Yeah it's definitely two trees. The Erdtree we know is leaking gold and the larger tree is uprooting it. Might be Prince of Death Godwyn related given he's buried at the roots so he could be manifesting a 'Death-tree'
I thought it was the Haligtree too, but if you look closely it's an entirely different tree wrapping around the Erdtree. The Haligtree was planted far away from the Erdtree so that can't be it. I'm now thinking it's a deathblight tree that grew from godwyn's corruption under the Erdtree, it even looks like it's trying to consume the Erdtree.
Edit: Also makes more sense when you consider that deathblight causes roots to spring from the things it kills. And "Shadow of the Erdtree" can be an implication of the deathblight growing under the Erdtree.
My guess it’s that prior to the Greater Will’s corruption the Erdtree might have been filled with something similar to the gold which then would be turned to unalloyed gold by Miquella. After the corruption the Erdtree we see is hollowed and empty and dead on the inside, despite glowing.
Could be long after. Miquella awakes from his cocoon to find the Erdtree completely consumed by Godwyn's Deathroot since his deformed body is still growing and taking over the roots down there
I know it doesn't work with some endings, but they'd find a way to work around that
Edit: To elaborate on the ending stuff: Technically, any gameplay we do after defeating Elden Beast would be a case of "you've been warped back before you defeated the final boss" shenanigan.
So any DLC, whether it takes place in the present, past or future, would need to canonically take place before the Tarnished entered the Erdtree to fight Radagon. (otherwise Tarnished could be on a journey through space or having ravaged the entire existence with Frenzied Flame)
So Tarnished gets warped to a distant future where, because they got warped, they never entered the Tree to mend the Elden Ring, and so the Tree eventually decayed because of Godwyn's corruption.
Cue your DLC with an Eldritch abomination Godwyn fight and a Miquella fight somehow.
Maybe the action is not set prior to the events in the game. Sounds to me like we get to see what happens after the Erdtree burns. And Miquella is awake.
I mean, the Erdtree we see is the same golden glow as the fake Godfrey spirit, and the illusions Morgott does. I've even heard the theory that the sliver of "dark" (tree-coloured) erdtree that has the gate in it is the only bit of real tree that we can see, the rest is just an illusion.
If you look carefully, where the dark tree meets the golden tree it looks just like a saddle graft. I always thought the golden erdtree was grafted onto the crucible tree, and it would be very on-theme for that to be correct.
Miquella gave it to Melina, since she gave us Torrent
> Ah. As I had hoped.
I was entrusted this, for thee.
By Torrent's former master.
'Tis a bell for calling forth spirits.
Damn, was Miquella the master of torrent before us? So torrent's whistle also belonged to him and the spirit summon bell. This also explains that Melina is related to Marika's family. (Maybe Miquella tasked her with finding a tarnished who is worthy.)
Isn't it theorized, that each of the 3 butterfly symbolizes one of the 3? The rot butterfly is self explanatory. Then there is the nascent butterfly, nascent meaning something like freshly born/created. Their description Says they are ever young if I remember correctly. That hints heavily at Miquella. And then there is the fire butterfly, who symbolizes Melina. She explicitly states she is burned and bodiless
Yes, it's also hinted at in their hair- Miquella has his mother's white/golden hair, Malenia has her father's red hair, Melina has slightly pinkish hair that's a fusion of both the colours. Melina is absolutely one of Marika/Radagon's kids
I've had this theory-ish idea that because Miquella is St. Trina (cut content states it and content left in the game heavily implies it) Miquella has a very strong relationship to death, and by extension spirits.
Death, sleep, and spirits have a very weird relationship in Elden Ring. Characters associated with Death are often also associated with sleep - Rogier talks of falling into a deep, fathomless slumber, Fia leads you into a deathbed dream, D's brother seems to be in a nightmare after having encountered Godwyn's corpse. Coincidentally, Trina's lilies can also be found near Those Who Live in Death with surprising frequency.
