Elden Ring Archaeology trailer
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2023
- Investigative archaeology in the service of Elden Ring lore hunting. Join the next expedition to uncover the deep past of the Lands Between.
Music cover by @AnnaEllsworthMusic
/ @annaellsworthmusic - Hry
You are the best Soulsborne lore creator, no doubts. No one can trace this game's influences as well as you do. You have the insight to make implications so deep and at the same time so clear that it feels like you are unveling wisdom we were all meant to know. Watching your videos, beyond being great enterntainment, feels like taking history classes. Please keep doing this!
Honestly I can't gush enough about Tarnished Archeologist. I don't always agree with all of this theories, but his theories are absolutely unparalleled amongst ER lore CZcamsrs. SmoughTown is the only one that really compares for pure lore (Vaati is more into theatrical lore at this point), but that's largely because SmoughTown draws heavily from other theorists like TA!
Does he talk about Bloodborne too? Wow I didn't know
Check out Charred Thermos before you place TA as king of ALL Soulsborne theorycrafting. I love TA, and he's top Elden Ring for sure, but Themos has Bloodborne explained inside, outwards, up and down.
He still hasnt figure out that Godwyn = Radagon + Marika, but once he does he will be unstoppable
you are my favorite elden ring lore creator by far
Yup same no contest.
Absolutely 💯
The Last Protagonist and Hawkshaw are also incredibly thorough and well-researched
@@gavinmcphie6936 Woah there dont forget Quelaag , Crunchy , Alt and MadLuigi and... fuck now im forgetting people lol
But idk this channel is the real GOAT atm nothing against the rest. He's as academicly inclined as Vaati is aesthetically inclined.. Thats saying ALOT! for those unfamiliar.
So many historical/cultural analogues and insights from ER in this channel. The art directors went above and beyond to fill the world to the brim with ideas!
This video isn't in your "videos" page, and yet it is on the channel... Someone or something on youtube should fix this shameful algorithmic absence of showing this in recommendations. A wonderful edit, archaeologist!
You guys brought the lore discussion to a whole other level. I will undoubtedly stay tuned for whatever you put out in the future! Also absolute banger of a main theme cover!
I love the approach of this channel to lore speculation and analisys, because it's a step in the right direction: Hidetaka Miyazaki has always tried to hide concepts and references in the visuals of his games, and the less he gets costrained by technological limitations, the more he will drench his games in simbolism and straight up architectural references.
This, summed with an unavoidable limitation of translations being done in an industrial context and thus often losing some context/meaning in the process, makes it all the more vital that we all, collectively, start looking more at _what is phisically in the game_ and a bit less to just the descriptions (which often have been deliberately used as a text source in history is, being coloured by the beliefs and dogmas of the one writing).
In short, Thank you, you are a breath of fresh air.
Bro knows how much the lore community loves his videos he's realized it's only CZcamss dumb notification structure preventing it from reaching a larger audience. Love to see the innovation and investment in your own work, keep going TA!
I'm from a channel called Demon Mama. She recommended the channel while talking about the game. I began playing ER some months ago, but then I fell off (mostly because of bad pc at the time). I've recently picked the game up again and I'm looking forward to watching through your playlist:)
I'm here for everything you post, even this!
Archaeology of the Lands Between in service of us, lowly Tarnished of no renown, but nonetheless admirers of the archaeologist. Thank you for awesome videos
Stunning, simply stunning.
Top tier content. TA and Smoughtown have brought Elden Ring lore to a whole other level. Much much appreciation for all you have done
Thank you for the lore so far! Also, interesting cover. It's simultaneously nostalgic and novel, given the colorful intensify that's fundamental to the Lands Between. Quite pleasing.
This harp remix of the main theme is beautiful
Your content rocks
Beautiful! (Posted to get the algorithm moving)
Thank you a lot for lore videos, they’re the best! 😎
*they're, short for "they are."
@@chillithid8888 damn, I was typing too fast :D
Please tell me what the hell we did to deserve such incredibly thorough and well researched Elden Ring lore vidoes? Are you guys irl archeologists? The way you tie in real world examples of history into this games lore is so damn cool.
Legit I look forward to your lore more then anyone else, you rock!!
I discovered your channel a week ago, and I think it's the best channel on Elden Ring lore I've visited. You're doing great, keep up your awesome work.
The number of incredible lore hunters and enthusiasts for Elden Ring is just mind blowing. Grateful to have found your vids.
My friend I just binge watched your 16 videos and let me tell you, you are the best. I have watched every single soulsborne lore creators in CZcams for years and you are the *best*.
Congratulations for your incredible work
Love your work, absolutely fantastical grasp of different crucial fields and how they are referenced in-game and how all of this ties together.
you've been such a joy to watch! (and learn from!)
You’re easily my favorite CZcams channel!!!
Second time binging this whole playlist! Let’s go
You deserve so many more subscribers, i just subbed and i hope you get 1,000,000 more
I love your videos man! The comparisons you draw between real life history, mythology and nature really help to further the understanding of elden rings lore for me. I also learn a lot about these real life subjects I never knew before, so keep it up dude! I'm looking forward to more.
