It's Time for Shadow of the Erdtree
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2023
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Something about miquella I don't hear a lot of people talk about is how Gideon implies miquella's disappearance was the last straw for marika. Not godwin's death. "Perhaps the queen's sorrow was justified" is something he says about miquella being missing not godwin being half dead.
Godwyn's "death" could be orchestrated by Marika herself, since regardless of what ending we chosen except Frenzied Flame, Godwyn would came out on top as that one entity that influenced everything around Lands Between, even bounding the Greater Will's power with his now parasitic nature.
Godwyn, even in his currently twisted state (which I think Marika don't even care anymore), is literally already a god.
@apophisstr6719 hot take: i don't think marika planned Godwins death. One of the only things I think she sorta planned was the tarnished/Godfrey returning to the lands between and fighting radagon. It seems she could have even had that in mind before radagon even became elden lord.
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I don't see a point in her having planned the return of Godfrey or the Tarnished if she hadn't planned the shattering of the Elden Ring as well
@@aramkaizer7903 yeah same. I believe she sent them out so they wouldn’t stagnate. They’d fight and die and sharpen their skills until the day came when she may be in need of an army again, since not everyone is under the influence of the Erdtree
@@apophisstr6719It was actually pretty clearly describes that the one who actually orchestrated the murder of Godwyn was actually Ranni. She owns up to it once you do rogiers questline that starts at Castle Stormveil
***Fun Fact*** Miquella actually has a credited voice actor in Elden Ring, Naomi Mc Donald. She also voiced Stone Trader Chloanne in Dark Souls 2. You can actually hear her speaking as Miquella in Elden Ring in a pre-release trailer before that content was cut. I would imagine it will make it over to the DLC though.
The long development time definitely points towards the DLC being quite big. More content to enjoy - so it's probably worth the wait.
Yeh agreed
I hope and you dudes are right
im coping so hard pleaseee 😭😭
@@fullsoul5727 ikr i been waiting for this for so long 😭
I'm just glad they take their time. Their DLC track record is still "spotless" in terms of providing better content than the main game.
-Artorias of the Abyss (entered the next level of boss quality)
-Sunken King (I LOVE Shulva
Something that I think would be absolutely hilarious is if we only get a passing mention of Miquella in the entire DLC. Like from just massively trolls us 😂
Then we wait for dlc 2 lol. I'm hoping for an invasion forest, aldrich style.
I’ve always thought of the lands between as an “ Olympus”, like a place for only the gods and Demi gods. That’s why the world is like an island and you have to cross the fog and it’s all pushed together, and I just love the idea of going into Miquella’s dream and seeing what the lands between was like before the shattering, or maybe just the world he envisioned and wanted to create. Also I pray you’re right about them basically reskinning the entire world cuz that would be worth this wait for sure.
Assuming that we are in Miquella’s dream it’s kinda scary to think about what the real demigods might look like
Going along with this dream idea, Miquella is truly Torrent which is how miquella truly guided us through the lands between. Who's to say this land is a land between different dreamscapes.
Building on that, it looks like Miquella is riding Torrent, or at least something that looks like Torrent.
My mans a spirit donkey
Love it
You think Godwyn will appear in anyway.
@@tonydelia9998 Most definitely.
That would even explain why we are given the spectral steed whistle! Miquella giving us a tool that lets him guide the tarnished along their journey
There is a part of me that believes no DLC was ever planned for this game, but from the amount of positive feedback ER received, the MANY awards it deserved, and the large amounts of fans wanting more, I was to assume FromSoft started developing an unplanned entire new part for Elden Ring.
I believe the same thing I don't think the realized what they where creating with the fromsoft they where hits but elden rings hit the masses like no game they ever had I think they put so much money into elden ring that if it was not a hit they where not guna do a dlc with no money but it was a smash hit and they had to run to the drawing board asap money's money
Nah if you see the amount of cut content and how close it was connected to characters like miquella makes me certain that they planned the dlc
I think that dlc will have many different access points leading into one central area. The Malenia, the Miquella and the Godwym will be different entry points leading to mystery connecting all loose threads.
