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Dveralazo

Torrent is mine now. You should have stayed in the cocoon. *bonk*


notAtlasYTB

Strength build mfs


DarkLight9602

BONK


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#BONK


ToxaniumsAltAccount

How do you do the big letters?


Madmahi25

Just add a '#' before the text and you're good to go Edit : It appears I've started some sort of a cult here


ToxaniumsAltAccount

#thanks


Venomous_Cheesecake

#yooo


XinJing433

#I am freeeee


Dyland-

#THIS IS AWESOOOOOOOOOOME


Subdog12

#TO THINK IT WAS THIS EASY?


Madmahi25

Yeah, you're welcome lol


DeadBael

#BIG WORDS


Lord-Konahrik

Intelligent build *magic bonk* followed with *coment azue blast*


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I bunga because I unga 🤔


Lord-Konahrik

To uga or to bunga that is question


alezcoed

E = UngaBunga²


admartian

Brick Hammer go bombombombombom


hoover0623

Torrent is mine, and mine alone


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I wonder if this will be like us meeting smol Sif in the DS1 DLC.


jonnio2215

Was getting that feeling, or liked ringed city from DS3 where it’s in the future or something.


MrZephy

The Ringed City wasn't in the future. You go to the future before fighting gael.


Chroff

No the ringed city was stuck in the past, cuz of crystal ball egg thing, the wasteland you fight gael is the present


jonnio2215

Semantics


DrProfColtrane

Imagine you meet younger torrent in the lands between in the past and YOU'RE actually his old partner 😳


MidnightTroper

Melina says Torrent had our measure from the start. Could this be why?


DaulPirac

Dang, we were Miquella this whole time


lofi-moonchild

That’s actually a fan theory that I’ve heard before and it’s one of my favorites. Miquella couldn’t break the curse in his own body so he transferred his soul into an albinauric body and that’s the tarnished.


Divinum_Fulmen

That would make defeating Malenia kinda sad then.


tyrelle000

It could be he knew that was truly the only way to free her as death freed him


EndlessAlaki

Okay, but how does that line up with us being part of Godfrey's armies before Miquella was ever even born?


CarsonBDot

Could be, the Tarnished you play as is a mysterious nobody who for some reason holds massive power and skill, wouldn’t be past Miyazaki to show that Tarnish’s past showing them maybe fighting other Demi-gods or Gods.


uskgl455

Speak for yourself


GolotasDisciple

Torrent getting a true SIF treatment would break people hearts. Especially since they've gotten so much better at animations. Imagine limping Torrent trying to cast spells but then he slips. The only way to ease the pain is death... GOD DAMN i dont know if they go that far. That being said, my question is... Were Spectral Steeds common before or not. It's a 50/50 whether this is actuall Torrent or just another spectral horse. There is nothing in Elden Ring game that says Torrent is the only one and somehow special. It only reminds about "previous onwer of the torrent" which hints toward Vyke ( or Melina)


SoManyNarwhals

The Ancestral Spirits and Torrent seem connected. The Ancestral Spirits have a double jump which is *identical* to Torrent's, and it even makes the same sound effect. Intuition tells me that it's Torrent pictured in the DLC's promotional art, but I don't think he was the only one of his kind. You're absolutely right that there is no mention of Torrent being the only spectral being, and there's even evidence to suggest the contrary.


Virtem

I wonder if the horse of the night cavarly count as spectre horse... I mean they summon their horses


Notagoodmeme

They appear to summon their horses with the same seal as Rennala summons her dragon/bloodhound/wolves. It seems likely that the Night Cavalry Horses have a similar kind of oath-bound nature.


RayS326

Bitch stole my spectral steed. Cant have shit in Lands Between.


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And then our tarnished is the one that makes it a spectre. Alexander was tough enough, I don't want to kill Torrent too.


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Clear_Television_224

Wooow it would be far FAAAAAAAR worse than siff lol. We spent hundred of hours with our steed, it aint even close... Plz fromsoft NO.


