The secret is that Maliketh has a crippling addiction to death-weed. As a public figure at the time, Maliketh needed to keep this highly illegal activity a secret, until one day the tarnished and crucible knights under Godfrey discovered Farum Azula, named after Malikeths favourite avatar character. Maliketh panicked, and to cover up his connection, shattered the place across the continent, summoned a tornado and a horde of dragons to finish the job. Unfortunately for him his DNA was found on a stray death dealer and he was exiled anyway. And that’s the deal with crumbling farum azula
Lansseax was a fight I enjoyed though. The fact that her fight abruptly stops and she leaves essentially only for me to find her elsewhere to actually get to fight her without her bailing on the fight was a neat idea..
Thank God, I really needed this. My cat is being put down later today and it's been really tough. Thanks for giving me a good laugh in a dark time, Dark Tark
The scariest goddamn moment in any souls game for me was realizing that there are Godwyn eyes EVERYWHERE in Farum Azula. Every goddamn root in the zone has those awful half-lidded fish eyes, always watching you...
I wonder if Godwyn's tumours being present in Farum can be explained by the timey-wimey shit... Or if there's any chance Farum Azula was still grounded at the time of Godwyn's Erdtree Burial?
@@hugostefaniu No. Just...no. This place is from" The time before the Erdtree" ,and it fell either before or because of Marika and Godfrey. Godwyn's death likely has something to do with death in general changing ( the Death Ritual Spear describing a " distant ressurection " the death priests were waiting for and such) ,but he came after the place fell. It's likely his effect goes beyond the Erdtree, in the same way the Sun and the Eclipse is somehow connected to his salvation and that of his fellow Soulless siblings. After all, the Beast skeletons bear the Sun Realm Shield.
Yeah, I like it tbh.... It's a crumbling city in the sky beyond time where you get to fight the creature who holds the power to restore death to the lands between... Nice 👌😏 Just very fitting to have that fight be there..
In my opinion, the creepiest thing about wormfaces is that their legs aren't positioned below their centre of mass, making all their animations look jarring and unnatural.
Crumbling Farum Azula may once have been located on the ground in Dragonbarrow. There's a bridge there called Farum Greatbridge. Also there's the Bestial Sanctum which is clearly connected to the beastmen and contains Maliketh, who is later found in Farum Azula. Also it's called Dragonbarrow and it's where the most dragons are outside of Farum Azula.
I find it pretty interesting how you took this video a lot more seriously than your previous Elden Ring videos. I am not against it in any way, in fact, I'd be very interested to see more videos like this.
Actually nvm upon rewatch u are correct but the jokes in this one are more unhinged there’s just a lot less of them like that joke about eating humans caught me insanely off guard and had me dying
I’m from the future. Yea it was bale the dreaded who tore off two of plasidusaxes heads. I know that’s kinda obvious for the one who played the DLC but I’m gonna point it out anyways
I think another strong connection between CFA and Stormveil castle is the reappearance of both the knights and the birds in both places. Admittedly, the knights and the birds also show up in castle sol, so maybe they just like castles
@@__8120 From the Sun Realm Shield description: Shield of honor depicting a city crowned by the sun. It has seen better days. Much like the wear upon the shield, the Seat of the Sun is long faded away.
Just wanted to say I just found your channel and I’m obsessed with your Elden Ring videos. The mix of comedy and actual serious lore is great and I genuinely think your channel will be big one day. Keep it up!
For those who are curious about that dragon guy in a suit. He says "Good day, can I ask for 4 PLN? Thank you" in polish I don't understand that joke either, by the way
This dudes editing is amazing please keep up quality content like this. I don’t think I’ve laughed at just editing alone. Jokes are spot on to. Much love bro 🙏
The draconic tree sentinel used his triple-hit lighting attack through the fog wall and it knocked me off the edge of the arena in my first playthrough.
4:45 that comes in the same boxes my vanilla simple syrup I put in my Dr. Peppers came in and I was like " THAT'S WHERE IT KEEPS GOING! " for a moment.
CFA used to be part of the main continent, with the Wormfaces from Altus lining up with the ones from Azula. The architecture of the place you feed death roots to the Beast Clergyman is that of Azula, suggesting it was connecting Altus to Caelid and even Limgrave.
I had no idea i even walked into a boss room with the godskin duo, i had 4 flasks, no prep, and caught off guard, but i still first tried them, THOSE FUCKING KNIGHTS THO they killed me so. Fucking. Much
Me walking into the arena with a giant fridge-size hammer and Bernahl with a taxidermized snake on a stick, fighting two One Piece characters in a temple floating in the sky. Truly a unique experience.