Who is Radagon, who is gloam eyed queen, what miquella wanted to do, where was original farum azula, what is the world of the dead, everything.
That’s such a cool idea, and it does a great job explaining why The Lands Between is so ethereal and illogical.
The one thing that wouldn’t sit well with me though is that the main game being a dream would devalue much of its plot/narrative
Not necessarily. Bloodborne is all a “dream” technically but dreams are a very different thing in that world to how they are in this world.
I personally don't think it is a dream even though it feels like it. I have been watching a channel called "The Tarnished Archeologists" and the stuff he has found in the games' structure is incredible. The Lands Between has a lot of detail in its environment that tells us the history of it and even why it looks the way it does.
Can't wait I just kno its gonna be dope elden ring was my first souls game n mannn it was a struggle but let's jus say "I got good" 🤣🤣🤣 first ever 100% completion platinum trophy
@babygimmefeet2620 yeah took me at least 40+ tries then something clicked n I started learning how to dodge her attacks 😂😂😂
Same same I’m hyped
Eldern wrong brought in all the normies
I remember how Radahn was at release…
Bruh…
That Radahn made Malenia look easy. Then he got nerfed.
@@ronthorn3 eldern wrongs one of the worst soul's games.
I personally took the term "crossing the fog" as another way to describe us resurrecting. Also the idea of us being in Miquella's dream is a really interesting idea. If it was a dream then the reason for The Lands Between looking so different to the one shown in the picture of the DLC's announcement to could make sense as The Lands Between could represent how he is sort of fractured as person with his two personalities being St Trina & Miquella.
Looking forward to watching your videos about the DLC almost as much as playing the DLC myself.
I think Miquella will start another eclipse to ressurect Godwyn like the one at castle sol
@swordam1063 i thought about the eclipse and how it supposedly failed and i think understand what happened. Since Miquella has this bewitching charm about him and knows how to control it i believe he convinced the people of castle sol to preform the prayers that lets him enter the afterlife where godwyns soul is. Miquella lied to them and said if it works then you will have access to the Haligtree but he never intended to fulfill his end of the bargain.
@@thememeilator2633 makes sense miquella is probably evil. I also theorised that miquella caused the deathroot to grow from godwyn by failing to ressurect him but idk if that works.
@@swordam1063 i wouldn`t say he`s evil. i mean his dream he wants to fulfill is "let all things flourish weather graceful or malign". as to why he would deceive the people of castle sol with false hope, i have a theory. he didn`t want any outer god influence in the halig tree but knew he needed the black star to get godwyn back. he probably never wanted them in the halig tree to begin with but needed the ritual to enter the afterlife.
as for him being the cause of deathroot? nah. we see in the cinematic that he starts producing deathroot almost immediately after he was killed.
yo man i wish you and your channel all the best you seem really genuine about this whole youtube stuff which is super rare so keep it up dawg
Super compelling. Probably the best way to make sense of the world without going insane or getting frustrated at some point imo. I got burned bad speculating Totk would build thematically on Botw leading up to release and i don’t think i can take that again, but i guess i can’t help myself this is really good.
On my first playthrough of the game… for some reason I remember something pointing to the possibility that marika was asleep within the erdtree and that in her sleeping state the erdtree took her sleeping mind and then cast that dream out into the lands between as it’s reality
I really enjoy your Elden ring lore videos
your lore videos are unique ❤
Dude I loved your long form reviews please keep them coming!!!!
Love the vids, keep up the good work❤❤
Just want to say that I enjoy your content & I’ve been watching many different videos on Elden Ring lore but I’m super excited finding your channel in particular so I’m excited to binge and catch up! This one was so good!
fantastic job making an engaging video and coming up with a new lore theory during a time when elden ring lore feels like it's been discussed into the ground. it's sad that by and large, channels like this have very little left to talk about and i'm very excited for new things to discuss and theorize about. great job as always
I interpreted that dream-like patchwork feeling of Elden Ring as the world simple being broken since the Shattering, like on a metaphysical level. But I love the dream theory!
