No, wth? Have you been to Enir Elim? This isn't a super suit. This is more of a uniform of Honor! Omen Knights gets promoted to Divine Bird Warriors to Divine Lion warriors. After that, only the best of the best out of those Divine Lion Warriors can get the honor to be the Divine Dancer Lion. @@alessandrocelauro1307
@@gerald2508 horned warriors are all communing with the divine. The best among them become divine Beast warriors first and then sculpted keepers. So yes, their affinity with the divine must be high, but it's the grandam that calls the Beast in the end
I love how it actually is two dudes in a suit like it looks like ingame. I was so sure they were both blobs with arms and legs but no, actually fully modeled two dudes!
Theyre fully animated throughout the entire fight, too. The one in the front steps on the shoulders of the guy in the back and they do a crazy dance. There's a video on YT of the whole fight uncovered
@@massgunner4152 The moment I saw the lion's clothed back in the trailer I knew it's a lion dance costume (Very easy to spot for people who're familiar with the culture), it even stood the exact same way as real Chinese lion dance when it spew stuff, and the head movements too.
Funny thing is, the performer at the rear is probably the stronger one. In real lion dancing it takes so much skill to match the movements of the front performer.
those things are called sculpted keepers apparently. so either that means they're people who've tied a bag over their head to trance or golems. either way they called down a divine spirit and those guys are just there to channel it.
They are former divine beast warriors who ascended to sculpted keepers. The Empyrean Grandam then summons the beast's divine spirit into their bodies and the mask to become one, at least I see it that way.
Ngl this boss was one of those Elden Ring bosses that genuinely freaked me out, mainly because when i was a kid i was always scares of those chinese dancing lions.
It's kinda funny that Miquella chose to revive Radahn in the body of mohg if you think about it. Mohg has the body of an omen, which is due to aspects of the crucible he is basically what the people in the land of shadow would consider to be hornsent. And Radahn is the young lion. Therefore putting radahn into the body of mogh would create the holy beast that the hornsent worship. A horned lion beast delivered from higher spheres (Edit: Called Mohg Mogh)
I wish the final fight has more Miquella in it, instead of just visual seizure spam. The lion, though is actually 2 guys, is authentically a lion. Final fight though, Miquella feels more like an attachment rather than the real god like the lion is.
Miquella is a god of kindness, he can’t physically attack anyone himself. That’s why he needs Radahn to do his dirty work for him and why his only “attack” is the hug which charms you but does 0 damage
Ah, a bodyless beast that posses two separate hosts in order to live as a singular entity, fascinating. Though perhaps its head is real, but needs its hosts’ limbs to move its jaw and act as a neck for which to turn its head.
I also interpret that the beast was real and its head was made into that puppet. But it came from space. They pray for it to return and as the crone says, sometimes its spirit possessess the dancers for real.
@@psevdhome with how the granny claims the beast was "from higher sphere delivered" i think it was 100% real but hornsent just fucking butchered it and turned it into a fursuit not the first time they butcher random fellers to make a fucking appliances out of them
Can't remember which one it was one pointed out that the Great Cats you see in the basegame have Omen horns that have been cut off. So it might be that the Lion Dancers are based on the original, much larger, versions of those and Marika took their 'divine beasts', cut off their horns and forced them into service with crude armor and arm blades put on them as a means to deemen the Hornsent even further by reducing objects of worship to basic beasts of war.
I love that they went the extra mile to actually animate this so nicely. This boss could have easily been just a mass of cloth with hands and feet sticking out for the sake of just doing what is needed to sell the cutscene but no. No limbs elongating to fit what they wanted to show, no disembodied hand sticking out somewhere for the sake of the cutscene.
I know this is irrelevant but rewatching this cutscene its only just occurred to me that the person speaking is the old hornsent lady inside of that storage warehouse ( i forgot her name)
The pool of Blood they're standing on is interesting. It seems someone has already slain them before we got here, and the hornsent grandma revived them once more.
Honestly looks even scarier without the capes but it really looks like a Sekiro boss to me. Also I was pissed when I found out there was a second one of these beasts lol.
@@rylandsmathieux8076 In the Rauh Ruins where that Roman looking build near the bridge towards the furnace golem but you have to go a long way around and take an lift to go up to the other bridge.
@@jackalkhan5676 It makes a lot more sense than Godefroy, if you think as these guys as just people channeling another beings power. Godefroy is legit just the same guy but again and they just explain it as 'yeah he's a relative I guess'
I think the visuals, sounds, and the voice calling them “sculpted keepers” all greatly imply that these dudes are living statues or golems. When his fingers first move, dust falls and it makes a stone grinding noise. And then when he slaps his hand and then later his foot on the ground, it sounds like a boulder falling. Two dudes in a lion costume is kinda numerous. 2 stone statues with the fluidity of trained acrobats is terrifying!
