Much like Midir's laser attack being a reference to Shin Godzilla, many people see Placidusax as a potential reference to King Ghidorah, who has also famously lost a head in the past. Placidusax actually having enough necks for five heads might muddy that perception a bit though. Peculiarly, the Old Lord's Talisman is clearly meant to represent Placidusax and has only four heads, but the Dragonlord's model has three severed neck stumps. It's hard to say what the discrepancy might mean.
@@dogmat8733 Honestly, I doubt it. Godfrey is strong, but I don't think he was THAT strong. We have to remember that there was a time before the Erdtree and the Elden Ring, before the Greater Will came to be in the Lands Between. I have a feeling that the power scaling back then was much higher than what we see in the present time.
Dude, I want to fight a 5-headed Placidusax and see his laser beam destroy me. I can't even begin to imagine what he fought to put him in the state he's in, the cataclysmic battles that took place...
It was most likely Godfrey during the Ancient Dragon War, since one of his credits is defeating the Storm Lord; Placidusax is strongly associated with the storm beyond time and one of the only charecters to have the "Lord" title (Elden Lord is actually a mistranslation, his title is closer to Great Lord Placidusax). Some have said that Godfrey isn't powerful enough to have done this, but remember that when he fought us he DIDN'T have the strength provided by Grace and Destined Death was fully unleashed, which is how Radagon and Elden Beast could be killed when they were previously invulnerable.
Reminds me of the hydra in DS1. Because only the entire models would target you and not the individual heads, and the animation would not change after you severed a head, it had the annoying habit of some heads always hitting the ground far away from you. It got pretty silly as a pure melee character, always chasing the last heads in a game of whack-a-hydra.
Yeah, hydras always were two different kinds of frustrating at different points of the fight. Same with kalameet and gaping dragon. Never did get those weapons. Kalameet is so much easier if you just face him head on. It almost felt like bait. You get a crutch weapon for using exploits. Made sense for the first red dragon, but for kalameet it feels like the last stealth section in Metal Gear Rising Revengeance - by this point you just know better than to bother.
@@hardgay7537 i didn't find it too hard to cut off the tails of most ds1 dragons, except for seath. Cutting seaths tail off remains one of the most frustrating things i ever attempted
I like how you talk about FromSoft giving players opportunities to hit the dragon’s tail, and as an example, you use the one dragon that’s infamous for having the hardest tail to cut off.
I have to imagine Kalameet was one of the deciding factors in choosing not to bring back tailcuts for subsequent games. What an obnoxious design constraint it must have been to try and work that into his moveset.
It might be quite an obvious observation but it's one that interests me: When you first see Placidusax, he's floating in the air with his two heads pointed skywards in what looks like an almost trance-like state. It's really similar to what the Two Fingers do when they're communing with the Outer Will or whatever it's called. Him being reduced down to two heads only allows him to further resemble the Two Fingers. I wonder if he's somehow communing with the same entity they do when you find him.
@@Deadeye-nn7xl Presumably his god is also the greater will, as farum azula had its own elden ring in the past and he is referred to as an "elden lord" as well. Possibly his order predates the golden order and for whatever reason the dragons and their city lost favor with the greater will.
@@rwberger6 I'm pretty sure the dragon god was a separate thing because I think it says somewhere that placidusaxs god had fled and the greater will basically overthrew the dragons.
@@Deadeye-nn7xl god doesn't necessarily refer to an outer god like the greater will. Marika is also a god hence why her children are called demigods. It's possible his consort just fled and him being the elden lord lost contact with the greater will.
@@mohammadsaleem5990 that makes more sense but why would the erdtree and elden beast appear after the dragons if the elden beast is a vassal of the greater will
I find it cool that apart from being the dragons’ Elden Lord, he also holds a few similarities to the Two fingers. He originally had five heads, just like the amount of fingers a hand usually has, but now only has two. When you find him, he’s seemingly attempting to commune with his god, with both his heads extended upward towards the sky, similar to what you see the Two Fingers do when communing with the greater will.
Under that logic it’s possible that he had the three heads removed intentionally in order to facilitate that. It doesn’t seem too out-of-character for a Fromsoft design..
Curse you, Bayle! I hereby vow! You will rue this day! Behold, a true Drake Warrior! And I, Igon! Your fear made flesh! Solid of scale you might be, foul dragon … But I will riddle with holes your rotten hide! With a hail of harpoons! With every last drop of my being!
Another point of interest are his wings, specifically the second pair, closer to his hind legs. In Fortisaxx, Lansseax, and the other ancient dragons this pair of wings are fully formed and functional, but Placidusax's are tiny, almost vestigial.
Probably since he can turn into a thunder cloud and fly the back wings didn’t develop. Since he’s so big and multi headed. He probably just glides on the big ones after turning into a cloud
Considering his remembrence gives you a head to spit lazers and apparently the tip of his tail, it's fairly credible that they wanted to add the feature but decided against it right at the end
Given the appearance of Placidusax's broken body and two heads, I've been wondering whether the fragmented Gargoyles in the Nameless Eternal City in Deeproot Depths below the Capital City of Leyndell are a part of the Dragon Cult's early activities. The Gargoyles there have two heads growing from their single necks, and fused, broken and almost sketelal winged bodies. The one guarding Gurranq is referred to as a Kindred - usually a term denoting some type of divine blood or heritage, as in _Bloodborne._ I can't help but wonder if they were related to how the Dragonkin Soldiers were created, especially given that the Nameless Eternal City is in ruins and has no sky, unlike Nokron or Nokstella. The Dragonkin Soldiers are all washes downstream or drop down from high above. The spirits of the Dragonkin Soldiers are around the Yelough Annex Ruins, where Astel's meteor impacted just above Deeproot Depths. As the whole north is forbidden and the trees and animals look as though the whole region is trapped in an Evergaol like Ordina Liturgical Town, I wonder if that's how Astel Stars of Darkness was contained there, while his body washed downstream to where you encounter Astel Naturalborn of the Void and the Sky he stole from the Eternal City. As Placidusax is the only Dragon Communion incantation requiring only Faith and no Arcane to cast, it seems likely that he and the Kindred represent a time of the Dragon Cult prior to the heart-eating Dragon Communion. The Dragonkin even have an extra finger on their hands, just like Astel and like the Three Fingers - which exists directly below the capital and the bodies of the Gargoyles. He's such an interesting part of the pre-Erdtree history of the game, I'm always interested in learning more about him, and I hope at some point we'll learn more about how he came to be trapped by the Storm outside of time & space along with the ruins of Farum Azula.
I believe (probably wrong) that he was the first Elden Lord during the era of the crucible until the era of the erdtree began and someone fought him for such a thing to happen and since he was over powered he went to the center of farum azul and transported himself back in time where he could be safe and live. I'm probably wrong about this but I have vague memories of reading this stuff from items
@@jackkendall6420 Thanks! Most of my time in _Elden Ring_ is wandering and checking out details like this, so Zullie's channel has always been really great as a source of information that isn't always as clear from within the game itself. It's always fun to chat about bits like this.
@@rwberger6 I'll make sure to check the Perfumers' stuff when I play next as there's a lot of their content I haven't gone into in quite as much detail yet. They're definitely a bit of a gap in my knowledge so thanks for bringing them up!
