Elden Ring Lore - Who Is Rogier, The Spellblade?

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  • @phillipmitchell2254
    @phillipmitchell2254 2 года назад +819

    Rogier's apology is in acknowledgement that he's going to end up one of Fia's champions there at the location of Godwyn's corpse.

    • @dudeistguru4090
      @dudeistguru4090 2 года назад +66

      Would this mean that Fia’s ‘companions’ were actually somehow coerced/cursed into deep sleeps where they did her bidding? That sounds a bit too much like Seluvis

    • @phillipmitchell2254
      @phillipmitchell2254 2 года назад +101

      @@dudeistguru4090 Recall you find Lionel's set in Leyndell with a deathbed companion's dress, and he's her strongest champion.

    • @dudeistguru4090
      @dudeistguru4090 2 года назад +36

      @@phillipmitchell2254 truth, but why do we find his corpse? Like he just laid with Fia until he died of starvation or something. It seems more like she is overtaking their souls instead of them joining her 100% willingly.

    • @phillipmitchell2254
      @phillipmitchell2254 2 года назад +29

      @@dudeistguru4090 That's a fair point. They're pretty vague about how her power works, and I don't recall a way for the player to get deathblighted at the duplicate face under Stormveil the same way Rogier was, I'm wondering if Fia had anything to do with that as well?

    • @asahel980
      @asahel980 2 года назад +17

      you can go there and fight her champions while Rogier still can talk.

  • @dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668
    @dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 2 года назад +481

    Rogier's Rapier sure is good for dealing with those bastard birds
    The way Rogier apologizes and calls the Tarnished scary in a casual, friendly manner, it really tugged my heartstrings. Poor fellow sure has charisma, if only there was a way to save my friend.

    • @indigodragon4098
      @indigodragon4098 Год назад +10

      I feel like Roger is probably the most pure NPC Form software Did him dirty

    • @ExedraA
      @ExedraA Год назад +21

      @@indigodragon4098 no. The most pure NPC is the turtle pope in the church of vows

    • @nitrosix3206
      @nitrosix3206 Год назад +6

      @@indigodragon4098 fromsoftware always does these characters dirty

    • @froilanflorentino1252
      @froilanflorentino1252 Год назад +5

      @@ExedraA two facts can coexist

    • @sugoi9680
      @sugoi9680 Год назад +1

      @@froilanflorentino1252 you can't have two most pure things

  • @erevinwinter
    @erevinwinter 2 года назад +212

    Rogier was the best spellblade in the Lands Between, a cunning warrior... and he was a good friend.

  • @darkvioletcloud
    @darkvioletcloud 6 месяцев назад +10

    Rogier is a noble warrior, a friendly face, has an immaculate fashion sense, and honestly, he's pretty darn cute if you see him without his hat on. 10/10 I will lay down my life for him and give him a smooch.

  • @ismaelhuu3306
    @ismaelhuu3306 2 года назад +131

    Man... I really liked Rogier. I saw him in the Roundtable hold much later in the game because I didnt know he was there and then after speaking with him, seeing how he slowly died was sad. :(

  • @ryanleatigaga7596
    @ryanleatigaga7596 2 года назад +126

    ROGIER IS MY FRIEND AND I WILL FIGHT EVERY DEMIGOD AT ONCE TO SEE HIM SMILE

    • @SupahTrunks7
      @SupahTrunks7 2 года назад +19

      THIS RIGHT HERE AMEN. ROGIER DESERVES HAPPINESS AND I DONT CARE WHO WE NEED TO KILL TO GIVE IT TO HIM

    • @dudeistguru4090
      @dudeistguru4090 2 года назад +1

      Till he betrays your friendly ass to simp professionally for Fia…

    • @ryanleatigaga7596
      @ryanleatigaga7596 2 года назад +2

      @@dudeistguru4090 I finished D's quest cause I wanted his armor.
      I didn't know he simped for Fia too... :(

    • @TheMathtag
      @TheMathtag 4 месяца назад

      and who doesn't?​@@ryanleatigaga7596

  • @Dsonsee
    @Dsonsee 2 года назад +307

    Rogier is the character I can relate the most in the whole game. It's such a tragedy to see him die so early in the story

    • @nazarus1283
      @nazarus1283 2 года назад +1

      @local sir are you lost?

    • @masque9446
      @masque9446 2 года назад +20

      That's George R.R. Martin for you! He hates happy endings and ha said in an interview that he thinks happy endings for characters make a story seem less true to life...which I vehemently disagree with, but hey, he wrote the lore and parts of the story, not me.

    • @Egorator
      @Egorator 2 года назад +22

      @@masque9446 I think it doesn't have as much to do with R. R. Martins as it's just FromSoft's tendency to make you feel bad and responsible for every character you get to know dying because you stepped a few meters into a different area with no indications that it would progress this quest. If you ever played their other games, you know what I'm talking about.
      But yea, they definitely picked a right man to write about Marika's tits, innit?

