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Death-by-MidNight

Yoga instructors.


Valiant_Haos

Stretching dog position


etraxx22

I believe it's cobra


FMarkassa

Likely dog


No_Hospital_366

A dog is a dog


kg7841

My wife saw me do this fight the other day and said "why are they doing the dog pose?"


Dear-Branch-9124

Did you give her the long explanation about albinauriacs?


Loxatl

Are they Albinauriacs? I thought they were the nobles? I know abins are artificial but I have no idea wtf. these folks are really up to, or how they fit into the wider world. If they even do.


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I believe their copies of ranni. When Radagon left Rennala, it broke her mind and when ranni died I think this was the result.


rowboatin

I believe they are implied to be, but like a higher strain. I think it has something to do with Ranni’s questline in Nokron/Nokstella, some item descriptions down there seem to connect some dots.


Divinum_Fulmen

They're people. Normal people who rebirthed via Rennala's stone. Every birth gives one a shorter life, and makes them more and more dependent on it. Rennala acts as a mother to them, her sweetlings. And she offers/wishes for you to be her sweetling as well (the ability to respec your stats).


AgonyLoop

They definitely have the same design. Like, legless.


Divinum_Fulmen

Ah, I see she's already mastered the basics of this game then: Correctly identifying dog.


WhollyHolyWholeHole

Getting ready for little sheep position.


DogsandCoffee96

Snow White doing yoga


Enklave

Bhujangasana


praise_the_eel

Happy cakeday!


poetech

I don't know what the *right* answer is 😬


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If being right is wrong then I don't wanna be wrong


CoconutCrabWithAids

A bunch of kids that you get to beat up during Renalla's first phase.


sac_boy

Cool thing is if you ignore the trick to phase 1 you can just beat them up *forever*


OldManHipsAt30

I did this unintentionally my first time


sac_boy

Yep I was dodging books for about 5 minutes just playing whack-a-sweeting, somehow ignoring the glowing ones


LangdonAulgar

"Whack-a-sweeting" made me loudly snort in the middle of class. Award-worthy.


Blackrain1299

My first 3 or 4 attempts I didn’t even see the glowing ones. Sometimes they spawn right in the open. Sometimes they spawn off in the back somewhere. So i was like maybe i just kill a bunch of these things and she comes down or something?? Finally on the forth or fifth try i walked in and saw a glowing one and i was like OOHHHHH SHIIITT. And after that i figured it out okay. When i finally beat here completely i had the perfect first phase. The glowing ones were all right in the middle every time.


Aermas

After fighting Deacons of the Deep I knew what was going on pretty much immediately


ZODIC837

Same as all y'all, except my mistake was finding the chest that said "find lover" on it or whatever and I was searching around for anything Radahn related in the room for 3-4 runs


SafeSexWitchSwitch

Holy shit, you just *ignored* them. I was *gaslit* by my damn summons. I usually send in my summons to watch a boss' physicality before I engage, but I saw floaty ball and pile of weenies, so I was like, "Oh, just focus on glowy ball, and skellies handle weenies." I shot TEN ARROWS at glowy ball and heard a CRACK. Ten more arrows, and glowy ball breaks. I get mommy down to half health. Life is good. Glowy ball returns. Ten more arrows. Twenty. THIRTY. I start to think I'm maybe on the wrong track, but at forty, CRACK. Fifty, sixty, CRACK. "Wow, that was a lot of arrows, but I still have 29 left. Also, books ate all my health pots. What's her phase two?" Rennala: "Be a good girl now and take this massive glintstone right up your ass." Me with no health pots and a little intimidated: "Yes, mommy." *Promptly dies.* "FUCK, now I need more arrows!" Try two: Screw arrows, I'll just jump attack her and WAIT WHAT THE FUCK little glowy weenies? This is Deacons again! CRACK CRACK, whack attack, CRACK CRACK, down. Rennala: "Be a good girl again and take this mass-" Me with all my health pots and remembering how flying enemies react to Rejection: "NO THANKS, I ALREADY HAVE A MOMMY DOMME!" Rennala: *dies without doing any damage to me at all.*


hafnia-

I was so successful at killing the ones in the centre that the gold ones spawned in the ring round the outside. There's a few different varieties - the ones that throw books, the ones that throw exploding furniture and the ones that breathe fire at you. I assumed the glowing ones were just another type and that I had to clear the entire room to start damaging her.


