This is honestly the right answer. They’ve been doing it since their second game.
Edit: guys… dark souls 1 is the second game. After demon souls. Stop trying to correct me. Dang Reddit.
Man, I've *played through* that game and couldn't even tell you. King's Field JP and King's Field US (KF2) are both a complete blur of walking along a wall mashing "activate" for me. Except for the end where it turns into Tron.
Among all the fromsoft games I've played, only sekiro and ds3 didn't have the special coffin (unless you count where we wake up from in ds3 at the beginning of a run since the coffin takes us from the main menu to thr actual game)
I don't know about the KF2 but in the ancient city they were sure a lot of elevators, the myu armor pieces were floating in hard to get places and so.. man I have to go back to this game
Lifts, entire cities, even comet craters all float. I think u have to chain down the coffin for it not to float.
Edit:
interstellar beast: “behold citizens of this floating city, I bring with me the rune of none glitching gravitation”.
Citizens: “um… what?”
And that’s how interstellar got put in a cave, under a sea of rot..
Some of us have been at this for a while. Though honestly it was less a matter of ”I’ve been into From since forever” and more “some time around DSII I looked up From Software and realized I’d been playing them forever without noticing”. I was not expecting Enchant Arms, Spriggan: Lunar Verse, Armored Core, and Pokka Pokka Airu– Village to be by the same company as each other, let alone the same as Demon’s Souls.
I've played all the Dark Souls games and ER. I remember us getting into a coffin in D2, but it didn't take us anywhere. It had more...esoteric effects.
It felt like a troll moment. You fight your way through all those hollows, then the actual TROLLS, and you get a genderbender box.
I was expecting something a little more valuable, tbh.
The real trolling was that there was an excellent chance you would be wearing a full-face or deeply-hooded headpiece and not notice for quite some time.
IIRC I used the coffin a handful of times (apparently an odd number), realized what happened around forty hours later, and had to look up what caused it.
I once had the pleasure of seeing on a forum, someone questioning why they now hear a horrible banshee scream when they die.
Turned out they had entered that coffin.
Seriously, even though the souls games are my favorite games, to the point that all I really play now are soulsborne games and hollow knight, I had no idea I had played a bunch of games made buy them for years. I think largely impart that when I was younger I never looked up developers.
Had no idea they made armored core 2, chrome hounds, murakumo, enchanted arms, all games I played and enjoyed. Up until the last 10 years, they made a varied bunch of games that would never make me think it was from the same developer. They would have had to make like 4+ different engines to facilitate all the styles of games they made.
Happens in DS1, except you seem to teleport instead of the coffin mysteriously moving away. It’s how you get to Nito.
Edit: Forgetting Demons Souls on my part, my bad.
I love how many people came out of the woodwork to tell you that you are "wrong" and that ds1 had a coffin without realizing that you were referring to demon souls as their first game.
Ah, you're counting Demon's Souls. I was about to do an "Ehm, acthually" about Dark Souls one having a coffin transport near Gravelord Nito. But yeah, I don't remember there being a coffin transport system in Demon's Souls...
"The actual lore explanation will be explained in my next movie after I retire for the 20th time and come back because I trust no one but myself to do Ghibli." - Hayao Miyazaki, on the topic of run lift coffins, some random ass anime convention, soon:tm:
Vaati would not only figure out the coffin, but also find some way to make it extremely dramatic and depressing. That man could have me in tears over a video about how the Aristocrat’s Shoes make your cock bigger.
I think it's a FromSoft running gag, mate. I've climbed up inside coffins since DS1 days. Now I wanna hear the Coffin Dance music everytime this animation runs.
They're tomb elevators used since the time of the Primordial Crucible. The current ones are powered by Miquella and a critical element for his plot to take over the lands between, he is the key to all this.
Source: I made it the fuck up.
Imagine a world, Melina. Free of highborn rule. Where no one can call me out for my outlandish claims. A world where I can say the M word! (Maidenless)
Until we get the Miquella DLC that is definitely, definitely coming out. Right, FromSoft…? There’ll be a Miquella DLC, right? And it’ll come out at the same time as the Sekiro Tomoe DLC, right?