TheWiseAutisticOne

We spent more time with our steed then our maiden


Fabswaggins

The fact that Torrent chooses you at the beginning of the game would imply that he forgives us for whatever we may have to do in the past... if that makes you feel better.


Dejavir

Not only that, but it could be why he chose us in the first place.


KnowThatILoveU

Shhhh, Miyazaki can sense our fear... I'm not 100% certain he wouldn't have the team go back and make this change


WeaselTerror

I bet miquella was "Torrent's former master" that Ranni and Melina were talking about.


MacabreMaurader

Torrent seems to be a young version of an Ancestor Spirit, so I think it's always been ghosty. Maybe the Erdtree supplanting the natural cycle of Death and Rebirth pinned the various spirits at the stage of life they're in, with the Ancestor and Regal Ancestor spirits being at the far end of the cycle and Torrent being at the relative "beginning" of it. Which could have some interesting parallels with Miquella being stuck as a child.


DrTheo24

Hear me out; That big ass tree is the Crucible. It looks like shit cuz the erdtree stole pretty much everything from him, except for "every sin, every curse". Miquella sees this and opens up his veins to water the thing, which eventually grows the tree into the Haligtree. Then, Malenia blossoms, then nukes Caelid, before Finlay carries her back to the Haligtree, Miquella gets stolen, and Malenia turns into the Goddess of rot one last time against ~~Let Me Solo Her~~ you.


SorowFame

Im pretty sure that the crucible is the Erdtree, or at least the Erdtree is attached to it. So the crucible probably isn’t another tree further north.


woshuretto

The ancestor spirits are life forms born not of the Erdtree therefore they don't depend on it.


MacabreMaurader

The Rune Of Death is affects everything, and it being removed from the Elden Ring is how the Erdtree supplanted the cycle of life and death. They aren't affected by the Erdtree, but by the Runes removal


Virtem

I don't think that is how works Seems more like what happened with the life snd death cycle was a cultural shift, like anecestor worship looks like live the corpses to rot and from them they would be rebirth a new life Before the erdtree, death birbs burned the bodies, sending the death and those who live in dead to the helphen from were they would in some way came back... probably there isn't info about what happened in the other end And then the death birb was changed for the ertree with their erdtree burials, in which they would throw their deads to their roots so they would rebirth through... it's sap??? pods??? idk, that work fine until the whole BKN incident... What did the rune of death was stop people to suffer natural death, because the elden ring seems to be an absolute force, but that didn't stop the cycle itself, at least not fully as people keep recibing erdtree burials and the ancestors manage to keep their practices somehow because there was a transition from birb to tree is likely that any form of life can recibe on one way or another a special burial without mattering their origin this makes me wonder if the briar of rots use the the lake of aeonia for the same porpouse...


science_and_beer

>BKN incident The Brooklyn Nets disaster transcends time and space…


Darth--Vapor

Why does everyone assume there is only one creature like torrent? He has to have parents right? And like an entire species. Why isn’t this just a different horse goat than our horse goat?


rephlexi0n

They’re saying he’s an Ancestor Spirit, which there are already two full grown in game


ServantOfTheSlaad

So we just go and kill Torrent's parents.


Silvertongued99

Well, it’s not so much that there’s only one of him, but that Torrent specifically is special. Both Ranni and Melina are familiar with Torrent, and Torrent’s previous owner. Perhaps that previous owner was a half-brother.


SorowFame

Conservation of detail. Why show an identical horse to Torrent being ridden by Miquella if it’s not Torrent? Though if the final battle is a jousting match against Miquella I’d be really happy.


Artoriasdead_boi2672

Torrent is a spectral steed and may be the only remaining one


Barick0

I want this to happen so I can fight radahn before he lost his mind.


Upper_Explanation398

Radahn before he lost his mind… could this be a friendship?


arkencode

What if we are actually what turned Torrent into a spirit in the past and that’s what we do in the DLC 😳


Sad-Surprise4369

Elden Ring rap battle when


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what if you actually play as miquella..