Thank you very much!
After each of your videos I have a feeling I've just listened to the whole two-four hours of culturology lecture - in actually half of the hour! Such rich concentration of info - without aggressive oppression, and so much to learn anew - beautifully built, prepared and performed
Thank you for your awesome inspiring work!
We'd be nowhere close to the understanding we have without your insights and expertise. I and the rest of the souls community is truly grateful to you.
I recently had a spa day (first time 10/10 recommend) and listened to your Elden lore videos throughout my treatments. I love how informative, relaxing, and fascinating your work is.Thank you for these incredible videos! 🤍
This is great
Most interesting lore creator I’ve seen in a long time, glad I turned on notif. for the channel I rarely do that
i saw this trailer and now i need to watch every single tarnished archeology video
There have been a ton of great content creators that I've found since the release of Elden Ring, but this channel stands head and shoulders above the rest
By watching your videos, I realized that this game has much more content to offer, than just open world, bosses and builds. Feels like I played this game the wrong way.The amount of details, lore of the worlds in fromsoft games is insane. Now, in each playthrough I will give more attention to details. You are defenetly one of the greatest lore oriented content creator.
Woweee
I'd like to thank you for your work. You brought my understanding of ER lore to a whole different level. Your videos are exelently reserced and make sense from a storytelling perspective. I also like the way you point to possible real-world inspirations. I believe you are the first to arrange the whole timeline of ER into a consistent picture.
It astonishes me how much effort the developers put into the environmental storytelling. Unlike in other games, every statue and relief actually is there for a reason instead of just to look good. 👌😀
Love the music choice, nice selection!
Hey this is pretty cool, keep it up bud
Also, the depths that you have unearthed make me want to appreciate every game with this lense. It’s inspiring.
A playlist in the appropriate binge watching order. You truly love your audience don't you?
This channel is criminally underrated
This channel is top tier. Up there with Vaati and Smoughtown
I like what you do my man. Keep it up.
THIS IS ABOUT TO BE GODLIKE
oh my God you put them in order.
An actual king. I kneel.
I like your vid, keep it going 😁
This channel is what I called Evidence-Based Lore and Theorycrafting. Watching this structured and systematic explanation videos sometimes made me felt like reading an academic paper such as Systematic Review. I do hope you make investigation on the Divine Bridge accessible from Fortified Manor which seemed to previously led to somewhere very high before it was cut off, and judging from the name, like farum Greatbridge, bridge of sacrifice, or Liurnia tower Bridge it probably lead to something "Divine". Maybe it is related to previously cut Greattree? I also think if someone have the time to reconstruct the ruins that spread on Liurnia, Limgrave, and weeping peninsula which seemed like related to Farum Azula, I think it will provide some clue about Farum Azula and a cataclysmic event destroying it and uprooting it from the ground
I can’t wait for the DLC(s!?) to give you even more goodies to explore!
Then in 2025 I expect an announcement of a partnership between you, Bandai, and Curiosity Stream for a 30 episode series on “The Obelisks of Liurnia”, and I’ll subscribe.
NICELY DONE!!
**sees notification**
**steps into the break room**
I think you should apply for funding from the faculty for an expedition to Lothric. Academic interest in the Lordran civilization/Lothric kingdom has waned a bit, but with that top notch methodology of yours surely you will revive the field.
Best FromSoft lore videos! Not just ER
Deepest Lore
If you look at the bark of the tree is charged already before we burn it
Let's GOOO!!
I really wanted to share this, the fingerslayer balde says this is proof of the high treason commited by the Nox, which is what caused them to be punished. Now if we look at the fingerslayer blade more closely it is a small version of the sacred relix sword. It has the double helix, the rib cage looking thing at the base and the little hand comming out of the side. The sacred relic sword is made from the remains of a god. Which lets us conclude that the Nox either killed a god or at least made the blade out of its corpse. Now the Greater Will wouldnt like that very much I am preatty sure. Astel is called "a star of ill omen". Well the mesopotamien astrologers belived that when the gods were angered they needed a great sacrifice or a star of ill omen would be sent as punishement (I am not exactly sure how correct this is but its something similar at least). This fits preatty neatly. The nox killed/defiled a god, and the greater will easnt to happy so he sent a star of ill omen (astel) as punishement. (Since the greater will sent the elden beast in a comet he is clearly able to sent cosmic beings to the lands between).
And finally I am not sure where exactly this fits in but the mesopotamiens also belived the during an eclipse the gods vision was blocked/impaired. So basically when they thought they angered the gods they needed to make a sacrifice of great value (smth like a king) but they had this loophole, because during the eclipse the gods couldnt see what was happening so they sacrfieced things like goats instead and the gods wouldnt know. Basically the point is miquellas eclipse probably has smth to do with blocking the influence/vision of the greater will so it wont be able to react to Miquellas plan before its too late.
Pog
Unparalleled Elden Ring content
I think this could be interesting: in Raya Lucaria, inside the church of the cuckoo, there is a hidden room with 7 stone coffins and a statue, all depicting women. There is empty space for an 8th coffin. In the game there are 2 lesser black knife assassins, 4 major ones, tiche has perished and alecto is locked away - 8 in total. Coincidence? How would Raya Lucaria or the cuckoo be connected to the night of the black knives? The women carry ornaments on their robes that I have not noticed anywhere else. Are there more likely connections?
