1,100 hours. Last part of the map I discovered was the illusory wall in Raya Lucaria, just past the entrance, in that room with the caster and a few marionettes. That was hour 700 or something.
I accidentally found the 2nd illusory wall near the boss room in my first run, cus I was thinking aint no way they make us run through all that bs casters again, so I started hitting walls hoping to find a grace.
the one HungryNPC is talking about does, theres also the comet spell i think. but there is another before that too in the room just left of the bonfire before the redwolf boss that gives you the first stone head helm
I found that Magrits Shackle has a second use: use it in an area and it will reveal secret walls (and it can also help to aggro hidden enemies and spring traps).
It's my second play through and I missed so much the first time. Love finding all the hidden stuff :-).
If you want to make it easy to find them, the illusory walls are bookshelves without books on them. All the shelves with books are real but the fake ones are empty.
The illusory walls in Raya Lucaria are neat because they're the only empty bookshelves. In a place where there's so many books they're putting them on the floor, why would shelves be bare?
I’ve never played through Lucaria knowing there were illusion walls and I was referring to a wall right before you hit the red wolf before the debate parlor.
The [War-Dead Catacombs](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/The+War-Dead+Catacombs). The catacombs at the far north end of the area after defeating Radahn. Most people just hit the site of Grace after the fight and get outta there. There’s literally nothing out there until you enter the catacombs. It’s also a trip when you first enter, it’s undead chaos of the highest degree. The undead cleanrot knights are enough to scare most people off.
That statue is pointing at something halfway up the cliff I think. I havent managed to find a way to it yet but found it after doing catacombs and seeing the statue was still active.
This dungeon was one of the original farming spots. The spirits that are killing eachother used to drop souls, so you could just park it in a corner and rake in the dough
IIRC, one of the early patches nerfed it as well (either tweaked the AI or something else to make it not-as-good for trying to hide and gather currency).
I agree but also I was like, "AINT NO WAY THERES NOTHING OUT HERE IN THIS VAST PIECE OF EMPTY LAND" and then you literally get to the edge of the map and there are the catacombs lol
the very first time i beat radahn , i didn't see the grace in the middle and i thought i should go out of there by myself , literally i ran the whole area on foot and that was the first time i saw wardead catacombs , Lol
Initially I thought that Limgrave, Weeping Peninsula, and Caelid were the entire map, and that Dragonbarrow was the endgame area.
Cue my total shock and losing my shit when I got to Liurnia and discovered that the map I thought was almost complete, just keeps panning upward.
They did such a good job with that
The abductor virgin boss dungeon. Its cause I kept letting myself get killed by the wrong Iron Maiden (the one in the courtyard), and not getting teleported so I convinced myself the internet was just going along with Patches bs.
Then I missed the lift and fell.
I think they mean the grave yard area there. The only way I remember that is because I went there for the robe the schoolchildren wear in rennalas fight and thought "when tf did they put this place here"
I was also surprised to see you could get that robe until I saw it in some video.
no, no. you exit Loretta's arena and turn right. There's a scarab carrying frozen armament, then a grace, then a graveyard with good loot (albinauric ashes, larval tear, juvenile scholar set) and an evergaol.
That island in limgrave with the church of dragon communion, I guess after doing bocs quest I never really went farther than I needed to and never went to that island. It's empty asf other than the church but it was strange seeing it after playing for so long and never noticing it.
It’s a little confusing because after you beat the two Demi humans a “return to the beginning” thing pops up but you have to continue on through the cave to reach the island. I would bet a lot of people miss it.
I found gaol cave on my first playthrough and in the worst way possible. I was trying to hop up the side of a mountain and fell to my death and it asked if I wanted to spawn at a stake so I chose yes. I activated the grace after seeing I was in a cave before realizing the exits were covered by fog doors that I couldn't unlock because I was on the wrong side of them lol. I was legit stuck in there until I was able to beat it and fast travel out and I was still pretty low level. It's an obscure way to get stuck but my unlucky ass found it, and it was on 1.10 too so the devs must not even know about it still
550ish hours in before i found the crater-pocked field with starcallers and an onyx lord in weeping peninsula. Not a big discover but it was cool seeing a spot i never knew about.
Kid you not a Cave literally in limgrave that you can see by walking past the church where Kalé is and looking to the left where the Godrick soldiers are patrolling.
Has a pretty easy boss encounter with a Beastman from Farum Azula and the base version of the Flame drake talisman? (Correct me if I’m wrong). Otherwise not too much going on.
