Keep the insightful videos coming dude, thank you for all the effort you put into them

Battlemage Hugues is such a battle nut that even after he dies, he wishes to continue fighting as a Spirit Ash Summon. Pretty dedicated man.

The evergaols are some of my favourite “things” in the game, just because it’s an instant boss fight

My headcanon for Godefroy and Goddrick is that the two tried to escape the capital, and since Godefroy got captured and sentenced to eternal jail, Goddrick escaped disguised as a lady using the mimics veil. Then he decided to honor Godefroy by grafting to become strong like him. Perhaps another reason he hired sell swords was to prevent getting betrayed by his own knights and imprisoned in an Evergaol like his ancestor/brother/relative

27:42 I'm super fucking glad you acknowledged how much of a badass and gigachad vyke was , he doesn't get enough attention for how cool his story is

I was like "bro this dude sounds high as shit" and immediately he takes a bong rip lmao. Subbed.

For testing purposes, I pulled Alabaster and Onyx Lord together in the Yelough Anix tunnel. They started attacking as they saw each other.

Thought: only the named bosses in evergaols have stories. Ones without names are just there to be boss fights. The biggest exception to this probably being the Ancient Hero of Zamor

I think I’ve come to conclusion that the “gloam-eye” is an acquired characteristic of harboring death. Examples of course are the Queen of the Godskins, Gurranq with his festering beast eye, and Melina, when she vows to slay the Lord of Chaos

I, honored madman, have a dream.

This was surprising - like rapid fire lore. Love it. Honestly, either a video on the Lands of Reeds, or perhaps on the One Great and the logical implications of allowing gods to die would be interesting. Or how stars work, in terms of sorcery, being creatures, and altering fate.

22:18 "The Carians didn't know Ranni was the orchestrator of this plot and they just thought: wow someone just murdered one of our princesses, they wanted blood, so they murdered Tiche". I'm missing something(s) here "Carians don't know Ranni was gonna off herself on the NOTBK so they think shes murdered by they Black Knives." Im following so far, shes dies with the cursemark and all. Tiche's ashes say she was killed protecting Alecto fleeing the capital on the NOTBK. So the night would go like this: Ranni has a fragment of death, (another question of mine) she laces the Knives at the Carian manor, the assassins take the lift and kill Godwyn, the escape plan is to flee the capital southwest, hit the Grand Lift, go to Carian Manor, and take the portal in Renna's Rise back to Nokstella? But when Ranni ends up dead the Carians cut them off before the portal, kill Tiche, and imprison Alecto? And seeing as we dont encounter many Carians, Im assuming it would be Renala who cut them off? As I'm rewriting this more it makes some more sense now (if im correct) seeing as Black Knives go after Ranni once presence is discovered after her supposed death when she yoinks the fingerslayer blade, so the BKA's go after her for fucking them on NOTBK then stealing the blade but encounter a Feral Blaidd, and go after Iji probably because he was the imprisoner of Alecto. If this is incorrect, what is correct? Also I cant figure out how Ranni steals a fragment of death from Maliketh. Does Marika just slip her one and its poor wording in english? Im guessing Ranni had the Godskin carve the curse on her seeing as hes guarding the sacred tower with her body.

This channel provides high quality lore explanations, theories and personal thoughts without any extra fluff. I love this type of stuff and will continue to support you good sir.

I don't think Darriwil imprisoned himself, as when you summon Blaidd for the fight, he says "Rotting in a cell is no true justice", implying he was put there as punishment.

A faith based hammer incant would be something like morgott's hammer attack. God I wish we had that

Honestly I like the idea that this crucible knight was locked away by Godrick, giving him an ultimatum to either join him or be locked away. Since it makes sense Godrick is a coward well also being a scheming bastard as well but that’s just my opinions on that one.🤔🐱

2:00 I was just blindsided, legitimately the last thing I expected to hear in an Elden Ring lore video

The entire Battlemage Hughes segment made me _loathe_ that we don't have a STR-scaling sorcery catalyst akin to the Clawmark seal for incantations. Given the multi-scaling catalyst variety and how much love STR/INT has gotten this generation of FromSoft, it feels especially unfortunate.

