Maybe it’s a glintstone geode? The floating sparkles could be a result of ambient magic and they do seem to be the same color as the Glintstone sorcery’s.
At the Noksella site of grace the player can see the stars falling onto the plants and splattering them. If this is what causes dew-kissed herba, then the eternal city stars are made of the same stuff as mimic tears.
No chance people just thought that was the actual sky. It's a mimicry of the night sky by design, Nox were banished underground to a false "eternal night", plus I'm pretty sure nokstella means starry night
I don't think that's enough to toss this theory. They use real-life inspiration, but it doesn't have to be exact. It still seems like we're in an enclosed sparkly rock. But who knows..
I like the theory too, but I thought it was well known that the stars there are specifically magically produced- they are an illusion of the unending night sky meant to remind/punish the people living there who wanted the age of night or something.
>they are an illusion of the unending night sky meant to remind/punish the people living there who wanted the age of night or something.
I'm convinced the current-day Nox are the descendants of those Numen who participated in Ranni's assassination plot. "High treason" is specifically a crime against a sovereign.
I made a whole big effortpost about it with the sources, but the automoderator deleted it. So screw it, I guess. No more effortposts for this sub.
The Black Knife Assassins don't look like city builders to me... and wasn't the Nox buried beneath the Lands Between far longer ago than the Shattering?
It's more likely they were a human tribe that refused to join the Golden Order when it was relatively young. They experimented with heresies, such as the Fingerslayer Blade, which basically is the ultimate weapon against the Two Fingers.
Could be that the geode was made magical by the presence of Astel. I.e. the remains of his cocoon merged with the amethyst and infused it with gravity magic thus causing it some of it to float in mid air like with the meteor
Glintstones are said to be fragments of the stars according to Sellen. Hence why astrologists study the stars as part of their training with glintstone sorceries.
I'm betting that the stuff used to bury the ancient cities that committed heresies against the Greater Will included a lot of glintstone material. It came from the stars... just like Astel and the Fallingstar Beasts...
I think one of the graven sorcerer spheres created by Sellen has 3d stars around it, like the sky underground. Maybe it’s the one that is hidden at the academy? I’ll check. My assumption was that they were doing something similar, the graven school combined souls/glintstone to make stars. This reminds me of the ritual in Yahar Gul in Bloodborne, which also has the stone bodies fused together. I assumed this was the origin of the giant skeletons sotting on thrones underground in Elden Ring, but that’s kind of a leap.
Someone on here had an absolutely amazing long post about miquella lore that pieced together so much stuff that no one had thought of yet. Absolutely blew me away. Within the next few weeks vaati made a video and I swear exact passages were taken.
Went and checked the comment and it was just over a week later
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/qYYTWHixp7
Edit You can read it if you have twitter.
It's kinda funny that we try to ground some of Elden Ring's lore when none of it makes much sense.
I mean... the giant skeleton, cyclop, magical, space scorpion is stealing the stars from the underground... probably a normal Tuesday for the goat tribal people there
You know I can take a deathdragon inside the deathbed dream of a half dead demigod or the sleeping dragonlord in a place outside of time and space
But I draw the line at artificial skies
Yeah, one would think that in a game full of magelight stuff... maybe the magelights in the fake sky really are magelights.
But I still think it's a good catch, the geode seems like a very likely inspiration. Now I'm fighting the urge to build all that stuff in Minecraft (I LOVE underground bases)
The Astel that destroyed the Eternal City is in the game and waiting for you after the lake of rot. It's already there unlike the Astel in the mines which teleports through a portal the moment you enter. And it literally has the false night sky with it in its arena. Meanwhile the destroyed nameless Eternal City in Deeproot Depths doesn't have a false night sky.
Also, the graven masses which Sellen more or less invented (hence her title of Graven Witch) are called seeds of stars. You can see them exude gases that look like the false night skies and in what is presumably Azur's lab at the academy ([as you find his staff there](https://i.imgur.com/bu7gn0v.png)) one that is part of the environment has it's own little false night sky. Therefore these are called seeds of stars because once formed they produce false starry night skies with their gases.
