Elden Ring - Song of the Bats (Latin and English Translation)
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Check out Antonius Tertius's detailed explanation of the song: • Elden Ring Singing Bat...
1 Hour Version of the Song: • Elden Ring - Song of t...
Comment in my pinned comment below your translations so I can add them to the video.
Usually the Bats get hostile when you are too close to them but I used a game trainer for them to not attack me. Only works on PC and you can get banned if you use it online.
O locus ille, beatus quondam, nunc deminuit.
Unfortunately that land once blessed now has diminished.
Nos destinatae matribus, nunc fiunt turpes.
We were destined to become mothers, now become tarnished.
Ploravimus lacrimavimusque,
We lamendted and shed tears,
sed nemo nos consolatur.
but no one consoles us.
Aureum cui irascebaris?
Golden one at whom you were angry?
Huge thanks to Antonius Tertius for translations and explanations of the song. Check out his video and leave a like: ruclips.net/video/xQty0LfGjwk/видео.html
1 Hour Version of the song: ruclips.net/video/LkIpUQY10Ww/видео.html
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Usually the Bats get hostile when you are too close to them but I used a game trainer for them to not attack me. Only works on PC and you can get banned if you use it online.
how where you sitting their without them attacking you ?
i was waiting for this, one of the creepiest details to look for on elden ring, the song is mesmerizing. thanks
it took me longer than I care to admit to realize that the 2nd line was english, not latin. And that's as someone who studied latin for 4 years.
I wholeheartedly thank you for this recognition :) RUclips Algorithm always hides my videos from people.
@@xs1l3n7x indeed, this creeped me the F out when I first heard it in the dark and then to see her and her coven lying on the rocks below...
Haunting. And at the same time, one of my favorite touches...
I remember thinking "cool, a singing NPC. Can't wait to meet them"
What a surprise I was in for
same here lmao
Same, panic rolled off the cliff shortly after. ^^
I was cautious when I found the one on the Weeping Peninsula, I suspected some siren shit and I was right. Still sat and listened for a bit though before dropping down and slamming my claymore into her head.
Bruh I was so terrified when I found out it was a bat!
they always kick the shit out of me xD
My first ever encounter made me feel like a sailor falling for a siren because I really thought it was an nock or something just singing nearby, I love how unique all the enemies are in elden ring.
That's exactly what they are though. People seem to not get that they're *supposed* to be sirens. Fromsoft is doing a thing where they're relating them to bats rather than birds, but the point is that they're sirens doing exactly what sirens are supposed to do.
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe you're definitely right about that, i usually think of sirens as mermaid-like
@@GluttonPeach They combine the siren trope with harpies, which in Greek mythology were these nasty cannibalistic vulture hags.
And the artwork is stunning. After the landfall of money and prestige they're receiving on ER, the next game will match the art and gameplay with next level technology and optimization. From Software may take the throne from Blizzard / Activision and become the new king of the jungle.
Its realy amazing
The most beautiful way of expressing "why God?" I've ever heard.
I have a question for you god. WHYYYYYYY?!
@@CBRN-115 Don't be so sad Mario, have a mushroom
lol, basically
God: "We apologize for the inconvenience."
But... why😭
- Oscar of Astora
"Golden one at whom you were angry?" Now we know...
"What was her wish? Her prayer, her confession?
There is no one left to answer and Marika never returned home again."
Who was she angry at?
@@NoName-gp8il The Hornsent most likely
@NoName-gp8il Small lore dump, Marika's people were slaughtered, horrifically merged together and stuffed in jars in an attempt to become saints by the Hornsent or as the people in the lands between know them as: the Omen. Yeah I'd be mad if I was her too
@@lancethedecayedguardian2719
mad is honestly an understatement
5 years of Latin in high school made my ears perk up as soon as I heard that song. That's legitimately the only time I used Latin ever since I graduated.
I think many Final fantasy games songs in latin too
Is the translation accurate?
@@iColinix it should be alright. I don't recall enough of latin to notice or correct details, but that's the basic gist
And from a quick cursory glance, it looks like they actually used proper grammar! Its so nice to see the writers actually put in the effort, rather than just type the English into google translate and call it a day
@@iColinix yes,very accurate. I studied Latin for 5 years as well
This is a great example of how Miyazaki insists that there be a sense of "dignity" to the beings in his games. Yes, the beings have a grotesqueness and horror to them, but they often all retain some semblance of dignity about them too. You need that balance to sell the majesty of the world and to make its rot and ruin feel all the more meaningful.
Yes, but then you find Dung Eater
Feels like Miyazaki insisted that the was indeed the most loathsome being that ever crossed the Lands Between, without any sign of dignity about him at all.
@@layerp I dunno. The Dung Eater is pretty horrible, but even he had a noble quest at first that has been twisted into a sick obsession.
