Elden Ring players find cut voice lines from Shadow of the Erdtree bosses that probably should've said something, if we're being honest

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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is a banger of an expansion—a return to the densely-packed worlds of Dark Souls yore, rammed with new and deadly weapons, and saddled with a final boss so unrelentingly hard it started a whole new difficulty discourse before, naturally, getting demolished by the unbeatable dodge gods of the gaming public.

But there's one flaw in the diamond: A few bosses—ones who are pretty important to the game's lore—are completely mute. In particular, Rellana and Romina are silent as the grave: but it wasn't always that way.

First surfacing on streaming website bilibili, then fully datamined by sleuth BonfireVN, a set of voice lines for several side characters (and two bosses) have been uncovered, and it seems like they were axed from the DLC for reasons I'll never quite understand. Rellana's voiceline is a simple «Rise, twin moons!» whereas Romina has a few barks: «Children of the tower» and «Butterflies, take wing!».

Neither of these lines reveal much, but they at least add some personality onto two very lore-important characters. In case you're out of the loop, here's why they're big deals:

Aside from being one of the DLC's first real challenges, Rellana is the younger sister to Rennala—the heiress of Raya Lucaria and your one-stop-shop for respecs. Rellana is, for all purposes, a major player in The Lands Between who nonetheless turned her back on her birthright to go hang out with Messmer and his funky snakes.

Her moveset is a nice, FromSoftware-subtle representation of this. Rellana wields one blade touched by sorcery and another by Messmer's flame—also dropping twin moon magics on us, testing our ability to remember that Elden Ring has a jump button you can use to dodge things sometimes.

In case there was any doubt, this is all confirmed by her remembrance item description, which reads:«Once a Carian princess, Rellana disavowed her birthright and chose to stand at Messmer's side instead, knowing full well that not even the brilliance of