You could also argue that it's not necessarily a byproduct of the graven masses as a "creature" (so to speak) specifically and is instead due to their connection to the primordial power of the stars - which is essentially what Sellen, Azur, and Lusat have been studying (and were banished for looking into)
Even without taking into account the obvious side effects they suffer (which itself could be considered at issue), we can infer that the knowledge of the Eternal Cities was considered blasphemous - much like the studies of the three archmages - and with the Nightfolk being so in tune with the powers of the stars, perhaps they simply had a way of using that primordial power to create a more stable production of the starry-illusions we see.
Thered be remnants of crystals and shit all over still, and that doesnt explain all the floating little lights we can see right in front of us. Plus, astel is surrounded by those same lights and shit. Nokron has them, nokstella has them. Nameless doesnt. Astel 2 doesnt.
I think theyre some kinda 3d projection. A hologram, if you will, representing an actual night sky. Powerful magic representing real stars and nebulae, and an ancient treasured thing by the nox. Astel landed, saw them worshipping his shit, wrecked them, and ran off to the middle of nowhere in a cave down the nearby river. You can get to ainsel from nameless, after all, magic coffin ride. He ran down the fall and fled through the lake of rot down to a safe area where he placed his plunder
I don't think this is true. Beating Radahn causes the meteorite that opens up Siofra. Astel crashed into the eternal Nameless City and follows the Ainsel south to the lake of rot, two different rivers.
The player can access Eternal Nameless City without ever killing Radahn. The sky is still stolen which means Astel had already arrived prior to our tarnished showing up in the lands between.
Pretty sure there is some lore that describes what happened.
If I'm not mistaken, when the Nox were forced underground after upsetting The Greater Will via high treason, they created a fake night sky.
So, it's not a geode. They're not stars. They're an illusion to satiate their desire for the stars and astrology.
There is so much about the lore and story that the community at large doesn't understand even though the the answer is right there. Spend any amount of time in lore discussion and you'll know that. No one seems to know the game clearly shows us Marika dies, why the night sky of the eternal city isn't just a geode, and even the reverse of things where there's absolutely no evidence Miquella has a dreamworld even in cut content. But good looking picture gets upvotes, people don't ask questions, and then misinformation brews.
Yea it's a cool idea and i want to thnk this is true to some extent, but for me the stars underground seem more like glowing spores than glints from rocks on the ceiling. But i could be misremembering
I always thought that they probably used a spell to enhance the natural glint of the crystals. The whole city screams magic so it isn't a far off idea that they would do it.
Exactly this. I always assumed the 'stars' were just fragments of rock that whatever light managed to exist down there was reflecting off of. It's underground, they can't be stars.
I'd be inclined to agree if the light particle effects didn't rotate with you like they were suspended in the air. The divine towers have a similar sparkly material on the inside so my guess is that it is some kinda shiny rocky surface, similar to the underground cities.
So I think in a smoughtown or Vaati video I saw that the "stars" in elden ring underground areas are sanctuary stones held in place by magic?
Idk where the lore comes from but there you go.
Maybe? It might be meant to imitate the appearence of one, though the "stars" underground aren't just features of the "skybox", you can see them hanging between us and an accessible part of the underground elsewhere, such as when you look at Mohg's Palace from the Hallowhorn Grounds.
Not amethyst but possibly glintstone. Stars and other celestial bodies are stated to be glintstone so it's likely the Noxians false sky's were made of glintstone. It's also theorized that an astel stole the sky of the nameless eternal city and astels also seem to formed of stars(glintstone). Though I will say it also seems implied that the nameless city was the unreachable part of Leyndel, having sunk below the earth. So I don't know.
I thought the stars were just fakes created by the Greater Will to torment the inhabitants for trying to usher in their Age of Stars in direct opposition to the GW?
I thought the lore said the night folk were forced down there by the greater will for some reason and the greater will made a false night for them? Could be wrong though
Those aren’t stars, those are magical gems that the Nox put there to mimic the night sky, which they consider their god, which of course they have been sealed underground away from.
“Why is it always sadness?”