Loved your Live Streams as much as your Lore!
O my, this might be one of the best Elden Ring lore videos I have ever seen. Subbed!
Brace yourself, this is going to be a long comment.
Rn I have around 500 hours on this game, and I am fairly observant by nature so I too have noticed that weird... out of tune feeling. That what we see and are experiencing is not real. It feels, yes, like a dream, or, more so, like an illusion. The lands between appears to be disfigured like a piece of land after an earthquake.
The landscapes, such as the Erdtree, the lake in Liurnia and the Mountaintops, but really, all the Lands Between are impossible. They are so extreme in the way they are formed, but a bit too small to really make sense. Looking at some gorgeous views like at Lakeside Cliffs Site of Grace feels genuinly unreal in a way Dark Souls landscapes never really did.
The people we find in the Lands Between are also like this. Disfigured, insane and whatever a lot of NPC's says seems very slightly like the ramblings of a madman. And many of the bosses and enemies we fight attack us for seemingly no reason. I would say this is because a lot of them (yes, even some of the strongest bosses and enemies) are scared. They don't recognize the world they are in, and massive regions have been cramped into by comparison small backyards. A lot of people have theorized Elden Ring's world is in canon much larger than in-game, which, while has some truth in it, I would theorize that no, the Lands Between WE find ourselves in is propably pretty similar to how it is in canon. But THIS is not the REAL Lands Between. Oh well, it is real but like a dream or illusion is indeed part of our minds, and therefor part of the universe we experiance.
What I'm trying to get to is that the Elden Ring is the very RULES OF REALITY, and aftef Marika shattered it, well reality itself is broken. Vastly different lands and people have weirdly stuffed into a strange alter-reality. This explains why certain things in the game world that probably shouldn't exist at once do in fact exist simiultaniously.
We are in a nightmare, where things just cannot change, no matter what we do. To understand my theory, I need to explain some things. Firstly, a hot take.
When Radahn stopped the movements of the cosmos, he took away almost everybody's destiny. In many religions, the stars are considered guides for our lives, and in Elden Ring, it is described the Carian's destiny is controlled by the stars.
But, to be honest, it's probably way bigger than that. I woukd say the cosmos is ESSENTIAL for people to controll their DESTINY. When Radhan sealed the movements of the stars, he may have done some temporary great deeds, but the consequenses over time are very dire. Taking away the imfluence of the stars and moon almost completely takes makes people go INSANE, because they do not have a destiny. There are severall other reasons why the people of the Lands Between have lost their minds, the only other I'm gonna mention being the Shattering War being quite possibly so devestating that it shattered the world itself, making everybody go crazy.
Even after killing everybody in the Lands Between, nothing seems to change. And that is why Shadow of the Erdtree is going to be so incredibly thematicly important and powerful. It is the FIRST TIME we see what is actually happening. It's like, well, waking up from a nightmare unironicly enough. I don't know how the nightmare we are in makes sense, but it definately has sonething to do with the Greater Will. We are in for one hell of a ride.
Hope you don't think everything I just said was wrong and have a great day!
Great video. Love the theory crafting.
I love the idea of the Expansion changing how view the entire game, it would bring SO much value to replaying the game! Amazing theory!
Real quick, if it's something you could use for more Elden Ring content, I've made a few videos of my Usurping Theory that I'd love to hear your take on!
It's been received much better than I expected, and I do cite your "Marika's Great Plan" video in the first one, so I've always wanted to know what you thought of it?
