Translated JP descriptions that aren't already compiled elsewhere. These are fetched from people who demonstrate heavy experience and/or fluency in the language, and credited per piece.
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7/7/25 Update: Nightreign Translations

Heolstor - Unknown translator currently my friend gave it to me and i forgot to ask. T_T

王の夜

Lord of Night

戦いの後に遺された、ナメレスの夜
遺物儀式により、主の力を得ることができる

Nameresu’s night, left/bequethed after battle (NB: not “nameless”, that would be nēmuresu/ネームレス)
Via relic ritual, it is possible to gain the power of its lord.

その国は滅びた
英雄を相手取り、誰一人敵わなかった
騎士だった男もまた、屍の山に埋もれる

That country was destroyed/fell.
The heroes faced off (against something), but not a one could match (it).
Even the man who was a knight was buried in the mountain of corpses.

やがて目覚め、這いずり出ると
何一つ守れぬまま、男はただ生き残った
そして、世界を呪った

Finally awakening and crawling out, the man, unable to protect a single thing, simply survived.
And cursed the world.

大雨の降りしきる、真夜中だった

It was midnight, with great rains pouring down.

Correction to the "facing off against a hero" or whatever the hell EN is talking about. It groups Heolstor, a knight, with heroes that are fighting some unidentified threat.


7/7/25 Update: SOTE Translations
See here for source. I've pasted the segments that I find significant & mostly objective, but feel free to check out the whole thing, it is very insightful.

Hefty Furnace Pot clarification, doesn't consume body and soul:

(…) 焼炉の炎は、人を魂まで焼き尽くす
穢れを焼く時、それは浄化と呼ばれる

(…) The Furnace Flame consumes people in flames until only the soul remains.
When impurities are burned, it is referred to as purification.

Extended details on Shamans, from Mirko:

I’ve noticed that the various community discussions often stops at the most basic meaning of 巫子, which is ‘Miko,’ the term used to refer to traditional Shinto priestesses. While it’s true that 巫子 can indeed be translated this way, the more common term for these priestesses is 巫女 (which is indeed pronounced as ‘miko’), not 巫子.
On the other hand, 巫子 is used to refer to another particular category of Shinto priestesses. We’re talking about the Itako (also known as ichiko or ogamisama), who reside in Tohoku, a region in the northeast of Honshu, and who, according to Shintoism, are believed to be able to contact the spirit world, and summon the deceased and the kami (Shinto deities).
In short, Itako priestess are not so different from the common idea of shamans, who typically serves as an intermediary between the afterlife and the world of the living. For this reason, I believe this particular case does not truly fall under the category of translation errors, and that ‘shamans,’ despite the lost cultural reference, remains a correct adaptation.
However, lost in translations are also the typical characteristics of an Itako, which would theoretically come to mind to a Japanese player, when reading 巫子 in the descriptions.
For example, 巫子 (itako) is a term that can only be used in the feminine (which makes sense, since Itako could only women, not men), and this implies that the Shamans Village should be meant as a village inhabited mostly — or maybe only — by women; indeed, it’s no coincidence that their models depict only women. Most likely, the village was a small matriarchal society.
Secondly, unlike common Shamans, Itako do not enter trance states and don’t allow themselves to be possessed by the spirits they invoke — a characteristic that, by the way, distinguishes them from the ordinary Japanese priestesses, the Miko. They are closer to the figure of spirit and dead summoners, and in fact one possible translation of 巫子 could even be “necromancers”.
Finally, the last attribute of Itako is that these shamans are blind from birth. According to Shintoism, it is precisely thanks to this disability that allows the Itako to develop their predisposition towards the divine and the spiritual world. I’m not sure how useful this information is for deciphering the Lore, but since the models of the priestesses absorbed into the flesh masses of the jars all have a band covering their eyes, I thought it was worth mentioning this detail as well.

Potentates

The inhabitants of Bonny Village who are responsible for creating jars are not called Potentates, but simply 大壺師, “Masters of the great pots” or “Great pots specialist”. The decision to call them Potentates is quite strange, since the word ‘potentate’ has a very specific meaning which has nothing to do with the original title of these executioners. The explanation I’ve come up for this choice is that the translation team wanted to make a little wordplay using the English word “pot”. If that’s the case, I personally find it a clever choice, but unfortunately, it only works in English — in fact, the Italian community was a little confused by this, even because our adaptation used the word “ceramista” (ceramist) to refer to Potentates in the base game, while in the DLC these executioners got translated as “potentati” (potentates)… such a mess!