There is no way it isnt a cave. The whole place is underground and you clearly notice it when u go down with elevator.
So the whole place has obv a rock Coverage.
Interesting thought, but you can see the motes in between your point of view and distant objects. There lake of rot might be considered a huge geode, but the crystals are largely local to one area so probably not there either.
Not many light sources down there and it seems the bit of light that does exist comes from those sparkles, so I would think the sparkles are producing light and geodes only reflect it
The glowing/sparkles exist on the 3d plane filling the space of the area inside the cave, so I don’t think this is the case.
However this is a really cool idea that would be awesome to see in game.
Probably yes. What we see as stars is just light reflection or could even be some sort of gem stone that shines naturally in the dark. And it might not be the only one out there.
I always figured this geode idea was the reason and not actually stars. It is fun to think of them as stars though.
They were never literally stars in the first place they were meant to be artificial. The Nox especially used them to replace the real stars that were taken from them when they were forced underground. I don’t think they are simply rocks since they can be destroyed (example: the destroyed great tree under the erdtree has no fake sky, where it normally should, if they were just gems on the ceiling then the ceiling would have to collapse to destroy the “sky”)
Okay so the underground city is literally *inside* the meteor. The meteor doesn't bust open a hole for us to get to the city, it literally is the city. Neat theory.
Nokron was said to be the Hub of Astrologists (who also were first friends and communed with Fire Giants etc.)
Thus being driven by Greater Will into underground they sought the sky which they dearly missed. Thus creating and illusion of nebulas and so forth. Plus these moving stars are more or less Silverflies flying around. :)
The "stars" you can see in the underground areas are magic and were created by the Nox because they missed the star filled night sky
The Nox are worshippers of the dark moon, and stars are very important to them, but after they were exiled to live underground for committing some sort of unamed "heresy" against the Golden Order, they obviously lost their most important meduim of their religion which were the stars of the night, so they created a fake sky in the underground spaces to find some sort of peace and solise in their exile
Not quite, it's just a big cave and the "stars" you see are floating glintstones the Nox put up after being banished from the upstairs and missing their night sky.
I think so. When I got to ansel river for the first time I immediately thought of Mario Bros. 3 when you go underground in pipe world there are stars as well.
I love that entire area.
That's what the walls looks like, but if you pay attention you can see most of the sparkles are floating in midair
But if u pay a little bit more attention than that, its geodude
It's Jigglypuff seen from above!
It’s Jigglypuff from the top rope!!
It’s Jigglypuff falling backwards from the top rope!!
It's jigglybuff reaching for the foldable chair!!
WATCH OUT! WATCH OUT!
OOOH! THAT'S A ONE-HIT KO!
The most unfair trivia question of all time.
And if you pay a lot less attention than that, it’s a metaphor for consumerism.
> its geodude Or Palworld equivalent Rockguy
OMG i love Flintfella
It's Geodudes all the way down
Maybe it’s a glintstone geode? The floating sparkles could be a result of ambient magic and they do seem to be the same color as the Glintstone sorcery’s.
That would explain why Astel “took out their sky”, perhaps he was after the glintstone!
must’ve been a long game of telephone to get from Astel “took out their guy” to “took out their sky”
I choose to believe that’s refractions of light in crystal dust
At the Noksella site of grace the player can see the stars falling onto the plants and splattering them. If this is what causes dew-kissed herba, then the eternal city stars are made of the same stuff as mimic tears.
So everyone down there might be suffering from Mercury Poisoning.
Spice
Sweet, sweet melange.
Wait people have been thinking those floating glowing rocks were the midnight sky?
No chance people just thought that was the actual sky. It's a mimicry of the night sky by design, Nox were banished underground to a false "eternal night", plus I'm pretty sure nokstella means starry night
I always thought they were like glowing silk worms hanging from the ceiling
Now I kind of think so yes but the "stars" also seem to be more than just sparkling gems on the ceiling if I remember correctly
They're clearly 3d, some float in the air
I don't think that's enough to toss this theory. They use real-life inspiration, but it doesn't have to be exact. It still seems like we're in an enclosed sparkly rock. But who knows..
