus on a death bird's prime times. Imagine how twisted their favorite TV shows are.

    • @rayne-t
      @rayne-t Год назад +3

      I was getting bombarded by the first golem archer I'd ever seen, ducking in and out of cover, until I ducked in one area and OH HI GIANT DEATH BIRD
      I ran away. Really fast. Trying not to get shot with arrows the size of buildings.

    • @eorlundgraumahne37
      @eorlundgraumahne37 Год назад +2

      @@CleopatraKing there are two in Limgrave

  • @Duskwalker68
    @Duskwalker68 Год назад +216

    These guys are one of the coolest enemies in the entire game!

    • @Shinirkrog
      @Shinirkrog Год назад +30

      And most annoying to fight

    • @MrFelblood
      @MrFelblood Год назад +3

      @@Shinirkrog Yeah. Hitboxes on those ghostflames are way bigger than they look.

    • @Sinatracle
      @Sinatracle Год назад

      She screamed

    • @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168
      @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168 Год назад +5

      Cool looking enemies, pain in the ass to fight, ESPECIALLY the death rite bird in the mountaintops before Castle Sol.

    • @fastenedcarrot9570
      @fastenedcarrot9570 Год назад +3

      The Caelid one's "arena" can bugger off though

  • @snowmcsnow4732
    @snowmcsnow4732 Год назад +111

    I loved those scary moments when I was minding my own business when one of those birds drops and I start running away while gathering my bearings.

  • @TheCrewExpendable
    @TheCrewExpendable Год назад +82

    What.the.hell.
    I never noticed this.
    Talk about insane level of detail. Something From as a studio absolutely excels at

    • @vazazell5967
      @vazazell5967 Год назад +4

      idk why people keep praising direct copypaste of concept art into the game when it makes zero sense from efficency point. NOBODY can see those details without hacks, this isn't level of detail, this is poor management and pointless waste of resources.

    • @narudraw312
      @narudraw312 Год назад +28

      @@vazazell5967 nah it's pretty cool fr

    • @Sinhsseax
      @Sinhsseax Год назад +14

      @@vazazell5967 You do you and not "waste any ressources on details", but something which is detailed is just more valuable.
      As you can see, to learn about these details brings enjoyment to people and lets them appreciate the game more.
      Therefore it is clearly useful to create a beloved game.
      The same is true for hidden details in the Witcher III and such.
      There is just more meat to these games than the eye can see, which makes them age better.
      And even if these details are hard to notice, we can't say how they might subconciously influence a player.
      Our brain still processes that information after all.

    • @mhmmm7044
      @mhmmm7044 Год назад +10

      @@vazazell5967 because that's how games work bro. If you are a 3d modeler and can't copy paste the concept art into 3d you gonna get fired real soon, and sometimes you even have to build things that are not in the concept art. And if you only build what people can see normally then the game will look like it's from 2010. You don't usually see those thing but if it's not there you will immediately notice the difference.

    • @vazazell5967
      @vazazell5967 Год назад

      @@mhmmm7044 you know what happens after it's copy pasted? It's gets tested to see if everything is communicated clearly. Those two bodies aren't communicated clearly. The design fails and needs adjustment.

  • @Magmadu100
    @Magmadu100 Год назад +94

    Man, the king's field soundtrack just drips with ambience, these songs still fit so well into showcasing modern FROM stuff :)

  • @CidiusPsychopaticus
    @CidiusPsychopaticus Год назад +310

    I believe that Deathbirds may be inspired by Ascalaphus, the bird of Hades. From Wikipedia:
    "Ascalaphus was the custodian of the orchard of Hades. He told the other gods that Persephone had eaten pomegranate seeds in the Underworld. Because she had tasted food in the underworld, Persephone was obliged to return to the Underworld and spend four months (in later versions six months) there every year.
    Demeter was so angry, she buried Ascalaphus beneath a heavy rock in the Underworld, or alternatively it was Persephone who punished him. When Heracles went to the underworld, he rolled the stone away and released him from his prison. But then, Demeter transformed Ascalaphus into a short-eared owl. According to another myth, Persephone herself changed him into a short-eared owl by sprinkling him with water of the river Phlegethon. Ovid mentions: "So he became the vilest bird; a messenger of grief; the lazy owl; sad omen to mankind." As an owl, he became the familiar bird of Hades, god of the underworld."
    Their heads resembles owl's skull, they also appear at night, just like the owls.

