Elden Ring Cut Cataclysm System
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2024
- What happened in the world of Elden Ring ages before the current game takes place? In this video I explore a time where Crucible Knights challenged us atop the Divine Towers. Still a lot of mysteries remain in Elden Ring, but some of them are starting to get an explanation
Sections:
0:00 Intro
0:24 The Mysterious Boss Fight
1:19 Crucible Knight Boss Fight
2:21 Boss Fight analysis:
2:52 Godfrey 16 Knights cut achievement
3:11 More cut content (CNT)
3:52 Missing Natural Disaster Cutscenes
4:42 Consecrated Snowfield cut content
5:24 Map alteration events
6:04 Crucible Era theory
6:40 Outro
Links:
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Crucible Knights had a few more secrets in themselves. Enjoy this video where I explore cut content related to a time before present day Elden Ring. And as usual don't forget to subscribe!
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The first time taking the long elevator up those towers and expecting a boss fight
Only to see dead fingers...
Now this makes since now
Given Zullie the Witch's latest video about Astel formerly being planned to have a crash landing as a meteorite, I imagine the natural disaster in the snowfield was the planned explanation for the version of Astel that resides there. Seems consistent and sensible!
Astro very cool concept
This makes so much sense!
Bro th-cam.com/video/37BUPfZQ_EM/w-d-xo.html
The sites of grace near the top on some divine towers makes a lot more sense now. Things like this and other cut questlines really makes me hope for a "Scholar of the first sin" edition, though hopefully through an update rather than a separate game.
Especially not a separate game that’s harder than the original
@@kneeofjustice9619 there's a reason cut content exist and that's not rushing
This makes a lot of sense, since coincidentally, Caelid and the Consecrated Snowfield are the only two areas with above-ground Nox influences. If it were previously that you'd access these areas by uncovering the ground beneath, then their locations above-ground become far less surprising.
I suppose the theme of natural disasters plagueing the world over the course of the game still remains via Radahn/the burning Erdtree, so not everything was lost.
The Church of Vows in Liurnia have literal Nox statues 😑
@@victorprati7908 Sure, but in that case those were just statues, whereas Caelid and the Consecrated Snowfield have significant amounts of topological and architectural similarity to the Nox.
I guess I should've specified "significant influence."
Its crazy how much stuff is left in the game files, FS has tendency to scrap stuff thats often pretty well developed(Kales questline, cut parts in ds1, DeS 6th archstone) which makes me pretty sad. I know a lot of this is cut for the reason and this one seems like it was pretty early in development but I wish that one day we will see a game from them that realized all their bonkers ideas in action rather than through data mining.
It doesn't seem likely tbh. From Software basically has never finished a game. Except for maybe Sekiro. All their games seem rushed to an extent. They seem incapable of planning something out and executing it accordingly.
@@deathbyslipknot Bro I don't think you know how games are made. From Soft is pretty tight lipped about their dev process but their paper trails point towards something like 2000-2010 era Valve or Nintendo. Tonnes of iteration and prototyping, and some of these hints of the iterations and prototypes make it to the retail build, it doesn't mean From had to rush their game out lmao. Producers/directors have lists and lists of primary, secondary, and tertiary features, part of production is pruning those lists into something that can be made on a reasonable timeframe with the maximum impact. Every game has cut content, there's an entire wiki dedicated to it and more crucible knight fights sounds terrible to so it makes sense why it was cut.
@@TheDominitri It's funny that you inadvertently agreed with what Jake said "part of production is pruning those lists into something that can be made on a reasonable timeframe with the maximum impact", a.k.a "rushing": where they had to leave behind concepts they couldn't implement before their scheduled release date.
@@TheDominitri you basically just said “Bro they don’t rush their games, they just rush their games”
@@TheDominitri I’m skeptical you know how Fromsoft games are made. They’re infamous for going beyond normal amounts of cut content and it’s thoroughly documented that because of rushed development in many of their titles they often feature unfinished and unpolished sections. There’s no reason not to assume the same is true here considering the baffling number of almost complete questlines and related mechanics down to dozens of hidden voice lines remaining in the retail game
Makes a lot of sense for the fingers to be dead now, then. And also explains some of the weird Graces on the upper levels of the towers. I don't think it would take us back to any era. The lore in all versions of the game is that the Crucible Knights were rejected by the current order, we have examples of them betraying and being imprisoned, so I think they killed the Fingers we see.