Designs like this show why Fromsoft's artists and animators are unrivaled. World building while being unique yet thematically fitting. Fromsoft always brings their A-game. Props to whoever came up with this and all the animators who brought it to life
@@noamias4897 The whole point of irl lion dance is to scare off bad spirits, it is intimidating in the first place, thus thematically appropriate to begin with.
In Japanese culture, the one at the back is the more experienced of the two. So while he may seem to not be doing much, staying up with the movements of the one in front takes more experience than operating the head.
The lion dance is a lucky charm for the New Year that has the meaning of ``warding off evil spirits'' and ``dispelling epidemics.'' It was introduced from China in the 7th century along with gigaku (gigaku), and there is a record that it was performed at the beginning of a play as a dance to exorcise evil spirits. For the Japanese, the lion was a imaginary sacred animal, an object of faith that warded off evil spirits and warded off epidemics.
I feel like, because of the dramatic and obscure lore, people take Elden Ring really seriously. When in reality there are so many things about it that are genuinely just funny and silly.
I could see it was 2 people but I was concerned this was a human centipede kinda deal. The fight and the way the lion moves in the fight makes much more sense that they aren’t attached.
Ill never forget the first time i fought this boss and whilst being attacked i notice the cape flying up and loincloth clad ass staring me in the face.
I really enjoy the concept of dancing Lion being really just two extremely acrobatic dudes
Two men moment
"Just the two of us"
That
It is, this is canon
A dancing dragon is just two dudes in a suit, both in game and IRL
“Honey, where is my supersuit?!”
"WHAT?!"
"WHERE IS MY SUPER SUIT!?"
"I put it away!"
No capes
-Edna
🧊🧊🧊
Imagine the hours of practice routines that the dynamic duo are doing just to get it right.
No practice needed, the divine beast takes control of the two bodies and uses them as one. I think
@@alessandrocelauro1307 They need the practice to call the divine beast.
No, wth? Have you been to Enir Elim? This isn't a super suit. This is more of a uniform of Honor! Omen Knights gets promoted to Divine Bird Warriors to Divine Lion warriors. After that, only the best of the best out of those Divine Lion Warriors can get the honor to be the Divine Dancer Lion. @@alessandrocelauro1307
@@gerald2508 horned warriors are all communing with the divine. The best among them become divine Beast warriors first and then sculpted keepers. So yes, their affinity with the divine must be high, but it's the grandam that calls the Beast in the end
No wonder you find them sleeping.
I love how it actually is two dudes in a suit like it looks like ingame. I was so sure they were both blobs with arms and legs but no, actually fully modeled two dudes!
Theyre fully animated throughout the entire fight, too. The one in the front steps on the shoulders of the guy in the back and they do a crazy dance. There's a video on YT of the whole fight uncovered
@@YeOldeMachine Zullie did the video. It's nice, short, sweet, and concise.
I didnt even know they were people, i thought the dancing lion was an a animatronic made of bones and dark magic.
@@massgunner4152 The moment I saw the lion's clothed back in the trailer I knew it's a lion dance costume (Very easy to spot for people who're familiar with the culture), it even stood the exact same way as real Chinese lion dance when it spew stuff, and the head movements too.
@@ShinM.oooh have to check that out!
The boss fight now looks like 2 angry guys who decided to attack you because you disturbed their beauty sleep 💀
They were beauty sleeping ✨️ _together_ ✨️ ;)
more like they bodied before we arrived, see that blood, probably by miquella?
@@HK-07 TFS Zarbon: "Mmmmm!"
@@HK-07 TOGETHAAAS
@@Donja-mz6hp DEVOUUUWAAAAAA
Performer Number 1: "Tremble before the ferocity of the Divine Beast! RAAARGHH!"
Performer Number2: "I am a horse..."
🤣🤣🤣
If we didn’t kill them in the boss fight, bro for sure would have stayed with a back pain
Funny thing is, the performer at the rear is probably the stronger one. In real lion dancing it takes so much skill to match the movements of the front performer.
How hungry?
1:45 wow, you can see his elden ring
Dancing lion performers: Finally a nap after 6 working days. Tarnished: Ayo I’m here for a boss fight Performers: MOTHERFU-
😂
Lol I love this
lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The laundry machine was off-schedule this time
genuinely got jumpscared by the thumbnail when i saw it on my home page
For real, feels like it's not safe for work
are you 12?