Most of the bosses in this game (and, indeed, most bosses in any FromSoft game) are way past their prime by the time the player fights them If they were in their prime, they would be a real nightmare to fight, where the only way out is to wake up (or die)
Well now we know that Bayle the Dread is the one who claimed Placidusax’s heads. We also know that Placidusax’s god eventually abandoned him. I find myself wondering if Placidusax losing his heads made him unworthy in the eyes of his god, particularly because we’re told that five fingered hands are seen as a mark of intelligence or enlightenment.
I feel like Elden Ring has some of the least powered-down bosses From's made, with at least half being more strong than ever when you fight them (Malenia, Horoah Loux, Mohg, etc) as compared to past games where pretty much everyone's past their prime. But Placidusax is a bit more than past his prime; he's rotting, missing 3 heads, and more crashes to the ground than flies. Full power Platypus-duck-snax would've terrifying to fight. I can't imagine, considering him now, how was beaten in the past.
That is an aspect of Elden ring that I enjoyed over the past Soul series. Any sense of accomplishment you might feel tends to drop upon realizing that the boss you beat is a shell of its former self, it's hard to think of yourself as a grand Dragon killer upon realizing that Dragon was basically an old man already on death's bed.
I've seen it mentioned before that the naming conventions of the ancient/most powerful dragons align with Placidusax, and also align with there being three missing heads: Gransax, Lansseax, and Fortissax. I'm not saying I necessarily think those three ARE or even came from Placidusax's missing heads, but I do think it's interesting that Placidusax is missing three, and of all the named dragons in the game, only three follow a similar naming convention, AND all three are regarded as the oldest and most powerful of any of the dragons we encounter outside of Placidusax themself (and Greyoll lol).
Beings coming to life from the severed parts of other beings, or otherwise from an injury, is a recurring element in mythology too. That's pretty neat.
Hmm that's a nice theory, except lansseax and fortissax are shown to have a sibling relationship while gransax isn't, although if gransax is the main head it would explain alot of things, he could be the father of the other heads, how he was able to crush the walls of leyndell, and just the sheer size of that lad
Only problem I see is that there's a head in the dragon temple that matches Placidusax's remaining ones, which are a unique shape among all the dragons. That would make four severed heads total and we only see three stumps.
@@jacobg5122 The dragon temple head, if you're referring to the place where you fight the Godskin Duo, looks more like an Agheel-type dragon's head. Also, that head is bigger than any of Placidusax's heads.
something interesting about placidusax is that the two heads are referred to as the male head and the female head internally, which means that the dragonlord is similar to marika/radagon (and i guess miquella/trina too) despite being a godless elden lord rather than an empyrean like those two
@@davidalonsosariego2618 Damn it, not even gender is safe from a dragon's hoard. Who cares about Agheel breathing fire and burning down your village - Placidusax is comin' for your gender
@@rokairu0-216 But is it the same? I don't think we have enough information to know for sure. Same with dragonsax here. I'm not denying the similarities but we don't know if it's exactly the same.
@@SaladDongs that is very true, but the similarities can't be fully ignored, I doubt Miyazaki/George R.R Martin accidentally wrote such a big similarity between 3/5 (including female placidusax and Marika-Radagon) VERY important characters in the greater lore
I would pay good money to see a cinematic of him and Bayle's fight. One lost 3 heads and the other lost both wings and a leg. Hard to say who even technically won.
Well Bayle was trying to escape when he took those heads, so I would say the win goes to Placidusax. Since it seems like he wasn't even intentionally going for his heads.
I like the exploratory vibe of your videos. You're literally the coolest soulsborne content creator to me. Keep doing what you do, it's highly appreciated!
People wondering what it would be like to fight Placy in his prime need to shut up before he gets added as the final boss of the next DLC while Restored Godwyn rides on his back
Honestly, I think the tail cut mechanic could have worked for Placidusax specifically. He spends a lot of time sitting in one position and it's easy enough to consistently hit his tail.
I love how most youtubers go on a 40 minute lore speculation rant that's 80% made up and we have Zullie literally SHOWING US the lore of this game with actual in-game facts
For real. There are too many people like AGTJake making shit up, never citing evidence, and not verifying any information before uploading. It's great to have someone that actually datamines and shows direct facts about the game rather than coming up with glorified fanfiction presented as fact.
Since fromsoft loves to do time travel based DLCs I can see a DLC whereby you go back in time to the age of dragons and can fight a fully restored 5 headed Placidusax. Maybe as an optional boss sort of thing. I wonder if they are planning on doing multiple DLCs for Elden Ring or just one really big DLC. At this point of course we can only hope that DLC is on the way because Fromsoft have not commented on DLC being a thing for elden ring.
@@Deadeye-nn7xl Oh yeah definitely, I think that there is a pretty good chance of seeing at least one DLC for elden ring. Its just we don't know because the last new IP that they made, Sekiro, did not get any DLC expansion. But then again Sekiro was not as big of a success as previous fromsoft games, which could explain why they didn't do DLC for it. I would be shocked if there wasn't any DLC expansion for Elden Ring considering how successful the game is and also how much lore is left to expand upon.
Sekiro didnt get any dlc because there was no story to tell left and they were working on Elden ring your smoking crack if you think Elden ring, their most popular game, with multiple missing Demi Gods and draconic lore left to unveil isn't getting a dlc. There is a lot of the story left to do. "Elden ring 2" maybe later. But not now dlc is going to happen most likely near November
Probably Godfrey level. The whole point of the title of God/Elden Lord is that whoever is strongest takes the throne, meaning he couldn't have been any stronger than future Elden Lords. He was 100% weaker than Elden Beast, though, there's no arguing that seeing as he was a servant to the Greater Will, and the Elden Beast was above it in rank as the Greater Will's vassal.
@@djrocksgaming6255Bruh that shit u just said is all headcanon. Nothing states that Placidusax served the greater will or that the Elden beast is stronger. The Elden beast is just a vessel of the Greater will and was sent as the Elden ring. Godfrey needed a whole army to take on the giants and the Giants was nowhere near the dragons in power. Also do u believe that Radagon is more powerful than Godfrey when Radagon had problems fighting Rennala?
I love this, especially how the cragblade does very well look like the end of his tail. I've been very interested in Eldens Dragons. The Bolt of Gransax, the legendary weapon, Placidusax also uses a lightning version of it, on that move where he stabs the ground for that massive explosion. I just wonder which dragon wields the true version of whatever it is or if it has any significance and what Placidusax means to the other Ancient dragons since they are clearly very different. I've been waiting for lore by Hawkshaw for this game.
@@FingerinUrDaughter why does Placi look so different from Gran then? And also what was the killing blow to Gransax? He almost looks frozen in time in his own way. And I agree with the rest. I’ve been waiting for Hawkshaws lore so most of what I know is my own knowledge of item descriptions and placement of people and enemies too.
@@Irithyllian it’s true gransax just looks like a huge dragon but he is the biggest dragon in the game, I saw a video comparing the head sizes of dragons and gransax js 4x the size of lanseax whilst greyoll is smaller than gransax by quite a bite, so gransax is definitely something
I'm guessing that Gransax was the creator and probably main user of the weapon, partially because of the name but also because the actual Bolt of Gransax that you find in the capital is larger than Placidusax himself.