I do think they also planned for terrain changing events but ended up shooting themselves on the foot with time and resources.
Also, Floh used to be a Crucible Knight in the OOB CNT stuff. The one we could kill by falling through the ground. Bloodhounds are now servants of Caria.
Cut content is such a devil's bargain. I love learning about how concepts changed but then I also weep for what the game could've been like.
yah sometimes cut stuff has to be cut since it just don't work but all the ideas look soo cool hopefully some get revisited in DLC
Bro the cataclysm event is the coolest shit they could've done to make this game truly legendary. Hope they restore some of this content in the dlcs creating the definitive edition of the game
If they decide not to make any sequels to Elden Ring I hope that we can at least get a Scholar of the First Sin style edition to polish the rougher edges
This game is already legendary. Luckily creators have a different mindset than the consumers. Dark Souls 1 and after are exercises in restraint. That's why they're successful. They know what to say outright and what to leave to the imagination.
Unfortunately I don't think from has ever added back something they pruned, it's always been brand new stuff, or at least never before seen stuff.
@@balelosanto7869 what fromsoft likes to do is to shove the cut content into the next game, sometimes in really clumsy way
@@oldcowbb hmm you mean like a certain snake worm boss
This whole before/after cataclysms makes me think of your video of Leyndell when it's under siege and that NPC that seemed to be from before the time period where the game takes place. It makes me think that at some point the game might have been intended to take place during the shattering, or at least during some active "end of the world" scenario instead of you showing up to an already destroyed land. Of course the game taking place in a land that's already fallen is pretty typical for Fromsoft, but I could see them trying to be ambitious and make your character an active part of the cataclysm. Or maybe sequences like this could've been meant as some kind of flashback or time travel? Kinda like the giant memories in DS2. Or maybe this could've even been part of the cut dream mechanic? Like you'd go back through dreams to fight the crucible knights, and doing so would be what caused the areas to look destroyed like they are now.
Either way I can see why it ended up being cut lol. The elden ring map is already huge and ambitious enough, having to make pre and post cataclysm versions of each area would have been a lot of work! But it really does seem like the players actions permanently changing the entire game world is something that Fromsoft really wants to pull off. They've had plenty of examples of areas that go through "phases" like Leyndell, or Ashina Castle, or dark Anor Londo. And even the blood moon and the insight system in Bloodborne felt like things they probably wanted to change the whole game with, but were only able to have effects for a limited number of areas. Unfortunately it seems like that's still too ambitious of a goal for now, but I really hope it's something From can make happen in some future game! Radahn's meteor is one of my favourite moments in Elden Ring, and a whole game being based around the ability to change the map like that would be amazing!
I kinda like the idea that the crucible knights protect the fragments of the fallen fingers that served under each respected demigod and Utilizing the powers of each demigod to protect them.😺
The fingers don't have respective demigods, only RAnni, Malenia and Miquella do, the rest of the demigods just stole the ring's shards
they also don't serve anyone but their outer god. the demigods were assigned two fingers to keep them in check not to serve them
I am nit so sure about that since Ranni's fingers seem to act on their own, they do not seem to be subservient to the GW
@@somecunt8579
I don't agree with stealing. Radagon wouldn't have given Rennala runes if there was something to steal. She is not empyren or demigod.If it was like you said, the Fingers wouldn't have said kill all the demigods and collect the shards back. Yes, they want Malenia dead too.
Cool vid. The divine towers are a juicy mystery. Little mentioned fact, there is a carving of a salamander on the entrance to each one. In European folklore, salamanders were thought to be impervious to fire and were used as symbols for immortality and rebirth. Cremation was thought to be an effective way of seperating the soul from the body and was widely popular before inhumation was stand
I always thought there had to be more to the tops of the divine towers. Such great arena for an epic boss fight. Maybe this could exist as "prequel" DLC content to hunt down crucible knights.
P.S. I just found your videos because of that dope's comment making it to Zullie's Twitter. Good stuff.
In light of this information this has me reconsidering what the "Crucible" actually was. If the knights and cutscenes are all that was dropped, it could mean the Crucible is actually the in land sea of The Lands Between.
