Dataminer unearths 'cut' voicelines from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's stoic final boss

Before we get into this, there'll (naturally) be spoilers for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss within.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, Promised Consort Radahn (apart from being hard as a mouthful of nails doused in acid) has proven to be something of a contentious choice from a lore perspective.

Some argue that other candidates from Elden Ring's panoply of blood-relative demigods, such as Godwyn the formerly Golden, might've been more fitting, though there's plenty of debate as to whether his soul's even a viable candidate for being jammed into Mohg's puppeteered corpse.

Whether you're on team Edward or Jacob—sorry, I mean, Godywn or Radahn—it turns out the latter might have also been more talkative, once upon a time. On r/eldenringloretalk (thanks, Eurogamer) user LaMi_1 has dug up some «cut» voice-lines via the time-honored tradition of datamining. LaMi_1 found the following three lines:

«I was checking the internal files of the DLC,» LaMi_1 writes, «to translate the original Japanese texts and discover if they had any relevant difference with the English version or any meaning that got lost in translation, and while scrolling the dialogues and comparing the English ones with the Japanese ones, I found out a very interesting piece of cut content.»

This leads us to a secondary question, one that's been on the tongues of YouTube loremasters since the DLC dropped: Just how on-board was Radahn with becoming Miquella's consort in the first place?

During the DLC, it was revealed that Mohg had, perhaps, been judged too harshly by the fanbase—his kidnapping and infatuation with Miquella caused by the child-slash-demigod himself. In other words, he was brainwashed. Two years later, Mohg: The Lord of Blood has been cleared of all charges.

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If Miquella similarly forced Radahn to promise to be his consort, then that means Radahn is himself a victim