@@thestormkage Probably by collecting a bunch of items from around the world, getting someone to help you craft an elixir, and delivering it to Placidusax
@@rwberger6 we already killed malenia who stalemated radhan at his prime. In fact, the version we faced (goddess of rot) is stronger than the version radhan faced. So it's pretty safe to say the tarnished is already proven stronger than prime radhan.
I don't know if it's just me but I kinda miss the excitement of being rewarded with a cool piece of equipment for severing a part of the boss. Back during Dark Souls 1, it felt so awesome severing the tail of the Hellkite Drake and getting a super strong early game sword. Feels a little less exciting just whacking away at the boss until it dies and trading in the remembrance for whatever. It's almost like a cool little easter egg reward for the people who go the extra mile to target a specific part of the boss and really keeps you wondering if you can get some extra stuff out of any boss you fight. I even remember people hilariously speculating about whether you could cut Manus's tail or not.
A five headed dragon elden lord with a larger elden ring, possibly his own sacred tree (the crucible), and worshipping ancient dragons is not seen as heretical to the greater will. Fits the theory that the two and three fingers were once a complete hand but the greater will decided to purge itself of impurities resulting in the faith of the two fingers and the forming of the golden order with a smaller elden ring. And the discarded three fingers seek to burn everything until all are rejoined once more.
I don't see how the size of the Elden Ring coincides with the amount of fingers. I'm fairly certain there's an even smaller version of the Elden Ring depicted on the floor of the Precipice of Anticipation. I would say it seems like the Elden Ring can be freely modified however its ruler sees fit.
The Elden Ring in Farum Azula's murals actually still just has four main rings. The two center rings are simply in slightly different positions compared to the modern Elden Ring. The Farum Azula murals just feature a lot of energy strands that arc out from the rings and often touch them, but then bounce off rather than completing a new ring.
@@andrewmcreynolds3692 Radagon's lattice wasn't normally part of the Elden Ring though, he created it out of desperation when Marika was shattering the Elden Ring.
Dang, I was hoping we were going to get into some lore on the heads. I find it interesting that when you enter the arena it looks like two crossed fingers. 🤞 and the stumps look like they line up like the dragons a big five fingered hand. Just a thought. Would love to see this model in better depth and learn more about them. ❤️ Thanks for the video, this stuff is great. Loved the little sword on the end of the tail still lul.
It's definitely intentionally connected to the two fingers. Placidusax's pose and the camera angles position it to make you go "wtf what's with the 2 thing?"
Honestly that would’ve been cool if they did that, where a player can get a secret weapon if they cute off the right part of The dragon. I wish they did that in this one. Because I really love monster hunter mechanics and I would’ve loved it if they implemented in this one.😺
It was a really well loved feature in Dark Souls that rewarded some of the most unique weapons in the game, both from a lore and gameplay perspective. I love the part break aspect of MH too and how it changes the monsters moveset in many cases, really cool way to make the fights more interactive and dynamic.
It’d be the other way around. Monster Hunter has been around since 2004, and creating weapons from the harvested parts of monsters has been a series staple since the beginning.
The electric motifs and the nearly unavoidable beam attack easily make me feel they wanted to give homage to Ghidorah with the boss fight. It's easily my favorite fight in the game for it.
I don't know if it's because Placidusax is so old, weathered and beaten which makes him look so scary and zombielike... or it's just his "species" or "type" looks more intimidating outside the fact it has five heads. The normal wyvern style dragons look similar to Placidusax in some ways like the fur and head design, almost a more organic dinosaur/mammalian/avian dragon if that makes sense. The other dragons like Lansseux, Fortissax, and Gransax while being true dragons bodywise are also like Placidusax; but they look a bit different and almost look less organic but more like chiseled stone coming to life as a dragon. Even the dead dragons at the dragon temples look like they are crumbling, or Gransax looks like it just stopped functioning kinda like a golem losing power. Placi and the wyvern dragons almost look like they "decay" more when dead or close to death, which is why Placi looks more undead and scary looking to me. Can you imagine his design as a Lichdragon, he'd be so horrifying I also know Placi was once golden, and probably was more beefy/chonky looking back in his prime. When you fight him in Elden Ring he looks like a malnourished abused mangy dog, which we don't know how long he's been there or if dragons have to feed or find nutrients. I'm probably overthinking all this Lol But I just love this boss and think it is so bittersweet because you can tell how magnificent Placi used to be, and the lore depressing as usual but he is by far my favorite From Software dragon design and boss fight in Elden Ring 🐉
I really, really, *really* hope FromSoft delves more into the whole 2 Fingers/3 Fingers/5 Fingers thing, because man, if Placidusax isn't some broken-down icon of an age BEFORE the 2/3 Fingers were separated? I'll eat my Moonlight Greatsword and all three of my staves. EAT THEM.
I love how Placidusax references to Ghidorah if it survived after the fight with Godzilla with 1 head cutoff. Then he resided here to regain his strength
Maybe it is in a state like Marika/Radagon but it has more of 5 egos. And these egos have conflicts so that these remaining 2 heads crushed the other three. I have this guess because Placidusax' s looking is really comparable with Marika/Radagon, with the similar cracked stonelike body, similar multi-egos, similar hermaphrodite, and similar golden cross-section wounds on their body. Maybe the bigger Elden Ring in Maliketh boss arena is the former one Elden Ring once be carried by this Dragon Eldon Lord.
Placidusax is arguably a reference to Tiamat, the (almost always Evil) 5 headed goddess of dragons in D&D who has the heads of each chromatic dragon and command of all their breath elements. I like to consider the possibility idea that a 5 headed Placi would similarly have commanded all four breath attack "elements": fire, magic, ice, and rot in addition to his laser. And that by losing those 3 heads he may have lost access to using magic, ice, and rot breaths. But that's just my wishful speculation.
Multi-headed dragonic creatures appeared in myths long before D&D's Tiamat - most notably Hydra, Yilbegän or Zmey Gorynych. Multi-headed dragons appeared in Slavic mythos quite often.
Hey Zullie! Just wondering where that 5th head stump is? I always thought he originally had 4 thanks to the more visible ones, and the fact that there’s 4 on the Old Lord’s talisman, which I took to portray his original, less-crumbled form.
At 00:15, you can see one of the necks below his wing. It's the one least likely to be seen from the front due to it being kind of slung over his shoulder.
I disagree about targeting specific parts of an enemy being impractical... limb damage was one of the best mechanics in Bloodborne, so they've proven they could implement this in a faster game
Question, so I am doing a second run on Elden Ring and for some reason this battle is already accessible to me. I checked my map and saw I could enter it. I can leave before he notices me but if I engage and then go to quit the game, it takes me to the Graveyard. Anyone know what this means?
I had kinda the same deal where on my ng+ once I beat the godskin duo his grace just became available and if I teleported to it I spawned directly beneath him and the fight would start right away. I never fought him on my first run and was about to go looking for his entrance cause I made sure not to read where it is and long story short… I’ve now beat him and still don’t know how to get to him!