    • @CloudyWolf713
      @CloudyWolf713 Год назад

      Everything alright?

    • @plooche
      @plooche 9 месяцев назад +1

      He has given me a goal to find the other half of the curse mark and see my journeys end “FOR ROGIER!”

  • @traxx75
    @traxx75 Год назад +29

    He was my first NPC Summon. I was so happy when I met him again at the castle. Did his whole questline out of respect, and cause he was genuinely nice.

  • @RatDragon91
    @RatDragon91 2 года назад +69

    When I saw his dead body at the Round Table. I almost cried. I love this guy. I wish somehow I could save him.

  • @JasonVPaz
    @JasonVPaz 2 года назад +25

    That "Always good to see you safe" hit different. Sad when i couldnt hear it anymore :(.

  • @AlexGordonMusic
    @AlexGordonMusic 2 года назад +106

    Nicest dude.
    I always assumed that ranni and rogiers coincidental sleep is actually death… and it’s an indication of the effects of coming in contact with death.
    Since rogiers living body came in contact with godwyn, it kills him…. But Ranni, who has no corporeal flesh, doesn’t suffer the effects of her life’s contact with death root / godwyns curse / whatever…. She’s merely a soul inhabiting a doll after all…. Whereas rogiers soul and corporeal flesh are vulnerable.
    So when ranni sleeps… it’s actually a death that she has the power to wake from, since she’s just a soul…. But when rogier sleeps, it’s an actual death… due to his contact with godwyns curse.

    • @charleswilliam6234
      @charleswilliam6234 2 года назад +7

      Not a bad idea in all honesty, while it might not be true it's a good way of looking at the how the death curse works on things that, technically aren't alive or dead.

    • @ZeroX7649
      @ZeroX7649 2 года назад +4

      I think this is actually a very good explanation.

  • @CYRUSX1
    @CYRUSX1 Год назад +27

    The only true friends we had at the roundtable hold are Rogier and Nepheli , and Nepheli is more like a comrade , I was happy to see Nepheli rise and become the queen that she is but Rogier's ending broke my heart

    • @liquidwater1133
      @liquidwater1133 Год назад +8

      What about roderika

    • @99knives22
      @99knives22 11 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@liquidwater1133 and hewg. And even dialos to an extent

  • @thedangerpicklejr.3524
    @thedangerpicklejr.3524 2 года назад +10

    Ahh the story of Rogier is that of tragedy
    So long, friend.

  • @doctorc.1442
    @doctorc.1442 Год назад +15

    There is a very interesting parallel between Rogier's death, Godwyn's corpse and many other creatures like the Albinaurics and Rennala's offsprings. Godwyn's corpse lost his legs which have metamorphosized into a mermaid-like fish tail. The Albinaurics slowly lose their legs, and it's unclear whether this happens on its own, or it's due to the torture they get subjected to. Even the maybe-Albinauric-maybe-not Oracle envoys have no legs and roll around like balls. Rennala's offsprings have no legs, in fact, they crawl around with their legs wrapped in a cloth that somehow reminds of a mermaid's tail. Dragonkin soldiers' legs actually are there, but they're paralyzed and likely useless. Rogier's death occurs because of a slow rot of his legs, which we can never see since they're hidden under that heavy blanket.
    What's up with death, legs, and transformation? All these creatures are linked by a strong death/rebirth motif, but I cannot really identify what's the final element that links them all. Still, this is a detail that probably has a meaning, and it's more than just some strange coincidence.

  • @willwin4744
    @willwin4744 2 года назад +48

    Definitely one of my favorite characters, one of the few people who treated you like a friend

  • @Kardel_VA
    @Kardel_VA 2 года назад +31

    "Always good to see you safe, friend."
    Oh Rogier, you were one of many I gladly called friend. Only misguided by your simping.

    • @archsteel7
      @archsteel7 2 года назад +2

      Much like Blaidd

    • @Potato_tomato47
      @Potato_tomato47 2 года назад +1

      @@archsteel7 blaaid literally couldn’t stop dumping as he was made a protecter of ranni but when she started harming the greater will his brain was freaking out as above all the greater will protects itself but he wouldn’t hurt ranni so he went insane

    • @archsteel7
      @archsteel7 2 года назад +2

      @@Potato_tomato47 Yep. Poor boy was made to Simp, and killed by it

  • @Rider211001
    @Rider211001 2 года назад +207

    You missed the bloodstain near the face under the stormveil castle. Otherwise great vid

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +83

      The Bloodstain shows the exact moment he was infused with deathblight but we didnt think it was necessary to show since we already know he was infused with death. Probably should have included it though.