The Dung Eater was originally tasked by the Golden Order with rooting out the Curse and cleansing the Lands Between, but over time that task became an obsession that turned very twisted. The Dung Eater now seeks to spread the curse rather than attempt to remove it - even infecting the very Order itself with the Curse. Because once the Curse is part of life itself, then no one is cursed anymore. That's why his ending is called the Blessing of Despair.
@RUclips is highkey garbage ,l9o99999k
Miyazaki is a damn genius, and deserves all the praise he can get at this point. He defined an entire genre of videogames.
i forget which eternal city it was, but it was full of these very weak, emaciated hollows that, since they were hostile, i was killing indiscriminately. I saw that a few of them were carrying red beater shields with inverted hawks on them, and I remembered i picked up that same shield ages ago, so i decided to read the item description to see if there was Lore. lo and behold, all of the little grey men i’ve been slaughtering were slaves, forced to explore the eternal city by their captors. i didn’t kill a single one after that
Her tone when she sings “but no one consoles us” is so bitter and tragic. I love the implied story here that we really have to work to find
@CraftnStuffs ???
@CraftnStuffs I’m sure you’re familiar with “projection”…
@@LeavingCaladan 💀💀💀
@CraftnStuffs your tears are delicious
The story is all there though? The lands were better before, the grace was snatched away and alot of people were forced into being tarnished. Though as to what experiments specifically made these bat men I would like to hear about
I like how dude made his character sit down respectfully for the bat lady’s song
That’s the behavior of one who is heavily equipped with maidens
"That’s the behavior of one who is heavily equipped with maidens" is a line I will be using from now on. Thank you
@@sunderark Now we need "one who is heavily equipped with bachelors" and "one who's virginity supress mother Maria"
@Fée de Sylvestre Perfection💯
Too bad they violently attack you on sight lol
1000th like for ya
"Golden One, at whom are you angry?" Gives me chills
she about to feel my golden halebardo cracking her skull soon
That's elden beast
@@dyaltra4750 Could also refer to the outer god of the golden order
@@dyaltra4750 outer will who is the gifter of grace
@@dyaltra4750 nah it's godwyn
I really hate to interrupt their songs. Always leave them alone as much as possible and just enjoy bat granny's beautiful singing
The moment I hear them singing my spine grows cold I find them the most creepy enemy of all the game so while you leave them alone I get a huge urge to run my sword down their throat to stop their hellish singing
I thought it was an npc when I first encountered. Then I died lol what an awesome from soft memory for me 🤤
Granny got a DEEP MAN VOICE ON ER
Every time I hear them I set out to exterminate them. There’ll be no singing in elden ring.
I’m probably the only person that killed them the second they made a single noise..
I had no idea that they were singing Latin and it's even better that it translates to something incredibly meaningful in context with the lore.
The best part for me is that they're using classical Latin and not church Latin. That's not something you hear every day! (I bet there's a number of people who read the Latin lyrics and went "Hey, she's pronouncing things all wrong!"
@@odenetheus Sorry for my ignorance but what is the difference between church latin and classic latin?
@@CyrusLagom one is cool and one is not
@@odenetheus i fucking love classical latin. my ears perked up when passing by the one near the glintstone dragon and I just left them alone
I got the chance to learn Latin for 2 years. Pity I forgot all but still recognize some words
You don't need to speak latin to feel the sadness in her voice. Such a beautiful melody and tone.
Her? it's a bloke!
Dude, when I first heard one of these bats, I ran around trying to look for the source of the singing, thinking it was an npc I could talk to. But, I just found a bunch of bats and the singing stopped then I was murdered by said bats. Thinking back on it, it was really unique in the Soulsborne genre of game. You're always taught that anything with a voice is either an important boss or a friendly/hostile npc, usually friendly. So, when you hear human singing you're like "Oh there must be an npc somewhere I can meet." At least, that was what came to my mind first.
Which is really neat since in mythology, these creatures were known for attracting sailors and whatnot with their vocals and 'good looks' to kill them. Always terrified me as a kid.
I remember walking right up to the first one I heard like "oh boy voice lines!"
Same thing happened to me, I heard singing and dropped down the cliff tot kill off the bats before looking for the npc, little did i know I killed the one singing in the frenzied fight since I was almost over the other cliff edge haha.
Brooooo same! I think I was in caelid somewhere and heard them. Deadass went "Oh thank god an NPC please sell me something I'm low on boluses"
Ran up to it and it kicked my ass HARD
Same dude I tried for so long to find the singing npc only to get merked by bats
From Software did such a great job of humanising the enemies and characters in this game. There's a moment in one of the catacombs where a larger enemy essentially laments over his fallen kindred, so much so that he completely ignores you. There are many more moments and details that give you a sense that before the shattering, you would be looking at normal citizens of the lands between, with everything and everyone since becoming corrupted beyond recognition.
And Elden Ring is considered one of if not THE least darkest Soulsborne game made by FromSoft
Don't care, backstabbed every single one of them
Agreed. Shit I even feel bad about killing pots now.
