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Meet Elden Ring’s newest hero: the Lore Accurate Knight, a sword-and-board legend crushing bosses with simple Dark Souls-inspired gear.

Pabio November 16, 2024

A few days ago, YouTuber Sax Slave Gaël asked the Elden Ring Reddit community a simple question: “Anyone here enjoying the Sword and Board Knight base builds?“Turns out that’s the case for a lot of people. Gael’s clip showing a knightly fight with Consort Radahn caused a stir within the community, so he quickly returned with another duel between the knight to the fan-favorite boss, Bayle the Dread, which quickly accumulated almost 10,000 upvotes.

For the actual creation of the Lore Accurate Knight, one of my favorite new original characters from Elden Ring, we have to go back to Gael’s video from March at “How to Create an Authentic Knight Build” focusing on blocking and counter-guarding. But it was Chevalier’s battle with Bayle that put his saga on my radar, and Gael tells me that after this unexpected spike in popularity, his fight is not not yet finished.

Gael isn’t the first person to play an archetypal knight in Elden Ring, not by a long shot, but the cinematography of Lore Accurate Knight’s Bayle fight gives the character real personality and ultimately won me over. As someone who really grew to love counterguards in the Elden Ring DLC, and still has a fondness for that inimitable knight in fluted armor dating back to the original Demon’s Souls trailer, the Lore Accurate Knight hits all the right notes. good grades. It is the purest distillation of From the softwareThe disempowerment fantasy of: you’re just a guy with a sword in a world of gods and monsters. OK, you’re also a guy with the Sekiro-grade Deflecting Hard Tear, but still.

Lore Accurate Knight – The Murder of Bayle the Dread | A cutscene – YouTube
Lore Accurate Knight - The Murder of Bayle the Dread | A cutscene - YouTube

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“My main canon for this character is that he is a lone knight of the Round Table who doesn’t fight because he necessarily wants to, but is instead told to do so by those he meets during his journey,” Gael told me. “He has no desire to become Elden Lord, but he has been told it is his destiny, so he remains loyal to this cause as part of his honor as a knight.”

Gael has been creating content for Elden Ring for years and has collectively spent over 3,000 hours playing hundreds of builds. Something in the sword and board strikes again. “In general, I prefer the more basic elements of Elden Ring, like the iron sword, great mace, etc., but I particularly enjoy the sword and board style of play, because there There’s something very satisfying about overcoming a difficult feat using the bare minimum.”

“The design is definitely influenced by the OG Knights found in From’s previous Souls games,” he continues. “The Elite Knight set from the Dark Souls series is one of my favorite sets in the series. The inspiration was definitely a callback to those previous games, but my overall inspiration was to show that while it doesn’t Using only the basic foundations, a simple knight can still defeat some of the toughest and most intimidating bosses in the game.

“I think it’s the idea of how, in a world like Elden Ring, where we have all these powerful demigods, powerful dragons with special powers, just a simple knight with a shield and a sword that can outclassing them, that makes it so memorable,” he said. said. “Imagine how they must feel losing to an ordinary knight with all their power. I think the classic Yhorm the Giant meme captures that feeling perfectly.”

After the overwhelming response to the fight against Knight’s Bayle – “one user even paid me to do it again with the UI/HUD disabled for a more cinematic effect, which I happily obliged” – Gael is now planning another entry and a longer video explaining the knight’s journey. His current build is a level 150 Wanderer with 60 Stamina, 40 Stamina, and 80 Strength – the only stats a Knight really needs.

“It’s wonderful to see so many players enjoying the simple things in such a complex game with so many ways to play,” adds Gael. “It definitely helped jump-start my creative thinking and inspired me to create more knight-themed characters, as there are many like me who are passionate and interested in this style of gaming.”

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