    • @mrInhinyero
      @mrInhinyero 2 года назад +11

      @@square-table-gaming its interesting though as that means he died in that moment. Are we talking to Rogier's ghost/soul? What did he get from stormveil? Does deathblight actually work that way? Slowly eating away at him until he goes into eternal slumber? Is this because destined death is sealed? I don't understand the rules of "death" in this lore.

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +31

      @@mrInhinyero I would assume he can respawn just as we can, but without grace it would eat away at him until he suffered a permanent death. He does say he cannot see grace anymore so it may have very little influence on him anymore.

    • @miked4904
      @miked4904 2 года назад +3

      ​@@mrInhinyero I'm not knowledgeable enough to say for sure, but I assume that deathblight is more "death" for us as an in game mechanic. For others it might just be an affliction?

    • @jonnymario771
      @jonnymario771 2 года назад +3

      @@square-table-gaming Maybe he is guided by helphen? The guidance of the outer god of the twinbird?

  • @brosenone1068
    @brosenone1068 2 года назад +10

    if you turn the camera to the right angle, you can see under his sheet. you can see his death roots growing

  • @AlexHyena1
    @AlexHyena1 2 года назад +26

    you can see Rogier die to Deathblight in a bloodstain that appears next to the face below Stormveil, even in offline mode

  • @xZeru001x
    @xZeru001x 2 года назад +36

    think the line that he said about apologizing ahead of time was because he probably knew he would be serving FIa as we see him guarding her. Not sure if it was fully willing thing in terms of him having full control. Do believe that he would probably have talked with her and wanted to help her as lionheart believe was his name was the same but assume he died similar to rogier.

  • @AmritZoad
    @AmritZoad 2 года назад +264

    If you inspect the bloodstain near Godwyn’s face below Stormveil, you’ll see Rogier hanging in air by something. I wonder if there is a similar animation of an incantation or enemy grab attack by which we can go deeper in the lore of how the Prince of Death actually infected him with the thorns. 🤔 Anyways, a good lore video as usual. Keep it up. 👍

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +159

      It's deathblight :D

    • @justsomerando6551
      @justsomerando6551 2 года назад +62

      The animation that Rogier dies in is the animation that plays if you die to the death status effect. So there are a few incantations that can cause that death animation

    • @TheNapster153
      @TheNapster153 2 года назад +56

      I went to the Face last night, it should be noted that slashing it causes blood splatter effects like how you slash a regular enemy. Creepy.

    • @josedorsaith5261
      @josedorsaith5261 2 года назад +50

      @@TheNapster153
      The creepy part about that is because it's Godwyn's alive-nt body. The black knives killed his immortal soul and shoved his body into the roots of the tree. Instead of being reincarnated normally, he keeps showing up as faces in trees (also seen in FIA's second appearance)

    • @TheNapster153
      @TheNapster153 2 года назад +17

      @@josedorsaith5261 I'm aware of Godwyn's history. I just wasn't expecting blood of all things to come out. I'd accept if it were puss or white blood like an Albanauric, but red blood implies the Face has a working biology to an extent. Hence, my first thought was to nope out lest I suffer the same fate as Rogier.
      Speaking of, my hunch suggest that Rogier did something similar and that was how he got inflicted by Deathblight. Assuming he was already in Fia's employ by this point, than it lends more credence as to why he was in Stormveil to begin with.
      Knowing that Godwyn is Undead is different than actually observing his unalive form. In my opinion, Rogier's Investigation was a major step in Fia forming the death rune

  • @Tyler.O
    @Tyler.O 2 года назад +8

    I really liked and adored rogier....was so sad to see him go

  • @jamesholbienmendoza4354
    @jamesholbienmendoza4354 2 года назад +96

    What if D's brother was named Gol and when they 3 are all together you can call them Gol D Rogier

    • @semi-useful5178
      @semi-useful5178 2 года назад +8

      I've done some digging and through Dialogue have discovered that D are Devin and Darian.

    • @thechosenfundead6626
      @thechosenfundead6626 2 года назад +21

      Bruh it all makes sense now
      The one piece is a major shard of the elden ring

  • @Battleguild
    @Battleguild 2 года назад +3

    If you angle the camera below the blanket hiding his legs, you can see a network of thorns winding in and out of his legs.

  • @SGT_NUMBNUTZ2736
    @SGT_NUMBNUTZ2736 2 месяца назад +1

    All the tarnished this sorcerer assisted against Margit… it’s astonishing. Truly a good friend.

  • @jatelitherius9842
    @jatelitherius9842 2 года назад +17

    Rogier’s slumber may be very much like that of the Prince of Death, the body of whom yet lives despite the soul having been slain. Perhaps the Prince of Death is not just spreading the Deathroot, but spreading it’s own condition. Of course, since Rogier is not in the roots of the Erdtree i doubt he’ll start sprouting eyes & faces around the Lands Between

  • @hennessya96
    @hennessya96 2 года назад +87

    Since we know death fuels the eedteee and Godwyn was likely fed to it after his soul died. But only his soul died .. his body is likely still very powerful. So is he manifesting this face the same way Rykard forced his will on the great serpent when it devoured him, resulting in the snake manifesting aspects of Rykard and even becoming him in a way. Is Godwyn now part of the erdtree?