I've always had the feeling in Elden Ring that was I intruding, that most of the things I fought were more or less trying to live their life as best as they could in a kingdom that was broken and I was ruining what semblance of peace they had.
@@Cairo40000 Do u remember the catacomb jt was in
This area made me feel super immersed, climbing the cliffs with this song in the background and the gorgeous view to my left, fighting these bat human creatures. The boss arena at the end was also absolutely amazing, it’s a shame that a lot of players might miss this part out because they used the lift instead.
Are you talking about the magma werm or is there a different boss in that area
@@flowerasteroid6241 yeah the werm, I liked the arena
The singing bats are other places too though. I first encountered it on the weeping peninsula. But yeah the cliffside is a cool area
I highly doubt people use the Dectus Lift first.... I traveled to Liurnia first and headed North and went downwards into the ravine and towards the cliff side elevator.
I didn't even explored all of Eastern Limgrave and then into Weeping Peninsula
Also if some players had some Sense of the world they're exploring... They should understand that the Finger Reader Crone gives them a vague clue about where to go next in the world
So there’s a lift?
The first one you encounter has it's wings wrapped around itself slitting crosslegged. from afar it looks like a monk(almost like budda) in robes. The Gregorian esque singing really cements that vibe. So much so I assumed it was a non combat npc. ... Was quickly rid of that notion.
I thought it was a monk or a merchant and wanted to speak to them just to get gageled by the bat's everywhere
I find their songs very entrancing and I feel like that’s what they were going for. I always enjoy hearing them and the Valkyrie’s singing as well. The merchants have really cool instrumental as well
And the depraved perfumer can play the flute! They could all make a great band lol.
@@fishyfish1917 be one intense band lol.
The Valkyries can sing? I've never heard them
Like the dragkhar in wheel of time. Basically humanoid bats that lure you in with "music" and suck your soul out haha
the merchants can really pluck a string, and the crazy perfumers flute is also hauntingly beautiful, couple them with a bat vocalist and a demihuman on drums and a weird bubble brass section of whatever thos trumpet-hammer swingers are thatd be "Elden Thing" the Band that can pluck the chords of your soul...
Lets put a bit of lore into the songs of some bat lady but hey, let's do it in latin! God bless fromsoft.
I was taught latin in elementary school, is it not the same in other parts of the world? If not, why?!
@@cristiancojocaru9821 Unless you live along the southern border, are from a family that regularly speaks another language already, or live within one of few regions that have long traditions of another language the majority of people in the USA only speak English.
@@Akeche Fair point but the US is a small % of the world and it is known the only part of their education system that contains education is the title.
@@cristiancojocaru9821 where are you from? Most people have either English (If not English-speaking country) or German/French/Spanish as their 2nd language during school years. Really cool that you were taught latin.
@@sofaericsson6392 We had french starting in 2nd grade and english starting 5th grade. I'm from eastern europe (romania to be precise). Latin was starting 6th grade if memory serves. Mind you this was back in the 90's and while I did confirm with some of my younger students (I mentor 3D graphics) that they were taught latin as well, I can not say for certain it is still presently being taught.
EDIT: but I do find it weird that there seems to be little thougth given to ancient cultures, in romanian orthodox churches a lot of songs are still sung in ancient greek (yes, you can spook your greek friends if you start speaking in that dialect, I know I made them turn their heads like in the exorcist).
One experience for me recently was pretty cool.
I finally reached the Altus Plateau the other day, and I was riding around exploring. I found an abandoned carraige without a chest in the cargo, but behind it was a path of corpses through a little thicket of trees. I followed the trail and saw a Pumpkin Head, sleeping on the cliff. I approached him stealthily with every intention to kill him, but I noticed just how many of those little kangaroo squirrels were surrounding me. They didn't even seem to be running away from me, like they felt safe with the Pumpkin Head there.
Then I felt a little wash of calm over me and decided I'd just sneak around him and take the item and run. He didn't even stand up.
I don't know if the wildlife there are actually made more numerous, or nonafraid, or if the Pumpkin Head really was nonhostile, or if it was just a bunch of coincidences - it was a very memorable and even beautiful experience.
This right here is what has been making Elden Ring a memorable game. For every wolf that can one shot you, and for every invasion that suddenly disconnects your friends because of the shitty netcode, there's still these moments of awe hidden in every corner.
You can check if the NPC is aggressive with his : Press lock on, if it targets them then it means they are aggresive. That's my way of checking :)
If take moment to wait(which is hard in a game prides itself on one shot ambushes) there are many enemies which do not aggro at all, or have very forgiving aggro paths, like animals in general
Wolves, long as don’t sit there and stare em down will almost always semi ignore you, rot dogs tho, diff story right
@@BRBMrSoul makes sense rott dogs are rotten to the core they are literally only attacking because they can
@@promero14 Well yes, but that isn't entirely reliable to check if something will be aggressive or not. I mean, you can target sheep and birds too, but they don't attack. My character could lock on to the Pumpkin Head, but he never stood up and attacked even when I walked right in front of him. He probably would have defended himself if I decided to hit him, but we decided to just leave eachother be. uwu
When I first heard the singing, I had no idea that it was coming from an enemy; lured in like a Siren call. More beautiful is that there’s actual meaning in the lyrics; a mournful ode to a golden age long past. Bravo, FromSoftware!