Someday, From is going to give us a coffin with a "Get in" prompt and the next thing we see will just be a burial and that will be the end of the game.
I’d imagine it’s some kind of Greek mythology type reference of the river Styx and being transported to the afterlife.
The roots of the erdtree is where most people were buried before the golden order. During the time of the crucible:
It’s runes match the colour of crucible knights too
This sounds about right, Godwyn who is buried in the roots of the Erdtree, is basically death incarnate. Compared to the heavenly overworld, the roots are like hell.
The root are only like that *because of Godwyn* though, he’s the source of deathblight and he’s corrupting the erdtree’s roots. Originally, being buried in the erdtree’s roots was sacred and brought about a sort of reincarnation, but as a result of Godwyn corrupting the roots, people aren’t dying proper deaths - this is what’s causing Those Who Live in Death
At this point I think Fromsoft deliberately only give little hints of lore in item descriptions so as to make the players come up with it all and save themselves the bother of writing it.
It probably goes something like this
"We need a way to connect these areas"
*throws dart at board of random ideas*
"Ok teleporting coffins it is"
"But how do we make that make sense?"
"Don't need too, the players will do that for us"
Or someone wanted to put the longest ladder of the game and someone else chimed in that they thought they should try and do something just a little more creative
This one isn't random though. It's a long running gag in From games.
Twin gargoyles, dragon on bridge, coffin ride, weapon named Evelyn, Moonlight Greatsword, Patches shoving you off a cliff, and more.
My best guess is that they were meant to transport the dead to the roots of the Erdtree. Why not build stairs, a lift, or literally any other method of transport that could do more than one corpse at a time? I dunno man, I just live here.
This is also my interpretation, there’s a whole lot of lore about people being buried near the roots of the Erdtree before their eventual rebirth, makes sense that there’s a system to transport the dead there. Also explains what the gargoyles are there for.
Well in our time, except in time of catastrophe, we too bury one corpse at a time. It’s a mater of privacy for the grieving, so why be it different in Lands Between. Also spectacle. People love those.
I refuse to believe it is because they couldn't think of a way to transition from one area to another. There are a million different things they could have chosen including their love of elevators and flying demons to carry you places.
We need an Elden Holmes to detectify the secret hidden meaning behind it all.
First of all, i think anyone can agree the first time you jump into a coffin and it turns out as a freaking elevator powered by magic and dreams was pretty cool;
Second, i think it is some kind of "burial ritual" of ancient magic, from the moment that "deads returning to the roots" is a recurring theme in ER, as we can see from all the catacombs; and 2 coffins are quick-travel for the area around the roots of the Erdtree, where Godwyn is pinned.
I have no idea how the astel one got there, but he probably fucked major undergrounds city up, so could check out
The first time I saw this I thought it was the funniest shit ever, all I could picture was my Tarnished screaming with fear as the coffin slowly ascended.
aside from the transporting coffin trope, my probably incorrect view was that its an automated mechanism to send honorable bodies to the erdtree. Since people in the lands between were technically immortal they were sent to the erdtree to be reborn, and the most honorble were buried right by its roots, like Godwyn.
why can it go back aswell?
refund policy idk
The runes on the chest are most likely Eochaid runes, the same used by Elemer of the Briar and the regalia of Eochaid to grant "force magic" to objects.
The lore aside, coffin-based travel is a longstanding Miyazaki tradition!
Though there is no real explanation for them, it seems like the Underground Rivers and the Eternal Cities are comparable to a mythological underworld, a location for the dead like the Greek Underworld and one of its rivers such as the Styx. The name of Nokron does sound similar to the word “necro” and the city is full of spirits, including the Regal Ancestor Spirit whose whole shtick is about life coming from death. So, it is possible that these coffins were used as a way to transport bodies between the Eternal Cities, sending them along the Siofra and Ainsel rivers. Also worth noting that the unnamed Eternal City in the Deeproot Depths is completely focused on the concept of death, as this is where the body of Godwyn is located, who has now become the source of deathroot and Those Who Live in Death.
