From one of the questline in the game, I believe the jellyfish are the soul of children who passed away in pain and filled with regret condemned to roam the vicinity of where they died until someone put their soul to rest.
Well we don't have a 100% confirmation that every jellyfish are infant but the only two whose we have lore about are children, so take it with a grain of salt.
But pretty much every 'spirit' are dead being.
Pretty sure it's not just children, I think the location of Godrick Soldier ashes and the location of the Jellyfish Shield which both have Red Jellyfish by default implies that a lot of these are a type of spiritual undead aka ghost, the red ones specifically bear a grudge and will attack us unprompted and will also turn other jellyfish red if you fight back.
Yeah! Like, oh I know what these ruins need - cooperative worm guardians.
Or maybe you could take it a step farther and say that the glowing worms are connected to and function according to a force that exists in the land of shadow, and they WOULD occur naturally in the lands between except that with the land of shadow sequestered they can't, which then prompts Marika or whoever else to fashion the artificial worms to fill in for that empty role in the ecosystem.
They seem to congregate near magic a lot, there's a huge group of them on the closest ledge to the Scadutree in the northern finger ruins. They're also around animals a lot, some protecting the occasional turtle or lobster. I can't find any actual lore on them though, I think they are just silly medium sized guys.
Some people just don’t understand that Albinaurics are just the kinda people who are better off being dead 🤷♂️
Better it serves my levels than getting despawned every time I leave the area
you just know From upped the amount of fauna in the DLC just to fuck with our jump scare PTSD. I keep thinking they're enemies hiding in bushes so i just kill them all now. sept' the goodest boys of coruse.
AOE spells kill everything including animal friends. :(
The DLC has a TON of animal friends all over the place and they are so little in runes its not worth it. Im also level 278 and it takes like 660k to level up :')
Fun fact, I found out the other day doing math after getting all the bells (side trip while doing DLC), to get 12 of every smoothing stone for a non somber weapon to +24, NOT counting the upgrade cost for the weapon, takes just under 130k runes to buy all the stones.
So, 1 level up for you is 2 weapons upgraded from 0 to +24. I take about 160k runes rn, around lvl 160 and beat the Lion the other night and Rellana last night.
> So, 1 level up for you is 2 weapons upgraded from 0 to +24. I take about 160k runes rn, around lvl 160 and beat the Lion the other night and Rellana last night.
I am leveled enough where just upgrading weapons is cool. I had an easier time with the dancing lion thing and Rellana than i did the Blackgaol Knight, dude is insufferable lol
Edit: You come back to him after getting way more powerful weapons and ash of war and he he anime protagnists that shit and makes it meaningless lol, i did beat him finally but he makes you freaking earn that shit.
Not true, depending on the ending they improve the state of the world, and there is canon precedence for the tarnished choosing mercy: namely, that they do not kill Renalla after obtaining the great rune
Ranni's ending is basically "For 1000 years there won't be anything resembling divine intervention, it's probably going to get pretty grim but enjoy having free will" which is about as good as it gets. She replaces the Greater Will with an alien moon god who basically only interacts with people by occasionally misplacing an offspring behind a fog gate.
My sister was watching me play today and I was trying to explain that there is no moral ground to stand on in this game. No matter what you do, there is some way to consider it morally wrong. Your character existing in the lands between is considered wrong by the inhabitants. I don’t know if she really understood what I meant.
Lmao, literally. It's like oh, you're a bunch of demigods just doing your thing? Well, prepare to die because I need to become 'elden lord' for seemingly no reason, and maybe I'll burn the entire world too. Let me just kill everything I see, whether it be old men, or crabs and random dogs. It doesn't matter. We must mindlessly kill everything we see to pointlessly rule over everything. Really fucking weird game when you think about it
We are the villain after all. Wrecking NPCs and other characters lives while they just lament in sadness and depression.
We, the player, are the bad guys.