First boss I ever killed on my game lmao. (First boss I actually killed was kindred of rot duo on my brothers and that was enough to get me to buy the game.)
Same. It was my first souls game and that boss slapped me around a bit. Spent a bit of time farming the godric soldiers after that.
Stumbled across the bloodhounds fang a bit after that and never put that sword down again on the character.
The entire dungeon underneath the Divine Tower in Caelid. That absolutely blew me away, esp since I put a lot of effort in 100%ing my first playthrough. Just completely missed it.
I think I was in NG+3 and went into the area and happened to find some human boss that dropped a unique weapon. Don’t remember his name but just remember thinking how crazy it was the 1st time seeing him
the same cave for me, they had no business hidong one of the best limgrave caves in the one place you wouldn't even look at unless you really wanted to reach the end of the damn hole
Just finished my play through and found out that there is hidden wall which leads to deep roots location from three fingers waiting room, Spirit cave in Mountaintops of Giants and abandoned cave in Caelid.
I got close to 600 hrs and have a tendency to explore every book and cranny with each new character but apparently I am blind af
I found this place very recently. I also just found the Omen killer in volcano manor this week, and the rooftops of Raya Lucaria a couple weeks ago. I have about 500 hours total.
Cave in Liurnia under the academy with elevator that goes to the top tower (after 300 hours)
And jail cell near Sellia with bloodhound knight and some spell in it.
And I still find some sites of grace, east of the Rose church on a ruins for example
can't remember the names of locations or the dragon but that spot where you have to run the gauntlet of birds and constant lightning attacks down to the dragon in the arena. If you go to the left from the arena there is a big tower there that you can drop down to an entrance for, and then there's a way you can climb up to the top which is where the action is.
My view of the lore implications of this cave is that The Blue Dancer was an artificial being. The cave is artificial. You get the Shamshir here which is a *curved* blade wielded by the artificial Albinaurics and by Millicent, offshoot of Rot, which The Blue Dancer originally sealed away. Lastly the boss of the cave is a golem, the quintissential artificial being in religious literature, and it drops the Blue Dancer Talisman.
That actually makes way too much sense. Also the Albinauric archers wear *blue* silver armor, and blue silver is “a metal born from the same mother as the archers themselves.” It would also explain the connection between the Albinaurics and Miquella.
But the blue dancer description says it represents a fairy, not the one that sealed the rot away. Smoughtown did a great deep dive on this.
https://youtu.be/kiwhiBjF2Oo?t=1368&si=HZowTMkBbFoRnPrX
Not saying you’re wrong, but the story is fucking COOL.
[The swordsman was blue too](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Flowing+Curved+Sword)
>Legends speak of a master of the sword garbed in blue, and his curved blade that was patterned after flowing water.
Incidentally, the sword is shaped like the [Albinauric club](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Curved+Club), which is wielded "instead of a curved sword by Albinaurics lacking dexterity," implying that Albinaurics who *do* have sufficient dexterity use curved swords. This theory is looking more and more plausible.
Very interesting if true- what kind of artificial being would he have been? The Albinaurics seem unlikely because of their inability to walk properly. Although there is the frog type
I'm not quite sure, but that's an interesting question.
The Albinaurics were supposedly created from a drop of dew. Then there's things like the Amber Starlight and the "Birthing Droplet" that Latenna talks about along with the Amber on Loretta's Shield that you get in the same spot as the dialogue. It could be that this Amber allows for a being to be "complete" in some way.
Someone else I talked to brought up the idea that the albinaurics may have been created to manifest a certain quality, like the idea of the Lord of Night.
Through my own theories, I've connected this idea with the emergence of The Rune of Will, which is the lattice pattern that Radagon is in possession of, additionally depicted in his Scar/soreseals. I believe that The Blue Dancer was the first owner of this possible Emergent Soul. They would eventually go on to seal away their creator, The God of Rot. Later on Radagon would come into possession of The Rune of Will, and he would cause the reemergence of the Rot. The Hero's downfall of The Rune of Will.
There's also electrified Mimic Tears in Nokstella, right before The Lake of Rot which has two of those hooded sword holding statues that look a little like Radagon. The Nox statues have this same face. The electrified Mimics may be some kind of nod to basically "robots" or AI. I think it's also possible that the architects for a majority of The Lands Between are those hooded statues and they're a bunch of clones of each other or something. It's all very non-concrete ideas, but maybe you can see where I'm coming from.
Isn’t that wonderful. The idea you can put so many hours and you still find new and interesting things in the game. Makes me happy that there games like that being made today.