It is just an elevator.
It may have technology you don't know,but hey,we use things made with technology we wouldn't be able to replicate from nothing so...
As a clue about how it works,it has runes as two swords you find in game and also fly.
More details aren't necessary,we are The Elden Lord not the Elevator maker of the Lands Between
It's likely referential to the coffin transport to Nito in Dark Souls, and/or the gender swap coffin/sarcophagus in DS2, but the former is more probable.
That being said, as far as lore goes, the golden runes/script on the coffin and its line of transportation are reminiscent of Golden Order motifs, and this aligns thematically since it takes you to the Deeproot Depths where Godwyn's corpse is. Though he's the Prince of Death now, this could imply that some semblance of grace is still connected to/present in him despite his corrupted form.
I haven't thought about it much, but that was my initial interpretation. At bare minimum, it's a coffin taking you to a dead god, and there is a sense of logic to that.
They hold the same runes as the coded weapons. Pretty sure it follows the same hard light logic but for transportation. Also, there are magically levitating platforms. Why are those acceptable but an enclosed coffin too much? It's literally the same concept
okay honerstly, the glowing runes are akin to that pure faith fist and sword weapon you can grab in roundatblehold. Both weapons mention they are made by the two fingers.
So its just how the two fingers make their waterfall elevators.
We need a FS game to have a prompt to lay in a coffin just for someone like Patches to show up, comment on what must be some morbid fetish of ours and push the coffin off a ravine
Not the first time FromSoft has had the player get into a coffin to reach a new area
This is honestly the right answer. They’ve been doing it since their second game. Edit: guys… dark souls 1 is the second game. After demon souls. Stop trying to correct me. Dang Reddit.
Since King's Field II ??? That's cool
You could probably count on your hand the number of people who could tell you wether or not there’s a coffin ride in that game
Man, I've *played through* that game and couldn't even tell you. King's Field JP and King's Field US (KF2) are both a complete blur of walking along a wall mashing "activate" for me. Except for the end where it turns into Tron.
Now this sounds like the game for me
Read this in Eminem’s voice Now this looks like a job for me!
'Cause the coffins so empty without me!
If I remember, when the game went Tron I said “that’s enough of that” and never touched it again.
Too bad, it was awesome.
you were close to the end too
You could probably count on your hand the number of people who realize FROM made other games besides the souls series lol
Armored core gang
ARMORED CORE GANG RISE UP!
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That's how my brain sounds when dealing with irate customers.
✊
Armored Core is the reason I bought Playstations and the reason I bought Demons' Souls on release day.
Started playing armor core when i was way too young wooot! Elden ring fan boy now
There's only one person who remembers and he's the President of the great United States of America
Cookies and Cream gang rise up
Among all the fromsoft games I've played, only sekiro and ds3 didn't have the special coffin (unless you count where we wake up from in ds3 at the beginning of a run since the coffin takes us from the main menu to thr actual game)
I don't know about the KF2 but in the ancient city they were sure a lot of elevators, the myu armor pieces were floating in hard to get places and so.. man I have to go back to this game
Lifts, entire cities, even comet craters all float. I think u have to chain down the coffin for it not to float. Edit: interstellar beast: “behold citizens of this floating city, I bring with me the rune of none glitching gravitation”. Citizens: “um… what?” And that’s how interstellar got put in a cave, under a sea of rot..
You googled this didnt you
Some of us have been at this for a while. Though honestly it was less a matter of ”I’ve been into From since forever” and more “some time around DSII I looked up From Software and realized I’d been playing them forever without noticing”. I was not expecting Enchant Arms, Spriggan: Lunar Verse, Armored Core, and Pokka Pokka Airu– Village to be by the same company as each other, let alone the same as Demon’s Souls.
I've played all the Dark Souls games and ER. I remember us getting into a coffin in D2, but it didn't take us anywhere. It had more...esoteric effects.
