Does Elden Ring Nightreign‘s bird-bodied Guardian have a human face hidden someplace on his feathery physique? It is a query folks have been excited about, and by “folks” I imply a small subset of Elden Ring obsessives who like to look at the sport being picked aside 3D mannequin by 3D mannequin.
Due to a prolific Souls modder/dataminer, I can offer you a solution. Of their newest video, Zullie The Witch – who’s beforehand solved varied Souls mysteries and modded an Armored Core into Elden Ring – has unmasked Nightreign‘s crop of nightfarers like they’re Scooby-Doo villians. Most of their faces look the way you’d anticipate, however there are a few noteworthy circumstances that I believe it is value you understanding about.
To start with, it is value noting that as a result of swap from customized characters to eight established archetypes, Nightreign’s playable characters do not use facedata – by my understanding, this the character creator values that spit out a specfic face – in the identical method Elden Ring did, although Zullie does be aware: “there’s technically facedata in Nightreign, but it surely appears to be only a copy of the prevailing information from Elden Ring.”
With that established, I am gonna leap to the little bit of the video that discusses the Guardian, the sport’s halberd-wielding Pinionfolk captain. Some people had been questioning if his birdy visage might need imply FromSoft having to cover a human face someplace on his mannequin, presumably so he’d conform with the remainder of the playable fashions. Fortunately for all of our desires, Zullie has checked below the backs of their knees for stray mouths, and says they’ve not discovered a bizarre human face hiding wherever on the Guardian.
In the meantime, the one nightfarer they could not discover any sort of correct face for (of the human or birdy selection) was Wylder. Eradicating the armour from every of his skins has simply revealed a featureless “silhoutte”, which Zullie notes leaves his look a little bit of thriller, although people have inferred that he seemingly seems just like the Dutchess. Cue some commenters joking that in fact the character they’ve dubbed John Nightreign, equally to Helldivers 2 gamers making a meme out of the title John Helldiver referring to some legendary everyman determine, is faceless.
One asserted that this confirms that “Wylder is the true John from all Fromsoft video games”, which is actually a principle.
If you happen to’ve not given Nightreign a go but, make sure that to take a look at Nic’s overview of it and the stuff FromSoft not too long ago confirmed is coming to it down the street.