Considering all life we know (in the real world) derives from water, it would make sense for it to be called the crucible of life
Edit: this also got me thinking what the simbol in their armor and other objects is, and thinking it is the crucible of life, it could represent waves, but i don't know
I think its too coincidental that there's a crucible mentioned that we never visit and a literal crucible we do visit but isn't called one. I think the plot was heavily altered midway or even late into production with the forge being the crucible, Radagon explicitly being a fire giant, and more.
How it could have gone:
You visit each divine tower after completing a "continent" and killing its main boss. Then you defeat the tower's Crucible Knight, by doing so you trigger a meteor strike that nukes the whole continent. The Crucible knights all represent a different era of the past, killing them sort of undoes the results of that era having passed, returning the continent into a primordial, unformed state
The destroyed maps of the surface continents could lead to more underground maps like the eternal city
When you become Elden Lord, you can remake the world in your image and reform the continents in different ways, like returning everything to normal with the "normal" or Golden Order ending, bringing the Eternal Cities to the surface with Ranni's ending, turning everything into a Caelid hellscape with a Rot ending, or skeletons everywhere with the Fia/Godwyn ending...
those changes to the world carrying over into NG, so you'd choose a completely different game to play in the next run
That’s sounds really creative and so astonishing.
this sounds like a logistical nightmare for literally everyone involved in the development of this game but it would be sick as hell
@@tTaseric joy for the player, nightmare for developer
This makes me wonder if the plans they had for the Crucible Knights have just been thrown out or set aside for some more info in the DLC. We have vague info on the Crucible, and now it comes out one of the ideas was to fight them at the top of almost all the divine towers.
For the "trigger the meteor animation", that's kinda interesting for the implications with the eternal cities. I'm especially thinking about the giant's mountaintop and the nameless eternal city (which isn't directly under that, but it's the closest).
This genuinely makes me kinda sad
This cut content seems so good
I really hope they bring it back in some form in the dlc
Like maybe once you start the dlc it takes place in a separate area however over time your actions or the actions of others start affecting the lands between
Until nearing the end of the dlc it’s an end of the world scenario and once the lands between is saved you can still see the damage left behind and NPCs would mention what had occurred.
I think this makes a tons of sense considering the origin of crucible knights. It seems to me that similar to albinauric archers, these crucible knights were droplets from the amber of the life crucible, the primordial form of the erdtree. The evidence are sufficient too, from the crucible knights set item descriptions, the high holy defense of the crucible sets compare to the high magic defense of the blue silver set. Crucible knights also don't bleed blood, they bleed golden amber. By defeating the guardians of the divine tower, who are the offsprings of life's crucible, triggers the historical events happened in times of the crucible, makes full sense.
I have to at least respect fromsoftware for being this ambitious even if in the end they couldn't achieve their initial vision
A game with such a big map that would also suffer such huge environmental changes as it progresses? It feels kind of insane to think about it unless I'm missing something
Talented devs like those at Fromsoft set themselves up for success by creating a strong foundation which can be built upon in many different ways. It's likely not all of these areas was intended to have its own cataclysmic event but they were looking for the right location to have it out of a handful of options, and the engineers built in the proper hooks so the designers could test out their concepts in game. For whatever reason, it didn't work out. Maybe it was a design decision, technical, scheduling, or budget.
And all within a multiplayer framework, no less.
@@SteambieGrimbley9110 isn't Fromsoft a small company than Bethesda tho? Especially pre-Elden Ring since they starting hiring people after Elden Ring's success.
Aww man, a hunting questline revolving around the Era of the Crucible would jave been sick
This is so freaking cool. Big thanks to everyone for finding these. Also finally explains the tombstones on the cliffsides
Really interesting to see that our actions would have effected the geology of the lands between in such a way. Deforming and shattering it on our journey to the elden throne.
Unrelated to the content of the video, but it would be helpful to have the text longer on screen. It changes a bit too quick, especially if you also want to pay attention to the footage.
Cool! It always did feel like there was supposed to be a boss fight on the towers.
The game was already huge as it is, but to think it could've even greater, like cut NPC quests or with these cataclysmic events? I am happy with what we currently got, but I now wish we had most of these in the game.
Amazing as always, thank you for your hard work! Maybe we'll see these concepts reintroduced in future DLC.
