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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Dark Souls 1 has a handful of unused NPCs, and while many of them ended up being finished in the DLC, some were simply consigned to history. Undead King Jar-Eel wasn't fortunate enough to make it into Oolacile, but he's led a surprisingly active life despite it thanks to the modding community. Still, there's a bit of confusion about a few facts relating to him.
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Special thanks to Lokey_DS for pointing out the existence of Glorantha's Jar-Eel.
I had seen the theory that "Jar-Eel" was just a mangled version of the word "Jail" repeated even fairly recently, so I ended up digging into it a bit further and Lokey brought up the potential connection to this pre-existing Jar-Eel, which neatly lined up with Miyazaki already having admitted to borrowing ideas from Dragon Pass before. Coupled with the evidence Kingbore had found that the Darkwraith fight was literally just a regular Darkwraith, it seemed like enough to cover for a video.
You might be wondering how the exact spelling of "Jar-Eel" was popularized if the connection to Glorantha's Jar-Eel went unnoticed back when the Undead King was originally discovered, especially when there are numerous ways it could've been translated, such as the "Ja_yearl" seen in his AI label. According to Gibbed, one of the earliest Souls modders, it was evidently just taken from putting the Japanese text from the debug loadlist into Babelfish, so it essentially came down to a stroke of good luck.
I did find a Japanese website discussing Glorantha and the kanji they used for Jar-Eel was identical to the kanji used in the debug loadlist text, which pretty much removes almost any doubt I'd have that it was a deliberate reference. Still, it's a little bit of an odd inspiration if the main connection between them may just by vaguely similar armor, so there might have been some more meaningful narrative link that we'll unfortunately never get to see.
to me it feels clear that the four kings' design was initially meant as his second phase design, and got repurposed later in development after he was cut. it's very classically fromsoft, and in line with stuff like the crawling bed of chaos. the dragon path connection is amazing, though. souls community never stops unearthing stuff
Jail written phonetically in Japanese would be ジェイル, not ジャイール, so that theory definitely doesn't hold any water.
Glorantha is a big thematic inspiration for Miyazaki (one of many). Apparently he keeps a copy of the board game Dragon Pass in his office.
@@23Scadu Yeah, the "Jail" idea always relied on a fairly shaky grasp of Japanese, or a belief that the word was a deliberate corruption of "Jail" to make it into a fantasy name. Either way, it's much more tenuous than the Glorantha Jar-Eel allusion.
@@ZullietheWitchYeah this was honestly amazing that his name was written identically to the Path of the dragon's one all this time... Also please Zullie, where is this amazing reimagined Jar-eel 3d model at 0:28 from???
People theorize for a decade, and it turns out a board game has a character with the same name and a similar design. Amazing
@Jurglenuts I take it you didn't watch the video. That is addressed and debunked by the game's own script and code.
@Jurglenuts If there is no answer, how come you are so absolutely certain that your version is the truth? Especially when the only basis we have for it is modders own misinterpretations or fanfic.
You also seem to be taking this incredibly personal, are you okay? Seems weird to get so angry for someone disagreeing with you.
@Jurglenuts Using mod fanfic as basis for a fact and then throwing temper tantrums. See I can do that too.
@@angelicaboden4358 lmao u trollin
Idk what happened here but someone got btfo'd
"A decade of confusion" sums up the Souls series pretty well in general.
Especially when they say “we’re gonna answer this long standing question” and plague goes “you already did though?”
I'd say Hawkshaw discovered about everything. The lore is so planned and intricate.
A decade and a half though, this year is the 15th anniversary of Demon's Souls!
@@Irithyllian Nah its just a silly rage game
you mean 1 and 3
I love how Glorantha, despite being sort of obscure at this point, seems to worm it's way into everything. It's a worldbuilders' world, I guess.
its literally Radahn
Seems like Four Kings was going to be something akin to Sulyvahn in DS3 or Darklurker in DS2. Wonder why they dropped the idea
Based on his design and the structure of the armor and face I would say he was intended to be a two-part boss.
oh wow Glorantha Jar-eel wears very similar clothes to Radahn
I’m definitely going to go with the theory he was a part of the four kings fight in some way, either being alone, an unused model for all four, or hell maybe the original intention was to have 4 unique models, although that’s just wishful thinking on my part since that sounds like really cool idea.
