Will Seath the Scaleless Be In FromSoftware’s Elden Ring Too? – Screen Rant

FromSoftware games are known to feature lots of parallels to previous titles, but could one of the studio's most famous enemies pop up in Elden Ring?

From Dark SoulstoBloodborne,Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and (hopefully soon enough)Elden Ring, studio FromSoftware has created some of the most visually-distinct and intricately-designed video games ever made. Although many of its gamestake place in their own, self-contained universes, the developer is wont to sprinkle inan Easter egg or two every now again, leading players to wonder whether the worlds of the undead, hunters and samurai may be connected after all.

Unless FromSoftware breaks this tradition, their upcoming open world RPG Elden Ring is sure to feature a few leftovers from previous projects. How prominent a role these leftovers will play in the story and gameplay is, however, another question altogether. While players should probably expect to find the rusted armor set of an Ashen One discarded by some smoldering camp fire, they could very well get to face off against one of the developer's oldest and most iconic enemies, too.

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That enemy is, of course, Seath the Scaleless. First introduced in the original Dark Souls, Seath was one of the Everlasting Dragons who allied himself with the game's final boss, Lord Gwyn, and turned against his own kind. Born, as his name suggests, without the powerful and magical scale armor of his brethren, the monster would go on to spend the rest of his life in search of immortality a right which, unlike other dragons, he had been denied.

Why would Seath appear in Elden Ring? For one, he fits the setting. Not only is the world of Elden Ringmodeledafter a medieval society filled withfantastical creatures, said world has also been designed by none other than George R.R. Martin, the writer behind the popular fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire and, by extension, HBO's hit show Game of Thrones. As dragons feature prominently in Martin's work, chances are they will show up in Elden Ring as well.

Of course, just because dragons could show potentially up in the game that does not mean one of them is going to be Seath. And yet, the preliminary themes of Elden Ring clearly resemble those of Seath's own story. Not only has FromSoftware's director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, stated the game will be a "natural evolution" of the Dark Souls series in particular, he has also said that the game is going to center aroundideas of will and ambition. On top of that, the game's trailer promises asociety whose balance has been tipped. Sound familiar?

Even if Seath will not make a direct appearance in Elden Ring, the game will likelyfeature a character similar to him as the narratives of FromSoftware's various games, despite being set in different universes, frequently parallel one another. In each game the studio has ever made, the player character has a tenuous relationship with death, and ventures through a kingdom in decay in search of salvation.If Seath won't make a direct appearance, then, surely his spiritual successor will.

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Tim is a Dutch journalist living in New York. He studied film and literature at NYU, his favorites movies are Kung Fu Panda and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and his writing has appeared in PopMatters, History Today and The New York Observer among others.