RamixTheRed: I love the contrast between the thumbnail text and the titles on these videos
pilotmanpaul: I'm so early Bayle and Placidusax still has their limbs and wings intact.
CeresArda: When the Lampreys' eyes glow from having extra runes, they look terrifying
The first time I saw the glowing eyes, I realized it had 8 eyes lol
Nightmare-pj4fg: The dlc giving us far more about a relationship between the greater will and water/ the ocean is so fascinating. We fight both Metyr and the Elden Beast in a Rom- esc lake, and Elden Beast is aquatic. Then there are these things. Plus it being revealed that the golden magic we’re used to isn’t actually that of the greater will, or at least not the only kind, that it has magic that is much closer to sorcery, the worship of any kind of outer celestial body like the moon, which illustrates it’s supposedly true visage much more, being the literal vastness of the cosmos or something like that, just adds a ton more Lovecraftian brownie points.

It’s difficult to tell, but of course this could also just be magic unrelated to the greater will.

The finger sorceries can be interpreted as resulting from trying to communicate with the greater will through sorcery, the study of celestial bodies, WITHOUT intervention from the two fingers or Metyr, as Ymir implied as being his purpose, while the golden order incantations, etc, can reflect the Elden beast and fingers influence on crucible Magics. Two stars sent for different purposes to the lands between, yet both resemble fingers, one much more than the other admittedly, and both are aquatic.

So the Greater Will can be either a giant finger monster, or perhaps as its name implies, the finger aspect can me metaphorical, it literally putting its imprint on things, representing its will, being that of some unknowable eldritch being in the deep ocean of the cosmos.
WayneByNumbers: Couldn't resist the Alien chestburster reference, could you?

These noodles certainly look the part
aloeera: the Fingerprint Nostrums actually look pretty similar to Lamprey eggs, so you might not be that far off!
KazaiTV: The Mushroom Theory was right all along.
DeepRest420: I never considered they used to be human, or at least may have hatched out of them. That's pretty interesting, but it doesn't change the fact that these guys and their stupid finger spell made me angrier than anything in the DLC.
Underscore-Lord: Wish we got more finger sorceries
doom7850: So while looking at the map of SOTE, I noticed that from the position of jagged peak, the two finger ruins look a bit like the death pose of the two fingers. Drawing the shape between them with the “palm” as bayles crater, it’s very similar. Then someone showed me an image where the entire shadow realm island looks like a hand grasping. The upper finger ruins are the pinky, the lower one is the thumb, cathedral of manus metyr is the ring, abyssal ruins is apparently being grasped, cerulean coast (and by extension st trina) and jagged peak are outside of the hand
SnacxAttac: The Finger Ruins nails cosmic horror to a T imo, the whole time I explored the area I had a deep feeling in my gut that said "I shouldn't be here."
TheDarkMagik: Try finger,
but hole
yetanotherbassdude: I feel like "disturbingly literal" is basically Miyazaki's entire design philosophy
ashencometmom5291: the finger ruins are probably my favorite lore drop in the DLC. their existence provides a couple of answers and approximately a metric fuckton of new questions
michaelsoftelbows: Time to finger some maidens, then edge.
thethree6622: I don't usually complain too much but o was shocked when such a big area had absolutely nothing in it.
enderaceofspades8579: I both love and hate the Finger Ruins.

Love because the ruins look so alien and surreal. It's as if you've stumbled upon something truly ancient, primordial even. Like, you're not supposed to be here, but you can't look away now.

Hate because it's hard to soak it all in with Lamprey's constantly attacking you. The ruins look empty even up close, but these bastards are lurking around every corner waiting to ruin your day.
NWolfsson: I personally interpreted the Nostrum's "causes something to wriggle within" to be indicative that Ymir was taking those. That doesn't exclude that people not fated to become a new Mother would turn into Lamprey, to be fair.
drcookie2717: The appearance of lampreys and the shape of fingers ruins made me think these ruins were lake created by something falling from space and creating a crater, the water then receded after an untold number of years but the organisms inside had already changed under the fingers influence.
The plant and mushrooms also were altered to be more fingers like some sort of carcinisation but with fingers.
neojb1989: They also have incredible aim for that fricken binding spell.
AR-bj5et: What annoys me most about the finger lore is that the two fingers and the finger creepers look nothing alike at all, no one made the assumption that they were connected because they’re both so different. Creepers have long nails and larger ones wear rings somehow, the two fingers have cilia while the creepers don’t, they’re both different colours etc. more annoyingly Metyr, the mother of both, doesn’t look like either! She’s the only one who has fingerprints in her design while creepers and two fingers distinctly don’t, but the three fingers which also have fingerprints is the only one completely unrelated to all three? Idk, it’s a bit of a mess, they could have had a bit more connecting them visually
Bitsbug: I think it's also valuable to mention that the Lamprey's four sets of eyes seem to embody different emotions. The second to bottom set are clearly angry, the top set almost joyous, and the bottom set restful or tired. I'm unsure what kind of significance that could have at the moment, though.
commaJim: I love the finger ruins! But the Lampreys... Hell no.
something-g99: One thing is for certain, they suck. Miyazaki woke up and chose violence when he gave them the fastest homing spell that paralyses you instantly.

Jul 29 2024

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