Bliadd was sent from the Greater Will to Rannie so that he could not only watch over her but also to kill her if she was ever a threat to the greater will. That’s why Bliadd is going crazy when you find him. He’s literally having an existential crisis about killing Rannie.
@@Rando3498 honestly that always felt cruel to me. It's not like he was gonna not go crazy down there. He'd be screaming and howling in agony, without anyone to help him. We at least put him out of his misery before he could hurt anyone, and at least before fighting us, his last act was to protect Rannie's tower from Black Knife Assassins
Not only that, but the GW is compelling him to kill her. Since he is more or less a puppet for the Fingers, it’s astounding that he can resist at all, much less long enough to slay the black knives that come to the manor.
I feel like the assassins that showed up were there to actually kill Blaidd because the Black Knife Assassins work for Ranni. So they were trying to protect her from him
Jack needs to know that there is a ‘Cerulean Hidden Crystal Tear’ on Mt Gelmir at its Minor Erdtree that removes all use of FP and therefore lets him summon BLACK KNIFE TICHE without upgrading mind. Make sure he sees this!
@@dragenfire68 No, they aren't sociopaths. They're attention seekers and narcissists(can be just as bad as a sociopath/psychopath, I should know since both my mom and sis are that way). Sociopaths don't like to draw attention to their bad or odd behaviors(know that due to my half great uncle being diagnosed with those traits when a child and did horrible things, especially to animals).
Fun fact: somebody did the math and estimated the Erdtree to be approximately 16,562 ft or 5,048 metres. That's taller than the highest mountain in the Alps, which stands at 15,773 ft or 4087 metres. That's a big ass tree
there's an incantation called "flame, cleanse me" that cures scarlet rot/poison and alleviates the build up of both! it only requires 12 faith to use and can be found in liurnia so it's fairly accessible early game. i'm not sure if there's any armour that negates scarlet rot though
So I’m ignorant when it comes to scarlet rot, but I know for the poison swamps you can just ride your horse through it and receive no buildup. Does scarlet rot not work the same?
The assassins were definitely after Ranni. Ranni's involvement in the plot of the Night of Black Knives is really convoluted. But when you talk to Iji after killing Blaidd, exhaust his dialogue and rest at the grace. Then it becomes clear that it was no mere coincidence nor did Blaidd simply go mad. You also missed something. During this quest on your way to Nokron, Blaidd kills Seluvis, deeming him a traitor. Iji felt he went out of line and imprisoned him in the same evergaol that held the bloodhound knight Darwill. Blaidd was either freed by the black knife assassins or somehow broke out, which might be the canon result if the prisoner of an evergaol wins instead of the tresspasser, meaning a blacknife assassin tried to kill Blaidd in the gaol, failed and it let Blaidd escape. Only for more to be sent after him and fail. But basically you should go back to Iji, and it becomes a little clearer. I'm only telling you this because you've played it so much, as you've said. Edit: Turns out the player can also free Blaidd if he is found by them, but either way he escapes. So based on the order of events, it could go either way.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but once Iji locked Blaidd in the evergaol, Iji says 'The Two Fingers gave Blaidd to Lady Ranni, as a faithful follower. Her very shadow, incapable of treachery. But if Lady Ranni, as an Empyrean, reists being an instrument of the Two Fingers, the shadow will go mad, transforming from a follower into a horrid curse. But such is his destiny. In such matters, Blaidd's own thoughts hold no weight.' So going against the Greater Will is causing Blaidd to go mad, not simply Ranni leaving this world (as Jack says).
I think I read this in another comment but if you free him you'll still end up having to battle him. I could be wrong again I read it in a comment.(I'm a new elden ring player so I don't have much knowledge other then jacks playthrough and research)
@@twiggy2495 This is correct. It's because of what was said in the response prior to yours. Ranni going against the two fingers is what causes Blaidd to go berserk and lose his mind. There's a theme going on between the empyreans and having half-wolven personal servants/warriors and them having a shade of sort. Such as the one we end up having to kill down in the underground section, it was after all Blaidd's shade specifically.
Seluvis is not killed by Blaidd, he is turned into a puppet by Ranni, and you can acutally be on the recieving end of her wrath if you do his questline and repeatedly try talking to Ranni after Seluvis' plan fails. If you don't do his questline, then he presumably tries to do it without you and fails anyways, falling to the same fate after giving Ranni the Fingerslayer Blade. Of note is that the message from Blaidd about a traitor comes BEFORE Seluvis is dead and seems to be a hint at his whereabouts if you remember his dialogue about Darriwil.
A pretty popular theory is that Radahn didn't leave behind a body because Alexander ran over and chowed down while you were watching the stars fall. It makes sense, given that the Shard of Alexander's description reads "Scraps of stewed flesh cling to the shard...Relics of a red-haired champion, it would seem."
For anyone wondering. Ranni's ending and alot of her dialouge has some very big translation errors making it really hard to understand what she actually wants since she constantly contradicts herself. Furthermore, the mistakes were actually so severe that her goals in the english translation appear very diffrent from those in the original japanese game. As a result the english version portray her somewhat like a villain, which is totally unintended. There are some great videos on it here on youtube so if you're intrested in the lore you should definetly check them out.
@@onlineletsplayers2331 the script was originally written in japanese, then translated to english for voice acting. it was all a very convoluted process, and a lot went wrong as a result, on the translators' end of things
48:32 I learned that it’s actually the golden order that assigns shadows to empyreans as a counter measure. Blaid was just so faithful that even the influence of the greater will couldn’t make him betray ranni. However the greater will is greater and drove him mad. Hope jack learns that. Blaid was a truly good boy
In other words: The Greater Will is narcissistic and don't want a new Outer God to enact an Order All those words are capitalized because they're lore focused
The dialogue in Ranni's ending is actually mistranslated, which makes her look a lot worse than her actual intentions for the world, which is to (SPOILERS) create an order/age where the rules of reality aren't able to be tampered with, and outer gods can no longer meddle with the Lands Between, and while people will be without divine guidance, they're free to make their own fates.
Not really. A lot of translations are up to what the intention is and shouldn't always be directly translated into English. Lots of articles went around with this and a lot of people also disagreed with them
@@jacksepticeye but there were merits in the redone translations. One biggest thing that wasn't translated well is that Ranni wanted to leave the Lands Between and travel the stars. Most people thought that her ending is synonymous with the Dark Age of Man in Dark Souls.
@@oberon1449 flame cleanse me isn't total immunity, but it erases all buildup of rot and poison, and it also does an incredibly small amount of fire damage to the caster, which additionally clears any frost buildup. So it gets rid of three status effects for cheap asf cost. It's actually pretty bitchin
@@frogbabygrill basically so in dark souls you level up at the fire keeper and in elden ring you level up with Melina but in Bloodborne you level up at this talking doll also I can tell if you joking or not
Well... I mean Seluvis makes people into dolls, and mysteriously dies after you give Ranni the Fingerslayer blade... Probably for good reason being that he plots against Ranni.
I love how Sean says "That's the wrong hand" when giving Ranni the Dark Moon Ring. Dude there are like four hands there, maybe the rules for which hand the ring goes on works differently for her (it's not too serious I just thought it was funny).
@@matthewsimon6170 Usually the wedding ring is worn on the left hand. I've never heard of switching hands for proposals, but then again I don't know much of anything about marriage
Maybe they don't have rules for binding a consort Ya know Because Christianity isn't a religion in The Lands Between and they wouldn't have the concept of the ring on the left hand being a permit to enact a certain "sin" without consequence
1:25:35 Morgott's introduction gave me absolute chills, especially when he revealed his sword by crushing his staff. Every boss in this game was done with justice. I'm sure you'd agree with that, Jack.
5:08 If you talk to Ranni's small doll a couple of times she tells you that to achieve her goal she has to betray everyone that followed her before she changed bodies, that includes Iji and Blaidd, they are aware of this and still follow her, that's why Ranni loves and trusts them so much. She sent the black knives to kill Iji and Blaidd.
@@aHumanBeing97 Nope, just report them. Commenting boosts Jacks engagement for the video and helps it become more popular in the algorithm. RUclips needs to be more responsible for protecting it's creator from bot spams and targeted attacks like this.
The two and three finger combining was a April Fools joke as far as I know LMAO. But the secret deleted ending is there but it's related to Miquella and Malenia, not the golden order. It's more about Miquella probably finding out a method to cure the rot of Malenia or something along those lines, or atleast goes to indicate that Miquella turns out to be the next vessel (Just like Ranni in her ending)
@@christophercarter637 That ending was all fake, someone made it for April fools. The name of it was actually an ending but it turns out that it was just a different name for an already existing ending.
@@christophercarter637 The Age of the Absolute is indeed cut, and its location in the files indicates it may have been an alternate version of the Age of Golden Order ending. but everything else about that including the 5 fingers was an april fools. DLC may indeed restore the Age of Absolute ending but we have no way of knowing what it will entail.