I wonder if this ties in with the cut Crucible knight in Stormveil and the crater we can find beneath the map of Radahn’s arena…
what do you mean by a cut crucible knight in Stormveil? (There's one patrolling at the bottom, before the big elevator)
@@SekiroDubi from the SGF trailer if I’m remembering correctly. It was blue and red like an evergaol boss
@@Ziostorm gotcha
@@SekiroDubi actually on rewatch, I may be mistaken. Looks like it is just an evergaol
Huh, I imagine this stuff is from super early development.
thanks for the vid
That was a pretty awesome watch. Loved how much work you guys put into this!
This game is cryptic AF
Excellent work dude, you should be extremely proud of this. But my god, I would have loved this game.
This is so interesting & truly amazing work done by you guys, bravo.
I really wish there was a bigger in game event that happens once you kill maliketh. As of now all they happens is the erdtree turns red and the capital gets covered in ash, no legitimately really cool shit like in ds3s eclipse or the blood moon in Bloodborne
i always thought it was weird that at the top of the tower there wasn't a boss fight, it seemed like the perfect place
„Era of the Crucible“ would make for a great DLC name
everytime i see an elden ring video about what could have been, a secret found and the like, all i want is an expansion asap!
Also kind wanna replay it every so often haha
I'm usually one to play devil's advocate, and I'm going to do so again
The divine towers, while grand, don't really need a boss fight at the top of each one, especially if they were how you would grant power back to your runes as you do now.
I'm almost positive this was cut for that reason, why have the divine towers be another forced boss to activate the reward from the boss you just beat?
As for "plains meteor," unless I missed it you didn't really show a meteor striking caelid, which means it's most likely "plains meteor" means the cutscene is in the plains (ie caelid) as it is. It's very possible that in early drafts, you had to kill Radahn, then kill the crucible and activate the rune, and activation of that rune is what causes the meteor strike, and it was likely streamlined in the full game. As for the consecrated snowfield, it seems in early drafts much more of the game was accessible to the player, and often in open world games like this, they make interactibles and other things of that nature that can be activated at any time to ensure continuity. After all, if they decided to have snowfield end up being early game after early development having it be late game, a lot more work would have to be done than if they just had interactibles ready to go.
Overall, I get what you're getting at, but this, like most with Elden Ring, seems to be cut for player streamlining, and not so much because they couldn't get it done.
That's just my two cents
Y'know what? I'm glad they cut those crucible knight fights. There are enough already.
they would've been instead of, not as well as, I think.
I really dig the idea that you would have taken Godrick’s rune to get activated at the Divine Tower, which triggered the cataclysm that destroys the bridge behind you
Incredible
I find it neat to look at a time lapse model of how Earth's geology shifted over eons. Seeing one created for the Lands Between would be equally cool.
Amazing stuff. These findings seem to reflect to a very different kind of game, very queer that these were in the network test even...
who u callin queer bro
@@CountArtoriasyou bro
I think we'll be seeing the history and purpose of the divine towers in a later DLC, and From is holding this content back until that release. It's nice to have even further evidence that these towers are all about calling down meteors though.
Just have to say I love seeing you join the FromSoft content-restoring community, I've loved seeing your findings so far!
During my first playthrough, in the cutscene after killing Radahn, I was convinced that meteorite was going to permanently change the way the map looked
3:14 is that what the symbols mean then on the tower? Crucible pot from the top? A sun?
and now i know, a metorite hits. that makes sense too honestly
PS the Erd tree is the same concept as Kingdom Hearts and FF7s Lifestream.
Alchemy, Cosmology, Metaphysics. gotta love it!
but also knowing what we know of the DLC, i bet this will be in that some how too. Watch the DLC have us go into dreams of the past and re enact all this to enter the shadowlands
I like this guy better than the other lore youtubers.
The Crucible Knights armor really matches the design of the Divine Towers
When I first visited the divine tower, I thought there was going to be a boss fight at the top. Glad to see I'm not totally crazy
Having bosses at the top of each tower would’ve been kind of cool. Could’ve been different types of guardians that had no other duties once their Two Fingers died.
I wish they did more with it and thankfully it looks like they'll be expanding upon the Crucible Knights in the DLC. Same reason I'm completely down the rabbithole of the Dragons and Farum Azula. (I blame Oblivion with the Dwemer and places like Hackdirt)
They hinted something about Crucible Knights recently seems like we'll get DLC
Damn I thought I would’ve had to wait a week for this
incredible stuff!
Nice vid!
