@@eclips_total2215 First. The Great Will gave her a series of instructions and she passed them on to her children who would be the two fingers, but at some point they stopped talking to each other, seeing herself abandoned she decomposed and decayed, from then on the only thing she did was repeat the last thing that The Great Will had told her and her children repeated the same thing as her. When you advance in the story, the two fingers of the round table try to communicate with The Great Will so that the tree gets rid of its thorns, but the old woman tells you that it could take thousands of years to receive an answer. Here we can draw a very clear conclusion The Great Will does not know what is happening in the lands between and the Elden Beast acts as a guard dog, the reason why it punishes Marika/Radagon is because she broke the Ring and the reason why it attacks you is because you broke the door and you try to take the Ring without permission.
It's not a black hole however. If it was it'd be a more deep shade of purple around the edges and would have electricity-like current crackling around it, since that is how all gravity-related stuff appears in this game.
The high priest hat depicts Metyr holding up a black hole, and says "The circular design at the top represents the Greater Will and its lightless abyss" so i guess the greater will is a black hole that spawns fingers? idk
it seems more like Metyr just spawns new fingers from wounds on her skin, you can see small ruptures all over the body. The belly area happens to be the largest.
I like how Fromsoft approaches Cosmic Horror. They don't rely only on the tentacles and stuff. Even the cosmic entities that we never get to see in the game already gives a sense of something powerful and beyond comprehension When i see most drawings on the internet of people trying to portrait the cosmic characters of Lovecraft,they focus too much on tentacles and trying to make them look "angry" and that straight up takes away all the sense of mystery and unknowability...they feel flat
They definitely focus too much on the tentacles still, just cuz they use fingers, or black holes, or goopy slugs with ravioli for a face, doesn’t mean they’re doing anything better than those people you speak of, they just make it look different
Is not because they use it but how they use it. Amydala or Ebrietas have tentacles but they surpass exactly because Fromsoft thinks outside of the box and knows how to apply Cosmic Horror to their characters. Like i said,even just the concept of the Greater Will already brings a feeling of the Unkown and Alien that the other artists never accomplished for me
Makes sense if you think about it. In lore the greater will is the creator of all life (Hyetta says this), and the developers created all life in the game. Funny thought that the greater will is just Miyazaki himself, only he would be able to create a daughter that looks like this
When entering that Arena and seeing that thing + the very space ambient Soundtrack, it feels like entering some secret back room that you weren’t supposed to even enter or see at all. It’s like those out of bound areas in games you can enter using mods or cheats, where there is some hidden or cryptic ass shit going on that was intentionally put there but was scrapped and just left. Which perfectly also, sums up Metyr’s lore kinda cause that’s pretty much what happened to her. God from-soft is so good, at cosmic horror.
You know what? You are SO CORRECT. Being under the water yet not functionally underwater. Seeing the bottom end of those huge finger models above. And seeing a vast endless expanse in every horizon seems to be purposefully replicating what it looks like when you fall through a videogame map and end up out of bounds. And, indeed, the idea of being backstage seeing things no one is supposed to see fits perfectly with finding Metyr.
Since you get a staff from her Remembrance that lets you cast both sorceries and incantations with it it wouldn't be too surprising for her to be able to cast both types of magic herself. Ties in with the helix motif too along with the form of her tailfingers. Also an interesting implication that sorceries and incantations come from the same place which is a theme found in Dark Souls as well.
I saw a theory that said Metyr was attacked by the Nox using the fingerslayer blade (read its item description) and that is why Metyr is only capable of giving birth to finger creepers now, as opposed to the regular two finger variants. That's why her birthing canal is covered in blood and seemingly failed births (2:11) are stuck in her.
The helix appears both on her head and her torso ( a symbol of her divinity, just like Elden Beast's sword and Marika's hair) She actualy does have an eye! Wow! And it comes four clover leaf shaped, which is a very interesting find. Also the fingerprint patterns in her head are simply astounding, what a beautiful creature!
Future generations will learn. They will know the foolishness of the sneering sorcerers who ridiculed this theory, little realizing that it was in fact a discovery worthy of a new conspectus of the academy.