    • @alihorda
      @alihorda Год назад +11

      that's interesting since I would associate owls with pallas athene

    • @apostolosnikolis5281
      @apostolosnikolis5281 Год назад +20

      Well, in school we were told that owls in ancient Greece were considered as bad omens. They were considered as harbingers of bad luck and death, but an owl is also the symbol of Athena. I kinda forgot about it, thanks for that comment, it triggered that memory. Ps Persephone stayed six months in the underworld and six in olympus, because that's the interpretation of the seasons changin.

    • @CidiusPsychopaticus
      @CidiusPsychopaticus Год назад +12

      @Michael B So what they said about Deathbirds?

    • @stripedmilo
      @stripedmilo Год назад +4

      Ok but I just googled Ascalaphus and there are a bunch of images of it as an owl with big muscular human legs xD I can definitely see that as a new Souls enemy

    • @Fullmetalnyuu0
      @Fullmetalnyuu0 Год назад +7

      @Michael B Alright michael, why don't you share the obvious with us?

  • @BigBastion623
    @BigBastion623 Год назад +524

    I still remember when I got my friend to play this game, and he was in Weeping peninsula when he turned around and the Death Bird was right behind him (keep in mind, he’s one of those people that never gets scared by horror movies/games). He screamed so loud that the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if everything was ok

  • @123BenCrazy
    @123BenCrazy Год назад +20

    Its interesting how a big part of Elden Ring's backstory seems to be shaped by various gods fighting for control of the Lands Between, each offering their follower a different version of death and what happens to the soul thereafter.

  • @naquaman2034
    @naquaman2034 Год назад +84

    Babe, wake up - new Zullie just dropped.

  • @eldenring_area
    @eldenring_area Год назад +43

    Yeah baby! that's what i'm talkin' about!

  • @AnEveryManJack
    @AnEveryManJack Год назад +11

    I appreciate the format of these videos and how they show off the details in the models. I wish they had a built-in beastiary for the game, because so many of these little touches go missed in normal gameplay.

  • @leazo
    @leazo Год назад +11

    These guys are terrifying but so cool at the same time

    • @ethandonnelly1973
      @ethandonnelly1973 Год назад +1

      I'm not gonna lie the liurnia one annoyed me enough that I stopped bothering with fighting them and instead just decided to drop a shit tonne of Holy pots on them
      They're cool as hell but irritable enough that I don't care to fight them "fairly"

  • @Exile_Sky
    @Exile_Sky Год назад +18

    I really like the deathbirds and the ghost flame. Kinda wish there was more around them, but that's likely because what we've got is just enough to incite the reaction of "I want to know more".

  • @Gakusangi
    @Gakusangi Год назад +9

    It's amazing the small details you start to notice in these games.

    • @grimmSOL
      @grimmSOL Год назад

      Or in the case of 99% of this community's fan base, the small details you start to notice that Zullie notices first.

  • @Baby_boodle
    @Baby_boodle Год назад +7

    This is super duper cool! I love your deep-dives into lore tidbits like this a bunch.

  • @arrilocknewmoon9620
    @arrilocknewmoon9620 Год назад +12

    I always felt like the twinbird was kinda cool in a way, specifically with the branchsword talismans. They worship death by clinging desperately to life, making sure it is one worth offering, and thats poetic in a way.
    I think the vengeful spirits are people who were burned in the ghostflame, but never truly lived their life as they should have, resulting in them wishing for more and returning as spirits.

  • @mattb8169
    @mattb8169 Год назад +3

    I'm so happy you're making these videos. So much of the game's lore and flavor are tied to enemies nobody normally can get a good look at.

