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Kaan Serin

Elden Ring player about to max out their real-life frenzy meter after spending 35 hours bravely explaining "the entire lore"

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Fromsoftwarian world-building sometimes has centuries explained away in item descriptions for random rusty spoons, which makes hunting down all the lore nuggets just as satisfying as surviving bosses. One YouTuber has done the heavy lifting on Elden Ring for us, thankfully, but it's also taken them over 35 hours to do so.

YouTuber SmoughTown has a knack for researching and explaining the lore behind several Soulslike hits, from Lords of the Fallen to the grand Dark Souls. Their latest series aims to explain "the entire lore" behind the studio's magnum opus Elden Ring and its fractured demigod-housing setting The Lands Between. 

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