Seeing all the smaller fingers bursting out across Metyr’s body makes me think of tumours, particularly the ones ripping through the skin. Especially that gaping wound in her chest(?) from which the Fingercreepers are birthed - you can see nascent ones embedded in the surrounding flesh. Wonder if something went wrong inside of her, and that’s why she can’t create proper Two Fingers any longer. A bizarre design, at any rate.
i dont like how some people said the bosses design is lazy and just another finger enemy, This is **THEEE** finger enemy, it is weird, grotseque and eldritch, this is the kind of thing you would find hiding inside of a black hole
when people call the DLC boss design "lazy" they're referring to reused concepts like Relanna/Pontiff or MiqDahn/Twin Princes. metyr's design isn't lazy, the closest thing you could compare it to is something from Bloodborne maybe
@metalsludge8205 if they call reused boss concepts lazy they're still wrong. They don't reuse assets with the bosses so it's hard to imagine they would be saving much time when they do that. Why can't people just say they disagree with a creative decision without being reductive about it
@@metalsludge8205 You are replying to a guy who claims to have seen people say that about Metyr. What are you trying to achieve here, change reality ? Make your opinion the only opinion ? Gtfo mate.
I wonder if, since beastmen were granted five fingers, fingers in Elden Ring didn’t evolve to allow for grabbing things but are rather antennas to the greater will that beasts and humans came to use them to grab things as a secondary purpose or byproduct. It would explain why creatures made entirely of fingers run around as hostile, independent antennas or why fingers grow like trees in their ruins. Fingers aren’t meant to grow out or evolve naturally and humans were just granted them as small, inefficient antennas to communicate with the greater
I never noticed how much her main arms are just fingers that twist until two pairs of two fingers emerge out of the fingertips. Also, it's surprising that her kowtow slam attack seems to have 7 branches, but they're also twisted and distorted rather than being symmetrical.
I still can’t believe that we pretty much fight the mother of every two fingers in the word of Elden ring. Like, it’s in her name, but the fact that this side quest pushes us to slay not only a god, but one that was directly in contact with the greater will at some point. It’s so cool! Design wise, I can’t decide whether or not the belly wound is intended to look like a cesarean section or not, although considering that she’s “broken” and can only create finger creepers now might make that much more likely. Also the fact that Fromsoft used actual black hole sounds and galactic phenomenons for the design is wicked. I especially love the pulsar beam, although the microcosms and black hole sounds in the music are a close second and third
The amount of references from space and the cosmos is sooooooooo cool. She’s like a big giant satellite… but she can’t really contact who she’s supposed to be contacting… I wonder what other beings are out there and what they look like? Probably kinda scary looking
someone people think the greater will is a star or something born from a supernova. Elden beast in the files is called A Nebula dragon so stuff like that kinda helps paint a picture
The sphere above her tail is supposed to represent the greater will. Her creator is literally the unfathomable darkness between the stars. She is supposed to be quite unknowable.
The arena looks like what you see under the waves of an ocean. That is cool. The weird tubes on the ceiling look like marine organisms those that live in coral tube worms I believe.
The relationship between Elden Beast's arena and Metyr's arena have some interesting dichotomy between the two. Elden Beast's arena shows the Erdtrees growing up into the sky, with bright lights and a sunrise over on the horizon. Meanwhile Metyr's feature fleshy stalks that look like sound channels for Metyr to speak into, and it looks dark and abandoned, with finger-like growths sprouting from the shallow waters. I've never been this fascinated over a boss design since Ebrietas.
The depths of your foolishness!!!If you had even a sliver of the intellegence of an outer god you would appreciate her as the mona lisa of all creation.@@Yvngboygv
@@Yvngboygv The beauty of the grotesque is a thing. Not necessarily saying I think Metyr is beautiful, just pointing out that there's a precedent for the concept.
Her theme really sounds like the main theme of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a classic alien movie. These notes were used to communicate with the aliens, perhaps it’s because Metyr is like a cosmic radio tower?
Imagine being in that endless expanse of blue, and hearing those noises Metyr makes. That shit would be absolutely horrifying. Those fluting "clicks" echoing through the enless landscape of water and tubes? Too damn cool.
I never noticed that she doesn’t have thumbs, in fact none of her fingers seem to be thumbs, I wonder if that means anything. (Unless her head is a thumb, it does sort of look like one).