It means something didn't properly get cleared in your event flags, so it sees the Site of Grace as still being active. Getting sent to the Graveyard when you quit out happens because the game tries to find your last safe coordinates prior to entering the boss fight and can't because you just warped there, so it sends you to the new default safe zone. Previously, it would have just dumped you at the starting point of the Crumbling Farum Azula map, but they changed that behavior in a patch.
"With how much faster the games have generally gotten, targeting specific parts of an enemy might be impractical" Whole mechanic of monster hunter games is based on that. And speed is not an issue. Developers should've designed boss with this thing in mind. That would've made him much more unique.
Lmao, "faster”... It’s not really that fast, compared to MH Rise even.. And in MH RISE (just like in every MH game) all monsters have breakable parts/severable tails etc.
Lmao, "faster”... It’s not really that fast, compared to MH Rise even.. And in MH RISE (just like in every MH game) all monsters have breakable parts/severable tails etc.
@@cauthrim4298 Well and ds 1 used cutting tales mechanic which is probably inspired by mh series so they could’ve utilize it a bit more (in any other games that came after it) in my opinion after you try mh series, fighting big enemies in Elden Ring looks boring and plays boring, but we got what we got
The 3 severed heads is a direct reference to the 3 fingers. They are the left-over fingers after the two fingers were split, representing the fracture of the greater will. Before they split it would have been a full hand, with 5 fingers.
Much like Midir's laser attack being a reference to Shin Godzilla, many people see Placidusax as a potential reference to King Ghidorah, who has also famously lost a head in the past. Placidusax actually having enough necks for five heads might muddy that perception a bit though.
Peculiarly, the Old Lord's Talisman is clearly meant to represent Placidusax and has only four heads, but the Dragonlord's model has three severed neck stumps. It's hard to say what the discrepancy might mean.
I honestly doubt, multiple-headed dragons which of course can lose heads are more likely related to source of Ghidorah itself, Japanese mythology
*_Cut content_* indeed.
Mechaplacidusax confirmed
Five heads, three severed, two remain, much like the Two Fingers. Likely thematically intentional.
@@АртемийАндриевский but Ghidorah also has a laser lightning attack like Placidusax
considering this dude was once an elden lord it really makes you wonder what the hell did that to him if he was presumably at full strength back then
Probably Godfrey.
@@dogmat8733 Honestly, I doubt it. Godfrey is strong, but I don't think he was THAT strong. We have to remember that there was a time before the Erdtree and the Elden Ring, before the Greater Will came to be in the Lands Between. I have a feeling that the power scaling back then was much higher than what we see in the present time.
It was Godfrey, he literally scared the God of dragons and made him run away from the Lands Between after he destroyed his dragon lord
Godfrey confirmed stronger than Placidusax, the DLC is going to be MAD
Marika
Dude, I want to fight a 5-headed Placidusax and see his laser beam destroy me. I can't even begin to imagine what he fought to put him in the state he's in, the cataclysmic battles that took place...
Pray with me for time travel DLC and maybe we have a chance
Honestly, I keep thinking about Artorias of the Abyss.
So, he probably fought us.
Seeing that he was "The Lord" before The Golden Order became a thing - it's likely he fought either the Elden Beast or Marika.
It was most likely Godfrey during the Ancient Dragon War, since one of his credits is defeating the Storm Lord; Placidusax is strongly associated with the storm beyond time and one of the only charecters to have the "Lord" title (Elden Lord is actually a mistranslation, his title is closer to Great Lord Placidusax).
Some have said that Godfrey isn't powerful enough to have done this, but remember that when he fought us he DIDN'T have the strength provided by Grace and Destined Death was fully unleashed, which is how Radagon and Elden Beast could be killed when they were previously invulnerable.
When you say “destroy me” you mean like kill you right? …right?!
Reminds me of the hydra in DS1. Because only the entire models would target you and not the individual heads, and the animation would not change after you severed a head, it had the annoying habit of some heads always hitting the ground far away from you. It got pretty silly as a pure melee character, always chasing the last heads in a game of whack-a-hydra.
and the hydra looked silly because it ends up always missing after a while
and you had to avoid running off the barely visible underwater cliff as you chased them down...
Yeah, hydras always were two different kinds of frustrating at different points of the fight. Same with kalameet and gaping dragon. Never did get those weapons. Kalameet is so much easier if you just face him head on. It almost felt like bait. You get a crutch weapon for using exploits. Made sense for the first red dragon, but for kalameet it feels like the last stealth section in Metal Gear Rising Revengeance - by this point you just know better than to bother.
I killed the hydra with poison arrows from the top of the cliff
@@hardgay7537 i didn't find it too hard to cut off the tails of most ds1 dragons, except for seath. Cutting seaths tail off remains one of the most frustrating things i ever attempted
I like how you talk about FromSoft giving players opportunities to hit the dragon’s tail, and as an example, you use the one dragon that’s infamous for having the hardest tail to cut off.
I have to imagine Kalameet was one of the deciding factors in choosing not to bring back tailcuts for subsequent games. What an obnoxious design constraint it must have been to try and work that into his moveset.
Getting the Kalameet tailcut was probably the toughest part of getting the platinum trophy for Dark Souls Remastered for me
@@johncra8982 His weapon isn’t required for the trophy
@@johncra8982 Nothing from the DLC is
@@johncra8982 DLC weapons and spells are not required for platinum, not even in the remastered edition. I know that from my own experience.
It might be quite an obvious observation but it's one that interests me: When you first see Placidusax, he's floating in the air with his two heads pointed skywards in what looks like an almost trance-like state. It's really similar to what the Two Fingers do when they're communing with the Outer Will or whatever it's called. Him being reduced down to two heads only allows him to further resemble the Two Fingers. I wonder if he's somehow communing with the same entity they do when you find him.
He had his own god so I'm assuming that's the equivalent of what he's doing but for his god although they never say which god it is.
@@Deadeye-nn7xl Presumably his god is also the greater will, as farum azula had its own elden ring in the past and he is referred to as an "elden lord" as well. Possibly his order predates the golden order and for whatever reason the dragons and their city lost favor with the greater will.
@@rwberger6 I'm pretty sure the dragon god was a separate thing because I think it says somewhere that placidusaxs god had fled and the greater will basically overthrew the dragons.
@@Deadeye-nn7xl god doesn't necessarily refer to an outer god like the greater will. Marika is also a god hence why her children are called demigods. It's possible his consort just fled and him being the elden lord lost contact with the greater will.
@@mohammadsaleem5990 that makes more sense but why would the erdtree and elden beast appear after the dragons if the elden beast is a vassal of the greater will
"You should have seen the other guy..."
And now we know what did this to him
CURSE YOU BAYLE
I HEREBY VOW YOU WILL RUE TO THIS DAY!!?
BAYLEEEE
After the DLC, we can all agree on one thing:
*CURSE YOU, BAYLE*
I find it cool that apart from being the dragons’ Elden Lord, he also holds a few similarities to the Two fingers. He originally had five heads, just like the amount of fingers a hand usually has, but now only has two. When you find him, he’s seemingly attempting to commune with his god, with both his heads extended upward towards the sky, similar to what you see the Two Fingers do when communing with the greater will.
good observation
His heads are WiFi antenna
@@davidhong1934 u hate how funny this is
How the fuck am i now noticing i typed "u" instead of "i"
I am such a dumbass
Yo vaati cmere
Under that logic it’s possible that he had the three heads removed intentionally in order to facilitate that. It doesn’t seem too out-of-character for a Fromsoft design..
ahh, i love being in the future…
Curse you, Bayle! I hereby vow! You will rue this day! Behold, a true Drake Warrior! And I, Igon! Your fear made flesh! Solid of scale you might be, foul dragon … But I will riddle with holes your rotten hide! With a hail of harpoons! With every last drop of my being!