This is definitely consort radhan
My head cannon? Jar-eel has golden armor and a curved sword, his spiritual successor is Rahdahn, or more fittingly Granddad invaders.
I cant help but notice that radhan seems to be heavily inspired by jar-eel from the board game
At this point, unused Soulsborne content should be considered a field of archeology.
Maybe there were going to be 3 others and literally be 3 seperate individual "Kings" to fight?
The models in ds1 were miles ahead of most games for that time, in terms of detail. In my opinion
Is it possible they originally intended for there to be four distinct kings? Maybe they designed the first two, didn't have time or resources for the other two and compromised with the four identical kings we got instead of using two identical pairs.
That's what I think as well, it always struck me as weird for all the kings to look exactly the same.
i also think jar-eel was one of the kings
Holy fuck, that’s actually a real good theory
This makes the most sense to me personally.
considering the similar characteristics, id wager your right. itd be nice if miyazaki would comment on stuff like this but im fairly certain he doesnt speak english so itd be hard to ask without learning japanese.
Well OBVIOUSLY he’s an eel… that lives in a jar, hence “Jar-Eel.”
clearly he'll be returning as a warrior jar boss with an eel inside in shadows of the erdtree. mark your calendars folks!
Ah they must've used his asset for the Pot Nobles in sekiro! 😂
Wait a second
Lives underwater in Londor (possibly)
His name is eel
Damn miyazaki, you did it again
All he needs now is lightning attacks to complete it
Is the jar ajar though?
clearly you were supposed to trade eel scales with him
Ah, the kind of Zullie video that comes from a solid 14 hours of sleep. Perfect.
Jar-Eel still sounds like an Argonian name though.
Invaded by dark spirit Argonian Sits-on-bonfires!
His name reminded me about "Jarilo" or "Yarilo", a Slavic god of sun. Considering his golden armor, I wonder if he was supposed to take Gwyn's role at some moment.
I keep thinking about Jor-el, Superman's biological dad
Known accomplice of Invades-Your-Game
Fittingly, you could say this one is also just sporting warped dwarven gear, or golden daedric gear.
I prefer Canned-Eel.
🫙
Cammy from Street Fighter prefers Jellied Eel
Well, it would be “Can-eel” as his name isnt “jarred-eel”
Fun fact: Slave Knight Gael's phase 2 attacks are modeled after Jar-Eel's animations. Look at the two side by side, everything from the horizontal swipes, to the way that their capes move is almost identical.
Oh that's neat info. Maybe the usurper theory is right then.
@@pdan4 what theory is that?
@@pdan4the heck is the usurper theory?
Gael is such an awesome fight. Definitely in top 3 DS3 bosses.
Then I remember I have to go through Half Light every single playthrough first 😠
@@weirdeurasianboy8091Halflight ain't that bad
Given the name "undead king" it might be possible that he originally played the role of Kaathe, seeking the end of light and the coming dark age, this may also tie into The Four Kings being refered to as his "demons" since Kaathe just pops out after defeating them, it could be you originally "freed" him or he tested you
That assumes there were still supposed to be multiple of them when they were still "ja_yearl_demon."
it could have been cool if instead of fighting one of the original holders of the lordsouls you go down their only to find them dead and having to claim it from an usurper
Not Kaathe, the serpents are how they're supposed to be, pretty strong references to snakes as powerful beings in many cultures, not only are they primordial but they're possibly tied to the world itself as representations of light and dark, the two serpents are living disparity
He was one of the kings, I honestly think that even with how obscure these games can be, having the Four Kings labeled as "demon" after the name Jar Eel, and with Jar-Eel himself being a king and wearing gold darkwraith armor, he was one of or even THE king of New Londo (the four kings could be the one king using all of his power to manifest different bodies, not that wild in terms of Souls lore) and, even if he cared for his people, had to let New Londo be flooded, maybe even doing it himself, and it's possible this ultimate failing of a leader was what changed him into that Four Kings being, and those under him becoming Darkwraiths, maybe even desperately trying to restore their king's humanity by taking it from others, though it's destined to not work, and people becoming demons through their actions is a theme in souls - usually in futile attempts to save their way of life and people that follow them
@@DarkeLourd I'd say there's a good chance four was always the plan, considering how prevalent Shitenou-type groups of one flavor or another are in Japanese media.