Even if it was a joke, I still wish there was more finger content. They're such weird characters, n they just suddenly stop at the first hurdle, and never move again. We also know there is multiple 2-finger creatures, since we find them dead when we boot up a Great Rune, and when we finish Rannie's questline, but seemingly only 3-finger who can do something weird to us, then disappear (also screw those 3, I only opened that door to tell them to sod off, but the game locked me into a cutscene as soon as I tried to open it.
I love how I've watched all of these videos, and all of the segments of Sean explaining the story, and I still literally have no idea what the story in this game is.
Blaidd is Ranni’s shadow appointed by the Greater Will he serves as a protector and a half-brother of the sort to Ranni. Shadows are also sleeper agents of the Greater Will that activate whenever an empyrean goes against the Greater Will. Blaidd fought his “purpose” internally, when Ranni finally left he lost his internal battle and his mind went along with him. If you go back to the Forlorn Hound Evergaol you’ll hear him howling. Iji imprisoned Blaidd to protect Ranni. And after killing Blaidd, Iji will apologize saying he should’ve trusted Blaidd having struggled for so long trying to ward off the Greater Will’s influence and that it won’t be long before they meet again. Later you find Iji dead, set aflame with black flame and black knife assassins scattered all over.
The Eternal City of Nokstella quite literally translates to “The Eternal City of the Nights Star” in latin. Which makes sense because where it’s located is constantly lit under the night sky. Cool detail I hope you guys enjoyed! 😊
I'm with Jack, here; what with all the ruins scattered all over The Lands Between, I'd expected to go up ABOVE it all, rather than a (admittedly very cool) location to the far east.
@@ZodiacShadow71 a theory floating out there is that Faram Azula is the home of the ancient dragons, the age before the eardtree. And it used to be above the land between before Astel crashed through it. Just a theory though, hopefully they expand this in DLC. Evidence in Ruins Greatsword, which is a combination of the Faram Azula ruins and gravitational magic.
On Ranni’s dialogue, like a lot of things in this game it’s most likely intentionally vague, I think her plan sounds a lot more ominous that it actually is. How I see it is: Her plan is for her order to be disconnected from the world, unlike the Golden Order which firmly exists in The Lands Between itself; the gods rule over the world directly rather than some heavenly plain outside our realm. The Order that Ranni envisions is somewhat similar to our world, where we can’t be certain that a god exists (plunging the world into doubt and loneliness). She would leave the people of the Lands Between to govern themselves and not have to be subjected to the will of any god. So you were actually kind of right originally, she wants to give the people more free will and not have any deity meddling in mortal affairs, ensuring that nothing on the scale of the Shattering ever happens again. (This is my interpretation of it all at least)
Thank you for your time my g.... I love the part where you said Ranni's plan is to make the world more like ours ( where we can't see a god)... The story and lore is soo cool to follow... 🔥🤭
I recently learned (without spoiling anything) that Rannis ending actually has a mistranslation and she intends to do the opposite of what the english translation says she does.
I found a video a week or two ago that mentions exactly that. A mistranslation of the original Japanese which actually shows that Ranni is a good person, or at least good intentioned. I hope Sean sees this.
The roots in the deeproot depths are most likely the roots of the Great Tree which existed before the Elden beast was sent to the lands between. It also likely housed the Crucible, the primordial source of life. The Erdtree we see today is akin to a parasite from the greater will that took over the Great Tree and the Crucible
My dad loved your playthrough of elden ring and he also loved elden ring and beat the game about 3 times. He also passed on Friday and your elden ring playthroughs have me think of him. He was gonna be 50 this year too and who he leaves behind for kids is me and my younger brother. I'm 22 and he's 20 on the 25th.
JACK THE AGE OF ABSOLUTE ENDING IS FAKE, it is conformed. He glued together the fingers models, made them do some summon animation in the cutscene and then spawned then outside the burning capital and made his character do an emote, not hard stuff to program, the only datamined thing from that video is the voice line, which was found in the files of the Age of Perfect Order ending, it was an alternate and original name of the Perfect Order ending, but they decided to go with Perfect Order obviously, and sadly, that's it from what the files contain... But there is a cut ending! One that belonged to Miquella, who has voice lines during Malenia's fight and after Mogh's fight, he would be basically a questline where you do some dream realm stuff and at the end, there would be an interaction with the cacoon that would make you obtain the ending option, it would be called "the age of Mind", but Miquella himself was cut entirely and alongside him the questline involving an NPC called Rhico
Someone made a fake ending yes, but I 100% believe the Age of Absolute ending somehow involves Malena and Ranni, since both endings involving them are the only ones that aren't copy/paste endings with dialogue.
feels like just lore wise, scarlet rot not being fully avoidable* makes sense, considering the boss that held the stars in place still couldnt get rid of it
Hell, Melania isn't even immune to it and she's the Goddess of Scarlet Rot. It can affect literally everything that can actually be affected by status effects.
@@chatarrra7457 farum Azula is nowhere, it is beyond time, theres no timeline i farum azula, and no location. the map has show it somewhere in the map. a reason cause theres no timeline is that u can meet beast clergyman in cealid og farum azula at the same time, makes no sense.
did Jack seriously miss the meeting with Melina?? its really funny to me how Jack fell for the Aprils Fools joke, because while the Age Absolute ending did exist at one point it was infact related to Melania and Miquella and the whole thing about the five fingers was made up. Also, Doll Ranni's dialogue in the tower is clearer in the Japanese version where it can be translated into basically Ranni wanting the remove all of the gods meddling from the lands between and have it be like our world also also, the black knife assassins were never actually under Ranni's control, she was just framed for it my Marika, which is why you'll see Iji dying to the flames the assassins use
Ranni wasn't framed for it, she was the one who stole a part of destined death for the black knives. Also, if you do Rogiers quest and confront Ranni about it, she says something about it
Ranni hired them to kill her. And yeah rannis quest is probably the best ending. Fun fact a bug saved me from the worst ending and I ended up with the best (in my opinion)
So fun fact about Ranni: her lines were horribly mistranslated. There's a whole video about the differences between her dialogue in Japanese and English, which are astonishingly HUGE. To summarize, pretty much every time she talks in English she is aloof and mysterious, often with dark implications. In Japanese, she is calculated and kind, expressing that she wants to upset the Golden Order seeing as Marika removed the Rune of Death from the Elden Ring, and that is not the natural order of things. There are many times (including the dialogue if you complete her ending) where Ranni will literally say the opposite thing in English from what she says in Japanese.. So Japanese Ranni is waifu, English Ranni is hoe.
I love how much Sean knows about the lore of this game. He's constantly explaining things and I love that, this is such a rich game. One of the best playthroughs I've seen of this game because of that.
@Rumblingstation⸜⁄ I know you’re saying this to get a rise out of people, but his dad raised an incredible son. So I have no doubt jacks father is enjoying himself in the afterlife.
As chaotic and goofy as he might come across, he’s actually always attentive and concise with his gameplay, he lets you enjoy the game with him and entertain you at the same time with his dry humor, his playthroughs are my favorites
I love how just after I was in a very heated stressful moment with my mom, I I paused the video and all I hear is jack say "I don't need to be upset anymore, I can just let the feeling go and move on" I started to calm down and then "they can't because THEY'RE DEAD" and it made me laugh. Jack really has the best timing.
Also, as far as stopping the rot goes, I wouldn’t really call it “gear” but there is an incantation called Flame, Cleanse me that removes rot and poison buildup so that’s something
The void-esque enemies are really interesting. There are two enemies with the name (or maybe title?) of Astel, there is Astel Naturalborn of the Void, and Astel Stars of Darkness, those hanging enemies jack killed earlier in the episode are known as Malformed Stars. The gravity magic in the game originates from beyond the stars too, even Radahn learned his gravity magic from the Alabastar Lords, a race that supposedly came to the lands between on a meteor long ago, which makes me curious about Radahn’s motives as to holding back the stars, we know the star’s control Ranni’s destiny, but we also know Radahn has been holding back the stars from before the shattering, so likely he would have no reason to but her fate in stasis before the demi-gods started warring, it makes me wonder if maybe he learned of creatures like the Astels from the alabaster lords he learned his magic from and held back the stars to prevent more from arriving on the lands between?
It's literally that. He's preventing anything from entering the atmosphere aside from small things that fell and those who fell already before he got his gravity abilities. In short he is also prevented things aside from Outer Gods from getting to the Lands Between.
It's literally that. He's preventing anything from entering the atmosphere aside from small things that fell and those who fell already before he got his gravity abilities. In short he is also prevented things aside from Outer Gods from getting to the Lands Between.
It's because he's an omen and doesn't have grace or a connection to the erdtree so he doesn't fade away. In game, omens corpses don't fade away. They just stay after death
When I first saw there was a boss named Astel in this game I did a double take. Because my best friend made an eldritch horror character named Astel. Naturally I had to show him the boss immediately. He thought it was hilarious
The description of the Cursemark of Death as being reminiscent of a centipede reminded me heavily of the infestations from _Sekiro_ -- without wishing to spoil, the bodies of several of the game's undying characters were infested with centipedes, which kept them from dying even when they very clearly _should_ be dead, and only by killing the centipedes could they truly die. Connection, maybe?
