Elden Ring – Dream Mist Cut Content

Even though it’s already a huge game, some of the systems in Elden Ring can at times feel like they’re missing something. The sleep status effect is among those. You barely if ever see it used in the game, and have very little incentive to utilize it yourself.

However, according to this PC Gamer article citing some datamining efforts, originally the game was supposed to have a grand storyline revolving around an NPC collecting “dream mist” and turning it into essentially liquor you could leverage to squeeze some extra lore from the game. That feature ended up being cut, but if you’re curious what it may have looked like, you should check the article out.

Here’s a little something to get you started:

An NPC named Monk Jiko, who doesn’t appear in the finished game, once gave you a quest to help him create “dreambrew, the nectar of the demigods.” Jiko gives the player an item to collect “dream mist” from sleeping enemies scattered throughout the Lands Between, and Jiko then gives the player bottles of dreambrew distilled from that mist. You could then share that dreambrew with NPCs—perhaps all of them, though McDonald’s video above only shows a conversation with Kale the merchant—to see some new dialogue and learn about their dreams.