I don't want an Elden ring sequel, I want a redux where they restore all the cut content and flesh out the ideas.... And add covenants. Make it the perfect game, it sounds amazing to change the geography of the map and go into different underground areas for some extra crucible and nox lore.
Great video as always. It would be cool to have a mod with all the cut content reworked into the game. I know it’s probably a lot of work but would be awesome.
It's so interesting that possibly one year before release the entire plot and structure of the game was different
What would be cool is an "Age of the Crucible" dlc using some of these ideas along with heading back in time.
That's super cool, Thank You!
Makes me wonder if the two fingers on top of the divine towers came crashing down in a cutscene.
I’d so be down for Elden Ring: Era of the Crucible dlc lol take my money
FromSoft has a tendency to return to old ideas that don't quite make the cut. I have a feeling we'll see something like the cataclysm system in a future game of theirs.
Love to see them finish or bring it all back
Hmm perhaps when the DLC drops these will be interesting places to re-examine
This would've been far more interesting than reducing the Crucible Knights to just dungeon bosses and the occasional enemy you bump into. Though for this idea to really work Fromsoft would've had to give each knight a different weapon. As it stands we only have the sword knight and spear knight, it would've been interesting if the remaining knights specialized in weapons tied to different stats such as dex, arcane and int.
Man if only we can that Aspect of Crucible: Wings. There is only Tail, Horn and Breath.
Edit: It made me think even more that this games. Either it still not finish or it was rushed upon released.
There were early leaks that did talk about the map changing with falling stars.
Very nice. It give me answer why they bother to add two site grace on both top & bottom of the tower.
From what you have discovered here leads me to believe they were trying to do what they did in ds1 with darkroot garden and olicile where you go back in time and you know why the world is that way partly due to player actions. From really put ALOT into this masterpiece.
Also Anor Londo and dark Anor Londo
I guess that's why there's an astel in the snowfield and mistwood.
Huh y'all remember the Pillar/Shrine Knight scrapped from Bloodborne? It had a similar situation with being a top a tower.
That screenshot of the leaked trailer makes
me wonder how different the original version was. The trees are green instead of yellow and the bridge is fully connected
This also explains the second Astel in consecrated snowfields
That’s awesome!!
Given the enormous moveset and how they tend to fly away to their death, the crucible knight was clearly a boss concept that got scraped and turned into a regular enemy. At least they had enough decency to make them not respawn after being killed. Most likely reason: crucible incantations, armor and weapons. Either a few bosses would have to drop tons of loot or there would be so many crucible knight boss fights that it would seem like a complete asset over usage.
Were these going to be different than the falling stars that would create the holes in the ground in Mistwoof-Limgrave and in Radahn's arena, to open up access to the underground maps there?
This is very interesting. I may be conpletely off, but I feel like they were gonna implement a memory thing like dark souls 2 but decided to scrap the idea (hopefully DLC). The event trigger at the dead two fingers seems all too familiar to the tree of giants imo
Makes sense since all towers have a grace right near the top.
I can't speak for the other demigods, but there is the Crucible Knight in Castle Redmane. They may have moved.
I wonder if the Liurnia one was a Crucible Knight or if the Godskin Noble was originally at the top of the tower.
There are currently 8 Crucible Knights in the game if i'm not mistaken, so they were cut down from 16? not such a bad idea, i mean we fight 4 spear guys and 4 sword and shield guys, guess fighting each of them 8 times was a bit too much :P
There are a few more than eight. We have
- 2 in Limgrave: Stormveil cliff side (sword) and Evergaol (sword)
- 3 in Siofra: on the way to the Gargoyles boss fight (sword & spear) and in the area accessed from the Four Belfries (sword)
- 1 in Cealid: part of the Redmane castle boss fight (sword)
- 2 in Altus: Auriza boss fight (sword and spear)
- 2 in Leyndell: in the large round building (spear) and close to Radagon statue (spear)
- 1 in Gelmir: Tanith's bodyguard (sword)
- 1 in Deeproot Depths: Siluria boss (spear)
- 2 in Farum Azula: next to petrified dragon (sword) and on the way to Boltdrake +2 (sword)
So that's 14 already. If there were 2 more on the Divine Towers of Limgrave and Caelid, we'd have 16 already.
