It is solely been a little bit bit over a yr since Elden Ring got here out, however a lot of it’s already seared into my mind. Very similar to leaving the sewers in Oblivion for the primary time and greeting Cyrodil, that first glimpse of Limgrave is an iconic gaming second, however in some unspecified time in the future in growth it wasn’t Limgrave in any respect, however apparently “Tenebrae.”
Dataminer Sekiro Dubi’s newest video focuses on an in-progress imaginative and prescient of Limgrave hinted at by information left over from Elden Ring’s growth, one the place acquainted characters like Nepheli and Blaidd are changed with newcomers or characters pulled from different elements of the sport. The principle focus of this video is Guilbert, a hybrid of Bloody Finger Hunter Yurah and Witch Hunter Jerren from the completed sport.
Sekiro Dubi’s analysis into Elden Ring’s information exhibits the skeletal stays of Guilbert’s questline, which by their reckoning was lower earlier than the Community Take a look at of Elden Ring on the finish of 2021. Guilbert shares Witch Hunter Jerren’s weapon and Eccentric armor set, however has voice strains recorded by Yurah’s actor, and his scripting had him hanging out at Yurah’s location from the completed sport.
Guilbert was to be a servant of the “God of Vengeance,” and would have teamed up with you to struggle Crucible Knight Ordovis, a boss within the closing sport who, on this construct, would have been discovered the place you struggle Darriwil with Blaidd within the launch model. Guilbert then would have been a summon for the struggle towards Godrick alongside Vyke, an endgame boss and the man on Elden Ring’s field artwork—within the closing sport, Vyke is a mid-game invader, end-game boss, and in any other case a ghostly presence haunting some merchandise descriptions, however in some unspecified time in the future in growth he appears to have had a full-on NPC questline. Guilbert additionally would have attacked you as an invader for those who killed members of a trio of Touring Retailers, pursuing vengeance for his or her surviving kin.
In following Guilbert, Sekiro Dubi touches on varied methods Limgrave modified over growth, with its authentic (and unexplained) moniker of Tenebrae simply actually protruding to me—it simply does not really feel proper! In the true world, “Tenebrae” is a Christian non secular service main as much as Easter Sunday, one I had actually by no means heard of earlier than regardless of 13 years of Catholic faculty, go determine. Sekiro Dubi additionally exhibits off how Stormhill Shack as soon as functioned as a minor hub for acquainted NPCs like Roderika, but additionally drastically repositioned ones like Hewg, and former work by dataminer Lance McDonald positioned the dreaming monk Jiko there as properly.
Guilbert’s quest appears to have been deliberate to increase past Limgrave—he shared his lookalike Jerren’s affinity for Normal Radahn, and talked about searching down Malenia in lower dialogue. It is unclear as but whether or not any remnant of these later phases stays within the sport’s information. It is attention-grabbing to see the best way FromSoft reshuffles and recontextualizes its NPCs, even scrapping them altogether, and at a late sufficient stage to have recorded voice overs within the case of Guilbert. I additionally love how surreal it’s to see these acquainted characters behaving in such unfamiliar methods. I am fairly proud of the Elden Ring we received although, barring the exclusion of Kalé’s phenomenal lower questline, which Sekiro Dubi beforehand lined in one other video.