Here's some lore: A four-toed fowl's foot. Material used for crafting items. In the Lands Between, having three digits is seen as a bad omen. As such, the four-toed fowl's foot is a gift of great luck indeed. Cinquedea dagger: The design celebrates a beast's five fingers, symbolic of the intelligence once granted upon their kind. Well, Metyr is pretty intelligent, she uses int and faith, and once communicated with the Greater Will, i guess 4 fingers just shows that she's imperfect and broken.
Thumbs separate man from animal, they allow our tool use and advanced manipulation of objects. The lack of thumbs is probably referencing how shes not the one in charge The 3 fingers however has a thumb, take from that what you will
anyone lese notice that her hands are 2 sets of Two Fingers sandwiched together? you can even see a line down her hands where the "seam" of their fusing together is
eye designs have a lot of significance in elden ring and it kinda struck me that this character has an eye design completely unique, a bizarre pupil and a pretty unique and disturbing red iris.
The Greater Will is the black hole stellar remnant from a supernova. The star was called the One Great, but then it detonated, a great rupture across the skies. We are all children of the Greater Will, stardust. But the nebula did not just create us and our world, it also gave birth to Metyr and the Elden Beast (game code name for Elden Beast is NebulaDragon).
My favorite part is the fact her pose during the phase 2 AoE's where she flies in the air seem to evoke the image of eastern Mudras. Even in her idling the tail's imagery in of itself feels like the index and middle finger in a Mudra pose. The spread of the crawling fingers in phase 2 aoe's where she floats takes that to a hundred.
Ironically enough her lack of thumbs indicates a lack of intelligence as in elden ring five fingers(thumb included) are a simbol/blessing/mark of intelligence, as the beastmen were given their fifth finger as a gift of intelligence. This means that either metyr was abandoned by the greater will for not being smart enough or that the greater will intentionally gave metyr a low intelligence(this has curious implications btw).
This is one of my favorite creatures in game. Interesting grotesque design yet beautiful, nice arena and good soundtrack for once and the fact you can use her head as a striking weapon is hilarious.
I love the whole celestial vibe this boss has, her area looks cool, the design is out of this world, and I love how her second phase ost is literally sounds of a black hole 😊🦊
haven't seen anyone else point this out - despite the abundance of fingers all over her body, her hands only have 4 fingers each. in Elden Ring lore's sentience is denoted by having 5 fingers, which means Metyr is vacuous in a sense.
There is a common theme of spirals and duality in Elden Ring. Placidusax's neck, Metry's tail, Twin comet spell, Radagon and Marika, Miquella and St Trina, etc.. Also, curious how her arena looks like it is underwater.
The tarnished at a job interview: Interviewer: "so it says here you can "tank" a dying neutron star? Tarnished: "and I get right back to work" Interviewer: "we'll let you know" 😒
If shes like the radio with a broken antenna, then the giant fingers above the arena are sort of towers that transmits her signals to the fingers scattered through the lands between but since she is abandoned, shes not left here with her voice trying to reach them but cant since the Greater Will already left her
In a sense, she reminds me of Kos, or some say Kosm, from Bloodborne. The way their bodies are long, there's fingers/spikes jutting out of them, long arms, the aquatic ambience, them being mothers.
00:23 little did we know the messages were true all along... try finger but hole.
Holy shit you're a genius
N-no Way
ELDEN RING BIGGEST HIDDEN SECRET!?!?!?!
loveit
The black hole fit well
Lorewise, shes a broken antenna.
More rather a abandoned one
@@eclips_total2215A broken antennae that was then thrown out.
@@TrueNamelessOne did she became broken because she was abandoned, or she was abandoned because she was broken?
@@eclips_total2215 First. The Great Will gave her a series of instructions and she passed them on to her children who would be the two fingers, but at some point they stopped talking to each other, seeing herself abandoned she decomposed and decayed, from then on the only thing she did was repeat the last thing that The Great Will had told her and her children repeated the same thing as her.
When you advance in the story, the two fingers of the round table try to communicate with The Great Will so that the tree gets rid of its thorns, but the old woman tells you that it could take thousands of years to receive an answer.