  • @imadabi633
    @imadabi633 Год назад +1

    Honestly I love your channel it gives you an insight on things you normally can't see while rolling around like a crackhead trying to survive with 1 hp

  • @Wave9990
    @Wave9990 Год назад +1

    Another absolute BANGER as always. I love these videos so much

  • @SuperVillain0utcast
    @SuperVillain0utcast Год назад +5

    This track is 🔥🔥🔥

  • @pedrovilar6123
    @pedrovilar6123 Год назад +11

    I think if DLC brings the Twinbird as a potencial boss, there coud be more clarification on the culture and practice of ghostflame and the Ravenmount Assassins as there is only maybe 2 references to them (black feathers and the dude in Yuras quest).
    Hopefully it also brings the Gloomeyed queen wich is possibly the single most importnat character in the entire game other than marika and i'm positive she wasnt actually killed by Maliketh, just defeated

    • @trielt1
      @trielt1 Год назад +1

      We could fight a personification/envoy of the Twinbird as a boss (something like the Elden Beast, but probably more bird-like), but I doubt we'll see an actual Outer God in-game. I don't think they *have* physical forms, or are even possible to defeat. It would be like trying to fight the laws of physics themselves.

    • @nate_venture
      @nate_venture Год назад +4

      Based on the Frenzy Flame ending if Melina is alive, she appears to be a remanifestation or spirit of the Gloameyed Queen. Brought into these events by Marika to eventually guide someone to Destined Death so they could slay the Elden Beast, and hopefully make the right call to side with Ranni to usurp the influence of the Greater Will and free everyone.
      With everything else burning and nothing binding her, the seal or scar on Melina’s left eye is faded and she opens her eye to reveal the purple hue of the Gloameyed Queen. She had been burnt and bodiless after her defeat, the rune of Destined Death she held taken and sealed away to buy Marika time to do something about the Greater Will before she would otherwise die and be replaced by one of the Empyrean candidates. Godwyn (the Golden) was most likely their first pick, so he needed to die. Malenia and Miquella were already somewhat apart from candidacy, seemingly tied to other Outer Gods. And Ranni rejected the notion herself, so she worked with Marika and her Black Knives to orchestrate the theft of the Rune of Death’s power. It was necessary to properly kill her body, and also to kill Godwyn, and through their coordination or some ritual they correctly killed both body and soul but not from the same person. This scheme also spooked Maliketh, no longer willing to operate as an executioner/punisher of demigods now that he knew the rune might be taken.
      However eventually someone would need to free the Rune of Death. And who could be a more natural guide than it’s proper prior bearer? As the Gloameyed Queen she had been another Empyrean, seemingly obeying the desire of the Greater Will and culling the swathes of demigods who had been born. After all, the demigods retained enough free will of their own to orchestrate plots like Marika and Ranni did. The flaw in the Golden Order that Goldmask would see, that the gods were not as subjugated to the Greater Will as all others and could therefore stir up trouble. But now Marika needed an Empyrean out of the running and Destined Death contained to delay her own impending demise, her body perhaps already starting to wear and crack. So the Gloameyed Queen was bested by Maliketh, champion of the godly Marika, and her body burned, perhaps by the true black flames of the rune taken from her. Yet some portion remained. Maliketh kept one eye, clawed out in battle and now turned to stone as we see dead or dying godly flesh will do. Maybe something more was kept close by Marika, or maybe she had other ways to reconstitute the slain woman and give her new purpose as Melina. Melina, who has one golden open eye, which upon the burning of Golden Order by the fenzied flame, loses its golden hue and goes pale. Melina, whom Destined Death should naturally return to. Melina, who had been burnt and left bodiless until a mother who did not birth her gave her new life and purpose on a path to create the one opportunity for a Tarnished to choose: would they free the land from the Greater Will, leave the land subjugated, or abandon reason and hope to burn everything away?
      So yeah anyway Gloameyed Queen is already in the game. Could definitely love some better elaboration on her past faction though. Lot of neat stuff that could be explored but not all of it means a boss fight.

