
Next time we see him, we’ll have to ask him. While these may be mere coincidences, it’s equally as likely that director Hidetaka Miyazaki included these names as a cheeky nod to tech minded players. There’s similar tin-foil hat conspiracies about the character Patches from Demon’s Souls and Rom from Bloodborne. But this isn’t the first time FromSoft has had a search word character conspiracy. Obviously with a few more keywords and a can-do attitude, the pirates will be back to their swashbuckling (swashdownloading?) ways.

So the theory is this: someone wants to download Elden Ring for free, so they go to their favorite browser and search “Elden Ring torrent”, all the search results are about the horse! Pirates vanquished.

Not high seas piracy, just run of the mill IP theft and illegal file sharing. It’s great for file sharing and unburdening a single server, but it’s also great for piracy.
