Longtime Souls collection dataminer Lance McDonald has uncovered the preliminary phases of a minimize NPC questline within the Elden Ring construct from the sport’s console community check in November 2021.
The Stormhill Shack (previously Scavenger’s Shack) the place you meet Roderika within the completed recreation is empty within the community check construct, however Lance was in a position to re-implement the NPC who was as soon as supposed to dwell there: Monk Jigo.
Jigo has been “seduced by the great girl alcohol” and requests your assist in securing the substances of “Dreambrew,” a legendary liquor with magical properties. This quest ties into one other curiosity from the community check: non hostile, slumbering animals hidden all through the world. They had been meant to provide off “Dream Mist” which you’d then acquire for Jigo with the assistance of St. Trina’s Crystal Ball. St. Trina is a cryptic character in Elden Ring’s lore related to sleep and dreaming, and it looks as if they had been initially deliberate to have extra of a presence within the recreation.
Lance additionally equipped a glimpse of Dreambrew’s eventual use: gifting it to NPCs for bonus dialogue. Lance gave his first Dreambrew batch to Service provider Kalé in Limgrave’s Church of Eleh. This put Kalé to sleep, and whereas the continuing in-game audio is simply the product owner’s loud night breathing, the subtitles briefly describe his nightmare of being tortured by the Frenzied Flame.
This appears to have been supposed as a long-running quest, with Dream Mist supplying one other collectible to hunt for within the Lands Between, and the next NPC conversations offering extra context to Elden Ring’s story.
Within the completed recreation, gamers are in a position to struggle an elective boss in a personality’s dream on the finish of Fia’s questline. It is unclear for the time being if the Dreambrew questline would have finally featured equally concerned gameplay, leaping into characters’ desires, or simply the bonus dialogue. We will probably count on additional investigation into this deserted storyline and gameplay mechanic in future movies by Lance.
For his half, Lance has additionally coated the unusual big heads which seem in distant surroundings within the community check, however are absent within the remaining recreation. Fellow Souls collection dataminer Zullie the Witch has additionally been maintaining a gradual stream of insightful Elden Ring movies.
