How Big is the Architecture in Elden Ring? (Real World Comparisons)

Have you ever wondered how deep does the Siofra Well goes? Whether the Shadow Keep is taller than a skyscraper? How much turkey could you fry in the Forge of the Giants?

Credits to @MoxieWatts and @Banuune for figuring out the connection between Raya Lucaria and the Aachen Cathedral!

All the measurements have been taken in Smithbox:

► Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Limgrave
02:31 Underground
06:40 Raya Lucaria Academy
08:48 Leyndell
13:57 Mountaintop of the Giants
15:27 Farum Azula
16:29 Land of Shadow
20:51 Final Dungeon

►And as always, a very special thanks to my lovely wife for all the support ❤️

► Music:
Monster Hunter World – To The Next Life
Castlevania Lords of Shadow - Theatre
Horizon Zero Dawn – Meridian, Shining
Hollow Knight – Fungal Wastes
Elden Ring – Morgott, the Omen King
Elden Ring – Song of Nomads
Elden Ring –Fire Giant
Horizon Zero Dawn – A Boon
Nier Automata – Alien Manifestation (edited)
Hollow Knight – Reflection

[Vanq]

Imagine being one of the poor schmucks who had to besiege Leyndell during the Shattering. By some unmatched feat of siege engineering, you manage to scale and clear a 200+ meter curtain wall, and then you get to the top and see another fucking wall.

[realkingofantarctica]

It would still probably cost less to buy one of these structures than a dilapidated two-bedroom house in Toronto.

[Ghostly]

The fact that you can play football in Mohg’s arena is astonishing. Especially when you consider that his AOE attacks and blood flame consistently cover at least half of it for the entire second phase.

[gdiridium]

elden ring has some of the weirdest size disparities in the game - the architecture consistently dwarfs real-world equivalents, whilst the landscape is impossibly tiny, with "mountains" only a couple of kilometres in height, and the entire Lands Between having an area smaller than Greater London. I know the latter part is so that it's actually playable as a game, and wouldn't involve hours of riding Torrent to get anywhere, but it's still an interesting disparity

[arrowtongue]

What an incredible video! My only critique is not delving into the Haligtree, my favorite area architecturally in the game.

[RelativelyBest]

What always blows my mind about the Scadutree Chalice structure is that it isn't even a building you can enter, nor does it appear to serve any practical purpose. It's seems to have been erected purely as a monument. Every time I get there I think: "This thing is absurd! Why did they make it so big?"

[Fairuslolomg]

Just for your knowledge:

The Erdtree and Scadutree are about 4.5km tall

[calebgriffin]

I think it’s important to mention that from a gameplay perspective, your “eye level” when playing is 2 to 3 times a tall as your actual character, so what in a real scale is massive actually turns out to be pretty well scaled when compared to other great structures in the real world

[battsengelnurzed]

It baffles me that this video has so little views. Thank you for making one of the best video I watched in a while. I will re-watch this for a while

[litteraire]

The Elden Ring architectural marvels are just so extreme, I still remember my palms sweating while climbing up that one divine tower in Caelid

[dislikebutton]

Few understand the real lore implication, that Queen America wiped out all but one fire giant and forced him to become the nation's fry chef for all thanksgivings to come. Miyazaki was in fact cooking with 140 million liters of oil when he made this game.

[Tulip_bip]

its really surprising to me that fromsoft didn't put a photo mode in elden ring, it's the prettiest game i've ever played

[TKGPYT]

What this says to me more than anything is how ridiculous some of those real-world examples are
Very impressive cinematography, by the way

[jackcohn]

I sometimes forget just how indescribably massive these structures all are, and you did a wonderful job re-contextualizing that.

I kept thinking something might surpass the Burj Khalifa in height, and the fact that nothing did is also pretty amazing.

[shadowfire]

currently building a cathedral on a minecraft server heavily inspired by raya lucaria and unironically the spin you showed off at 7:35 was incredibly helpful. thank you so much for this deep look! it was great fun

[DepressoEspresso-hkyw]

This is a great way to give a realistic sense of scale, and I appreciate what you've done with this video.

[magnatorra]

This is an amazing video, but what's really amazing is that despite the fact most of these structures are absurd, IRL we have still built bigger or almost as big!

[firefly]

11:00 The walls of Leyndell bring a terrifying sense of scale to the Vajont disaster. The megatsunami that overtopped the dam was the same height as the structure. Stand in front of the walls and picture a wave just as high as the walls soaring over the top. Horrifying.

[Renevas]

This video is a gem, just like the ones on AC6 and the one on the Sekiro map! I might sound like a cliché at this point, but this channel deserves a lot more subscribers... I hope Youtube algorithm will do his job 🤣

[TheUndeadHumor]

This is one of the best Elden Ring videos I've seen. Super interesting to see the visuals & learn the history. I hope you make more videos, you're clearly very passionate about architecture. Not many people make videos about this stuff. You could be a big player in this niche.