    • @pedrovilar6123
      @pedrovilar6123 Год назад +1

      @@nate_venture Pretty cool ideas my dude. Defeneatly share the same take regarding the purpose of Melinas creation and it seems to also be why Marika stole the grace from Godfrey and casted him to the Badlands so that he (or some other tarnished) woud eventually return to best the Elden beast. Never had i associated Melina with the Gloomeyed queen tho but it seems super plausible
      Don't know if that was exactly the flaw Goldmask saw tho. Since it manifests after you rveal that Marika is Radagon it coud be that he realyzes the selfishness in the perpetuation of the Age of gold, wich probably leads him to belive she is the reason why the leaves are falling or smth. This is only my baseless opinion tho, since he never actually talks its kinda hard to draw a complete interpretation

    • @HopelessEvenings
      @HopelessEvenings Год назад

      @@pedrovilar6123 There's something else tying Melina to the Gloam-Eyed Queen. Melina's eye tattoo is a 1:1 match to the clawmark present in the Eye of Death that Gurranq bequeaths to you, which is also the same color as the eye Melina has in the Frenzy Flame ending. Makes a lot of sense since Maliketh defeated the Gloam-Eyed Queen.

    • @IdToaster
      @IdToaster Год назад

      @@trielt1 It seems that at least some Outer Gods have physical forms; the god of Rot both seems to have a scorpion-like body (that the Scorpion Stinger was made out of) and was sealed in the Lake of Rot by the blind swordsman.

  • @Zusomi
    @Zusomi Год назад +1

    This is one of my favorite designs in the game. Thanks you for covering them

  • @primevalwarlock3808
    @primevalwarlock3808 Год назад

    I watch these videos like asmr for sleep because they relax me for some reason

  • @ClaytonBrownMusicOfficial
    @ClaytonBrownMusicOfficial Год назад +1

    I’m loving the King’s Field soundtrack!

  • @spaarky
    @spaarky Год назад +7

    Very good video, as per usual Zullie.

  • @Paintplayer1
    @Paintplayer1 Год назад +1

    I've never played any of the games you cover but I watch all the content you make because it's so interesting

  • @XDarkGreyX
    @XDarkGreyX Год назад +27

    The number of Deathbirds I tracked down between reaching the burned Erdtree and finishing the playthrough...
    I did so much exploration but missed a the majority of nighttime field bosses

  • @Vher_
    @Vher_ Год назад +3

    man those wings on the greater deathbirds are so sick

  • @tommasocamplani4467
    @tommasocamplani4467 Год назад +1

    today in the new episode of “What’s inside that enemy? we have… DEATHBIRD!”

  • @RoyaltonDrummer922
    @RoyaltonDrummer922 Год назад +1

    This King's Field music is so unsettling

  • @jazeenharal6013
    @jazeenharal6013 Год назад +3

    I absolutely love Kingsfield music.

    • @ernestozamora3207
      @ernestozamora3207 Год назад

      Which song is it? O:

    • @jazeenharal6013
      @jazeenharal6013 Год назад

      @@ernestozamora3207 "Central Tower" from Kings Field 4
      But I like l the music from that game. It's all so interesting and unique.
      It's immediately like "Oh, that's Kingsfield"

  • @VelkasConsort93
    @VelkasConsort93 Год назад

    Appreciate all the hard work you give us, Zullie, truelly im always contemplating what this could mean for the understanding of my take on the lore everytime I view one!

  • @cpnquack3655
    @cpnquack3655 Год назад

    oh hey, i asked for this video at one point! Thanks Zullie! - it's really interesting how important these birds are, or used to be, before the golden order (and by proxy erdtree burial) became the focal point of The Lands Between.

  • @Sentinel_of_the_GFI
    @Sentinel_of_the_GFI Год назад +1

    This is one of my favorite enemy designs

  • @heatwave0
    @heatwave0 Год назад +1

    Death Rite Bird's Wings look like a portal to the Spirit world.