Fun Fact: The Ronin Helmet depicts something very similar to the baskets blind monks would put on their heads on ancient Japan. Blindness was often tied to ‘unslightly or disturbing eyes’ so blind monks would put straw baskets on their heads to hide their faces. They would often play instruments such as the sakuhachi (a short flute). I think it’s interesting they decided to use something similar for the ronin helmet, as in he’s ‘blind’ to a lot of things going on in that world…
As you're already used to with the Souls games, translation errors happen often. In this case, Rani's dream with thy consort was incorrectly translated; she actually dreams to take the greater will & all that makes the "Elden Lord" *away* from the Lands Between, to the dark moons beyond so everyone's life in this world can be free from everything that (what she feels) is corrupted by the Gods. Their life is not predicted or constructed by the greater will but instead, henceforth, of free will and unpredictable motions. This means everyone who was rejected by the greater will, like all disfigured creatures at the Haligtree, Boc's people, unwanted tarnished, or even Nokstellan's can be united to live a life without judgement and/or rejection. It's really a beautiful and majestic concept Rani wanted in my opinion. :) Also, best of luck for your voice acting tomorrow! :)
@@pracitus I noticed that Sean doesn't exhaust the entirety of the game to leave something for future players. I will probably never play this one, so I am definitely missing out on the things he skipped, but I watched the entire Luigi's mansion 3 series before playing: even though I knew the general storyline and some of the gimmicks, I had a lot of fun for every thing he skipped (e.g. how to get the gems, how to get all the achievements, some boss battles,...) Also, by including everything in videos, they would be either long ass videos or like 30 videos per series...
@@giulia5184 if you do know you won't play the game yourself, I highly recommend watching Gab's playthrough. She has a very different play style than Jack, and explores almost everything in the game over the course of her letsplay. Hers was the first I watched and it really does help with getting the full picture. Long series, 25 videos all about 3 hours long, but well worth it imo
It took me 3 playthroughs to find out you can tell Iji Blaidd is dead, and by doing so he kind of clears up what Blaidd was doing to the assassins. If you rest and go back to him he'll be dead too, but exactly how he did is really mysterious. Plus you can get his helmet from it so that's neat
for anyone wondering, there's an incantation that acts like the preserving boluses removing rot and resetting the buildup. its called "flame, cleanse me"
Yeah I didn't know about it my first time going through the lake of Rot, my second playthrough I found it and it make the journey across the lake far easier
The half-wolf people are servants of the Two Fingers and the Greater Will. In the backstory of Elden Ring, several of them get "assigned" to different people for various reasons, partly to serve as servants and partly to serve as a failsafe. If certain people stepped out of line or went against the Greater Will, their assigned wolf-person could kill them. Blaidd is one of them, and the Beast Priest is another. Ranni is explicitly working against the Two Fingers, but Blaidd is able to help her because the last orders he was given were to assist Ranni, so as long as he does a sort of balancing act of maintaining two degrees of separation from her plotting, he's not violating his orders. However, that just applies to him. There are other wolf-people who are working for the Two Fingers, and presumably the vengeful shade you fight is one of them. That's why he looks like Blaidd.
1:33:34 I think Rold was an powerful astrologer and Dectus a tree sentinel. My reasoning is the statue at the grand lift of Rold have a man with a staff which mages weild and the astrologers lived in the mountain tops peacefully with the giants. And the statue of the knight in the grand lift of rectus has a helmet and halberd which look similar to those of the tree sentinels and the lift leads to the altus plateau the foot of the erdtree which the sentinels protect.
Hey Jack I actually looked into it and 3 of the 6 endings would seem like they go into each of the different soulsborne games making Elden Ring a prequel, but the Age of stars ending would go into BloodBorne, the Frenzied Flame ending would go into Dark Souls, and the Destined Death ending which would bring forth the age of Duskborn would go into Demon's Souls, let me elaborate a little further in Demon Souls it takes place in a kingdom afflicted with colorless fog that isolated it from the world and unleashed a plague of demons in the age of duskborn ending shows the world being consumed by a way of colorless fog, and in the beginning of dark souls the first flame is the only thing keeping humanity alive and in the frenzied flame ending you see that flame light, and in bloodborne it has a world inhabited by eldritch and one that of lives on the moon which would be Ranni in the age of stars ending as Ranni left the lands between without a ruler. I'm not 100% percent sure if they were paying homage to each of the games that fromsoftware have made but I very well think that they intended for Elden Ring to be the instance that would be the very beginning of it all. I would love to hear your thoughts on it though
The thorns in the fire giants are called briars of sin/punishment they’re spells used by fire monks who helped during the war against the fire giants. the fire monks also used imitations of fire giant magic to protect themselves against the fire giants.
So Radahn's body did stay behind, and if you follow Alexander the Iron First's questline, you discover that when Alexander was scooping bits of heroes into him after the Radahn fight, he also scooped Radahn's body into his jar.
29:50 Anyone curious about the “wrong hand”- a Consort was actually a position separate to a Spouse for nobility; essentially, they were brought into the noble family the same as a husband or wife, but with none of the privileges, and the children of a Consort would only inherit the Consort’s name (as a Consort didn’t necessarily need to be nobility, and they didn’t want to dilute bloodlines). The ring on the opposite had was meant to signify that difference.
As an omen, morgott had to change his name to Margit when fighting for the Erdtree. If the people knew the throne was taken by a shunned omen , the king would never be renowned for who he is as the throne was stained by the curse of the omen. Morgott never showed himself to the public so he could name himself something else and be undetected.
I’m a little confused about how Jack mentioned that there is no city in the clouds but there is it’s called Crumbling Farum that has the boss you can kill to bring death back to the land.
@@akmalll5722 Farum Azula was built by the beasts to enshrine an ancient dragon, that also turns out to be the vassal of an outer god that ruled during the ancient times. The power of Placidusax, the Dragonlord, is what lets the city fly as he has the power to control space and time, but ironically his mere presence generates massive, perpetual storms that have been tearing the city apart since it was first created. While the erosion is gradual, at some point it was hit by a falling star that inflicted absolutely catastrophic damage, which is probably what scattered debris so far.
@@leiderhosen7110 the storms are to protect placidusax from being encountered with by others. Also the comet that hit farum azula is supposedly one of the naturalborn and possibly astel
For the Rot Lake, I ended up using the "Flame, Cleanse Me" incantation A TON. It helped I was a faith build, but I don't think you need very high faith/other stats in order to be able to cast it to get rid of the rot for at least a little bit :).
Honestly, I could watch Jack play this game 5+ more times unlocking every little side mission / storyline there is. Not only is he entertaining comically, but he explains and simplifies the lore that he knows to a point where it isn't overwhelming but still just as interesting; even when the comments have to back him up from time to time. His appreciation for the environments is always a bonus; plus with so many different stat combinations and open-world route, I doubt any of us would get tired of them! Lol Keep it up Sean
I really like watching these because Jack does such a good job of explaining the story and lore and it’s very interesting to learn about it and explain things if I don’t understand or didn’t quiet get it. And it’s very nice to see someone who really understands or at least enjoys it trying to explain it for everyone!
Started reading berserk because of you Jack, and now I REALLY see the references and inspiration in these games. There's so much. Literally the most recent chapter I read has a giant bright tree in the new world capital. Like, that is just blatant.
@@leiderhosen7110 Unfortunately, the one video that exists of this is an April Fool's joke. They do explain in the description of that video that the only reference to the Age of Absolute is a single line of dialogue in the game. Also that there's a high chance that it was simply an early version of the Age of Perfect Order ending you get from doing the Goldmask storyline, as I said dialogue is tied to that questline.
My favorite thing about your channel now is the fact that Top of the Mornin coffee is available on the video with just a simple click. Everyone should try this coffee and / or tea.
1:25:58 Love how it looks almost just like the Margit intro cutscene. It’s a perfect representation of how much the player character has grown. How much strength they have gained. We all started off as scared, weak Tarnished when we first fought him. And now, we are akin to the very demigods themselves. Now, we are worthy to ascend to the throne of Elden Lord, and claim the Elden Ring.
It doesn't really feel like a FromSoft game without three crucial ingredients: - Hard-but-fair difficulty, - A variant of the Moonlight Greatsword, and - Patches helpfully kicking you off of a high ledge onto an important path.
The hard but fair difficulty point really fell apart for me at malenia. Her waterfowl dance is just nigh on impossible to avoid but aside from that one move everything else about her was fair for me. even the heals on hit but that move needs a Nerf. if fromsoft is willing to Nerf radahn who wasn't even that hard then waterfowl dance deserves one. In the end I gave up and just used a mimic tear and beat her first try but I didn't feel good
@@speedforce8970 I haven't gotten to that fight yet, so I can't say for sure one way or the other -- but from what I've seen so far, there's a diversity to the strategies that work in the boss fights in _Elden Ring,_ such that there's going to be fights that particular builds will struggle with that others won't. (The Gargoyles tend to kick my ass, too, considering I run a Dex/Int Moonveil samurai build at the mo -- I've been holding off on respecing for a while, but I may need to before I progress much further, and definitely before I try for the Rivers of Blood.)