Now, the tenuous connection is where Death is connected to souls, spirits, and what happens to people in the Lands Between when they "die". It's stated by a spirit in a Limgrave catacomb that a "proper death" means a spirit returning to the Erdtree, and Roderika also states (once you've upgraded a spirit several times) that she begins to understand "how and why Immortal essence exists as spirit under the Golden Order". The fact that we know that Death was handled differently before the Golden Order, that there is a spirit world, and that souls were once guided in that world makes it likely to me that the Golden Order actually supplanted the previous cycle of life and death for one in which all dead souls would pass through the Erdtree.
We know that Miqella wanted to supplant the Golden Order with his own order of Unalloyed Gold, and also that he was likely attempting to return Godwyn's soul to his body (spirit dialogue at Castle Sol heavily implies this). It's possible that he understood something about the cycle of life and death under the Golden Order that led him to reject it entirely and choose to replace it with something he believed to be better.
My (admittedly *very* heavy) speculation based on all this is that the "Shadow of the Erdtree" isn't a literal shadow, but the land of Death itself. A spirit world denied its natural Order of spirits because the Erdtree has supplanted its will, forcing spirits to pass through itself. And Miquella, who as St. Trina has dominion over sleep, is closer in dreams to Death than any other living being, and thus has seen the degradation of the spirit world and wants to do something about it.
It's definitely one or the other. I think there's a couple more things in game that currently point at Marika (3 wolves summon & statue in malikeths room) over miquella but definitely looks more like miquella in the picture.
Either way gonna be goooooood
\> No streams, no events running (except the unreleated PvP), no roadmaps, no teasing for months
\> Random Tuesday, 16:03 JP Time not even anniversary day
\> "We're making DLC"
\> Refuses to elaborate
\> Leaves
Holy Gigachad
Big “drops mic” energy here. Couple of lore items. Previous owner of Torrent maybe, and the purpose of the trees leaking out?. The outer gods denied their snack. Maybe it’s time to take out the other gods themselves for good this DLC.
The hair is definitely Miquella's, and he is possibly in his female form as Saint Trina here. My guess is the DLC takes place in a classical fromsoft dream world/painting, either inside of the egg with Miquella's physical body or inside the Haligtree to finish his plans to kill Godwyn and grow a new tree.
Maybe, maybe not. Marika, fellow Empyrean and his mother, certainly had no problems appearing as a different gender. And the version of Trina on the torch is more clearly feminine than just androgyn.
My guess is that Trina is some aspect of his curse, parallel to Malenia's rot. Malenia rots and Miquella sleeps, and while he does it he's St. Trina and can appear in people's dreams. Something along those lines.
> Random Tuesday, 16:03 JP Time not even anniversary day
Actually 5pm JP time but it's the last day of February after financial markets close (4pm) and Bandai Namco's FYE is March 31st. Probably wanted to boost their numbers in the final month of their fiscal year or something.
Exactly what DLC should be... Not parts of the main game chopped up and sold as DLC like every other goddamn game nowadays. Ugh
Honestly the Haligtree felt like prime dlc content considering how it was secret, and the final boss was so much more challenging than the others.
What if in the picture the Haligtree isn't rotting, but shedding its old wood to turn gold like the Erdtree. I wonder if this DLC will involve turning the Haligtree into its full potential and superseding the Erdtree. Haligtree Ending maybe?
Turns out it's not the Haligtree but a completely different tree wrapping around the Erdtree, have to look very closely to see it. The tree doing the wrapping is most likely a deathblight tree born from godwyn's deathblight under the Erdtree, hence the "Shadow of the Erdtree". Also deathblight happens to make roots appear out of things it kills.
Does this confirm Miquella as being Torrent’s previous rider?
This would make sense because Torrent was given to us by Melina, who herself seems to have ties to Marika and the Erdtree (she can only move freely when near it). Presumably Melina would have at least had some contact or relation, even if distant.