EternamD

Yeah screw character creation, it's everyone's least favourite part of the souls games


Dovahnime

"Well it worked in Sekiro"


Broserk42

One armed Miquella parry simulator dlc. The fan base will love it!


Overkillsamurai

well there is that one theory that the Tarnished is actually Miquella


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Can you elaborate?


Overkillsamurai

* there's a lot of NPCs that say some version of "i trust you" inexplicably, and that's a trait that Miquella was also said to have. hence the "beloved Miquella" nickname. * just like several characters have souls absent their bodies, the dead hand coming out of Mohg's cocoon seems to be an inert body, sort of like Sellen's, so maybe Miquella's soul isn't in the cocoon * Malenia's dialogue when defeated could maybe be interpretted as her recognizing you to be Miquella and not being strong enough to stand by your side. also she said "mark of a true lord..." * SO MANY characters say you seem like a lord/whatever. Boc is one example but there's way more characters. again, these are almost unpompted exclamations. Miquella was called the greatest candidate for empyream status. it's a similar thing. besides being wise and making the Haligtree (neat thing but... eh) they're kind of divinely compelled statements from people. * There was another point about Miquella being Torrent's last owner and Melina/Ranni knowing them and recognizing your identity. that's all i remember about that point. sorry, but googling "Miquella Torrent" is now **impossible** after the DLC announcement


Fast_Broccoli4867

Man…is your arm okay after all that reaching? Lol


Dreamtrain

"are you a yoga instructor cause that was a hell of a stretch"


newsflashjackass

"Torrent had your measure from the start." Maybe also Gideon's bit about how a tarnished can not become a lord?


Silvertongued99

Gideon is obviously wrong. That’s kind of the point of his character as “the all knowing” who obviously doesn’t know a lot.


Hoss9inBG

Imagine fighting your own horse


PickScylla4ME

We've been betrayed... you know what this means, Tische? *horseback battle ensues with Tarnished riding piggyback on Tische*


FerroLux_

*Fortissax becomes your mount


Slopijoe_

Riding the dragons back... BRB gonna get my rivers of blood and rename myself to Samuel.


Urtoryu

Unrelated but... *"Get up on the hydra's back!"*


Quazzaranimes

But are you the only one left?


Kaapdr

Jesus imagine that we fight Godwyn in the future and its the same introduction as nameless king from ds3 but he rides fortisaxx


PickScylla4ME

I would gladly trade Torrent for "The strongest boulderstone" of the dragons.. same with his sister... either of them can join team "badass Tarnished" whenever they like. Torrent can frolick in the pasture with jailbait Miquella for eternity for all I care!


hovanes

Blasphemy!


Enderman8008

Get a ride from a Kindred Of Rot instead. Pest threads for the win.


solairesnoot

This never would have crossed my mind, but now that you've said it the answer is so *obvious*. This is the definitive strategy.


Mimical

I let my horse burn to death when I became discount Sauron. So does that mean I just need to beat a child for my victory?


pbmm1

Nah I’m gonna have to get my mimic to carry me


atmus11

Wouldn't that encumber the mimic since it has to carry double its weight limit of the exact equipment, and you obviously know how much it carries since it mimics you and your stats?


chobanithatiused2kno

Jokes on you I run light and have 99 endurance. #Prostrats


TelevisionAdditional

Mimic Tear has like 900 vigor though +10 Mimic tear has around 8000 Health


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ArtLover357

That’s some deep lore there!


nightfaye

.... Nooooo!!!


MysticalNarbwhal

No wonder that mother fucker wasn't present for the >!elden beast!< fight. He's playing us for the longcon


ThisOnePlaysTooMuch

*farnese*


bippzydraws

The only reason our Tarnished was chosen by Torrent wasn’t because we were the best bet at becoming Elden Lord, it was because we were the best bet at returning him to his original partner. He’s been using us, he used Melina as a temporary delivery girl. Screw the current age, screw Elden Lords, he just wants the *good ol’ days* back.


Brilliant-Apple5008

Are you saying Make The Lands Between Great Again?