Another point of interest are his wings, specifically the second pair, closer to his hind legs. In Fortisaxx, Lansseax, and the other ancient dragons this pair of wings are fully formed and functional, but Placidusax's are tiny, almost vestigial.
Probably since he can turn into a thunder cloud and fly the back wings didn’t develop. Since he’s so big and multi headed. He probably just glides on the big ones after turning into a cloud
To be fair one looks like it's been fully destroyed and the other is significantly damaged. Entirely possible they were bigger and were chipped away
Zullie's character helpfully putting the cragblade next to the tail at 2:00 is genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen from this channel
It’s funny how well it fits aswell
"Here ill put your tail back on"
So that dragon could shoot more lasers. Thank you bayle
Fun fact: now that shadow of the Erdtree is released it’s possible to see one of placidusax’s severed heads on the model of bayle the dread.
Two*
CURSE YOU BAYLE!
Considering his remembrence gives you a head to spit lazers and apparently the tip of his tail, it's fairly credible that they wanted to add the feature but decided against it right at the end
That might be why we get remembrances to begin with, easier to have those than parts that can be cut off
Given the appearance of Placidusax's broken body and two heads, I've been wondering whether the fragmented Gargoyles in the Nameless Eternal City in Deeproot Depths below the Capital City of Leyndell are a part of the Dragon Cult's early activities.
The Gargoyles there have two heads growing from their single necks, and fused, broken and almost sketelal winged bodies. The one guarding Gurranq is referred to as a Kindred - usually a term denoting some type of divine blood or heritage, as in _Bloodborne._
I can't help but wonder if they were related to how the Dragonkin Soldiers were created, especially given that the Nameless Eternal City is in ruins and has no sky, unlike Nokron or Nokstella. The Dragonkin Soldiers are all washes downstream or drop down from high above.
The spirits of the Dragonkin Soldiers are around the Yelough Annex Ruins, where Astel's meteor impacted just above Deeproot Depths. As the whole north is forbidden and the trees and animals look as though the whole region is trapped in an Evergaol like Ordina Liturgical Town, I wonder if that's how Astel Stars of Darkness was contained there, while his body washed downstream to where you encounter Astel Naturalborn of the Void and the Sky he stole from the Eternal City.
As Placidusax is the only Dragon Communion incantation requiring only Faith and no Arcane to cast, it seems likely that he and the Kindred represent a time of the Dragon Cult prior to the heart-eating Dragon Communion. The Dragonkin even have an extra finger on their hands, just like Astel and like the Three Fingers - which exists directly below the capital and the bodies of the Gargoyles.
He's such an interesting part of the pre-Erdtree history of the game, I'm always interested in learning more about him, and I hope at some point we'll learn more about how he came to be trapped by the Storm outside of time & space along with the ruins of Farum Azula.
If I remember right the gargoyles were created from corpses by the perfumers.
I believe (probably wrong) that he was the first Elden Lord during the era of the crucible until the era of the erdtree began and someone fought him for such a thing to happen and since he was over powered he went to the center of farum azul and transported himself back in time where he could be safe and live. I'm probably wrong about this but I have vague memories of reading this stuff from items
Jeez, that's some impressive lore theorising. Great job on tying these threads together with the geography of the game.
@@jackkendall6420 Thanks! Most of my time in _Elden Ring_ is wandering and checking out details like this, so Zullie's channel has always been really great as a source of information that isn't always as clear from within the game itself. It's always fun to chat about bits like this.
@@rwberger6 I'll make sure to check the Perfumers' stuff when I play next as there's a lot of their content I haven't gone into in quite as much detail yet. They're definitely a bit of a gap in my knowledge so thanks for bringing them up!
Channels like this remind me that there's a reason why these games are so special and resonate with so many people. Good work as always.
Placidusax now: Weakened, cracked, but still powerful af
Placidusax in his prime: A literal five-headed Ghidorah god of a dragon
Man had to hide in Elden ring to prevent Godzilla killing his ass
*king of dragon
Most of the bosses in this game (and, indeed, most bosses in any FromSoft game) are way past their prime by the time the player fights them
If they were in their prime, they would be a real nightmare to fight, where the only way out is to wake up (or die)
@@erliqwen2306godzilla ain't doing shit
@@Jampolo_OGmost of the bosses? Godrick, morgott, rykard, Godfrey, Gideon, Elden beast, malenia, and mohg would all like to have a few words with you
Well now we know that Bayle the Dread is the one who claimed Placidusax’s heads. We also know that Placidusax’s god eventually abandoned him. I find myself wondering if Placidusax losing his heads made him unworthy in the eyes of his god, particularly because we’re told that five fingered hands are seen as a mark of intelligence or enlightenment.
I feel like Elden Ring has some of the least powered-down bosses From's made, with at least half being more strong than ever when you fight them (Malenia, Horoah Loux, Mohg, etc) as compared to past games where pretty much everyone's past their prime. But Placidusax is a bit more than past his prime; he's rotting, missing 3 heads, and more crashes to the ground than flies. Full power Platypus-duck-snax would've terrifying to fight. I can't imagine, considering him now, how was beaten in the past.
That is an aspect of Elden ring that I enjoyed over the past Soul series. Any sense of accomplishment you might feel tends to drop upon realizing that the boss you beat is a shell of its former self, it's hard to think of yourself as a grand Dragon killer upon realizing that Dragon was basically an old man already on death's bed.
Knowing fromsoft, it was probably us... in the past... during DLC... because that's usually how these stories end.
Hey, Manus was at his prime at least. I think.
@@mohammadsaleem5990 so was the Amygdala, Mergo's Wet Nurse, Pontiff Sulyvahn, Sister Friede and Nameless King,
it really fits into elden ring being pretty much a game about a divine myth unveiling
Five heads to represent five fingers. Placidusax was the dragon's god's hand LORE
And now there’s only two left… two fingers… LORE
Godhand
Bro thank you I argued this on a different video
@@MK-vi2cm true
I guess you could say he was his... "Right hand man" HA
I've seen it mentioned before that the naming conventions of the ancient/most powerful dragons align with Placidusax, and also align with there being three missing heads: Gransax, Lansseax, and Fortissax.
I'm not saying I necessarily think those three ARE or even came from Placidusax's missing heads, but I do think it's interesting that Placidusax is missing three, and of all the named dragons in the game, only three follow a similar naming convention, AND all three are regarded as the oldest and most powerful of any of the dragons we encounter outside of Placidusax themself (and Greyoll lol).
Beings coming to life from the severed parts of other beings, or otherwise from an injury, is a recurring element in mythology too. That's pretty neat.