  • @chrisdanks2296
    @chrisdanks2296 Год назад

    The level of detail in these items is astounding. Great video showing us all these things. Thank-you Zullie

  • @khirek5335
    @khirek5335 Год назад

    I just finished my first elden ring playthrough (a little late to the party) and am now watching videos on it. And OMG the kings field iv soundtrack in this brings back soo many memories. Love it

  • @platypuspracticus2
    @platypuspracticus2 Год назад +2

    I can never take the Deathbirds seriously because the head is shaped like a Tweety bird head from Looney Tunes. Makes it kinda kawaii.

  • @pedromenezes3917
    @pedromenezes3917 Год назад

    I noticed this a few days ago while playing, but i legit thought It was in my head. I was waiting for you to post about it so i could know If i was imagining things haha

  • @hohohojo
    @hohohojo Год назад

    Stopped playing Elden ring a year ago, still love this channel.

  • @Harbinger28567
    @Harbinger28567 Год назад

    Thank you for showing all the details that probably go unnoticed during game play.

  • @EuclideanAl
    @EuclideanAl Год назад +3

    Zullie: These fascinating creatures have a plethora of backstory, not only through the usual item and weapon descriptions but also through their designs, which can only be truly admired in still frames, along with its interconnected relationship with other ennemies's lore and appearance, here's every detail I've noticed with a satisfying explanation.
    Me: Hah, cool fire-ghost bird you've got there, very good mini-boss stuff.

  • @oktusprime3637
    @oktusprime3637 Год назад

    From are true masters at storytelling through imagery.

  • @rodrigoalejo8994
    @rodrigoalejo8994 Год назад

    Zullie I keep seeing ur videos when I eat, or when I have some time to spare. Just keep up the work and have fun doing it
    I just love ER Lore and you seem to have always an excelente topic to share.

  • @diegonei
    @diegonei Год назад +1

    "I Tawt I Taw a Lowly Tarneshed."

  • @giuliomancin4525
    @giuliomancin4525 Год назад +3

    I thought about this when you showed the Twinbird Kite Shield, but it's quite interesting how a recurring theme of some (or maybe it's always the same?) Outer Gods is having an envoy with two "heads": the Two Fingers, Placidusax and the Twinbird.

  • @IllIlllI
    @IllIlllI Год назад +1

    These birds are like the middle evolution between the dragon humans kept in irithil dungeon and Osiris the fake dragon in ds3

  • @justanothernobody3600
    @justanothernobody3600 Год назад +1

    First your videos are amazing, the fact that you just need some music and text to give so much entertainment speaks for the quality of information your providing. Second I love these birds, just made a whole build around the items you get from them. Death's Poker is amazing, Ghostflame Ignition might be the most fun to use ash of war. I really hope we get to see more of the different outer gods in the DLC.

  • @carpetter290
    @carpetter290 Год назад

    yo these are great and this a real sick track. it's perfect for the material.

  • @WoodlandDrake
    @WoodlandDrake Год назад

    Zullie: "And NOW for something completely different!"

  • @natorious76
    @natorious76 Год назад +1

    The amount of lore tied together in this game is mind blowing

  • @foodndat
    @foodndat Год назад

    Spooky af, the bodies trapped inside reminds me of the Gargoyles faces fused together O.O. Great find Zullie

  • @aidenmclaughlin1076
    @aidenmclaughlin1076 Год назад +2

    The Death Rite Birds are some of the coolest looking enemies in any FromSoft game

  • @tomjones6347
    @tomjones6347 Год назад

    Kings field IV OST will never grow old

  • @meinuser1
    @meinuser1 Год назад +2

    About the bodys inside the Deathbird.
    It could also be, that these were eaten by the bird to prevent an Erdtreeburial. To take them away from the great circle of life death and rebirth

  • @mohammadbuhamad7744
    @mohammadbuhamad7744 Год назад +3

    Man amazing content as usual

  • @bufansun7812
    @bufansun7812 Год назад +1

    Ghostly headless winged hussars, cool!