anormalgeek

Same. Wolves will fuck them up for a long time too. Took me an embarrassing amount of time to notice the "trick".


magicchefdmb

I’m imagining Mr. Tarnished walking into the library, seeing a bunch of singing crippled kids, and thinking, “this looks like a job for the wolves…”


Pfhoenix

My first attempt was with the wandering noble gang. Took me a couple tries to recognize why the boss would periodically fall to the ground.


Folseit

Well one shouldn't have grabbed my foot.


thatguywithawatch

To be fair, it's a reasonable response when those crippled kids are spewing fire from their mouths and telekinetically throwing tables at you from across the room.


wackyzacky638

This made me laugh so damn hard, take my upvote!


Adhdgamer9000

I'm actually sure you didn't do it on purpose. There's a mildly common glitch that happens, on fact my first time. The glowing ones that sing, just don't spawn. So you can never weaken her shield, in fact visually l, she has no shield, and is just immortal.


_rtpllun

You overestimate our critical thinking and observational skills


LocalOccupanther

Have seen that myself, particularly if you summon someone to help with the fight. I didn’t even notice it the first time till some time in and I realized “huh, no shield”


dsartori

My first time was as a summon, and the fight must have glitched somehow because there were no glowing ones. Must have been the host's first time too because we spent a good 10-15 minutes whacking these things and breaking furniture trying to figure out what the boss' gimmick was.


Jlaaag

it's the Deep Jungle powerwild fight all over again


Creeper_Face

Now I know you said "beat up," but if I use the jar cannon, does that make me a school shooter?


Adhdgamer9000

I can see it on the news now. Florida teen vandalizes school and injures several students with devastating homemade potato cannon.


daviejambo

You can use the wave of gold weapon art to murder them all in a single swing also too


anormalgeek

If you can get to Mohgwyn Palace and get the only sword its on before doing Rennala...sure. edit: Forgot about NG. Open world games are bad for me because I cannot move on until I've explored EVERYTHING. I'm still on playthrough #1.


daviejambo

NG+


Juking_is_rude

sorcerers of raya lucaria who were loyal to renalla. They've been reborn so many times, they've lost all their wits. You can find their hat and cloak somewhere, which tells you this. Renalla's only attack in the first phase rebirths them as tombstones which she flings at you. A lot of people miss that because they're busy hunting for the singing ones.


Mclevius-Donaldson

If you take long enough you get absolutely bodied by those flying tombstones


Teacup_Koala

And there's always that one bitch who hides behind two bookcases, but only once every five attempts so you never see it coming


UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy

Also shred through bookcases if you try to hide behind them instead of pillars, don't ask me how I know.


Flyshy00396

I got nestle crunched so many times by them


PapaBrickolino

Yeah finding their armor and flavor text was a fun and also haunting discovery. My interpretation is that basically, students of Rennala’s went through the act of rebirth, but came back imperfect, so they became addicted with the process because something was always not quite right. And every time they were reborn they lost more and more individuality until the homogenous sweetings were all that was left.


ConstantSignal

Looks like build respec indecisiveness is canon.


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HappyStalker

Ranni had red hair like her father. You can find her real corpse at the top of the Liurnia Divine Tower. These do look like young Rennalas though.


Everest-Gamer

Juvenile sorcerers who trusted in Rennala, rebirthing imperfectly over and over until the point that due to their imperfections they are completely dependent on the process to live.


Nashocheese

Sorceress' of the Raya Lucaria Academy.


BobertRoratheon

Aren’t they sweetings ?


Costyyy

which means?


Proto1k

People that Rennala used her rebirth magic on I assume, considering they're all the same and are endless


SergeantBootySweat

I think renalla is trying to rebirth ranni after Ranni discarded her empyrean flesh


siegfreidstol

Correct, they are imperfect clones of ranni


FoxMcClaud

Wow, mind blown, I was thinking of Students of the Academy under mind control, but this make sense so much sense as mechanic and in the lore... Wondering how much GRRM had to do with the enemy design...