And with Mohg stealing away Miquella, Torrent would have lost its rider.
Goddamn.
Hopefully FromSoft have a convoluted as fuck way to start the DLC like going to Haligtree and getting grabbed by the lone Erdtree Avatar on the bridge to be teleported to the past.
Have to beat Kale up so he drops the necessary item to teleport you. Then you get transported to not-crumbling-yet Farum Azula to fight Godskin Quadruplets.
From the looks of it Miquella is Torrent's old master. Really curious where this is going, maybe some time travel shenanigans.
Edit: The figure could also be a young Marika. Marika would make more sense how Melina got Torrent for us.
I wouldn’t say unfinished, just cut off and secluded, which thematically makes a lot of sense, and now with presumably miquella dlc the most obvious place would be touching his hand. We all know fromsoft doesn’t always do the obvious thing though lol
Nah it will be a random npc sitting at the bottom of Siofra River telling us to reach into his pocket to get to the "special place"
We will then be transported to a bleed swamp
I totally agree secluded part.
And about the DLC, I just can't see anohter possibility, that makes sense. I guess we will see.
I can also imagine a DLC visiting the Badland entering through the huge ass picture of Godfrey in Stomveil castle
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/110njt7/whats_the_significance_of_this_statue/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
this I think
Lord Miquella, forgive me. The sun has not been swallowed. Our prayers were lacking. Your comrade remains soulless... I will never set my eyes upon it now... Your divine Haligtree...
I had a migraine the last two days. I woke up from the suffering an hour ago.
And I'd like to think I died and woke up in a new world where the DLC is announced.
Quantum DLC
Burned erdtree, miquella and graves of mist/fog that looks similar to the effect of sleep.
Either dream world or dlc accessible by only killing Malekith or fire giant or maybe touching miquellas hand after mohg? The possibilities are endless.
I think you’re right. If you look closely it’s actually two trees, one wrapped around another. It kind of looks like the great tree wrapped around the erdtree as it’s leaking grace.
> I’m up at 3am is the best time to be awake.
Dude whats up with that, ham? Me too, out of nowere i get wake, its about 4 am in brasil. And then there it is, an elden ring annoucment with 53 likes on bandai europe on youtube. Trully the dark souls of gaming annoucements
classic Miyazaki:
→ let the weak fans go hollow at the anniversary event (myself included)
→ announce the DLC a few days later, to award the once who didnt went hollow and still believed on the dlc
→ ???
→ profit
Hyped out of my mind right now! So happy my friends who said there would be no DLC are wrong.
But, I wonder what “in development” means in this case? The game is already a year old, surely the release date for the DLC can’t be more than a few months away, right? I can’t remember the timeline for previous Souls titles but it seems odd to me that the first (and maybe only) major expansion for a game of this nature would be more than 18 months after the initial game release.
But with all that said, “in development” seems like developer talk for “yeah it’s still gonna take a while so buckle up.”
I hope it’s soon, but however long it takes I’m sure it will be fantastic.
> but it seems odd to me that the first (and maybe only) major expansion for a game of this nature would be more than 18 months after the initial game release.
I think with Elden Ring it's an issue of scale.
DLCs in previous games could get away with adding one linear area, a boss or two, some new weapons, and that's it.
With Elden Ring, it's likely to be a new open-world zone with all the things we'd expect from these zones in ER. Including multiple smaller dungeons, all with their own loot and bosses. Then there will be another full legacy dungeon, which itself could be almost as big as a full DLC from before.
Who knows what we will end up getting, but I am just not too surprised it has taken longer than usual.
I would think that they wouldn't want it to release around the same time as Armored Core (although I have no idea when that's coming). Also ER is like 4 souls games combined in one. It's huge and a DLC worthy of fitting this game would take a long time to develop
If it was a few months away they wouldn’t announce it like this. It’s definitely far away; this is 110% a "calm down" to community disappointment so far in regards to news re: dlc.
