Bonfireside Chat 270: Crumbling Farum Azula (Part 1)
Added 2023-07-16 14:00:05 +0000 UTCHonestly, Crumbling Farum Azula sounds like a delicious blue cheese.
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I think it actually might make sense as is though. The different Elden Ring rune insignia in Farum Azula appears to depict roots growing downward, and we know that the ‘primordial form of the Erdtree’ was called the Crucible. So if we take this to mean that the Elden Ring already existed at the time of the Crucible (or at least there was some overlap between the appearance of the Elden Ring and the Crucible era), and Placidusax was ruler of TLB during those times, then he would have indeed been Elden Lord.
dshamz_
2024-05-27 16:49:04 +0000 UTCI don’t think that Serosh is to Godfrey as Blaidd and Maliketh are to Ranni and Marika. They seem to serve entirely different purposes, and while Blaidd and Maliketh are wolf-like (like the Beastmen of Farum Azula), Serosh is a lion.
dshamz_
2024-05-27 16:41:28 +0000 UTCI just fought them and summoned bernahl on my first try, no shame. I usually try to beat bosses without summoning or ashes but duo sucks so bad that I don’t even put myself through the frustration. Would rather summon and win first try than bash my head up against a bad boss repeatedly. One of the few bosses I don’t even bother to try to fight them fair.
Daniel Donato
2023-07-19 05:41:50 +0000 UTCIt's just silly that this barbarian warrior gets a lion scarf put on him to tame his warlike instincts except he can seemingly take it off any time he likes. Also his lines are incredibly pro-wrestlibg corny
Charlie Frame
2023-07-18 18:39:39 +0000 UTCAdmittedly I use a summons, but I've never ever had trouble with the Godskin Duo at this point
Charlie Frame
2023-07-18 18:37:30 +0000 UTCWhat’s wrong with Sarosh and Hoarah Loux ?
Mortiis
2023-07-17 23:12:11 +0000 UTCI love Seigward 😪
Mac Buell
2023-07-17 21:37:33 +0000 UTCDays after beating Elden Ring and still trying to process everything in my head, I felt like I was missing something important. Then I woke up one night wondering what happened to Alexander. I never got any closure to his quest. I must have missed something. The very next day, my friend sent me a text that said, “ALEXANDER, WHY????”. That’s when I had to immediately find a YouTube video to see what I had missed. I started to play the video and then just closed the window. I couldn’t believe this. It was truly the darkest timeline. Since he was still alive at the end of my first playthrough, I imagine he got to be the Best Man at my wedding to Ranni.
Scottmichael Farrey
2023-07-17 02:33:00 +0000 UTCregarding placidusax and their Elden Lord status, I do think Placidusax was an elden lord for the Greater Will. my reading/youtube lore watching leads me to think that the Greater Will doesn't really care what the order so long as there is one. Placidusax and the dragons have a version of the elden ring symbol that's much more primal. when marika took power, she removed the rune of death, altering the order. then after Radagon becomes Lord, the Elden Ring is changed again, adding Radagons very orderly lattice of a rune.
J Pack
2023-07-17 01:32:55 +0000 UTCThe Godskin Duo fight strikes me as the inevitable conclusion of the other fights leading up to it. (You fought one, then you fought the other, then you fought both consecutively [followed by a snail]; now try both at once!). There's two of everything and everyone in this game, so fighting both sorts of Godskin at once is on theme. But I agree that the fight feels like the product of combinatorics rather than craft (unlike Ornstein & Smough.) I never figured out how to use sleep. Instead, the "thesis" of the fight (to borrow a term from BSC seasons past) strikes me as: "You got summons; use 'em." So, I turn it into a 3-on-2 (or a 4-on-2 or a 7-on-2, depending on which spirit ash I use) by summoning Bernahl AND a whole series of different spirit ash summons until I find one that survives long enough. Makes it feel *almost* like the Radahn fight or Ivory King fight in DS2. What I *hate* is the boss run. There's a heck of a lot of summoning to do at the end of it with banished knights chasing you and Godskins throwing black fireballs at you.
Micah Tillman
2023-07-17 01:30:00 +0000 UTCCalling Placidusax an “Elden Lord” to me fits in with the item descriptions all having a sort of implied historiographical perspective—I interpret it as being that the “writers” of the description had “Elden Lord” as their only frame of reference for the kind of supreme sovereign that Placidusax had been, and so designated him that way.
Violet Sweet
2023-07-16 14:56:37 +0000 UTC