16:21 What if the “Storm Lord” discussed here is the Stormhawk King? You give Nepheli Loux the ashes of it after going back to the Chapel of Anticipation; “Ashes of a hawk revered by all others as sovereign back in the days when Stormveil's winds still raged like no other. This ancient monarch is proud however, refusing to answer anyone's summons.” This would also explain the appearance of the hawks in Farum Azula, as they also appear in Stormveil.
Crumbling Farum Azula is a pretty accurate representation of Kansas. Filled to the brim with tornadoes and stray dogs
And also crumbling infrastructure
We're not in Kansas, anymore...
And also dragons
😮💨 and birds....
Dorothy is that you?
The secret is that Maliketh has a crippling addiction to death-weed. As a public figure at the time, Maliketh needed to keep this highly illegal activity a secret, until one day the tarnished and crucible knights under Godfrey discovered Farum Azula, named after Malikeths favourite avatar character. Maliketh panicked, and to cover up his connection, shattered the place across the continent, summoned a tornado and a horde of dragons to finish the job. Unfortunately for him his DNA was found on a stray death dealer and he was exiled anyway. And that’s the deal with crumbling farum azula
Truly a prepare to cry :(
That's canon, it's in the lore.
Vaatividya got to make a video on this
Placidusaax uses lightning, Azula uses lightning. CONNECTION?!!
Dude *finally* it makes sense, thanks for laying it all out like that I was totally lost
This "What's the deal with" series is truly one of the Elden Ring walkthroughs on youtube.
Maliketh still has not returned his neighbour's lawn mower -.-"
The ancient Polish dragon asking for 4 PLN got me good xDDD
Me too, holy shit😂
Panie, daj panie złotówkę proszę
Jin dobre 😂
It's too good
POLSKA!!! NUMERO UNO!
Never forget, that Vyke got with one of those dragons in this crumbling cookie. That's canon, it's in the lore.
and the dragon gave him her brother's lightning attack instead of her own. kinda weird if you ask me
He was a fucking bard
Lansseax was a fight I enjoyed though. The fact that her fight abruptly stops and she leaves essentially only for me to find her elsewhere to actually get to fight her without her bailing on the fight was a neat idea..
And possible divorced, so this should be added to the divorce tier list
Thank God, I really needed this. My cat is being put down later today and it's been really tough. Thanks for giving me a good laugh in a dark time, Dark Tark
stay strong brother
Dont be sad its over, be happy it happened
Cherish the memories brother
So sorry to hear that brother, I'm sure you've been a very loving friend to your cat. Stay strong ❤
f bro
Hope you're okay brother
The scariest goddamn moment in any souls game for me was realizing that there are Godwyn eyes EVERYWHERE in Farum Azula. Every goddamn root in the zone has those awful half-lidded fish eyes, always watching you...
Never noticed that
I wonder if Godwyn's tumours being present in Farum can be explained by the timey-wimey shit...
Or if there's any chance Farum Azula was still grounded at the time of Godwyn's Erdtree Burial?
@@hugostefaniu No. Just...no. This place is from" The time before the Erdtree" ,and it fell either before or because of Marika and Godfrey.
Godwyn's death likely has something to do with death in general changing ( the Death Ritual Spear describing a " distant ressurection " the death priests were waiting for and such) ,but he came after the place fell. It's likely his effect goes beyond the Erdtree, in the same way the Sun and the Eclipse is somehow connected to his salvation and that of his fellow Soulless siblings.
After all, the Beast skeletons bear the Sun Realm Shield.
Also Farum Azula does funny things to time that no one can explain. Truly one of the places beyond all time
Yeah, I like it tbh....
It's a crumbling city in the sky beyond time where you get to fight the creature who holds the power to restore death to the lands between...
Nice 👌😏
Just very fitting to have that fight be there..
The Morrowind Restoration sound effect was unexpected but appreciated.
the cookie crumbles and farum azula rumbles by the sheer power of dark tark
Kurwa, the polish dragon had me dead, but the dragons actually are from Poland, it's canon, it's in the lore
Yeah, we had one uder a castle in some city, but turns out that some guy killed it few hundread years ago
Dark Tark is truly one of the content creators of all time
Hallelujah! Out of all the content creators who have ever existed, Dark Tark is, without a doubt, among them!
@@Victor.-.E he speaks the truth
I'd even go as far as to say he's one of the _most_ content creators of all time!
@@luigivercotti6410 controversial opinion
Crumbling Farum Azula is truly one of the places of all time.