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +34

      I think the implication is that his cancerous body is spreading along the erdtrees roots, likely trying to take it over in the same way Rykard took over the serpent. It definitely hasnt happened yet, but the infection of the Lands between in certain areas shows it may be working, slowly but surely.

    • @hennessya96
      @hennessya96 2 года назад +15

      @@square-table-gaming He can probably never have the same influence over the erdtree that rykard has on the serpent because the erdtree seems far more powerful than the serpent and only Godwyns body could be given to the tree.

    • @hennessya96
      @hennessya96 2 года назад

      @danish rahmad Suck in a good way .. not THAT good way

    • @dots1761
      @dots1761 2 года назад +6

      @danish rahmad bc it might be hard to fight a soulless tree man who spews death blight everywhere and is covered in thorns.

    • @CoolBossFights
      @CoolBossFights 2 года назад +7

      @@hennessya96 i wouldn't be too sure about that, The God Devouring Serpent is equally immortal, notice how Rykards head is still pretty much moving and writhing after you 'kill' him. Rykard is not done yet and he is still trying to find a way to devouer the gods, togethaaaahhh

  • @sammy_freddo
    @sammy_freddo 2 года назад +11

    "He then screws our low level build by giving +8 weapon"

  • @chucheeness7817
    @chucheeness7817 2 года назад +14

    I call Rogier a 'noir magic detective'. He needs some rain and ambient jazz music.

    • @jackbelmont4389
      @jackbelmont4389 2 года назад +3

      Rogier's Journal. October 12th, 1985. A demigod has diee. This land's afraid of me. I've seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters, and the gutters are full of blood, and when the drains finally scab over all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the tarnished and demigods will look up and shout "Save us!" and I'll whisper "No."

  • @copperdrake1
    @copperdrake1 2 года назад +7

    fun fact. its not only the crabs that have godwyns face, the basalisk model was changed to spit death clouds and mimik his face as well.

  • @impositor.
    @impositor. 2 года назад +6

    Rogier is honestly one of my favorite npcs

  • @MeekMallard
    @MeekMallard 2 года назад +4

    I think that the reason why his face is under storm veil is because that’s where he was assassinated. Godrick and his lineage typically were lording over stormveil so it makes sense that that’s where he died. After he was killed, his body was moved to under the erdtree for a proper burial, which is the other place his face appears, yet obviously it’s much larger.

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +1

      I thought this at first as well, but various lore points specifically call out the assassins fleeing from the capital, so it couldn't have taken place at stormveil

  • @Dickie29
    @Dickie29 2 года назад +21

    Seriously, this is the best lore content being produced. No idea how your channel hasn’t blown up yet, but I have no doubt it will if you keep this up.

  • @danielwilkes8216
    @danielwilkes8216 2 года назад +2

    Your voice is awesome! Dynamic and relaxing. A tough balance to achieve

  • @BiggRich95
    @BiggRich95 2 года назад +2

    Didnt even notice this guy until he was dead at firelink shrine sadly

  • @randomguy9886
    @randomguy9886 2 года назад +3

    Great video, one of my favorite places for elden ring lore. I look forward to your future work

  • @colorgreen8728
    @colorgreen8728 2 года назад +38

    D said if I remember correctly, that rogier lay with fia quite often. I feel he understood that through fia those who live in death could be saved

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +25

      I don't quite remember that dialogue but I think it's actually the opposite. In Fia's ending it's the age of death so death returns to the Lands Between, but Rogier's intention was to heal them of an affliction. He disagreed with D wanting them dead for good so it's hard to say.

    • @colorgreen8728
      @colorgreen8728 2 года назад +2

      @@square-table-gaming I think D says the line, I remember it in my first play through so it’s been awhile

    • @kanra5216
      @kanra5216 2 года назад +22

      Fia says it actually - “Dear Rogier likes to speak of it when he is abed” or something like that

    • @colorgreen8728
      @colorgreen8728 2 года назад

      @@kanra5216 I think that’s it yeah

    • @mockomon6353
      @mockomon6353 2 года назад

      @@colorgreen8728 no D says it too

  • @rob-p9k
    @rob-p9k 2 года назад +6

    Hell yeah! Needed something to eat breakfast to! Thanks buddy. Good work.

  • @1stAuflage
    @1stAuflage 2 года назад +1

    If you click the blood stain just right of the face you see how Rogier got injured.

