i personally really like these loadlists as it can give some interesting insights into some enemies' lore.

perhaps they thought about revisiting the baby skeleton mechanic from ds1 but decided against it. i would agree with that decision if it were the case. lol

Chibi/chibiko is a word used for characters that are tiny, usually with a small body but big head

The first thing that came in mind, was Mergo by seeing baby envoy in the video. I am probably just making it complicated but to be clear, it was planned to be another enemy variant or something else entirely? :)

@@a10bam420 I used to think that the skelle babies were creepy until I found the mutilated fetuses swamp in demon souls

do not ask for the herald doots for, the herald doots for thee

Upon learning that they were doot-dooting for my arrival, I feel kinda bad for slaughtering them.

@@viljamtheninja Wait, there were? All that ear torture was because they were fans of player character? Shame that next course of action for them was to blow lethal bubbles at me. And breaking my psyche while in the branches of a certain tree.

​@@tsm688 You missed the "whom" 😮

@@chillax319 yeah I get confused even when I run past them. They wanna attack me lol

Mystifying moments like that are one the things I like most about Miyazaki's games.

oh, to be a weaponless, eternally-rolling ball of cloth and flesh

@@jackkendall6420 the ultimate life form. Peak of evolution

@@meekalefox2703 close, considering the Raya Lucarian concept of the ultimate lifeform and final evolution of humans is a giant stone ball

Which ones are those in Leyndell?

It's meme man!

definitely meme man

With how many enemies have something under the cloth layer you just don't expect this one to have almost nothing.

Lol this is perfect meme. Make a tarnished have a mind thinking what is inside their outfit and they show themselves like this haha 😂

It had to do it to them

They aren’t? I never thought to think otherwise! They’re clearly snowmen!

@@meljXD2 Lmao, the oracle envoy's were CLEARLY inspired by snowmen, lol. I think most people see em as snowmen too.

Snowman 😂

same im heartbroken

and they wouldn't have blood if they were made of clay.

The veils covering their eyes look similar to those worn by the Nox Swordstresses

In next age they Will seek no bubles, but eyes....

Zullie came back to this concept today

And at the same time, there is something eerie and even cosmic about them...

„You may use the doll however you wish“ GOOD GOD NO YOU DIRTY OLD MAN! 😂

Their model is based off of the floaty statue demons from DS1, who are truly the goofiest. There’s nothing funny about being dooted out of a tree!

I raise you the giant naked fatman in bloodborne who constantly rolls around his area while fighting. and when he dies his drop is almost always centered above his ass.

the same applies, among others, to those goat/sheep that roll away like the perfonification of some meme lol

Yeah, next DLC might center around that. The envoys outside of the Haligtree wasn't for no reason.

poor mogh

@@LloydsSky9 they were there for Malenia, who very obviously becomes a goddess in her second phase. this has been figured out for awhile, buddy.

@@elissalesse8320 Buddy? Do we know each other? Thanks for the update though. Also, was I wrong about Micky Boy being in the DLC? Was I at least half right?

@@elissalesse8320well, don’t snap at me for asking, but… how does Malenia being a goddess of rot have anything to do with a new age?

Even better is how the big ones are just outright called "fat."

@@iboofer Which makes it even funnier becacuse people are fond of calling them chonkers or absolute units, which was quite spot on.

But chibi isn't really a cute word, in Japanese. It's neutral, like little or small.

@@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898 the literal meaning of the word doesn't speak to its pop-culture usage as slang. Given the fact that the term is widely used in Japan to refer to 'cute-ified' versions of characters with rounded heads and stubby arms, I would say you are very wrong.

@@Neirean That's not true.

I'm still so curious as to wtf they are... Their clothing and symbology seems to be representative of the Elden ring, but the items they drop liken them more to crabs, lobsters, and land squirts in anatomy...

Sounds possiblle and logical. You might be right

@@monsieurdorgat6864 they're envoys of an oracle. i think the more interesting question is who- or what- is the oracle?

More than Malenia, they were more realated to Miquella, since he was the most apropiated to be a "ruler-god" (there a re a lot of vids explaining that from a lot of lore hunters"

​@@Hurtdeer They are. They are envoys of a coming age or god, meaning if they can somehow sense or see the future, they are oracles as well. They're not "Oracle's Envoy" they're "Oracle Envoys".

Tuneless music, yes.

Azatoth wasn't the only Lovecraftian god to whom flutes were associated. Nyarlathotep was often referred to as the "amorphous flute-player" and the misshapen moon-dwelling creatures that revered him played ivory flutes to call to him.

While I always love my lovecraft referenced, I suppose in this case it's more related to christian mythology, where trumpets sound at the time of Christ's return. Quite notibly there is talking about seven trumpets and the horn the big envoy plays has seven openings. Not much into christian belief myself so most of this is pretty muche hear say, but given how many christian references are found in Eldenring I had to bring this up

@@arcanaobscura3519 How about a bit of both?

