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…