#elepants

[the-monkey-ruler]

Hello! Sorry to be a bother but I was wondering if you knew what type of creature Erlang Shen turned into in his Kaiju battle with the chosen one. The form he took that looked like a bluish chubby lion.

Again sorry to be a bother.

No, no, that is a great question because it is very interesting!

In fact a lot of people have been asking why is Erlang Shen in the form of an Azure Lion. And yes that is what the form is called.

In fact it leads to a lot of people speculating if Erlang Shen's true form is the Azure Lion as we see other hints of other celestial soldiers showing to take inspiration from the Great Peng and the White Elephant. We see that the celestial soldiers were all in bird-like attire suggesting that perhaps one of them could have been the Great Peng (or even the Supreme Celestial Inspector). And the Gaint Spirit God was wearing elephant armor, hinting that he could have been the White Elephant in the story.

There were at least SEVEN chapters cut from the final game due to time constraints. And the Camel Ridge trio, being from celestial animals could have been one of the many chapters that were cut out but we still see it in the game. (hopefully maybe in future DLCs)

I have said it before but Black Myth Wukong DOES take a lot of liberties as it follows more of the Bio of Wukong worldbuilding than being directly inspired by Journey to the West. So with that in mind, there could be no limitations to how the developers wished to change Yaoguai's backstory to make them more fleshed out and this could have been one of them.

We do however also get this segment of Wukong's and Erlang's first fight when they were in their Large Forms in chapter 6.

When Erlang turned into his cosmic body we see that he is described to have a "green (azure) face" and "sabor-toothed figure". This could also be why in some interpretations of Erlang Shen we see him have blue skin!

Surprisingly a not uncommon trope for Erlang to be seen with different colored skin to make him "other" so to speak. The game devs could have taken this concept and were planning on even going further with tying Erlang Shen to the Azure Lion along with other celestial soldiers rather than having them being bodhisattva's beasts. We have seen that Black Myth Wukong doesn't really separate Western Heaven from Eastern Heavsn as definitively as in Journey to the West and this could be another example of how they were planning on merging the mythological figures together.

This is all just speculative theorizing! It is hard to say where the devs could have gone with this. Is Erlang Shen a disciple of Manjushri Bodhisattva similar to the Yellow Wind Demon was to Lingji Bodhisattva? (please note that you can have more than one master and Erlang having a second master after Yuding similar to Wukong and Puti) Do all heavenly animals have a humanoid form like how we see the Zodiac Animals? Was this the devs just wanting to be creative with Erlang's cosmic form and hinting at something more for the sake of ambiguity?

The best I can say is that it could have been an idea for another chapter where the Camel Ridge Trio was further explored. Or it could have just been the dev team really wanting to make Erlang's cosmic form as monstrous as possible and was not meant to be connected to Manjushri Bodhisattva's Azure Lion.

But considering how much the dev team has changed within Black Myth, making many of the Yaoguai's backstories different (Yellow Wind, Spider Sisters, Red Boy, Yellow Brow) I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to do the same to the Camel Ridge Trio.

[yoga-onion]

- A message from 23 nights temple -

“No matter how sad you are, there must be happiness to match.”

-二十三夜堂からのメッセージ-

"どんなに悲しくても、それに見合った幸せがあるはずです。”

[stormbreaker-290]

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[prinx-quail]

Keep hearing 'season two!' 'watch season two!' 'you'll love season two! '

Well i just finished off season 2 of cayenne pepper and guys it's not that great. My eyes literally hurt why would you people watch this?

[angelfoodscake]

i love uu johnsonnnn

[hourly-plushies]

. . . ☁️

[studionode]

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[miamimerchant]

Funny and cute Wild elephants selfies ii by Miami-Merchant

Elephants taking selfies ii https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/160933967?asc=u

[meadowmagicart]

elegator tail

Stream Sketch from Picarto!

[stormbreaker-290]

I think you like the chompersssss hehehe :3

They look muchhhh sharper than his other ones :3

Thinking about him giving a few nibbles? A few noms? :333

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[tetibright]

(via Elegant African lady in a yellow dress Poster | Zazzle)

[bevanne46]

[ericlovessharks]

2am and i hvavae to stopmys3lf from impulsively messaging people

[givemegifs]

[aerial-aceing-it]

how does normal evolving not break the laws of conservation of energy?

Actually, yeah, that too! What the fuck! Has physics attempted to explain this or are we all politely ignoring the elep- the, uh.. The Copperajah in the room?