Madman: "... without any summons..." Blaidd: "Well fuck you too then."

Been trapped in my room for the last week with pneumonia, is that an evergaol?

I think Vyke was attacked by an alliance of elite warriors. In the cover art, it depicts Ensha and Jerren defeated by Vyke along with some other bodies that resemble a Tarnished Champion, a warrior who wore the Iron Set, and a Carian Knight. The last 3 I’m the least confident identifying but it’s safe to say Jerren and Ensha were involved in the imprisoning (or splitting) of Vyke.

hearing rip a fat puff while staring up at the sky while an aethereal turtle floats around is pure art.

I think you're on to something with the Onyx and Alabaster Lords being in opposition. Onyx is black and alabaster is white.

I believe that Darriwil is called a traitor by Blaidd because he failed to continue to serve Ranni after she slayed her flesh. It is said that when a bloodhound knight chooses a master, they serve them for the rest of their lives. The wording suggests that it’s for both the bloodhound knight’s life or the master’s life depending on who goes first. I think that Darriwil served Ranni for a time but after she killed her physical body, Darriwil assumed that his service was over. From then on I’m not sure what happened but it is likely that Blaidd, who saw this as treachery went after him and Darriwil locked himself in the Evergaol to hide (or maybe was locked there by someone else? I don’t know) and that’s where we pick up.

" 'Evergaol'...not to be confused with 'temporary timeout' ".

1:58 The bong rip right into the lore explanation is such a power move

I'm on my 3rd playthrough; consecutively. Although I race through to unlock all the lands, I still take my time after to beat all gaols, catacombs, and caves. Such a fun game

I imagined that each Evergaol I beat was another seal being broken on a giant prison. Like locks for a giant secret Evergaol with a god inside.

Lol, i love how the battlemage hughes footage cut off right as a soldier saw you using the binoculars and ran over

"there's no way that the pests are the best viable option for the lands between. that's why I call them awful" lmao

Your videos are very chill to watch, I like how distinctly differentiate between what is and isn't speculation so that everything's clear

I actually have a theory as to why there are black knife assassins in Ordina. According to the lore, Rykard took the blame for Ranni's conspiracy and had an active role in the slaying of Godwyn's soul by using his position as Praetor to facilitate the black knives's entry. In his boss theme there exists a reference to the black knives being sent to kill a goddess meaning that Rykard would eventually target Malenia due to fearing the rot goddess's spread (presumably after the battle of Aeonia where the scarlet flower blossomed for the first time.). Considering that not all black knives were caught because they come to clean house after Ranni departs on her journey, it's likely that the assassins in Ordina were on their way to slay Malenia before she could bloom once more under Rykard's orders, only problem being that they were unable to solve the puzzle and thus remain trapped in there. Considering the evidence, I personally think this is the reason.

One of the main questions I have after this video is if the evergaols have only a small amount of area (the arena for when we fight a given boss) or if they allow people to roam wherever they want. For example, the fire giant's arena has the same "fog walls" as the evergaols, but the world still exists outside it.

Hughs is actually a very useful spirit summon that I got a lot of use out of in my very first playthrough of Elden Ring where i happened to have gone near full on mage as i got him really early on as his was the 1st Evergaol i found with him being the 1st unique ash I obtained and proceeded to use him until i got the mimic tear after which I benched him until I got to Malenia and found that none of my ashes were good enough against her as they either wouldn't do enough or would die to fast, even Tiche I found to be dissapointing as they didn't really grab aggro enough and would be ignored by her dissapointing me greatly. That was until I took out Hughs again and found that he is excellent against Malenia as his great pebbles really draw her attention and both his club and gavel always get a knockdown on her, now his damage did suck, but that's what the player's job is and his is being suppression he could even survive for a decent bit in the 2nd phase. Needless to say Hughs has his entirely viable uses no matter what anyone might say.

This may be my new favorite lore video - taking it just as seriously as it needs to be, but no more. Video games deep dives should sound like your bs-ing around the dorm room. Great job!

The one eye on the head of the rockworm reminds me of the redeye orb.

The bong rip is probably my favorite part 🤣🤣🤣

Gigachad Vyke VS Gigachad Artorias. Also, i think the rock worms are some sort of a security system, like maybe they are the things keeping the “seal” intact, or maybe they work like alarms/security cameras that send warnings somewhere if a prisoner escapes.