Hmm that's a nice theory, except lansseax and fortissax are shown to have a sibling relationship while gransax isn't, although if gransax is the main head it would explain alot of things, he could be the father of the other heads, how he was able to crush the walls of leyndell, and just the sheer size of that lad
@@qdsw I was just pointing out an interesting detail, wasn't trying to suggest a theory lol but I do agree
Only problem I see is that there's a head in the dragon temple that matches Placidusax's remaining ones, which are a unique shape among all the dragons. That would make four severed heads total and we only see three stumps.
@@jacobg5122 The dragon temple head, if you're referring to the place where you fight the Godskin Duo, looks more like an Agheel-type dragon's head. Also, that head is bigger than any of Placidusax's heads.
something interesting about placidusax is that the two heads are referred to as the male head and the female head internally, which means that the dragonlord is similar to marika/radagon (and i guess miquella/trina too) despite being a godless elden lord rather than an empyrean like those two
So this means dragons have 5 genders
@@davidalonsosariego2618 Damn it, not even gender is safe from a dragon's hoard. Who cares about Agheel breathing fire and burning down your village - Placidusax is comin' for your gender
I never made the connection of Radagon=Marika is the same as Miquella=Trina, that is some very interesting insight
@@rokairu0-216 But is it the same? I don't think we have enough information to know for sure. Same with dragonsax here. I'm not denying the similarities but we don't know if it's exactly the same.
@@SaladDongs that is very true, but the similarities can't be fully ignored, I doubt Miyazaki/George R.R Martin accidentally wrote such a big similarity between 3/5 (including female placidusax and Marika-Radagon) VERY important characters in the greater lore
Imagine dodging five of his lasers.
Maybe he went up against a team of 6
@@MCSPARTAN501 😂😂
@@MCSPARTAN501one of them definitely focused on his hiney then
CURSE YOU, BAYLE!
I would pay good money to see a cinematic of him and Bayle's fight. One lost 3 heads and the other lost both wings and a leg. Hard to say who even technically won.
Well Bayle was trying to escape when he took those heads, so I would say the win goes to Placidusax. Since it seems like he wasn't even intentionally going for his heads.
Imagine a moment when he goes to phase two and hits you with that five headed laser beam.
Ok, but hear me out, imagine that, *while he's in the air*
@@Howardtheone he just comes flying down with the lightning cloud as 5 laser beams are firing
CURSE YOUUUU BAYLEEEEE
Imagine the laser breath attack with five heads no wonder he was an elden lord
Placidusax sounds like some kind of body deformation decease, and he looks like he has one
I like the exploratory vibe of your videos. You're literally the coolest soulsborne content creator to me. Keep doing what you do, it's highly appreciated!
People wondering what it would be like to fight Placy in his prime need to shut up before he gets added as the final boss of the next DLC while Restored Godwyn rides on his back
When the game is so good that you can spend 200 hours in it and still want more out of it
CURSE YOU BAYLE
Super interesting vid! I like the idea that the cragblade is a nod to tail cuts, they were one of my favorite features of the first game :)
I was so sad it wasn't a feature in DS2, I liked that a lot about the first. Being able to injure them made them feel a bit more alive.
CURSE YOU BAYYYYYLLLEEEE
Honestly, I think the tail cut mechanic could have worked for Placidusax specifically. He spends a lot of time sitting in one position and it's easy enough to consistently hit his tail.
He only sits still a lot cuz he is nearly dead at that point and lost 2 of his wings and nearly all of his body.
I love how most youtubers go on a 40 minute lore speculation rant that's 80% made up and we have Zullie literally SHOWING US the lore of this game with actual in-game facts
And in only a couple of minutes each video, though I wouldn't mind a full in depth video
You're right, Zulie does give us far less information and far less content lol
For real. There are too many people like AGTJake making shit up, never citing evidence, and not verifying any information before uploading.
It's great to have someone that actually datamines and shows direct facts about the game rather than coming up with glorified fanfiction presented as fact.
@@djrocksgaming6255 agt will go on a 50 minute lore rant based on not even item descriptions it's wild how much shit youtubers make up
@@wulfricr7635 There are definitely quite a few "lore people" in the Souls community that like to hear themselves talk a lot, haha.
Since fromsoft loves to do time travel based DLCs I can see a DLC whereby you go back in time to the age of dragons and can fight a fully restored 5 headed Placidusax. Maybe as an optional boss sort of thing. I wonder if they are planning on doing multiple DLCs for Elden Ring or just one really big DLC. At this point of course we can only hope that DLC is on the way because Fromsoft have not commented on DLC being a thing for elden ring.
They've had dlcs for most of they're games and usually they're the best part so I dont see why not
@@Deadeye-nn7xl Oh yeah definitely, I think that there is a pretty good chance of seeing at least one DLC for elden ring. Its just we don't know because the last new IP that they made, Sekiro, did not get any DLC expansion. But then again Sekiro was not as big of a success as previous fromsoft games, which could explain why they didn't do DLC for it.
I would be shocked if there wasn't any DLC expansion for Elden Ring considering how successful the game is and also how much lore is left to expand upon.
It's very likely there won't be any DLC for Elden Ring.
Sekiro didnt get any dlc because there was no story to tell left and they were working on Elden ring your smoking crack if you think Elden ring, their most popular game, with multiple missing Demi Gods and draconic lore left to unveil isn't getting a dlc. There is a lot of the story left to do. "Elden ring 2" maybe later. But not now dlc is going to happen most likely near November
@@RashFever26 there is lots of room for dlc and elden ring was a massive success so I dont see why not
Man, i cant even imagine how powerful placidusax must have been in his prime...
5 beams would’ve been insane
Probably Godfrey level. The whole point of the title of God/Elden Lord is that whoever is strongest takes the throne, meaning he couldn't have been any stronger than future Elden Lords.
He was 100% weaker than Elden Beast, though, there's no arguing that seeing as he was a servant to the Greater Will, and the Elden Beast was above it in rank as the Greater Will's vassal.
@@djrocksgaming6255 still I wanna see what he'd have looked like at least. :D
@@djrocksgaming6255 yeah that’s only lore vs though in terms of gameplay vs
@@djrocksgaming6255Bruh that shit u just said is all headcanon. Nothing states that Placidusax served the greater will or that the Elden beast is stronger. The Elden beast is just a vessel of the Greater will and was sent as the Elden ring. Godfrey needed a whole army to take on the giants and the Giants was nowhere near the dragons in power. Also do u believe that Radagon is more powerful than Godfrey when Radagon had problems fighting Rennala?
I love this, especially how the cragblade does very well look like the end of his tail. I've been very interested in Eldens Dragons. The Bolt of Gransax, the legendary weapon, Placidusax also uses a lightning version of it, on that move where he stabs the ground for that massive explosion. I just wonder which dragon wields the true version of whatever it is or if it has any significance and what Placidusax means to the other Ancient dragons since they are clearly very different. I've been waiting for lore by Hawkshaw for this game.
The big stone dragon in leyndel is what used it the dragons name was gransax
@@ZEKKEN47 I know but Gransax just looks like a huge regular ancient dragon placi is so different
@@FingerinUrDaughter why does Placi look so different from Gran then? And also what was the killing blow to Gransax? He almost looks frozen in time in his own way. And I agree with the rest. I’ve been waiting for Hawkshaws lore so most of what I know is my own knowledge of item descriptions and placement of people and enemies too.
