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Leyndell's Hidden History | Elden Ring Archaeology Ep. 11

The Tarnished Archaeologist

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Elden Ring Lore: The City of Leyndell is old indeed. We look deep underground to reconstruct its ruined and nameless past.

"The Eternal City of Leyndell", Part V of the series Elden Empires, Risen and Felled:
The Godfrey and Marika Saga (3-part subser...

#eldenring #eldenringlore #eternalcity #tarnishedarchaeologist

Cited content: u/NamelessSinger

Gameplay footage/music credit: Elden Ring, Dark Souls 3, Dark Souls, Bandai Namco and FromSoftware.

Music samples: Elden Lords - Ljós Detta, Alex Roe; Pvrification, Megaloschemos II.

Creative Commons and stock attributions:
Images:
Xenophon statue, Gerd Eichmann; Via Egnatia, Carole Raddato; maps, Elden Ring Walkthrough Team.

Video samples:
Rome, luca costa. Nineveh and hoplites, Fall of Civilizationos, ep 13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron. To learn about the real Xenophon and the destruction of Nineveh, check out their video:
13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron

Contents of the Video
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Xenophon's Anabasis
3:45 Chapter 1: Leyndell's Mystery Gate
5:53 Chapter 2: Leyndell, Eternal City
11:45 Chapter 3: An Eternal Empire
17:15 Conclusions

20 Comments

@cez3po 1 year ago

Crazy how well this video aged, with the release of Nightreign we get another eternal city “Noklateo” which has a very fitting shape to what’s missing in Leyndell

@rabsrabble5415 3 years ago

"The eternal city is exactly where the missing part of the Leyndell's lower city should be." How dare you drop another mind shattering revelation on my feeble brain. I love it, great work.

@SmoughTown 3 years ago

Absolutely Seismic video dude, blowing my mind here. What a treat to the lore community.

@WanderedIn 3 years ago

How dare you not list the architectural features of Sellia in depth, I was so excited and then you tore it away from me

@TheRealTetro 3 years ago

How ? Just how had seemingly everybody missed that the Nameless Eternal City might have been the hole in Leyndell ? Just wow.
Your work is phenomenal !

@knasigboll 3 years ago

It's crazy how much actual history I have learned because of Elden Ring lore and the content creators trying to decipher it!

@miststead 3 years ago

As someone currently working on my Anthropology degree, these videos have been going hand in hand with the classes/lectures I’ve been taking and it’s SO fun!!!

@Ostentatiousnessness 1 year ago

The inhabitants heard that they were called the "Lower" city and thought that it was meant to be literal.

@EmmettFlorence 3 years ago

Another piece of evidence connecting Lyndell to the eternal city below is the giant limbless Gargoyles. This unusual enemy is found primarily in these two locations.

@TristanHawthorne 3 years ago

The road between Leyndell and northern Liurnia is now known as Bellum Highway, and its current iteration connected the capital of the Erdtree to the Academy of Raya Lucaria before the greatbridge was broken. Considering that two separate wars were waged between these two factions and that 'Bellum' is Latin for 'War', I believe the current iteration of the highway was built after the Eternal City of Nokstella was banished underground.

@sympathy_for_strays 1 year ago

I appreciate the great irony of there being ruins we can explore from an empire called the Eternal Empire. FromSoft is so good at putting in subtle yet immense ironies into their games, like that. Another being, in Bloodborne, expeditions into underground crypts were a huge source of progress in understanding the cosmos and the "Great Ones" which reside there.

@andrew_cunningham 3 years ago

The more of these I watch the more it feels like you're reading directly from Miyazaki's stolen design documents and the less it feels like any other channel of this type was even making a dent by reading item descriptions. It's actually revelatory.

@demianleon6751 3 years ago

You have no idea how much you're blessing the Elden Ring Lore community with your videos. It amazes me how much you can learn from all the architecture and just looking around your surroundings. Keep blessing us with these awesome videos bro!

@Dart572 3 years ago

Damn, before I discovered your channel I knew FromSoft was very detail oriented in their environmental design, but this kind of shit is next-level. The both literal and figurative world building is amazing. Thank you so much for exposing all of these details that would go over most people's heads, never would have pieced any of this together myself.

@IdToaster 3 years ago

I get the feeling that Leyndell wasn't the name that the third eternal city had, until its conquerors renamed it; doesn't have the same scheme as the other two.

Also it makes more sense for the third city to be nameless (in addition to it now being uninhabited) because its old name was stripped and replaced.

@entroponetics 3 years ago (edited)

Edit: Wrote this before getting very far into the video, so now I feel silly for pointing out the obvious

I would like to just point out that much of Elden Ring's topological and geological features, particularly around Liurnia and Altus, suggest a massive seismic upheaval that raised large portions of the map to higher strata and/or forced others either down to surface level or beneath the surface entirely. The upper areas of Liurnia, as well as Altus are situated on cliffs or buttes, with sudden drops around them that often contain debris from manmade structures that we see the remnants of above. Almost like large portions of The Lands Between were suddenly and violently shifted up or down at some point. That seems to be the case with Leyndell as well.

@jeremykugler4772 3 years ago

This might explain why the Nox bear a symbol on their capes that the Godrick Knight Armor identifies as "two-headed war axe, an emblem of the golden lineage", visible on the jousting shield and the cape of that armor as well as their gilded shields. Just like the Beast once was the sign of Serosh, the golden lineage must have apropiated this Nox symbol as well, likely taken from the oldest part of Leyndell, the Eternal City, to establish further continuity. It only vaguely looks like an axe anyways

@rocki_bb 3 years ago

I'm so excited!!!
You fall into a very small group of creators that inspire actual feelings of glee when I see you've posted a new video! Thank you for the work you put into them!