On the sainthood of jars:

The Japanese text makes no mention of the word “saints”, but simply states that the great jars were used to “rebirth sinners” so they could become “upright people” or “good-natured people”.
Technically speaking, “‘saint” is not a translation error per se, but it carries a religious connotation that totally lacks from the original term found in the descriptions of Innard Meat and Greatjar: 善き人 (yokibito) translates to “good person” and has a moral connotation, not necessarily spiritual or religious.

…嫌だ、壺は嫌だ
もうしない。二度としない
天に誓う。善き人になる
だから、許してくれよ…

I don’t want the pot, I don’t want it!
I’ll never do it again, ever!
I swear to Heaven, I will be an upright person!
So please, forgive me…!

Greatjar:

The description of the Greatjar seems to imply that some shamans willingly participated in these gruesome rites, going against their own kind, but this is just another translation error: the description does not speak of shamans, but of ‘witch doctors’ (祈祷師), likely the overseers of the practice carried out in the Hornsent prisons.

逆さに被り、頭をすっぽりと覆う大壺
牢獄で祈りを捧げる祈祷師の被り物
(…)
その祈りは大壺の中身に捧げられる
いつか、善き人として生まれ変わるように
それは、人の手による輪廻である

Great pot that can be donned and that entirely covers the head.
Headpiece of the witch doctors that pray into the prisons.
(…)
Their prayers is for the content of the great pot,
hoping that they shall reborn as virtuous people.
This is the rebirth that takes place at the hands of man.

Rauh JP version:

In Japanese, the ancient ruins are named ラウフ, a katakana term pronounced as “raufu”. For those who may not know, the Katakana is a Japanese writing system primarily used for foreign words: the Japanese language does not use Latin alphabet letters, therefore Japan has developed this second alphabet used specifically to transcribe foreign phrases.
In this case, ラウフ is the transliteration of the word “Lauf”, which in Old Norse translates to “leaf”.

Bloodfiend Hexer’s Ashes

(…) かつて、虐げられた奴隷の一族は
戦禍の傷痕に異形の神性を見出し、血鬼となった
真実の母は、救いであった

(…) Long ago, a clan of oppressed slaves discovered a strange divinity among the scars of war, which turned them into Bloodfiends.
The Mother of Truth was their salvation.

Outer God Heirloom

(…) 全てを焼かれ、奪われた民は
貴いはずの先祖の遺体に、その影に
異形の神性を見出したという
その心が、惨く苛まれていたが故に
彼らは、禍々しいそれに縋ったのだ

(…) It is said that, while everything burned,
the snatched people discovered a grotesque divinity
in the shadow of the corpse of the sacred ancestor.
Their hearts were so tormented by misery
that they clung to something so ominous.
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Additionally, these “ancestors” (先祖) conceptually resemble the “ancestor spirits” (祖霊) worshipped by the Ancestral Follower living around the Siofra River and close to Nokron. This small detail shows a link between the culture of this tribe and that of the Horned Heralds.

Romina rot discovery:

(…) 全てを焼かれた教会で
ロミナは異形の神性を見出し
禍々しい、朱い腐敗に縋った
焼け跡に、また蕾が芽吹くように

(…) In the church consumed by flames,
Romina discovered a grotesque divinity.
She clung to the ominous Scarlet Rot,
so that she could bloom again among the burnt ruins

Miquella's goals:

ミケラは、影に隠された塔に向かった
その黄金の身体も、力も、宿命も 全てを棄てて
はじまりから続く因果を超えて
全てを抱く、新しい神になるために

Miquella headed towards the tower concealed in the Shadow,
forsaking everything: his golden body, his power and his fate.
To become a new god who would embrace everything,
beyond the causality that has persisted since the beginning.

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The “causality” mentioned in Miquella’s Great Rune description is the same “causality” (因果, inga) mentioned in the principles of the Golden Order Fundamentalism.