@@yukadsfa _Bloodborne_ is also a more tightly-curated experience, with a more limited number of ways to play through it -- so the balance is naturally going to be more refined than for _Elden Ring._
1:26:33 when morgott summoned holy swords, it damn gave me instant goosebumps since it was reminiscent to Black Clovers' elven antagonist who sought to wipe out humanity by raining big ass light swords upon the capital. i miss the series sm
Sean: "You can't harm me! I am the Dink!!" Me being silly: "...lebamp" Sean at the same time: "...lebamp!" me, now full of pride: "...we're both so silly... Also I have watched too much JackSepticEye while quarantining."
19:58 yes, there is a spell called "Flame, Cleanse Me", which stops all scarlet rot build-up and cures it. Of course, going through an area like that with it quickly building up again unless you get out, you do have to use it very often to take the least amount of damage, but luckily, it doesn't cost much FP.
@@teme9132 hey, mate.. it’s best if you just ignore these bots. Their bots, they’re not actual humans. Your attention is what they crave for, if you keep paying attention to them they’ll get worse and worse, trust me. Just report them.
46:44 I'm not sure which endings you've done, but there is a theory out there that: 1. Ranni's ending, which brings about the Age of the Moon and Stars, causing the worshipping of outer gods, leads into Bloodborne. 2. The Three Fingers ending, which brings about the Age of Madness through chaotic fire, burning away all but the dragons, leads into Dark Souls. And 3. Fia's ending, which brings Destined Death back to the world, and causes those in search of power to seek it in the lives of others, creating demons, leads into Demon's Souls. This is the simplified version, there is a more detailed version on Reddit somewhere, but that's the jist of it.
Just a tip that my friends told me, not sure if it’s 100% true or not, but they said that even though rivers of blood scales better on paper with dex, arcane scales better for more damage
It's been a year now and I must say thank you Jack. This is the best gaming series I have seen and without it I would'nt have fell in love with Elden Ring. I was stuck with a Lordsworn Greatsword and the godrick soldier set on Rennala, but after I watched this whole series I started and finished a playthrough with the nagakiba and uchigatana with bleed (Bloody slash ash of war, the idea came from this series) I shredded bosses like Mogh and Godfrey and finished the game. Thank you!
One of the guesses for dlc content is that there is something on the direct middle of the map. Cuz if you look at all of the divine towers, they form a circle around it. Having something I. The middle would make a lot of sense
Fuck yeah! I love watching you play this and follow your footsteps! Since the previous video I've also beaten Rykard and then made my way to the Consecrated Snowfield and been waiting for a new video! I was badly stuck at Rennala when you started this series and I've come a long way because of you!
It is theorized this is a prequel to the other Fromsoft games. Frenzied flame ending leads to dark souls, ranni's ending leads to bloodborn, and the age of duskborn is demon souls.
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Bliadd was sent from the Greater Will to Rannie so that he could not only watch over her but also to kill her if she was ever a threat to the greater will. That’s why Bliadd is going crazy when you find him. He’s literally having an existential crisis about killing Rannie.
Yep yep! He loves her but is being forced to hunt her down. He probably appreciated being put down.
That's why Iji trapped him in the gaol.
@@Rando3498 honestly that always felt cruel to me. It's not like he was gonna not go crazy down there. He'd be screaming and howling in agony, without anyone to help him.
We at least put him out of his misery before he could hurt anyone, and at least before fighting us, his last act was to protect Rannie's tower from Black Knife Assassins
Not only that, but the GW is compelling him to kill her. Since he is more or less a puppet for the Fingers, it’s astounding that he can resist at all, much less long enough to slay the black knives that come to the manor.
I feel like the assassins that showed up were there to actually kill Blaidd because the Black Knife Assassins work for Ranni. So they were trying to protect her from him
Jack needs to know that there is a ‘Cerulean Hidden Crystal Tear’ on Mt Gelmir at its Minor Erdtree that removes all use of FP and therefore lets him summon BLACK KNIFE TICHE without upgrading mind. Make sure he sees this!
@@badgersfhebn valid take
@Lucas Garcia why tf are there so many sociopaths making fun of jacks dad dying, its so incredibly messed up
@@georgestoney3532 Bot's, not real people
@@michelleyvonne2546 they still sociopaths for typing that shit for the bot to say. A sociopath by proxy is still a sociopath.
@@dragenfire68 No, they aren't sociopaths. They're attention seekers and narcissists(can be just as bad as a sociopath/psychopath, I should know since both my mom and sis are that way). Sociopaths don't like to draw attention to their bad or odd behaviors(know that due to my half great uncle being diagnosed with those traits when a child and did horrible things, especially to animals).
Fun fact: somebody did the math and estimated the Erdtree to be approximately 16,562 ft or 5,048 metres. That's taller than the highest mountain in the Alps, which stands at 15,773 ft or 4087 metres. That's a big ass tree
Zullie the Witch, another youtuber based around Fromsoft games.
And the Black Knife assassins were sent to kill him.
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"Deep dark down deep dark"
Those words alone fill my ears with joy as I remember the times of Jack being submerged in water.
memories of him being subnauseous?
This comment should have more likes the og days of subnautica
@@kaichristian4131 Or him Seeing Reefies.
I wish he would do a replay of the whole entire game including below zero
Hydrophobia
there's an incantation called "flame, cleanse me" that cures scarlet rot/poison and alleviates the build up of both! it only requires 12 faith to use and can be found in liurnia so it's fairly accessible early game. i'm not sure if there's any armour that negates scarlet rot though
Mushroom Armor slows buildup but doesn’t stop it… best thing to do is equip talismen that increase immunity and DODGE!!!
The mushroom armor is the only thing I know of that boosts immunity
So I’m ignorant when it comes to scarlet rot, but I know for the poison swamps you can just ride your horse through it and receive no buildup. Does scarlet rot not work the same?
@@rhogue5583 there are certain areas where you can't ride torrent, the lake of rot is one of them
@@sev6747 ah okay that makes sense..
The assassins were definitely after Ranni. Ranni's involvement in the plot of the Night of Black Knives is really convoluted. But when you talk to Iji after killing Blaidd, exhaust his dialogue and rest at the grace. Then it becomes clear that it was no mere coincidence nor did Blaidd simply go mad. You also missed something. During this quest on your way to Nokron, Blaidd kills Seluvis, deeming him a traitor. Iji felt he went out of line and imprisoned him in the same evergaol that held the bloodhound knight Darwill. Blaidd was either freed by the black knife assassins or somehow broke out, which might be the canon result if the prisoner of an evergaol wins instead of the tresspasser, meaning a blacknife assassin tried to kill Blaidd in the gaol, failed and it let Blaidd escape. Only for more to be sent after him and fail. But basically you should go back to Iji, and it becomes a little clearer. I'm only telling you this because you've played it so much, as you've said.
Edit: Turns out the player can also free Blaidd if he is found by them, but either way he escapes. So based on the order of events, it could go either way.
Hopefully Seán sees this!
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but once Iji locked Blaidd in the evergaol, Iji says 'The Two Fingers gave Blaidd to Lady Ranni, as a faithful follower. Her very shadow, incapable of treachery. But if Lady Ranni, as an Empyrean, reists being an instrument of the Two Fingers, the shadow will go mad, transforming from a follower into a horrid curse. But such is his destiny. In such matters, Blaidd's own thoughts hold no weight.' So going against the Greater Will is causing Blaidd to go mad, not simply Ranni leaving this world (as Jack says).
I think I read this in another comment but if you free him you'll still end up having to battle him. I could be wrong again I read it in a comment.(I'm a new elden ring player so I don't have much knowledge other then jacks playthrough and research)
@@twiggy2495 This is correct. It's because of what was said in the response prior to yours. Ranni going against the two fingers is what causes Blaidd to go berserk and lose his mind. There's a theme going on between the empyreans and having half-wolven personal servants/warriors and them having a shade of sort. Such as the one we end up having to kill down in the underground section, it was after all Blaidd's shade specifically.
Seluvis is not killed by Blaidd, he is turned into a puppet by Ranni, and you can acutally be on the recieving end of her wrath if you do his questline and repeatedly try talking to Ranni after Seluvis' plan fails. If you don't do his questline, then he presumably tries to do it without you and fails anyways, falling to the same fate after giving Ranni the Fingerslayer Blade.
Of note is that the message from Blaidd about a traitor comes BEFORE Seluvis is dead and seems to be a hint at his whereabouts if you remember his dialogue about Darriwil.
"Can't bleed a tree."
Nobody tell Sean about Maple Syrup.
and tree sap at that point
I saw this as soon as he said it😮
I saw this as soon as he said it
Jack: "God, it really is like having to put your dog down or something, isn't it?"
Blaidd: "And I took that personally."
Rest In Peace Blaidd. You were an amazing comrade and friend.
Like putting down your dog if it could wield a greatsword
@@avilanx959 trying to put down sif
Trying to put down old space yeller.
Krillin from the distance:HOW IS THAT A THING!
A pretty popular theory is that Radahn didn't leave behind a body because Alexander ran over and chowed down while you were watching the stars fall.