His expression is my face when I wake in the morning
When it's time for the toilet
It me on a Tuesday amirite
His white hair and face remind of the four kings, but his golden armor seems less like darkwraith armor and more so reminds me of the dragon knight guys from darksouls 2. But there's definitely no correlation there
his sword is also similar to the four kings sword, but not tattered and corrupted like the four kings swords are. same with his shoulder armor, it goes up into a spike, much like the four king's shoulders. perhaps Jar-Eel is what the four kings looked like before they went evilmode?
Maybe there were going to be 3 others and literally be 3 seperate individual "Kings" to fight?
I thought he more resembled the ornstein, golden armor, the sword looks more like the dragon slayer spear to me when first looking at him
Maybe he was a summon to assist in the fight, and the four kings came out all at once? But they couldn't balance it like that, so they redesigned him and scrapped him as a summon.
There's something so inherently creepy about an unused npc this finished. Like a sad wraith, unable to tell us anything about itself, unfit for the world it was meant to be in yet still stuck there, hidden
Well, we live in a better age for these ghosts. Back in the old days they’d just be in the walls perma-chained up like a cyber cask of armadillo.
Nowadays it just takes just one wicked patch to all the gamers in the world to bring the skeletons in the walls and closets walking in broad daylight.
This isn’t even considering the rogue modders & patchers.
Disc Prisoner Jar-Eel
My personal theory was that he was going to be the main target in the Four Kings fight while they served as a kind of back-up/turret enemy to annoy you. Something about the way you fought the Four Kings up close felt a little unpolished and annoying that I could see them better served as surrounding enemies. Him being removed entirely, despite being relatively fleshed out, might be because it was too complicated a fight.
Never mind Jar-Eel, I've never noticed before now that Quelaag isn't actually surrounded by fire at her back, but a swirling mass of glowing runes...
only in PTDE , in Remastered its normal fire, it's one of the many, many things that was ruined with the remastered version
They turned bro into Radahn
100% lol
Yeah, he really looks like Radahn's long lost brother
Yet still is more like a 4 kings darkwraith, because of his grab and soever
Heck yeah, Glorantha baybeeee! Glorantha/RuneQuest is surprisingly popular in Japan. Also the setting of "King of Dragon Pass" and the two "Six Ages" videogames!
The Wizardry series, as well. A series that Kingsfield seems to draw inspiration from.
"Son of Jar-Eel! Kneel before Zod!"
A lot of the lore of Glorantha, the setting of Dragon Pass (and the tabletop RPG RuneQuest, which Miyazaki has also mentioned), made its way into Elden Ring too. Notably, the entire world being governed by the concept of metaphysical "runes" that shape reality. One of the foundational myths of the setting centers around a god stealing the concept of Death in the form of a sword and using it to slay the golden God of the Sun. Also Quelaag's name in Japanese makes her connection even more obvious. "Craag".
And the god who did it is blue and has four arms.
Shout out to Daughters of Ash mod that completely restores this boss and makes his fight absolutely fantastic. Him plus the entirety of Twilight Anor Londo is some of the best modding work I've ever seen.
Might have to give this a shot great recommendation
Its so fun to see modders use unused animations,u can especially see this in sekiro mods before the other souls series,alot of the modded bosses in sekiro mods have unused animations and we know this cuz these animations are used across multiple mods,as always fun video
That smile, that goddamn smile...
It's really interesting getting some more insight on where Miyazaki got all of his inspirations from, and a lot of them were things that stuck with him growing up. He never forgot the things that made him what he is, and he wanted to show that appreciation in the games he made, which were done in his own way with his own interpretations of those designs.
Without things like Berserk, Magic the Gathering, and even this Dragon Pass game, we never likely would've been in a world where the Souls genre exists.
If you're curious about Glorantha, King of Dragon Pass is available on steam & GoG and has been ported to mobile devices as well. It's a pretty influential fantasy setting despite its modern obscurity, KoDP gives you a window into the setting by having you manage a clan of fantasy Vikings.
Wasn't his animation set brought back to help make Slave Knight Gael? Jar-Eel's attacks are followed up by his cape reaching out, just like Gael's does in phase 2 and 3. They also share the same idle stance.
he's obviously from Krypton
Jar-eel looks like he has been working in customer service for the last 250 years, he needs a vacation!