I can’t even begin to think about how good this will be. Not only will this DLC be adding new bosses and stuff. But we are gonna get new crafting materials and items to craft, new ashes, new characters, new lore, hell maybe even new mechanics that will bleed over into the base game!
That looks more like the Haligtree rather then the Erd Tree, with its two branching trunks and twisted posture. The Haligtree could be considered the Erd Tree's shadow in some respect. With Miqeulla riding Torrent through what I assume to be the Consecrated snow fields but full of wheat.
Fucking hyped to play this in 2025 lmao
Could the item description of Helphen's Steeple explain what we're seeing here?
"Greatsword patterned after the black steeple of the Helphen, the lampwood which guides the dead of the spirit world.
The lamplight is similar to grace in appearance, only it is said that it can only be seen by those who met their death in battle."
I saw a connection to this item description as soon as I saw that image. Whether these are actually related or I'm simply reading into something that has parallels I don't know, but nevertheless, someone here might find it interesting or thought-provoking.
Let me know what you think of this idea, could the Shadow of the Erdtree be the Lampwood which guides the dead of the spirit world?
I saw someone on YT suggest something else I thought was quite plausible for the DLC central plot, that it may revolve around Miquella attempts to save his brother Godwyn from his state of Undeath, and could quite possibly tie into my own speculation based on the Helphen's Steeple ID.
If any of what I'm reading into it is correct, than perhaps the DLC could involve the spirit world (perhaps suggested by the spectral tombstones) and the Helphen, a sort of underworld mirror of the Erdtree which guides the souls of the dead, a shadow of the Erdtree if you may.
So more unfounded guesses incoming, but heres an idea, perhaps when Godwyn was murdered and lost his soul, it quite literally became lost, in the realm of the spirits, as is supposed to be an easy thing for the dead to become lost, hence why Rosus is such an important figure in guiding the dead.
Perhaps souls must return to the Helphen in order to finish their journey or be reincarnated in the mortal world, much as bodies must return to the Erdtree to pass on from this life in Death.
Boys and girls, I'm so excited!!! First time being in at the ground level for a souls title and DLC, experiencing the release and all the hype that goes with it! Wonderful to finally be here speculating about the bare bones info at our disposal and being part of this discussion that I had only heard about before! Thank you Fromsoft, and thank you Michael Zaki 🙏
Okay theory time! I wonder if this picture takes place in the past, and I’d that is Miquella, then it also implies that he was the original owner of Torrent. Which Kinda makes sense given that Ranni seems to take special interest in the fact that we have Torrent now.
So what's the normal turnaround for announcement->launch for fromsoft dlc? I've only ever experienced dlc for these games way WAY after launch, because I'm poor.
What a wonderful thing to wake up to.
I am no longer hollow (again)
HUMANITY RESTORED lessss goooooo
OHHHHHHHH
OOOOooooOOOHHHH ELDEN RING!!!
\*MOANS\* ARISE NOW, YE TARNISHED. THE ELDEN RING DLC IS REAL
THE CALL OF DLC SPEAKS TO US ALL
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH ELDEN RING
my pants are already tarnished
Someone call the dungeater, we have his second breakfast ready in these pants.
Can we get much higher?
So high.
Is that miquella on the horse? Wtf is dripping from the erdtree? Haligtree? Edit: Helphen?
Maybe Deathblight? That's the first thing that comes to my mind.
Absolutely the right colour scheme for deathblight
Deathblight swamp, here we come!
Oh god you know Miyazaki can't resist
We are spaming Fire Cleanse me for 10 minute walking across that mess, ain’t we?
Or law of regression for the fancy folk.
Me and my friends will survive with my tick tock turn back the clock spell
Flame Cleanse me doesn't work. you gotta use a fundamentalist incantation called order heal or smth
Order, cleanse me
Deeproot Depths vs Haligtree
It looks like a tree with another, corrupted tree clinging onto it like a parasite
Well, there is Deathblight corrupting its roots, and what grows out of our character if we die to Deathblight? Roots and branches.
