Elden Ring Fans Wonder Why Coffins Are Used As Elevators

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The Lands Between is chock-full of mysteries. Who is Melina? What are the Outer Gods? And why is Miquella in a giant egg cocoon? Perhaps we'll have answers in the upcoming Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, but in the meantime, Tarnished are left with whatever scraps of lore Elden Ring gives them.

This lack of explanation has led one Tarnished to ask what's up with the bizarre coffin elevators in Elden Rings subterranean areas. For those that ventured beneath the flowing plains of the Altus Plateau and the stormy weather of Stormveil Castle, there's a bunch of coffins that will take the player from Siofra Aqueduct to Deeproot Depths, from Deeproot Depths to Ainsel River, and one more that takes you from the Lake of Rot to the Astel boss fight. These coffins initially just have you strap yourself in to go over a waterfall, but if you feel like backtracking, you can take the same coffin to the previous area. It'll just magically levitate back up the waterfall with glowing orange runes.

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A coffin-based transportation system is a little weird, even for the Lands Between. There's also no official explanation for who or what created these coffins. This lack of explanation has been humorously pointed out by several Tarnished over the Elden Ring subreddit, with one suggesting director Hidetaka Miyazaki just shouted "coffin elevator" one day during Elden Ring's development.

For an actual explanation, we turn to Reddit user MTDLuke. "There’s no confirmation, but my belief is that the Nox/Night Folk/Numen's funeral ceremonies involve putting their dead in these coffins which are then magically carried down the river. This is why all along the river, you find coffins. The coffins going