A jar full of eels
2:55 this armor looks alot like Freyja's in SOTE
Come to think of it, even his armor is similar to the 4 kings. Look at how his left pauldron's spike flares a lot more than the one on the right. Like the big crater of poking brambles from the 4 king's left side.
I like the theory of Jar-Eel being used as the basis for the Four Kings, but I could see him being used as a potential mid boss too.
2:56 Glorantha Jar-Eel looks a LOT like Freyja from Shadow of the Erdtree. Im sure its a coincidence but it's interesting.
That is practically her armor right there, that is so wild
Amazing video as usual!
Something that caught my interest was that little part about mods giving him a "second chance in life" and i was wondering if you could recommend those mods, or others that look interesting. I'm a big fan of Dark Souls but i know nothing about mods and i think it could be cool to learn more about some fan projects ^^
It's the only DS1 mod I've personally played, but "Daughters of Ash" includes him, and quite a few other cool new or reworked boss fights besides
Spoiler to elden ring dlc final boss:
So i have a feeling they might have finally used Jar-Eel in consort redahns fight im not to sure on movesets since i've never seen Jar-Eel's moveset but the entire model of consort redahn really reminds me of Jar-Eel including the face with the very angular eyebrows and i wonder if maybe they re-used Jar- Eels model and updated it much like the tree spirits and imps be reskins but same overall model and ai (but im not to sure on the ai part they might have only reused the modal as a template for redahn and made a new ai and moveset)
This is the first close up high def video I've seen of Quelaag's face. Nice!
His name is Jar-Eel? That’s weird because there is the Norse word Jarl which means King. My brain immediately went “Wait, what? Is his name serious King King?”
Plus the internal file names romanize it as “ja_yearl”, and “yearl” probably sounds a lot like how “jarl” is pronounced
Lore hunters will mine every byte of data and misinterpret every line of dialogue looking for a crumb of story. Meanwhile the true lore is an obscure 1963 poem by a guy called Gowry about servants of the insect god sacrificing a girl named Millicent. Sometimes it really do be that simple
This throws me back. I remember the first time I found your channel was your showcase of Jar-Eel's model however many years ago. It feels like a reunion to me. I really wish we can see what the finished Jar-Eel would be like.
Plot Twist : He will become an enemy in the Elden Ring DLC
😂
That'd be unironically cool for him to finally get a second chance at life XD
He already got turned into Radahn
That would be cool,
perhaps giving him a seat among Messmers blasphemers
Comparing the overall shape of his armor with the 4 kings honestly really seals the deal for me. The extended left pauldron reaching up into the sky, how you can still see the King wearing armor underneath the growths, the fact that they're both labeled "c53*0", and that the King form seems to be a continuation of his normal label but with "demon" added on. Honestly looks like the tree-growths exploded out of his heart, not to mention how the 4 kings had to have been something before what they are now.
He kinda reminds me of radahn because of his face and his hair style
may be WAY off the mark here BUUTTTT that's fuckin Radahn. sword shape, face, armor, etc. that became Radahn, maybe.
Time to research Dragon Pass for more connections…
Good luck :D Glorantha is incredibly large and detailed as a setting. (I should know, I did illustrations for an actual two volume hardback encyclopaedia.)
There's some clear FromSoft inspiration for sure - for instance Maliketh pulling the Death rune out of himself as a sword is very Glorantha. (where the death god Humakt also wields death as a sword) I wouldn't be surprised if runes themselves were a Glorantha reference, since they're super important for its mythology.
@@JanPospisilArt Thank you for your work! The art of Glorantha is one of the greatest joys of collecting those books.
TIL that Angry Christopher Walken was a cut character from DS1. We truly live in the darkest timeline.
Might just be me, but he reminds me of Radahn a bit. The gold armor, big sword, cape and long hair and a bit of the face
2:57 Of course she has bare feet, Miyazaki.
It's only a matter of time we come across some short ducks who use the power of death.
You jest, but that one Elden Ring boss who's got a shard of the Death rune in himself and pulls it out as a sword - that's straight up Humakt shit.
@@JanPospisilArt Even some of the Elden Ring lore of death once running rampant and killing demigods and people indiscriminate is very in line with that mythology.
Ayo it's king Jar-Eel
Nice to meet you again
The shoulder spike reminds me of the crucible knights in ER. I feel like they have a move where they lower a shoulder and charge you with a spike like that but idr exactly.