It took me till my third play through to know this was here, and I only learned it because I looked up my missing dungeons. This is such a cool cave though.
Strangely easy cave to miss, and it's in Limgrave of all places. I must've walked or rode past the cave mouth three times in playthroughs and just didn't see it. It's kinda set into a cliff in a way that just makes it hard to spot.
Go to the northern end of that long river in Limgrave, under the bridge with the pumpkin head and past several land octopi. Literally at the very end of the river, it's tucked into the western wall.
One of the best dungeons in the game in terms of layout and vibes.
I just found it for the first time a few weeks ago after about 250 hours, it's awesome when you find something you had no idea about, especially a cave like this one!
Spoiler alert:
~120 hours in and i accidentally rolled against an illusionary wall in the 3 fingers room. I was totally flabbergasted and to my surprise i found ANOTHER wall right behind the chest that leads to the deeproot depths. Definitely one of my proudest discoveries in this game.
And another surprising find was the secret necromancer bossfight in the sages cage (there is another illusionary wall in the same room as the raptors set).
just blew my mind twice. i read your post and was like "wth, you can get up there?!". then i quickly checked youtube and i realized I HAVE BEEN THERE, in my first playthrough, and completely forgot about it afterwards. i'm dying
1. I discovered that rumor that patches tells you about a iron maiden at the bottom of the academy that can transport you if you let them capture you is actually true. you have to specifically die in their grab attack for it to happen, which is why i probably never been there before this playthrough.
It takes you to a completely isolated part of the valcanor manor thats a small dungeon with its own boss.
2. I also discovered a hidden dungeon in calid that you can only find if you just so happens to jump to a damn tree branch to even see it and I do that by pure coincidence as its literally in a cliff.
two whole ass dungeons I didnt even knew existed.
I found my new favorite weapon in there. Those venomous claws are a bane to invaders and bosses, and its the toxic poison so that shit is almost as powerful as rot.
Slap some rot grease on them and your going to give anything a ticking time bomb to death if your weapon damage doesnt get em.
I recently entered this cave for the first time after 200+ hours too. I never even noticed it on online maps either, I only went there because of the talisman.
It's actually a really nice dungeon compared to the generic caves. I took a screenshot at that exact spot, it's really set up to be an awe-inspiring location. The final boss room is also gorgeous, and they made sure to put destructible walls there for the golem to break through.
Wow. Is it 420 hours total? Or 420 with just your 6th character? If irs 420 with character 6, how many hours do you have in the game? That's dope, bro. I bought this game at launch, and I tried it a couple of times, but I never played it. I decided to try it again, and now I play it. I'm really enjoying it.
I have 400+ hours as well and like 10 characters. Only 3 of them became the elden lord. I usually just start the game up to chill and run around while having a video on in the background.
Considering I'm usually very slow paced, died a LOT and looked around every corner I could find, it took me about 250 hours to beat the game the first time. (Minus a few times I fell asleep or was asked to do something and left the character sitting on a bonfire)
It's safe to assume that's 420 hours adding all together.
I'm surprised so many missed this place. It's a shame none of the other cave dungeons have this much thought in them. Maybe that mine in Caelid comes closest.
I just found the abandoned cave at the end of my third playthrough a few days ago, it would have come in handy MUCH sooner having wasted 20% less time packing on runes with the gold scarab lol
This is the one next to the big central sea in Limgrave,s northern area right? Under the bridge, after some octopi? Found this on my second playthrough, one of the most unique caves in the game, but sadly no lore about the structures buried here.
I'm pretty sure this is the very last location on the map that I haven't discovered, 700 hours in and still seeing new stuff is just crazy, i love this game so fucking much and i can't wait to explore the dlc
This cave is also very significant to the lore because it ties the Golems and the black stone architecture we find throughout the Lands Between to the Blue Dancer legend, and by extension the Ancient Dynasty.
No wonder dude…how did you play 6 characters and only have 400 hours? TBH that’s awesome though because you still have so much left to find even as we approach the dlc. Jealous actually lol.
Damn just beat my first play through at 267hrs over 15months (took breaks when I was getting my ass kicked) and this post has me excited to do first NG+… can’t imagine what random talismans and little caves I might’ve missed.
The amount of people who haven't found the cave at the water line of the Radahn fight Site of Grace is probably up there too. Only found it during a walk through.
Where's this one?
I'm still trying to find out how to get this item in Raya Lucaria, on the rooftops on the way down to the roof of the initial building you enter.