@@Irithyllian it’s true gransax just looks like a huge dragon but he is the biggest dragon in the game, I saw a video comparing the head sizes of dragons and gransax js 4x the size of lanseax whilst greyoll is smaller than gransax by quite a bite, so gransax is definitely something
I'm guessing that Gransax was the creator and probably main user of the weapon, partially because of the name but also because the actual Bolt of Gransax that you find in the capital is larger than Placidusax himself.
I wish we could somehow help heal him, poor guy :(
If Bioware made this game, sure. (I'd love to see that actually!)
How would we though? 🤔
@@thestormkage Probably by collecting a bunch of items from around the world, getting someone to help you craft an elixir, and delivering it to Placidusax
I come from the future. His missing heads are with Bayle. VILE BAYLE! O TERROR INCARNATE!
I always found it odd how much bigger Granssax was than Placidusax
Size doesnt matter
Kalameet was shorter than the others dragons but he was still One of the strongest
Why so? Gransax was powerful in his own right, size obviously isn't proportional to strength as the Tarnished kicks everyone's ass lol
Both Gransax and Greyoll (who is the progenitor of all dragons) are larger than him but he's still the strongest. Size ≠ power
@@soarel325 yeah gransax is the biggest dragon and greyoll is the second biggest
0:31 Godfrey: "Hi, im somehow"
Haha Godfrey you're chopping my heads off
OMG GODFREY NOOOOOO
Not exactly confirm and it still a debatable topics among the lore community but what ever this is a joke so it fine.
Imagine if in the DLC we go back in time and get to fight 5-headed Placidusax in his prime
Imagine fighting Rahdan before the rot ruined him.
Pre-Rot Radahn VS 5 Head Placidasax, they both clash into each other mid air, Radahn in a flaming meteor and Placidasax as a raging Thunderstorm
@@rwberger6 we already killed malenia who stalemated radhan at his prime. In fact, the version we faced (goddess of rot) is stronger than the version radhan faced. So it's pretty safe to say the tarnished is already proven stronger than prime radhan.
@@rwberger6 this aged like fine wine
Imagine an Elden Ring where all the field boss dragons can have their tails cut for unique weapons
I love the choice of music for this.
Immaculate background music choice, skyward sword has amazing music, and this one fits thematically
I don't know if it's just me but I kinda miss the excitement of being rewarded with a cool piece of equipment for severing a part of the boss. Back during Dark Souls 1, it felt so awesome severing the tail of the Hellkite Drake and getting a super strong early game sword. Feels a little less exciting just whacking away at the boss until it dies and trading in the remembrance for whatever. It's almost like a cool little easter egg reward for the people who go the extra mile to target a specific part of the boss and really keeps you wondering if you can get some extra stuff out of any boss you fight. I even remember people hilariously speculating about whether you could cut Manus's tail or not.
putting this on loop, quality tunes
A five headed dragon elden lord with a larger elden ring, possibly his own sacred tree (the crucible), and worshipping ancient dragons is not seen as heretical to the greater will.
Fits the theory that the two and three fingers were once a complete hand but the greater will decided to purge itself of impurities resulting in the faith of the two fingers and the forming of the golden order with a smaller elden ring. And the discarded three fingers seek to burn everything until all are rejoined once more.
I don't see how the size of the Elden Ring coincides with the amount of fingers. I'm fairly certain there's an even smaller version of the Elden Ring depicted on the floor of the Precipice of Anticipation. I would say it seems like the Elden Ring can be freely modified however its ruler sees fit.
Talk about a hard reset
The Elden Ring in Farum Azula's murals actually still just has four main rings. The two center rings are simply in slightly different positions compared to the modern Elden Ring. The Farum Azula murals just feature a lot of energy strands that arc out from the rings and often touch them, but then bounce off rather than completing a new ring.
@@nightscout9979 different runes on the dragons version, kinda like Radagon's lattice that serves as the back for the Golden order elden ring
@@andrewmcreynolds3692 Radagon's lattice wasn't normally part of the Elden Ring though, he created it out of desperation when Marika was shattering the Elden Ring.
I wanna see MORE limb detachment in new games T^T would be super rewarding to find strats to cut off like a claw, or the tail
@@user-xy6wu3xg2c oh I've played a cpl hundred hours of world lol not QUITE what I'm aiming for but I love mhw anyways xD
Imagine tail cutting morgott
I love how each time I click on your videos I’m always treated with lovely familiar music.
When I first saw how damage he was I felt really sorry for him. I honestly wish I could have somehow helped him instead
Placidusax. The name ill never learn to remember. Likely somehow shortened version of "the remaining two fifths of Hirum Mcdaniels"
Dang, I was hoping we were going to get into some lore on the heads. I find it interesting that when you enter the arena it looks like two crossed fingers. 🤞 and the stumps look like they line up like the dragons a big five fingered hand. Just a thought. Would love to see this model in better depth and learn more about them. ❤️
Thanks for the video, this stuff is great. Loved the little sword on the end of the tail still lul.
It's definitely intentionally connected to the two fingers. Placidusax's pose and the camera angles position it to make you go "wtf what's with the 2 thing?"
"targeting specific parts of an enemy might be impractical" monster hunter
Clearly, you were meant to sever his head with ranged attacks and this is just another example of why Ebden Bing is a greatbow game.
*nodding gesture*
Petition to change the game’s official name to Ebden Bing
God I love your videos. All of them are exactly what I look for and want from EVERY game.
Honestly that would’ve been cool if they did that, where a player can get a secret weapon if they cute off the right part of The dragon. I wish they did that in this one. Because I really love monster hunter mechanics and I would’ve loved it if they implemented in this one.😺
It was a really well loved feature in Dark Souls that rewarded some of the most unique weapons in the game, both from a lore and gameplay perspective. I love the part break aspect of MH too and how it changes the monsters moveset in many cases, really cool way to make the fights more interactive and dynamic.
So what im hearing is that monster hunter takes inspiration from dark souls? Might get it since its half off
It's a famous Dark Souls mechanic. c':
Don't sleep on the Dark Souls games if this is your first.
It’d be the other way around. Monster Hunter has been around since 2004, and creating weapons from the harvested parts of monsters has been a series staple since the beginning.
@@Reece8u Considering the first Monster Hunter came out 5 years before Demon's Souls, I'd say it's more of the other way around
Now we know what happened to 2 of his heads, Bayle took them when he rebelled
The electric motifs and the nearly unavoidable beam attack easily make me feel they wanted to give homage to Ghidorah with the boss fight.
It's easily my favorite fight in the game for it.
