Pot Boys, Pot Pals, Clay Bros, Cauldron Cuzs, Residing Jars… it does not matter what you name them: they appear good. They had been among the many first memes to spawn from Elden Ring and it is little surprise, as a result of they seem to be a species of sentient and sometimes violent pot. It is like Hayao Miyazaki and Lewis Carroll collaborated, after which, I dunno, Eli Roth barged in. Or, to place laboured references apart, it is like Hayataka Miyazaki having a traditional one.
A quick look within the first Elden Ring gameplay video vastly undersold how very many Pot Pals there ended up being within the base sport, which is not any unhealthy factor as a result of one can by no means be under-equipped with ceramic vessels, sentient or not. Even the Pot Pals who assault us in Elden Ring are charming: their moveset is lumbering and predictable in order that if a Pot Buddy hurts you it is undoubtedly your individual silly fault. Pot Pals are hilarious, beautiful, whimsical, bumbling treasures, are they not?
No: Pot Pals are nightmares. After I performed Shadow of the Erdtree just lately, I encountered a subterranean gaol filled with big pots, which introduced nice pleasure at first. The gaol was depressing, in any case. There was an aged man crying someplace within the distance. Some mild ceramic aid was undoubtedly so as. Alas, nostalgic encounters with aware clay vessels weren’t in my waters that day.
As a result of that is precisely what the pots are: they’re vessels. Residing Jars aren’t, because it seems, sentient pots. The dwelling elements of them—the issues inside the pot, not the pot itself—are unspeakable shapeshifting hunks of gore which have discovered to commandeer pots in the direction of their very own freakish ends. Oh, they usually fuck you up too, within the vogue of these items that FromSoft merely like to put in each single one in every of their videogames.
Apparently this is not new data. Based on the Residing Jar fandom web page, they’ve all the time been “dropped at life by human flesh and blood”. One other corroborating second within the base sport comes whenever you work together with Alexander, Warrior Jar after Radahn is felled. I missed this second myself, however apparently Alexander all however confirms (by way of VG 24/7) that the pots are mainly fuelled by the gelatinous gibs of slain people. “As luck would have it, there is a veritable mountain of warriors’ our bodies proper right here. If I can simply squeeze this bunch down inside me, I will be a mighty warrior once more very quickly.”
In case you had been hoping the Warrior Jar’s phrases throughout that encounter had been shrouded in poetic allusion, open to interpretation, and positively to not be taken actually, then I hate to be the bearer of unhealthy information. The pots actually are simply filled with reanimated chunks of lifeless individuals. Generally it is higher to not know, however typically it is painful to know alone. Therefore, why I share this with you.