  • @shalashaskashinkawa3985
    @shalashaskashinkawa3985 2 года назад +25

    You missed a little detail about Rogiers hat it say that he supposedly had heretical practices makes me wonder if alberich was his mentor or something like, that since he was on the balcony outlooking where alberich invades and they are both aristocrats/spellblades, but maybe im just reaching who knows.

    • @FulaxoPishulaxo
      @FulaxoPishulaxo 2 года назад

      Something tells me that both of them may have a connection, but idk

  • @JeremyDeere
    @JeremyDeere 2 года назад +4

    Here! Here! For Rogier!

  • @doot7730
    @doot7730 2 года назад +9

    Poor Rogier.
    If there is ever a alternate dlc ending.
    I want your tarnished to give Rogier the title of elden Lord. He deserves it

  • @MrRedsjack
    @MrRedsjack 2 года назад +13

    You missed the point that Rogier becomes fia Champion and fights to defend her disgusting Lord.
    Perhaps D wasn't wrong and Fia is just a thrall to the god of death and she takes Rogier effectively as a slave when he is consumed by the infection spread by the god of death.
    The fact that Rogier under Fia control has no control over his actions points to the fact that Fia has no qualms to use people if it's for her lord.
    Also considering Fia's use of Rogier and D's friendship with him it's not so surprising how he hates her.

  • @Drawnartist
    @Drawnartist 2 года назад +1

    What a good man. I missed alot of this about him my first play thru by not really knowing what to look for and when to talk to him again. Next play thru

  • @makozen3457
    @makozen3457 2 года назад +6

    Omg😭 I just finished his quest, I really thought we end up saving him somehow at the end of his quest🥺...Rogier besto waifu🍻😭

  • @ajackass5950
    @ajackass5950 2 года назад +1

    These videos are my drug of choice

  • @TomClarke1995
    @TomClarke1995 2 года назад +42

    When I saw that Rogier was one of Fia’s champions as a spirit ash in the deep root depths, I balked and was killed by him.
    I wish I had the presence of mind to understand where all these NPCs paths lead and why. I still don’t understand what “Those Who Life In Death” means apart from “Undead”. But how does that happen because of the golden order?

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +11

      This is possible due to godwyns body spreading death through the lands between. It does this because he was killed by the black knives infused with destined death.

    • @Zades145
      @Zades145 2 года назад +14

      The Golden Order hates them because in the world described by the Golden Order's teachings, 'true' death or death in general isn't allowed. You're meant to have an Erdtree burial and re-enter the cycle. And remember the Rune of Death specifically was removed from the Elden Ring during the time of the Golden Order, so in general the idea of Those Who Live in Death is seen as heretical. They're separated from the 'natural order of things' (as prescribed by the Golden Order). Living as separate beings in a state of undeath rather than re-entering the Erdtree.

    • @ryansizemore5064
      @ryansizemore5064 2 года назад

      That's why they zombies or skeletons. Something is keeping them ambulatory other than the outer will/grace but none consider them alive.

  • @evil0rhero
    @evil0rhero 2 года назад +12

    You also missed that he is the second champion of fai in her quest line

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +9

      It makes sense as he sought to save those living in death. That doesn't deal with his life really, more so his death.

  • @TrueTrife
    @TrueTrife 2 года назад +2

    The first time I saw Rogier at the Roundtable on game release, I was like “why is this dude covered in shit from the legs down?” Lol

  • @thoridannn
    @thoridannn 2 года назад +5

    Great job. The content is great and the mellow style is perfect for me to listen to while working on something. Keep it up!

  • @huesudowoodo
    @huesudowoodo Год назад +1

    Rogier the true homie

  • @ghostlyswat12
    @ghostlyswat12 2 года назад +3

    Elden rings friendship is a scam all our friends end up dying 😂

  • @pumpitjr2778
    @pumpitjr2778 2 года назад +38

    I know there’s not a lot about the banished knights but could you do a video on them. You find them in some interesting spots in the game, and I wonder why they were banished from their homeland.

    • @melomet3789
      @melomet3789 2 года назад +6

      From what I've gathered they seem to be banished due to their affinity towards dragons. It seems like they may have served them and perhaps even partook in dragon communion, based on the ones you find near the dragon temple. There are also a bunch in Farum Azula, a nexus of primal dragon-sourced activity (based on the beastmen that have mammalian yet also dragon features, the presence of Placidusax and the other minor dragons). I think this would get them banished because the dragons represent the world before the golden order, and those who worship them are not aligned with the current dominating (Golden) order in the lands between.
      Partaking in dragon communion seems to be severely frowned upon in the current regime of the Golden Order, and those who do it too much contort into the magma wyrms we fight throughout the game (I believe it is the Magma Wyrm curved greatsword description that says that).
      I almost wanna say that the dragons were the lords/ heralds/ higher ups of the order of the crucible before the erdtree but that is way more speculation.
      Edit: this is just my two cents. In no way am I saying this is "how it is"

    • @pumpitjr2778
      @pumpitjr2778 2 года назад +1

      @@melomet3789 I agree with your theory very well spoken, you also pick up the dragon communion seal off a banished knight ghost limgrave.

