We examine one of Elden Ring’s Coolest Bosses – Astel, Naturalborn of the Void, in today’s (first) Elden Ring Lore video.
In examining this, we also take a look at General Radahn, Ranni’s Quest, the secrets of Land’s Between, the Nox, and the Eternal City. All that and more today!
Music: Unfound – Home / Heaven / Without
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:47 – Basics and the Journey to Astel (What is Astel?)
6:23 – The Legend of the Eternal Cities (How did Astel arrive?)
10:35 – Sins of the Nox (Why did Astel arrive?)
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The possibility that titanite is extraterrestrial those star fallen beasts remind me of titanite chunks. We hear about some dragon god within most of the Souls games who disappeared. Maybe it's a celestial dragon with titanite scales?
Pls make more elden ring
So is it safe to say that general radhan was holding back more stars from crashing into the land betweens to prevent more of these cosmic horrors from coming? Possble that radhan knew what had happened to the eternal cities and wanted to save the lands from their destruction? Just a thought. I am so fascinated with radhan and astel and the other cosmic monstrosities
Absolutely a good call to cover the game, it has a good track record being a from soft game and has a lot of potential for exploration and discovery of lore
The greater will sounds like a formless great one from Bloodborne, which makes Astel's appearance and abilities even more frightening imo.
I feel like there's a big gap here in why there is this massive scarlet rot lake underneath Raya Lucaria which has no rot on the surface while there is nothing of the sort underneath Caelid but there's scarlet rot all over that place. It seems to imply the scarlet rot predates the queen who allegedly used it to destroy Caelid. Also worth noting: You fight boss versions of Nox Swordstress and Nox priest in Sellia, so the town of Sellia (not to mention this is where most stuff relating to gravity magic is roughly located) is somehow tied to the forgotten cities (and Nox itself has a latin root in night). On the subject of the Eternal Cities you also have the Siofra River area and its crazy number of ancient viking ghosts who show up again in Raya Lucaria above the location of the second Eternal City.
Omg you moved on to from software lore! I always loved you star wars take and i appreciate the the departure!
My question is how does Astel tie into the scarlet rot? I don’t think From would literally put the Lake of Rot, one of 3 major locations in the game that are themed around the scarlet rot, the other two being Caelid and Miquella’s Halitree, and the story of those places is clearly based around the scarlet rot. You also find those creepy centipede men things worshiping in all 3 areas. You also find the scorpion stinger dagger in the lake of rot that says it was crafted by heretics using a relic from a sealed outer god. I don’t think Astel is that outer god but I just refuse to believe that there would be this random scarlet rot themed location right on top of where Astel is and have there be no connection between them
Those "deformed" ants are real. They literally use their heads to close the "door" to their colonies
Elden Ring lore????? YESSIR
This was amazing I think just a overall take on the elden ring story would be great that way you would have a baseline to work on as more lore comes too. But overall great work
The shielhead ants actually exist.
Just saying so no one thinks theyre supposed to represent this "corruption of nature", they are a real animal.
New fan keep it up 🙂
Nice
What you just said about radahn could mean that this whole thing you just told us about could be only the start of it
Theys also a third city kind of the unnamed one in the deeproot depths which was apparently destroyed by the erdtrees arrival
For the record, ants with huge heads exist irl, they use the head to block the entrance.
I subscribed for star destroyers only
Damn vaati Vidya who?
A fun note between the fallingstar beasts and Astel is that the beasts share some similarities with antlion larva, note the jaws, and how they seem to stick to the pit they crash in. While Astel has similarities of an adult antlion which has damselfly-like wings just like those adults. And given how both have that lift you up with gravity, then slam you down move they could very well be the same species. So it could very well be that the fallingstar beasts might eventually metamorphose into the Astel creatures given enough time.
Actually fun fact: there is a type of ant that actually has a really big head. It’s purpose is to block off the entrance of the nest.
Interesting theories, but you missed a very important piece. When at Nokron there is an alternative path that can take you to a new area, one that is effectively at the root of the Erdtree, called the "nameless eternal city" given the proximity and context i suspect that this was the city the Nox were banished from, in addition to the surface, as you don't see Nox enemies there. I suspect that this was because they delved deep into sorcery and stellar magics, which is heavily implied where outsider gods reside and where stellar creatures come from and is in effect opposing the golden order. After their banishment they continued their pursuit in knowledge, but this time with the intent of ursurpation via a Lord of Night specifically (which ultimately was Ranni given her ending) which ultimately ended badly for them. I imagine the first was Nokstella being influenced by the God of Rot (because the rot comes from an outsider god, which makes the fact that Malenia was borne infested with it very sus btw) and that was ended by the arrival of Astel and its brood. I suspect it was Nokron that called it down as you never see its kind outside of the Nokstella area, they would both know of the Rot given their relationship to Nokstella, have the means to summon Astel, and it makes little sense for the Golden Order to do it as they both shouldn't know about the Rot lake nor do they specialize in such magics. What does makes sense after these events is for the Order to declare war on the stars and seal them via Radahn, ending any chance for the age of stars to happen and is why you have to kill him to get it.
I’ve never played elden ring, but your video is very interesting from a non-player.
Ant heads being used as weapons and other things like that isn’t actually too unusual. Many ants in real life have specialized heads for fighting, building, and even defending. There’s a type of ant who’s head is a big circle and it’s job is to be a door.
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The lake of rot might be ash lake, that’s my head canon
Seems like the ancient cities where trying to communicate with other outer gods becoming empyreans by choice (farum azula was the only one that made actual contact) and that enraged the will.
you can see strong references to those other outer gods like the mother with miquella, black moon with ranni, whatever’s behind the frenzied flame and so on 🔎
Absolutely loving Elden Ring and your first lore video on it. There isn't enough spoken in game about the story around and I for one would love to hear more about it.