Mysterious, inaccessible Elden Ring building explored in out-of-bounds video

Elden Ring Colosseum — (Image credit: Bandai Namco)

The Elden Ring map has countless points of interest, most of which reward players with an item, a boss fight, or something more surprising. But there's one large structure in the north-east of the game's starting area, Limgrave, that seems completely inaccessible. If you've seen it, you've probably spent about half-hour unsuccessfully trying to get inside.

The building in question is huge, and Colosseum-like, with a ghostly fellow moping around out front. "All I wanted was to fight," the ghostly fellow says when you interact with him. "To fight, as a warrior, at last. So why? Why, O guidance of grace, will this door not open?"

Here's the footage:

It wouldn't be unprecedented for this to be a post-launch PvP arena. All three Dark Souls games got purpose-built areas for online scraps in the months after launch.

Elden Ring had a huge launch week: it neared a million concurrent players on Steam, and the thirst for runes became so popular that there's now a burgeoning trade for them on eBay. It has also spawned countless funny deaths.

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