I love how these are both incredibly frustrating enemies who are very satisfying to defeat, and yet beautifully humanized beings who are capable of such loveliness that I feel like an utter bastard for killing them after they aggro me.
I don’t. I split their skulls with my golden halberd every chance I get. NO MERCY, NO RESPITE. Especially not for an enemy with such BULLSHIT attacks.
Yeah, I was legit gonna walk by and leave the first one I saw alone. Then she one-shot me with a grab attack… lol
@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 that's nice.
@@jayman5234 runes are runes, they’re damnable abominations, and almost every single one of them I’ve killed has dropped at least a tier 9 golden rune. They’re little more than hideous, flying bags of money. Couldn’t care less what they once were, every single one I’ve met has attacked me. They fucked around, they found out, they made me rich, AND THEY WILL NOT BE THE LAST. The only thing that this video proves to me is that they are likely sapient, which means they are fully cognizant of what they’re doing when they attack me. If they were just animals, I might defend myself and keep moving away. But they KNOW what they’re doing. So fuck em.
@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 cool.
At first I thought it was about the shattering of the Elden Ring, but seeing how these are half-animals, I think they are singing about the arrival of the Greater Will and the Elden Beast that basically overthrew the old order of half-beasts, dragons, and giants for gods and humans.
"Unfortunately, that land once blessed, now has diminished" not the Shattering, but the world before the eldtrees and the Elden beast's arrival from the stars.
"We were destined to become mothers, now become Tarnished." not the state of the player. Tarnished is everyone exiled by the Lands Between and the gods' grace. they are basically excommunicated. So these Matriarchs, have become exiled from the natural order of things, or society. she is basically saying they have been reduced to animals while they belong to royalty.
"We lamented and shed tears, but no one console us." no need to explain. they are not any different from humans, but they are treated as monsters. Their plight is clear, but nobody is willing to empathize with some "horrible bat-creature" just look at the Misbegotten of Castle Morne, or the blacksmith. Half-beasts aren't considered humans.
"Golden One at whom you were angry?" they are questioning why the Greater Will, the Elden Beast, and Marika/Radagon had been so cruel to the first creatures of the Lands Between when they had done no harm to them.
edit: after sote, she is talking about Marika's war on the hornsent and basically overthrowing the old system. these bats were probably divine bat beasts, just like gladiator lions and the red wolves. all lesser yet powerful deities in the lands between. the blessing she is talking about is the crucible, as it has been siphoned and given order into a tower, the erdtree. we all know who the gold one was angry at and why.
Thank you for this analysis. Now that I’ve beaten the game it is so nice to dive into the lore
Its crazy to see so many people gone "hollow"
Hella crazy game
Damn thanks for that info
feels more right, very thanks bro
Great take!
DLC makes this make even more sense
after all this time.. now we know why marika was so angry.. and all of this becomes even more tragic than already was 😢
"Golden one, to whom you were angry"
Damn, that hit deep.
I think a better translation would've been,
"Golden one, at whom were you angry?"
Aw, even the bats are going through it. I thought they were just trying to lure us in like sirens.
Same. I called them sirens in-game for a while but this made me realize it’s not a song to lure us in, but a lament.
I thought they were vampires singing to lure in men and women.
Yeah, anything with a consciousness gets seriously shafted in this game.
These are sirens. partially visually taken from Slavic mythology
@@zloy_tux no, they're not lol. Sirens are at sea
Whoever took the time out of their day to share the translation deserves some good things to happen to them.
Thank you.
The “but no one consoles us” is incredibly haunting
Encountering that first one slightly downhill from these and thinking a friendly npc was ahead only to see its true form was one of the best horror moments in the souls series for me
I found them scary in my first encounter at Redan's castle among the bats. Hearing her singing was a haunting moment to be as it was introducing a new flying foe for me. Every time I hear thier voice i feel the danger and yet sadness in thier hearts as I listen to their lament
the song triggers my fight or flight. i wish they were much harder to deal with
First time i met these things is in Liurnia, i tho it was sus there was a singing lady hangin out with bats
@@bryllbotardo5749 the ones in fort faroth aren't fat enough for you? running into those ones as your first encounter...
@@marthas9255 they're pretty vulnerable once you're at the topside and i didn't know faroth existed til i beat radhan so i'm pretty much over leveled by then. tho yeah i can see them giving a lot of people some hard times specially if you get hit by poison
@@balthasargelt447 its clearly a man voice. im confuse at why everyone call them "her"
The singer has a beautiful voice of "alto", the lower register of female voice (The highest would be a "soprano")
I think what makes this song particular is the use of semitones (related to pain) and diminished and augmented intervals, wich destabilize the tone and makes the song sound creepy (and beautiful!)
