ALL of the Cut Lore from Elden Ring’s 1.00 Version

I doubt you could even imagine how much got cut. The Elden Ring 1.00 version is effectively an official rough draft of the game's lore. To access the unpatched 1.00 version of Elden Ring, all you need is a disc copy of the game and a console that isn't connected to the Internet. FromSoft also has a history of reusing cut content, which is why I wanted to get this video out before Shadow of the Erdtree. In this video, I restored ALL of the Elden Ring lore that was cut by the Day 1 patch, which includes lore for Miquella, Marika, the Albinaurics, the Nox, the Greater Will, the Outer Gods, the Flame of Frenzy, Radagon, the Crucible, the Erdtree, the Greattree, Godfrey, Godrick, Radahn, Leyndell, the Primeval Current, Sellen, Goldmask, Morgott, the Dung Eater, Shabriri, Vyke, Rykard, and maybe even Messmer! Now to get the obvious out of the way, this is all cut content and is no longer officially canon. So do take the lost lore with a grain of salt. But at the same time, I think it would be deeply misguided and myopic to completely ignore everything that's in the 1.00 version. Elden Ring's unpatched 1.00 version is also in a very unique position when it comes to cut content. Cut content usually involves content that wasn't intended for the public to see or play. And we only find about it either through datamining, leaks, or candid interviews by the developers. But the 1.00 version of Elden Ring was the retail version of the game. Overall, the basic outline for the story was roughly the same, while nearly all of the cut scenes and the dialogue were the same between the 1.00 version and the current version, with a few notable exceptions I cover. But so many item descriptions (which form the bulk of the game's lore) were drastically different. @BertoPlease on 1.00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I82Rvb6wE3k @SmoughTown on the lore for Elden Ring Condensed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOvZ-SxftV4 Part I of his unabridged version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOvZ-SxftV4 ivi0451's Elden Ring Comparison Between 1.00 and 1.03 (in Japanese and with translations): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sNdk4_sm4Jw3mIZTTmooJ2NOSsRVugSwaZJEje2axyg/edit#gid=879516982 Google Sheet with the item descriptions in 1.00, courtesy of @ZullietheWitch https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOzCKtzvVz-Ex8WXeqjq7B3LmRDPKP6D3gd_hE6RG-U/edit?usp=sharing Zullie on the Lake of Rot in 1.00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWKKioay94 @SekiroDubi on Leyndell in 1.00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn_fzhIzfCU SekiroDubi on Goldmask speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZHoaiBi6Cg SekiroDubi on the One Rune: https://x.com/sekirodubi/status/1787554038499672110 On the Greattree: Lokey: https://lokeysouls.com/2023/09/11/erdtrees-beginning/ @LastProtagonist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNe8EtddkS8 LaMi_1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/v2rt8i/the_great_tree_doesnt_exist_jpn_translations/ @quelaag on the symbolism of copper, silver, and gold: https://youtu.be/WGYenEGAP90?t=967 Quelaag on the Ancestral Followers: https://youtu.be/6aDnEUZ1s5c?t=1302 @littlechurchlore on the Pleaides and the Stars of Ruin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzeTT-PfFh0 Phanes Coins: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triti,_Phanes,_625-600_BC,_Ionia_-_301224.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjDbZQFakwg Dan Allen Gaming got Maliketh's voice actor (and a ton of other actors from the game's cast) to recreate iconic Elden Ring lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LEiscl19hs Edited with Gling AI: https://bit.ly/46bGeYv 00:00 What is the 1.00 version of Elden Ring lore? 01:16 What changed between 1.00 and today? 03:05 Why were these changes made? 03:32 Differences in translation 04:52 FromSoft made the lore more mysterious 05:26 The underlying lore was changed completely 07:03 Miquella 11:43 Malenia 12:40 Albinaurics 14:35 Oracle Envoys 16:10 Lake of Rot and the Ancestral Followers 18:21 St. Trina 19:11 The Greater Will and the Outer God(s) 22:10 Marika 25:10 The Nox 28:07 Crack(ed) Pot Theory 29:54 The Crucible 31:04 The Greattree 34:34 The Death Tree 38:15 The Cursemark of Death and Phia the Deathquilt 40:38 The Godskins and the Gloam-Eyed Queen 44:44 Maliketh 46:31 Deathbirds and Ghostflame 47:32 Fire Giants 48:37 Radagon 51:32 Turtle Neck Meat 52:08 Godfrey 53:22 Serosh 54:28 Godrick 54:51 Morgott, Elden Lord 56:58 Radahn, God of War 59:24 The Primeval Current 01:02:50 The Moon and Stars 01:04:38 Ranni's Quest 01:06:21 Meteorites 01:07:52 Leyndell 01:12:17 THE EVER-BRILLIANT GOLDMASK 01:15:13 THE LOATHSOME DUNG EATER 01:16:52 Shabriri and the Flame of Frenzy 01:18:25 Vyke 01:19:46 The Nomadic Merchants 01:20:46 Messmer? 01:23:51 My Thanks #eldenring #shadowoftheerdtree #eldenringlore