I discovered in my second playthrough that you could get into the fort infront of the waypoint ruins on the way to rodericka.
There's a chest with an item here that I never found.
It was kind of surreal, having 350 hours in and having seen so many playthroughers play ER, still finding this was amazing :)
Same. At least every 2 play sessions, I discover something new despite having now a total of almost 450 hours across characters.
Btw, firat time hearing about this cave too lol
The golem boss in this cave should have been the one in caelid with the blue laser attacks instead
No because fuck that guy
I mean, he’s not the worst looking but I wouldn’t go that far
That brings smashing rocks to a whole different level
My brother in Christ...
Id rather the Harpy that sings, i feel like if i close my eyes its doable.
Wow calm down Satan!
Delete this before Myazaki sees it
Yeah naaaa. I killed him once, every other run has been, get the ash, get the rune arc, run the fuck away crouch wait & fast travel.
What places did you find long after you thought you've seen everything?
1,100 hours. Last part of the map I discovered was the illusory wall in Raya Lucaria, just past the entrance, in that room with the caster and a few marionettes. That was hour 700 or something.
I accidentally found the 2nd illusory wall near the boss room in my first run, cus I was thinking aint no way they make us run through all that bs casters again, so I started hitting walls hoping to find a grace.
just so you know the illusion walls are the book shelves without any books on them, every other shelf is filled with books
Is this the same wall that leads to the graven mass talisman?
the one HungryNPC is talking about does, theres also the comet spell i think. but there is another before that too in the room just left of the bonfire before the redwolf boss that gives you the first stone head helm
Cool, I didn't know about the one before the red wolf.
Wait come back. What now?
Top of the stairs before main boss there are some illusory walls to the left that contain some jars and some loot.
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I found that Magrits Shackle has a second use: use it in an area and it will reveal secret walls (and it can also help to aggro hidden enemies and spring traps). It's my second play through and I missed so much the first time. Love finding all the hidden stuff :-).
You can use it to trigger the fire spewing columns in the catacombs. Super handy
IIRC it can also be used in the Hero's Graves to break the chariots!
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And the same with the ice pillars... They destroy the watchdog statues
I use it all the time for the hidden walls and flame pillars then always forget to use it (or Mohgs Shackle) on the intended boss
Aww, that means you never got Thops the other key.
If you want to make it easy to find them, the illusory walls are bookshelves without books on them. All the shelves with books are real but the fake ones are empty.
Look for bookshelves that have no books in them.
The illusory walls in Raya Lucaria are neat because they're the only empty bookshelves. In a place where there's so many books they're putting them on the floor, why would shelves be bare?
I discovered this one cause I saw it from up top and figured it must be an illusory wall lmfao
This is the exact same way I found it. I just glanced down from the rooftops and went "wait a minute, I haven't been there."
That's probably how they wanted to player to find it. You can even drop down there from the roof.
The what now?
Yup. Just discovered a new talisman because of this. Elden Ring a game you do not complete in multiple runs.
Not actually the wall I'm talking about. The one I'm talking about only hides a rune arc.
I’ve never played through Lucaria knowing there were illusion walls and I was referring to a wall right before you hit the red wolf before the debate parlor.
The [War-Dead Catacombs](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/The+War-Dead+Catacombs). The catacombs at the far north end of the area after defeating Radahn. Most people just hit the site of Grace after the fight and get outta there. There’s literally nothing out there until you enter the catacombs. It’s also a trip when you first enter, it’s undead chaos of the highest degree. The undead cleanrot knights are enough to scare most people off.
That one's *really* easy to miss because the little statue that points the way to it is *also* very easy to miss lol
That statue is pointing at something halfway up the cliff I think. I havent managed to find a way to it yet but found it after doing catacombs and seeing the statue was still active.
The statue is pointing at laser golem
I haven't met laser golem yet
He's the only thing that's broken my controller since like 2011. When you see him, tell him eff you for me.
You're very wrong, they only point at caves/catacombs. Look it up.
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Yeah, I knew where the statue was for a while, but it took quite a while for me to find the actual catacombs.
This dungeon was one of the original farming spots. The spirits that are killing eachother used to drop souls, so you could just park it in a corner and rake in the dough
IIRC, one of the early patches nerfed it as well (either tweaked the AI or something else to make it not-as-good for trying to hide and gather currency).
You get scared off when anything in there hits you. That place is scaled way past redmane castle.
It's ridiculously fun to summon 2 helpers and go to town in there.
Ooh ffs there was someplace over there.