Git gud
🤣cant blame you that lion head looks as creepy as it should
Lmao
Didn’t know they were chill like that
bro at the back never get any screen time, he must be very happy now
He is like that guy from monsters, inc.
@@drawingwithsound8022
Mike Wazowski?
@@davidhong1934 haha yes, thats him
no way they give this boss the fattest ass known to the erdtree and then cover it up with a carpet
Marika jealousy spans across the lands between. 😂
Can't be showing any of that lion cake.
@@leonlacroix2638so this ss why she sent Messmer to obliterate the hornsent
don't tell any furry about that majestic bakery
They needed the proportions to be accuarate to the real animal.
@@kaiserdetectivegolden2735😂😂
Fr bruh, bundas like those must not be contained
The lion dancers that that had work in the morning but lost the cape at the club the night before:
those things are called sculpted keepers apparently. so either that means they're people who've tied a bag over their head to trance or golems. either way they called down a divine spirit and those guys are just there to channel it.
They are the best of the best of the horned warriors we fight so they are hornsent
They are former divine beast warriors who ascended to sculpted keepers.
The Empyrean Grandam then summons the beast's divine spirit into their bodies and the mask to become one, at least I see it that way.
sculpted like a muscular statue fr
Ngl this boss was one of those Elden Ring bosses that genuinely freaked me out, mainly because when i was a kid i was always scares of those chinese dancing lions.
it is the camera that freaked you out not the beast
the camera is the real and only boss there
@@kaiserdetectivegolden2735 lol
@@kaiserdetectivegolden2735excuses it's factually a good boss get over it
@@sethleoric2598 yeah the design is really good, im glad they returned to uncanny concepts like DS2 had instead of just regular guys.
One of the coolest boss concepts
Agreed
And taken from the oddest concept ever
This is just a traditional culture to East Asian people.
I'd put it above all the bosses from designed
I love it how the traditional lion dance in games is usually cute, then you have this.
Never noticed the bloodstain under the lion…
Now I'm starting to think those dancers underneath are part of a blood sacrifice to call the beast into the..
Looked a bit too brown to be blood
@@Grimnoireblood dries brown
Think these two got their ass handed to them by Messmer long before you showed up?
@@kirbyis4everdid u miss the entire lore where messmer killed them all and the beast possesses their bodies
It's kinda funny that Miquella chose to revive Radahn in the body of mohg if you think about it.
Mohg has the body of an omen, which is due to aspects of the crucible he is basically what the people in the land of shadow would consider to be hornsent.
And Radahn is the young lion. Therefore putting radahn into the body of mogh would create the holy beast that the hornsent worship.
A horned lion beast delivered from higher spheres
(Edit: Called Mohg Mogh)
!!!!!
I wish the final fight has more Miquella in it, instead of just visual seizure spam. The lion, though is actually 2 guys, is authentically a lion. Final fight though, Miquella feels more like an attachment rather than the real god like the lion is.
holy shit dude that is unbelievably poetic.
@@abereu8405 also the fact that it is one being that consists of two people
Miquella is a god of kindness, he can’t physically attack anyone himself. That’s why he needs Radahn to do his dirty work for him and why his only “attack” is the hug which charms you but does 0 damage
Ah, a bodyless beast that posses two separate hosts in order to live as a singular entity, fascinating. Though perhaps its head is real, but needs its hosts’ limbs to move its jaw and act as a neck for which to turn its head.
I also interpret that the beast was real and its head was made into that puppet. But it came from space. They pray for it to return and as the crone says, sometimes its spirit possessess the dancers for real.
damn, real final boss foreshadowing there
@@psevdhome with how the granny claims the beast was "from higher sphere delivered" i think it was 100% real but hornsent just fucking butchered it and turned it into a fursuit
not the first time they butcher random fellers to make a fucking appliances out of them
Can't remember which one it was one pointed out that the Great Cats you see in the basegame have Omen horns that have been cut off. So it might be that the Lion Dancers are based on the original, much larger, versions of those and Marika took their 'divine beasts', cut off their horns and forced them into service with crude armor and arm blades put on them as a means to deemen the Hornsent even further by reducing objects of worship to basic beasts of war.
@@luketfer I think Zulli the Witch's video pointed that out
Those two dudes under the Dancing Lion look like Pillar Men from Jojo's Bizarre Adventures.
AWAKEN MY MASTERS
BE FREE MY MASTERS
AYAYAYAYYYYY
MEZAMETAMAE, WAGA ARUJITACHI YO!
W H A T? ! ? !