It makes sense, given that the Shard of Alexander's description reads "Scraps of stewed flesh cling to the shard...Relics of a red-haired champion, it would seem."
I knew I couldn't trust that pot
@@Aurelius1239 what? He literally tells you that, he also never lies to you and when you fight it's not out of malice it's just a duel
Or possibly was eating a cleanrot knight
Bro needed a snack
"You can go into every building!"
*Meanwhile 89% of the buildings in the capital are sealed shut with corpse wax.*
Every important building
I mean they wouldn't be important if you aren't able to go inside them @@millo7295
For anyone wondering. Ranni's ending and alot of her dialouge has some very big translation errors making it really hard to understand what she actually wants since she constantly contradicts herself. Furthermore, the mistakes were actually so severe that her goals in the english translation appear very diffrent from those in the original japanese game. As a result the english version portray her somewhat like a villain, which is totally unintended. There are some great videos on it here on youtube so if you're intrested in the lore you should definetly check them out.
The game was originally in Japanese?
@@onlineletsplayers2331 Yes lfmoao Fromsoft is a Japanese gamedev company :)
@@onlineletsplayers2331 the script was originally written in japanese, then translated to english for voice acting. it was all a very convoluted process, and a lot went wrong as a result, on the translators' end of things
why won't fromsoft patch the translations? T_T
i go to BanditGames and VaatiVidya (of course) for elden ring lore, if anyone's interested
48:32 I learned that it’s actually the golden order that assigns shadows to empyreans as a counter measure.
Blaid was just so faithful that even the influence of the greater will couldn’t make him betray ranni.
However the greater will is greater and drove him mad. Hope jack learns that. Blaid was a truly good boy
In other words: The Greater Will is narcissistic and don't want a new Outer God to enact an Order
All those words are capitalized because they're lore focused
Two hour long video, now I don’t have to be alone with my thoughts for two hours, thank you Jack
Now I don't have to do my college assignments....or do I
@Christofer Foodist 🅥⸜⁄ can you just quit saying that
@Beast 😈 just stop
@@LjKinG420 tf is up with these bots they are so annoying
@@LjKinG420 It’s a bot it will just keep saying the same thing
The dialogue in Ranni's ending is actually mistranslated, which makes her look a lot worse than her actual intentions for the world, which is to (SPOILERS) create an order/age where the rules of reality aren't able to be tampered with, and outer gods can no longer meddle with the Lands Between, and while people will be without divine guidance, they're free to make their own fates.
Okay, that makes a lot more sense
Not really. A lot of translations are up to what the intention is and shouldn't always be directly translated into English. Lots of articles went around with this and a lot of people also disagreed with them
@@jacksepticeye but there were merits in the redone translations.
One biggest thing that wasn't translated well is that Ranni wanted to leave the Lands Between and travel the stars. Most people thought that her ending is synonymous with the Dark Age of Man in Dark Souls.
@@jacksepticeye you literally just looked at "an falling star" you cannot believe this translation is faithful
@@jacksepticeye play more teardown when your done with Elden Ring
"Is there anything that gets rid of scarlet rot?" Flame cleans me, you get the incantation from the fire monk. It also gets rid of poison.
Preserving Boluses work too
@@HiamZepplin those are in very short supply unless you can find a book to craft them
@@HiamZepplin so the incantation works best to avoid looking through every nook and cranny for those
That's not what he was looking for. He was looking for something that gives you total immunity, as in zero buildup period.
@@oberon1449 flame cleanse me isn't total immunity, but it erases all buildup of rot and poison, and it also does an incredibly small amount of fire damage to the caster, which additionally clears any frost buildup. So it gets rid of three status effects for cheap asf cost. It's actually pretty bitchin
I like how when small ranni says "is it merely habit to talk to dolls" it's just making fun of people who have played Bloodborne
What's the specific connection with Bloodborne? I don't know much about it🤔
@@frogbabygrill basically so in dark souls you level up at the fire keeper and in elden ring you level up with Melina but in Bloodborne you level up at this talking doll also I can tell if you joking or not
@@logeybear648 Ah that's right! I forgot she was a doll
@@logeybear648 I'm not joking, just dumb lmao
@Rumblingstation⸜⁄ whoa not cool dude
Ranni: "Tell Blaidd, and Iji... I love them..."
Me: "Seluvis, presumably, can eff *_all_* the way off. Rightly _so,_ too."
After seeing his basement, very much rightly so
Well... I mean Seluvis makes people into dolls, and mysteriously dies after you give Ranni the Fingerslayer blade... Probably for good reason being that he plots against Ranni.
@@AridCircle Plus, he's also an elitist _asshole._ It's a wonder anyone put up with him to begin with.
Well she kills him with the sword you bring back from the underground city
@Rumblingstation⸜⁄ do you don't have anything more valuable to do
I love how Sean says "That's the wrong hand" when giving Ranni the Dark Moon Ring. Dude there are like four hands there, maybe the rules for which hand the ring goes on works differently for her (it's not too serious I just thought it was funny).
Even if that wasn't the case, isn't the right hand for proposals? I know they switch hands after the wedding, I just don't know which comes first.
@@matthewsimon6170 Usually the wedding ring is worn on the left hand. I've never heard of switching hands for proposals, but then again I don't know much of anything about marriage
Maybe they don't have rules for binding a consort
Ya know
Because Christianity isn't a religion in The Lands Between and they wouldn't have the concept of the ring on the left hand being a permit to enact a certain "sin" without consequence
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1:25:35 Morgott's introduction gave me absolute chills, especially when he revealed his sword by crushing his staff. Every boss in this game was done with justice. I'm sure you'd agree with that, Jack.
C A N E N O T S T A F F
fire giant.....hate that thing (real boss is the camera)
yea, every boss was awesome
@@Black-nc9lz Being smacked flat like a toddler trying to open a car door
Margit and Morgott were my favorite bosses.
I love how when you find ranni in front of the dead fingers, she has such a pleased with herself look. Like, yeah, I killed the fingers. What of it
👆=🤓
5:08 If you talk to Ranni's small doll a couple of times she tells you that to achieve her goal she has to betray everyone that followed her before she changed bodies, that includes Iji and Blaidd, they are aware of this and still follow her, that's why Ranni loves and trusts them so much. She sent the black knives to kill Iji and Blaidd.
Jack: Falls off the edge.
Also Jack: “I’m going to bury you in the shallowest grave for being annoying.”
Has it really come to the point where it’s just better not to comment so we don’t have to suffer with the replies?
@@aHumanBeing97 Nope, just report them. Commenting boosts Jacks engagement for the video and helps it become more popular in the algorithm. RUclips needs to be more responsible for protecting it's creator from bot spams and targeted attacks like this.
The two and three finger combining was a April Fools joke as far as I know LMAO. But the secret deleted ending is there but it's related to Miquella and Malenia, not the golden order. It's more about Miquella probably finding out a method to cure the rot of Malenia or something along those lines, or atleast goes to indicate that Miquella turns out to be the next vessel (Just like Ranni in her ending)
If I'm not mistaken, the five fingers is a cut ending. Whether it has to do with what or who, no one really knows.
@@christophercarter637 That ending was all fake, someone made it for April fools. The name of it was actually an ending but it turns out that it was just a different name for an already existing ending.
@@christophercarter637 The Age of the Absolute is indeed cut, and its location in the files indicates it may have been an alternate version of the Age of Golden Order ending. but everything else about that including the 5 fingers was an april fools. DLC may indeed restore the Age of Absolute ending but we have no way of knowing what it will entail.
Even if it was a joke, I still wish there was more finger content. They're such weird characters, n they just suddenly stop at the first hurdle, and never move again.
We also know there is multiple 2-finger creatures, since we find them dead when we boot up a Great Rune, and when we finish Rannie's questline, but seemingly only 3-finger who can do something weird to us, then disappear (also screw those 3, I only opened that door to tell them to sod off, but the game locked me into a cutscene as soon as I tried to open it.
@@Trojianmaru haha I was so happy I knew about miquellas needled lol
I love how I've watched all of these videos, and all of the segments of Sean explaining the story, and I still literally have no idea what the story in this game is.
Blaidd is Ranni’s shadow appointed by the Greater Will he serves as a protector and a half-brother of the sort to Ranni. Shadows are also sleeper agents of the Greater Will that activate whenever an empyrean goes against the Greater Will. Blaidd fought his “purpose” internally, when Ranni finally left he lost his internal battle and his mind went along with him. If you go back to the Forlorn Hound Evergaol you’ll hear him howling. Iji imprisoned Blaidd to protect Ranni. And after killing Blaidd, Iji will apologize saying he should’ve trusted Blaidd having struggled for so long trying to ward off the Greater Will’s influence and that it won’t be long before they meet again. Later you find Iji dead, set aflame with black flame and black knife assassins scattered all over.
The Eternal City of Nokstella quite literally translates to “The Eternal City of the Nights Star” in latin. Which makes sense because where it’s located is constantly lit under the night sky. Cool detail I hope you guys enjoyed! 😊
1:27:13 I love how you, the mimic and melina were all coming from different angles but he floored all you with the same attack.