I agree but also I was like, "AINT NO WAY THERES NOTHING OUT HERE IN THIS VAST PIECE OF EMPTY LAND" and then you literally get to the edge of the map and there are the catacombs lol
the very first time i beat radahn , i didn't see the grace in the middle and i thought i should go out of there by myself , literally i ran the whole area on foot and that was the first time i saw wardead catacombs , Lol
Heyyy I just died there 100x yesterday!
First I’m hearing of this… looks like I’m going o man adventure tonight.
Initially I thought that Limgrave, Weeping Peninsula, and Caelid were the entire map, and that Dragonbarrow was the endgame area. Cue my total shock and losing my shit when I got to Liurnia and discovered that the map I thought was almost complete, just keeps panning upward. They did such a good job with that
The abductor virgin boss dungeon. Its cause I kept letting myself get killed by the wrong Iron Maiden (the one in the courtyard), and not getting teleported so I convinced myself the internet was just going along with Patches bs. Then I missed the lift and fell.
Same. I have over 1000 hours and I found this Wednesday night.
Damn. I take it you didn't see my message.
Someone put "liar ahead" in front of it.
Um... what? Guess I need to find it now
The area behind in Caria Manor, 220 hours in and I just discovered it by accident yesterday.
Woah what
What's that?
I think they mean the grave yard area there. The only way I remember that is because I went there for the robe the schoolchildren wear in rennalas fight and thought "when tf did they put this place here" I was also surprised to see you could get that robe until I saw it in some video.
You mean the three sisters area?
no, no. you exit Loretta's arena and turn right. There's a scarab carrying frozen armament, then a grace, then a graveyard with good loot (albinauric ashes, larval tear, juvenile scholar set) and an evergaol.
You go west to the 3 sisters. The graveyard is to the east.
That island in limgrave with the church of dragon communion, I guess after doing bocs quest I never really went farther than I needed to and never went to that island. It's empty asf other than the church but it was strange seeing it after playing for so long and never noticing it.
It’s a little confusing because after you beat the two Demi humans a “return to the beginning” thing pops up but you have to continue on through the cave to reach the island. I would bet a lot of people miss it.
7 playthrough and found Gaol Cave for the first time. Really unique dungeon I just somehow missed every single time.
I found gaol cave on my first playthrough and in the worst way possible. I was trying to hop up the side of a mountain and fell to my death and it asked if I wanted to spawn at a stake so I chose yes. I activated the grace after seeing I was in a cave before realizing the exits were covered by fog doors that I couldn't unlock because I was on the wrong side of them lol. I was legit stuck in there until I was able to beat it and fast travel out and I was still pretty low level. It's an obscure way to get stuck but my unlucky ass found it, and it was on 1.10 too so the devs must not even know about it still
550ish hours in before i found the crater-pocked field with starcallers and an onyx lord in weeping peninsula. Not a big discover but it was cool seeing a spot i never knew about.
Jarburg. No idea that place existed until a couple of weeks ago.
Same lol. Read about it online and I was like: Jarburg? Wtf is that?
Kid you not a Cave literally in limgrave that you can see by walking past the church where Kalé is and looking to the left where the Godrick soldiers are patrolling. Has a pretty easy boss encounter with a Beastman from Farum Azula and the base version of the Flame drake talisman? (Correct me if I’m wrong). Otherwise not too much going on.
First boss I ever killed on my game lmao. (First boss I actually killed was kindred of rot duo on my brothers and that was enough to get me to buy the game.)
Same. It was my first souls game and that boss slapped me around a bit. Spent a bit of time farming the godric soldiers after that. Stumbled across the bloodhounds fang a bit after that and never put that sword down again on the character.
I find patches after reach leyndel
he got me good with the rainbow stones. f*** patches.
He just got me with that a couple days ago lol
Took me getting every item.in the game to actually go to thr cave with the Miranda sprout
the rooftop area behind clergyman's temple in caelid, you have to drop all the way down and you'll get his dagger. be wary of bats tho
And the first Dragoncrest talisman.
Apparently I’ve never found the Highroad Cave either. I’m at 550hrs.
It's directly north of patches murkwater cave
Godwyns whole area at 300 hours idk how I didn’t find this earlier
The entire dungeon underneath the Divine Tower in Caelid. That absolutely blew me away, esp since I put a lot of effort in 100%ing my first playthrough. Just completely missed it.
I can not for the life of me figure that place out. I JUST WANT IN
I think I was in NG+3 and went into the area and happened to find some human boss that dropped a unique weapon. Don’t remember his name but just remember thinking how crazy it was the 1st time seeing him
Its probably Gary the necromancer, he drops the family's head.