  • @thyfoul6844
    @thyfoul6844 Год назад

    these birds had already a sweet spot in my nightmeres, now they are climbing the top 3 fffffffaaaakkk

  • @mesotheelioma
    @mesotheelioma Год назад

    "elden ring - it gets weirder" is just a summation of all elden ring vids on this channel

  • @pancho7776
    @pancho7776 Год назад +5

    Let’s hope they get dlc time.

  • @nielsthedutchone
    @nielsthedutchone Год назад +1

    Them havibg corpses in their torso reminds me of trolls having gravestones in there as well.

  • @klueless4205
    @klueless4205 Год назад

    This is King's field 4 music! I loved playing this as a kid.

  • @joepipes9308
    @joepipes9308 Год назад +3

    Great vid, I hope to see loads more

  • @topcat59
    @topcat59 Год назад +4

    Is it wrong for me to think that the deathbirds head looks like a baby skull, because I always thought it was before I saw the beak.🤨🐱

    • @googuygaming3635
      @googuygaming3635 Год назад +1

      Nah man I thought that too

    • @sas647
      @sas647 Год назад +1

      Looks like Tweety's head lol

  • @mynameed7720
    @mynameed7720 Год назад +12

    The act of the bodies seemingly morphing with the Deathbirds kinda goes with the whole "unison" theme of the game with all of the multiple personalities of the characters in the game. Really cool stuff, love their design.

  • @burneraccounthandle
    @burneraccounthandle Год назад +14

    man i wish the black flame spells were more viable in this game

    • @cullenpinney2997
      @cullenpinney2997 Год назад +4

      Black flames or ghost flames? because I’ve managed to make black flames do some gnarly damage

    • @Kikesh888
      @Kikesh888 Год назад +1

      Death's Poker weapon skill is one of the best in the game. And the Prince of Death staff does ridiculous damage at 80/80 int/faith with death sorceries. Requires a lot of stats, but 100% viable.

  • @TheTuttle99
    @TheTuttle99 Год назад

    I haven't even played Elden Ring but I'm obsessed with these

  • @DourFlower
    @DourFlower Год назад

    One of the best designs in from soft history, striking, mysterious and intriguing all in one

  • @elliotsandoval3386
    @elliotsandoval3386 Год назад +1

    This deathbird has guys literally coming inside of him

  • @maniacalmurderer4123
    @maniacalmurderer4123 5 месяцев назад +2

    Well, these creatures did once act as “reapers” so to speak, burning people with ghostflame to consume their souls. Now that the ghostflame is weak, and death has been changed due to the Elden ring, they need to literally absorb the bodies into themselves to obtain their essence.

  • @en-men-lu-ana6870
    @en-men-lu-ana6870 Год назад

    The thumbnail immediately caused my mind to conjure up a meme in the "full of pilk" style, with a Deathbird and text with the words "full of tortured souls".

  • @iammax1393
    @iammax1393 7 месяцев назад +2

    Knowing that The Realm of Shadow is the place where Marika became a god, it’ll be really cool to see how the lore of the base game is impacted or expanded by it. Considering ghostflame burial was common before the Golden Order, I’m really hoping we’ll see more of it in the form of weapons, incantations, and more.

    • @altarf2582
      @altarf2582 3 месяца назад

      I hope we find out more about the Outer God the Twinbird is the envoy of. We know a good amount about all the others except this one.

  • @DaShikuXI
    @DaShikuXI Год назад +10

    One thing you definitely have to give ER is that its enemy designs are on point. A lot of visual storytelling in their designs, which is not easy to achieve.

  • @WolfWarriorLive
    @WolfWarriorLive Год назад

    You make the best videos on this site

  • @blastchambers2150
    @blastchambers2150 Год назад

    The Deathbirds scared the ever loving spirit right out of me when I first encountered them.