Aspect of the Crucible - Horns is an incantation in Elden Ring, which is also used by Crucible Knights. It goes like how you said; shoulder spike gets an introduction to a targets face
That's what I thought too
I'm not sure if this is because I'm watching this after playing Shadow of the Erd Tree, but Glorantha's Jar-Eel looks a lot like inspiration for Promised Consort Radahn. The golden armor, the flowing red mane, two curved swords.
And then couple that with the Undead King's curved great sword, tattered cape, and decaying appearance. He looks a lot like inspiration or repurposing for Starscourged Radahn.
Really goes to show that From never lets an idea go to waste.
That's interesting, I know the original radahn is based on king gaiseric but I wouldn't put it past fromsoft
Personal head cannon. That's what the four kings looked like before the abyss corrupted them.
Nah is just a kryptonian that landed in other world
Man, when you show the four kings next to this guy, it really shows how they are basically inspired the other
I like that we never get official answers on stuff like this. It would kill the thrill of discovery.
it just dawned on me that the character Jar-eel may have been based on resembles red mane Freyja from the DLC very strongly
that's exactly what i first thought too. That is literally her armor right there!
Never knew about this character! Pretty cool dive into some cut content but maybe it's just that it's not completely done but I can't really see this character fitting in the game personally 😅
Thank you for making this video. I wish I'd known this was a mystery - as a Glorantha fan for the last 40 years, and Souls games since Demon's Souls, it was obvious to me where Queelag and Jar-Eel are from. It would have been very quick to solve. In general the feel of the Souls games are very "Gloranthan" in a way that is hard to describe, but relates to the feel of living in an ancient world with deep mythical history that you can interact with, and also how common magic is.
The most Gloranthan of all is Elden Ring. If I told you that in Glorantha, the underlying material of the universe can be formed and shaped by runes, and that one of the greatest things a hero can achieve is their own rune - would this sound familiar? The board game Dragon Pass (originally called White Bear & Red Moon) may have been the first game set in Glorantha, but the most famous is a TTRPG called Runequest. Runes, like Elden Ring's Great Runes, are essential to Glorantha, and the idea of using special runes to "fix" the world in a cycle of destruction and rebirth is extremely Gloranthan in feel. In Glorantha, it is also possible to journey into the underworld and return, although this is a journey for a great hero, and Elden Ring's underworld is believably what parts of the Gloranthan underworld might look like.
Jar-Eel from the DS1 unused content seems to be nothing like Glorantha's Jar-Eel the Razoress, by the way - she is an extremely powerful mystical warrior who is the latest incarnation of the moon goddess Sedenya - one of the key themes of the games set in Glorantha is the war between Sedenya and the Storm God, Orlanth, for rulership of the air and various symbolic roles (they are both gods of change). And Cragspider is a troll combined with spider, but otherwise similar to Queelag, although much more powerful - in Glorantha, the goddess of Time itself is a spider.
Wait, Miyazaki played King of Dragon Pass?
I still remember my first clan chief, Loricon, and the town that he wanted to name Loricontown......
Personally I just assumed he represents a much earlier state in Dark Soul development before they got into the groove per se. Modelers were practicing their work, Miyazaki was fleshing out the world concepts, and maybe somewhere in between him finishing his drafts and the team pinning down their schedule and priorities, someone prepared this warrior design from inspirational influences (Dragon Pass in this case) and early implications of what a New Londo may look like of humans inspired by a grander golden Anor Londo. By the time the Silver Knights and Darkwraiths were a part of the equation he just didn't fit anymore.
Hi Zullie, I had a question I wasn’t sure if you had an answer to. I was watching a streamer play the randomized mod, and malenia was in the godskin nobles room in volcano manor. When she went into phase 2, there seemed to be music for a phase 2 of that fight. Any idea what was supposed happen during phase 2? Was a different enemy in that room before?
I wish people would talk about Zullie's taste in comedic timing more.
2:15 placing the king behind bars while speculating about the word 'Jail' is camp af
Honestly that guy looks like Alpha Radahn, just because of the golden armor and his ripped body.
He's just a goofy guy
Maybe jar-eel was some sort of pet Project by one of the devs that they never could find a place For in the game
I wonder if he was cut because he was a candidate for becoming the Dark Lord of Man, and the developers wanted to leave that role open for the player to chose it as an option. After all, the ending where the Primordial Serpents acknowledge you would make less sense if there was another contender out there.