Here we can draw a very clear conclusion The Great Will does not know what is happening in the lands between and the Elden Beast acts as a guard dog, the reason why it punishes Marika/Radagon is because she broke the Ring and the reason why it attacks you is because you broke the door and you try to take the Ring without permission.
@@daemonium3278 So she was abandoned and became broken.
Fighting the mother of all fingers here, Tarnished. Can't fret over every crawler.
Not when you’re purging the hornsent, right?
@@epicjeongWhat do you know about the Hornsent? You’ve never grown up living in fear of that snake’s flame!
All im sayin is...give the Greater Will a chance!
Is this a reference to independence day?
@@grabs_you5954 it’s a reference to a monologue from one of the bosses in the video game Metal Gear Rising
You missed what happens when it dies, it looks like it goes / is sucked up into a black hole.
It's not a black hole however. If it was it'd be a more deep shade of purple around the edges and would have electricity-like current crackling around it, since that is how all gravity-related stuff appears in this game.
Actually, she gets sucked up into a microcosm.
that scared the shit out of me when I beat her. I thought it was a lingering attack and I had barely any health left so I panic rolled like crazy LOL
Also the fact we get her still-living head as a reward means she might’ve cut off her own head when the Microcosm collapsed on her, Dr. Strange style
@@yachisansome say microkos
And the best part is that Count Ymir looked at this thing and thought: "Yes, indeed, that´s what I wish to become!"
Wouldn't you want to become glorious and beautiful?
Only way to save the world
Fingees
“Metyr, daddy’s gonna go out for a pack of cigarettes. I’ll be right back.”
I shudder to think what the Greater Will looks like
I would love to see the GW, the existence of the formless mother implies the other O.G.s all have tangible forms
The high priest hat depicts Metyr holding up a black hole, and says "The circular design at the top represents the Greater Will and its lightless abyss"
so i guess the greater will is a black hole that spawns fingers? idk
The lightless void between the stars
Same way God looks like: We do not know.
A ball of eyes
Miyazaki was throwing some sick gang signs when they made these models
Her tails are fingers crossed behind her back....
"yeah right, i'm the envoy of god, trust me sis"
-Metyr to Marika propably
@@ravioli6649 LMAO
i can't believe that didn't just crossed my mind
Thanks, captain obvious.
Metyr is the devil of Elden ring.
The All-Fingerer
The all fingering
I really like the theory that its belly is cut open from whoever previously used the fingerslayer blade
This could tie into some more nox lore and why they were sealed underground
it seems more like Metyr just spawns new fingers from wounds on her skin, you can see small ruptures all over the body. The belly area happens to be the largest.
@@skrubknight884
The belly is actually a vagina.
I'm pretty that's it well uhhh...ask your mom about it.
@@alfalldoot6715 ah yes
The birds and the bees
Metyr is so creepy, cosmic, unknowable, and weird. I love her.
Like Bloodborne
Her arena looks like its underwater, unable to contact what lies above
Love that Metyr is literally only fingers - no thumbs anywhere
The thumb I guess is the Elden beast
An interesting a-thumb-tion
Means she’s not intelligent in the context of Elden Ring lore
I am pretty sure the shape and prints on her 'head' are akin to a thumb. Or that's how it always read to me.
The Three Fingers has a thumb, so maybe the concept of a thumb as an icon is herecy.
I like how Fromsoft approaches Cosmic Horror. They don't rely only on the tentacles and stuff. Even the cosmic entities that we never get to see in the game already gives a sense of something powerful and beyond comprehension
When i see most drawings on the internet of people trying to portrait the cosmic characters of Lovecraft,they focus too much on tentacles and trying to make them look "angry" and that straight up takes away all the sense of mystery and unknowability...they feel flat
fingers are like tentacles
@@collapsiblechair9112 tendrils/tentacles are just fingers for invertebrates
@@collapsiblechair9112 tentacles with bones. tentacles are boneless fingers
They definitely focus too much on the tentacles still, just cuz they use fingers, or black holes, or goopy slugs with ravioli for a face, doesn’t mean they’re doing anything better than those people you speak of, they just make it look different
Is not because they use it but how they use it. Amydala or Ebrietas have tentacles but they surpass exactly because Fromsoft thinks outside of the box and knows how to apply Cosmic Horror to their characters. Like i said,even just the concept of the Greater Will already brings a feeling of the Unkown and Alien that the other artists never accomplished for me
A Daughter of the Cosmos, if you will.
