#|| okay I still love how her elden ring features turned out

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

Played a lot today, and lots of things are happening even though I’m not progressing the main plot

Found Sellen(?) prisoner in some ruins but she wouldn’t talk to me, and going back to her other location gave me no new dialogue so no idea what’s going on there

Continued Varre’s quest, he’s still calling me maidenless (Aurelius gets maidens, she just likes them dead okay!)... though now I need the blood of maiden? I thought I could use Irina but nope... Hope I don’t actually have to kill anyone for this, don’t want to cut any other sidequests short... but I’m really interested in this one

Met TURTLE POPE at the church of vows, learned about Radagon and Rennala, I’m especially interested in Rennala, seems like someone I’d like...

Spend time exploring the underground after an elevator led me there when exploring... found a cool looking place with a boss, though it just gave me upgrade material for ashes (the highest level though). Also they brought back basilisks... WHY. My most feared DS enemy AND THEY’RE BACK :))))

Blaidd almost seems like an Artorias, anyone know if he’s left-handed? That often marks the archetype... and I met his friend Iji, a wise giant (...Gough?)

Turns out I had also missed a part of Stormveil, featuring a giant face-squid.. thing. And what looked like ulcerated tree spirit. But it still didn’t lead to unlocking that door by grace like I hoped, how do you get to that door...

I somehow had completely missed Rogier until I saw a comment about him being on the balcony... Turns out he’s really interesting too, and looking into death and the Black Knives... Which I happen to find one behind a hidden wall in a catacomb (FINALLY an illusionary wall). That boss was a pain in the ass with a capra demon sized room, instakill attack, and an irritating boss run. Took forever to beat, but Carian Greatsword was the key, it has a huge range and stunlocks, and is good for fighting in a tiny room... Still was hard even with that.

But it actually gave me a quest-relevant item, which I showed to Rogier, and he found the location of who imbued the knives of those assassins with the death rune, so I’m off to the mansion now (Fia also had more dialogue about this black knifeprint but she just gave me a map to where I had already been... but still more Fia dialogue is always a good thing)

MOST IMPORTANTLY- I learned the Black Knives were all women. THERE’S A LORD’S BLADES EQUIVALENT IN ELDEN RING HELL YEAH I LOVE THEM NOW