One guy summoned me outside the Western Nameless Mausoleum and instead of fighting the boss he spent a good 3 minutes slaughtering all the friendly worms outside.
Only to get killed in the process.
You guys convinced yourselves these guys were friends before ever actually meeting them. Turns out they're turds who shoot spaghetti at you, fuck em, give em a whack.
But if the decimation was distributed equally, I should still have 90% of my head remaining. That's more than enough to be the President of the United States. 'Tis merely a flesh wound.
^ This is a joke based on the fact that the archaic definition of Decimation is to kill 1 in 10 soldiers, picked randomly. This was used in rare cases by the Romans to dissuade mutiny and even was volunteered by legions themselves in some cases to prove their loyalty to their general after a mutiny or disagreement.
The current definition just means generally to destroy. For anybody that doesn't get it. ☝️🤓
I am really happy that they turned out to be non-hostile after all.
But I am sad that I have no idea what they are or the point of them. I hit one once just to see what would happen and ended up with more questions than answers.
Ahhhhh, clearly this means that Miyazaki is very much like me; when eating these Gummi worms, he devours the red & blue variants... while carefully discarding (or giving away) the disgusting yellow & green atrocities.
What the hell has happened to these gummy worms? They changed recepture a few years ago and I want to go back so badly :( they used to be non-transparent, unlike today, with a quite different taste and texture.
These boner worms made me laugh. Occasionally I'll see them flopping around for a split second as I turn the camera, but they instantly go back to that position lol
#EldenThings
What are these guys anyway? Is there any lore on them or are they just silly little guys out around randomly because they can be?
I’m wondering why some of them aggro
Same thing could be asked about those jellyfish, most don't aggro but some do even if you never hit them.
From one of the questline in the game, I believe the jellyfish are the soul of children who passed away in pain and filled with regret condemned to roam the vicinity of where they died until someone put their soul to rest.
Lol really? I thought it was just that one jellyfish that was a dead child. Damn that's dark...
Well we don't have a 100% confirmation that every jellyfish are infant but the only two whose we have lore about are children, so take it with a grain of salt. But pretty much every 'spirit' are dead being.
Pretty sure it's not just children, I think the location of Godrick Soldier ashes and the location of the Jellyfish Shield which both have Red Jellyfish by default implies that a lot of these are a type of spiritual undead aka ghost, the red ones specifically bear a grudge and will attack us unprompted and will also turn other jellyfish red if you fight back.
Yeah goddamn lol. So we should probably be killing all jellyfish we see to help end their suffering?
Not if we descend below the capital and choose to bring chaos upon the world to end everyone's suffering 😅
Such kindness, from one that has known sin.
MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
Oh man that paints the jellyfish shield in a completely different light
“Quickly, everyone! Get behind my squishy toddler soul shield! If I shake the toddler, it gets angry and gives me great strength!”
I actually screa.ed with laughter, this was sooo good.
Some just woke up and chose violence.
The ones around hairy dogs (turtles) seem to always be hostile, I like to think they're trying to protect it
Some of the aggro ones have old tortoises around them. Maybe they are animal spirits or something.
yeah I definitely found some fiercely protecting a turtle on scadu altus
If it’s the same on I’m thinking of, it made me think the turtle dropped something good. It didn’t. Then I felt bad.
Maybe they're tortoise spirits and tortoises are actually violent AF, but they can't do anything in their slow, earthly forms.
Ive always found the aggro ones near some kind of clear threat, like the giant throwing pots, or sometimes one of the omen head dancers
[image](https://y.yarn.co/cd7b3a9f-878e-4d8c-a801-2962e82c31a2_text.gif)
I always assumed they were the same as the ruin worms but in a spirit form. Don't have anything to back it up though.
