10 More DLC Lore Discoveries That Change Everything (Shadow of the Erdtree) | Elden Ring

What has been your favourite insight? The horse skeleton of the Putrescent Knight is definitely one of our favourites!

Mad we didn’t get to see Velka in the DLC 😡😡

2:40 note how Loretta's arena is surrounded by chairs, and Rellana's turns into a grace called "Ensis moongazing grounds". It makes me think that rather than studying the moon directly, the Carians view it through a reflective surface. If I remember right, Tarnished Archaeologist mentioned in his Bloodborne video on the School of Mensis that pools of liquid served in the real world as simple early lenses. Couple that with the fact bodies of still water are associated with death and the travel through different planes and it makes me think that the true nature of the moon can only be understood by looking through a portal to another world, or something like that. Like in Ranni's ending.

turns out the mohglester was the miquellested

The putrescent knight seems very albinauric like. It has a silvery appearance and the horses back legs are dissolved.

@2:40 the Aztecs would use pools of water to study the stars. They would use the stationary pools reflection to map the stars cycles instead of having errors in where they where standing and not having to look up constantly.

As a note for you, BonfireVN did a closeup on the Base Serpent recently. It has Messmer's hair, it has an eye in its mouth and multiple eyes all along its body. It's pretty weird.

I think the StormLord was a hornsent. Stormveil is close to were the hornsent castle would be and they are one of the few groups who celebrate the storm in their divine beast dances.

I think Metyr's attack is spawning those creepy lamprey things that live on the finger ruins.

some one did some data mining and found out that the putrescent knight was called knight of the gloam eyed queen

I wondered if there was a correlation with Miquella's light and the Miranda flower's light attack. Saint Trina seems similar to a Miranda flower as well in terms of appearance.

For Rellana's arena and the other Carian types, those pools they fight in are moongazing pools, no? So, super important for Carian royalty or high officers I guess.

after phase 1 radahn glows red because its mohgs body and hes likely about to go bloodflame. notice he only turns gold AFTER we hear miquella's voice and miquella makes an entrance. its another tell that it's not radahn, but mohg's body, but miquella shows up just in time to try to cover this up.

It's both funny and satisfying to have godrick's grafting and rykards reverse snake absorption ability be revealed through the numen jars

7:28 the skin is most likely shredded due to the in game file naming of the textures, the midphase masking for the snakes is named "c5132_HU_Snake_shedding_a" for the albedo, with shedding in it that makes sense for the explination

Hornsent is Irish, and the village the Shamans were jarred in is called the Bonny village. This means good, or pleasant. Truly horrific.

What if Putrescent Knight is the skin and bone of Torrent, cast down the Fissure alongside St Trina by his master, Miquella. The form we ride is merely his spiritual form, like we see with Melina and Ranni

Few things I thought I’d add: I think the association with sorcery and water stems from primitive cosmological views, seeing the night sky as a vast firmament of waters that contained the stars. From Ymir and Sellen, we know that this Firmament of the great beyond, in a sense, is the Greater Will, and is where all souls come from. I think this also explains why we see so many river coffin burials in the underground regions; the goal was to drift the dead bodies out to sea, allowing their souls to return to the cosmos. Another thing about Messmer; BonfireVN recently showed that there are actually two serpents in the fight. There’s the one Messmer turns into, which is basically just him in serpent form, as well as the actual Base Serpent. An interesting facet of both serpent’s design is that their bodies are covered in tiny red eyes

Another thing about Messmer and the snake: many snakes "see" with special pits along their snouts with thermal sensors; essentially a kind of heat vision. So in addition to the snake's eyesight, he might be tracking the Tarnished's body heat.

Metyr carrying the elden beast and tricking Marika into following its broken guidance and becoming a vessel for the elden beast to become the elden ring is a really crazy lore drop too. Just makes me wonder why send Metyr to establish the order of Gold only to abandon Metyr later.