Jack: It would be great if there actually was a flying region in elden ring. Too bad there isn't.
Farum Azula: Am I a joke to you?
I thought the same 😁
I'm with Jack, here; what with all the ruins scattered all over The Lands Between, I'd expected to go up ABOVE it all, rather than a (admittedly very cool) location to the far east.
@@ZodiacShadow71 a theory floating out there is that Faram Azula is the home of the ancient dragons, the age before the eardtree. And it used to be above the land between before Astel crashed through it. Just a theory though, hopefully they expand this in DLC. Evidence in Ruins Greatsword, which is a combination of the Faram Azula ruins and gravitational magic.
Literally, when he said that i wss like "so farum azula wasn't a floating city in the clouds?😂😂😂"
On Ranni’s dialogue, like a lot of things in this game it’s most likely intentionally vague, I think her plan sounds a lot more ominous that it actually is.
How I see it is: Her plan is for her order to be disconnected from the world, unlike the Golden Order which firmly exists in The Lands Between itself; the gods rule over the world directly rather than some heavenly plain outside our realm.
The Order that Ranni envisions is somewhat similar to our world, where we can’t be certain that a god exists (plunging the world into doubt and loneliness).
She would leave the people of the Lands Between to govern themselves and not have to be subjected to the will of any god.
So you were actually kind of right originally, she wants to give the people more free will and not have any deity meddling in mortal affairs, ensuring that nothing on the scale of the Shattering ever happens again.
(This is my interpretation of it all at least)
Thank you for your time my g.... I love the part where you said Ranni's plan is to make the world more like ours ( where we can't see a god)... The story and lore is soo cool to follow... 🔥🤭
This is so cool to know thanks for the in depth explanation. So cool of you to take the time and write this. 👍
Yes! More peoples spreading the truth! Ranni is my favorite character, and I love her ending, but damn does it sound ominous in english!
Like God in Christens.
Morgot disguising himself with the name Margit is very Obi Wan Kenobi disguising himself with the name Ben Kenobi
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You'd think that having "Kenobi" in the fake name would make people think you're family with a terrorist (the entire Rebel alliance and Jedi)
I recently learned (without spoiling anything) that Rannis ending actually has a mistranslation and she intends to do the opposite of what the english translation says she does.
I found a video a week or two ago that mentions exactly that. A mistranslation of the original Japanese which actually shows that Ranni is a good person, or at least good intentioned. I hope Sean sees this.
Oh yeah! Are you guys talking about Ziostorm’s video? I was gonna comment that too!
@Andrew h1213 it’s not people, it’s bots, and replying to it makes it worse
The roots in the deeproot depths are most likely the roots of the Great Tree which existed before the Elden beast was sent to the lands between. It also likely housed the Crucible, the primordial source of life. The Erdtree we see today is akin to a parasite from the greater will that took over the Great Tree and the Crucible
Thats too complicated for my dumb brain ;0
So the Greater Will is basically just alien mistletoe
My dad loved your playthrough of elden ring and he also loved elden ring and beat the game about 3 times. He also passed on Friday and your elden ring playthroughs have me think of him. He was gonna be 50 this year too and who he leaves behind for kids is me and my younger brother. I'm 22 and he's 20 on the 25th.
JACK THE AGE OF ABSOLUTE ENDING IS FAKE, it is conformed. He glued together the fingers models, made them do some summon animation in the cutscene and then spawned then outside the burning capital and made his character do an emote, not hard stuff to program, the only datamined thing from that video is the voice line, which was found in the files of the Age of Perfect Order ending, it was an alternate and original name of the Perfect Order ending, but they decided to go with Perfect Order obviously, and sadly, that's it from what the files contain... But there is a cut ending! One that belonged to Miquella, who has voice lines during Malenia's fight and after Mogh's fight, he would be basically a questline where you do some dream realm stuff and at the end, there would be an interaction with the cacoon that would make you obtain the ending option, it would be called "the age of Mind", but Miquella himself was cut entirely and alongside him the questline involving an NPC called Rhico
Someone made a fake ending yes, but I 100% believe the Age of Absolute ending somehow involves Malena and Ranni, since both endings involving them are the only ones that aren't copy/paste endings with dialogue.
@@teewhygg5453 I believe it was supposed to involve Miquella as he had voice lines and a quest tied to him that was cut as well
So in other words
It's not Jack's fault
feels like just lore wise, scarlet rot not being fully avoidable* makes sense, considering the boss that held the stars in place still couldnt get rid of it
That’s a really good point. Even the strongest demigod ever can’t get rid of it and it’s strong against pretty much everything
Even Malenia thinks it's a curse and she dislikes the rot
Hell, Melania isn't even immune to it and she's the Goddess of Scarlet Rot. It can affect literally everything that can actually be affected by status effects.
Except for Torrent.
@@dheerajs.a3227 pretty sure Torrent isnt affected by status effects lol
Jack: I wish there was a city in the clouds.
Faram Azula: Am I a joke to you?
Very late but Farum Azula is not high in the sky
@@chatarrra7457 true but like ur literally in the clouds bruh and there’s dragons flying all around u how is that not sick
@@travisscott3495 it is sick, but Farum Azula is below the lands between, very close to the ocean
@@chatarrra7457 farum Azula is nowhere, it is beyond time, theres no timeline i farum azula, and no location. the map has show it somewhere in the map. a reason cause theres no timeline is that u can meet beast clergyman in cealid og farum azula at the same time, makes no sense.
@@chatarrra7457 u cant have been in farum azula, when ur there, u can literly see clouds
man i love how he just explains the lore as he’s playing, really makes me feel
involved cuz i’ve never played any of the souls games
I think the fact that you CAN play them if you wanted to
Like I know you can't play them on a whim but you can definitely get to a point where you CAN
did Jack seriously miss the meeting with Melina??
its really funny to me how Jack fell for the Aprils Fools joke, because while the Age Absolute ending did exist at one point it was infact related to Melania and Miquella and the whole thing about the five fingers was made up.
Also, Doll Ranni's dialogue in the tower is clearer in the Japanese version where it can be translated into basically Ranni wanting the remove all of the gods meddling from the lands between and have it be like our world
also also, the black knife assassins were never actually under Ranni's control, she was just framed for it my Marika, which is why you'll see Iji dying to the flames the assassins use
Ranni wasn't framed for it, she was the one who stole a part of destined death for the black knives. Also, if you do Rogiers quest and confront Ranni about it, she says something about it
Ranni hired them to kill her. And yeah rannis quest is probably the best ending. Fun fact a bug saved me from the worst ending and I ended up with the best (in my opinion)
Jack: “this area sucks super tough just terrible”
Also Jack: “mainly because there’s not any spectacles to see”
Jack and his scenery 😂
So fun fact about Ranni: her lines were horribly mistranslated. There's a whole video about the differences between her dialogue in Japanese and English, which are astonishingly HUGE. To summarize, pretty much every time she talks in English she is aloof and mysterious, often with dark implications. In Japanese, she is calculated and kind, expressing that she wants to upset the Golden Order seeing as Marika removed the Rune of Death from the Elden Ring, and that is not the natural order of things. There are many times (including the dialogue if you complete her ending) where Ranni will literally say the opposite thing in English from what she says in Japanese.. So Japanese Ranni is waifu, English Ranni is hoe.
That’s really interesting, who was the video by? I’d like to watch it
I’d like to know who that video is by as well
The one I saw was by Ziostorm 👍👍
Yeah english ranni is chaotic good/chaotic neutral, once you understand the original voiceline she's pure lawful good
I love how much Sean knows about the lore of this game. He's constantly explaining things and I love that, this is such a rich game. One of the best playthroughs I've seen of this game because of that.
@Rumblingstation⸜⁄ I know you’re saying this to get a rise out of people, but his dad raised an incredible son. So I have no doubt jacks father is enjoying himself in the afterlife.
@@LS2258 it's just a spam bot, report it and move on
As chaotic and goofy as he might come across, he’s actually always attentive and concise with his gameplay, he lets you enjoy the game with him and entertain you at the same time with his dry humor, his playthroughs are my favorites
He's wrong on about 40% of what he explains.
I love how just after I was in a very heated stressful moment with my mom, I I paused the video and all I hear is jack say "I don't need to be upset anymore, I can just let the feeling go and move on" I started to calm down and then "they can't because THEY'RE DEAD" and it made me laugh. Jack really has the best timing.
Also, as far as stopping the rot goes, I wouldn’t really call it “gear” but there is an incantation called Flame, Cleanse me that removes rot and poison buildup so that’s something
Where do you get it?
@@susanturner8537 you can get it at the fire monks' camp in east liurnia! south of the church of vows
The void-esque enemies are really interesting. There are two enemies with the name (or maybe title?) of Astel, there is Astel Naturalborn of the Void, and Astel Stars of Darkness, those hanging enemies jack killed earlier in the episode are known as Malformed Stars. The gravity magic in the game originates from beyond the stars too, even Radahn learned his gravity magic from the Alabastar Lords, a race that supposedly came to the lands between on a meteor long ago, which makes me curious about Radahn’s motives as to holding back the stars, we know the star’s control Ranni’s destiny, but we also know Radahn has been holding back the stars from before the shattering, so likely he would have no reason to but her fate in stasis before the demi-gods started warring, it makes me wonder if maybe he learned of creatures like the Astels from the alabaster lords he learned his magic from and held back the stars to prevent more from arriving on the lands between?
