Elden Ring: 10 Interesting Facts About The Game s Making

Elden Ring's wide open world offers us a lot to explore, and it's no doubt that such a flourishing world has a plethora of development behind it, a few facts being somewhat niche. FromSoftware's hard work on Elden Ring is incredibly apparent, and with fans spending greater than 100 hours on the game, it's fantastic how much more there is to uncover --- alongside all the potential lore that we could've dived ourselves i


The Artorias of the Abyss DLC for the first Dark Souls brings players face-to-face with Artorias the Abysswalker, a noble knight of Gwyn who fought the dark horrors of the Abyss with his faithful wolf companion Sif. By the time the Dark Souls player character encounters Artorias, he has been corrupted by the Abyss and reduced to a mindless beast, lashing out at his enemies with feral leaps and howls; the various versions of the Artorias Greatsword players can acquire in Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3 let players mimic this once-noble knight's iconic somersault sword att

Using the Spirit Ash system, Elden Ring developers created NPCs from their summoning system --- naming it "The Buddy System." This system hinted that there were unique NPCs that could be used for summons, each of them a temporary companion as you call to them to get through a combative encoun


Thanks to Souls Youtuber Zullie the Witch, we know why this fight feels so familiar. In the game's code, Zullie found that assets from an unused Farron Wolf Dark Souls III boss were pulled into Elden Ring and re-appropriated in the form of the Red Wolf's curved sword attacks, which feel like a loving callback to The Great Grey Wolf


This, among other things, is one of the best parts of any FromSoftware game as we love to think back on 'Soulsborne' NPCs such as Solaire from Dark Souls or Eileen the Crow from Bloodborne due to just how iconic they w


Players of Elden Ring can acquire the Lion's Claw skill, which perfectly copies the front-flipping attack of the Artorias Greatsword, from two specific items: the Claymore greatsword weapon located in Castle Morne, and the Lion's Claw Ash of War item found in the Fort Gael location of the Caelid Wilds. The description for this overpowered Elden Ring Ash of War identifies itself as the signature skill of the Redmane Knights who fought alongside General Radahn, a once gallant Demigod with a faithful horse named Leonard who was contaminated by the Scarlet Rot contagion of his opponent Malenia and reduced to a mindless, cannibalistic beast as feral as Artorias


Hidden inside the code of Elden Ring, there is a string of text within the Divine Tower of Limegrave map that hints there was a boss fight intended to be at the top of the Divine Tower. More specifically, it suggests that this boss would've been a Crucible Knight; however, since the name ID was set to 0, we're unable to know the boss' n


Miquella, twin brother of the infamously hard to beat boss Malenia, shares many motifs with Baldur, the fair-haired Norse god of light who was loved by all (and played a major role in God of War 2018 ). Within the game, players only encounter Miquella slumbering inside a mysterious cocoon atop Elden Ring 's hard-to-reach Mohgwyn Palace , his single exposed arm withered and scarred. Multiple item descriptions and a painting in the opening cinematic depict Miquella in his prime as a golden-haired, un-aging child with limitless reserves of vitality, standing in contrast to his tall, red-haired, perpetually rotting sister. Miquella is strongly associated with Golden Order Fundamentalism, a scholarly discipline of faith magic that can conjure halos of light, return the undead to their proper rest, and manipulate physical laws of Causality and Regression in order to cure harmful ailments. He is also famed for being the crafter of Unalloyed Gold, a substance that can ward off the influence of the Outer Gods like the Scarlet Rot or Dark Moon. Using his own blood as fertilizer, he even created the Elden Ring 's missed opportunity, the Haligtree , a towering rival to the Erdtree designed to be a bountiful home for outcast peoples shunned by Marika's Golden Order. All these altruistic feats, contrasted with the warmongering of his Demigod kindred, make Miquella come across as a literal messiah, a saint almost beyond repro


Like the deities and heroes from mythologies the world over, the Demigod children of Queen Marika in **Elden Ring Rune Farming Ring ** are both heroes and monsters, and the Empyrean Miquella may fall prey more to this more than players think. While the demigods can be shining paragons of excellence and ambition, they're also deeply flawed and capable of astonishing cruelty. Among these brutal god-heroes, Miquella comes across as the most virtuous with his three-fold goal of curing his sister Malenia's Scarlet Rot affliction, creating a home for the outcasts of the Lands Between, and liberating the planet from the influence of alien gods. A close investigation of the game lore, however, reveals a dark side to this golden-haired, perpetually youthful Demigod, who uses mind-altering magic to rally legions of fanatically devoted followers and tampers with the realm of dreams in order to realize his ambiti