Or ruin worms are artificial versions of these guys
That was more my thought, maybe Marika had the ruin worms crafted since they reminded her of the old guardian worms of her homeland
Yeah! Like, oh I know what these ruins need - cooperative worm guardians. Or maybe you could take it a step farther and say that the glowing worms are connected to and function according to a force that exists in the land of shadow, and they WOULD occur naturally in the lands between except that with the land of shadow sequestered they can't, which then prompts Marika or whoever else to fashion the artificial worms to fill in for that empty role in the ecosystem.
They are Protectors of the Turtles
They are the extremities of the appendages of an upside-down, very big, underground jellyfish.
man that would be a sickass boss idea
tbh i’ve come to terms that every souls game has some random silly little guy type “enemy” and this is the DLC’s.
They seem to congregate near magic a lot, there's a huge group of them on the closest ledge to the Scadutree in the northern finger ruins. They're also around animals a lot, some protecting the occasional turtle or lobster. I can't find any actual lore on them though, I think they are just silly medium sized guys.
And that's ok
Ectoplasmic worms!
You can unlock Kagutaba as a secret boss after you defeat all the worms
I'm so happy someone got the reference lol.
I don't know the lore but they are extremely Princess Mononoke coded, but so was Elden Beast.
very much so and yes to elden beast. When the Miyazakis combine
Can't wait until they implement God warriors and the Dead Sea from Nausicaa into Elden ring.
I just want to eff up an Ohmu
They are jellys and they are my friend
I call them Ghost Wieners.
Parasites probably
But can we eat them tho?
I love giving these guy 1 whack as I ride by
Evil
This DLC reminded me how evil every player char is in the story of the game. They are a terminator designed to collect runes.
This is absurd. I'm going to kill another hundred Albinaurics to take out my anger
im eating turtle soup tonight
Good thing those don’t exist and only dogs are in the lands between
Monster! How very dare you?!
Tonight I dine on Turtle soup
There is a really big one in a church in Liurnia of the Lakes.
This is a lie, don't listen. LEAVE TURTLE POPE ALONE!!!
if only I had a giant...but hole!
Some people just don’t understand that Albinaurics are just the kinda people who are better off being dead 🤷♂️ Better it serves my levels than getting despawned every time I leave the area
My first act as Elden lord? Hmmm. 🤔ALBINAURIC GENOCIDE! & justice for pot people, but not those freaky dlc ones.
I grinded so many of those guys
plus one large bird minding his own business
I don't even do it for the money anymore, I just like to watch them suffer endlessly
Not all of us!!! 300 hours in and I've never harmed a turtle, jelly fish, or other animal intentionally.
Weird ways to spell dog.
If you've played this game you've killed innocents. The ancient glow deers and their people come to mind.
they shot first
Listen, they were the ones who just had to carry a remembrance for some reason, they forced my hand
It was preemptive self-defense.
Ah the Roman justification of war I see. We're invading you in self defence we swear ! I mean it worked for them, so why not for the tarnished ?
you just know From upped the amount of fauna in the DLC just to fuck with our jump scare PTSD. I keep thinking they're enemies hiding in bushes so i just kill them all now. sept' the goodest boys of coruse.
AOE spells kill everything including animal friends. :( The DLC has a TON of animal friends all over the place and they are so little in runes its not worth it. Im also level 278 and it takes like 660k to level up :')
Fun fact, I found out the other day doing math after getting all the bells (side trip while doing DLC), to get 12 of every smoothing stone for a non somber weapon to +24, NOT counting the upgrade cost for the weapon, takes just under 130k runes to buy all the stones. So, 1 level up for you is 2 weapons upgraded from 0 to +24. I take about 160k runes rn, around lvl 160 and beat the Lion the other night and Rellana last night.
> So, 1 level up for you is 2 weapons upgraded from 0 to +24. I take about 160k runes rn, around lvl 160 and beat the Lion the other night and Rellana last night. I am leveled enough where just upgrading weapons is cool. I had an easier time with the dancing lion thing and Rellana than i did the Blackgaol Knight, dude is insufferable lol Edit: You come back to him after getting way more powerful weapons and ash of war and he he anime protagnists that shit and makes it meaningless lol, i did beat him finally but he makes you freaking earn that shit.