  • @scarykayhost_incubo2274
    @scarykayhost_incubo2274 7 месяцев назад +1

    Rogier was such a good guy... (also, near the giant head, there is his "blood trace". Something took him and mafmde him levitate like Bloodborne's Amygdalas.)

  • @notazazel
    @notazazel 2 года назад +5

    Rogier is elden ring best boi

  • @Poliswag7
    @Poliswag7 Год назад +1

    I played a spell blade in my first play-through so was really sad when he got blighted. He was such a nice NPC.

  • @drankydrank1
    @drankydrank1 2 года назад +2

    I legit didn't find Stormveil Castle until I was level 99 and just burned through it. Later, I found some random dude dying on the balcony at the RTH, eventually got his equipment, and still never knew who 'that Roger guy' was...
    This is part of what makes the game amazing. The game loads and you go... never know what you may (or may not) find.

    • @buttqueef9900
      @buttqueef9900 2 года назад

      this is almost unfathomable. I truly can not comprehend that you didn't find Stormveil til 99. there is a road that leads you directly to it from the Stranded Graveyard. it is gigantic. the northern part of the map isn't even accessible until you pass through/by it. Bravo man. lmfao

    • @Eric188092
      @Eric188092 2 года назад

      @@buttqueef9900 Maybe he means Stormveil proper, after defeating Margit? In my first playthrough I ran around without a crafting kit for most of the early game because I couldn't initially afford it, and then completely forgot about it by the time it started becoming relevent (crafting furled finger remedies).

    • @drankydrank1
      @drankydrank1 2 года назад

      @@buttqueef9900 I always go the opposite way I think the game wants me to go, so I can find secrets etc., and then get back on path. I guess this time I just kept going...
      EDIT: Also, I don't think that's correct - I never had a problem accessing the rest of the map before I found the castle.

    • @CoolBossFights
      @CoolBossFights 2 года назад

      @@buttqueef9900 there is a way around Stormveil Castle on the right side, it's very well hidden but it's there.

  • @ayan3261
    @ayan3261 2 года назад +1

    Love the way you narrate

  • @charmygreen665
    @charmygreen665 2 года назад +8

    Man i summoned dude for the boss fight but never actually found him in the castle. I missed one of the best npcs damn 😭

  • @Nhillus47
    @Nhillus47 2 года назад +1

    Just got his set , cant believe he just sat there waiting to die he was like the only NPC i have no intention of killing :c

  • @remp1040
    @remp1040 10 месяцев назад +1

    I just feel bad that he is the only one that speaks to us like a regular human being to one of his actual friends.

  • @raygarcia2540
    @raygarcia2540 Год назад +1

    Lol i missed so much in my first playthrough, i simply thought that he had his legs grafted by Godrick and never figured out what his connection with D and deathroot was, even less with Ranni.

  • @terencegarcia_carter3875
    @terencegarcia_carter3875 2 года назад +1

    ●There actually is a Blood Stain of Rogier's death, didnt notice my first playthough, i had multiplayer turned off and wondered who died infront of the face

  • @alexbrooks2306
    @alexbrooks2306 Год назад +1

    The first npc helping us with the first main boss

  • @lemarmoda1816
    @lemarmoda1816 2 года назад +4

    Rogier fell into a slumber just like Fia did near the end of her quest line in deep root depths. Maybe there is a connection

  • @ShirakiAkarin
    @ShirakiAkarin 2 года назад +5

    About the slumber of Ranni and Rogier just mean one thing.
    RANNI WAS ROGIER ALL ALONG

  • @berylman
    @berylman 2 года назад +1

    Great stuff! I am hereby subscribed

  • @eamsamaraka486
    @eamsamaraka486 2 года назад +2

    not sure if you missed it or just cut it from the video but theres a white text next to where you find the pustule that if you interact with it shows how rogier gets the curse on him. Its quiet unique and somewhat hidden.

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад

      It's actually a bloodstain that shows him being infected with deathblight. We already mention in the video why he's dying but we probably should have snagged some footage of the bloodstain.

  • @magimon91834
    @magimon91834 2 года назад +9

    The whole death faction really is one of my favorites

  • @AJ.Arciniega
    @AJ.Arciniega 2 года назад +1

    “Rogier is rather skilled”
    Bro did nothing when I was fighting margit

  • @NexZu-
    @NexZu- 2 года назад +3

    Just another character I wish lived long enough to high five at the end 😢.

  • @louwie9687
    @louwie9687 2 года назад +2

    Thanks for this video, I was searching for something to watch.