Also, gotta love the One Piece references
one of the places of literal all time, even beyond time
Crumbling Farum Azula is definetly a place it has a name it crumbles it's a place
We need more teardown videos since now you can play as Gordon Woo's daughter
I recorded a bunch of footage from that update awhile ago but I haven't gotten around to making it a video yet. Maybe one day.
@@DarkTark I shall wait for as long as it takes
In my opinion, the creepiest thing about wormfaces is that their legs aren't positioned below their centre of mass, making all their animations look jarring and unnatural.
Crumbling Farum Azula may once have been located on the ground in Dragonbarrow. There's a bridge there called Farum Greatbridge. Also there's the Bestial Sanctum which is clearly connected to the beastmen and contains Maliketh, who is later found in Farum Azula. Also it's called Dragonbarrow and it's where the most dragons are outside of Farum Azula.
The sudden polish dragon TOOK ME OUT SO HARD. It do be like that tho...
It's crumbling just like my marriage.
That's canon, it's in the lore
the polish at 1:50 took me off guard and by surprise
Crumbling farum azula is basically the cookie crumbling
I find it pretty interesting how you took this video a lot more seriously than your previous Elden Ring videos. I am not against it in any way, in fact, I'd be very interested to see more videos like this.
Honestly to me this is one of the more unhinged videos but in the best way possible
Actually nvm upon rewatch u are correct but the jokes in this one are more unhinged there’s just a lot less of them like that joke about eating humans caught me insanely off guard and had me dying
I nearly got heart attack when I heared polish on bus. Thanks
Getting slapped dozens of times by a comedic duo is indeed, my biggest prepare to cry moment
Literally started playing elden ring cuz of ur channel and just arrived at this area, the timing us incredible
I’m from the future. Yea it was bale the dreaded who tore off two of plasidusaxes heads. I know that’s kinda obvious for the one who played the DLC but I’m gonna point it out anyways
I think another strong connection between CFA and Stormveil castle is the reappearance of both the knights and the birds in both places. Admittedly, the knights and the birds also show up in castle sol, so maybe they just like castles
or maybe they rushed the game a little at the end and kinda just copy and pasted mobs in places where they would most fit to flesh it out
Farum Azula, Sun Realm, Castle Sol, makes sense.
@@xeonespydonum4995 Sun Realm?
@@__8120 From the Sun Realm Shield description:
Shield of honor depicting a city crowned by the sun.
It has seen better days.
Much like the wear upon the shield, the Seat of the Sun is long faded away.
I never expected to be asked for 4 złoty by an ancient dragon.
Finally another video!
Love your sarcastic dry humour
I literally had your humor pop into my head randomly yesterday. I was craving so I was rewatching all of your elden ring videos. What perfect timing!
For me, Goldfrey has officially and forever been renamed "Morgott's piss ghost"
Just wanted to say I just found your channel and I’m obsessed with your Elden Ring videos. The mix of comedy and actual serious lore is great and I genuinely think your channel will be big one day. Keep it up!
thank you for your contribution to my cv
i miss "that's cannon, it's in the lore" quote this time around :(
This shows how much the cookie crumbled in farum azula, thank you so much for the enlightenment dark tark
Either these videos are becoming gradually more hinged, or I've gotten immersion-therapy style used to it
For those who are curious about that dragon guy in a suit. He says "Good day, can I ask for 4 PLN? Thank you" in polish
I don't understand that joke either, by the way
You won't buy any good cheap alcohol for that in Poland anyway.
Fun fact In the dlc Bayle ( the dragon ) has one of plasidisaxx’s heads on its back , so somehow the dragons could travel between the two worlds(?)
"And one of Placidusax's heads was cut off in the process"
Bayle: There's two, actually
I LOVED THIS!! YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR IS GREAT!!!!!!!! HILARIOUS MAN!!!! subbed!!!
Your theory with the Wormface is probably correct, considering that part of Altus is above Deeproot depths, and Goldwyn’s rotting body
0:35 “Fortunately, you’ve had some weird horse girl stalking you throughout your journey, so you can just use her.”
GODDAMN I did not notice that pieces of the farum we're in limgrave. That is a crazy cool detail with some nice lore implications
Watching this for the thumbnail alone.
The drake goon joke aged very well
The Polish Dragon bit killed me instantly. Blessed be the Darkest of Tarks 🙏
Dragon asking for 4 PLN caught me off guard.
What if the Wormfaces are reanimated Beastmen, and the forest in Altus is an ancient unmarked Beastman burial site
Holy shit, I never made the connection between the rubble in Kim grave being from Farum Azula
Limgrave *
Your videos bring some much needed levity to the stress that is Elden Ring.