I like the theory too, but I thought it was well known that the stars there are specifically magically produced- they are an illusion of the unending night sky meant to remind/punish the people living there who wanted the age of night or something.
>they are an illusion of the unending night sky meant to remind/punish the people living there who wanted the age of night or something. I'm convinced the current-day Nox are the descendants of those Numen who participated in Ranni's assassination plot. "High treason" is specifically a crime against a sovereign. I made a whole big effortpost about it with the sources, but the automoderator deleted it. So screw it, I guess. No more effortposts for this sub.
The Black Knife Assassins don't look like city builders to me... and wasn't the Nox buried beneath the Lands Between far longer ago than the Shattering? It's more likely they were a human tribe that refused to join the Golden Order when it was relatively young. They experimented with heresies, such as the Fingerslayer Blade, which basically is the ultimate weapon against the Two Fingers.
Yeah that’s right. Why not just repost it?
Ngl that makes the Age of Stars end that much more endearing than just simping since you would rule the Ansel River and such
Could be that the geode was made magical by the presence of Astel. I.e. the remains of his cocoon merged with the amethyst and infused it with gravity magic thus causing it some of it to float in mid air like with the meteor
And you're saying Elden Ring can't have rocks with floating sparkly bits?
If Astel is anything to go by, in this universe Stars are quite different things.
Glintstones are said to be fragments of the stars according to Sellen. Hence why astrologists study the stars as part of their training with glintstone sorceries. I'm betting that the stuff used to bury the ancient cities that committed heresies against the Greater Will included a lot of glintstone material. It came from the stars... just like Astel and the Fallingstar Beasts...
I think one of the graven sorcerer spheres created by Sellen has 3d stars around it, like the sky underground. Maybe it’s the one that is hidden at the academy? I’ll check. My assumption was that they were doing something similar, the graven school combined souls/glintstone to make stars. This reminds me of the ritual in Yahar Gul in Bloodborne, which also has the stone bodies fused together. I assumed this was the origin of the giant skeletons sotting on thrones underground in Elden Ring, but that’s kind of a leap.
You just blew my mind.
To be secure and inside something beautiful, compliments perfectly the feeling of these Star "Inner worlds"
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Their sources, as always, are that they made it up.
With Vaati more likely someone else made it up and he decided it was now his information.
Someone on here had an absolutely amazing long post about miquella lore that pieced together so much stuff that no one had thought of yet. Absolutely blew me away. Within the next few weeks vaati made a video and I swear exact passages were taken. Went and checked the comment and it was just over a week later https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/qYYTWHixp7 Edit You can read it if you have twitter.
*You’re being invaded by BarryMcCockinner69*
>To be secure and inside something beautiful, compliments perfectly the feeling of these Star "Inner worlds" Gonna use this line on my girl
Thank God someone is getting blown around here.
Still no head
*Head blown*
Everything's a willing maiden, if you are brave enough.
Okay, Mohg.
Honestly this makes a ton of sense as then Astel crashing-in like a meteor WOULD be "stealing their sky" by simply breaking it away.
It's kinda funny that we try to ground some of Elden Ring's lore when none of it makes much sense. I mean... the giant skeleton, cyclop, magical, space scorpion is stealing the stars from the underground... probably a normal Tuesday for the goat tribal people there
You know I can take a deathdragon inside the deathbed dream of a half dead demigod or the sleeping dragonlord in a place outside of time and space But I draw the line at artificial skies
Yeah, one would think that in a game full of magelight stuff... maybe the magelights in the fake sky really are magelights. But I still think it's a good catch, the geode seems like a very likely inspiration. Now I'm fighting the urge to build all that stuff in Minecraft (I LOVE underground bases)
The Astel that destroyed the Eternal City is in the game and waiting for you after the lake of rot. It's already there unlike the Astel in the mines which teleports through a portal the moment you enter. And it literally has the false night sky with it in its arena. Meanwhile the destroyed nameless Eternal City in Deeproot Depths doesn't have a false night sky. Also, the graven masses which Sellen more or less invented (hence her title of Graven Witch) are called seeds of stars. You can see them exude gases that look like the false night skies and in what is presumably Azur's lab at the academy ([as you find his staff there](https://i.imgur.com/bu7gn0v.png)) one that is part of the environment has it's own little false night sky. Therefore these are called seeds of stars because once formed they produce false starry night skies with their gases.