Edit: I hate those things 😭... They always kill me
Also the fact that she's using classical Latin is awesome (even if it's a tad uglier than modern/church Latin)
@@odenetheus Interesting! I didn't know that. I thought it was church Latin
@@teresatovar8523 It's tricky. She's pronouncing ae as e (as in ecclesiastical Latin) rather than the ai of classical, but irascebaris as iraskebaris (classical Latin), instead of the irashebaris of church Latin. Additionally, her vowel length is all messed up because of the singing, so it's hard to tell.
I'd say pronouncing sce as ske is a better sign than pronouncing ae as e, though, because that one is less likely to be because of a mispronunciation. It's hard to mix up ske and she, really, but kind of easy to mess up ai as e.
@@odenetheus It's incredible how many profound details have this game. It's hard for me to imagine a Japanese person (Miyazaki) thinking of all this stuff, which are part of ancient european culture...
By the way, I live in Italy and here most people know latin. They study at highschool. I'm Spanish but we don't study latin as well as Italian people.
@@teresatovar8523 Yeah, well there are plenty of people who worked on this game who are not Miyazaki.
I heard this singing first from a top a cliff, I dropped from the cliff to the path below thinking a merchant was there, only to fall into the middle of a group of giant bats and Manbat practicing for Liurnia's got Talent.
I remember hearing this and I was like "this sounds beautiful, I don't wanna kill them. I'll wait until the song is over"
Lmao how long did u make it
@@scissrface2182 He's still listening to this very day.
Fighting the boss shortly after and sitting there waiting to be summoned is some of my favorite details about this game.
The view from that grace is so good I love it
Magma Wyrm Makar ❤️
@@oozeguysway494 really cool arena fr
@@oozeguysway494 my favorite boss to fight. Idk why haha
The light of the Erdtree seemed a blessing to some. Bountiful harvests. Neverending life, filled with any such splendor they could wish for. For others? It was nothing but a golden warden, a watchful eye towering over the lands. Babes, born horned and shunned were cast into the sewers to rot. Not die, never die. Such a fate would have been a blessing. Instead, they were cursed to tragically unending lives beneath the streets, festering in their own hatred. Winged creatures, cast aside. Things made by the hands of men and reviled for it, trapped in their own clay bodies. To these, would the reign of the Golden Order seem beautiful? Would they sing the praises of a world built upon their backs?
Wtf this is beautiful is this from the game or did you write it??
@@KanadaJin haha thank you, I wrote it
@@boinguss dude you should be proud I almost shed a tear
Incredibly well-written and thoughtful.
should get geralt to read your text. ^^
After encounter them, I understand why people will fall into the trap of siren.
Love hearing them sing
Oh my heart 💔 Despite how the flesh has been stretched into a bat, you can still see the old woman that was.
I knew the song sounded sad, but knowing the truth of its lament has shaken me.
*swings broadsword*
*wipes Cheetos from shirt*
*gains 1,518 runes*
*fart ripples across wooden seat*
*scene fades to black*
@@Sjolden98 beautiful
@OlJimJam You’re so smart and cool for consuming media and feeling nothing!
@OlJimJam these tools cry when watching movie trailers.
@@judgeprime3730 Sounds like a you problem, LMAOOOO
I feel like "Song of Lament" is the ultimate proof that human voice is the greatest instrument of all times.
This is oddly haunting to me, especially the quickening of the pace of the singing in the second verse.
weird that the half human bat monster singing a mournful lament for the time before would be haunting ;p
Yeah how odd
@@TheNecromorphkiller lmao
Great work! Here's a Japanese translation, made from the English translation.
悲しきかな 祝福されし彼の地は 毀損されてしまった
母になるべく運命付けられていた我らも いまや褪せ人
我らは嘆き そして 泣いた
だが しかし そんな我らを慰める者はない
黄金の人よ 貴方は誰に怒（いか）っていたのか
I cant read that
@@wendigo2442 xD
I added it as a subtitle and credited you. Thanks.
😢
I returned to hear the song again and was surprised to find that my comment had got so many likes and been added as a subtitle. Thank you all.
Put aside the creepy and dark aesthetic of certain characters and enemies, sometimes they really remind me of human beings. The granny bats singing, the merchants performing, the weaker zombies running away scared when you slay the overseers... Even the friendly pots having average conversations with you makes you feel like you're not the only "sane" person. If not, the game would just be about a warrior in a dark and corrupt world killing mindless, emotionless foes for a living, that would be way too lonely
That's just dark souls 1
Killing mindless, emotionless foes was pretty much how my whole play through went
player is the actual insane person. killing everything for fun.
@@user-ps1kk1cy5j classic murder-hobo
(Laughs in bloodborne)
"Oh golden one, at whom were you angry"
Oh Marika The Eternal, I understand you now. I understand Elden Ring now.
Before DLC: "Hey Marika, what gives? Who is it you were so mad about?"
