The Lore of Elden Ring's Dragons

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37:08 “placidusax is in a state of eternal maidenlessness.” Yeah, same

Vaati dropping a video right now, seems like DLC update confirmation to me!

watch a movie: nah watch an almost 2 hour youtube video about game lore: hell yeah

I don't know what's more mind-blowing: The staggering amount of detail FromSoft packed into this game, or the ability of Vaati and his team to rigorously parse it all out.

I love the fact that we had so much dragon-related Zullie the Witch content recently and to discover now that it was no coincidence and that you two were collaborating for this wonderful and massive video !

This is my favorite lore video on the channel. So much substance involved with the ancient dragons and I love how FromSoft designed the Farum Azula architecture into Caelid and didn't write any item descriptions or dialogue to explain it, letting us draw the connection ourselves as to how or why the dragons and probably their caretakers (Beastmen) migrated or established roots to that region. I know From is welk-known for this, leaving things unexplained or unanswered for us to interpret how we prefer, but this is just one of the coolest examples of it

My theory about farum azula's time twisting properties is that placudisax actually has direct influence. Placudisax is still alive there in the past. Because he is entangled with that location in the past, when we lay down and become part of the land, we are then entangled with the land and become part of the moment in time affected by placudisax's presence. This only happens because we are not immune to time, just like crumbling farum azula. So we can be manipulated just like the land. For placudisax the arena isnt destroyed like it is for us, so by being at the same place where placudisax was, for him it could be the same thing as us just being there normally since its the same physical location, just different time location.

Im already ready for Vaat to drop the 8 hour video essay analyzing the DLC trailer

one thing about the glintstone dragons that i appreciate very much is how they are named. the first glintstone dragon Smarag is most certainly named after the precious gemstone emerald, which is called a smaragd in german for example, a stone known for its green color. Adula is what truely made me smile though, because it is likely named after Adularia or the effect of adularescence which describes the blue sheen most commonly found in moonstones. a good fit for Ranni's oathsworn

The quality of these videos is just incredible. The music, cinematography, and presentation really make you feel the scale of Elden Ring.

I'm going through an extreme low point in my life rn, family fucked me over and stole a lot of money from my time playing professionally. And continued to lie to me about it currently moved on my own with 0 experience outside of school and soccer. This is all not to say I need a pity parade I just wanted to say. These videos remind me of good times playing dark souls and stuff. This takes me back there and provides to me a place of comfort. I appreciate these so much.

Goddamn, the opinion that every tid bit of deep Elden Ring lore is piece meal and connected mostly by speculation and coincidence is getting harder and harder to argue. Your research and deep diving into it shows that it's all just too consistent and specific to not be intentional. The stuff about Miquella's needle needing the absence of time - and all the time related stuff with the dragons and Farum Azula in general, is an amazing piece of detailed lore that noooo one could put together without knowing the full picture of almost everything else. If it were just kind of a bunch of concepts thrown into a pot and scrambled together, it would instantly fall apart when you dug into it and examined the references and connections between things, whether it's item descriptions, character or weapon models, the passive story telling in the environments, it's fucking nutty to conceive hahaha The notion that you, and other creators can make a career almost exclusively deciphering and piecing this stuff together is an ode to the talent of the writers for these games. I was convinced before and didn't hold any of the doubts that people usually bring up ("it's not as thorough as you think, it's a skeleton and the players fill in all of the gaps etc etc") but now I am 100% certain these are some of the greatest world building writers that are out there or that there will be. No other game or fictional world, that ive interacted with, comes even close in my mind. It's top notch shit.

About the Old Lord's Talisman having four heads: Since Dragons could turn into humans. The talisman would have been worn when Placidusax was in their human form, which would mean the last head would be the one wearing the talisman

Thank you for putting all of this into one giant video. Only legends do that kind of stuff. I have stopped and started this a couple of times now, so I could chew on every bit of information in here. I am in the middle of writing my own fantasy novels and this sort of stuff is mind expanding to say the least. Being one novel down in my trilogy, now is a great time for me to expand on the lore of some of the things I have hidden in the world. It is also a great time because we are in the middle of creating a VR game rooted (no pun intended) in the world of my story. Once again, thanks for all of this work you are doing.

Waiting room for Vaati’s video about the new DLC trailer, right here.

I really appreciate the dragons in Elden Ring because it’s the first time in the series for me that they really felt like a “people” or group. Before you just have Seath and the immortal dragon in DS1, nothing else. In DS2 you have the fake dragon and Sinh, the rest are completely uncharacteristic. DS3 has even less so. I feel like Elden Ring really makes them feel more like characters with their names and unique abilities. At least, for me it did

I like the idea of placidusax having both male and female heads, it mirrors Marika and Radagon in a really cool way as we have these two Elden lords that sired their offspring with themself

The amount of attention to detail it takes to disassemble all the lore and story bits to put it into item descriptions, environments and putting them back together is such a mind boggling thing to see unfold thats why fromsoft games would always be special. Also the people who goes out of their way to piece everything in a team effort matter is such an awesome thing these games does to its players.

35:36 I think the lattice pattern actually reflects Radagon’s upbringings as a craftsman of sorts. One of the sewing kits (I believe it’s the one you find in Church of Vows) mentions something of this nature if my memory is clear!