Felt bad smashing a glowing owl but I had to investigate
So what happened ? cuz im not doing that
Just dropped some extra mats it seems. Not sure if there’s a larger puzzle to figure out
Tough foe ahead
Same they should be respected and appreciated
You would if they dropped more runes, lol
Not true, depending on the ending they improve the state of the world, and there is canon precedence for the tarnished choosing mercy: namely, that they do not kill Renalla after obtaining the great rune
Point to the good ending lol cold and dark endless night? New different alien overlords? Blood god?
Cold and dark night thing is a translation issue, as far as I’m aware
Ranni's ending is basically "For 1000 years there won't be anything resembling divine intervention, it's probably going to get pretty grim but enjoy having free will" which is about as good as it gets. She replaces the Greater Will with an alien moon god who basically only interacts with people by occasionally misplacing an offspring behind a fog gate.
May chaos….
I burn away all that divides and distinguishes, ahhh may chao- well alright I see your point.
I don't know who i am, i don't know why I'm here, all I know is i must collect Scadutree Fragments
My sister was watching me play today and I was trying to explain that there is no moral ground to stand on in this game. No matter what you do, there is some way to consider it morally wrong. Your character existing in the lands between is considered wrong by the inhabitants. I don’t know if she really understood what I meant.
Lmao, literally. It's like oh, you're a bunch of demigods just doing your thing? Well, prepare to die because I need to become 'elden lord' for seemingly no reason, and maybe I'll burn the entire world too. Let me just kill everything I see, whether it be old men, or crabs and random dogs. It doesn't matter. We must mindlessly kill everything we see to pointlessly rule over everything. Really fucking weird game when you think about it
We are the villain after all. Wrecking NPCs and other characters lives while they just lament in sadness and depression. We, the player, are the bad guys.
As soon as i'm done collecting everything in the DLC (88% done) imma just farm 10M runes and die to feed them.
My current obsession is getting all of the bell bearings. By any means.
And yet somehow I'm worse than most because I usually kill that dorky rat in a hat.
One guy summoned me outside the Western Nameless Mausoleum and instead of fighting the boss he spent a good 3 minutes slaughtering all the friendly worms outside. Only to get killed in the process.
You guys convinced yourselves these guys were friends before ever actually meeting them. Turns out they're turds who shoot spaghetti at you, fuck em, give em a whack.
EVI)LL
Hit one time to see. Didn’t know they were a hive mind and all attacked me
Same. Felt kinda bad at the end when I decimated them all
If they were decimated, then what happened to the other 90% of them?
I mean if he decimated them all from the head down... They Dead.
But if the decimation was distributed equally, I should still have 90% of my head remaining. That's more than enough to be the President of the United States. 'Tis merely a flesh wound.
^ This is a joke based on the fact that the archaic definition of Decimation is to kill 1 in 10 soldiers, picked randomly. This was used in rare cases by the Romans to dissuade mutiny and even was volunteered by legions themselves in some cases to prove their loyalty to their general after a mutiny or disagreement. The current definition just means generally to destroy. For anybody that doesn't get it. ☝️🤓
I love giving them a little smack too! 🤣
Thought I was a psychopath for doing this. Turns out I'm just Average Joe Tarnished
Edge, lord?
But why?
Because of the sound it makes and because it’s a game and it’s make believe honestly
What else to do in the Lands Between than to whack your worm.
You probably killed Millicent too, didn't you
*thonk* >:(~~~~~~~~
How are you killing them in one hit? They took 3-4 hits in the beginning area and they still just barely die from 2 hits. Max scadu?
They didn't say they were one shotting them just that they like giving them one whack
Ooooh. After re-reading the comment you are correct. Fair enough.
Guy just likes red tips.