After DLC: _"DEMON SPAWNED WRETCHES! YOU WILL AAALLLL DIIIIEEE!"_
@@MarvinT0606didn't expect to see Cenarius' Warcry at the bottom.
I love these little musical bits from enemies, one of my favorites is the Page playing an instrument in a small courtyard in Leyndell Capital.
the madness guys under the sewer play a neat song too
My first encounter up that mountain was done in the dark, i was wounded, low on flasks, just praying that i would find a grace soon enough. Then climbing up a ladder this song starts to echo along the chambers, i press on, until i see a lit torch and this creature singing.
And i get so confused cause i dont recognise any of it, but i stand still for a few minutes and just listen, this must be an NPC i said to myself, that is gorgeous, so i approached, rest is history 😌
Lmao beautiful story. I can imagine every word
Same same messed me up
Didn't expect despair
Sounds like how most marriages start and end. 😂
Non-Soulbornes will think this is a Happy Ending lol
This was creepy the first time I encountered them. I thought it was an npc singing bat it was a literal BAT-MAN.
I was disappointed that it was just a mob that was singing and not an npc you could interact with
MAN-BAT
Fr at first I was like who singin like then I turn a corner nd I’m like OH SHIT WHY SHE SCREAMIN
Man... Tell me about it. I was in killing spree when I noticed the singing stoped, and was like, "wait. It was the Bat singing?"
I am vengeance
I am the night
I am BATMAN
IT'S THE HORNSENT SHE WAS ANGRY BECAUSE OF THEM!!!! rightfully so. The dlc answered so much
One of the coolest things in Elden Ring tbh
I’ll never forget this song
I love how many of the enemies (and merchants) create music. It immediately gives them depth and makes them more human. You see some creatures that are supposed to be just stupid enemy monsters but they are enjoying sounds that we can listen to and appreciate... it definitely gave me pause when approaching them.
I felt bad fighting the ancestral followers because of this. They were hanging out listening to music, herding animals, and worshipping their god in peace and then I just barge in and fuck them up. Kind of made me wonder if I was really the bad guy in this game.
Same with those undead that clearly dont want to fight and we just wack em.
In the frenzied flame lower area, the music is played by the enemies... Then I looked and realized all the corpses also have instruments.... Which you then realize all these people are buried underground with no way out and only music.... Of course they are raving mad, wtf wouldn't be... I cant bring myself to kill any of the enemies that don't fight back or are just playing music by themselves in this area....
@@Ninvus2 saaaame. I usually leave them alone unless our paths have to cross because they’re just vibing
Such a sad song so beautiful tho
Until they murder your face.
I personally don’t think they’re actually singing out of their own emotion.
I think it’s a song they copied and sing to lure unsuspecting creatures close to them before brutally murdering and eating them. More akin to how harpy’s will sing to lure their prey before eating them.
@@toodleselnoodos6738 that does make a lot more sense
@@toodleselnoodos6738 Notice these ones not giving a fuck until you decide to start some shit by running up through their place and smacking them?
A little fun fact: the pronunciation these creatures have speaking latin is the original one. Latin has two pronunciations: the ecclesiastic one and the original one. Some differences are, for example:
- the letter "c" with the letters "e" or "i" right after. In the ecclesiastic one "ce/ci" are pronounced "che/chi"; in the original one instead they are pronounced "ke/ki".
- the diphtongs such as "ae" or "oe", which in the ecclesiastic one are pronounced as "e", but in the original one are pronounced just as they are written.
From what i can tell, these creatures have the original pronunciation.
No, these speak in the ecclesiastic way or something similar, the v's they pronounce like in the english way or other romance language, in classical latin the v is pronounced like a w or a u. For example with the ploravimus should be prounced ploraw/uimus, or at least that's what I understood when I studied latin
@@javasi3819 You're right. There is some awkward syllable placement in some words, like "matribus" and some slight inconsistancies in pronounciation between Classical-Resconstructed and Ecclesial but it's easily understandible. I'd chose to pronouce irascebaris differently because I prefer ecclesiatic pronunciation but it's whatever.
They're mixing Classical and Ecclesiastical for ear-pleasing purposes. A little weird, sure, but nothing too horrible or innacurate.
Seems to me they mispronounce "qu"
The amount of effort from puts into their games is so astounding. They spent time writing, composing, and recording this song, it must have been difficult to find a singer who could sing something like this and make it sound so effortless and natural. All just to have a little more atmosphere when you encounter one enemy in the game. Amazing stuff
Rogier was right. The Golden Order cursed them for basically nothing
Marika did it out of spite. Gold Mask seems to have figured that in theory The Golden Order was a great thing ruined only by the fickleness of the gods - the worst by far being Marika
Maybe, but we don't get a lot of insight into the experiences of Marika. Was she a slave to the greater will and wanted freedom from her eternal servitude, and in her anger shattered the ring?
Who's to say? Vaatividya probably...
