Can you imagine? Coming back to the roundtable
hold and hearing this, you follow the sound to the source
and realize that it's the sound of the two fingers
slamming together. This was brought to my attention
by Bonfire of Iron, and in the comments below that video as well,
folks are talking about how many different ways
this could have been used. It could have been used
to call you over to Enya. If she had new dialog, it could represent them clapping
whenever you kill a demigod. Or it could just be an animation
that gives the two fingers some actual motion
to be read by the finger readers. This is one of those pieces of cut content
that's kind of baffling, just in the sense
that I can't think of a good reason why these animations weren't
put to use in game. What do you think? But just because something is unused now doesn't mean
it won't be used in the future. Which brings us
to the three costumes of Elden Ring, the one in limb grave,
the one in Caleb and the one in Lando. So long ago
we speculated that these might be used in a future update as PvP arenas. And that fact now seems all
but confirmed in the recent patch for new parameters For four new text
banners have been data mined and they align with unused texts
that read begin, match. You win draw and you lose. Once added, Presumably these costumes
will work like the arenas from previous souls games that had dueling formats
and free for all brawl formats as well. And the placement of these arenas
across the lands between should give players access
to arena PvP no matter where they are or what level
they're up to in their journey. But in this video I'd like to mainly talk
about some of the remaining lore secrets in the game. So this is the first one
and it's that arenas have already been written
into the game's lore. It was here that gladiatorial combat
would take place and it was actually a sort of ritual combat
that was held to honor the odd tree. We learned this from the ritual
sword and shield talismans, which go on to state that this practice had died out
by the age of king consort Rattigan. Therefore, this combat would
logically have taken place during the age of the odd tree
that Lord Godfrey reigned over. This is confirmed pretty much
by the designs of the talismans which themselves resemble the sword
and shields of Godfrey's Crucible Knights. Godfrey is a character that believed that the right to rule
was warranted by strength. And fittingly, strength
alone is what matters in the arena. There are two gladiatorial enemies
that give us an idea of just how harrowing this combat was. There's the pumpkin heads. Who are these mad soldiers? They are broken gladiators
without much sanity remaining. And apparently
they find some degree of peace by having these dark, spacious helmets
that calm them in a sense. Then there are the Duelists often found
near gravesites. Underneath their cloaks are bronze snakes, which the audience delighted
in seeing beaten and battered. This is because the snake is
seen as a traitor to the earth tree, and that helps to explain why
it was such a blasphemy when Rickard would go on to give himself
to the great Serpent years later. The snake already had a reputation,
even in the age of Godfrey. I speculate that these duelists
were part of this ritual combat in the sense that they were
there to be beaten down upon. They were driven from the Coliseum. As the description states,
and I speculate again that the ritual combat probably would have been completed
when they were defeated and the Crucible Knights of the Old Tree
were victorious. Since this was ritual combat,
it would make sense for the odd tree to be victorious
over the traitorous snake. Speaking of making an example of people,
a long time ago, we speculated on the crucified folk
that you find dotting the landscape in limb grave. Many of these folk are burned yet
live on screaming and suffering. But something
I neglected to notice at the time was that a lot of these people
wear the guilty hood item, which is made, of course
cloth with a collar of sharpened branches that is worn
by those accused of lesser crimes. And it only just occurred to me
that keeping these so-called criminals off the ground might have been a way of
delaying their return to the tree's roots. Again, this is just speculation,
but it does kind of add another layer of punishment
to their whole ordeal. Pretty crazy, though,
that even lesser crimes get you strung up, unable to die,
or maybe return to the old tree. Currently, living grave
is under the reign of Godric the grafted. So it's possible that he's responsible
for the punishment of these common folk. Next in line as the ruler of Limp
Grave is Kenneth Hite, who has some choice words about Godric,
the current Lord. First, he hid himself
amongst the womenfolk to flee the capital, then hid from Rodan in that castle. Then he insulted Marlena. Lost her in battle only to lick boots
rather than die like a man, as she knows. Shame. The big girl's blouse. So you might be wondering,
how did Godric hide amongst the womenfolk? Well, the answer might actually lie
in a dining room of God's own castle. The mimics veil. A golden veil of intricate design with
the description that even references God. Rick's flight from the capital. When Godric was hounded from laying down
the Royal Capitol, this was one of a multitude of treasures
that he took with him. Of course,
this item allows you to blend in with your environment
and turn into other things. Thus, it's
very fitting that this mimic veil is also known as America's mischief. Because, of course, America's