It's literally that. He's preventing anything from entering the atmosphere aside from small things that fell and those who fell already before he got his gravity abilities.
In short he is also prevented things aside from Outer Gods from getting to the Lands Between.
It's literally that. He's preventing anything from entering the atmosphere aside from small things that fell and those who fell already before he got his gravity abilities.
In short he is also prevented things aside from Outer Gods from getting to the Lands Between.
In his remembrance it states that he learned gravity magic so he could keep riding his horse, Leonard.
@@bismarckimperia8781 and miquella kinda fucked him up gave him rot aids but still held back the stars even when losing it
@@TheKentanthony well, Melania did that, Miquella’s whole thing was trying to cure Melania of her scarlet rot
I think the reason Morgotts body stays behind is that the erdtree doesn’t want to accept his soul into itself, similar to those who live in death.
It's because he's an omen and doesn't have grace or a connection to the erdtree so he doesn't fade away. In game, omens corpses don't fade away. They just stay after death
Nah, he’s just not actually dead yet. He’s clinging on just barely
Sean: "Ya don't look a _day_ over _dead!"_
Me: "...Sounds like a good line for a coffee mug, honestly. That's kinda _me_ before 10 AM."
@Rumblingstation did somebody... break you?
@Rumblingstation the f u talking about mate?
Don’t reply to them they’re bots just report them and move on please
@@LPSDevon26 legit the most fucked up bots though
@@agrad12 becus it draws attention. Unfortunately it works.
I like that Sean explains the lore of the game as he plays. It has really helped me in my gameplay.
i fucking love when sean explains the lore i could listen to him talk about the souls games for hours and hours
When I first saw there was a boss named Astel in this game I did a double take. Because my best friend made an eldritch horror character named Astel. Naturally I had to show him the boss immediately. He thought it was hilarious
That's a cool coincidence
The description of the Cursemark of Death as being reminiscent of a centipede reminded me heavily of the infestations from _Sekiro_ -- without wishing to spoil, the bodies of several of the game's undying characters were infested with centipedes, which kept them from dying even when they very clearly _should_ be dead, and only by killing the centipedes could they truly die. Connection, maybe?
Fun Fact: The Ronin Helmet depicts something very similar to the baskets blind monks would put on their heads on ancient Japan. Blindness was often tied to ‘unslightly or disturbing eyes’ so blind monks would put straw baskets on their heads to hide their faces. They would often play instruments such as the sakuhachi (a short flute). I think it’s interesting they decided to use something similar for the ronin helmet, as in he’s ‘blind’ to a lot of things going on in that world…
1:37:15
Jack: Sad that there's no City in the Clouds.
Crumbling Farum Azula: Crying in the distance, outside of time.
As you're already used to with the Souls games, translation errors happen often. In this case, Rani's dream with thy consort was incorrectly translated; she actually dreams to take the greater will & all that makes the "Elden Lord" *away* from the Lands Between, to the dark moons beyond so everyone's life in this world can be free from everything that (what she feels) is corrupted by the Gods. Their life is not predicted or constructed by the greater will but instead, henceforth, of free will and unpredictable motions.
This means everyone who was rejected by the greater will, like all disfigured creatures at the Haligtree, Boc's people, unwanted tarnished, or even Nokstellan's can be united to live a life without judgement and/or rejection. It's really a beautiful and majestic concept Rani wanted in my opinion. :)
Also, best of luck for your voice acting tomorrow! :)
PLEASE FINISH THIS SERIES, it feels like watching a movie every time a new episode comes out
But he's rushing it, he doesn't even exaust all dialogue with npcs
@@pracitus I noticed that Sean doesn't exhaust the entirety of the game to leave something for future players. I will probably never play this one, so I am definitely missing out on the things he skipped, but I watched the entire Luigi's mansion 3 series before playing: even though I knew the general storyline and some of the gimmicks, I had a lot of fun for every thing he skipped (e.g. how to get the gems, how to get all the achievements, some boss battles,...)
Also, by including everything in videos, they would be either long ass videos or like 30 videos per series...
@@giulia5184 if you do know you won't play the game yourself, I highly recommend watching Gab's playthrough. She has a very different play style than Jack, and explores almost everything in the game over the course of her letsplay. Hers was the first I watched and it really does help with getting the full picture. Long series, 25 videos all about 3 hours long, but well worth it imo
I wish he didn't
Just because you annoyed me by that TINY amount
Buy it
The way the city shines with gold just took my breath away kinda made me wish a place that beautiful existed in my life
Jacksepticeye Doing elden ring voices, is just amazing.
How are they 4 bots here Already?!?!
@☣ Savetion ☣ Now 5?!?!
@Barack Obama well no shit
No it's not, it's painful lol.
😀 - That's some really cool voice acting with the help of a voice modulator...
It took me 3 playthroughs to find out you can tell Iji Blaidd is dead, and by doing so he kind of clears up what Blaidd was doing to the assassins. If you rest and go back to him he'll be dead too, but exactly how he did is really mysterious. Plus you can get his helmet from it so that's neat
Also, Gargoyle black weapons have the destined death effect like Maliketh's Black Blade. It makes it so there's more than two destined death weapons.
for anyone wondering, there's an incantation that acts like the preserving boluses removing rot and resetting the buildup. its called "flame, cleanse me"
Yeah I didn't know about it my first time going through the lake of Rot, my second playthrough I found it and it make the journey across the lake far easier
The half-wolf people are servants of the Two Fingers and the Greater Will. In the backstory of Elden Ring, several of them get "assigned" to different people for various reasons, partly to serve as servants and partly to serve as a failsafe. If certain people stepped out of line or went against the Greater Will, their assigned wolf-person could kill them. Blaidd is one of them, and the Beast Priest is another. Ranni is explicitly working against the Two Fingers, but Blaidd is able to help her because the last orders he was given were to assist Ranni, so as long as he does a sort of balancing act of maintaining two degrees of separation from her plotting, he's not violating his orders. However, that just applies to him. There are other wolf-people who are working for the Two Fingers, and presumably the vengeful shade you fight is one of them. That's why he looks like Blaidd.
1:33:34 I think Rold was an powerful astrologer and Dectus a tree sentinel. My reasoning is the statue at the grand lift of Rold have a man with a staff which mages weild and the astrologers lived in the mountain tops peacefully with the giants. And the statue of the knight in the grand lift of rectus has a helmet and halberd which look similar to those of the tree sentinels and the lift leads to the altus plateau the foot of the erdtree which the sentinels protect.
Hey Jack I actually looked into it and 3 of the 6 endings would seem like they go into each of the different soulsborne games making Elden Ring a prequel, but the Age of stars ending would go into BloodBorne, the Frenzied Flame ending would go into Dark Souls, and the Destined Death ending which would bring forth the age of Duskborn would go into Demon's Souls, let me elaborate a little further in Demon Souls it takes place in a kingdom afflicted with colorless fog that isolated it from the world and unleashed a plague of demons in the age of duskborn ending shows the world being consumed by a way of colorless fog, and in the beginning of dark souls the first flame is the only thing keeping humanity alive and in the frenzied flame ending you see that flame light, and in bloodborne it has a world inhabited by eldritch and one that of lives on the moon which would be Ranni in the age of stars ending as Ranni left the lands between without a ruler.
I'm not 100% percent sure if they were paying homage to each of the games that fromsoftware have made but I very well think that they intended for Elden Ring to be the instance that would be the very beginning of it all.
I would love to hear your thoughts on it though
That's actually really cool. I haven't played Elden Ring yet but I wanna try those endings.
Cool insight though
And that is why the age of stars is the best ending.
Jack: It would be so cool to have a city in the clouds - like way way high above everything
Farum Azula: Am I a joke to you?
Placidusax: :p
Sean: “Do it this time see if I care.”
Also Sean: *pans camera around to check*
The thorns in the fire giants are called briars of sin/punishment they’re spells used by fire monks who helped during the war against the fire giants. the fire monks also used imitations of fire giant magic to protect themselves against the fire giants.
So Radahn's body did stay behind, and if you follow Alexander the Iron First's questline, you discover that when Alexander was scooping bits of heroes into him after the Radahn fight, he also scooped Radahn's body into his jar.
29:50 Anyone curious about the “wrong hand”- a Consort was actually a position separate to a Spouse for nobility; essentially, they were brought into the noble family the same as a husband or wife, but with none of the privileges, and the children of a Consort would only inherit the Consort’s name (as a Consort didn’t necessarily need to be nobility, and they didn’t want to dilute bloodlines). The ring on the opposite had was meant to signify that difference.
As an omen, morgott had to change his name to Margit when fighting for the Erdtree. If the people knew the throne was taken by a shunned omen , the king would never be renowned for who he is as the throne was stained by the curse of the omen. Morgott never showed himself to the public so he could name himself something else and be undetected.