I would really like to see placidusax restored to his full body, all healthy
I don't know if it's because Placidusax is so old, weathered and beaten which makes him look so scary and zombielike... or it's just his "species" or "type" looks more intimidating outside the fact it has five heads. The normal wyvern style dragons look similar to Placidusax in some ways like the fur and head design, almost a more organic dinosaur/mammalian/avian dragon if that makes sense. The other dragons like Lansseux, Fortissax, and Gransax while being true dragons bodywise are also like Placidusax; but they look a bit different and almost look less organic but more like chiseled stone coming to life as a dragon. Even the dead dragons at the dragon temples look like they are crumbling, or Gransax looks like it just stopped functioning kinda like a golem losing power. Placi and the wyvern dragons almost look like they "decay" more when dead or close to death, which is why Placi looks more undead and scary looking to me. Can you imagine his design as a Lichdragon, he'd be so horrifying
I also know Placi was once golden, and probably was more beefy/chonky looking back in his prime. When you fight him in Elden Ring he looks like a malnourished abused mangy dog, which we don't know how long he's been there or if dragons have to feed or find nutrients. I'm probably overthinking all this Lol But I just love this boss and think it is so bittersweet because you can tell how magnificent Placi used to be, and the lore depressing as usual but he is by far my favorite From Software dragon design and boss fight in Elden Ring 🐉
Reptiles sold by Petsmart be like:
I really, really, *really* hope FromSoft delves more into the whole 2 Fingers/3 Fingers/5 Fingers thing, because man, if Placidusax isn't some broken-down icon of an age BEFORE the 2/3 Fingers were separated? I'll eat my Moonlight Greatsword and all three of my staves. EAT THEM.
I love how Placidusax references to Ghidorah if it survived after the fight with Godzilla with 1 head cutoff. Then he resided here to regain his strength
Maybe it is in a state like Marika/Radagon but it has more of 5 egos. And these egos have conflicts so that these remaining 2 heads crushed the other three. I have this guess because Placidusax' s looking is really comparable with Marika/Radagon, with the similar cracked stonelike body, similar multi-egos, similar hermaphrodite, and similar golden cross-section wounds on their body. Maybe the bigger Elden Ring in Maliketh boss arena is the former one Elden Ring once be carried by this Dragon Eldon Lord.
1:06 MH players who regularly break Fatalis's head: We have no such weakness.
Bayle fucked bro up.
Funny how Zullie describes the giant laser breathing ancient dragonlord as cute.
It makes sense if you know my track record with giant laser breathing ancient dragons:
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Placidusax is arguably a reference to Tiamat, the (almost always Evil) 5 headed goddess of dragons in D&D who has the heads of each chromatic dragon and command of all their breath elements. I like to consider the possibility idea that a 5 headed Placi would similarly have commanded all four breath attack "elements": fire, magic, ice, and rot in addition to his laser. And that by losing those 3 heads he may have lost access to using magic, ice, and rot breaths. But that's just my wishful speculation.
Probably not Rot, as that's the result of an outer god. I would have given him lightning, fire, ice, magic and his normal laser breath.
Multi-headed dragonic creatures appeared in myths long before D&D's Tiamat - most notably Hydra, Yilbegän or Zmey Gorynych. Multi-headed dragons appeared in Slavic mythos quite often.
BAYLE. VILE BAYLE
Hey Zullie! Just wondering where that 5th head stump is? I always thought he originally had 4 thanks to the more visible ones, and the fact that there’s 4 on the Old Lord’s talisman, which I took to portray his original, less-crumbled form.
At 00:15, you can see one of the necks below his wing. It's the one least likely to be seen from the front due to it being kind of slung over his shoulder.
@@ZullietheWitch oh neat! Thanks!
I love how much Zelda music you use
Makes me want to replay Skyward Sword
I disagree about targeting specific parts of an enemy being impractical... limb damage was one of the best mechanics in Bloodborne, so they've proven they could implement this in a faster game
bless you and your channel Zullie! this is such a cool discovery i would have never even known about those stumps.
Question, so I am doing a second run on Elden Ring and for some reason this battle is already accessible to me. I checked my map and saw I could enter it. I can leave before he notices me but if I engage and then go to quit the game, it takes me to the Graveyard. Anyone know what this means?
I had kinda the same deal where on my ng+ once I beat the godskin duo his grace just became available and if I teleported to it I spawned directly beneath him and the fight would start right away. I never fought him on my first run and was about to go looking for his entrance cause I made sure not to read where it is and long story short… I’ve now beat him and still don’t know how to get to him!
It means something didn't properly get cleared in your event flags, so it sees the Site of Grace as still being active. Getting sent to the Graveyard when you quit out happens because the game tries to find your last safe coordinates prior to entering the boss fight and can't because you just warped there, so it sends you to the new default safe zone. Previously, it would have just dumped you at the starting point of the Crumbling Farum Azula map, but they changed that behavior in a patch.
@@ZullietheWitch Haha yeah I was like what the heck? I haven’t even defeated the Giant or accessed Crumbling Azula yet.
Thank you for your hard work, I love these videos.
It's been a year and still no likes.
"With how much faster the games have generally gotten, targeting specific parts of an enemy might be impractical" Whole mechanic of monster hunter games is based on that. And speed is not an issue. Developers should've designed boss with this thing in mind. That would've made him much more unique.
Thing is, Elden Ring or Dark Souls for that matter, are not Monster Hunter
Lmao, "faster”...
It’s not really that fast, compared to MH Rise even..
And in MH RISE (just like in every MH game) all monsters have breakable parts/severable tails etc.
Lmao, "faster”...
It’s not really that fast, compared to MH Rise even..
And in MH RISE (just like in every MH game) all monsters have breakable parts/severable tails etc.
@@Aurinor rise is like the fastest monster hunter game ever bruh. Aside from frontier maybe.
@@cauthrim4298 Well and ds 1 used cutting tales mechanic which is probably inspired by mh series so they could’ve utilize it a bit more (in any other games that came after it) in my opinion after you try mh series, fighting big enemies in Elden Ring looks boring and plays boring, but we got what we got
The 3 severed heads is a direct reference to the 3 fingers. They are the left-over fingers after the two fingers were split, representing the fracture of the greater will. Before they split it would have been a full hand, with 5 fingers.
Nah there's no proof
@@Quartzmage21 3 + 2 = 5
@@highknight3608 i mean lore wise
phenomenal content as always Zullie, you’re videos expand the lore in interesting ways by bringing light to harder to see design decisions
This seriously is some of the best content on youtube, always a treat to see a new upload from Zullie.
perfect music selection for this video - the Lanayru Desert in Skyward Sword is also in ruins and has time-travel mechanics
I always like the music that you pick for these videos :)
i love your breakdowns Zullie, i hope to see you insights for many from software titles to come....
This was my favourite fight in the game and favourite fight in all of the From games. They absolutely nailed this.
5 heads, with 2 remaining. 3 are missing... I can't help but think of the Golden Order, and the Two Fingers and Three Fingers...
As always great video. And one of the best channels of souls game secrets and lore ever
your music choice is exquisite
Damn, imagine fighting placidusax with 5 heads.
An elden lord dragon, with five heads, four wings, and lightning crackling across every scale. Oh what a sight he must have been in his youth.
Imagine getting a timetravelling DLC and you get to fight him with his 5 heads, realising that you were the one who cut off his other 3 heads SHEEESH
And maybe second phase is him using red cloud to try and kill you in one hit and it burning his back wings off
Many bosses would be epic if we fight them in their prime, like imagine fighting the Dragonlord, the Starscourge, and Marika in their prime!!
Nice touch using the Lanayru desert music, since that area and Farum Azula have time travel stuff
"It's much harder to hit the next." JUMP STRONG ATTACK!
Loved the music choice, this was my favorite one of skyward sword