  • @A_MF_Bird
    @A_MF_Bird Год назад +2

    My friend keeps calling him uncle Roger

  • @Azg4l0R1
    @Azg4l0R1 2 года назад +1

    What of the buzzing near to where Rogier is siting? its like bugs are eating his legs

  • @esmooth7085
    @esmooth7085 8 месяцев назад +1

    I’m at new game plus 8 btw and I choose the same ending every damn time. Chaos consumes all so we can start fresh

  • @malbogia8003
    @malbogia8003 2 года назад +1

    Not sure if it's unknown or just unimportant, but I've never heard anyone mention the eyes in the tree stumps having eyes. Specifically the ones where you fight the mariner

  • @chraetorcreative4402
    @chraetorcreative4402 2 года назад +2

    I wish I had seen this earlier. I'm now realizing I have locked myself out of his questline.

  • @joshualuttrell7269
    @joshualuttrell7269 2 года назад +8

    On the topic of Godwyn’s face appearing in two places - in deep root depths there seems to be lots of scaly snake-like skin around his corpse. I think it might be more likely that his corpse was assimilated by the god-devouring serpent. We know Rykard did play some role in helping Ranni orchestrate the night of black knives, so it would make sense for the serpent to have access to Gydwyn’s body. This could mean that when the serpent shed it’s skin, it also shedded a husk of Godwyn’s face, thus explaining why there are two corpses.

    • @darkmoon137
      @darkmoon137 2 года назад

      It also makes sense that the face is so big since we see rykard's post-absorbed face in the fight. Another youtube lore duder made a similar comment, thinking that godwyn was eaten by the God-serpent. Certainly an interesting concept, rykard certainly has something to do with ranni's plot

    • @mattagon6407
      @mattagon6407 2 года назад

      The flaw with this is that I believe there is an item description saying that it is effectively a cancerous growth on the roots and that there are more than the sole body and the face on the roots. We may see more of them in the DLC if we can access more underground areas of the game etc.

    • @declicitous1763
      @declicitous1763 2 года назад +1

      The scales are more likely from Fortissax as he’s in the deathbed dream, as much as I like this theory I just think there’s too much going against it

    • @darkmoon137
      @darkmoon137 2 года назад

      @@declicitous1763 ah that's true. Yeah it's a neat idea I just dont know how much uncontroversial evidence there is to support it

  • @ItsSayrn
    @ItsSayrn 2 года назад +1

    I kept going to avenge roger but in the end I lost my way and became the lord of frenzied flame

  • @colorgreen8728
    @colorgreen8728 2 года назад +7

    I would love having death flames that the omen use but as an incantation that coats our sword, we would spray it on our weapon like them. Another one would be death flames in a forward motion out of our mouth, like the omen. It would do holy damage, like the eclipse shotel

    • @TrickyMellow
      @TrickyMellow 2 года назад

      Personally I would love to have ghostflame that the death rite bird use as an incantation or sorcery.

    • @colorgreen8728
      @colorgreen8728 2 года назад

      @@TrickyMellow you actually can, one spell explosive ghostflame

    • @TrickyMellow
      @TrickyMellow 2 года назад +1

      @@colorgreen8728 yeah I know, but what I mean is I want more than that single spell. Like ghostflame bolt that can be cast repeatedly (think of pebble), weapon enchanment or something instead of that singular aoe spell we currently have.

    • @colorgreen8728
      @colorgreen8728 2 года назад +1

      @@TrickyMellow I’d absolutely love that too, it would be amazing to have in the game! I wish that the rancor spells actually did frostbite as they are pretty much ghostflame, but I’d love weapon enchantment and stuff like that a whole bunch

  • @yomama8212
    @yomama8212 2 года назад +3

    a horn dog that's who

  • @GilbertVonArphostein
    @GilbertVonArphostein 6 месяцев назад +1

    I held that sword with me, though I was a mage.

  • @LadyAsmodeus
    @LadyAsmodeus 2 года назад +1

    did you know that one of the bloodstains around Godwyn's corpse is one of Rogier's? Its easier to notice if you play offline - it shows him being impaled by thorns

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад

      Yup! That is the Deathblight taking hold and due to Rogier no longer being connected to grace, instead of respawning he is made permanently ill until he dies.

  • @AssassinX-et8yc
    @AssassinX-et8yc 2 года назад +2

    When we fight Fia’s champions, Rogier is one of them that fights us the player alongside with Lionel, is there sum connection to this? Or is it just a spirit ash that is a mimic of Rogier?

    • @deusex9731
      @deusex9731 2 года назад +3

      we find Lionels armour in Leyndell, next to a dress that looks like Fias. Both characters got the deathbed companion treatment from Fia, and she is talking about that Rogier is laying next to her

  • @rileyshugart2808
    @rileyshugart2808 2 года назад +3

    Maybe those faces are failed manifestations of Godwyn? Due to him lacking a soul ofc, manifesting properly is doomed to fail.

