Elden Ring dataminer uncovers alternate early game characters in a renamed Limgrave

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It's only been a little bit over a year since Elden Ring came out, but so much of it is already seared into my brain. Much like leaving the sewers in Oblivion for the first time and greeting Cyrodil, that first glimpse of Limgrave is an iconic gaming moment, but at some point in development it wasn't Limgrave at all, but apparently «Tenebrae.»

Dataminer Sekiro Dubi's latest video focuses on an in-progress vision of Limgrave hinted at by files left over from Elden Ring's development, one where familiar characters like Nepheli and Blaidd are replaced with newcomers or characters pulled from other parts of the game. The main focus of this video is Guilbert, a hybrid of Bloody Finger Hunter Yurah and Witch Hunter Jerren from the finished game.

Sekiro Dubi's research into Elden Ring's files shows the skeletal remains of Guilbert's questline, which by their reckoning was cut before the Network Test of Elden Ring at the end of 2021. Guilbert shares Witch Hunter Jerren's weapon and Eccentric armor set, but has voice lines recorded by Yurah's actor, and his scripting had him hanging out at Yurah's location from the finished game.

Guilbert was to be a servant of the «God of Vengeance,» and would have teamed up with you to fight Crucible Knight Ordovis, a boss in the final game who, in this build, would have been found where you fight Darriwil with Blaidd in the release version. Guilbert then would have been a summon for the fight against Godrick alongside Vyke, an endgame boss and the guy on Elden Ring's box art—in the final game, Vyke is a mid-game invader, end-game boss, and otherwise a ghostly presence haunting some item descriptions, but at some point in development he seems to have had a full-on NPC questline. Guilbert also