There is lore about the Ancestral Spirits and the followers (the ghost minotaurs). It's on item descriptions and such, which is kind of par for the course with From Software.
Well done, how long did it end up taking you?
Wasn't the thing with The One Reborn that is was simply a bad translation from Japanese? Is was supposed to be something like Small Great One, or Short Great One. Bloodborne I remember between the translations and localization changed a lot of the story, from small details like changing "she" to "it" to big ones "grant us eyes" is actually "give us insight".
Apparently this even extends to the ingame messages now. I just read an article explaining that fort, night is benign if stupid in English, but the way it translates to Spanish makes it sound like there's going to be a brawl after dark. Or when you find a message saying "no horse ahead" pointing at something irrelevant that might be a dude calling someone a liar in Mandarin. I was honestly wondering why people kept saying "Grass" in messages as well, which has a dual meaning: in Japanese it comes across like someone saying "LOL" while in Mandarin it comes across like someone saying "FUCK". So completely different moods both of which are totally lost on an english speaker who wants to know why people keep saying the annoying ledge to reach is grass.
I had a little look around to see about that, and according to this retranslation project, both of those bits are actually pretty accurate ("Reborn One" and "Grant us eyes"). There's some other errors elsewhere of course.
That makes so much sense! So many messages in Elden Ring are complete gibberish. I thought maybe there was more to it, you know? I found a message in front of the fog gate to the ancestral spirit that said Tough Enemy, Therefore Grass. and I thought it was a reference to deer eating grass or something. But knowing it just means "Fuck" makes sense.Apparently this even extends to the ingame messages now. I just read an article explaining that fort, night is benign if stupid in English, but the way it translates to Spanish makes it sound like there's going to be a brawl after dark. Or when you find a message saying "no horse ahead" pointing at something irrelevant that might be a dude calling someone a liar in Mandarin. I was honestly wondering why people kept saying "Grass" in messages as well, which has a dual meaning: in Japanese it comes across like someone saying "LOL" while in Mandarin it comes across like someone saying "FUCK". So completely different moods both of which are totally lost on an english speaker who wants to know why people keep saying the annoying ledge to reach is grass.
How Elden Ring's Silliest Memes Get Lost in Translation - IGN
Elden Ring's messaging system has created a mini meme culture - but when those messages are translated literally, things can get very confusing for those playing in other languages.www.ign.com
I think this video has a lot of what I meant:
About 2-3 hours. It got to the point that I was able to basically perfect her first phase, but the second phase was the real challenge, mainly thanks to the attack where she shoots duplicates of herself at you. Eventually I managed to beat her because I got lucky and she performed a bunch of easily punishable attacks that allowed me to Swarm of Flies her to death.
Just FYI if you ever fight her again with a different build or NG+ or whatever. When you see the tell for that clone attack just run as far as you can as fast as you can and you should avoid every attack.
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I was able to beat her last night, more or less with the same spell although someone else was casting it for me haha. Cooping that fight is a lot of fun and I've done it a few more times now as the summoned help since the pressure is off.
PVP has been strange because my go to farming spot requires me to complete a pvp invasion quest where i have to invade three people. The quest is easy because I don't have to win, I just have to invade so there is no pressure. But you cannot invade solo players so I've always faced groups. And I have won a shocking number of times. To the point where I genuinely don't understand why or how they didn't just merc me. But my bleed swords also will kill someone if I hit them two or three times outright so...even the dude powerstancing greatswords just couldn't keep out of my way and melted.
I did the same mission, although to be honest I never bothered to actually try in the invasions since it would take longer to be serious than to just jump off a cliff to fulfill the quest requirements. I'm kind of surprised invasions are a part of Elden Ring just on the basis that if you can only invade someone involved in coop it just turns into mildly annoying someone in a game-endorsed fashion. You're either gonna mess up a coop group run, or you're gonna get stomped. Either way both parties just kind of get inconvenienced by the exchange and nobody gets much of a reward. There are places where you can legitimately grief people like the Haligtree where you can push people off the branches, but aside from that most of the time an invader is going to at-best annoy somebody.
I think FromSoft agrees because every new game they make doing pvp a bigger pain in the ass. Now you cannot get invaded playing solo, and they've designed it to be as unfair to the invader as possible which I suppose is the trade off for trying to fuck with someone's co-op fun. I would have rather they just left out invasions entirely but are probably keeping it around because for whatever reason there is a community for it.
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That is....ok that's funny.
Omg, it really is peta…
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