@@arcanaobscura3519 the difference being that there's literally Lovecraftian Gods in the game, Christ trumpets are most likely figurative of his second coming, and even if it was literal I doubt they would be so absurdly similar (like the one in ER are) to the most common description of the aliens I mentioned. I understand that sometimes some references to Lovecraft are a stretch but not this one, this one it's about as direct as the Erd tree (visually) is a direct reference to Berserk

Reminds me of how you can have Nepheli take over Stormveil, but all the knights and staff continue to try and beat you up.

Fromsoft are brilliant, but lazy

​@@Lambda217 well that might be because they're all Deathblighted but yeah it is wack. I'd love to just walk around a place and not aggro stuff.

@@RobotPrnEnthusiasts I don't think it's laziness, I just think that the whole point of their games (well, one of the points, anyway) is that everything in the world hates you and wants to kill you. You're supposed to feel isolated and lonely. It would be beneficial to the lore and world-building, but losing that gameplay-feel of always having to be on you guard would be too detrimental, I think.

@@RobotPrnEnthusiasts If From is anything its not lazy. Especially artistically. They aren’t the best with technical stuff as they probably should be for games of the scale and size as their games.

Wow, yeah, that was great.

Yea she did, and deserves praise. But every video someone make this comment

@Azo I'm taking two moments to compensate.

Or maybe they just planned to use the envoys on the branches in Deeproot Depths similar to the Haligtree branches but then replaced them with those gargoyles.

Or perhaps the Claymen are failed artificial Oracles made by the Nox or since they search for oracles, a tool to seek and capture them for the Nox in yet another attempt to end the age of the Erd Tree.

That's definitely a possibility. Though, now that I think of it, the headdresses of the envoy oracles and the nox swordstress does have a mite of similarity. I wonder if there's something going on there too now, but I may just be grasping at straws.

I mostly work by myself, though I'll sometimes consult with other modders and dataminers who know more about certain technical aspects than I do. I also have the benefit of using the tools our community has built for, so I'm always getting help in that regard.

there's a whole community of people digging around the files and datamining, so I'd imagine it's a bit of both. Zullie definitely finds a lot themself tho.

@Fernando R nobody knows, nobody cares, we love Zullie regardless

The meta data is part of the files. You can inspect the maps/levels, check their load orders, etc., as well as other information for things like models.

@Fernando R She's a girl. But she never made a face reveal. Guess she wants people focusing on her work, not her gender, and I respect that.

Definitely one of my longest weapon farming.... I either got killed before reaching it, fell from the tree by not jumping right or killed it only to get rewarded with white meat....

Horn of the doot shower, slayer of dragons

@@iioxy7530 foos roh DOOT

Imagine a boss version of one of these that summons minions throughout the fight and it's just a wild mess of bubbles and and a giant one of these guys rolling around the arena.

Pale legless beings manifesting out of thin air to sound horns because they're sensing the coming of a new god is kind of cosmic horror already.

Love the implication here that they're actually much more alien beings than they look and their mouth actually functions as an ear. An ear that can blow. Amazing I love it

The Outer Gods are ripe with potential cosmic horror and I expect at least a little more info on at least one of them from future DLC. The scorpion stinger dagger says it's a relic from a sealed outer god of rot, that implies it's a giant scorpion like God that is sealed away somewhere. Unlike something like the Formless Mother, who does not inhabit a physical form and seems to be some dimension of sentient fireblood that Mohg opens a portal to and grabs some to throw at you as an attack. There's all kinds of weirdness to get deeper into, those are just the two outer gods I find are less talked about but I have some info about. I can't imagine they plan for DLC and don't divulge a little info or give us a peak at something. Dark Souls 1 and 3 had some incredible DLC that let us time travel to the past and to the future, showing us things we would have never known otherwise (like where Oolacile was and went or how the numerous ages of fire turn the entire world into a giant ash desert at the end of time).

@@The_Fat_Turtle The God of Rot, is sealed under the Lake of Rot if i am not mistaken.

@@The_Fat_Turtle The god of rot was sealed under the lake of rot by the blind swordsman, who if I remember correctly was the mentor of Malenia. That's also why those rot insects are gathered in the grand cloister, it's close to their god.

Real story: Someone had enough of the footfetish.

Mfs are just arms and half a head lmao

Other more mundane creatures are also bloodless. I wonder what the spatter from crabs look like.

I like the mystery.

The transluscent jellyfish? Do you mean the dead children?

@@Sinhsseax They're the ones that float around in Norkron and a few other locations and they glow. I don't know the lore of them, but they are pretty and I really like them I wish there were more of them tbh.

There is actually a quest relating to them. You get the ashes for a jellyfish spirit early on from Roderika. She calls the spirit "Aurelia" and if you bring Aurelia to her brother in the mountaintops, they will fade away together and grant access to a cellar below. You can also find what is supposedly their graves around there. That is why I assume, that all jellyfish are dead children.

@@Sinhsseax aaah I see I didn't know about that one that's interesting and also sad. Since you get the spirit ashes from Rodericka and because she is tied to Godrick's lore I guess it would make sense that the jellyfish are the spirits of the children they grafted especially since she refers to them as "the little ones". Now I'm sad for the jellyfish babies.