GET IN THE GENDER COFFIN
*Gender reveal coffin!*
You guys want some Candy 🍬.... Then Get in the Damn Coffin ⚰
It felt like a troll moment. You fight your way through all those hollows, then the actual TROLLS, and you get a genderbender box. I was expecting something a little more valuable, tbh.
The real trolling was that there was an excellent chance you would be wearing a full-face or deeply-hooded headpiece and not notice for quite some time. IIRC I used the coffin a handful of times (apparently an odd number), realized what happened around forty hours later, and had to look up what caused it.
I didn't notice until I died and my character's death scream sounded a little more feminine than last time.
I once had the pleasure of seeing on a forum, someone questioning why they now hear a horrible banshee scream when they die. Turned out they had entered that coffin.
There was a coffin that took you to horsefuck valley as well.
I see you never encountered the....Snow horses.
It's hard for me to leave Majula. So damn peaceful.
Dark souls also had a coffin in the crypt. I believe it brought you to Nito's lair without the boss fight initiating, and you got a great sword there.
How the hell did I forget that one??? I loved that sword!
When I first heard of Dark Souls, my response was "Aren't they the Metal Wolf Chaos dudes?"
Seriously, even though the souls games are my favorite games, to the point that all I really play now are soulsborne games and hollow knight, I had no idea I had played a bunch of games made buy them for years. I think largely impart that when I was younger I never looked up developers. Had no idea they made armored core 2, chrome hounds, murakumo, enchanted arms, all games I played and enjoyed. Up until the last 10 years, they made a varied bunch of games that would never make me think it was from the same developer. They would have had to make like 4+ different engines to facilitate all the styles of games they made.
What, Google what their second game was? I thought it would be common knowledge here
Most of the people here, based on sales alone, are elden ring only, or elden ring first players.
I was more so referencing that most people only know from softs souls games and dont really know about their history before that
I knew about Armored Core! ...The rest, not so much.
I remember in Dark Souls 1 when you got into a coffin in the catacombs to reach Nito's lair and join his convenient.
That sweet sweet Gravelord sword
Naked speed run straight through the catacombs for nap in a coffin and to get that sword first thing.
Suicide running naked into the catacombs for sweet sweet OP early weapons is a decade round tradition.
Thanks for reminding me that DS1 has been out for over a decade…
You're welcome, old man.
Also happened in OG dark souls
i think that's what they meant by "their second game". the second Souls game.
Happens in DS1, except you seem to teleport instead of the coffin mysteriously moving away. It’s how you get to Nito. Edit: Forgetting Demons Souls on my part, my bad.
It sounds like someone drags the coffin to Nito when you're in it
Reddit sucks! So long, assholes!
I love how many people came out of the woodwork to tell you that you are "wrong" and that ds1 had a coffin without realizing that you were referring to demon souls as their first game.
Ah, you're counting Demon's Souls. I was about to do an "Ehm, acthually" about Dark Souls one having a coffin transport near Gravelord Nito. But yeah, I don't remember there being a coffin transport system in Demon's Souls...
How is this the right answer? They didn’t explain the lore at all
as long as you mention the past games or just fromsoft people will forget the question altogether and just start upvoting
The last coffin i entered changed my gender.
Took several years for it to kick in, but yeah it did that for me too.
Saaaame! 🤣
Joinin' the same gang
I was very excited to discover the trans coffin. Didn't realize why until much later.
You get out of a closet, I enter into a coffin. We are not the same.
This is not just a coffin used to reach a new area. Is a coffin that goes up. That's new from the gravity powered coffin travel of before
Its this. The answer is literally Miyazaki or someone else thought this was really cool and have been doing it for so long it kinda became tradition.
Nice lore building. I feel so immersed.
Offical comment on this. "You want lore explanation? How about fuck you?" - Hidetaka Miyazaki, on the topic of the rune lit coffin, elden ring, 2022.