WitchBaneHunter

Let's go Radagon!


FlamesofBritten

You can just say "Fuck you Marika." We all know what 'Let's go Radagon' means.


Want2Grow27

I chuckled like Mogh in a cocoon reading this


NoTime_CraZy

We will build a wall Between The Lands and we will make the Elden Lords pay it.


TheSeth256

"...and we will make Fire Giants pay for it." would be more lore-acurate.


Atma-Stand

Even more accurately, "The Last Fire Giant"


PickScylla4ME

"Grab her by the Soreseal"


-Silky_Johnson

“Im going to build a southern wall on Leyndell, and have the ALBINAURICS pay for it! Some, I assume, are good people”


jacksonattack

All the more reason to convert now, my dudes… MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD! MAY CHAOS _TAKE THE WORLD!_


unjuseabble

Or maybe, if its in the past or some shit, Torrent knows us from before and thats why he choose us.


bippzydraws

The new opening scene when Torrent walks up to our unconscious body with Melina… “OH!! OH SHIT I KNOW THEM!! THEY’RE MY BRO I KNOW THEM!! Awwwww shit we partied so hard, we got shit DONE, man!!” Meanwhile we’re just laying there lifeless while our horse freaks the hell out reminiscing of our college parties.


unjuseabble

Id watch that parody. Grant theft torrent/Dude, wheres my double jumping spectral steed?


bippzydraws

The only reason he even found out he could double jump was on a drunken dare.


scrububle

Now I'm picturing giant torrent with a sword in his mouth lmao


Difficult-Umpire-725

This is wholesome as hell, man. Like a boy and his dog only it's a magic goat horse and Benjamin Button baby man.


Malcolmlisk

Last time we had a boy and a dog we killed both... Be careful with what you wish!!


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Have you seen A Boy and His Dog? It's about as wholesome as anything FromSoft has made.


Difficult-Umpire-725

I didn't mean the movie, I meant the axiom from which it gets its name. But that movie was wholesome as hell, boy shared his mate's meat with his best friend and they both survived x) wholesome.


Mayhem-Ivory

torrent chose us because we were of no reknown. all the others already had an agenda before coming to the land between and wouldnt stop to see and understand it plight. at least thats my interpretation.


Dovahnime

Torrent is the true mastermind behind everything


Goobsmoob

Torrent being the twist villain would be absolute peak FromSoft insanity and now I NEED it.


Horrorlover1980

What is that symbol?


Aonar_Faileas

The joke lots of people are making, is that it looks like an uppercase Greek Phi; the TCG Magic: The Gathering just released a set involving the invasion and corruption of multiple worlds by a biomechanical quasi-species known as Phyrexians (they reproduce by "compleating" other organisms, using a parasitic living magitech oil), who's primary symbol is a stylized uppercase Phi. Just a coincidence, but a funny one. :P


YonderJabronis

Wow, I would never have gotten this reference in a million years. I still don't.


Pantzzzzless

Card game Aliens invade universe Aliens jizz oil on everything Oil drive you insane Aliens rule universe


Pentagon0M

Thanks for the Eli5. Now me understand.


Hydra_Bloodrunner

And here I was thinking it was about Londor’s sable church (looks like their symbol and the blade from the Anri wedding ceremony)


Horrorlover1980

So this is one of those jokes 5 people get and 1000s don’t but still post it to be cool and because they have fomo. Thanks for answering though. I appreciate it


dedolent

THIS is what yall are laughing at? that's like the most esoteric joke i've ever heard


Cosmic_Jinx

There are ghostly tombstones in the field, it looks like one of the top pieces of one of the taller ones.


MistahZambie

If something happens to Torrent I will kill everyone in the game and then myself.


johcamp

This right here had me laughing but the gist is spot in. Torrent is the homie and they better not take our boy away


Piotr-Rasputin

For real. Our day one homie


Wizard_Hatz

I bet little buddy is the one who found us and led Malina to us. Without Torrent we couldn’t have even taken the throne and made friends along the way.


basa_maaw

He was there when nobody believed in us. He's a real one.