Makes sense that he was the abyss boss but it wasn't working. 4 kings feels rushed and slapdash, gimmicky.
At this rate, Zullie will find out the nameless king’s name.
Always amazing content Z.
Knowing the fate of his world, Jar-Eel sent his only son away to a lowly farm in Smallville.
I like to imagine he's there to help with all the flooding, since he has a giant sponge for a sword
A part of me wonders if maybe the four kings were initially each meant to be individuals instead of multiple clones of the same guy, and if this was one of the two out of four who ended up with a complete design
Radahn is Jar-Eel. Dual curved swords in a chestplate of gold.
Wonder woman: Jar-Eel, No!
Glorantha's Jar-Eel actually gave me Melania vibes when you showed the art
0:30 I've played a lot of souls mods... that doesn't happen to be Nightfall, does it? Model looks fantastic, props to your team if so 😄
It would be nice if we could just ask the directors.
Like it’s been years, just sit down and talk about it
i remember watching a few of hellkite drake's vids on jar-eel back in the day
i hope theyre ok, wherever they are
Woah.. Dragon Pass art in a Zullie video. That wasn't on my bingo card.
He's called Jar Eel because he has a Jar of Eels.
Did anybody try to, idk, ASK the people who actually worked on it?
I didnt know some of the Chaos stuff in Souls was actually confirmed to be inspired by Glorantha. A lot of the Chaos creatures in the setting are very similar visually.
Capra Demon is for sure a broo.
Thanks for another great video and a few minutes of much needed peace.
Where did Ja-Rul come from 🤔
this reminds me, i still wonder why the four kings are so... wooden and tree like...
Amazing how these games are still talked about like this. Always love your videos
thought for a second this was gonna be a shit post and relate Jar-eel to Jarburg in Elden Ring
Why can't we just ask From Software?
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson, I am Jar-Eel!
His name always makes me think of Jor-El from Superman.
the read i get from him is that he might not be connected to the abyss or the four kings at all - and subsequently, that goes for original intent of the ja_yearl_demon, too. he doesn't actually seem much like a darkwraith, after all, and the title of _undead_ king and his unruly appearance gives me the vibe of him being a much smaller scale figure, like the commander of a band of those generic undead soldiers. like, he strikes me as a boss you'd encounter somewhere in the undead burg / parish, or maybe the depths or blighttown, or, hell, maybe even the original boss of the undead asylum. it's not just his appearance, though - it's the resemblance of the ja_yearl_demon and the fact that it's _named_ that way, which makes it seem like something he'd summon or transform into for a second phase. except, it'd be such an extreme transformation that it feels more conceivable and more _interesting_ for it to not be a second phase, but a second _encounter._ one of those situations where an early boss makes another appearance later on, changed but still recognizable either directly by their prior defeat ( i.e. the undead king coming back after death as all undead do, but only after undergoing hollowing so intense that it dramatically changes his appearance into something fitting for a demon lord of emptiness ) or because the loss weighed so heavily upon them that they sought power at any cost ( i.e. the "demon" in the name is completely literal and he used the flame of chaos to become a demon, or alternatively the association with the abyss could've come into play here and it's him after gaining the power of the dark from kaathe or directly from the abyss )
if that's the case, it's not hard to imagine why the dude was ultimately cut. for as fun as that whole trope is ( especially if he _was_ intended as the tutorial boss ), i'm not sure if it fits the ds1 vibe for such an ultimately insignificant dude to get that much pomp and circumstance. _especially_ since his demon is such a cool, striking design while he himself ... really isn't, he's just kinda a gaudy, cluttered, and frankly unappealing mess. it wouldn't surprise me if the four kings were meant to just be lore figures or a very different fight, but then they wanted to do something different with the ja_yearl_demon and figured it'd work _pretty_ well for the kings of the darkwraiths
hell, that could be the reason why the four kings' legs are fucked up in the specific way that they are. if their model had been intended to be used in significantly different circumstances, it'd make sense for it to have more normally proportioned legs that ended in feet, since it'd presumably be used by an enemy that didn't spring from an infinite void of darkness. once the model found its new purpose, though, from decided to work that effect into the design and did some quick 'n dirty edits to pull it off