Elden Ring: The monumental masterpiece has become a mega hit in a very short time and anyone who has read our test knows that there are a number of reasons for this. One of them is the multitude of mysteries and secrets that the game has to offer. If you still need help in terms of perspective, you should definitely take a look at our overview of tips and tricks.
Beware spoilers: below we talk about the number and content of the different endings of Elden Ring (buy now €53.98 /€50.99 ).
The cryptic puzzles also include the different endings of Elden Ring, in which the past order is restored and the world is thrown into chaos. In addition to the six known ends, there is now an alleged one secret seventh ending surfaced that the title “Age Absolute” carries. But what is really behind it?
The “Age Absolute”: A Mixture of Data Mining and April Fool’s Day?
A few days ago, the YouTuber Garden of Eyes published a video on YouTube that is supposed to show the end in question. The video quickly spread like wildfire in the Elden Ring community, as did the well-known Soulsborne dataminer Lance McDonald reported in this regard on twitter to word:
“The YouTuber Garden of Eyes released a fake Elden Ring video about edited content and an ending titled ‘Datamined / Never Seen Before’ and a lot of people believe it’s real. The cutscene shown in the video , is fake. However, the voice acting and dialogue are real, taken from the Network Test datamine leaks.”
Garden of Eyes reacted – if not to Lance McDonald, then at least to the many questions and doubts from the community. A day after the video was posted to YouTube, he pinned a comment explaining the background to the alleged ending and addressing the allegations:
“The ‘Age Absolute’ ending is actually an April Fool’s Day video, but there are some elementary details I need to talk about. The voice saying ‘Age Absolute’ exists in the final game and not just in Network Test like some People claim that if you look at the files, the ID is actually an alternative line to that from the ‘Age of Order’ end.”
“Apart from the line, I created the rest of the video entirely myself (the five fingers fused together, the cutscene, and so on…) and there is no official evidence that the five fingers existed. But it’s a theory, that a lot of people have been talking about and I’ve decided to recreate in a unique and creative way.”
Lance McDonald was unconvinced by the justification and wrote on twitter: “By the way, he uploaded it hours before April 1st.” But it doesn’t matter whether it’s a april fools or a calculated fake: It is certain that the cutscene shown in the video is not from the game – but the line about the “Age Absolute” is. It should therefore be a matter of removed content, which in all probability is actually associated with a seventh end could be related.
Swell: Lance McDonald on Twitter / Garden of Eyes on YouTube
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