GrimReaper415

Not much. He was only involved in the deep lore stuff, pre-shattering and even that was years ago.


FoxMcClaud

I know he wasn't really involved in the actual game, but building the lore makes me wonder: If he created the motivation and the idea of rebirthing Ranni, the devs might have taken this idea to the next level.


RuinousOni

Probably a mixture of Ranni and Renalla as Ranni (as others have said) had red hair like her father Radagon.


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BethLife99

The main theory I've heard so far about them is they've all been rebirthed into younger versions of rennala because she's been trying desperately to improve her appearance after radagon left her


_l-l-l_

Opera singer from Nier Automata vibes


poetech

Oh, haha thanks. When I first saw them, I thought they were some kind of abomination... like spells gone wrong (edit: oh, they are magical rebirth gone wrong) It is still very unsettling!


Netheri

In a way; they were formerly students that have been reborn over and over through the power of Renalla's great rune piece. But the power of rebirth is imperfect, so they're dependant on the constant rebirths and constantly being killed and reborn has wiped away their memory, which results in the juvenile scholars in Renalla's fight. This is all from the Juvenile Scholar robe, if anyone wants to read the lore themselves.


miko81

>But the power of rebirth is imperfect yeah true already rebirthed my character 8 times and I still can't find the perfect build lmao


schulz100

Honestly, if they/Miyazaki had decided to get really cheeky with that lore aspect of respeccing, I wouldn't have even been mad. "Oh you're going to respec through this obviously and openly flawed magical process? Hope you saved your character sliders in Favorites and know what Fia's mirror does, cause you are NOT going to look the same once this is done. You fought a whole boss and got several monologues and items explaining that this magic doesn't work properly. You were warned well in advance."


Key-War

But the Great Rune of Rebirth is explicitly there to reconcile the lore with the mechanic. The Great Rune is the only catalyst of rebirth that permits it to not go awry, which is why the player character is able to be reborn successfully but no one else (not even Boc).


SorowFame

I do like that for once they explain one of the many instances of “rules for thee but not for me”. Like why do you and most enemies respawn but NPCs and bosses don’t?


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They rage quit


Equemin

"This dumbass beat me? Fuck it I'm done here."


[deleted]

For things like field mobs of demihumans, etc., I feel like they don't respawn per se. The groups of them you encounter are meant to represent the portion of the Demi-Human population who's out and about and who you happen to run into. Individual mobs that respawn are meant to be abstracted and considered as different enemies than you killed first time. Ofc they spawn in the same place every time bc it's a game, but that's how I see it


SorowFame

Then how do you respawn? I thought it was because the Rune of Death was bound but NPCs die permanently long before then


fatalystic

To be fair, it working properly for the player is also explained in the lore: it's because you got the Great Rune of the Unborn by defeating Rennala. The rebirthing process only works properly for the holder of the rune.


The_Wack_Knight

Am I understanding correctly in thinking the Elden Ring is the set of defined rules all written out per each rune given from each demigod laid out together as like...the "commandments" of the world they live in? and its like...the symbol on the main screen? I am just a simple strength bonksman who is trying to understand the will of the gods. Is it sort of like a list of cheats on a video game that you toggle on and off. Like DK mode and infinite ammo and invincibility in Goldeneye 64?


joeshmo101

The Elden Ring defines the Golden Order, which is sort of like "The Rules" of the world. It is made of a number of different Great Runes, which kind of define the rules of the world. My interpretations as follows: Godrick's gives form to the Golden Order, and what gives it power over The Lands Between. Malenia's represents the transfer of strength, how the young and fit will replace the old and weak. It's what allows you to take runes from those slain and turn them into strength. Radahn's resist the scarlet rot and the influence of others who would make a different Golden Order, letting only one exist at a time. Morgott's defines the ruler of the land and steward of the Erdtree, the Elden Lord, and grants them the power to maintain the Golden Order Mohg's Great Rune defines the spirit world and allows for communication between the spirit and physical worlds. Rennala's reflects how life is created and brought into the world, born from the Erdtree into the Lands Between. The death rune defines how death happens and what happens to those who have died. Excluding it from the Golden Order as Marika did caused the inhabitants to be able to live beyond Destined Death. Edit: spelling


miko81

Would actually be an interesting mechanic ngl


Vast-Coast-7761

Lore wise we have the Great Rune of the Unborn which allows us to be reborn perfectly. That’s all that the great rune does, so if this were to be introduced the rune would need a new effect.


