Written down souls YouTuber Lance McDonald uncovered some, um, intoxicating content that was truncated Elden ring‘s final build pretty late in development by the looks of it. By collaborating with another YouTuber named Sekiro Dubi, the two restored a surprisingly extensive FromSoftware mechanic that made you collect dreams to craft alcohol. Hey, the Lands Between is a sad place. Everyone could use a drink or two numb the pain after being impersonated again by the Starscourge Radahn.
Sekiro Dubi, a YouTuber who uploads videos of FromSoft games, posted a video over the weekend of a “Content clipping feature” out of Elden ring he found in it the network trial of the game. The feature was about collecting “Dream Mist,” a mist-like cloud that emanates from creatures by using the removed item St. Trina’s Crystal Ball. To demonstrate how the mechanic would have worked, Sekiro Dubi collected the dreams of various unconscious creatures, including Those fucking land octopuses in Limgraf.
McDonald went through the differences in the network test version of the game from the final version, which still has remnants of the features and storylines. For example, Stormhill Shack in Stormhill used to be called Scavenger’s Shack, except in the older version, a monk named Reeling Rico occupied the hut before Roderika sat there. This Rico was a total alcoholic who was eagerly hoping you would help him make the “dream brew”, a forbidden drink known as “the nectar of the demigods”. In practice, it is this alcoholic beverage, composed of at least two dream mists, that can be used to “uncover someone’s deepest darkest secrets”.
Talk to Rico and he would have given you the Crystal Ball of St. Trina, an item used to collect the Dreammist from sleeping beings. As McDonald’s video shows, there were supposed to be deeply sleeping creatures in the Lands Between with that dream mist hovering over them. Collecting her Dream Mist with the Crystal Ball and returning to Rico, the alcoholic monk in the Scavenger’s Shack, would net you a bottle of Dream Brew, which would then open up new dialogue options when offering the drink to certain NPCs. Like when you added the dream brew to it the merchant Kalé in the church of Elleh, he joked about being “an honest merchant of good standing,” before embracing the dream brew and fainting immediately after drinking it. The lightweight ended up having a terrifying nightmare where fire burned his eyeballs while you were standing right next to him, which is a reference to a larger lore thing involving the Flame of Frenzy and the history of all traders. Talk about deep, dark secrets.
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Trina, for what it’s worth, is a fairly enigmatic character in the game, mostly only appearing in relation to sleep-related items like this. But like all things Elden ring, there is a strong hint in this video that Trina could just be in another dimension or something. It also seems like you can see remnants of the cut content everywhere, especially when it comes to Seluvis’ potion-centric quest lines.
This isn’t the only content that’s been cut Elden ring players have found and I’m sure it won’t be the last time. Which is perhaps the most ridiculous so far a pair of undressed underwear Dataminers equip themselves with various hacks. There’s no telling what other secrets the Lands Between are hiding, and perhaps getting NPCs drunk with a dream brew might have spilled the tea.