(…) 万物を関係性の連環となす、意味間の引力である

(…) It is the force of attraction between meanings, which unites everything into a single chain of relationships..

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In this context, 因果 (inga) can also be translated as “cause and effect,” the Buddhist term “karma,” or more importantly, “fate”. The same “fate” that is mentioned in various descriptions and dialogues in Elden Ring.


End of SOTE update section here!


ルーテルが殉死し、守り続けた 魂無きデミゴッドが再誕した時 彼女は英雄として、還樹を賜った

Lhutel followed the soulless demigod she served into death, and persisted in safeguarding the remains afterward. Upon the demigod’s rebirth, she was granted the honor of Erdtree burial.

ranni respecter/makimaki - Specifies the definite resurrection of Lhutel's demigod, supporting that reading in EN.
Odokuro also notes that 再誕した carries a connotation of being reborn into a different form (ie, Godwyn -> Fia rune)


…すべては、大きなひとつから、分かたれた

...Everything there is was divided from the Great One.

分かたれ、産まれ、心を持った

Divided, birthed, and attained life.

けれどそれは、大いなる意志の過ちだった

But that was the Greater Will's mistake.

苦痛、絶望、そして呪い。あらゆる罪と苦しみ

Pain, despair, and curses--every kind of sin and suffering

それらはみな、過ちにより生じた

was birthed from that mistake.

だから、戻さなくてはならない

Thus, it must be returned to its rightful state.

混沌の黄色い火で、何もかもを焼き溶かし

Everything, melted away by the flame of chaos...

すべてを、大きなひとつに…

Everything, together into the Great One...

ranni respecter/makimaki - Specifies the Greater Will's mistake as the division of life.


古い黄金樹の盛期、まだエルデンリングが砕ける前

It happened in the old prosperous age of the Erdtree, before the shattering of the Elden Ring.
(...)

エルデンリングが砕け、破砕戦争が起こる、その切欠になったと言われています

And it became the catalyst. The Elden Ring was shattered, and the war known as the Shattering came to pass.

ranni respecter/makimaki - Clarifies a contradiction with Rogier's dialogue in regard to the timeline.


Q: As undying characters, it seems like the Tarnished are a bit different compared to the Undead we've seen so far in your works. Could you tell me a bit about the nature of their immortality?
Miyazaki: The immortality of the Tarnished comes from the guidance of grace. Tarnished who have perished outside of the Lands Between are reawoken by the guidance of grace, then called to the Lands Between--this is how the game starts. It doesn't seem likely that this guidance was about to spare your character from this fate.

ranni respecter/makimaki - From the overture, i don't remember why this was retranslated but it's still a translation so whatev


孤高にして異端の、病んだ魔術師は かつて円卓のために、舌に狂ったという

An ailing sorcerer who was known for aloofness despite his heresy, Alberich was said to have become consumed in obsession with tongues in the course of his service to the Roundtable long ago.

ranni respecter/makimaki - Notes him as ailing/sickly and displays a lack of the whole roundtable-bullying thing that EN was translated to.


私の使命は、母から授かったもの

My mission was something given to me by my mother.

けれど、今はもう、私の意志になった

But now it has become mine own purpose.

ranni respecter/makimaki - Specifies confusion around Melina's decision.


Small sapling, small sapling.
Return to the earth!
But be sure not to forget...
You are mine.
So, take from me.
My abundance, my droplet.
Quench your thirst, let it flow throughout your bole.
Over and over so that you grow...
Larger and larger...
Then one day surely.
We shall both dream.
Of the Elden Ring, O Elden Ring.
My Order so elegant, my gentle dream.

Note - テスト: s15_00_0000 マレニア戦開始 is before the start of this section
[ I assume when you inherit the Frenzied Flame, Miquella says: ]

You who shall be Lord.
I beg of thee, do not forget my vision.
In your new world,
Those who are fair and foul,
Shall flourish.

[ Then at the start of your battle with Malenia, he says: ]

Beloved (younger) sister, take from me.
My abundance, my final droplet.
So all things fair and foul shall flourish.

Odokuro - Various dialogue belonging to Miquella, retranslated.


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Pub: 29 Dec 2022 23:07 UTC

Edit: 08 Jul 2025 01:36 UTC

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