Might not be enough to make a full video about, so regardless, I'm looking forward to more of your content! The game awards will be 12:30am I'm the UK, so if I'm around on the 8th, I'll definitely be tuning in to your stream! ❤
I love elden ring lore I watched all your videos multiple times as long as you put out content I'll watch this channel is one of my favorites
idk obviously the dlc is gonna be abt miquella and godwyn but imma say final dlc boss is Melina as the gloam eyed queen
Imagine if the final boss was actually Torrent for some reason. Nobody would see that coming.
Love the theory of waking up Miquella! I do share your sense that the Lands Between is a dreamlike space (even the name is indeterminate). Can’t wait for the DLC to show if we’re right…great video! 🎉
The thing that never made sense or more likely i didn't understand was that the farum azula ruins are scattered over limgrave's stormhill implying that Farum was once existing over Limgrave, but once we find Farum Azula, its not even remotely close to Limgrave infact it's one of the furthest places from limgrave in the entire game its on completely different sides, and what we find out about Farum is that it is a timeless place which is inside of this magical storm that doesn't let farum azula exist in the past or future other than this sort of pocket dimension, so than how come farum azula existed over Limgrave at some point or was there another structure similar to Farum azula. Another thing is that i found a quote from the fandom stating that "Golems are giant stone guardians hailing from a civilization now gone to ruin. They are said to have been made by a golem crafter, using an impure crystal knife not unlike the Crystal Dart."
Who do we know is a crafter of things, a person who uses all kinds of tools to create objects like the use of unalloyed gold, Miquella, now why are there so many golem remains scattered over Limgrave's stormhill when we established that some sort of floating city used to exist, because either Miquella partook in the creation of some sort of floating city like farum or even farum itself, or he just decided to dump a whole lot of broken golems in a random part of the map, unless, they fell from some sort of floating mass, farum or otherwise. Another connection is that when you lit fire to the erdtree, it transported you to farum, i think that Miquella created a beacon which sends you to farum or something.
Im so sorry for wasting you gentlesmens time if you read all this, most of it has so many plot holes that most of it shouldn't make any sense i just tried to word what was in my mind at the time of writing so yeah, also sidenote i do think that miquella has been watching us throughout the story even if his body is trapped or better if Miquella shared a fate similar to that of ranni's and his body in the cacoon is dead and his mind has been watching us and maybe he has posessed a lifeform that we have interacted with idk, just a guess but yeah maybe his body is alive and all this is made up bolix. anyway thanks for taking the time to read this 3 paragraph mess of shit or just skipping to the end i hope you have a good day, goodbye.
Im not giving all the names and places capitals because i'm not writing an essay, if your that worried about grammatical errors than stop reading youtube comments.
Thanks :)
Yeah, I think entering the DLC after the Mohg fight makes a lot of sense. Good reasoning!
this is a dlc im willing to patiently wait for as long as they need to develop another work of art for us to immerse ourselves in. If theyre taking this long i imagine its gonna be so massive it will feel like a whole new game in the same world.
Another awesome video bro 👍
your take on it is actually pretty good and i would like to see the real lands between
NGL I'm loving the suspense because I KNOW Fromsoft isn't making us wait for nothing. I fully expect this to be another 30-60hrs of gameplay easily. If not even more than that.
Dude, i do hope it's a 40hr campaign
Hey Jake, I really Like your theory! And i would Love to add Something to this dream-theory: i Just rewatched a Video about the short Story "an inhabitant of carcosa" by Ambrose Biers. Some lines from the short Story were read and i was baffled, as the description of the Scene was almost identical to the picture of "Shadow of the erdtree" (except miquella and Torrent). It was also mentioned that this Scene was Seen while having a fever dream. Absolutely strengthening your dream-reality-theory :)
I am obviously not the First one to See the Connection, but i couldn't find very much discussion about it. I would absolutley love to hear your Take on that!