This is the reason why Gideon Ofnir calls him the veiled monarch given that he hides his true self under a veil, or maybe in this case his cane.
It would be fun to watch Seán and Evelien have a PVP in Elden Ring, with their strongest characters just to see who’s best
I’m a little confused about how Jack mentioned that there is no city in the clouds but there is it’s called Crumbling Farum that has the boss you can kill to bring death back to the land.
@@akmalll5722 Farum Azula was built by the beasts to enshrine an ancient dragon, that also turns out to be the vassal of an outer god that ruled during the ancient times.
The power of Placidusax, the Dragonlord, is what lets the city fly as he has the power to control space and time, but ironically his mere presence generates massive, perpetual storms that have been tearing the city apart since it was first created.
While the erosion is gradual, at some point it was hit by a falling star that inflicted absolutely catastrophic damage, which is probably what scattered debris so far.
@@leiderhosen7110 the storms are to protect placidusax from being encountered with by others. Also the comet that hit farum azula is supposedly one of the naturalborn and possibly astel
But farum azula isn't really a city it's more like a temple or sum
32:20 That “5 fingers” ending was an april fools joke
What was funny?
I don't get it at least make a good joke other than
H A N D
* X files theme *
For the Rot Lake, I ended up using the "Flame, Cleanse Me" incantation A TON. It helped I was a faith build, but I don't think you need very high faith/other stats in order to be able to cast it to get rid of the rot for at least a little bit :).
Honestly, I could watch Jack play this game 5+ more times unlocking every little side mission / storyline there is. Not only is he entertaining comically, but he explains and simplifies the lore that he knows to a point where it isn't overwhelming but still just as interesting; even when the comments have to back him up from time to time. His appreciation for the environments is always a bonus; plus with so many different stat combinations and open-world route, I doubt any of us would get tired of them! Lol Keep it up Sean
I really like watching these because Jack does such a good job of explaining the story and lore and it’s very interesting to learn about it and explain things if I don’t understand or didn’t quiet get it. And it’s very nice to see someone who really understands or at least enjoys it trying to explain it for everyone!
Started reading berserk because of you Jack, and now I REALLY see the references and inspiration in these games. There's so much. Literally the most recent chapter I read has a giant bright tree in the new world capital. Like, that is just blatant.
The ending where you combine the two hands was an April fool's joke, last I heard. It would be pretty cool, though, to see that happen!
I believe it's real, but it was just from the final game. It's possible to datamine the cutscene and make it play using hacks
@@leiderhosen7110 Unfortunately, the one video that exists of this is an April Fool's joke. They do explain in the description of that video that the only reference to the Age of Absolute is a single line of dialogue in the game. Also that there's a high chance that it was simply an early version of the Age of Perfect Order ending you get from doing the Goldmask storyline, as I said dialogue is tied to that questline.
@@protectorpaladin4358 Ah, I didn't read the context in his description
For the record, most moving targets can get bled, poisoned, and even scarlet rot, it's just more of a challenge to race the build up bar.
Sean: I wish there was a city in the clouds
Farum Azula: Cries in Placidusax
My favorite thing about your channel now is the fact that Top of the Mornin coffee is available on the video with just a simple click. Everyone should try this coffee and / or tea.
Totm strawberry tea is the best thing ever
is it locally sourced tho?
@@Romeren Its awesome youtuber sourced lol
1:25:58 Love how it looks almost just like the Margit intro cutscene. It’s a perfect representation of how much the player character has grown. How much strength they have gained.
We all started off as scared, weak Tarnished when we first fought him. And now, we are akin to the very demigods themselves. Now, we are worthy to ascend to the throne of Elden Lord, and claim the Elden Ring.
1:28:26 Morgott actually looks like that because his curse (the Omen) has been killed. He only over was a beastly horned dude because he was an Omen.
2 hour videos and I’m still watching the whole thing😵💫‼️
@☣ Savetion ☣ STOP
It doesn't really feel like a FromSoft game without three crucial ingredients:
- Hard-but-fair difficulty,
- A variant of the Moonlight Greatsword, and
- Patches helpfully kicking you off of a high ledge onto an important path.
The hard but fair difficulty point really fell apart for me at malenia. Her waterfowl dance is just nigh on impossible to avoid but aside from that one move everything else about her was fair for me. even the heals on hit but that move needs a Nerf. if fromsoft is willing to Nerf radahn who wasn't even that hard then waterfowl dance deserves one. In the end I gave up and just used a mimic tear and beat her first try but I didn't feel good
@@speedforce8970 I haven't gotten to that fight yet, so I can't say for sure one way or the other -- but from what I've seen so far, there's a diversity to the strategies that work in the boss fights in _Elden Ring,_ such that there's going to be fights that particular builds will struggle with that others won't. (The Gargoyles tend to kick my ass, too, considering I run a Dex/Int Moonveil samurai build at the mo -- I've been holding off on respecing for a while, but I may need to before I progress much further, and definitely before I try for the Rivers of Blood.)
I’m up to the orphan of kos in bloodborne on bl4 and it feels more fair than late game Elden ring
@@yukadsfa _Bloodborne_ is also a more tightly-curated experience, with a more limited number of ways to play through it -- so the balance is naturally going to be more refined than for _Elden Ring._
1:26:33 when morgott summoned holy swords, it damn gave me instant goosebumps since it was reminiscent to Black Clovers' elven antagonist who sought to wipe out humanity by raining big ass light swords upon the capital. i miss the series sm
Sean: "You can't harm me! I am the Dink!!"
Me being silly: "...lebamp"
Sean at the same time: "...lebamp!"
me, now full of pride: "...we're both so silly... Also I have watched too much JackSepticEye while quarantining."
The biggest twist in Elden Ring was the twist Margit gave my neck 300 times
19:58 yes, there is a spell called "Flame, Cleanse Me", which stops all scarlet rot build-up and cures it. Of course, going through an area like that with it quickly building up again unless you get out, you do have to use it very often to take the least amount of damage, but luckily, it doesn't cost much FP.
YES MORE ELDEN RING! I absolutely love this play through Sean is going through
@Beast 😈 You are the worst
RUclipsr in history
Damn, sorry for your comment section to be like this, mate.
@Christofer Foodist 🅥⸜⁄ why do you think that he deserved it? did you know know him by chance?
@@teme9132 hey, mate.. it’s best if you just ignore these bots. Their bots, they’re not actual humans. Your attention is what they crave for, if you keep paying attention to them they’ll get worse and worse, trust me. Just report them.
@@hungrywarnergaming5263 nope, they are actual people, posting videos and everything. Pretty fucked up ones too.
I love this series and when it’s over I really REALLY hope Sean do a dark souls 3 series just like this even if it’s a bit old…
46:44 I'm not sure which endings you've done, but there is a theory out there that:
1. Ranni's ending, which brings about the Age of the Moon and Stars, causing the worshipping of outer gods, leads into Bloodborne.
2. The Three Fingers ending, which brings about the Age of Madness through chaotic fire, burning away all but the dragons, leads into Dark Souls.
And 3. Fia's ending, which brings Destined Death back to the world, and causes those in search of power to seek it in the lives of others, creating demons, leads into Demon's Souls.
This is the simplified version, there is a more detailed version on Reddit somewhere, but that's the jist of it.
Just a tip that my friends told me, not sure if it’s 100% true or not, but they said that even though rivers of blood scales better on paper with dex, arcane scales better for more damage
its true and jack needs to see this
The part of the map that were uncovered even though you didn't go there yet is visible because of your underground escapades
It's been a year now and I must say thank you Jack. This is the best gaming series I have seen and without it I would'nt have fell in love with Elden Ring. I was stuck with a Lordsworn Greatsword and the godrick soldier set on Rennala, but after I watched this whole series I started and finished a playthrough with the nagakiba and uchigatana with bleed (Bloody slash ash of war, the idea came from this series) I shredded bosses like Mogh and Godfrey and finished the game. Thank you!
One of the guesses for dlc content is that there is something on the direct middle of the map. Cuz if you look at all of the divine towers, they form a circle around it. Having something I. The middle would make a lot of sense
Fuck yeah! I love watching you play this and follow your footsteps! Since the previous video I've also beaten Rykard and then made my way to the Consecrated Snowfield and been waiting for a new video! I was badly stuck at Rennala when you started this series and I've come a long way because of you!
1:35:30 Radahn's body does stay behind, he just was eaten by alexander
Jack: I really want a city thats in the clouds somewhere
Me: what about Farum Azula...
His voice in the starting was so good lol...
So deep and horrifying just like an ELDEN RING boss..
One of the best intros ever!
@YeaMan He's worse than Jack he got trash on his *Paige*
Nice bro
It is theorized this is a prequel to the other Fromsoft games. Frenzied flame ending leads to dark souls, ranni's ending leads to bloodborn, and the age of duskborn is demon souls.
Dinglebamp: *slowly gets out of a coffin*
Jack: Hey!! You don't look a day over dead.
I laughed more then I should have lol! 😂😂😂