(greater)
I got Ebrietas vibes the moment I saw her. Goddamn it I want Bloodborne on pc so goddamn bad.
Ebrietas, Rom, and Metyr, the abandoned daughters
What if the outer God were the fingers of the developers?
Nah it'd be a giant foot, know how miyazaki is
Makes sense if you think about it. In lore the greater will is the creator of all life (Hyetta says this), and the developers created all life in the game. Funny thought that the greater will is just Miyazaki himself, only he would be able to create a daughter that looks like this
How high are you?
The Greater Will is Miyazaki as we all know
@@ENALDOm about 20 feet
Designer : so how many fingers do you want on your boss?
miyazaki: yes
When entering that Arena and seeing that thing + the very space ambient Soundtrack, it feels like entering some secret back room that you weren’t supposed to even enter or see at all.
It’s like those out of bound areas in games you can enter using mods or cheats, where there is some hidden or cryptic ass shit going on that was intentionally put there but was scrapped and just left. Which perfectly also, sums up Metyr’s lore kinda cause that’s pretty much what happened to her.
God from-soft is so good, at cosmic horror.
You know what? You are SO CORRECT.
Being under the water yet not functionally underwater. Seeing the bottom end of those huge finger models above. And seeing a vast endless expanse in every horizon seems to be purposefully replicating what it looks like when you fall through a videogame map and end up out of bounds. And, indeed, the idea of being backstage seeing things no one is supposed to see fits perfectly with finding Metyr.
The fact that every "hand" is doted with 2 fingers makes me wonder if the 3 fingers were actually an anomally
If "Try Fingers, But Hole" was a boss, this would be it.
This is "Try Fingers, But Hole" boss. 100% lore accurate.
behold, the mother of kid named finger
Curiously her pink beams deal holy dmg....imagine a holy sorcery based on this!
Holy gravity magic now that’s something.
@@LordBackuro elden beast nebula are the closest thing to gravity holy magic apart from metyr
I was so disappointed we didn't get an int/fth sorcery of her big blackhole laser beam attack.
It actually does energy damage. “I’ll crush you all underfoot. I am Arqeubus!”
Since you get a staff from her Remembrance that lets you cast both sorceries and incantations with it it wouldn't be too surprising for her to be able to cast both types of magic herself. Ties in with the helix motif too along with the form of her tailfingers. Also an interesting implication that sorceries and incantations come from the same place which is a theme found in Dark Souls as well.
Time is not, and the sea rumbles afar. And yet, a mother's pungent devotion can still be felt.
"Black Hole, and Mega Laser" - Palutena
I understood this reference.
"Ah sweet child of Metyr, returned to the stars. A limitless curse, a limitless abyss. Accepting of all that there is and can be."
What dis from
The only boss where "God Slain" would make total sense to me, from a gameplay perspective of course
she did not died, after you defeat her she is sucked into a black hole
Mom of kids named fingers 🤞
Waltuh, put your estus flask away, Waltuh. Im not letting you heal right now, Waltuh!
I saw a theory that said Metyr was attacked by the Nox using the fingerslayer blade (read its item description) and that is why Metyr is only capable of giving birth to finger creepers now, as opposed to the regular two finger variants. That's why her birthing canal is covered in blood and seemingly failed births (2:11) are stuck in her.
The helix appears both on her head and her torso ( a symbol of her divinity, just like Elden Beast's sword and Marika's hair)
She actualy does have an eye! Wow! And it comes four clover leaf shaped, which is a very interesting find.
Also the fingerprint patterns in her head are simply astounding, what a beautiful creature!
As if the center of your fingerprints had eyes
Also, it has 20 fingers, like 4 hands. Miquella has 4 arms when he becomes a god so does ranni. 4 arms 20 fingers
@@Picolas--Cagesmoke em if you got em
Huh like the hornsent’s spira
Comment seems like it was made by Ymir gang
She got them slay manicures.
oh my god i fear she ate
@@Reemon27be so for real
Sampling NASA's black hole recording for the phase 2 OST was genius
Bear with me here: What if the giant tubes are nostrils for her to pick? The arena is one huge hamster cage for a finger beast
Future generations will learn. They will know the foolishness of the sneering sorcerers who ridiculed this theory, little realizing that it was in fact a discovery worthy of a new conspectus of the academy.
