Souls collection dataminer Sekiro Dubi has launched two movies detailing unused Elden Ring quests associated to some late-game bosses: Vyke (opens in new tab), Knight of the Roundtable, and Mohg (opens in new tab), the Lord of Blood.
Within the completed sport, Vyke reveals up as an NPC invader in Liurnia, in addition to an Evergaol boss within the Mountaintops of the Giants. Vyke was a Tarnished just like the participant character, and one who virtually made it to changing into Elden Lord. He is implied to have had an in depth relationship with the sport’s historic dragons—he makes use of dragon incantations and certainly one of their merchandise descriptions singles him out as being “beloved essentially the most” by the dragon Lansseax. Vyke rejected the inevitable demise of his Finger Maiden, and sought out the Frenzied Flame and Three Fingers, scorching his armor and resulting in his imprisonment within the Evergaol.
Sekiro Dubi’s video reveals how Vyke would have as soon as been encountered a lot earlier within the sport and below friendlier circumstances. Reduce dialogue from Gatekeeper Gostoc implies that Vyke might have been present in Stormveil Citadel, and Sekiro Dubi additionally found prompts for conversations with Vyke which can be lacking corresponding audio information, in addition to a pleasant, summonable model of the knight. In an added twist, Sekiro Dubi mentions that there’s information for a model of Godfrey, the First Elden Lord, in Stormveil, which is kind of a shift certainly from his closing place as the sport’s second (or third, relying on the way you rely) to final boss.
Alright, time to gird your self for some dense Elden Ring household tree lore. Mohg, the Lord of Blood, is Margit’s twin brother and a baby of Marika and Godfrey. He was raised within the Subterranean Shunning Grounds below the capital and rebelled towards the Golden Order, founding his Mohgwyn Dynasty and gathering the Bloody Fingers as his servants. He kidnapped fellow late-game superboss Malenia’s brother, Miquella, and did… one thing to him, leaving him a comatose outdated man in some method of cocoon. Mohg may be fought twice: as soon as as an phantasm within the Shunning Grounds, and as soon as for actual in his palace close to Siofra.
The Lord of Blood has unused dialogue information (once more, with no audio) for becoming a member of the Bloody Fingers with the immediate “Will you turn out to be my subordinate?” This maybe ties into these unused covenant messages (opens in new tab) found by content material creator StrayKurtis. Among the occasion flags related to Mohg recommend that this model of him may have been encountered within the Altus Plateau, once more a lot sooner than within the closing sport.
I may conceive of a model of Elden Ring the place Vyke has an NPC questline very similar to Yura’s that results in the Frenzied Flame facet story and ending, with Vyke changing into a fan-favorite NPC like Blaidd or D. That being mentioned, I am fairly glad with the ultimate placement of those characters and the way in which their tales are conveyed. The kind of digital forensics Sekiro Dubi is enterprise offers us a greater understanding of FromSoft’s growth course of, and helps us perceive how the studio refines its characters. Datamining of every of the studio’s video games reveals how usually FromSoft characters get shuffled across the map and recontextualized forward of launch, and I am curious to see what else Sekiro Dubi and different lovers discover as time goes on.
You possibly can observe Sekiro Dubi’s work on their YouTube channel (opens in new tab), the place they’ve additionally lately found dialogue for Hunter Yura and the blessed turtle pope, Miriel.