I really Like your content and those bold ideas/theories you craft! So Keep on with all your good Work :)
really interesting
I had this feeling that something is wrong or dreamlike in elden ring when I was talking to the finger reader crown at the roundtable. When the fingers suddenly spoke to her telling her that the cardinal sin might be apropriate at given circumstances. All suddenly felt like a big play we were put into and the roundtable was just going along making things up. but if the crowns reading the finger were making up things this had bigger implications
…actually the 1st time I’ve heard this
Not gonna go into holes or comparisons, etc
-Love this theory; I really do. Actually pretty awesome
Not what I’m thinking but, I really enjoyed this
-I’ll be looking out for this channel. Very much appreciate your work m8-thank you for this vid👍✌️
Love the fact you used the Little Nightmares theme in your video. So good and iconic.
The liitle nightmares music on the background is dope
Just found out about your channel, and I absolutely love your content man!
Very great video, I love your videos, can’t wait for the DLC. Btw your thumbnail has the word “Absolutely” spelled incorrectly. 😅
Thanks for catching that! No matter how many times I check my spelling, the dyslexia always pulls through lol
@@agtjake You are welcome! And wow I didn't know you have Dyslexia, actually it's awesome with what you're doing with your videos.
I'm on my third playthrough. I still love how there's a massive amounts to do. Depending on the release date of the DLC i wonder if i could squeeze in another playthrough. If I'm not focused on other games lol
Been missing the twitch streams ( I'm lillumb over there) .. I finally played and finished Elden Ring this month, and was excited to shoot the sh*t a bit over there about the game. Incredible game.
Imagine if Miquella traversed time to chance the outcome from some events. Like the shattering, Malenia's fight with Radhan to prevent her from using her bloom. Then prevent Ranni from killing Godwin and in that order the black flame should remain in its full power same for 🐕. And an era of dragon could be a possibility where Miquella is acquiring knowledge to seal his God and Malenia's.
One thing i wish their where more of is ac6 story discussions. Not like a lore deep dive or anything like that (although that would be nice too) but more like a narrative dissection. Maybe a compare and contrast to other scifi narratives. Ive noticed ac6 weirdly has a lot in common story wise with halo 3. They both literally start the same way, you falling from orbit.
I love the background little nightmares song, good choice bro 👍
My idea of The Lands Between has always been that its some form of purgatory. Like a sewer system between multiple different universes. That’s why we see little to no actual physical evidence of any of the many “gods” we hear about. They got the other worlds to worry about, the lands between is just an afterthought kinda place.
With all the parallels that miquella has to griffith i can totally see him being a friendly npc at first but at the end of his quest he shows his true colors and you have to fight him
Something I think that might explain that feeling of the Lands Between being off - not real, might be that it's a condensed form of what used to be a much larger and more coherent continent.
I believe that much like Dark Souls 3's "all of the world is converging at Lothirc" idea is similarly happening here - The Shattering caused the Lands Between to, as Jake puts it, fold in on itself, and create the current continent we have now
I just found your channel bc I wanted to listen to lore while I do a brand new playthrough. Your videos are amazing & ik it can get tiring doing the same thing for the growth of your channel. But I wanted to say that your vids are timeless & much appreciated 🙂
I like your theory of the world, hope part of it will be on the dlc
I would love to play through the DLC you’ve described here!
Thinking about it, if we're already in a dream the name of the place we play in kind of makes sense: the lands between. "across the fog" could maybe mean the "fog" state when falling asleep. The lands between could mean in-between the dream and being awake, which is why the world is so jumbled and chaotic and things don't quite make sense. Or it could be in between dreams with the same effect.
I'm glad you talked about this, I totally agree the lands between feels odd.
We are thankful for having you Agt
So after listening to your theory i have to agree that as we play the game, make our builds, become either lord of frenzy, elden lord, or herald of stars. we begin NG+ and so on as our build as if we are trapped in a loop and in that loop we are told that there are demigods total. Godrick, Radahn, Rykard, Morgott, Mohg, Malenia, Miquella, Godwyn, annd Ranni. and of those 9 demigods only Miqulla annd Godwyn are the only two we find in a nightmerish state. Miqulla in his broken egg and Godwyn in his deathblight root.