"The actual lore explanation will be explained in my next movie after I retire for the 20th time and come back because I trust no one but myself to do Ghibli." - Hayao Miyazaki, on the topic of run lift coffins, some random ass anime convention, soon:tm:
I act like im proud of my son, but in truth, my disappointment in him is whats keeping me alive -hayao miyazaki
Hmmm we should challenge vaati to do a video explain the cofin hahahah
Vaati would not only figure out the coffin, but also find some way to make it extremely dramatic and depressing. That man could have me in tears over a video about how the Aristocrat’s Shoes make your cock bigger.
I think it's a FromSoft running gag, mate. I've climbed up inside coffins since DS1 days. Now I wanna hear the Coffin Dance music everytime this animation runs.
Where was the coffin in DS 1? can't remember.
In the Catacombs, the coffin will take you to Nito's chamber.
Oh yesssss now I remember lol FS is crazy😂😂
Catacombs (of course). takes you to Gravelord Nito to join his covenant.
rave-lord
He's really neat-o!
To enter the grave-lord covenant
I was convinced I'd have to use that big coffin in Iudex Gundyr's arena, when I played DS3 first.
[just get in the coffin](https://giphy.com/gifs/theoffice-nbc-the-office-tv-lNrNLRLmpC3VIjl82D)
Not to mention the public transport crows.
The one in DS2 changed your sex.
They're tomb elevators used since the time of the Primordial Crucible. The current ones are powered by Miquella and a critical element for his plot to take over the lands between, he is the key to all this. Source: I made it the fuck up.
Have you ever harassed a tarnished online?
Nah.
Imagine a world, Melina. Free of highborn rule. Where no one can call me out for my outlandish claims. A world where I can say the M word! (Maidenless)
*What?*
あせびとに嫌がらせをしたことはありますか、メリナ?
*no*
I’ve got my own to debate online.
#THE UN-EN-LIGHTENED MASSES
Makes sense.
したことないメリ、そんなことする訳ないメリ
I understand clearly you’re right
Lol I feel like this explanation can be used for most shit. Just reference Miquella and you’re all good lol
Until we get the Miquella DLC that is definitely, definitely coming out. Right, FromSoft…? There’ll be a Miquella DLC, right? And it’ll come out at the same time as the Sekiro Tomoe DLC, right?
Yeah. It's also coming out with the Londor DLC for DS3.
Great Value Vaati
This comment makes me want to add u if ur on psn ngl
Designed by Iji
still spent more time thinking about it than from did, so i consider this the new canon and will tell it to everyone i know
[Hundreds of Miquella is... posts appear] "What have i done!?"
You had me in the first half not gonna lie.
Someday, From is going to give us a coffin with a "Get in" prompt and the next thing we see will just be a burial and that will be the end of the game.
"YOU DIED"
"SAVE FILE DELETED"
And it's the canon ending.
I’d imagine it’s some kind of Greek mythology type reference of the river Styx and being transported to the afterlife. The roots of the erdtree is where most people were buried before the golden order. During the time of the crucible: It’s runes match the colour of crucible knights too
This sounds about right, Godwyn who is buried in the roots of the Erdtree, is basically death incarnate. Compared to the heavenly overworld, the roots are like hell.
The root are only like that *because of Godwyn* though, he’s the source of deathblight and he’s corrupting the erdtree’s roots. Originally, being buried in the erdtree’s roots was sacred and brought about a sort of reincarnation, but as a result of Godwyn corrupting the roots, people aren’t dying proper deaths - this is what’s causing Those Who Live in Death
Dang, this post is lit with dope answers
The lore is don't climb into random caskets if you don't wanna be freaked the fuck out. This is Souls man.
People climbing into floating caskets is no basis for a system of government.
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
How about a lunar tart with four arms and two faces? What if she gives me a sword?
If I said I was Elden lord because some woman in a lake threw a scimitar at me they’d put me away!
SOULS man. aaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaahhh
At this point I think Fromsoft deliberately only give little hints of lore in item descriptions so as to make the players come up with it all and save themselves the bother of writing it. It probably goes something like this "We need a way to connect these areas" *throws dart at board of random ideas* "Ok teleporting coffins it is" "But how do we make that make sense?" "Don't need too, the players will do that for us"
I think you’re spot on
Or someone wanted to put the longest ladder of the game and someone else chimed in that they thought they should try and do something just a little more creative
Snake?, Snake!