@@LeadHerring Average Thops moment
I love the fact that whencshe casts her mini micro black holes she stands on only 2 fingers looks so goofy you should have zoomed in on that
Looks to me like she's lifted off the ground
Seeing all the smaller fingers bursting out across Metyr’s body makes me think of tumours, particularly the ones ripping through the skin. Especially that gaping wound in her chest(?) from which the Fingercreepers are birthed - you can see nascent ones embedded in the surrounding flesh.
Wonder if something went wrong inside of her, and that’s why she can’t create proper Two Fingers any longer.
A bizarre design, at any rate.
Maybe the Nox's fingerslayer blade damaged her a long time ago and she never recovered.
i dont like how some people said the bosses design is lazy and just another finger enemy, This is **THEEE** finger enemy, it is weird, grotseque and eldritch, this is the kind of thing you would find hiding inside of a black hole
Those people were strange
when people call the DLC boss design "lazy" they're referring to reused concepts like Relanna/Pontiff or MiqDahn/Twin Princes. metyr's design isn't lazy, the closest thing you could compare it to is something from Bloodborne maybe
@metalsludge8205 if they call reused boss concepts lazy they're still wrong. They don't reuse assets with the bosses so it's hard to imagine they would be saving much time when they do that. Why can't people just say they disagree with a creative decision without being reductive about it
@@metalsludge8205 You are replying to a guy who claims to have seen people say that about Metyr. What are you trying to achieve here, change reality ? Make your opinion the only opinion ? Gtfo mate.
I wonder if, since beastmen were granted five fingers, fingers in Elden Ring didn’t evolve to allow for grabbing things but are rather antennas to the greater will that beasts and humans came to use them to grab things as a secondary purpose or byproduct. It would explain why creatures made entirely of fingers run around as hostile, independent antennas or why fingers grow like trees in their ruins. Fingers aren’t meant to grow out or evolve naturally and humans were just granted them as small, inefficient antennas to communicate with the greater
Using NASA's black hole sounds in her theme is so clever. Extremely talented composers on the soundtrack.
I never noticed how much her main arms are just fingers that twist until two pairs of two fingers emerge out of the fingertips.
Also, it's surprising that her kowtow slam attack seems to have 7 branches, but they're also twisted and distorted rather than being symmetrical.
I still can’t believe that we pretty much fight the mother of every two fingers in the word of Elden ring. Like, it’s in her name, but the fact that this side quest pushes us to slay not only a god, but one that was directly in contact with the greater will at some point. It’s so cool!
Design wise, I can’t decide whether or not the belly wound is intended to look like a cesarean section or not, although considering that she’s “broken” and can only create finger creepers now might make that much more likely.
Also the fact that Fromsoft used actual black hole sounds and galactic phenomenons for the design is wicked. I especially love the pulsar beam, although the microcosms and black hole sounds in the music are a close second and third
What’s wrong with FromSoft making to many sexy bosses, daughter of the cosmo and now this
Huh
@@Tygo-08
Bro is an outer god himself. Don't mind him.
Metyr ain't got nothin on Ebby-chan my beloved
The amount of references from space and the cosmos is sooooooooo cool. She’s like a big giant satellite… but she can’t really contact who she’s supposed to be contacting… I wonder what other beings are out there and what they look like? Probably kinda scary looking
someone people think the greater will is a star or something born from a supernova. Elden beast in the files is called A Nebula dragon so stuff like that kinda helps paint a picture
The sphere above her tail is supposed to represent the greater will.
Her creator is literally the unfathomable darkness between the stars.
She is supposed to be quite unknowable.
The arena looks like what you see under the waves of an ocean. That is cool. The weird tubes on the ceiling look like marine organisms those that live in coral tube worms I believe.
The relationship between Elden Beast's arena and Metyr's arena have some interesting dichotomy between the two. Elden Beast's arena shows the Erdtrees growing up into the sky, with bright lights and a sunrise over on the horizon. Meanwhile Metyr's feature fleshy stalks that look like sound channels for Metyr to speak into, and it looks dark and abandoned, with finger-like growths sprouting from the shallow waters.
