Dataminer unearths 'cut' voicelines from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's stoic final boss

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Before we get into this, there’ll (naturally) be spoilers forElden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s final boss within.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s final boss, Promised Consort Radahn (apart from beinghard as a mouthful of nailsdoused in acid) has proven to be something of a contentious choice from a lore perspective.

Some argue that other candidates from Elden Ring’s panoply of blood-relative demigods, such as Godwyn the formerly Golden, might’ve been more fitting, though there’s plenty of debate as to whether his soul’s even a viable candidate for being jammed into Mohg’s puppeteered corpse.

Whether you’re on team Edward or Jacob—sorry, I mean, Godywn or Radahn—it turns out the latter might have also been more talkative, once upon a time. On r/eldenringloretalk (thanks,Eurogamer) user LaMi_1 has dug up some"cut" voice-linesvia the time-honored tradition of datamining. LaMi_1 found the following three lines:

“I was checking the internal files of the DLC,” LaMi_1 writes, “to translate the original Japanese texts and discover if they had any relevant difference with the English version or any meaning that got lost in translation, and while scrolling the dialogues and comparing the English ones with the Japanese ones, I found out a very interesting piece of cut content.”

This leads us to a secondary question, one that’s been on the tongues of YouTube loremasters since the DLC dropped: Just how on-board was Radahn with becoming Miquella’s consort in the first place?

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If Miquella similarlyforcedRadahn to promise to be his consort, then that means Radahn is himself a victim of the “kindly” god’s mind control—however, Radahn’s mostly just here for a good fight, and is considered in the lore to be compassionate and, possibly, a bit gullible.

The lines LaMi_1 dug up areZanzibart-tierin how little they actually give away about Radahn’s motivation, though “a lion bred for battle” does suggest that even he considers himself more of apetto Miquella, rather than a partner. On the other hand, Radahn was a badass, and a badass referring to themselves as a “lion bred for battle” is—you guessed it, badass. Sometimes the curtains are just blue. It’s also interesting that he doesn’t refer tohimselfas Miquella’s consort, either.

There’s a whole further barrel of takes on how much of a willing partner he is, but resident PC Gamer Elden Ring buff Ted Litchfield tells me that the description of hisYoung Lion’s Armorindicates he got cold feet during the Shattering, with Malenia tracking him down on behalf of their brother:

“When Malenia, Blade of Miquella, let the rotflower blossom in Aeonia, Radahn heard a murmur in his ear—‘Miquella awaits thee, O promised consort.'”

However much he might have once been down to clown with his half-brother and boyfriend (don’t think about it), Radahn might have had issues later on with being crammed into the desecrated body of Mohg, the Lands Between’s most misunderstood wife guy, and joined at the hip to a version of his boo who had abandoned everything good about himself in a bid for godhood⁠.

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Promised Consort Radahn stands, embraced by kindly Miquella, in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

We’ll never know for certain, though, because he doesn’t say anything. Radahn is mute throughout the entire fight, leaving the chatting to Miquella, who gives the world’s deadliest piggyback ride.

Whatever your views on the Land of Shadow’s freshly-inaugurated jock supreme are, it’s clear that being mind-controlled won’t stop Radahn from flattening most players into the dirt. Unless you’re this guy, who trained themselves to school himwithout getting hit a single time. In which case, I’m afraid of you.

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