Came for the lore discussion Stayed for the Bong rips

0:45 I don't think they power or maintain the Evergaols, otherwise killing all of them would open/free the prisoners. Also, they are also found at location without Evergaols or similar structures. So I rather think that they siphon or live off the powers which have created or are powering these Gaols.

That soda mustve been so good to drink in the beginning

the casual bong hit is a nice addition

Such a legend for that bong rip in the beginning 🤣

I like the evergaols due to having varied and mostly unique enemies, that can then be theorised about and fill up possible previous timelines etc, it just feels like it fleshes out the world more by showing it has a history

Hit that bong harder to fully understand this game

Really interesting lore + some great humor. Loved the vid!

NGL this dude has the demeanour of a substitute teacher who just regrets becoming a substitute teacher, and I'm here for that kind of energy.

It's possible that being imprisoned in the evergaol removes any influence of outer gods, as vyke had the 3 fingers within him

Finally a channel with elden ring lore that gets high while I get high you can’t sit down for a lore video and not toke!

The storm hill knight maybe was put in there after Godfrey was banished and refused to change sides

The fat bong rip for no reason 💀

Really good video, I didn’t expect all the extra lore into the enemies like the crucible knights.

Can confirm the Onyx Lord had the former name I remember from fighting it but for some reason was changed with a patch!

Thanks for the insight that 99% of people watching this video already completed the game several times and don't need basic explanations, great video!

I had to laugh out loud when you said "it's called an ever-jail, not a fucking temporary time-out"

Now, i absolutely fucking love the evergaols, they're really really interesting and also extremely ominous because of the extremely dark surroundings, and I'd like to give some theories on them. Not necessarily a theory but just something I want to know is why the hell vyke is in an evergaol, but without his madness. It really just doesn't make sense to me, despite it being really cool. Darriwell is very cool as well, and I think he may have served ranni, but found out she wanted to go against the two fingers, and Abandoned her , leading to the events in game. The crucible knight at the stormhill evergaol is a great learning tool for the player at the start, and speaking of them, I'd love to see you make a video on them, I would like to make my own but we really don't know much about them. They're really interesting and they all have really unique stories we can form from them just based around the environments they're in and what they're doing in them, they're really badass. I believe the alabaster(?) Lord outside of the caria manor I think is actually one of radahn's teachers, who learned of the plot to kill radahn to free the stars and decided to try and put a stop to that shit, he failed fucking Miserably but it was a noble effort I guess. Finally, As for the blue and purple shadow shit that the prisoners walk out of, I think it could be 2 things: 1, some kind of sleep that you wake them up from 2, and more likely, this shit is what actually keeps them locked down in the evergaol, keeping them from roaming around the already little room they already have in the evergaol.

“It’s not fuckin called temporary time out” instant sub lol

Vyke did kill his maiden with the incantation inescapable frenzy and the vyke you find at the church is just his husk.

“And then Vyke, after committing a great sin, was put in a temporary time-out.”

I think the Hero of Zamor drops the soreseal because he knows the real identity of radagon/Marika and so he got imprisoned

2:00 oh no, now I gotta take a dab before starting 😂

oh my god i havent even gotten past the intro and i already know i gotta subscribe. love your style of storytelling and explaining! :)

I think I foubd my new favorite lore channel. The topics you cover are amongst the most interesting stuff in this gsme, not the usual "lore of the XYZ" type. You always seem to give as many explanations as possible to any one subject, and you remember to point out this might be completely wrong which is true but so many channels try pretending to be the only possible explanation. I, for one, am going to sub and keep a close eye on your content from here on out

The theory is that darriwil betrayed ranni after she switched bodies so he didn’t recognize her by scent

I've missed a few of your videos, I'll have to sit down at dinner next and watch. Thing for you: Ranni refers to spirit ash we use as 'unreturned to the Erdtree'. Could this imply we're not supposed to be playing medieval pokemon and keeping them in the PC box that is our inventory?

Yay! More delicious content.

