Elden Ring - What happened to all the Riders?

If you're curious about the model viewing program shown several times throughout this video, it's Dark Souls Animation Studio by Meowmaritus, which now supports Elden Ring.

Song used: Windfall Island - The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker OST

[ZullietheWitch]

Some of the NPCs with RideRequests in their AI, like the Manserpents, also even have entries in the Throw Param for the special critical attack where they can be stabbed on the ground after falling off their mounts. There's a missing spot in the character list after Manserpents as well, so their mount was probably at least partly worked on before being cut. I wonder what it could possibly have been.

[shumjuna]

As soon as you said Mohg was potentially ridable/able to ride on something I became VERY worried for Miquella.

[Harryjordan]

The fact Mohg has an average pair of tight jeans under his cloak is burnt into my mind forever

[ianmcgregor]

Mohg was actually supposed to ride a surfboard on a huge wave of blood, but they cut it so he didn’t overshadow the other bosses

[VolvoxSocks]

My headcannon is that Mohg's second phase was originally going to have him flying on a hover board like the Green Goblin, but they ended up just giving him wings.

[justyouraverageblackstar]

As much as I love Torrent, the thought of fighting Radahn while piggybacking on Blaidd’s back would be so badass that I think I kind of want that instead.

[RuiNDieM]

After watching Blaidd's voice actor read tweets about him, the phrase "you could ride Blaidd" has a very different meaning lol

[TobyKBTY]

*Some inappropriate joke about riding this majestic Wolf man*

[DERyuga]

And here I thought Blaidd being rideable was a bersek reference. Imagine Ranni getting on Blaidd's back if he was defending her, like Guts and Schierke. That'd be a fun image

[Jay-qhuv]

The reason Mohg’s mount point is so low to the ground is so Varré can reach it :) hope this helps.

[TheSOGchronicles]

Being able to hop onto Blaidd's back like yoda and Luke would have made my day in elden ring Blaidd is already my favorite npc being able to fight with him more regularly would have been amazing

[Actiondanny]

I choose to believe that the RidePoints on the Godskin Apostle and Noble were meant to interact with each other, and that the original planned Phase 2 of the Godskin Duo fight was that they would fuse together and you would have to fight some kind of Black Fire Voltron.

[Siepher]

I can 100% picture Mohg riding a chariot. He's got the trident, all he needs is a net.

[alexandercampbell]

Two ideas as to why blaidd has that capability. 1: does the tower he's perched on when you meet him for the first time have one too? B: maybe blaidd was going to be used to carry Ranni at some point, for some reason?

[Facepalm]

"Blaidd let's you mount him."
And the collective, terrible, enthusiastic shriek of furries rolled across the land and left untold destruction in its wake.

[thefez-cat]

Looking at the Godskin Duo and the fact they have mount points, it makes me imagine some kind of horrific combination attack, with the Acolyte standing atop the Noble.

In general, this video gives me more reasons to wish that the mounting system overall, and Torrent in particular, had gotten significantly more depth than it did.

[borealmarinda]

3:28 thank you for blessing us with this image 🙏

[scissoroo]

I never knew how badly I wanted to see a snake ride a horse until watching this video

[heartbeatatinman]

I see everyone already thought of the "mounting Blaidd" joke before I did

[Terminarch]

0:30 This monstrous beast of a man kneels down for you to climb on. Such a nice and probably completely unintentional detail.