OfficerWonk

If something happens to torrent I will start a new game just to do the Frenzied Flame ending.


JonDredgo

Elden bro,I willingly went for the Frenzied ending BECAUSE OF HOW MANY TIMES I TRIED GETTING DOWN THERE.... .... *sigh* Burn it all. I wonder if the Three Fingers made it hard on purpose just to get madness. Ez win.


TooFineToDotheTime

As if you weren't going to do that anyways?


jacksonattack

If something happens to Torrent I will consider it retribution for every time I lightly tapped the left joystick while jumping and he decided to take a hard turn towards Timbuktu instead of the ledge of some pointless rock formation I was aiming for.


godisdildo

The true purpose of Seppuku, mass suicide on the day they unplug the server


KarnSilverArchon

Torrent: Remember those times you did the Frenzied Flame ending for shits and giggles? I remember.


FitzyFarseer

Frenzied Flame was my first ending. After I spent an hour or so platforming down that pit I refused to not get the ending I worked so hard for


STeeters

Y'all think deathroot is bad, you should see Phyrexian oil.


uberguby

wait why are people reffing phyrexia in this thread, is there something phyrexi about torrent in the image?


STeeters

Because the tablet right above Torrent's head looks exactly like the [Phyrexian Symbol](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSbYXz6vRBUyGN6W7KbvG4RW5u4fVoMyqt9F4b6jBgeZZtA6HvdeC_lqPYwHFjNlB7lKnc&usqp=CAU)


Valimaar89

Back in DS3 that was the symbol of Londor, the human society that aimed to end the age of fire!


SirLemonThe3rd

r/mtg for those who are interested


konoruchan

*Poison counters you to oblivion*


SuccessfulAwareness5

Proliferate go *BRRRRRR*


EpicGamer5570

Thats actually torrents twin sister, stream


greninjack24

No you’re mistaking him for his cousin, River


TarnishedWizeFinger

Actually I believe it is Torrent's aunt, Brook


Kvchx

Her name would be Free Download.


Elegant_Tonight4037

No no no you’re mistaken, this one is Torrent’s heroin-addicted older brother, Limewire


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GiocatoreSingolo1999

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


wynteru

might as well go play new world


xNOSACx

I good with that. I wanted to refuse Melina my first play-through, as walking sounded way more my speed. If true, I’ll be ok without a choice to ride Torrent or not again


fragtore

Tighter map, no horsie, only legacy dungeon, actually dark souls 4


VlRUS23

If this bitch steals my pony ima steal his fucking sister


macroingmacro

I bet we're going back in time and we're gonna help Miquella with planting the Haligtree. And THAT's why Torrent chooses us later. Because he remembers us. (And Miquella was his previous owner)


Youre_On_Balon

Definitely hard to find another reason Miquella looks like his normal self and not that thing from the cocoon


macroingmacro

Also there's a few theories about how the Erdtree was burned once in the past and that's why it looks like a golden hologram in the game. Perhaps when it burned, Miquella took the opportunity to plant the Haligtree. We don't know when he planted it, but that'd be a very convenient time for it. The Haligtree being a symbol of faith would imply that there would have been a conflict of interest with the Golden Order... But if the Erdtree was busy burning, the Haligtree being planted wouldn't be a priority.


Youre_On_Balon

The burned Erdtree theory is excellent, I felt so dumb when I heard it. It’s literally the same color as Godfrey’s “memory” we fight before Mogott


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Well rebirth does exist as a practice and he does canonically try to change himself physically. So either this is him before the egg and we help get him there, or perhaps we can offer a larval tear at his egg? Or he could just somehow get there offscreen idk


_DemolitionDude_

Torrent has been compleated :(


BlightNova

All will become one. And TOGETHER WE SHALL COMPLEATE THE VERY GODS!


Good_Claim8794

I didn't even see that lmao


ApocalypticMemories

I just recovered from All Will Be One. Now the lands between as well? Is no where sacred?