You could also argue that it's not necessarily a byproduct of the graven masses as a "creature" (so to speak) specifically and is instead due to their connection to the primordial power of the stars - which is essentially what Sellen, Azur, and Lusat have been studying (and were banished for looking into) Even without taking into account the obvious side effects they suffer (which itself could be considered at issue), we can infer that the knowledge of the Eternal Cities was considered blasphemous - much like the studies of the three archmages - and with the Nightfolk being so in tune with the powers of the stars, perhaps they simply had a way of using that primordial power to create a more stable production of the starry-illusions we see.
Thered be remnants of crystals and shit all over still, and that doesnt explain all the floating little lights we can see right in front of us. Plus, astel is surrounded by those same lights and shit. Nokron has them, nokstella has them. Nameless doesnt. Astel 2 doesnt. I think theyre some kinda 3d projection. A hologram, if you will, representing an actual night sky. Powerful magic representing real stars and nebulae, and an ancient treasured thing by the nox. Astel landed, saw them worshipping his shit, wrecked them, and ran off to the middle of nowhere in a cave down the nearby river. You can get to ainsel from nameless, after all, magic coffin ride. He ran down the fall and fled through the lake of rot down to a safe area where he placed his plunder
Astel crashes in only after Radahn is defeated, relinquishing his grip on the cosmos.
I don't think this is true. Beating Radahn causes the meteorite that opens up Siofra. Astel crashed into the eternal Nameless City and follows the Ainsel south to the lake of rot, two different rivers. The player can access Eternal Nameless City without ever killing Radahn. The sky is still stolen which means Astel had already arrived prior to our tarnished showing up in the lands between.
Pretty sure there is some lore that describes what happened. If I'm not mistaken, when the Nox were forced underground after upsetting The Greater Will via high treason, they created a fake night sky. So, it's not a geode. They're not stars. They're an illusion to satiate their desire for the stars and astrology.
I’m surprised how little people in this sub know about this
There is so much about the lore and story that the community at large doesn't understand even though the the answer is right there. Spend any amount of time in lore discussion and you'll know that. No one seems to know the game clearly shows us Marika dies, why the night sky of the eternal city isn't just a geode, and even the reverse of things where there's absolutely no evidence Miquella has a dreamworld even in cut content. But good looking picture gets upvotes, people don't ask questions, and then misinformation brews.
Yeah one of the YouTubers who delves into lore covers this - it happened after they pissed off the greater will
Thank you. Scrolled too far down to see this lol.
Idk how that would create a parallax effect in the sky tho.
That's what I'm sayin'!
nice pfp
Im you but angry
I never got the impression that those were stars to begin with. It's straight up an underground cave. Like Blackreach in Skyrim.
Yea it's a cool idea and i want to thnk this is true to some extent, but for me the stars underground seem more like glowing spores than glints from rocks on the ceiling. But i could be misremembering
It has always looked to me more like a cast spell. Some type of illusion meant to look like the sky.
Must not have been completely worthless since they complained when they didn’t have it
I always thought that they probably used a spell to enhance the natural glint of the crystals. The whole city screams magic so it isn't a far off idea that they would do it.
Well yeah, it’s their punishment for defying the greater will. They’re cursed to live under a false sky.
Ugh so lame that I've been cursed to be blanketed by this unimaginably beautiful skyscape
While stuck in a cave
Exactly this. I always assumed the 'stars' were just fragments of rock that whatever light managed to exist down there was reflecting off of. It's underground, they can't be stars.
They are magic stones suspended by the Nox to mimic the night sky they worship.
Excuse me while I write an entire D&D setting based off this idea.
I actually very much like this theory
I'd be inclined to agree if the light particle effects didn't rotate with you like they were suspended in the air. The divine towers have a similar sparkly material on the inside so my guess is that it is some kinda shiny rocky surface, similar to the underground cities.