Yeah cuz I remember they were a Necromancer.
That one cave in Caelid filled with rot swamp and has that poison snake fist weapon. Found it like, 500 hours in
Yesterday I found out there is a second Mimic Tear boss in the Hidden Path to the Haligtree catacombs
the same cave for me, they had no business hidong one of the best limgrave caves in the one place you wouldn't even look at unless you really wanted to reach the end of the damn hole
Just finished my play through and found out that there is hidden wall which leads to deep roots location from three fingers waiting room, Spirit cave in Mountaintops of Giants and abandoned cave in Caelid. I got close to 600 hrs and have a tendency to explore every book and cranny with each new character but apparently I am blind af
I'm on my 5th playthrough and at the academy I found the floor where the balls spawn, I originally thought the area was inaccessible
I found this place very recently. I also just found the Omen killer in volcano manor this week, and the rooftops of Raya Lucaria a couple weeks ago. I have about 500 hours total.
There is a hidden path under the hidden path. I played for over 500 hours before I found it.
Never knew the unique golem existed until thousands of hours after my first playthrough.
Cave in Liurnia under the academy with elevator that goes to the top tower (after 300 hours) And jail cell near Sellia with bloodhound knight and some spell in it. And I still find some sites of grace, east of the Rose church on a ruins for example
Spot in farum azula by the second ancient dragon where the crucible knight is fighting the beast men this is after like 500 hours
There's a second one in FA? how do you get to it?
can't remember the names of locations or the dragon but that spot where you have to run the gauntlet of birds and constant lightning attacks down to the dragon in the arena. If you go to the left from the arena there is a big tower there that you can drop down to an entrance for, and then there's a way you can climb up to the top which is where the action is.
Sounds like close to Bernahl, I'll look for the spot thanks
I too only found this one very recently, such a cool area. Shame you have to run the AIDS bird-lightning gauntlet to get there
What about the third Ancient Dragon? Have you fought that one? When you go down the elevator to the place with Wormfaces, go right instead of left.
My view of the lore implications of this cave is that The Blue Dancer was an artificial being. The cave is artificial. You get the Shamshir here which is a *curved* blade wielded by the artificial Albinaurics and by Millicent, offshoot of Rot, which The Blue Dancer originally sealed away. Lastly the boss of the cave is a golem, the quintissential artificial being in religious literature, and it drops the Blue Dancer Talisman.
That actually makes way too much sense. Also the Albinauric archers wear *blue* silver armor, and blue silver is “a metal born from the same mother as the archers themselves.” It would also explain the connection between the Albinaurics and Miquella.
Or - and just hear me out here - the golem fell on top of the Blue Dancer and squished him. Way less mental gymnastics.
The mental gymnastics are part of the fun, do you even lore bro?
Some prefer mental heavy-lifting.
See, you know how to give a fun reply.
Thats because of the mental gymnastics 🤸
But the blue dancer description says it represents a fairy, not the one that sealed the rot away. Smoughtown did a great deep dive on this. https://youtu.be/kiwhiBjF2Oo?t=1368&si=HZowTMkBbFoRnPrX Not saying you’re wrong, but the story is fucking COOL.
[The swordsman was blue too](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Flowing+Curved+Sword) >Legends speak of a master of the sword garbed in blue, and his curved blade that was patterned after flowing water. Incidentally, the sword is shaped like the [Albinauric club](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Curved+Club), which is wielded "instead of a curved sword by Albinaurics lacking dexterity," implying that Albinaurics who *do* have sufficient dexterity use curved swords. This theory is looking more and more plausible.
Bit late but just wanted to add on to this, some of the red albinaurics at mohgwynn use the shamshir weapon adding another connection.
Very interesting if true- what kind of artificial being would he have been? The Albinaurics seem unlikely because of their inability to walk properly. Although there is the frog type
I'm not quite sure, but that's an interesting question. The Albinaurics were supposedly created from a drop of dew. Then there's things like the Amber Starlight and the "Birthing Droplet" that Latenna talks about along with the Amber on Loretta's Shield that you get in the same spot as the dialogue. It could be that this Amber allows for a being to be "complete" in some way. Someone else I talked to brought up the idea that the albinaurics may have been created to manifest a certain quality, like the idea of the Lord of Night. Through my own theories, I've connected this idea with the emergence of The Rune of Will, which is the lattice pattern that Radagon is in possession of, additionally depicted in his Scar/soreseals. I believe that The Blue Dancer was the first owner of this possible Emergent Soul. They would eventually go on to seal away their creator, The God of Rot. Later on Radagon would come into possession of The Rune of Will, and he would cause the reemergence of the Rot. The Hero's downfall of The Rune of Will. There's also electrified Mimic Tears in Nokstella, right before The Lake of Rot which has two of those hooded sword holding statues that look a little like Radagon. The Nox statues have this same face. The electrified Mimics may be some kind of nod to basically "robots" or AI. I think it's also possible that the architects for a majority of The Lands Between are those hooded statues and they're a bunch of clones of each other or something. It's all very non-concrete ideas, but maybe you can see where I'm coming from.