The golden order was flawed from the beginning it’s pointed out by golden mask though he as a human is also flawed which shatters the prophets belief
@@prescriptionpapi206 it wasn't Marika, it was the greater will. It was the one who took out death from order, and who banished the tarnished.
Marika tried to defy this will, who was ultimately just an outer god, but as we see her broken body in erdtree, it didn't really end up good for her. She managed to shatter the elden ring, but that's about it before she was trapped, and her other combined half, radagon, was forced into slavery to try and fix the elden ring
@@falcor2325 Sure. The one thing that strikes me as odd, however, is that all the demigods seem to be humanized to various extents by the lore (most of them anyway - Rykard’s actions are horrifying and inexcusable). Yet for all her years in power no one seems to have anything nice to say about her. Hell, Gideon’s armor outright mentions her will is something to be fearful about.
I felt bad swinging my +12 straight sword against them, but runes are runes
Why do you have a +12 straight sword? (If it’s the basic one like I think it is)
Well... They attack you first so it's fair to do the same to them lmao
@@Ukiya44 some places they would just keep singing until you smash them first
@@claudioputra3817 That's interesting. The first time I met this bat lady I thought it's an npc but she attacked me so I was like "OK you chose war" It's good to know not all of them are hostile.
I’d love to hear this as a Gregorian chant with a full choir!
It is these odd, unexpected moments of silence and humanity that help make elden ring so amazing to me.
First meeting these sent a chill down my spine, wont forget that for a long time.
thanks so much for sharing
This song perfectly delivers the mood so when I heard it first time naturally I didn't understand anything but I still guessed completely right what they are singing about. About death and decay of this world.
One of the coolest enemies I've encountered in any game.
Love they way they just casually insert this masterpiece for giant bat granny. I assumed this was some old piece of music, but no, fromsoftware shattered my mind once more.
Just thought Imma point this out, the area near the four Belfries also has a singing bat with an adolescent male voice, it's pretty good as well in my opinion.
There's also some added depth/beauty in the scenery because of the regular bats that are flying in a fixed pattern, basically performing a ritual dance on the song.
Where exactly?
Nah it's the same voice.
@@akromvaleth just south of where the road splits to Carian Manor and Four Belfries, in a bush to the West.
ruclips.net/video/JVnnSmgSsLU/видео.html here it is for anybody interested lol
I remember this being the video that convinced me to buy Elden Ring early in the morning somewhere in may of 2022 :)
First time I heard this was literally in the beginning of the game and have loved it ever since....Thank you for the translation.
I like the fact that she sings about the Greater Will's anger and curse over the Lands Between
I am most surprised that the bat creatures are (or at least consider themselves to be) tarnished. The song makes it sound like they were part of Godwin's host.
I think they meant more as being exiled from their old ways when they're saying Tarnished, a bit different from the NPCs and Player char ones who all were descendendants, but that's just my take on it
@@arkwolfluis yes i think so to; not literally 'the tarnished'. since the bat is female she is perhaps singing and lamenting about her 'motherhood' being to monsters instead of the joy of a human child. the females are the bat matriarchs. makes you wonder if the male bats were indeed once humans or are they just a part of the females' damnation and personal hell of this cursed motherhood.
I heard it translated as tainted, and no one to console us as no one to comfort us
@@JB-xl2jc Tarnished is a catch-all term for all those banished from the Golden Order
This game is just crazy it reminds me of time when games were created a long long time ago
I love how the bats allowed you to join them. It really hits their message home
Thank you so much for preparing and uploading this, lovely!
First time I encountered one in Limgrave on a cliff, gathered with several bats around a dead one. (there are several encounters like this all around) I found it so cool, like some sort of requiem.
so far you're the best channel for elden ring content
thank you for uploading
This enemy taught me that I would 1000% be lured in by the sirens. What can I say, something about a beautiful singing voice gets them neurons activated.
Their song has been stuck in my head for days now.
the first time I saw this it creeped me the hell out. I legit thought it's some kind of woman singing and that might be a quest. Instead I got close, and saw a giant bat singing in latin. It noticed I saw it, so it stopped and looked back. Creeped me the f out so I ran away.
Me 2 I was shocked at the site, after killing it I stood for a moment asking myself what did I just saw?
First time I heard it sing i saw the bat near a human corpse so I thought the humans ghost was singing and I took revenge on the bat 😂
Same here creepy witch half bat
Glad i wasn’t the only one who was creeped tf out
me too, I hear this song near liurnia, and send chill down to my spine
They really remind of the frenzy creatures from bloodborne
The song is very eerily reminiscent of the ones the winter lanterns sing. And with it very obvious that the merchants play Gehrman’s theme on their bow, I wonder what the other songs hold. The perfumer flute song and the mad merchant song only hearable right before the Three Fingers specifically.