Thought on Vyke specifically: he's the only tarnished we see in the gaols, I think he was imprisoned before the names fly to him over, and although he is stuck there, he can still invade us since it seems only tarnished are able to invade others. Since the gaols are frozen in time/ space, the second he invades or realm time continues and the frenzied flame consumes him since he's no longer frozen in time Or maybe I'm high AF.

And subscribed. The rips are straight up ASMR

This is great content my man. Just felt like you were in a bad mood. Either way, liked and subscribed. 👍

“It’s not called fuckin, temporary timeout” 😂

Heard a bong rip and instantly subscribed

I’m not sure if someone said this but I’m pretty sure Godfrey in the war of the dragons went to fight the “lord of the storm” aka the dragon lord(can’t remember his name) and I think some crucible knights where left behind after the war and they didn’t know it was over so they keep fighting

i like to imagine that vyke is the reason why morgott sealed off both the frenzy proscription and the passage to the forbidden lands. as in, somehow vyke learned that the erdtree needed to burn without killing morgott to see the thorns first, and when morgott was informed that someone came THAT close to burning the erdtree, he sealed off both of the means by which vyke would have done it: the flame of frenzy and the passage to the forge of the giants

I like that “In today’s episode of Honored madman.”

I wanted to use the bloodhound sword, but I sold it, thinking I was on the upgrade menu instead....

My theory for the Crucible Knight is that he and that other Crucible Knight on the cliff in Stormveil were left behind by Godfrey to protect the castle in his absence. Since they were pissed at the Golden Order for banishing Godfrey, they were the ones who allowed the Godskins to use Stormveil to practice their spells (or whatever they do there) since there's a room with the Godskin talisman and prayerbook closed by a stonesword key. When Godrick came to Stormveil, he beat the Crucible Knights, and imprisoned one.

29:31 the village is frenzied because it's former merchants who tried to settle, they'll never be able to since the frenzy follows them everywhere

Hears a bong rip *immediately subscribes* 😤

"Vyke was a DragonFcka." Lmfao word bro! Keep the Lore thorough AND entertaining.

The spot on the ground where the prisoners pop out of in the gaol kinda looks like the center part of the rift shield to me. I think it could be described as a rift. Since the prisoner class is pretty mysterious lorewise, maybe there could be a more direct connecton between the class and the Evergoals?

Its not called temporary time out. 😅🤣🤣.. subbed

I like the part where you take a fat bong rip in the beginning lol

Love your videos man. You remind me of the EpicNameBro Dark Souls 1 days (kudos to anyone who remembers him) where people were speculating on lore a bunch and no one really knew anything for certain but it was nonetheless fun to ponder and speculate and just discuss things in a chill way.

It’s a great day when I can wind down with one of your vids!

Watching this high is the greatest experience of the day :D

Beastmen were from Farum Azula, its likely Crucible Knights were following Godfrey. Godfrey fought against the Dragons once and possibly the Crucible Knight is still there fighting even after everyone dies.

Bro I heard the bong and immediately subbed. I fuck with it my guy 😂

You sound high and drunk at the same time, love the video

Subbed for the fat bong rip

the bong rip was legendary

Do you think Vyke didn't get past Morganton at all, and Morgott just kicked his ass and put him in the Evergaol?

I find it more likely that Malenia set up the Ordina puzzle to protect Miquella

I wasn’t ready for that bong rip but nice lol

Heard him hit the bong and I subbed 😎

Imprisoned for eternity? Sounds about right cuz the damn Crucible Knight deserves to be imprisoned for all of existence

Now I want to go through every evergaol and ask why the carians would want to lock this person up.

I'm new here but at 1:59 did he just take a drag of that good shit? 😂

I remember someone saying that darriwil served ranni and didn’t consider her a master because she changed her form.

Love ur content bro always stoked to see new uploads

That is is a perfectly acceptable reason to not use the Bloodhound Fang. It's why I haven't used it myself still, over 2 years later. Anyone that summons me, and is using this weapon, even in the very end of the game, 9 out of 10 odds they do nothing but try to get behind enemies (verrrrrry slowly), or just attack when they aren't getting aggro, but only use the L2 AOW attack. Kinda sad, on many levels. Same thing with people wearing a full Radahn set. In fact, the two usually go together, from what I see.