I assumed we have been accomplished with the bottom Elden Ring narrative and, as a substitute, had moved onto determining the Shadow of the Erdtree clues director Hidetaka Miyazaki left behind. But it seems that FromSoftware’s magnum opus actually is an countless treasure trove of cool lore and attention-grabbing tales, as a dataminer has lately dusted off and reconstructed an alternate introduction to the sport that barely adjustments issues.
As noticed by IGN, Elden Ring dataminer Sekiro Dubi found that the sport initially began with you washing up on a seashore as a substitute of awakening in The Stranded Graveyard and trudging by means of to the Cave of Knowledge. Elden Ring gamers know that the sport plops you the de facto tutorial space after you (most definitely) die to the Grafted Scion boss on the Chapel of Anticipation. However, in a March 6 YouTube video, Sekiro Dubi reveals that in “the unique Elden Ring place to begin” that they restored, FromSoft truly supposed in your macerated physique to reach on a sandy seashore below the Seaside Ruins. This, based on a cutscene that Sekiro Dubi had stitched collectively after sleuthing by means of in-game recordsdata, is the place you’ll have first been launched to Melina and Torrent.
The dialogue doesn’t change an excessive amount of, although there are a couple of new traces right here and there. The place to begin itself, nevertheless, is completely new. Instead of taking management of your Tarnished within the Stranded Graveyard as you do within the retail model of Elden Ring, Sekiro Dubi confirmed that, at one level within the sport’s growth, you’ll encounter an enemy, a mercenary and his wolf, on the seashore earlier than swerving right into a cave that leads you to the Stranded Graveyard. According to Sekiro Dubi’s findings, all of that is even discovered within the Network Test maps of the sport, suggesting that Stormveil Castle beforehand had a teleport that’d zip you again to the Chapel of Anticipation. The (Elden Ring) world actually is spherical, huh?
Kotaku has reached out to Sekiro Dubi for remark.
It’s thrilling that discoveries like this are nonetheless being made in Elden Ring, whilst consideration shifts towards its upcoming growth, Shadow of the Erdtree, which can give us a glance into Malenia’s twin brother, Miquella, and his connection to The Shadowland. The DLC is due out on June 22, and already some gamers have Indiana Jones’d a chunk of lore within the base sport that connects to Shadow of the Erdtree. Dataminers simply maintain discovering the good stuff in Elden Ring.