That ball pit... Dark Tark, surely you weren't there at... oh I shan't say it
i didnt realize that the godskin duo had managed to eat the gum-gum devil fruit. this insight is why i come to the dark tark channel
LETSSSS GOOO
Ive been waiting for this one
This dudes editing is amazing please keep up quality content like this. I don’t think I’ve laughed at just editing alone. Jokes are spot on to. Much love bro 🙏
A dark tark upload day is a good day
I don’t think I’ve been this happy since I see a TH-cam video I wasn’t expecting in years
yo this is a good one man, I think you got some great lore theories
I love you so much Dark Tark !!!! Excellent video loved it continue pleeeeeaaase
I wait and pray for your uploads... please pump out more SLOP for me to CONSUME!!!
The draconic tree sentinel used his triple-hit lighting attack through the fog wall and it knocked me off the edge of the arena in my first playthrough.
My first attempt.
6:18 Absolutely - yes. Miyazaki has a sense of humor
I subscribed to this channel, and it did look great on my resume, because I was hired by a law firm who tracks down people who commit tax evasion
blorpse after blorpse left in my wake, as i awaited dark's return
Bro your videos are top tier I hope your channel grows bigger
Dark Tark is the only man who I would wake up at 6 AM for
Maliketh still hasn't returned your lawnmower. This is canon, it's in the video's description.
Faram Azula is just an Amazon warehouse
I love gis commentary, his voice is relaxing when he's talking and hilarious when he makes a joke.
I can’t wait for the dlc to come out so we can be blessed with more Lord Tark funny bits. Truly a video of all time
what’s crazy is actually how much i learn about elden ring from these videos
WHO UP RUBBING THEIR BONE SHARD RN?
0:28 funny doing that rn actually bring on the Michael!
Love your video. A good mix between personal experience/gameplay, lore, and humor. Please keep 'em coming
I died more times to the tree sentinel than I did to maliketh lmao
that ratm song while you said "in the self immolation way " was pretty clever
Yo Tark you should totally give Silent Hill 2 a story recap in your "kind of right but completely wrong" style, I think it would be excellent.
good news, i already did
@@DarkTark really? I didn't see that. Is it early on your channel???
Never mind, I just found it. Thanks! I love your stuff!
Wake up babe, new Dark Tark video just dropped
The cookie IS WHAT!?
4:45 that comes in the same boxes my vanilla simple syrup I put in my Dr. Peppers came in and I was like " THAT'S WHERE IT KEEPS GOING! " for a moment.
This is my favourite series on TH-cam now. I literally recommended you to a Starbucks employee today and was only slightly embarrassed.
this is going to be a masterpiece
Cant Wait for the next video
"What's the deal with Ancient Dragons"
3:08-3:10 is what made me subscribe with the MGS bit there
This is my new favorite lore dump video
CFA used to be part of the main continent, with the Wormfaces from Altus lining up with the ones from Azula. The architecture of the place you feed death roots to the Beast Clergyman is that of Azula, suggesting it was connecting Altus to Caelid and even Limgrave.
I had no idea i even walked into a boss room with the godskin duo, i had 4 flasks, no prep, and caught off guard, but i still first tried them, THOSE FUCKING KNIGHTS THO they killed me so. Fucking. Much
The Polish dragon had me confused
New Dark stark video, can’t wait to watch this video only for 2 weeks
Deadbolt music is very appreciated, Chris Christodoulou is a legend
Praise the lord, Dark Tank has uploaded
Me rewatching all of Mr. Tark’s videos over and over again
Maliketh is definitely one of the furry OC's of all time.
didnt expect polish dragon to ask me for 4 złote but fair enough
Good to see you again Dark Tark!
Regarding the wormfaces, someone had a theory thay they were probably bodies buried and got affected by Godwyn’s deathblight
Me walking into the arena with a giant fridge-size hammer and Bernahl with a taxidermized snake on a stick, fighting two One Piece characters in a temple floating in the sky. Truly a unique experience.
Faram azula is like the third world country of elden ring
Bro, I know it's going to be a banger when the thumbnail alone makes me laugh
when you said nintendogs save file and 1920's slapstick. i was hooked.
Thank you, Darkest of Tarks, for another blessed video.
16:21 What if the “Storm Lord” discussed here is the Stormhawk King? You give Nepheli Loux the ashes of it after going back to the Chapel of Anticipation;
“Ashes of a hawk revered by all others as sovereign back in the days when Stormveil's winds still raged like no other.
This ancient monarch is proud however, refusing to answer anyone's summons.”
This would also explain the appearance of the hawks in Farum Azula, as they also appear in Stormveil.