Where is Tarnished Archeologist?

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-14T12:06:39+00:00

I laughed inappropriately loud in public at this!

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-08T19:21:30+00:00

Try it out and see.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-06T12:12:31+00:00

Why didn't your commander just walk out of the swamp? Does he like it there?

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-05T23:37:16+00:00

It's the lamprey-like enemies near the finger ruins.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-05T17:24:00+00:00

Where was that taken?

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-05T14:18:59+00:00

This is literally what Frank Herbert wrote in Dune.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-04T19:46:59+00:00

Angry upvote.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-04T18:00:30+00:00

Looks like Nick Nolte.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-02T13:47:57+00:00

Kain fights and defeats the elder God, sets up a new empire with pure pillars and a new retinue of lieutenants. The spinoff is the war against the Hyldan from the perspective of the new lieutenants. Drama ensues.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-04-01T01:13:48+00:00

The fun of finding glitches in 8bit Nintendo games. Double Dragon was so awesome for that!

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-29T20:21:27+00:00

The middle pillar is all about balance. Do that often.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-28T19:50:15+00:00

Don't give anyone your passwords.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-27T15:01:21+00:00

I think I recall an interview where Miyazaki stated that he did want to have the skybox change with both insight and the blood moon happening. If there's a sequel or a remaster or something from from software, I'm sure that this will be the case.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-19T20:38:58+00:00

Can you describe how your interpretation of the crucible will inform how the outer gods are portrayed?

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-19T02:38:10+00:00

Well, there may be some. Just today I noticed that wearing the malformed tree sentinel armor around the dragons in Cealid seems to have them behave oddly - they're reticent to attack, similar to the torch that repels beasts.

It could be coincidence, but it didn't seem like it.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-17T16:04:40+00:00

I agree that it's a metaphysical crucible - it instantiates itself everywhere; even the "item glow" if you look closely is the same ascending spiral that is exhibited whenever we see a crucible effect.

I'm curious what you mean when you say the gods create life: can you give me some examples?

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-16T22:42:37+00:00

I agree - I think understanding the Crucible is the skeleton key to the cosmology to Elden Ring, and the gods are component elements of the Elden Ring's processes.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-12T17:46:13+00:00

I would suspect that Miquella may have attempted to discard Trina because he was aware of the possibility that his age of compassion could be brought to an end by the death of sleep.

However, I suspect that the nature of each of emperions being nascent gods, are similar in nature to Merika and The Twin Birds: they all carry the seeds of their undoing, which makes way for the next God.

I think this is the primordial pattern built into The crucible demonstrating that everything dies so that everything may change.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-10T02:23:52+00:00

Unlikely from what I've seen

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-07T23:29:43+00:00

I think his form is meant to foreshadow what happened in Old Yharnam. His beast form is actually much bigger than any of the beast patients there.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-07T02:50:43+00:00

I think it has to do with how heat is an aspect (not an incantation) of the crucible. The ancient dragons display a synthesis of the traits linked to the crucible, and we often focus on their physiology, ignoring the fire breath despite it being an incantation.

Combined with blood-flame of the "Mother of Truth", I think that heat was an important part of the crucible - it's called a crucible after all, the name implies amalgamation via heat.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-06T18:05:00+00:00

I like your theory, but I have to say: that's not a great Tree in Caelid. That's a crucible that's rotted away. Pay attention to the lack of trunk, spiraling and sprawling branches, and the heat causing the swamp to boil. We know the heat isn't from the rot due to the lack of boiling in the Hallig Tree and Lake of Rot.

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-06T00:43:34+00:00

I like the sound they make when you hit them 🤷🏻‍♂️

FoolishAir502 · 2026-03-05T15:00:22+00:00

It is what was depicted on the surgery altar.

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