W H A T ? ! ? !
W H A T ? ! ? !
...eeeeey~!
Somehow this looks even more terrifying
戦闘中にも体の内部を少し見ることができるが、まさかここまで作りこまれてるとは思わなかった。
改めてフロムソフトウェアの作りこみの緻密さを思い知ったよ、有益な情報をありがとう！
That guy at the front:🥱😤🤬
That guy at the back:😐🤛🦵
Me and bro on Halloween, when all we have as a costume is one cardboard tiger mask
lol
Imagine cuddling with your bro and some tarnish just busts into the door and interrupts.
I know, right? Just _rude._
Imagine cuddling with a gun and some tarnish puts it in your ass and interrupts.
1:14 ngl that was fucking spine chilling
So it's just two guys doing cosplay?
Always has been
@@PierceArner 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
its based on the Chinese lion dancing costume
Kind of, but their bodies are possessed by the spirit of a beast so it's just a beast in a human(s) suit.
The joke is that it looks like two people in a lion suit, but it's actually a lion in a two people suit.
That ain't no dancing lion. That is standing still cat😭🙏
Lord have mercy on whatever man walks through that door and sees this shit happening
This is genuinely intriguing to see
Tarnished: *enters room*
Dancing Lion dudes: "COWABUNGA IT IS!"
I saw something about people inside the thing but I didn't quite imagine it like this. Fromsoft must have had fun animating the thing
That thumbnail scared the fuck out of me when I saw it in the corner of my eye 😭
Divine Dancing Dudes™ (D.D.D)
When I enter the bathroom and mom is shitting while dad is shaving.
Just me and the boys, foolin' around in the locker room
I love that they went the extra mile to actually animate this so nicely. This boss could have easily been just a mass of cloth with hands and feet sticking out for the sake of just doing what is needed to sell the cutscene but no. No limbs elongating to fit what they wanted to show, no disembodied hand sticking out somewhere for the sake of the cutscene.
I know this is irrelevant but rewatching this cutscene its only just occurred to me that the person speaking is the old hornsent lady inside of that storage warehouse ( i forgot her name)
Hornsent Grandam. One of the nicer NPCs, as long as she doesn't find out we're on the path to become Elden Lord!
1:45 Intriguing... but highly disturbing
Yeah what's he got there...
The pool of Blood they're standing on is interesting. It seems someone has already slain them before we got here, and the hornsent grandma revived them once more.
And the streaks leading up to the pool suggest they were mortally wounded elsewhere and dragged themselves back to the arena to die.
@@StretchDude Didn't see that. The blood traces seems to indicate they were slayed directly at this place. Maybe they were finished here.
@@StretchDude Maybe they salvaged one of the lions that was still alive after beeing impaled.
@@StretchDude Or maybe the ritual to become a dancing Lion imply you have to be killed.
We did see the dancing lion on the story trailer presumably being killed by Messmer's army.
Honestly looks even scarier without the capes but it really looks like a Sekiro boss to me. Also I was pissed when I found out there was a second one of these beasts lol.
With Basilisks!!
A truly Godefroy moment
where did you fight the second one
@@rylandsmathieux8076 In the Rauh Ruins where that Roman looking build near the bridge towards the furnace golem but you have to go a long way around and take an lift to go up to the other bridge.
@@jackalkhan5676 It makes a lot more sense than Godefroy, if you think as these guys as just people channeling another beings power. Godefroy is legit just the same guy but again and they just explain it as 'yeah he's a relative I guess'
00:00 - 01:31 "John, John get up! We have to murder someone!"
"Eh, wha.... Oh shit!"
1:44 gyaaaatttt
You can see his sack too 😭 why From
You just made me look again😂@@wonderofu1603
@@wonderofu1603
Research purposes, of course.
at first i thought the boss would be another bodygrafted into one, like previous others and this time its based on dancing lion
Finally, my strumpets can be cleansed away.
I think the visuals, sounds, and the voice calling them “sculpted keepers” all greatly imply that these dudes are living statues or golems. When his fingers first move, dust falls and it makes a stone grinding noise. And then when he slaps his hand and then later his foot on the ground, it sounds like a boulder falling.
Two dudes in a lion costume is kinda numerous. 2 stone statues with the fluidity of trained acrobats is terrifying!
Humorous* not numerous. My phone is tiny and it is a pain to type on…
Naked Dancing Lion isn't real, naked Dancing Lion can't hurt you.
Naked Dancing lion:
"Awaken, my masters!"
Did they Animate them like this and then added the Clothes, if that's so then it is very Impressive.
