Elden Ring - A past in flames

The Ancient Heroes of Zamor were knights who favored the cold, staking their place in the frozen reaches of the Mountaintops of the Giants, but it seems their predilections may have changed dramatically before.

Song used: Snowpeak Ruins - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

[ZullietheWitch]

I'm sure you're all heart-broken by the prospect of losing out on a fight against an Ancient Hero of Zamor that can inflict Madness. The connection between the Merchants and the Frenzied Flame is somewhat understated in the current version of the game, but Kalé used to have a more substantial role in interacting with it. If the knights had still been a summon, maybe he'd have been the one to reward you with their ashes.

[AR-bjet]

Man, the Twilight Princess music is always so pleasantly atmospheric for your vids.

[dannywatson]

I'd argue that the Zamor defeating their eternal foe actually worked out quite badly for them. All that remains of their civilization is a few ruins and some desolate knights, with a 'great hero' imprisoned as far from home as possible. It's another example of the way the Golden Order consumed other cultures and threw them away.

[holydiver]

unrelated but i like how godfrey's axe is repaired at 0:23 since that's portraying a past event, a minor but nice detail

[salemofthedandelions]

An interesting thing to note is that the Zamor set has amongst the lowest Focus of any armor set in the game, with some pieces having even having 0 Focus! This further implies the possible intended tie at some point between the Knights of Zamor and the Frenzied Flame.

[TheActualMrLink]

Merchants didn’t actually worship the frenzied flame, Shabriri just accused them of it. That act of slander led to them being all thrown deep underground, causing them all to despair and the flame of frenzy to take hold in them, but they never WORSHIPPED that abhorrent thing!

[LautrecOfCarim]

I always suspected that these knights were connected to the three fingers somehow. After all, there is a weird guy literally right outside their base of operations yelling about how great chaos is all day and none of them seem to mind.

Heh.

[soarel]

I wonder if there’s any connection, whether in the final game or behind the scenes, between the Zamor Knights, the Onyx/Alabaster Lords, and Goldmask. They all share this tall, gray-skinned, emaciated appearance (though with metallic body parts on the Onyx/Alabaster Lords). Goldmask is most likely a human given that he’s Tarnished, the Onyx/Alabaster Lords are either from space or a product of the stars’ influence, and we’re never given any indications of whether the Zamor Knights are human or not. Are they all from the same species or human race?

Also, I don't think it's quite accurate to say the Merchants worship the Frenzied Flame and were punished for it — rather, it seems that they were falsely accused of doing so (possibly by Shabriri), punished for this, then ended up possessed by the Flame for real due to their despair.

[BENISD]

But wait, didn't the merchant only summon the flame AFTER they were wrongfully imprisoned? So if they were never imprisoned, the flame would never have been summoned, hence Leyndell is responsible for the flame?

[m.a.dmatt]

Encountering a Zamor knight that suddenly uses frenzy flame spells would be awesome as hell

[ethanmurray]

I love the cinematic shots you composed through out the video

[DarthDracvla]

I love how otherworldly and elf-like the Zamor knights are.

[PregnantAdamSandler]

Its interesting that it was originally called "redeye" considering the red eye effect that demihumans get at night as well as other enemies. It's possible at some point it may have just been a generic "berserk" effect before being fleshed out

[andreipintea]

A bit of story from cut content (thanks to SekiroDubi): The merchants were not servants of the frenzied flame. That flaming but hole Shabriri falsely accused them of this and they were pretty much pushed into almost extinction and right into the grasp of the 3 fingers. If kept, I think The Great Caravan would've been quite a sight to behold.

I really don't understand why FromSoft decided to cut Kale's quest and mechanics, the end was beyond heartbreaking which is pretty much the default with most of their characters. Instead we got blind grape lady.

[Warhammer_lover]

Man, this game sure has A LOT of cut content, it's really something.

[samcurnes]

From what I can tell the Japanese name used for Zamor is ザミェル (zamieru). This might be in reference to Zamiel, the demon huntsman in Count Karlstein who haunts the Alps on windy nights, but that’s just a google search so perhaps there are better theories.

[rhynlock]

I find very strange that if the Zamor where victorious with the golden army, why is their village in ruins and so small? if it was destroyed by the war, why didn't they rebuilt it?

[Gakulon]

These are the kinds of fascinating discoveries I love to learn from this channel. Love your videos Zully

[Etrulz]

The knights of Zamor are one of the coolest enemies (pun intended) in the game, yet I know basically nothing about them..

[topcat]

0:37 the scene you made of the zamor knights bowing to your boy Godfrey looks so good.😺