Bonfireside Chat 220: Academy of Raya Lucaria (Part 1)
Added 2022-07-31 18:00:46 +0000 UTCThe Academy thought they could sit out the Shattering by locking their doors, but they didn't take into account that their own inner rottenness would destroy them from within. We venture into the high halls of this monument to arrogance, venturing through the Church of the Cuckoo and the glintstone quarry before taking on the Red Wolf of Radagon. Next week, we will find Rennala herself and see what she's been up to in her imprisonment.
Note: There are a couple of points toward the end of the episode where Kole's audio skips a little bit. We did our best to fix it, but some of it still comes through. The issue is resolved for next week's episode.
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Believe the blue aura of the academy is specifically because of all the glintstone crystal, natural glintstone, and glintstone mining. Glintstone is mentioned multiple times of effecting its environment. And the Sorcery of the Academy is specifically not actually Glintstone. The Glintstone is used as a vessel to channel the power of the cosmos, sky, stars. Ergo the blue cosmos northern light looking rays
Jessie joy
2025-04-19 05:46:59 +0000 UTCCommenting on an old episode. I'm relistening and playing along. The world is insane right now and I just want to specifically call out how much "magic the shit out they pants" made me laugh
Chapel Collins
2024-11-12 18:37:45 +0000 UTCHe follows me on twitter x
shea dewar
2024-08-15 03:15:53 +0000 UTCPeter Gabriel 🤘🏾 the best version of it, to me, is the orchestrated one. That was coincidentally used in the John Carter of Mars trailer lol
Mateus Silva
2024-08-15 02:59:07 +0000 UTCI think my body is a cage is am Arcade Fire lyric.
shea dewar
2023-01-31 23:16:12 +0000 UTCAcademy of Ray Liotta
Andrew (andyk250) Koch
2022-08-05 15:45:15 +0000 UTCI was innocently looking for some Elden Ring merch on Etsy when I stumbled across this monstrosity (NSFW) : https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1253485508/ranni-elden-ring-figurine
Chris
2022-08-04 20:58:02 +0000 UTCIt's the huge game, and it's that we're planning on talking about Elden Ring a lot longer than people who would be guests would. While this first area would be doable, I'm trying to imagine someone struggling to remember details about Farum Azula a year from now.
Duckfeed.tv
2022-08-03 16:55:29 +0000 UTCI suspect that I'm a minority here but I kind of miss having the regular guest hosts for each area. Went back and listened to some old eps, you had a ton of awesome ppl on. Just added a new flavour to each episode and helped break things up a bit. Having said that I get why that's not doable for such a huge game!
Rob
2022-08-03 05:02:25 +0000 UTCI think when it comes to Sellen, Azur, Lusat, and the Primeval Current, I think that the study of the current may result in a Primal Glintstone taking root in the sorcerer in question. This would explain why Lusat and Azur are eventually turned into rock people, they became so corrupted that their Primal Glintstone became their entire body. The unification of the of the Primal Glintstones, meanwhile, is what probably what leads to the Graven Mage orbs. Slight spoilers, but Sellen states that Lusat and Azur have been returned to Raya Lucaria at a certain point, and I don’t think they just got up and walked there, but that their Primal Glintstones were taken. When you return to them later, only their clothes remain (and their actual heads, I suppose). It’s two different means of pursuing the Primeval Current, one is to become a rock, the other is to collect those rocks and mash them together.
Lucas West
2022-08-02 18:08:15 +0000 UTCi love shitty hogwarts for burger kings
anonymous
2022-08-01 21:21:33 +0000 UTCThat's my bad. I think K noted the storage portraits and in my head I was like "Portraits, check" even though I am much more familiar with the ones you speak of. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2022-08-01 16:46:48 +0000 UTCYou didn't read the hidden books that detail Frodo's many thieving adventures versus ShireCorp.
Duckfeed.tv
2022-08-01 16:46:01 +0000 UTCNice, thanks.
Duckfeed.tv
2022-08-01 16:44:56 +0000 UTCGreat first episode about one of my favorite areas in any game, ever. On the topic of the University Graveyard: You guys made me chuckle at how out of place a cursed graveyard might seem at a school or university. A couple thoughts on this: Older universities will often have a chapel and yes, even a graveyard. Indiana University, for example, has an ancient looking graveyard area surrounding a chapel by the student union building (properly called Dunn Cemetery). I was thinking of this area the entire time while fighting through the hordes of ghouls and grave dogs. It's pretty common for churches in small communities to have a small graveyard around here as well, especially when you get out into the sticks. Given the theme of churches in Elden Ring, and the idea that Raya Lucaria is/was an insular community by desire, worked for me in a thematic sense. This is conjecture, but: the idea that entire classes of dead students and faculty are being revived, taught, and then buried again over time in an endless incestual cycle at this school is a gnarly one. Loving the coverage as usual!
Cody F
2022-08-01 16:18:40 +0000 UTCYeah but the question is that is her black science experimentation any worse than what the institution of the academy is doing on a daily basis. Heresy is but a contrivance
engrams
2022-08-01 15:45:58 +0000 UTCMan, student politics is crazy.
shea dewar
2022-08-01 14:12:09 +0000 UTCQuick note, Patches can still be confronted at Liurnia about his little trick. I think exiting the cave triggers his move to Altus, but he does have something to say for his joke.
Johnathan Glupker
2022-08-01 14:06:30 +0000 UTCI didn't have too much trouble with the graveyard on my first playthrough; I want to say that you can even ride on Torrent for a bit through it, but just running didn't do me much harm.
DealerUmbra
2022-08-01 12:33:08 +0000 UTCAre you kidding me?! You said we pulled a Frodo to find the Academy Key Gary. We clearly pulled a Bilbo. Get your Lotr straightened out. Also appreciate any reference at all though.
Wyatt
2022-08-01 11:31:45 +0000 UTCOne thing you overlooked in the debate parlour is that there are many portraits up there if all the conspectus, not just the 2 basic ones we see in other places, including the twins (as the twin conspectus are not the same faces as the heads of the other schools), Heima, Rennala, and even Sellen
Artalam
2022-08-01 08:36:04 +0000 UTCMy school’s graveyard was the view from my sophomore year dorm. The college was also a functioning, 150-year-old monastery, and every monk was buried there. It also served the local parish, so yeah, it was probably 30% cemetery by volume too.
John Mickey
2022-08-01 02:17:33 +0000 UTCIt’s funny, I basically took for granted that Sellen is actually guilty of all of the black science experimentation-murder, largely based on her quasi-admission in the dialogue from the beginning of the episode. It is a bit weird that she’s so affable, though.
Ryan Bennett
2022-08-01 01:10:53 +0000 UTCYou’re not crazy, I just misnumbered the text.
Duckfeed.tv
2022-07-31 18:20:18 +0000 UTCAm I crazy, or is there not an episode 220?
John Merranko
2022-07-31 18:19:21 +0000 UTCPaused the game books episode of WOFF (catching up) to listen to this when I got the notification. Just having a moment of clarity, I am clearly addicted
Fromaginator
2022-07-31 18:09:20 +0000 UTC