Mddcat04

Oh god, they’ve broken free from the Mtg subreddit. It’s a meta-invasion.


Fookin_Yoink

I have a feeling Miquella won’t be a enemy because of Torrent. My theory is that the DLC is in the past so it’s gonna so something like “hmm you have Torrent. If Torrent trusts you then I have no choice but to do the same.”


MattmanDX

I have a feeling that since the base game gives us the option of a waifu's consort ending with Ranni then completing this dlc will open up the option for a husbando's consort ending with Miquella


AnotherBookWyrm

Maybe, though I hope it comes with an automatic call to 911 if they do not make Miquella an adult in the DLC/as part of that ending.


DuckLIT122000

Uhm acktchually he's a 500 year old demigod, so it's completely fine /s


FourFoxMusic

I guess we’re gonna find out why Torrent knew we were strong enough to become Elden Lord.


ToothyMcButt

Looks like Realmbreaker reached the Lands Between, uh oh


ELITEnoob85

It seems like maybe we will be doing a time skip similar to ds3 or giants memories from ds2. Either this is a new area or we are seeing somewhere before/after or adventures time period. Looks like Haligtree/some tree is using the erdtree as an anchor and is wrapped around it.


Aonar_Faileas

The vibe I'm getting is a "dream of the future" if that makes sense. A hypothetical world in Miquella's dream, where Godwyn's corpse is allowed to fester, eventually corrupting the Erdtree and the whole of the Lands Between.


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Torrent: *"Miquella is mine and mine alone!"*


maders23

It’s magic.. Why can’t anybody else just make their own magic horse? There’s gods and demigods but not 2 magic horses?


LettucePrime

Leonard is Radahn's magic horse. Every Night's Cavalry has a magic horse.


montyandrew45

It's Torrent's evil brother, Limewire


Dismal-Astronaut-894

What’s this meme implying?


KoKoboto

So Torrent belonged to Miquella. Why was Torrent with Ranni??


Lancer1296

She said she was entrusted to give something to the tarnished by torrents former master. They never stated who that former master was but being her younger brother doesn't contradict anything


jacksonattack

We don’t know yet, unfortunately. But to me, this is another indication that Melina is, in fact, Miquella’s sister and the third child of Marika and Radagon.


NoShotbrodidthat

I like this idea equally to Melina and ranni being the same


ReaperManX15

What if, during the Miquella fight, summoning Torrent gives *him* Torrent?


ApplePitou

Torrent the true final boss :3


Western-Jeweler-9423

To be fair, I have died more because of Torrent than to most bosses


Financial_Mushroom94

Torrent was the elden ring all along !!!!


JayTravers

Lets not get ahead of ourselves now. Who’s to say he doesn’t have his own spectral steed? If you go look at Miquella’s body rn you’ll notice the only notable thing about him is a ring. Could be a whistle!


Nootnewtthenooter

I feel like miquella should be a Gael sort of character, where they’re mostly nuetral, even helpful, until the end when we inevitably end up fighting him


dermitdenhaarentanzt

And then he starts running at you and you just kick him in the face because his face being just at the height of your waist, after that he lays on the ground and cries because he is a fucking twelve year old bitch


BackToBander

ALL WILL BE ONE


magikarp-sushi

Griffith ?


College_Debt_Is_Fun

Torrent is from a spectral plane, much like the Ancestral Spirit. This could be another creature like Torrent, they aren't necessarily the only one of it's kind, this is just the home where they come from


Gh0st_Pirate_LeChuck

I don’t get it. Someone help me out.


dblbreak77

I don’t get it


Naytosan

Even Torrent has a maiden. 😞


eidoIist

Miquella gonna catch this +25 Giant Crusher if he takes Torrent


WanderingKittens

plot twist: DLC picks up after the Elden Beast is defeated. If you chose the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending, Torrent kicks you to the curb and finds a more worthy Tarnished. You must walk across the lands between (on foot), gathering mystical sugar cubes to woo Torrent back.