I've never been this fascinated over a boss design since Ebrietas.
she’s so hideously beautiful, I truly can’t decide whether I hate her or love her
Not beautiful 💀
The depths of your foolishness!!!If you had even a sliver of the intellegence of an outer god you would appreciate her as the mona lisa of all creation.@@Yvngboygv
@@Yvngboygv The beauty of the grotesque is a thing. Not necessarily saying I think Metyr is beautiful, just pointing out that there's a precedent for the concept.
@@mr.kittysavestheworld695 she jus a bunch of fingers
I’m so glad I found this. I thought all her moves are so unbelievably cool, and this proves just how truly neat they are.
this was one of your best showcases. the camera work and entrance was awesome
The first fallen star, imagine an animated series that explored those early days in ER's lore
Her theme really sounds like the main theme of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a classic alien movie. These notes were used to communicate with the aliens, perhaps it’s because Metyr is like a cosmic radio tower?
That's exactly what I thought lol
I knew it sounded familiar. It's the movie with the Simon Says lights right?
2:07 yeah, I don't think that's her belly lol
that is a vagina or cloaca or something
Fingussy
she gotta give birth somehow
So basically the Ebrietas of Elden Ring. Love the little detail of them using NASA's simulation of blackhole and the sound.
The ost is so good it’s like a creepy nursery sound reminded me a lot of Bloodborne
That opening shot should have been in the game holy shit
I must admit, the boss fight soundtrack is truly mesmerising, soothing and yet shivering
Imagine being in that endless expanse of blue, and hearing those noises Metyr makes. That shit would be absolutely horrifying. Those fluting "clicks" echoing through the enless landscape of water and tubes? Too damn cool.
I never noticed that she doesn’t have thumbs, in fact none of her fingers seem to be thumbs, I wonder if that means anything. (Unless her head is a thumb, it does sort of look like one).
Here's some lore: A four-toed fowl's foot.
Material used for crafting items.
In the Lands Between, having three digits is seen as a bad omen. As such, the four-toed fowl's foot is a gift of great luck indeed.
Cinquedea dagger: The design celebrates a beast's five fingers, symbolic of the intelligence once granted upon their kind.
Well, Metyr is pretty intelligent, she uses int and faith, and once communicated with the Greater Will, i guess 4 fingers just shows that she's imperfect and broken.
Always pointing to something but never truly grasping it
Thumbs separate man from animal, they allow our tool use and advanced manipulation of objects. The lack of thumbs is probably referencing how shes not the one in charge
The 3 fingers however has a thumb, take from that what you will
thumb in japanese is 親指(oya-yubi)
oya means parent(s)
she's kinda...parentless right?
anyone lese notice that her hands are 2 sets of Two Fingers sandwiched together? you can even see a line down her hands where the "seam" of their fusing together is
1:26 - It really is crazy how much her face resembles the Black Flame symbol.
just gonna put this out there
cosmic radiation->cancer
Does cancer application scale with occult?
Cancer from exposure to cosmic radiation of some sort could explain why she has so much fingers growing out of her like tumors honestly
2:45 WAIT SHE MAKES NOISES??? How I never knew or notice this?? Also it sorta reminds me of whale songs in a way. Metyr is so fuckin cool
eye designs have a lot of significance in elden ring and it kinda struck me that this character has an eye design completely unique, a bizarre pupil and a pretty unique and disturbing red iris.
Also - watched this with a stomach ache, and Metyr’s design literally made me queasy. Way to go, FromSoft.
The Greater Will is the black hole stellar remnant from a supernova. The star was called the One Great, but then it detonated, a great rupture across the skies. We are all children of the Greater Will, stardust. But the nebula did not just create us and our world, it also gave birth to Metyr and the Elden Beast (game code name for Elden Beast is NebulaDragon).
god her arena is cool
"Talk to the hand"
I really don't want to
My favorite part is the fact her pose during the phase 2 AoE's where she flies in the air seem to evoke the image of eastern Mudras. Even in her idling the tail's imagery in of itself feels like the index and middle finger in a Mudra pose. The spread of the crawling fingers in phase 2 aoe's where she floats takes that to a hundred.