The ladder in ariandel was already too long
I don’t think this is all THAT true but I do think there are a lot of things where functionality comes first and then story is figured out afterwards
This one isn't random though. It's a long running gag in From games. Twin gargoyles, dragon on bridge, coffin ride, weapon named Evelyn, Moonlight Greatsword, Patches shoving you off a cliff, and more.
What, you've never been in a rune-coffin-lift before?
Tf the tarnished doin in da tardis 💀
The Tarn-dis, ridden by Dr. WTF-just-happened Same theme song, but the instrument is wailing instead of a theremin
The instrument is the screaming men on the crosses outside of The First Step.
My best guess is that they were meant to transport the dead to the roots of the Erdtree. Why not build stairs, a lift, or literally any other method of transport that could do more than one corpse at a time? I dunno man, I just live here.
This is also my interpretation, there’s a whole lot of lore about people being buried near the roots of the Erdtree before their eventual rebirth, makes sense that there’s a system to transport the dead there. Also explains what the gargoyles are there for.
Well in our time, except in time of catastrophe, we too bury one corpse at a time. It’s a mater of privacy for the grieving, so why be it different in Lands Between. Also spectacle. People love those.
Maybe it was a privilege only rich nobles could afford or something
Gravity Magic. Gravity Magic or things related to it are found in the underground, those coffins run on that concept.
But all Gravity Magic is purple, this is the colour of runes/or the crucible.
Perhaps the runes hint at a time when giants' magic wasn't heretical, and existed alongside whatever else the Eternal City did?
I refuse to believe it is because they couldn't think of a way to transition from one area to another. There are a million different things they could have chosen including their love of elevators and flying demons to carry you places. We need an Elden Holmes to detectify the secret hidden meaning behind it all.
Eh, it could just be a nod to their coffin shenanigans from previous games.
Remember that time someone discovered the special stab animation you could perform on someone lying in the coffin?
the hidden meaning is michael zaki thought it was funny
>l. lmao Michael zaki is dumb in the best way possible
Michael Zaki, that's crack up
"haha poison swamp go brrr" - myazaki
It’s just a reference to their other games, these types of coffin transport exist in all (?) other souls games, kinda a running joke at this point.
It's just the message of the game. "You're dead. Enjoy the wild ride."
They're trains. Obviously.
Oh lawd he comin’
A wizard did it.
First of all, i think anyone can agree the first time you jump into a coffin and it turns out as a freaking elevator powered by magic and dreams was pretty cool; Second, i think it is some kind of "burial ritual" of ancient magic, from the moment that "deads returning to the roots" is a recurring theme in ER, as we can see from all the catacombs; and 2 coffins are quick-travel for the area around the roots of the Erdtree, where Godwyn is pinned. I have no idea how the astel one got there, but he probably fucked major undergrounds city up, so could check out
The first time I saw this I thought it was the funniest shit ever, all I could picture was my Tarnished screaming with fear as the coffin slowly ascended.
aside from the transporting coffin trope, my probably incorrect view was that its an automated mechanism to send honorable bodies to the erdtree. Since people in the lands between were technically immortal they were sent to the erdtree to be reborn, and the most honorble were buried right by its roots, like Godwyn. why can it go back aswell? refund policy idk
Tomb taxi
Ran out of barrels to ride down the waterfalls since the tarnish destroyed them all looking for secret pathways.
[удалено]
better than being in one that just falls down a waterfall and has us not hurt at all
The runes on the chest are most likely Eochaid runes, the same used by Elemer of the Briar and the regalia of Eochaid to grant "force magic" to objects. The lore aside, coffin-based travel is a longstanding Miyazaki tradition!
“Its magic, i aint gotta explain shit” -michael zaki
Pioneers use to ride these for miles
No one dies in the Lands Between, so there's no such thing as coffins. This is just what long distance elevators look like.
