Elden Ring reference. Players can, as in Dark Souls, construct short messages, which are constrained by a limited vocabulary, leading some to make nonsensical or wordplay-reliant messages to ‘help’ other players. ‘Behold, dog’ in front of a turtle was one of the ones that became popular.

The Roman Testudo formation is a military formation in which soldiers lock shields together, as depicted above. ‘Testudo’, however, literally means ‘tortoise’

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