Graham Hancock of Elden Ring
That hurts.
@@tarnishedarchaeologist
Take it as compliment I like Graham. You go deeper than most lore hunters. You and Charred Thermos channel bring some new insight in souls series for me cause I have been watching lore vids since demons souls.
Best elden drip in the game
Consort mask
Mohgs robes with shoulder pad removed
Twinned arms are legs
Weird theory: Is the Study Hall able to invert because it is kept in a pocket dimension (or the magical equivalent) similar to the lands of the Eternal Cities? If those were removed from the land by magic, and thus created their own plane of sorts, could the tower have been made with similar skill, so that it would have its own physics? It might explain why it is able to invert without breaking its bounds or even seeming to alter the world at all. I may be misunderstanding what happens to the building, but it seems a plausible connection if sorcery shares a throughline from the earliest astrologers through the Eternal Cities and back to Liurnia.
Best ER content out there !
These videos make me appreciate the world building George R.R. Martin and the FS team did so much more. Lots of inspiration from the real world and research done to craft the lore of this amazing game
BRUH it is fricken KILLING me, waiting to watch all of these until I finish the game! I can only play a couple hours a week, and I seem to make little progress, as I'm compelled to attempt 100% each area before moving on. I'm in Altus Plateau right now praying I reach NG+ before the DLC drops.
Mr Archeologist, I am dying to hear your thoughts on the nature and purpose of the ruin-strewn precipice and the enormous structures that encompass it; it’s an incredible location, and easily one of my favorite in the game.
Oh boy! We have so much to say about these. They will definitely make it into a video, probably not the next one, but hopefully soon. Check out their equivalent structures in Radahn's arena and the strait between Limgrave and Weeping Peninsula. There is much ancient history there.
You should have PhD in Elden Ring's lore
That shows how amazing this game and how much hard work takes to give us best game ever
You should do a podcast episode with the guy who explains the victorian era medicine influences in blood borne (charred thermos)
Charred Thermos is great. Everyone should check him out.
@@tarnishedarchaeologist between you two and quelaag I think y'all have your fingers on the pulse of from softs vision or inspiration of the soul's games. I would absolutely love to see a collaboration. Just my two cents thanks for the content. Every episode gives me that "epiphany" feeling!
Trying to look into who made the golems/imps/erdtree watchdogs, I pondered why leyendell and the sewers is the only place where imps are outside of tombs, and as I was looking about the sewers I came to a conclusion. The catacombs predate the sewers, much of the sewer system was built into the tomb, hence why residents of the tomb is now in the sewer. (not sure why they are in the rooftops of leyndell yet...) The chrurch of the forsaken for example is a erdtree burial chamber remade into a church. Would also explain why the sewers have a overabundance of corpses.
But going into the golems/imps/watchdogs. Do you have any theories inregards to them? They all seem linked, the crystal dart works on all of them, imps are called diminutive golems, the watchdog is called out to rule over the imps. Watchdogs and Golems have a similar firebreath, something unlike what Leyendel would sanction, moreso for a sacred site.
Papyrus!!!
video could be half the length, if not overproduced
Does anyone know the connection between Margit/Mohg shackle and the fire totems you find in dungeons? After watching this I wanted to explore more of the sewers. In the Leyndell Catacombs you run into 3 burning putrid corpses next to a statue. This is the same statue you can find an omen praying to in the Subterranean Shunning Grounds. What I found strange was that if you use Margit/Mohg shackle next to this statue, it affects the fire totem in the next room. Hitting the statue does absolutely nothing but for whatever reason the shackles have direct influence on these statues and I was wondering if anyone had any details they’d wanna share on this. Thanks!
Great collage but it might not be clear for newcomers whats the strongest point of this channel is: connecting dots in lore with great storytelling
I have to ask: do you have a PhD or are you currently pursuing one? Your research acumen is far and above anyone else I can think of in the lore hunting community.
I love the stuff you do, the insight and attention to S+ tier. But you have to get a better pfp bro lol. It's too generic, commission something that's recognizable. Something that looks like someone from Elden Ring's universe uncovering and shifting through the remains of the time before them. Get that I think you'd be golden. Would match the level of content being produced!
Pls more lore video I need pls halp 2 understand Radagon/Marika rune crucifix = “man” wtf “leal hound of the golden order, you are not yet me, you are not yet a god. Let us be shattered, both.” Wtf wtf
Tarnished Archaelogist Patreon pls. I have too much money and need to give it to you.
I'm sorry but this is why I hate Elden Ring "story". A bunch of grand details and plot elements, that are utterly non-chalantly presented so that CZcamsrs can spend 30 minutes speculating on what it all means.
"BRO THE SISTINE CHAPEL BUT IN ELDEN RING GUYS THIS TOTALLY *starts rambling for 30 minutes about how this might actually explain Melina's entire character".
It's a lazy, bullshit way to tell a story.