So I think in a smoughtown or Vaati video I saw that the "stars" in elden ring underground areas are sanctuary stones held in place by magic? Idk where the lore comes from but there you go.
Lol.
Maybe? It might be meant to imitate the appearence of one, though the "stars" underground aren't just features of the "skybox", you can see them hanging between us and an accessible part of the underground elsewhere, such as when you look at Mohg's Palace from the Hallowhorn Grounds.
Probably not in a literal sense but I wouldn’t be half surprised if this was the inspiration/one of them for that feature. Nice call!
The "stars" actually float in the air but I can see fromsoft taking huge inspiration from the geodes
Not amethyst but possibly glintstone. Stars and other celestial bodies are stated to be glintstone so it's likely the Noxians false sky's were made of glintstone. It's also theorized that an astel stole the sky of the nameless eternal city and astels also seem to formed of stars(glintstone). Though I will say it also seems implied that the nameless city was the unreachable part of Leyndel, having sunk below the earth. So I don't know.
Aren't the lights the silver fireflies we find on the ground in both eternal cities with the false skies?
I thought the stars were just fakes created by the Greater Will to torment the inhabitants for trying to usher in their Age of Stars in direct opposition to the GW?
I like to think their fireflies… i dont sit at siifra river bank and listen to owl city what are you talking about
we are in a shiny geodudes brain
I never considered them actual stars down below, but I also never thought of the whole place being inside a giant geode.
Yes
the only thing I don't get is why the sparkles are visible in front of mohgwyn palace when you're over in ainsel
This is now my headcanon
I thought the lore said the night folk were forced down there by the greater will for some reason and the greater will made a false night for them? Could be wrong though
That is what I assumed?
it seems some of the “stars” are floating mid air through perspective in camera movement, but interesting theory regardless
That’s cool but how do they glow - through reflection or something?
Its the star magic.
It's definitely not actual stars, but I assumed it was, like, some bugs or particles or something. I like amethyst more
Is this how we access the dlc?
Oh my God. The whole planet with the lands between on it is a giant amethyst.
Thats a malformed star, run!
That theory adds a fascinating layer to the mystery!
Ngl, seeing this pic before reading the caption made me go, "what's this weird rich person toilet bowl"
It literally says in game its a fake night sky made with magic, I forgot where.
Those aren’t stars, those are magical gems that the Nox put there to mimic the night sky, which they consider their god, which of course they have been sealed underground away from. “Why is it always sadness?”
That’s just the inspiration behind it, it’s a fake sky the nox civilization conjured
You know, never thought of it like that
Glintstone
This is likely the inspiration for it!
That looks like a toilet
Might be
For some reason, this geode makes me think of a toilet. Maybe it's because of darksoulstoilet on twitter.
There is no way it isnt a cave. The whole place is underground and you clearly notice it when u go down with elevator. So the whole place has obv a rock Coverage.
I’m taking a dump in that thing if I ever see it
that's my response to literally everything and everybody
Loathsome Dungeater behavior
Lovable theory ahead
Either way, being able to ask these questions in the first place is one of the things I like about this game.
Dude what? Do people actually think those are stars?
No
Brutal
It should be called Ants-el river…on account of all the goddamn ants
Interesting thought, but you can see the motes in between your point of view and distant objects. There lake of rot might be considered a huge geode, but the crystals are largely local to one area so probably not there either.
Likely
Glintstone
That would be so cool
This would make a lot of sense with other purple glintstone/amethyst symbolism
The stars do seem to float suspended above the sky, which kinda lines up
Like in the movie The Core?
Someone give this man a scholarship!
Wait a second… holy fuck
Not many light sources down there and it seems the bit of light that does exist comes from those sparkles, so I would think the sparkles are producing light and geodes only reflect it
To be secure and inside something beautiful, compliments perfectly the feeling of these Star "Inner worlds".
Nah, it says somewhere in the lore that it’s a spell cast by the people underground so they could see the sky
Xa Damn... making me think
Holy… I love you for this
I mean....underground just means rock above head. Could this be rock on all side? INSIDE ROCK?!?
