The Lore of Elden Ring is FOUL

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00:00 A Crucible of Dragons
07:31 Lowborn Kin
18:40 Dragon Sacrifice
38:44 The Soul on the Mountain
50:24 CURSE YOU, BAYLE!!

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[VaatiVidya]

Kindly leave a comment cursing Bayle, thank you have a nice day

[VaatiVidya]

I have a fond memory of my first fight with Bayle - I was determined to go through the DLC with the new dragon form, so I forced myself to defeat him early, with very few Scadutree Fragments. I finally managed it by using the Bone Bow and the Repeating Crossbow both with bleed projectiles, since those did percentage-based damage. This ranged approach meant I was highly dependent upon Igon to tank Bayle for me, but most of the time he would just monologue and walk around the arena slowly, which inspired the sequence at 50:33. Good times lol

Please share some of your memorable experiences with the DLC below, I like reading them

[Songbearer]

Bayle lore
Scales: Solid
Hide: Riddled
Fears: Made flesh
Day: Rue'd

[tristanneal]

I wonder if Placidusax going from 5 heads to 2 is meant to be symbolic. Before that, we have perfect order; 5 being the number that the 2 and 3 fingers add up to, the number of digits on a dragon's hand, and also the number of fingers the GW bestowed on the Beastmen when it granted them intelligence.

Then Bayle's attack shattered the perfect order in the Lands Between and introduced chaos, thus reducing the perfect 5 fingers/heads to 2 and making way for Shabriri to manifest in the 3 fingers.

[Tinybutfearless]

CURSE YOU, BAYLE! I HEREBY VOW, YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY! BEHOLD, A TRUE DRAKE WARRIOR, AND I, IGON! YOUR FEARS MADE FLESH! SOLID OF SCALE YOU MIGHT BE, FOUL DRAGON, BUT I WILL RIDDLE WITH HOLES YOUR ROTTEN HIDE! WITH A HAIL OF HARPOONS, WITH EVERY LAST DROP OF MY BEING!

[Smoke-by-the-Shadow]

I can’t remember who it was, but my favorite comment on another video was “Igon and Kendrick Lamar, Greatest Haters of the year, both with the desire to slay a drake.” And that shit kills me every day

[greedygremlin]

The fact that the voice actor for Igon knew nothing of the game or characters and still gave that performance is incredible. Make him an honorary Elden Lord immediately.

[lunathemoon]

50:54 "BEHOLD, A TRUE DRAKE WARRIOR!" Meanwhile the Tarnished is just getting chomped up and tossed around lol

[fez]

Igon has been my new favorite NPC by FromSoftware because his character plot, behavior and themes surrounding him can be compared to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, both chasing a monster that gravely wounded them and left them seeking revenge.

[cosmicbilly]

Bro everytime i fight Bayle i fall in love with the fight more and more.

Such a fun fight. I look forward to it every playthrough

[theindomitablecell]

Bayle went to kill Placidusax and considering his strength up till then there was likely nothing that ever caused him trouble. He was sure of himself that he is going to end the dragon lord, but he met his match and was pushed to his very limits.
At some point after suffering all those injuries, for the first time ever, the thought must have crossed his mind „I might not win. I might actually die here“. And for the first probably ever, he felt fear.
He was not ready to win or die trying.
And so he fled the fight of his life….you could say…….he Bayled.
*padum tsss*

[fernandofaria]

"Oh, Bayle, I find myself exceedingly frustrated by your actions! You've truly tested my patience today and frankly, im quite bothered!" - Igon.

[_ikako_]

i just love the use of accents in this game. Welsh for Carians (including albinaurics), received pronounciation for marika's bloodline (melina, malenia, morgott etc), northern/working class accents for tarnished (unfortunately does play into the stereotype/trope of working class accents being contrasted against regal, holy, posh accents) and now the european accent of Florissax which conveys her nature as a dragon - her accent conveys her nature as a being unique and separate from mankind, whereas all the humanoids have some form of british accent, the ancients dragons have european ones. i also love the way she pronounces "placidusax".

[mr-laroque]

One of the things that makes me think the Dragon Priestess has new motivation for serving you is that she only does so after you kill Bayle.
Like she realizes in you is the chance at a new DragonLord. All she has to do is wait. If drake hearts can turn warriors even Trolls into Magma wyrms. Who is to say what Bayle's heart will do to you?
Perhaps you shall be an even greater dragon than her lord.

[thago]

A theory of mine is that if we look at the way Placidusax's heads are clamped on to the Bayle's back, it looks like Bayle only bit one off during combat and Placidusax was trying it's hardest to prevent Bayle from escaping by constricting Bayle with all the other heads biting onto him which ended up with Placidusax's anger combined with sheer force of Bayle's hatred and will to live resulting in Bayle dragging Placidusax's hardly locked two heads during getting away and ripping them off in the process.

Another thing I find cool is that forever clamped down heads of Placidusax on Bayle's back symbolizes how he is constantly getting bothered by the forces Placidusax created just to get rid of him and his descendants.

[spiraljumper]

One of my favorite things that Vaati does for these lore videos, and something I always look forward to, are the thematic and lore-centered builds he makes for them. I’m always asking, what’s the fashion gonna be? The weaponry? The vibes? And I really like this Drake Warrior, the jar shield goes with the Euporia so well in terms of color and texture. And the DK Longhaft axe is probably the sexiest axe in the game (sorry Godfrey, love you fr bro).

[sebastiancollins]

To all of the "CUUURSEE YOOOOIOU in the comments of this video: you're doing great work, really helping the video get the engagement it deserves. Thank you for that.

[kchurchjr]

Ok @50:50 the epic tarnished getting absolutely WRECKED by Bayle with the shouting of Igon was so hilarious and also similar to my own battles with Bayle

[TheGuyVince]

"History is written by the victor" is probably shown the best in Elden Ring, Bayle is a tyrant in the eyes of the ancient dragons..yet he has so many followers including ancient dragons. How much of a tyrant can he be if he makes people actually switch sides...

[sleep_enjoyer]

I honestly thought Placidusax was the only big dragon fight they were giving us in Elden Ring. When I first saw the Jagged Peak in the distance I thought to myself "I know there won't be an epic dragon in this dlc but if there was, that's where we'd fight it". I remember seeing the vista of the peak as I approached a lonely shack by the edge of a cliff. This shack being home to a ghost that spoke of vengeance, and a talisman depicting the dragon who wounded the Dragonlord. The Dread Dragon whos anger causes the very mountain's molten fury to seethe beneath him. I was so glad to be wrong. Honestly a defining moment of my playthrough. What an amazing experience to discover Bayle and his story. What a titanic and unforgettable encounter.