25 Enlightening Secrets in Elden Ring!

Considering how many bleed builds I fought at the great jar, I instantly realized they were other people's characters

The fact that you can summon Patches for Radahn, but he immediately exits your world is probably my favorite hidden secret I have heard so far

I must have died more than enough times by Astel's "Grab Attack", it frustrated and infuriated me to a great extent. I had no idea it was some kind of "hidden" or uncommon attack, he did it to me every time I went up against him, this is the stuff of nightmares since it is a one-shot as well.

Addendum for the Patches summon during the Radahn fight: he's got 4 summon signs, but can only be summoned once. As soon as you use one the others disappear.

There's a good secret I discovered recently. Following D's questline, you can give his brother the armor set. If you do, his stance is different while wearing the armor, and it looks like his upper half is always leaning back, kind of unnaturally. What's actually happening is that the silver part of the armor is dominant now instead of the gold part of the armor. If you get a good look at D's brother wearing the armor (best at the very end of Fia's quest) you can get a really good look at how the silver armor is holding up and supporting the gold armor, just like how D was holding up and supporting the silver head of the armor when he was wearing it.

I ‘solved’ the “may erudition light the way!” puzzle in the most perfect storm of events possible. I had read it, and somewhere in my brain I went; “that sounds like the name of a gesture, let me check my list”. I didn’t find anything, so my brain went to the “light” part, and I remembered Thops sold the cast light sorcery, so I went to buy that to see if that did anything. Turns out, I had the glintstone key he wanted, so I dropped it off while I way buying the spell. Lo and behold, I got a gesture titled “erudition”. “Cool!” I thought, “maybe I do have to use this gesture, but with the cast light spell active.” So I went back, but I didn’t have the INT for cast light, due to running a faith build. Easy fix, popped on the twinsage crown for the extra INT. Cue my surprised ass when the crown lit up and the door opened. It was then that I realized, a lot of these secrets/puzzles that are super weird, are solved by sheer dumb luck that just so happens to discover the solution.

The narrative structure, the calm voice, transitions, footages... bro you really did an amazing job. Congrats! And no doubt Elden Ring is the game of the year.

It actually makes sense for Jerren to wait to enter until Radahn is almost dead. He would want to honor his former boss by joining in the festival, but if the festival fails and Radahn survives, someone has to be around to find fighters for the next festival. If Jerren runs in the first round and dies, but then everyone else dies with him, there's no one left to try again.

Vaati, do you think there is any lore reasoning for certain upgrade materials being related to sadness? “Somber” smithing stones and Tears for the flasks?

Slight correction for the Cinquedea 6:03 The reason it's called Cinquedea or Five Fingers is because the width of the blade past the guard is roughly five fingers wide.

About Melina cutscene - I got her inviting me to the Roundtable Hold without even entering Stormveil Castle. Basically, got chest trap teleported from lake ruins (where the first dragon is) into cave in Caelid, ran out of it, found site of grace - and there she was, all apologetic and inviting

I can't wait to see how they incorporate the stars/outer gods/falling star beasts into the DLC. I want to be able to go the moon and fight some fully developed space alien monsters.

The Astel Line having such variation is really cool! one of the biggest advantages of having youre babies be SO different to the adults is no longer compete for resources with your own young. And thats really easy to see here! it looks like the young Astels are grounded, live above land and are very rocky (probably for protection, since they havent developed their big boy magic powers) while post pupation they move underground, gain wings and honestly just look super freaking cool

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I thought that grab attack was common , took me over 35ish try’s to beat Astel . For some reason I was getting anxiety throughout the fight and whenever it disappeared I would panic. Roll at the wrong time, get caught and insta killed. It’s just a really unsettling boss design like an eldritch being beyond our understanding. I was shooketh

Cinquedea is also what Gurranq wields and is the blade that Maliketh plunges into the seal he placed to contain the rune of death. It makes sense that the blade boosts bestial incantations seeing as how he has progenerated them.

I just had a thought about Patches during Radahn's fight. I know it's hilarious and well in-theme for him to desert the fight and run when he sees how dangerous Radahn is... but what if he's using the festival as an excuse to collect valuables on the battlefield? The battlefield is well-known to have the bodies of many powerful warriors. Maybe he's not there to fight Radahn, but to restock his wares?

Astel, Stars of Darkness not only has that unique ‘clone grab’ but is also the only version of Astel to use the full OST. I think it’s supposed to be the original Astel, the one that destroyed an Eternal City. That would also explain why there are ghosts of Dragonkin Soldiers near the Yelough Anix Tunnel.

It really feels like there's millions of options when i fight 7 consecutive moonveils at jar dude

7:48 one other way to remove rot or poison once you've rolled in it, is if you've rolled on it in such a way that only your armor has been splattered, but not your skin, you can simply remove the soiled armor and the rot/poison stops building up on you!