Elden Ring Lore of the Fingers. What's the deal with the Two Fingers? Why Three Fingers? Why... fingers?? Join us as we answer these and other seemingly absurdities by some old fashioned Tarnished Archaeology in the Lands Between.

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Gameplay footage/music credit: Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Bandai Namco and FromSoftware.

Music and audio samples:
Dark Souls A Moment's Peace, and Elden Ring Theme harp cover by Anna Ellsworth
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Song of Despair, Epitaph for Boletaria, and The Curse That Binds Us by Alex Roe
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Tang Tengri by Ahmed Bahadır Uslu
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Audio samples from Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Archimandrite Seraphim and the Choir of the Monastery of the 13 Assyrian Fathers



Video: Mongolia, MrBrynnorth; Basilica, Timeline World History Documentaries; Eucharist, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Rochester NY; Schism of 1054, CNN; Russian wooden churches, Great Big Story; Braille, BBC; Blaeu's map of Russia (1645), University of California; Grand Duchy of Moskovy, History Lab; Yin Yang, Jeren Velletri and DSDNA; Rievaulx Abbey: 4K Cinematic Tour, eheritage.

Images (Chapters 13):
Justinian Mosaic, Steven Zucker; Pope and Patriarch, Osservatore Romano; Solovetsky Monastery Uprising, 1666, Sergey Miloradovich, 1885; Data glove, Rachel Freire & Artyom Maxim; Braille glove, ORama AI; Map of Rusia, Blaeu 1645; Fall of Constantinople, Lestertair; Mehmet Enters Hagia Sophia, Fausto Zonaro; Woodcut of Constantinople, Nuremberg Chronicle; Orthodox mass, Russianchurch; Oirad, kalmyk's National music; Chaos, Giovan Francesco Capoferri, Lorenzo Lotto; The Skoptsy, public domain.
Images (Chapter 4):
Roman Pantheon:I, JeanChristophe BENOIST
Quatrefoil above the west door of Croyland Abbey; Thorvaldsson
Hand of God Fresco: Museu Nacional D'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Cloister of Poblet Monastery, Spain (founded 1153) Jaume Meneses Flickr: Monestir de Poblet
Whitby Abbey (1220s) Wilson44691
Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey (begun 1132) WyrdLight.com
Rievaulx Abbey showing Presbytery (R), South Transept, Chapter House foundations & wall of Infirmary (L) WyrdLight.com
Clothed hand clutching wreath, San Clemente, Rome, 1140–43. Jastrow
Moses receives the Tablets of the Law, and hears the call of God. Paris Psalter.
Moses receives the Tablets, c. 840 Karolingischer Buchmaler um 840 The Yorck Project (2002)
Meister des DrogoSakramentars The Yorck Project (2002
Canterbury Cathedral: Antony McCallum, WyrdLight.com
Hagia Sophia: Arild Vågen Own work
Aachen cathedral: Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas © CEphoto


Contents of the Video


00:00 Intro
01:00 The Schism of the Fingers
03:45 Chapter 1: The Fingers
07:55 Chapter 2: A Quivering Code
13:45 Chapter 3: The Finger Schism
24:10 Chapter 4: The Divine Hand
36:58 Chapter 5: Who Killed the Divine Hand? .