  • @eji
    @eji 2 года назад +2

    I kept waiting to see if you'd click the bloodstain to show how Rogier got hit with deathblight, but... :(

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад

      We had footage that ended up on the cutting room floor. Kind of an oversight on our part

  • @lolosh99
    @lolosh99 Год назад +1

    A 🫡 for Rogier

  • @GsusCrust
    @GsusCrust 2 года назад +4

    He's the main character. Our life is just a spinoff in his.

  • @vihicringe
    @vihicringe Год назад +1

    If you wonder why he is really cursed if you go to the Godwyn face under stormveil castle their is a bloodstain and if you touch it he is impaled by a scarlet rot weapon that is a spear I say commander o,neil did it

  • @sapphie132
    @sapphie132 2 года назад +1

    My first reaction was "wait, Rogier has a questline?"
    Completely missed it

  • @roeypervo3688
    @roeypervo3688 2 года назад +2

    this hero saved me against margit - i own him a lot
    then he gave me his blade - i used it a lot
    the best NPC in elden ring for me

  • @ggplyr1262
    @ggplyr1262 2 года назад +2

    Obviously he is Rogier, blade of spell...

  • @topcat59
    @topcat59 2 года назад +3

    Great lore.😺

  • @MaryArts
    @MaryArts 2 года назад +3

    I ask you: would Rogier be happy with the Duskborn ending? Is this what he would have liked if he obtained the cursemark? Or would he hate it if immortality is ridden from the land, since he respected Ranni's decision to murder Godwyn to cast eternal life upon the lands? All he said is that he wanted to protect those who killed Godwyn. Does that mean he also wants likes if things stay this way? Or would he like Fia's way of things?
    Rogier got into his demise 3 days ago in my playthrough. I still am not over it. Especially the fact I couldn't bond more with him and I still don't really understand why he wanted the cursemark. I come here to the commentsection to find people that are not just playing the game to get sick loot, but actually care for the characters. And I care a lot damn...

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +4

      I don't think he'd be jazzed about that ending. He wanted to cure those who live in death, not necessarily spread death across the lands between.

    • @MaryArts
      @MaryArts 2 года назад +2

      @@square-table-gaming Understandable. But yet I don't know if any ending frees those who live in death.

    • @MaryArts
      @MaryArts 2 года назад +2

      @@square-table-gaming Ah and thank you for your super quick answer. It determines my way on viewing the possible endings. Maybe the Elden Lord shall become mad because of Rogier's death and will curse everyone lol

    • @ryansizemore5064
      @ryansizemore5064 2 года назад

      2nd playthrough I realized he was kinda cool. His death is just to from npc standard to make me sad though.

  • @steamedhamlet
    @steamedhamlet Год назад +1

    The face below stormveil is connected to a body though. How could it cwlong to Godwyn when it already has a human torso? If it's a relic the same way the sacred relic sword is just Radagon's body, then that must mean there were victims other than Godwyn from the assassination on the night of the black knives

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  Год назад

      The face below Stormveil is part of Godwyn. When we find his body below, you can see multiple cancerous growths coming from him. The face is one of these.

  • @Livingshadow2009
    @Livingshadow2009 Год назад +1

    I thought he (godwyn) was murdered in the 1st location in stormveil then the mutated corpse we see later is where he was buried.

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  Год назад +1

      He was and it is. Godwyn's corpse is spreading through the lands between like a cancer. This face is a piece of his corpse that's branched off.

    • @Livingshadow2009
      @Livingshadow2009 Год назад

      @@square-table-gaming thanks for clearing up my confusion.

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  Год назад +1

      @@Livingshadow2009 That's what we're here for!

  • @darkhobo
    @darkhobo 2 года назад +1

    So... Who else has noticed that the explanation of those who live in death kinda doesn't make sense...
    Godwyn attached to the root of the Great tree is causing those who live in death. But there are Pustules in Faram Azula. And undead beastmen.
    There are no roots reaching Faram Azula and one could assume that Faram Azula has been detached from the greater Landmass since before the night of black knives.
    Which means SOMETHING about the story we get is a lie, or at least, has been forgotten.

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  2 года назад +3

      So death existed in farum Azula before it was hidden within Malikeths blade. I think that would explain this. Also, Farum Azula exists somehow outside of time. Godwyn isn't the projenitor of destined death, just it's current vessel since he was slain with the black knife.

  • @alpacaofthemountain8760
    @alpacaofthemountain8760 10 месяцев назад +1

    A truley good lad

  • @billybatts8283
    @billybatts8283 2 года назад +1

    Just struck me as a guy struggling with a terrible form of IBS.

  • @CursedPR
    @CursedPR Год назад +1

    Now the question is, had Rogier not been paralyzed, would he have stayed loyal to Fia, or would he turned on Fia in favor of serving Lady Ranni?

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  Год назад

      Likely Fia since he believed those who live in death were a victim of circumstance.