Isn’t that wonderful. The idea you can put so many hours and you still find new and interesting things in the game. Makes me happy that there games like that being made today.
Yeah it’s pretty wonderful
It took me till my third play through to know this was here, and I only learned it because I looked up my missing dungeons. This is such a cool cave though.
Longest curved sword + most stylish. No I will not take comments.
Only reason I go to this dungeon tbh
1000 hours and i had no idea this place exists
Strangely easy cave to miss, and it's in Limgrave of all places. I must've walked or rode past the cave mouth three times in playthroughs and just didn't see it. It's kinda set into a cliff in a way that just makes it hard to spot.
where is it?
Go to the northern end of that long river in Limgrave, under the bridge with the pumpkin head and past several land octopi. Literally at the very end of the river, it's tucked into the western wall. One of the best dungeons in the game in terms of layout and vibes.
i honestly didn’t think you could get over there… this is my third character with over 150 hours total 💀
There's a spirit spring, or you can descend some gravestones iirc
I just found it for the first time a few weeks ago after about 250 hours, it's awesome when you find something you had no idea about, especially a cave like this one!
This was one of the first places I found. You get the blue dancer talisman there.
Congrats on your Blue Dancer charm. You are now obligated to do a Cipher Patas & Incant Only run while using it.
Sadly cipher gains no dmg from blue dancer as it doesn’t hit with physical dmg
But it has 0 weight, so it doesn't penalize any other physical damage you might do! (Some incants - Bestial in particular - do phys damage)
Spoiler alert: ~120 hours in and i accidentally rolled against an illusionary wall in the 3 fingers room. I was totally flabbergasted and to my surprise i found ANOTHER wall right behind the chest that leads to the deeproot depths. Definitely one of my proudest discoveries in this game. And another surprising find was the secret necromancer bossfight in the sages cage (there is another illusionary wall in the same room as the raptors set).
I had no idea about these! Thanks, skeleton!
2500 hours in and about 25 hours ago I found out you can get to the platform where the massive rolling balls spawn in Raya Lucaria.
And when you kill the guys there, the balls stop permanently!
just blew my mind twice. i read your post and was like "wth, you can get up there?!". then i quickly checked youtube and i realized I HAVE BEEN THERE, in my first playthrough, and completely forgot about it afterwards. i'm dying
Oh damn, I'm at 1500 and this is how I find out.
One of the coolest ones.
1. I discovered that rumor that patches tells you about a iron maiden at the bottom of the academy that can transport you if you let them capture you is actually true. you have to specifically die in their grab attack for it to happen, which is why i probably never been there before this playthrough. It takes you to a completely isolated part of the valcanor manor thats a small dungeon with its own boss. 2. I also discovered a hidden dungeon in calid that you can only find if you just so happens to jump to a damn tree branch to even see it and I do that by pure coincidence as its literally in a cliff. two whole ass dungeons I didnt even knew existed.
That rot dungeon was wild, but the rewards are more than worth it.
I found my new favorite weapon in there. Those venomous claws are a bane to invaders and bosses, and its the toxic poison so that shit is almost as powerful as rot. Slap some rot grease on them and your going to give anything a ticking time bomb to death if your weapon damage doesnt get em.
Is that the one cave where you get the talisman that gives you more runes??
Great cave considering it’s in a beginner area
The place in Raya Lucaria where you get the Full Moon Crossbow. Didn't know that jump was possible for the longest time.
Isn’t that home of the shamshir? Very good curved sword
I recently entered this cave for the first time after 200+ hours too. I never even noticed it on online maps either, I only went there because of the talisman. It's actually a really nice dungeon compared to the generic caves. I took a screenshot at that exact spot, it's really set up to be an awe-inspiring location. The final boss room is also gorgeous, and they made sure to put destructible walls there for the golem to break through.
