Elden Ring seemingly once featured items and quests that focused on exploring NPCs dreams.
Lance McDonald, a prominent dataminer who’s previously revealed secrets in Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne, explored the mechanic using 2021’s network test version of Elden Ring (spotted by Eurogamer).
McDonald says that Monk Jiko originally had a questline that would weave across much of the game world, and that many characters in the game have unused dialogue related to it.
Though cut from the final game, the content had a unique, fully voiced and animated character called Monk Jiko who requested the player bring him Dream Mist – an item acquired from the dreams of certain NPCs.