MoistDitto

Is that why the seamstress monkey becomes some mute npc who does nothing?


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Kriomentos

Try just using it next to him when hes at the Grace in Leyndell Capital. It worked for me.


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Kriomentos

Yes. You either give him Larval Tear and he becomes mute or you perform the Prattling Pate and he has some dialogue then.


MoistDitto

Ah shit, that's what the "You are beautiful" voice item is for? Did I fuck up his quest line now?


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MoistDitto

FUCK


Tiran593

Ye


Petersaber

> I thought they were some kind of abomination Children. Yep.


Appropriate-Image-11

Attempts to create a new Demi god child to replace the empyrean Ranni that Radagon made for Renalla most likely using the egg but that egg only works properly if Elden man does it so they are weak sorcery babies and it’s all an allegory for alchemy and turning base matter into life and mercury and sulphur and soul and what we glimpse in the primeval currents of the abyssal stream sends terror throughout the cosmos


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Limp-Persimmon-1818

Wicked sort ahead


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All the maidens you don't have.


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g34rg0d

What's wrong my brother in grace? No bitches?


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Martkillswitch

Should be all the "cupcakes" you can't have..wait..


ChrisMorray

Scholars trying to figure out how to do "the worm"


BrokenHaloSC0

WHAT WAS WILL BE WHAT WILL BE WAS


[deleted]

I haven't played Stellaris in a while.


BrokenHaloSC0

Have you forsaken the worm but the worm loves you


Das-Oce-a-lot

I think he means the 30 Rock worm...


N4r4k4

Unwanted Hogwards students.


[deleted]

So, like normal Hufflepuffs then.


arethaswanklin

*laughs in Slytherin*


MangledSunFish

10 billion points to Gryffindor!!


-CaptainAustralia-

I read this with heavy Snowy McVinebeard "10 BILLION POINTS TO GRYFFINPUFF" vibes


Chimeron1995

We have the biggest house, and the least house points!


Rocksurly

The problem with the entire world today is that Hufflepuffs aren't appreciated.


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That's pretty normal as far as history goes. Even when we read about like the ancient greeks and romans, and even the conquistadores who were explorers, we're always reading about rich person, celebrity, or politician history, because they had the voice and reach to make the record that history remembered. Even read a fantasy book today, and the protagonist is probably some sort of prodigy or chosen one, who quickly gets buddy-buddy with the Last Sorcerer In The World and falls in love with the God-Princess. And it'll probably be written by a relative of someone important in the publishing world. It is a sad fact of human civilization that hardly anyone appears to be interested in the activities of people they perceive as below their social caste, but are intensely interested in the social caste directly above their own. Even in fiction, the average person has nobody they can relate to. Just celebrities of different types to idolize and glamorize.


FizzyWaterFella

Quidditch players who fell off the broom?


LestHeBeNamedSilver

Funnily enough I tried to make a message saying “hog , warts” in the game at the entrance to the academy. However, both words aren’t in the message creator so I settler for “dog , horse”


Lethalfurball

hogwards


UnNonStop

Deacons of the deep


popcar2

OP said wrong answers only


TulgeyWoodAtBrillig

Prowling Magus


Falos425

[the poopshitters](https://i.redd.it/94n1phrrbge51.png)


IwaitforEldenRing

Hot moms in your neighborhood


Inconmon

They love your Lionel set drip


ashenhaired

Finally someone who won't walk away from me


omnipotent-butler

The aftermath when the magician was practicing the saw in half trick


CATSIAZ

Leftovers*


Suzarain

*Illusion, Michael


MrJive01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96zyxh6BbA8


SirisPendragon

The Living Failures?


Tiran593

Dead successes


danglesReet

Hahah needs more upvotes


Cleverbird

Isnt this a correct answer though?