@@gholosco1122 God damn, thanks for the insight, i really thought there were less of them :D
@@klefthoofrobert787 Yeah, it's easy to miss some when there are so many. I'm not even 100% sure this list is complete. They also use different crucible incantations, but I don't recall which exactly. The spears seem to use only horn, while the swords use either tail or breath.
Now what I'm wondering, if the Crucible Knights belonged to Godfrey (item description) and Marika made each of Godfrey's warriors Tarnished (Melina dialog), shouldn't that include the Crucible Knights as well? That might even explain why we don't see all 16, some may not have been called by grace yet. But it feels more like they're not considered Tarnished in the lore, although there's no explanation why.
@@gholosco1122 Aren't the crucibles supposed to have parted ways with Godfrey at some point? I think I remember someone talking about it but I'm not sure
@@henrryeaeaea That would make sense, but I don't recall any in-game confirmation for it.
just recently.. when i went to a divine tower, i kinda notice. the material of the building, is unlike any others. the texture kinda like.. an eroded stone works. very similar to a lot ruined pillars we see across the world, like the one in that mountain behind radahn arena. and the ruin strewn precipice. by the looks of it. these ruins is far older than even farum azula. as such.. i assume the divine towers are also way older, than even the erdtree itself.
I hope these events are realized / re-added via DLC
Stuff like this really makes me wonder what Elden Ring could have been had less be cut.
It'd be so cool if there were more than 2 types of crucible knight... if each divine tower had a seperate, named crucible knight with his/her own unique fighting style. A cool side thing you could've done thru the main game, slaying Godfrey's 8 (instead of 16) knights. And beating a Great rune-holding demigod would grant access to one tower.
The final isolated tower would feature a 2v1, with 2 unique crucible knights built from the ground up to compliment each other in an engaging 2v1 boss battle.
The vid has a really nice ending.
Sounds like a solid dlc thing; Miquella seems obvious just by virtue of a left out character but this cut portion is large and complex enough to be the backbone of a release.
What's up with the surprise for walls? I noticed it really often early game but as I progressed and updates started occurring they stopped happening in Liurnia onwards. Was it a bug or just something for early game tension?
the game has a high chance to have the full as map, but in the past where we live the war
I wonder if this is connected to the fact that Astel also has a meteorite landing animation.
Also there are only 14 Crucible Knights in game, are there?
No wonders the names of the crucible knights sounded familiar to me, I studied geology!
Elden Ring is slowly becoming the new Bloodborne with all of it's cut content coming out of the woodwork.
Stuff such as Kale's Questline (some of the best voice acting in the game) and Guilbert's Redeemer questline being cut are a shame. It would have been great to have such in-depth quests like theirs in each of the major regions.
I imagine they cut this content due to its size in memory. I recall that before the beta, there were significant rumors of Elden Ring being too massive to play on most PC s
I'm starting to think the era of the crucible might be up next for (one of) Elden Ring DLC.
Oh shit, natural disaster cutscene? Maybe the hole in Radahn's battlefield that would've led to Mohgwyn palace?
That’s one out of 3 planned ones
It would be so memorable to fight on top of divine tower. Just Ordovis on one, Siluria on second, rest of towers empty as they are and no other crucible knights in worldspace would be perfect.
Would have made so much more sense to have Ordovis and Siluria at Divine towers instead of having one in Azuria hero grave and the other at some random tree in Deeproot depths
All the divine towers are literally boss arenas on top, what the hell happened? It would've been lame fighting another Crucible Knight, but they could've done something cool like make you fight a spectre of the boss who's great rune you're trying to obtain with reduced health similar to the Godfrey boss fight but with the challenge of fighting in a confined space without summons. The first time I climbed a divine tower I fully was expecting to fight a ghost of Godrick again but we got nothing, the runes are just sitting there. Why couldn't they have given the game another year in development and finished all this stuff.
I called it, Placidusax Babel Towers
Starting to feel like the story of Elden Ring was wrecked as a consequence of development issues. So much cut content hinting at awesome lore that is inconsistent with the final product. I'm starting to suspect that Elden Rings story is as shattered as the ring itself. What remains is simply inconsistency masquerading as mystery.
It really probably wasn't. We really are ignorant of the story development process. It's very typical for a story to evolve as you write it and be completely different at various stages.
No artist making anything has never had to compromise their vision with the reality of actually building the thing. And then there's the saying that, "Art is never finished, only abandoned."