Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's first major boss is a real statement of intent: an aggressive, high-flying creature inspired by Chinese Lion dances that seems to be serving as a bit of an early game, Margit-style blocker to many players' progression. But it turns out the real life Lion dance inspiration goes deeper than I first assumed: A new video by BonfireVN on YouTube has revealed that there are actually two little guys under the lion getup.
I think I had just assumed that, while clearly taking a visual inspiration from Lion dances, the Divine Beast Dancing Lion was going to be some kind of grafted flesh thing under its armor and cloak. I had something like the base game's Royal Revenant enemies in mind, and BonfireVN has also helpfully disrobed them in another video, revealing their full nasty glory.
