It is solely been somewhat bit over a yr since Elden Ring got here out, however a lot of it’s already seared into my mind. Very like leaving the sewers in Oblivion for the primary time and greeting Cyrodil, that first glimpse of Limgrave is an iconic gaming second, however sooner or later in improvement 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 recordsdata left over from Elden Ring’s improvement, one the place acquainted characters like Nepheli and Blaidd are changed with newcomers or characters pulled from different components 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 recordsdata exhibits the skeletal stays of Guilbert’s questline, which by their reckoning was minimize earlier than the Community Check of Elden Ring on the finish of 2021. Guilbert shares Witch Hunter Jerren’s weapon and Eccentric armor set, however has voice traces 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 combat Crucible Knight Ordovis, a boss within the closing sport who, on this construct, would have been discovered the place you combat Darriwil with Blaidd within the launch model. Guilbert then would have been a summon for the combat 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 sooner or later in improvement he appears to have had a full-on NPC questline. Guilbert additionally would have attacked you as an invader should you killed members of a trio of Touring Retailers, pursuing vengeance for his or her surviving kin.
In following Guilbert, Sekiro Dubi touches on numerous methods Limgrave modified over improvement, with its unique (and unexplained) moniker of Tenebrae simply actually protruding to me—it simply would not really feel proper! In the true world, “Tenebrae” is a Christian spiritual 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 in addition drastically repositioned ones like Hewg, and former work by dataminer Lance McDonald positioned the dreaming monk Jiko there as nicely.
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 minimize dialogue. It is unclear as but whether or not any remnant of these later phases stays within the sport’s recordsdata. It is attention-grabbing to see the way in which 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 cut questline, which Sekiro Dubi beforehand coated in one other video.
