strannyi_chelovek: Remember, spirit eels have a peculiar attack when they throw up some weird fiber-looking things? This is something that real-life sea cucumbers do. When they feel threatened, they basically puke out their intestines.
holschermarc: I still remember the first time i heared the Jellyfish talk and than it made "click" in my head. It shed a small tear when i summoned her and she finally reuinted with her sister. She was such a loayl comapion for me all the time, tanking hits and poisoning my enemys. I actually think resolving this quest should have either removed Aurelia as a Summon or give u a double Jellyfish summon to signal them being finally together.
barroomhero07: That jellyfish quest is about the most beautiful and wholesome (if bittersweet) quest line to ever grace a FromSoft game.
user-xv9kb2vs5f: "Here lie Aurelia and Aureliette, who never saw the stars"

It always hurts
IggysEden: Me figuring out to summon the jellyfish for her sister might be my favorite personal discovery of Elden Ring
Baginga_Bogonga: While they are labeled as "eels," they might not actually be so. Jellyfish have 2 major stages in their life cycle, the medusa and the polyp. The spirit jellyfish would be the medusa stage, free roaming, and the spirit eel, if connected, looks like it would be the polyp stage, bound to the ground.

I never made the cinnection between the spirit jellyfish and the spirit eels, but this video made me remember this neat little fun fact from college. Love your vids
Sheffield_DG: The Eels are friends... But temperamental...
AndrewBenningfield-ji3iw: "Why is it always friend?"
alfalldoot6715: This is why the Age of the Duskborn is the best ending, as the king of the dead you can have all the funny ghost worms and ghost jellyfish as you want!
endertronicinc.7463: I'm reminded of what's said at the end of the orphan of kos fight in Bloodborne, about how the sea is "accepting of all there is, and can be". Makes me wonder if it's a deliberate callback or not
qbuff: Every play-through the main mission is to reunite the sisters, everything else is secondary.
NeedsContent: Ever since the DLC, I noticed that anything having to do with the "real of the dead" appears to have an oceanic theme. This about it:
Mariners
Spirit Eels
Restless spirits turning into jellyfish (around grave yards or battle fields)
Even Godwin himself turning into a weird mermaid creature

Wherever death is involved, everything takes on these qualities. Seeing the afterlife as a type of ocean is probably why the previous civilization built giant sarcophagi in the likeness of boats to literally ferry the dead. Here's another interesting thing, the sarcophagus ships all bear a horned equine at the head, similar to Torrent. Torrent who is a spirit steep, and whose name can also mean 'stream', like a river. And what do revers do? Flow into the ocean.
DragonsDream: Zora's domain by night is my favorite Zelda's ost, thank you
theformation3781: Jellyfish Shield:
The head of a spirit jellyfish, commonly found floating above sacred ground throughout the Lands Between, wielded without modification as a shield.

Consider the parallel of the lands between being in the light of the erdtree and the land of shadow being in, well, it's shadow; and the jellyfish floating above the "sacred" land, and the eels being anchored to it; and there's your strongest hint to why lingering souls end up in different forms. The land of shadow is not sacred ground because it is not within the purview of the golden order.
ecthelionalfa: You can't parry these feels
bootchoo96: Terrible day to rain...
MortalReaver: Jellyfish could be spirits of children, and Eels could be spirits of sailors, whose bodies drifted to shores.
KiwiCabbage: Forbidden gummy worm
baron1324: The Jellyfish Sisters might be my favorite side story in Elden Ring. I used Aurelia my entire first playthrough whenever I could, I love jellyfish IRL so it was a perfect match. After reading her description, learning her name & small backstory, I was always on the lookout to see if you could actually bring her back to her home, it was the least I could do. When I realized you could summon her to be with Aureliette, I actually got emotional knowing I had actually succeeded to bring her home on my own and reuniting two lost souls back to each other after years of being apart...

For there to actually be a happy ending when these side stories usually end in tragedy and sorrow was a nice change of pace.
england101510: Wonderful song choice for this video. It fits so well.
_ikako_: Also, fun fact! You can tell the sisters are astrologers because of their accents! They have a Welsh accent just like ranni, blaidd, iji, albus, pidia and most other characters connected to the carians/astrologers
ShadowZabre: See, I assumed, the Spirit Eels were the souls of the suffering. Uh.. now, Lemme explain:

I always figured the Spirit Jellyfish were always the Souls of Children. You don't see them often near piles of adult corpses, but you do see them in places it makes sense for a lot of kids to die (Dark, I know). But like, look at where the Jellyfish are in Castle Morne. They're back behind the castle, next to several buildings with no doors, but windows placed where you can fit... smaller... people through. Those buildings are right next to the Kennels/jails for several Beastmen, and you get the darker picture, that these buildings were never MEANT to be accessed normally, but are places to throw unwanted/useless Beastmen Children. Thus, Jellyfish are only in that spot.

My Theory on that is that the Jellyfish shape is amorphous due to the Children not knowing what they want to be or know what they are. Meanwhile, every Ghost or Spirit we see in Eldin Ring are typically in their adult forms.

Now what does this mean about the Spirit Eels? Well, Much like the Children, they lost their forms they had while living. But not because they didn't truly know about their lives. No, they are all crushed up into stalks, strike by vomitting their insides, and hide more often than not. These are people who were tortured to death, either by Mesmer or by the Hornsent before, losing the thoughts of what they were as they were crushed under heel for not being blessed by Gold or the Crucible before. They don't want to remember what they've been through, they forget what their bodies became. They instead hide underground as much as possible.
abelzatyko1513: In my headcanon, ordinary spirits remain in worm or jellyfish like forms since those were the first animals to have nervous systems and thus maybe a 'soul'. The body changed with evolution, but the shape of the soul remained the same
Epsonea_482: Spirit Eels be eternally pogging
LSparkzwz: I think that the garden eel form being stuck in the ground represents them being stuck in the land of the living, being unable to truly pass away like the jellyfish can.
Maybe because the Land of Shadow got completely cut off from the rest of the world and therefore is stuck in a sort of limbo.
Another example of this theory could be the rotting shipwrecks.

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