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rynlingLast night, Jorge explored the Moorth Ruins.
The overland map of Elden Ring is dotted with architectural ruins. Many of these ruins are purely aesthetic, but some groupings of ruins serve as miniature set pieces in which there's a semi-hidden basement chamber where you can find treasure.
Sometimes this "treasure" is a miniboss fight in a dark, confined space, and sometimes it's a horrible scene that maybe you wish you hadn't seen. One of my favorite underground chambers is in Caelid (the postapocalyptic wasteland covered in fungus), in which there's a group of ruins where sentient centipede/shrimp people are using human corpses left behind in a burial chamber as fertilizer for tasty mushrooms and worms. They're actually pretty chill about it, and this is one of the many instances in Elden Ring where I feel bad about coming along and murdering everyone.
Anyway, the Moorth Ruins in the DLC region initially seem like any other set of ruins, but actually! The town was struck by an earthquake, and there's a giant sinkhole in the middle. You therefore get to do a bit of platforming downward along the ruined buildings half-buried in the earth. Toward the bottom, there's a tunnel leading to another area in the region, and you emerge just outside of a place called "Bonny Village."
Despite its quaintly rustic buildings and "bonny" natural setting, I think the primary industry of Bonny Village might have been human meat processing. There are still a few butchers roaming around, and I'm sure you can imagine how they greet visitors. Good times.
The overland map of Elden Ring is dotted with architectural ruins. Many of these ruins are purely aesthetic, but some groupings of ruins serve as miniature set pieces in which there's a semi-hidden basement chamber where you can find treasure.
Sometimes this "treasure" is a miniboss fight in a dark, confined space, and sometimes it's a horrible scene that maybe you wish you hadn't seen. One of my favorite underground chambers is in Caelid (the postapocalyptic wasteland covered in fungus), in which there's a group of ruins where sentient centipede/shrimp people are using human corpses left behind in a burial chamber as fertilizer for tasty mushrooms and worms. They're actually pretty chill about it, and this is one of the many instances in Elden Ring where I feel bad about coming along and murdering everyone.
Anyway, the Moorth Ruins in the DLC region initially seem like any other set of ruins, but actually! The town was struck by an earthquake, and there's a giant sinkhole in the middle. You therefore get to do a bit of platforming downward along the ruined buildings half-buried in the earth. Toward the bottom, there's a tunnel leading to another area in the region, and you emerge just outside of a place called "Bonny Village."
Despite its quaintly rustic buildings and "bonny" natural setting, I think the primary industry of Bonny Village might have been human meat processing. There are still a few butchers roaming around, and I'm sure you can imagine how they greet visitors. Good times.