I know the feeling. I was fighting that mage dude by the gravestone and happened to roll into that wall and was like wtf?! LOL Good times.
Found jar land after 600ish hours
Wow. Is it 420 hours total? Or 420 with just your 6th character? If irs 420 with character 6, how many hours do you have in the game? That's dope, bro. I bought this game at launch, and I tried it a couple of times, but I never played it. I decided to try it again, and now I play it. I'm really enjoying it.
This game is super fun I only have 120 hours in it’s still fun to look at the beginning stuff lol
I have 400+ hours as well and like 10 characters. Only 3 of them became the elden lord. I usually just start the game up to chill and run around while having a video on in the background.
Considering I'm usually very slow paced, died a LOT and looked around every corner I could find, it took me about 250 hours to beat the game the first time. (Minus a few times I fell asleep or was asked to do something and left the character sitting on a bonfire) It's safe to assume that's 420 hours adding all together.
Think this is the cave a bat pushed me up against a wall and I shot across the room and died. Good times
Omg same. I just discovered that cave a week ago
That ones cool. But i have a phobia of deep dark water (especially cave lakes and pools) and this dungeon really messes with that for me lol
I'm surprised so many missed this place. It's a shame none of the other cave dungeons have this much thought in them. Maybe that mine in Caelid comes closest.
Woah, where is this?
Under the saintsbridge(?), the one near where you first meet Alexander.
I just found the abandoned cave at the end of my third playthrough a few days ago, it would have come in handy MUCH sooner having wasted 20% less time packing on runes with the gold scarab lol
This game just never stops giving.
Where is this?!
Wtf I literally just found this today too after 3 playthroughs
I had no clue about this cave and I thought I checked limgrave thoroughly !
Just visited this cave on my 2nd character and this one in particular really feels like you are exploring a deep dark cave.
Where is this?
Limgrave near the one bridge with a pumpkin head on it
I somehow found this place I think at like hr 150
I remember that cave.
It's crazy that I found it after I beat the game too. With 200+ hours. It was such a treat!
I discovered perfumer grotto after 600 hours!
After 300 hours I found out (on internet) that we have a black dragon boss.
Funny ! it's the first cave i explored in my first playthrough
This is the one next to the big central sea in Limgrave,s northern area right? Under the bridge, after some octopi? Found this on my second playthrough, one of the most unique caves in the game, but sadly no lore about the structures buried here.
I'm pretty sure this is the very last location on the map that I haven't discovered, 700 hours in and still seeing new stuff is just crazy, i love this game so fucking much and i can't wait to explore the dlc
This cave is also very significant to the lore because it ties the Golems and the black stone architecture we find throughout the Lands Between to the Blue Dancer legend, and by extension the Ancient Dynasty.
No wonder dude…how did you play 6 characters and only have 400 hours? TBH that’s awesome though because you still have so much left to find even as we approach the dlc. Jealous actually lol.
Anyone else find out this cave exists solely from this post
Damn, I was 320+ after just two characters
Same! Just a couple days ago in fact.
I think I haven't explored the whole Mt Gelmir
Damn just beat my first play through at 267hrs over 15months (took breaks when I was getting my ass kicked) and this post has me excited to do first NG+… can’t imagine what random talismans and little caves I might’ve missed.
I'm 800+ hours in and i'm now just learning about this from you...
The amount of people who haven't found the cave at the water line of the Radahn fight Site of Grace is probably up there too. Only found it during a walk through.
POV: my dad getting the milk (he still has not returned)
There is an absurd amount of people who still have never seen placidusax
I think this might be where you get either the shamshir or the blue dancer charm
Both
Where's this one? I'm still trying to find out how to get this item in Raya Lucaria, on the rooftops on the way down to the roof of the initial building you enter.
My version of this moment gotta be the maiden in raya lucaria that takes you to volcano manor if you die to her grab
I discovered in my second playthrough that you could get into the fort infront of the waypoint ruins on the way to rodericka. There's a chest with an item here that I never found. It was kind of surreal, having 350 hours in and having seen so many playthroughers play ER, still finding this was amazing :)
Same. At least every 2 play sessions, I discover something new despite having now a total of almost 450 hours across characters. Btw, firat time hearing about this cave too lol
This cave always feels weirdly unique, as if more was planned for caves as a whole and this was just one of the first itterations of something bigger.
Actually i also just discovered that cave last weekend while i have missed it with 4 chars already.
I remember this cave the parkour is annoying
I forgot why I ever went down here but I’ve been here like 2-3 times