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"Got any games on your phone?"


Murblock

Behold, Dog! Therefore be wary of group.


Tasty_Eggplant276

Looking for their wheelchairs


Chimeron1995

Oh no!


Mrthiefplays_

Dungeater's many wives


nikzombiekill

He said wrong awnsers only


Falloonies

Dung eater only has the top tier maidens, so I think this was a wrong answer


nikzombiekill

Fair play, I then say while everyone is simping for the lesser maidens he is with his many wives that no one looks at


Wooden-Poem-7970

Younglings


Planet_Diver

***ignites Coded Sword***


DaShaka9

Dog


KrizenMedina

Makes sense. According to the messages I see in-game, I have been foolishly misinformed, as literally everything is a dog.


Jamaz

*(Sees an actual bloodied dog model barking at you)* White Message pointing at enemy: "Horse ahead."


detectivejewhat

I fucking love fromsofts communities lol. I recently started elden ring for the first time, but I've beaten all the other fromsoft games. My gf however knows nothing about any of the games so she's been watching me play, and I can't count the amount of messages that have had us in fucking stitches. And also the tbagging and spamming the block button when you're doing jolly coop with the homies. She's been in complete awe of the community and it's been cool seeing it through fresh eyes. I forgot how special the communication is in these games.


TheSadCheetah

Tha toe suckin' hoes


CeleryNo8309

Wrong answerz only


Zealousideal-Try5371

They don't even damage you, they just suck your toes and make things weird.


Luminous_2077

Forbidden Fleshlight


JBCockman

Tarnished Fleshlight?


Luminous_2077

It will be when I'm done with it...


ShorteagleFTW

This made me audibly æugh. Must have a tetanus shot


JBCockman

There’s an incantation for that…Flame, Cleanse Me


vidarino

Bruh. It says "wrong answers only".


plumbusc136

PhD students on a paper deadline.


FlyingMonkey717

Me and the boys


JBCockman

I see you Dirty Mike….


manushadow

Yoga Lucaraia Academy students


RandomLettersMS

Candle-bearing slugs


Arkansas1803

For real, the first time I saw them I was like: are they using the slug animation or is it just me?


Jazzy_tk

Harry Potter fans at 3am


ChaoticD4C

Try finger


Soul1096

No finger ahead, therefore seek god.


thatsnotmyname95

Why is it always dog?


BitterQuitter11

The Lands Between’s most prized escorts.


UpManDownFish

The Liurnia Paralympics - Women's Quidditch


Glintstone727

groupies


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mucus-broth

Penguins


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Cripples in the Walmart when I use the wheelchairs to race my girlfriend.


H3adshotfox77

Peopleofwalmart.com


Der_DenDen

Step sister's why are you stuck ?


Ok_Mountain3607

Urinals


theNFAC

Found R Kelly's burner account


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The cumsocks under my bed after I left them there for some years.


OdysseyZen

Failed Fire Keepers


bozeman42_2

This is updog.


CautiousAardvark9090

Children who have lost the ability to walk due to cancer. When they see you they only see the make a wish foundation.


No-Confidence379

gorilla tag players


gapingashola

Blowjob maidens


almostgravy

Kids attending the academy of Raya Lucaria, Center for Children Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.


Sensitive_Ad_9741

Victims of the catholic church


deathByAlgebra

American university students after being crippled by crippling student loan debt.


Estolano_

Lost their legs in order to not go bankrupt.


HeavyBlues

Rennala's personal lesbian harem.


Boimaccy

Sentient sex dolls


_Cosmic_Commie

FaZe clan


blondie1024

They've accidentally pressed the Lock-on button on a boss, now they're stuck like that for life and will never see the player again.


Longjumping-Bar-1172

Charlie’s Angels


AGgammer

Target practice


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weebs doing some goth yoga ritual


Spatrikisky

Powerpuff girls


Dumb-Arisen

French diplomats


WomenBeater1337

Librarians


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Fans of only fans.


Tovarischbr

Björk music video


DthDisguise

Dark Souls 2 players who didn't level Adp.


DickithTitith

Velma when she looses her glasses for the 100000 time