Bonfireside Chat 295: Belurat, Tower Settlement (Part 1)
Added 2024-08-18 20:19:21 +0000 UTCIt's time to tackle our first Legacy Dungeon of the DLC, the sieged settlement beneath that impossible, shadowy tower. Belurat's lower quarters are choked with the shades of its defenders, still attempting to hold the line. And there's at least one crusader still here, the annoyingly devout Messmer follower Fire Knight Queelign.
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Pretty sure the strumpet line is being used to describe dueling loyalties. More than dueling. Basically teams with whoever will serve her interests best at that time and discards them later. Like Godfrey
Jessie joy
2025-07-22 02:38:53 +0000 UTCThey have basically promised the next game is Wolf does Bolteria.
MeltyHam
2024-08-25 01:36:48 +0000 UTCJizo statues...so you're saying there's gonna be a Sekiro 2...?
Oliver Tripp
2024-08-25 00:11:20 +0000 UTCWow, I totally missed the Well Depths my first run through, too. This place is gross.
Joseph
2024-08-24 02:51:22 +0000 UTCMy favorite legacy dungeon in the dlc and my fav boss design in the game. Still have great memories of this place despite the bad taste in my mouth left by the final boss of the dlc—which I gave up on. Main game made me think they learned their lesson with Sekiro but I guess not.
Richard Cochnar
2024-08-20 19:59:45 +0000 UTCI take "Grandam" to be "Grand-dam" (like "grandad" for "grand-dad") where "dam" means "maternal animal" especially when talking about livestock. Makes you wonder where the Hornsent Grandsire is. Probably got seduced by Marika, if you believe the rumors
Micah Tillman
2024-08-20 13:10:05 +0000 UTCYup, I share the frustration that people can misconstrue these are Monumentals and draw unreasonable connections, but child statues sitting still is a common Eastern theme and was also used in Sekiro. I thought it fit the Eastern cultural parallels in the Hornsent capital.
Mystic Referee
2024-08-20 10:33:46 +0000 UTCGreat episode! When it comes to calling Marika a strumpet, the trailer for the DLC has Leda commenting on how the Golden Order came to rise from “The seduction. And a betrayal.” Grandam repeats the bit about a betrayal as well. The theory I see people pushing is that Marika either literally or metaphorically “seduced” her way into favor with the Hornsent before the betrayal, since without some kind of manipulation they’d likely just try to stuff her in a jar with all the other shamans.
Lucas West
2024-08-19 20:16:36 +0000 UTCI have triples of the 77 Pontiac Hornsent Grand Am
Kalem Wedemyer
2024-08-19 13:46:39 +0000 UTCI think the statues that remind you of the monumental are pulled from Buddhism in Japan, specifically the Jizo statues. https://www.stillsitting.com/who-is-jizo/
MeltyHam
2024-08-19 08:27:53 +0000 UTCI will try to be that guy for Farum Azula, although "try" is the key word here lol. Since Placidusax is noted to be Elden Lord in the age before the erdtree, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to see Farum Azula as an important/heavenly—literally—locale, perhaps even the Leyndell of its day (and man has that day long past). I don't think the Hornsent venerate Farum Azula specifically as much like it's part of the mythos while also being quite real lol. But further along this line of thinking, in the elder elden ring that we see in Maliketh's arena, you can see at the bottom of it a rune... part that bears an exact resemblance if memory serves to the symbol that accompanies spiral incantations. which interestingly enough looks a lot like the Godslayer's Greatsword. Whatever the case, this part was removed from marika's elden ring. Essentially, as Placidusax's "seat of power" I think it held influence & may well have had connections with Belurat but wasn't the focal point of their worship, that being the Crucible.
Goldie
2024-08-19 01:07:23 +0000 UTCI don’t have any expertise basis for this, but when I was trying to figure out how to say Queelign, I landed at “keh-linn”?
JackelZXA
2024-08-18 21:57:45 +0000 UTCHearing the digression about the out of place monumentals and being reminded of them, it does make me wonder if that could be the hint at the next game From likes to put in their DLCs.
Collinsbro45
2024-08-18 21:21:51 +0000 UTCThanks Boys
Joe Binson
2024-08-18 20:24:08 +0000 UTC
