Above Cliffroad Terminus

What is the point of this mountain? If they weren't going to put anything on top, why not just remove the mountain or at least parts of it. It's just obscuring the parts of the map below it.

[rainbowkrampus]

"It's just obscuring the parts of the map below it."
Some might say that this was the point.

[parodysam]

There are a couple other unreachable areas. South of Midra’s Manse and that plateau north of the east half of Rauh

[arnebobflutschkopf]

Northern Rauh ruins has a place like that too

[Wintorn]

they probably wanted to put something up here, but ran out of time

[valentinvas]

Weird how verticality played an important role in this DLC but this big area is just there, empty. Not even accessible normally.

[minerman]

There's also a decently sized inaccessible area in the base game east of Stormveil Castle. I think it's half the size of this one

[blackdragons]

Nice one! can you do the big area behind the mansion in the swamp? that place is huge on the map considering that your not supposed to be able to go there!

[krishnansubramoni]

I was convinced there would be some way to get up there similar to how the Moonlight Altar was in the base game. Weird there is nothing up there.

[lothar]

Can You show area on the South from Midra's Manse too?

[theatlascomplex]

That’s my one complaint with the DLC, they gave us three different plateaus that we can’t get on top of.

[chris_wizzudz]

You know what this area could’ve been? A lovely poison swamp.

[eclips_total]

Wish they spent one more year with the dlc before realese.

[kazueglassheardt]

There's a weird amount of detail up there for a place you can never really see.

[thecommentguy]

Well that's 2 scrapped bosses for the next game

[amazingchestahead]

this and other spots like it most likely exist for performance reasons, so they can have a big structure block areas that arent loaded in to save resources.
so yeah kinda sucks they dont have anything there but probs still better to have them then not

[Estuways]

Good, now I can remove that map marker

[gamerzone]

I've been trying to figure out the mystery behind the Scadutree chalice, and a comment I got on Reddit implied that there may be an unknown location somewhere below the deathplane in that area which was accidentally found by clipping through the world. Maybe you could take a look?

[zoubaey]

this is the first time i saw in a fromsoftware to make map big just to make it big. in my exploring i experienced A LOT of disapointing emptiness in the map just to run around to find nothing at all, even a mob. most of it was looking gorgeous indeed but landmass like this mountain you showd are just there to be there without any purpose

[gegbag]

Rauh has this too and i really wanted an area there that was just forest and not inside the ruins

[azureradiation]

seeing the comments, it seems most of the areas I've been wondering about have been mentioned. Glad I'm not the only one wondering what they have. Missed opportunities IMO, I would have loved to explore more
edit: I also want to see the top of shadow keep, they could have had an awesome battle on the rooftops