Elden Ring content is always awesome.. Same goes for other souls games as well.. Really appreciate your content man..
Mohg's line talking to Miquella "you must abide alone a while" somewhat tells me that he is indeed stuck in some sort of nightmare situation. I also couldn't agree more about the vibe of the entire game is in a dream-like state!
I'm not a big fan of the theory that we're already in a dream, however the point you made about the structure of the land is a very good one. It always bugged me how the land has these sharp cliffs, and all the rock seems really jagged and pushed together. It also helps explain another thing that's been bugging me; in spite of the game being huge, I always felt that, from a lore perspective, the lands between seems kind of small. We get descriptions throughout the game of massive armies marching through the lands between (like Malenia leading the march to Caelid), and I always had the picture of days long marches, but with the size of the lands between, these marches and wars really couldn't take long or be that big. I get the feeling that all these lands and locations have been scaled down to make it easier to the player, but it could also be explained as it being a part of Miquella's dream and this is just how he remembers the lands between.
I found your channel recently, and its awesome! I'm hoping for the best, cheers!
This theory is so good i hope its some what true i like how you fliped the scrip and thought of this very good idea cant wait for DLC ❤
The lands between is a limbo between life & death, like a dream, but not a dream. It reflects
Interesting! My main question/thought hearing this is, how does the Ranni ending play into this? ..Also a projection of miquella's.. 🤔
Elden Ring was so good, my 1st Soulborne game. Currently in my 2nd playthrough trying to finish all the side quests and duel every boss solo. It’s been a slow journey compared to my 1st play through 😂
Same with me! My first play through was just to experience the game (with the help of my mimic tier at EVERY opportunity). On my second play through now too, refusing to use summons and actually learning the bosses!! It's taking sooo much longer 😭 But definitely more fulfilling. Hi-five to us! Good luck
@@LaurenAstro hi five bro 🤚🏾🙏🏾
Just finished Elden ring for the first time and been bingeing ur videos keep it up
«Oh it’s like a dream»
I love this theory! Hope its either that or the we start in the Roundtable hold and can exit it to the new Lands between.
This theme is from Taxi Driver. Nice!
This might be the best theory for the DLC I've ever heard, i hope you just nailed it on the head man because if that's how the DLC goes that'd be awesome
While i find your thought process both interesting and a possibility, the landscape of the lands between is ruined by the many battles that took place before, during and after the rise of The Golden Order. The lands are also probably compressed since there would be no need for a lot of open, useless land by a gaming standpoint (and file size)
I think the theory of the lands between being a much bigger continent like land mass that was literally pushed together makes a lot of sense. The moutains feel way too close together and they dont look natuaral, like they were scrunched up and smashed together. This would make a ton of sense with the DLC picture and how it is a vast open plain, the real lands between. prehaps that plain is limgrave?
Elden-ception Ring. Member when time slowed and stopped when going into Placidusax fight; compounds dreams. Great theory broski
The story you’ve predicted here is shockingly cool and I would love to have more games make these nuts twists halfway through or so. At the same time, if this scenario were to actually become true that would mean that the true story of the game is locked behind a paywall, rather than just an optional side story being locked behind pay. This feels a bit scummy to me which is why I am a bit torn on whether I want it to be true, and also why I don’t think it will come true. Other than that, as stated before, HOLY EXCREMENT THIS WOULD BE COOL!
As long as the base game can be taken without the dlc then it’s fine
I mean... Elden Ring is already a full game. This is like saying "Making people pay for a sequel that continues the story is scummy"
@@TarnishedProductions That’s actually a good point. Previously they’ve sort of had side stories that could be ignored without missing much as their DLCs. Wonder if they’ll take this route instead, would be awesome.
@@TarnishedProductions The difference is the DLC wouldn't be a continuation of the story, it would be completing the story in Elden Ring which is missing huge chunks of it. It's like if someone wrote a book and then made you buy the sequel in order to understand what you just read because some parts were intentionally left out.