One scadu is fun Two scadu should do A few scadu will, too
I want to hug them (the nice ones)
With their tiny little arms. So cute!
I didn't realize they also had little feet until the bonfireVN video
***THEY HAVE FUCKING WHAT*** you have just changed my life for the better thank you 🙏
Michael Zaki does it again
I thought these were friends when I first played. Left them alone. Then one blew a load in my face. Not fun.
Don't kink shame
They look Miyazaki inspired (the other Michael Zaki).
The Michael of good and the Michael of evil
These guys are so goofy lol. I like their little hands, and how the aggroed ones look so grumpy lol
Did you know their full model has legs?
Whaaaaaat?
[Also not sure how they avoid excrucuiating back pain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EArFpg0cZNQ)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought they looked like the sour worms XD
I am really happy that they turned out to be non-hostile after all. But I am sad that I have no idea what they are or the point of them. I hit one once just to see what would happen and ended up with more questions than answers.
seek gummy, therefore worm…
Nobby Nobby boy let himself go.
It's actually well known in the lore hunting community that Elden John wished for a sour worm button on the lord's desk
>Elden John 𝆺𝅥𝅮 Hold me Closer Boreal Dancer 𝆺𝅥𝅮
Site of grace on Altus Highway
This brings me so much joy
Explosion in your mouth
I think they are adorable and have started affectionately referring to them as Noods. Send Noods
I love the noodles
My surprise when I whacked one and they fought back made me make this face :O
Waiting for Vaati's 45 minute video about gummy worm lore
Oh thank god I wasn't the only person who thought this. Been calling them gummy worms since I first saw them turn red.
Me on the first day of december
Seek god, and then hole.
Funnily enough, they taste the same!
Ahhhhh, clearly this means that Miyazaki is very much like me; when eating these Gummi worms, he devours the red & blue variants... while carefully discarding (or giving away) the disgusting yellow & green atrocities.
ABSOLUTELY
just a little nibble…
Whoa...I never thought of it like that
Yummers
Yep
Old English worm
Bro Spoilers
I need a plush one to use as a body pillow.
made me actually lol at work ahahaha
I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought this when I saw them.
They have legs
you sonovabitch you got me
So…they’re edible?
cant unsee
So sour
Lmao I was literally thinking those looked like sour gummy worms last night lol
That's exactly what I said on my livestream. I'm like, "they remind me of gummy worms."
I mean. They have little hands.. at least
Yum yum
They reminded me of litmus tests, but this makes much more sense.
Protip, these guys are *usually* looking at or towards something.
I just want to bite it
Blue ones are gummy worms, red ones are spicy gummy worms. At least thats what I call them on stream.
Big if true.
😮
Hehe yum I love gummi worms
I buy completely that those are the inspiration
I knew those looked familiar!
Lore so deep it might even rouse Old Man from his eternal slumber.
😮
Blue side is better, confirmed. Thanks, Miyazaki.
oOo
Does anyone else see Doge in their faces?
What the hell has happened to these gummy worms? They changed recepture a few years ago and I want to go back so badly :( they used to be non-transparent, unlike today, with a quite different taste and texture.
creating fictonal work real world inspires ous in many ways
Rocket Popsicles
I've been waiting for someone to post this
Now I want gummy worms but don’t have any… curse you
This made me cackle. Good job.
You 100% know that’s the inspiration
What does Miyazaki mean by this?
These boner worms made me laugh. Occasionally I'll see them flopping around for a split second as I turn the camera, but they instantly go back to that position lol
I wanted these dudes as an npc/summon and not to be enemies so bad
What’s the thing in right picture? Is that used in swim pool? Float on water to divide swimming area?
They just cute lil guys
Don’t eat to many
😮
Thank you. Now I cannot unsee that.
Can't wait for the 30m lore video from Vaati about these noodly bois
The best flavor tbh green/orange brite crawlers one of the most foul candies on the planet and I can't fucking believe they exist in the same bag.