@@rezahydra let us never speak of Winter Lanterns again…. “Shutters”
@@j.vinton4039 At least we don’t have to deal with them in this game… can’t say the same for… Basilisks… eugh…
To me the ones that reminded me of the bloodborne winter lanterns were the ancestral follower shamans, the female ones that sing and hold an ancestral infant’s head. They’re the ones found in Nokron
This shit adds up with the dlc release. They was dropping hints since way back here
It's so cool how they're basically harpies that sing a song we're all so enthralled by
Really sells the effect honestly
There is something so timeless about the atmosphere of this game even as far as souls games are concerned. I get the same feeling from elden ring I got from the lord of the rings a story beyond petty struggles and human pains...something more raw and encompassing at the core of meaning itself...I don't know it's just something I notice
hmm, so they were peaceful creature before the shattering.
I thought they were humana
They were humans
I feel like it is a reference to a book called All tomorrow's misfortune of men, where humans gets DNA changes by an unknown species in outer space they do look like one of the twisted human species
@@G6Mr- i didnt even make that comparison. All Tomorrows is such a great book
@@G6Mr- just because all tomorrow was hyped a short while ago don't make it a reference to them. Changing and transforming the cursed is a literal classic.
I have heard the song many times and I'm just realizing you can get close to them and just listen without having to fight, truly an amazing game.
The first time I was scouting the Weeping Peninsula, near the Minor Erdtree, I heard this song, and, as some of you have mentioned, I thought about sirens. I sincerely thought that there would be a sunken ship or something like that around.
I studied Latin back in college and recognized some words ("Aureum", "locus", "ille"), but never imagined it could be translated and I was intrigued when I realized that the song actually made sense in the context of the game.
Well done Miyazaki!!
They also sing on a spot where you can see an epic structure on a epic angle. Beatiful, both phonetically and visually.
you really are doing a great job covering those interesting details about the game, keep up this awesome content
Bro the amount of attention to small details like this and many others is just beyond amazing...God I love this game
When I got home from work the other night I packed a bowl, loaded the game and came here to smoke before playing. Just chilled listening to the wind and the song. It was nice. I used to do the same in Subnautica, just find a nice chill spot.
Thank you for this, I wanted a translation so badly.
The first time I heard this song I felt it beautiful but at the same time scary... it will never cease to amaze me this piece of art, thank you Elden Ring !! And thank you for putting this video together ! :D
This has been in my feed everyday since day one and I still watch it
When I entered the area and heard the singing I loved it, it was so beautiful so I began to look for the woman who had such a lovely voice but couldn't find her after closer inspection I realized it was the bat lady's singing i instantly fell in love with elden ring.
it was amazing to climb those ladders and mines and looking out over the falls an odd and beguiling song rising up -
Games from Mars hard-carrying Elden Ring's quest scene.
When sed nemo nos consolatur drops, I felt that one in my soul
Can you please make a video about what the kids at Rennala's fight were singing? From the actual theme to the ones that protects her.
those are adults with no legs
Sleep tight, All night, in mother’s amber (what I picked up from trying to listen to them as much as possible)
@@Darkness40k I think they were supposed to be young teens who were all imperfect copies (theory: maybe of human of Ranni?) and therefore were mentally diminished, and couldn't walk.
@@TheodoricFriede They are likely previous students that she rebirthed, but all of them are dead by now, she's just living a fantasy where they are all still alive so she won't be lonely, this is the "sweet slumber" Ranni reffered to.
The reason they are frail is because her Great Rune properly rebirths ONLY the one who holds it, everyone else is "frail and short-lived", so everyone who came to her to be perfected was crippled and died.
Based on her dialogue her solution was to just recycle her sweetings to artificially extend their lives, but obviously the desperate attempt to hold on to her adoptive children caused her mind to break even faster.
@@leiderhosen7110 Start a lore channel. you good.
When the coronabat learns to sing sad poetry in latin, y'know the world is on fire.
Fucking amazing comment XD
I heard this voice while walking along the edge of the mountain. I'm curious where it came from. I decided to go look for it and I suddenly remembered the fairy tales about the ghostly singing that would come from a monster. And yes, the first resurrection
Climbing up the cliff/caverns and getting to this, followed up by their attacks, was frankly astounding. One of my favorite gaming moments ever. Miyazaki is a true auteur, just on a whole other level.
Hauntingly beautiful. I wonder what motherhood they were destined for before the arrival of the Elden beast or the shattering. The fact that they speak in Latin is reminiscent of the classical style architecture in the ancient buried cities underground. Perhaps they once inhabited Siofra?
I think the bat creatures around them are likely their children. They were destined to birth beautiful children, and can now only produce monsters. They have been cursed and abandoned by the gods. I feel terrible for killing them...
It gives monsters more depth when they too suffer the shared despair endured by the shattering of the Elden Ring. But my blade released them from their woes and gave them eternal peace!
And then they respawn once you rest at graces 🤣
I thought they were just making sounds like other games. I'm really glad I saw this video 😊♥
I was reminded of the Netflex series MIDNIGHT MASS, when I first encounterd those enemies. They look like the "ANGEL" that Father Paul brings back and the singing has a very sacral church like quality to it.