Elden Ring Leak Reveals Quest That Was Cut from the Final Game

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Elden Ring is a massive open world game with a dizzying amount of content for players to explore, but it seems not everything survived the development process. Data miners and the like have dug through Elden Ring's files since the game's launch, discovering all kinds of interesting things that were apparently left on the cutting room floor. For example, one data miner discovered evidence that there once were plans for Elden Ring to have a bestiary.

Evidence of even more cut Elden Ring content has now appeared online, with the latest revealed by YouTuber Lance McDonald, who uploaded a video on it. The newly discovered cut content revolves around an Elden Ring quest that didn't make it to the final product, which players would have received by speaking with an NPC named Monk Jiko, who is nowhere to be found in the game despite having a finished character model and recorded dialogue.

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The ultimate goal of this particular Elden Ring quest was to deliver Dream Mist to Monk Jiko, which players could obtain from sleeping animals in the open world using a special item called St. Trina's Crystal Ball. By giving Dream Mist to Monk Jiko, Elden Ring players would get Dreambrew in return, which in turn could be given to various NPCs to make them sleep. While the NPCs were sleeping, Elden Ring players could learn what they were dreaming about, with an example given in the video actually alluding to one of Elden Ring's possible endings.

In Lance McDonald's video, viewers see the player character go through these steps with Monk Jiko. The player character visits the merchant at the Church of Elleh, one of the first churches that players visit in the game,