@@xx_amongus_xx6987 Highly doubt Fromsoft will do that since most Souls DLC leave more questions than actual answers. But there's sequels that are really needed to make the story more complete. MGS2 and MGS3 completely recontextualized MGS1, to the point of making it pretty thin in comparison. Same with Spark 3 EJ recontextualizing its predecessor, or Dishonored with its DLCs.
i love your videos and yes, a lot of your subscribers are here for elden ring content/lore. I think your creative process and personality are the best part of your videos, not the knowledge you impart. That being said, i think once your burnt out on eldenring other games like lies of P, lord of the fallen, even hollow knight, are great games to start slowly shifting your content. All up to you obviously, i’ll still be watching :)
Excellent video! This is a great theory and I kinda hope it's true.
I would love if we could really "go into Miquella's memories/dreams"
If we could see Godwyn still alive and be able to grasp what we lost it
Meeting Morgot and Mohg as little omen kids would be nice
I would like to see some questlines being amplified, Milicent for example. Being able to know more of Melina, being able to talk more and listen to her. Seeing more of the things starting to crumble. Rykard and Ranni (still alive) plotting. Being able to fight alongside Malenia or Radahn.
I will cry and say I wish the mimic tear questline would come back
There is so much stuff I WISH we could get
MELINA IS MIQUELLA’S ASTRAL PROJECTION, ST TRINA
very nice video, good theory
I absolutely miss playing souls games. Full of fun, and rage. And that’s the best part of it. My first souls game was demons souls, the Straight to sekiro then the absolute masterpiece, DS3 and overall I played every single one so when the dlc comes out i get to play a souls game again and I know it’s gonna be so hard and so long!
I never noticed the face in the haligtree when the character looks up after beating stage 1 melania. its crazy! I'm betting the DLC is gonna be massive and that's why there is the delay
I have to admit, this is a good theory! It makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
This is one of the best analyses of Elden Ring. It is also convergent with my own beliefs.
Elden Ring is the story of Free Will and the reality we choose for ourselves. It is recognizing the illusion and choosing to love it for the greater good.
My guess that the helpen might play a part in the dlc
oh wow
I have like 6 different builds ready for DLC and I just started another one, I’ve already platinum the game, I just wanna finish it
Also this reminds me of the bubble blowers, they seem to be related to Miquella, like trying to wake him up or something
Don't be discouraged. 2 years is an amazing run for making content on a console game which have very limited lifespans. I still watch elden ring content regularly and as soon as dlc drops the hype will come back at half mast til the hype build and speculation for the next from soft game starts
I have a theory that the area seen in the concept art is going to be the final boss fight arena, just like with gael, it's just a massive open field with nothing but you and the boss and some beautiful scenery. you'll reach the end of the DLC and be teleported to the very distant future where the entire land is dead, the erdtree fully consumed by the deathroot, but miquella's abundance allows for all those reeds to grow, and there you'll fight miquella or a boss related to him.
As the date gets closer it feels like an eternity.
I am ALL about your theory dude. The game TOTALLY feels like a dream/nightmare. I’ve felt it the entire time but I couldn’t put my finger on it precisely. TOP idea my guy 😄💝
If you imagined it: its not going to happen; you're going to be wrong.
Just how it works.
That would be the greatest dlc of all time. Reminds me a little of the dying light dlc The following, almost a whole new game on top of the base.
Holy shit your theory on the DLC sounds fucking incredible!! I really hope its something like that. It sounds exactly like what from software would do.
I personally think this would make for an awesome DLC; a nice but different possibility for the lore seekers to think on while we wait.
I was doing new run in demon souls and i found both intro to the games are basically the same even the narration
I really doubt it’s a dream if you think a little. GRRM is a successful and experienced writer, he’d never stoop to the «it’s all a dream» trope. Fromsoft has always created expressionistic, surreal representations of their worlds
Im too excited man.
I couldn’t imagine a bigger DLC than what you’re talking about right now.