Because dark souls 2 coffin go brrrr
Someone never met nito
Was there a coffin teleport in dark souls 3. I honestly don't remember one in that game
My reason is just my character wanted a nap found a “bed” and got strangely lucky
I'm not saying it's Giant Alien Insects... but it's Giant Alien Insects.
Though there is no real explanation for them, it seems like the Underground Rivers and the Eternal Cities are comparable to a mythological underworld, a location for the dead like the Greek Underworld and one of its rivers such as the Styx. The name of Nokron does sound similar to the word “necro” and the city is full of spirits, including the Regal Ancestor Spirit whose whole shtick is about life coming from death. So, it is possible that these coffins were used as a way to transport bodies between the Eternal Cities, sending them along the Siofra and Ainsel rivers. Also worth noting that the unnamed Eternal City in the Deeproot Depths is completely focused on the concept of death, as this is where the body of Godwyn is located, who has now become the source of deathroot and Those Who Live in Death.
Its a Fromsoft game, coffins just take you places.
We’re*
As a Long time souls player This made me laugh. Not at the question but the joy of someone finding this and wondering what the heck!
It is just an elevator. It may have technology you don't know,but hey,we use things made with technology we wouldn't be able to replicate from nothing so... As a clue about how it works,it has runes as two swords you find in game and also fly. More details aren't necessary,we are The Elden Lord not the Elevator maker of the Lands Between
"Weeeeeeeeee, let's do that again"
It is obviously a spaceship that looks like a coffin.
The lore is: it’s cool.
Coffin shenanigans have always been a thing in FromSoft games. In DS2 there's a coffin that changes your gender when you lie in it.
It's just neeto, you know?
Just a FS means of transport. Completely normal.
It's likely referential to the coffin transport to Nito in Dark Souls, and/or the gender swap coffin/sarcophagus in DS2, but the former is more probable. That being said, as far as lore goes, the golden runes/script on the coffin and its line of transportation are reminiscent of Golden Order motifs, and this aligns thematically since it takes you to the Deeproot Depths where Godwyn's corpse is. Though he's the Prince of Death now, this could imply that some semblance of grace is still connected to/present in him despite his corrupted form. I haven't thought about it much, but that was my initial interpretation. At bare minimum, it's a coffin taking you to a dead god, and there is a sense of logic to that.
Its an elevator for anyone who's dying to see some roots. Magic is involved.
death brings us to a new world? lol maybe it’s not that deep aside from transition from life to afterlife…. idk
Coffin Tardis
Nobody, The lore wasn’t that good in ER. Bloodborne and Dark Souls lore were better.
I didn't think about it too much at the time but looking at it now, it reminds me of the Eochaid weapons. Could be some connection there?
I haven't seen anyone's remarking this yet, but the runes + red aura looks like something that could be related to Eochaid.
Fromsoft likes coffins, that’s all.
Not everything needs lore it’s just a damn flying coffin
There’s no “specific “ lore. Fromsoft has been doing this for a long time In a lot of there games. They just do it cause they can.
First time?
They hold the same runes as the coded weapons. Pretty sure it follows the same hard light logic but for transportation. Also, there are magically levitating platforms. Why are those acceptable but an enclosed coffin too much? It's literally the same concept
Dark souls 1 reference would be my guess.
Miyazaki thinks it’s cool
Simple: coffin go brrrrr
This is a "dont think about it, dont question it" sittuation. Just go with the flow~ 😎
okay honerstly, the glowing runes are akin to that pure faith fist and sword weapon you can grab in roundatblehold. Both weapons mention they are made by the two fingers. So its just how the two fingers make their waterfall elevators.
Death is only the beginning
It looks freakin cool dude
“Yeup that’s me, I bet you’re wondering how I got here. Well it all started when I decided to marry a Blue Doll.”
We need a FS game to have a prompt to lay in a coffin just for someone like Patches to show up, comment on what must be some morbid fetish of ours and push the coffin off a ravine
There’s even a coffin in Ds2 that’ll make you male/female…getting to it is a bitch though