Stellar soundtrack to this fight
"But Grimsby"
"but what"
"16 legs"
"32 vagánias"
"Maybe more"
It's the music that gets me
One of the coolest designs fromsoft has produced imo
Ironically enough her lack of thumbs indicates a lack of intelligence as in elden ring five fingers(thumb included) are a simbol/blessing/mark of intelligence, as the beastmen were given their fifth finger as a gift of intelligence.
This means that either metyr was abandoned by the greater will for not being smart enough or that the greater will intentionally gave metyr a low intelligence(this has curious implications btw).
This is one of my favorite creatures in game. Interesting grotesque design yet beautiful, nice arena and good soundtrack for once and the fact you can use her head as a striking weapon is hilarious.
Her tail points at the sky the same as Placidusax's heads.
I love the whole celestial vibe this boss has, her area looks cool, the design is out of this world, and I love how her second phase ost is literally sounds of a black hole 😊🦊
Lord Bonefire, thy craft is ever of the highest mastery.
So the Greater Wil abandoned them a LONG time ago. It was Metyr who was doing all the talking to the fingers. Sad to know.
boss description: "eeeeewwww"
4:50 looks a lot like an eye, and considering how Metyr has one could this be the Eye of the Greater Will?
Finally, someone else clocks the pulsar / gamma ray burst! 4:00
Love that she got a manicure before she die-.....teleports away
I had no idea that her arms were just four long fingers intertwined into an arm, that's crazy
haven't seen anyone else point this out - despite the abundance of fingers all over her body, her hands only have 4 fingers each. in Elden Ring lore's sentience is denoted by having 5 fingers, which means Metyr is vacuous in a sense.
Scorpion looking creature, definitely tied to the hornsent.
They did it. They finally tried finger
I realize now that she have only 4 fingers in both hands because the 2 thumbs are part of her head
Moon presence: hey sis, why are you there? Come on!
When I first heard the song I felt like the game had discovered her along with us that intensity and then observing where we fought her
Love the kaiju noises she makes
they did it, they actually created an alien. gg ❤
There is a common theme of spirals and duality in Elden Ring. Placidusax's neck, Metry's tail, Twin comet spell, Radagon and Marika, Miquella and St Trina, etc..
Also, curious how her arena looks like it is underwater.
The outer gods from outer space has to be my favorite part of the lore
One of the bosses I’m so thankful I experienced blind/unspoiled. Actually froze up the first time I entered the arena, like “I shouldn’t be here”
I love the symbolism associated with the crossed out eye and it's implications that the greater will has abandoned her.
The tarnished at a job interview:
Interviewer: "so it says here you can "tank" a dying neutron star?
Tarnished: "and I get right back to work"
Interviewer: "we'll let you know" 😒
I blitzed through that fight so fast, I never saw half of this!! The pulsar attack is amazing!!!!
Even gods can bleed. Bring the REpeating Crossbow and a whole lotta Bloodbone/Burred Bolts, folks
Weak trash. Bring out the oversized turkey leg.
The black hole even has her theme in it, or rather, they heard that melody coming out of the footage and made it her theme. Thats wild!
Her theme is so otherwordly. Perfectly captures her. Like Ebrietas meets Space Odyssey.
If shes like the radio with a broken antenna, then the giant fingers above the arena are sort of towers that transmits her signals to the fingers scattered through the lands between but since she is abandoned, shes not left here with her voice trying to reach them but cant since the Greater Will already left her
I am so happy that they decided to add even weirder enemies in the dlc.
Funny how the Nox tried killing the two fingers to bring about an age of stars when the Twi Fingers are the children of a star
In a sense, she reminds me of Kos, or some say Kosm, from Bloodborne. The way their bodies are long, there's fingers/spikes jutting out of them, long arms, the aquatic ambience, them being mothers.
In the next game we fight what crawls out of her body
@@Tygo-08you already fight em dude, all those living hands came from her
@@cucabeludo9342 yeah i know
But something new
The one finger...
Ah yes, mother of kid named finger. Truly peak lore by Miyazaki.
I like to think the structures are like...hearing horns, something to channel sound or vibration. Messages from the Greater Will
Amazing character design, stunning arena, absolute banger King's Field-sounding-ass music. Hands-down my favorite part of the whole DLC. 100% my jam.