biggest secret is that she is in fact also RATTIGAN
And it's a great bit of characterization to know
that America had a bit of a reputation for tricking others and causing mischief
and maybe turning into other things. But what if it goes further than that? In the last main lore video
where we talked about the eternal cities, we talked at length about the NOx
and the Silver Tiers that can mimic any living thing. In that video, I shed some evidence
that Marica might actually be from these cities. To put it briefly,
these cities are named after her. If you don't mind some of the names. And looking back now, America's
mimic Vale does seem like the kind of thing
that the NOx would invent. First, its shade of gold actually matches
the cloth of their assets. Secondly, it's a veil. And the NOx commonly have veiled eyes. And lastly, of course,
the NOx are known for a similar sort of mimicry with their silver tears. And speaking of things that the NOx are
known for, take a look at this. This is the black moon of NOx stellar. And it's a talisman that represents a moon
that supposedly hung above one of their cities. And because we now have all of the game's icons in this stunningly high resolution
and seriously, some of these icons look so good in high resolution
when you look at the little details. And because we can
look at them so closely now, we can actually see two birds
above the talisman. Specifically, these are cuckoo birds. And we know this because that exact
same design can actually be found upon the crest of Rhea
Lou Carrier and on the cuckoo. So coat as well. This set worn by the cuckoo Knights of Real Carrier, depicts twinned cuckoos peering into a flourishing
mass of glint stuff. So whether the cuckoo nights
and really carrier know it or not, a part of their crest actually originates
from one of the eternal cities. Except now
the birds are peering into glint stone instead of a black moon. There's actually so much to discuss here,
and we will explore this topic further in an upcoming
LO video on Gladstone. So subscribe for that. You would have thought the Knights
of the Cuckoo in eastern Leonia, but it would have also found them within
Korea where they've been turned into puppets
against their will. And as we discover, after giving Ronnie
the Finger Slayer blade, Pidio was at least partially responsible
for pulling the strings. Stop, please don't hear my puppet. I love you all. I know. How could you forget how much? I have a spreadsheet that contains all of the dialog in Elden
Ring cut and otherwise. And in it I found what I think
might be a fascinating little detail. Unlike other characters
that have spaces between the dialog in this spreadsheet to mark
when a new character's dialog begins. Pidio and Slovis have no breaks
in between their dialog, and I don't know
if this is just because of the way the dialog was extracted,
but it might be just one of many things that hint at Pidio
and Slovis being linked. That is to say, Slovis
is a puppet of Pidio the albino Rick Mage. The most telling sign of this
is that some of us dies in the same instance that Pidio
is confronted by the cuckoo knights, meaning some of us can't be alive
while Padilla is dead. The best test of whether they linked
would actually be to kill Pidio and see if Slovis dies
or is released from puppetry. But Padilla is a protected NPC, which I mean, that's pretty telling in
and of itself. Fromsoftware doesn't
want you to kill Pidio because they don't want you to ruin Sullivan's
Questline prematurely. Or at least they don't want to code
this interaction into the game. Adding immunity to Pidio is much easier. And to cap off this theory as fact. Note that Silva's death pose
is actually identical to the death pose that the puppets have. You can find these puppets
in a nearby basement, and they're all found in that same pose
as if their strings have suddenly slackened
and their lives are no longer their own. So Padilla is an albino prick
who uses other beings as puppets, and it's probably nice for him
to be able to control other people because these beings
are able to walk freely and they don't face prejudice
like and oryx do. As mentioned in a recent video
album, Oryx are artificial beings that are born of silver,
and those without legs are the older first generation creations. But one thing I failed to mention
in that video was that first gen albino oryx might not actually be born
without legs. Instead, they might be fated
to lose control of these legs over time. This is something suggested by Albus
in the Alba Nordic village. My legs will soon fade and with them my life. My life. This is the immovable fate of all albino oryx
in this village. It becomes very clear
that, yes, albino legs are clearly fading. Fading as in that literally turning
transparent first channel generic legs fading over time might help to support
the theory that Lauretta was an albino because perhaps she was able to walk
normally and then transitioned to permanently being on horseback
once her legs begin to fade. So there's a whole rumor in the game
surrounding this, and it's something that began because of the Silver
Mirror Shield that she wields its shape. Apparently imitates
that of a silver sacred drop of do something
that albino oryx are said to be born from. This, as the description
goes, inspire to the absurd rumor that Lauretta herself was an albino. But is the rumor really that absurd? Let's talk about some of the evidence
she's always found on horseback. Not unlike how
the albino Rick Arches are on Wolfpack. And speaking of archery,
Lauretta fights with a magical great bow with the sorcery, stating that the bow