  • @nerfer200
    @nerfer200 Год назад +6

    What I always thought was that the Deathbirds and the Death Rite Birds, along with the Twinbird and the Outer God were the progenitors of "Those who live in death". Skeletons can release a Wolnir like mist that's in similar color to ghost flame and as an extra bonus Order spells and Weapons do extra bonus damage to all TWLID enemies

    • @microprogramming
      @microprogramming Год назад +1

      Ooooh, apparently the Litany of Proper Death incantation which does bonus damage to those who live in death also works on deathbirds, so there does seem to be a connection!!

  • @nameofsoph
    @nameofsoph Год назад

    Ah, a new Zullie video! Time to learn something I will absolutely wish I did not know!

  • @byrnethebooks
    @byrnethebooks Год назад

    I've played this whole game through and through and never come across one of these before I'm so shocked. amazing

  • @Crowald
    @Crowald Год назад

    Zullie never misses with the music choice.

  • @LordTyrone1989
    @LordTyrone1989 Год назад

    I always wanted to see you cover the Death Birds!

  • @SnazBrigade
    @SnazBrigade Год назад +3

    maybe the bodies in the birds are because the birds ate them. Birds usually swallow their food whole, and when you cut open the stomach of a dead bird who's just eaten their food looks otherwise unscathed, similar to how the bodies in the torso are.

  • @stellaflowers301
    @stellaflowers301 Год назад +2

    The makeshift wings on the Mausoleum Knights are a reference to the Winged Hussars, a heavy cavalry division in 16th-18th century Poland. They have the same makeshift wings on their back, though I'm not sure what this meant for the Winged Hussar's case

  • @1r0zz
    @1r0zz Год назад

    When you think something cannot get any worse, you discover it’s filled with corpses…

  • @dannypestolesi712
    @dannypestolesi712 Год назад +2

    Watching your content is making me really baddly want to upgrade my PC sooner rather than later. I have yet to play ER and It is def on my list when I get good equipment, along with GoW. Cause darn this all looks fun and cool. Still yearning in my heart of hearts for a Bloodborne sequel/remake AN ANYTHING from it really... it is in my top 5 games of all time.

  • @SomnambulistMist
    @SomnambulistMist Год назад +1

    Maybe the bodies being stuffed in the lesser deathbird's cavity is a way of storing 'food' for later

  • @slicknicdwyer
    @slicknicdwyer Год назад

    wow those priests were really like "my lifebird determines my deathbird"

  • @lardman7667
    @lardman7667 Год назад

    "It gets weirder" should be an official series.

  • @xioussquid
    @xioussquid Год назад

    *reads title
    "Gurl, it's always going to get weirder with what you find in these games."

  • @cb-9938
    @cb-9938 Год назад +1

    They took some of the bloodborne horror aspects and sprinkled it throughout the game, its really cool how they blended it all together

    • @ghosty3494
      @ghosty3494 Год назад

      I'm pretty sure (as a "professional" bloodborne player) that ain't no kin, cuase kin got blue blood and I'm pretty sure they got red blood, so yeah 100% a beast.

    • @KnightofLondor
      @KnightofLondor Год назад

      @@ghosty3494 Kin bleed yellow, not blue

  • @Arthas972
    @Arthas972 Год назад

    The bodies of the damn merged with it reminds me of the ghost of Christmas future in Scrooged. When the guy looked under the robe, there were faces of the damned underneath

  • @pepperbird67657
    @pepperbird67657 Год назад

    I love that with your videos I can see details I missed either due to the gameplay being too fast for me to see these details or because m tv is too small and has too low resolution for me to make these details out

  • @cameron818
    @cameron818 Год назад +1

    Oh yeah , I thought I noticed this while it was beating my head off my shoulders with it's skull beak and flapping around like a lunatic everywhere. Glad I'm not the only one who saw this😐

  • @pantherowow77
    @pantherowow77 Год назад

    I love reading your writing.

  • @daddywhogames
    @daddywhogames Год назад +1

    That screenshot with the deathbird behind and you casting ancient death rancor is amazing 😍