#second funniest moment going in blind at launch was finding all the really subtle callbacks to earlier games

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it's easy to forget now that literal dozens of youtubers have made careers out of dissecting every conceivable aspect of Elden Ring's lore, but one of the funniest moments in any Fromsoft game ever was going into ER completely blind at launch and being told that you can meet with "the Two Fingers" after some point in the story, and you think okay, so obviously they're referring to two human people who have a role in the religion of this world referred to as "fingers" because there's five of them total i guess? oh Miyazaki and GRRM, you two are so kooky sometimes. and then the door finally opens and you walk in there and are confronted by two giant literal fingers with knuckle hair and all