was Loretta's favorite weapon. Again, not unlike the Alba,
nor wolfpack archers. And finally, after her service
as a personal guard to carrion royalty, she would go on to search for a haven for albino oryx
where they might one day live in peace. So while it's definitely still possible
that she's just mirroring
characteristics of albino oryx, you can definitely make a good argument
that Lauretta might have had a very personal interest
in finding a haven for others of her kind. And I've talked a lot about how,
you know, albino oryx want to find peace in their persecuted. But it's worth noting that Alpine oryx
clearly desire retribution as well. If you get really close to the second
generation Alpine oryx specifically, you might just be able to hear
something lost all night long. But this dialog is so hard to hear. So let's extract it and we can finally
hear all of these lines way more clearly. All stars on the night or feet want to see them all
and use the word entire on the same punish every living thing I've ever seen. Every time we speak to those who forsake on that day and I think, fuck, you know, we. The most interesting thing to learn here,
I think, is the confirmation that these Alpine oryx do indeed
have allegiance to the stars, to the night sky, and to its fate. In the last Love video,
we speculated as such. So it's great to have that confirmation. So with all of this characterization
added to the Alpine Oryx, let's finish up by talking about how they might actually
be hope for these creatures in the end. So in at least a few forms of media,
there's one thing that's often withheld from artificial lifeforms,
and that's the ability to procreate because a big sense of agency
comes from being able to both new life. But at the very end of a tennis questline. That ability to create new life
through birth seems to be exactly the gift that is given to the Alpine Oryx,
who are young yet towering sister of us net birthing to let in and create life for us. For all the Alpine oryx, this towering sister is called philia,
we think. And while we clearly don't know why,
Lieutenant clearly believes that she's special. I gave this character more thought. Thanks to you guys in the comments
of the Last Love video, where a lot of you speculated
that this giant Alpine auric woman might actually be related to the Giants
on the thrones in the Eternal cities. And this is because lt confirms
that she's delivering something called observing droplet to this large woman
in order for her to create life. So it's not such a stretch to imagine
that the NOCs were attempting to do something similar with their giants
down in the eternal cities. If nothing else, it really is excellent
speculation. So kudos to you guys for that one. The Alpine oryx converge at the liturgical
town in the consecrated snow field, which is a town of worship
for the young Lord Mikala, who many Melbourne Oryx
see as their salvation. There is so much cut content for Mikala
to go into and one day I'll do a full video on it. But for now, just know this
Mikala already has a voice actress and she's even listed
in the credits of the game. As noted by Zoli, which this voice actress
was the voice of Clone in Dark Souls two I never planned to visit this
godforsaken place. And Marie in Deracinated Mikala has a ton of cut dialog lines
that we can access but never hear. Clearly, they changed their plans for him
at some point in development. Hopefully they fleshed out
this character in DLC, and if they do expect that voice
to be the voice that you hear, Another piece of cut content
that we haven't discussed yet is a cut item in Elden Ring
called Miranda's Prayer. By consuming PHP, you would have been able
to hold down beams of light, not unlike
what the Miranda flowers can do. This description reads
this statuette depicts a flower that preys on
humans posed in prayer. Miranda Maiden of the flower
Crucible is said to have been the very first of this breed, and according to one
very astute wikicommons. The spell is actually constable by Milano. If you summon them during the fight
with more good which is very interesting to say the least. For number 14,
let's talk about Renata again. When we talk to her in-game,
she's pretty far gone and she's cradling
the egg that Rattigan gave to her. Clearly,
she still holds some love for Rattigan, who abandoned her for the golden order. She even
has a statue of him up in her room. But you want to know whose statue
she doesn't have? America's not in the entirety of carry
a kind of stake of America be found. Which, considering the grievances
real Lucretia and Renata would have had for her. This makes a lot of sense in Renaissance
eyes. Rattigan
would have left for Nala for America, although we know
that they were always the same person. But of course, anyone who has died, to her
knowledge, knows that there's no stake of America here. The run back to Renata
is one of the few long runs back to a boss
that you'll experience in the game. So while you're running back,
know that you can kind of blame the law for that one. Another little detail I can respect
is found with the statues atop every hero's grave. There's a few of these game,
and no matter where you find these heroes, Graves statues are unfailingly pointed
towards the oak tree and that's because of all the people
that are put to rest in the lands between. Those in the hero's graves are assumedly the highest priority
for the tree, burying. So with bodies held before them,
these statues represent that offering these heroes
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