Yep
Mom, can I have a dancing lion?
Mon: No, we have a dancing lion at home.
The Dancing Lion at home
Designs like this show why Fromsoft's artists and animators are unrivaled. World building while being unique yet thematically fitting. Fromsoft always brings their A-game.
Props to whoever came up with this and all the animators who brought it to life
Dancing lion is something very familiar to almost every East Asian people and Fromsoftware is from Japan, one of the Asian countries.
@@irisleonard6469 I'd still argue turning it into a great Fromsoft boss while making thematically appropriate is impressive
@@noamias4897 The whole point of irl lion dance is to scare off bad spirits, it is intimidating in the first place, thus thematically appropriate to begin with.
Now it looks like you woke up two drunk dudes who got themselves a job as dragon dancers
The mocap recording for this must have been fun
I doubt they used mocap, Fromsoftware is just actually that good
Hey bro get in character the tarnish is here. Remember what we practiced for
Fun fact : This boss is based on Chinese "wǔshī" or "Barongsai" that is performed in Chinese new year festival
I love how looking at it front on, it's just two dudes doing their best jojo poses.
In Japanese culture, the one at the back is the more experienced of the two. So while he may seem to not be doing much, staying up with the movements of the one in front takes more experience than operating the head.
Just when I thought this boss couldn’t look any creepier. Now it looks like something out of Silent Hill.
The lion dance is a lucky charm for the New Year that has the meaning of ``warding off evil spirits'' and ``dispelling epidemics.'' It was introduced from China in the 7th century along with gigaku (gigaku), and there is a record that it was performed at the beginning of a play as a dance to exorcise evil spirits. For the Japanese, the lion was a imaginary sacred animal, an object of faith that warded off evil spirits and warded off epidemics.
The boss is/are.... two dudes in loin cloths!
"The cape stays on during the fight."
honestly it makes the boss even creepier for me lol
so when he does that bite grab attack… r we practically making out in there wtf 😟
It makes it clear that there are human sounds in the roar. Very unsettling.
I feel like, because of the dramatic and obscure lore, people take Elden Ring really seriously. When in reality there are so many things about it that are genuinely just funny and silly.
This is not silly but very cool idea for a boss. Dancers possessed by divine (animal?) spirit called from a higher world.
The first dude is so fucking stanced-up, it’s awesome 😅
the first dude being intimidating with the lion head and the second dude just gremlin huddling 😂
In other games, there would just be a blanket and there would be nothing underneath. But From Software gives everyone and everything a detail
Ok but why are they so caked up. 💀 like we were never meant to get this clear of a look at them and yet they intentionally modeled them that way 💀💀💀
We need people to cosplay them for a convention
I hope they got a raise.
The most committed furries of all time.
Oh no! Its the fabled TWO GUYS. I must be weary of the wrath of TWO GUYS!
DIVINE GYATT DUO
The gooch shot from the back when the front part is laying down 💀
Elden Ring: Cirque du Soleil, directed by Julie Taymor.
I love how the dude shakes the lion head during the roars to make it look scarier
Can you see if you can unmask Rellana? Always wondered what's inside that helmet
I absolutely loved that they actually animated a guy moving the lions jaws with his hands, what a cool boss
you do a really great work dude! Congrats!
I could see it was 2 people but I was concerned this was a human centipede kinda deal. The fight and the way the lion moves in the fight makes much more sense that they aren’t attached.
Without the cover, they look so stupid and funny hahahahaha
2nd bro is looking for his contact lenses
1:48 히히! 뽕알!
Every time I see these guys I think about this one twitch chatter who was super adamant that there were 3 guys controlling this boss.
1:23 what if the guy in the front farts tho ? 😭
OK, that makes it more terrifying!
When I got to this fight I said that's two dudes in a trenchcoat
Remember that these two bastards held off a freaking crusade.
Imagine a professional standing army unable to defeat two guys in a horse costume.
Without the cape it just looks like a silent hill enemy
Me getting up off the floor after playing with the pups.
Ill never forget the first time i fought this boss and whilst being attacked i notice the cape flying up and loincloth clad ass staring me in the face.
That is honestly more terrifying
i don't feel like we were supposed to see this...
One of my favorite bosses FromSoft's ever made.
I chuckled a bit when the Old Hornsent lady called Marika, the top god of the setting and direct emissary under the Greater Will... the strumpet.
That’s actually much more horrifying I love it
that's actually so crazy that the dudes underneath are fully put together too instead of just being like a solid dark mass under the costume
"Ugh... Up 'n' attem, Bob, we gotta kill a guy!"
- One of the dancers, probably