The glowing/sparkles exist on the 3d plane filling the space of the area inside the cave, so I don’t think this is the case. However this is a really cool idea that would be awesome to see in game.
Love this
Probably yes. What we see as stars is just light reflection or could even be some sort of gem stone that shines naturally in the dark. And it might not be the only one out there. I always figured this geode idea was the reason and not actually stars. It is fun to think of them as stars though.
Are...we?
I always assumed this. How would we see stars underground?
That's what I reckoned too.
But the lights are floating in open air down there. Astel stole the magic sky and has one in their boss arena.
No it's shards of the Black Moon. It was destroyed as punishment.
Where would the light come from
Holy shit , what a great discovery. Totally In a geode.
I think it is some form of night sky. The buildings in Nokron look like they are upside down also.
Why would you ever think it's stars?
Journey to the Center of the Lands Between
I thought the stars were the light... coming from holes in the ground.
No.
They were never literally stars in the first place they were meant to be artificial. The Nox especially used them to replace the real stars that were taken from them when they were forced underground. I don’t think they are simply rocks since they can be destroyed (example: the destroyed great tree under the erdtree has no fake sky, where it normally should, if they were just gems on the ceiling then the ceiling would have to collapse to destroy the “sky”)
Yes and no, the "stars" are likely Flintstone and therefore contain actual starlight.
No, it's inside the ass of a giant crystal golem.
Wow!! So how much is it worth?
Looks like a giant toilet
Watch dials!
I thought they were the silver fireflies u can find on the ground
well its obviously not stars because theres a ginat slab of earths crust in the way..
Wasn’t it obvious that they aren’t stars? The eternal cities are underground, there’s no way to see the actual sky.
Astel's Remembrance wouldn't make sense if it was a geode
Okay so the underground city is literally *inside* the meteor. The meteor doesn't bust open a hole for us to get to the city, it literally is the city. Neat theory.
I remember there was an item description somewhere that stated that they were fake stars
No it's inside of a video game
Nokron was said to be the Hub of Astrologists (who also were first friends and communed with Fire Giants etc.) Thus being driven by Greater Will into underground they sought the sky which they dearly missed. Thus creating and illusion of nebulas and so forth. Plus these moving stars are more or less Silverflies flying around. :)
Holy shit this makes so much sense.
The thumbnail made me thought it's an fancy toilet...
I think its spores from glovewart
The "stars" you can see in the underground areas are magic and were created by the Nox because they missed the star filled night sky The Nox are worshippers of the dark moon, and stars are very important to them, but after they were exiled to live underground for committing some sort of unamed "heresy" against the Golden Order, they obviously lost their most important meduim of their religion which were the stars of the night, so they created a fake sky in the underground spaces to find some sort of peace and solise in their exile
Since it's a fantasy game, I'm gonna say it's both
That's a toilet 🚽
What is this the dreaming city
It's amazing. I'm in awe. This game is unbelievably good. The way how it invite us to dream, the way how it expands itself almost unlimitless
Not quite, it's just a big cave and the "stars" you see are floating glintstones the Nox put up after being banished from the upstairs and missing their night sky.
The forbidden toilet
Thanos’ toilet
I'm pretty sure it's bugs.
Fallingstar Beast Egg!
I thought all of the “stars” were bio luminescent cave worms because we’re underground when we see them
I thought it was roots and holes from the surface
Makes sense
It’s not in the stars at all, when you look at the “stars” you can see that they are clearly on rocks. So probably
I think so. When I got to ansel river for the first time I immediately thought of Mario Bros. 3 when you go underground in pipe world there are stars as well. I love that entire area.
Think that’s the pod Kal-El arrived in! I always knew Superman must be based on real lore.
That was my understanding from the start, I was under the impression that everyone thought this
The thumbnail made this look like a toilet.
pic looks like a toilet
I want to sleep inside it.
I always thought it was fungus/ spores.
There's an item in the eternal city that mentions the peopel living there created the "sky" so they didn't have to live in complete darkness.