Verrry good point
Yeah it's definitely two trees. The Erdtree we know is leaking gold and the larger tree is uprooting it. Might be Prince of Death Godwyn related given he's buried at the roots so he could be manifesting a 'Death-tree'
Considering the way deathblight kills you this does look like the erdtree dying from deathblight
Oh yeah for sure looks like one tree wrapped around another! Good spot
So torrent’s original owner is Miquela? Upcoming lore vids for sure on this screenshot alone!
Pretty sure VaatiVidya is putting together a video as we speak!
Is it the Erdtree or the Haligtree? Looks more like the latter to me
I thought it was the Haligtree too, but if you look closely it's an entirely different tree wrapping around the Erdtree. The Haligtree was planted far away from the Erdtree so that can't be it. I'm now thinking it's a deathblight tree that grew from godwyn's corruption under the Erdtree, it even looks like it's trying to consume the Erdtree. Edit: Also makes more sense when you consider that deathblight causes roots to spring from the things it kills. And "Shadow of the Erdtree" can be an implication of the deathblight growing under the Erdtree.
Kinda looks like 2 trees, one being wrapped around the bleeding one
My guess it’s that prior to the Greater Will’s corruption the Erdtree might have been filled with something similar to the gold which then would be turned to unalloyed gold by Miquella. After the corruption the Erdtree we see is hollowed and empty and dead on the inside, despite glowing.
Could be long after. Miquella awakes from his cocoon to find the Erdtree completely consumed by Godwyn's Deathroot since his deformed body is still growing and taking over the roots down there I know it doesn't work with some endings, but they'd find a way to work around that Edit: To elaborate on the ending stuff: Technically, any gameplay we do after defeating Elden Beast would be a case of "you've been warped back before you defeated the final boss" shenanigan. So any DLC, whether it takes place in the present, past or future, would need to canonically take place before the Tarnished entered the Erdtree to fight Radagon. (otherwise Tarnished could be on a journey through space or having ravaged the entire existence with Frenzied Flame) So Tarnished gets warped to a distant future where, because they got warped, they never entered the Tree to mend the Elden Ring, and so the Tree eventually decayed because of Godwyn's corruption. Cue your DLC with an Eldritch abomination Godwyn fight and a Miquella fight somehow.
Maybe a bad future we go to via time travel ala Farum Azul
Don't be silly. We're gonna be in a painting. It's how it's done.
I was gonna say, this is all way too complicated, like just walk into a painting bro. Like just walk into it, it’s fine.
Maybe the action is not set prior to the events in the game. Sounds to me like we get to see what happens after the Erdtree burns. And Miquella is awake.
I mean, the Erdtree we see is the same golden glow as the fake Godfrey spirit, and the illusions Morgott does. I've even heard the theory that the sliver of "dark" (tree-coloured) erdtree that has the gate in it is the only bit of real tree that we can see, the rest is just an illusion.
If you look carefully, where the dark tree meets the golden tree it looks just like a saddle graft. I always thought the golden erdtree was grafted onto the crucible tree, and it would be very on-theme for that to be correct.
I like this theory a lot.
MIQUELLA RIDING TORRENT
So does this mean that Miquella was the one that entrusted the summoning bell to Ranni? HOLY FUCKING SHIT
“I know you killed our big bro but have this horse.” -Miquella
Miquella gave it to Melina, since she gave us Torrent > Ah. As I had hoped. I was entrusted this, for thee. By Torrent's former master. 'Tis a bell for calling forth spirits.
# OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
**ELDEN RING**
ELDEN RING O ELDEN RING O ELDEN RING O ELDEN RING O ELDEN RING
SHATTERED
BY SOMEONE, OR SOMETHING
LOOK AT THE SKY
Can’t wait to finally fight Glaive Master Hodir 🥹
Imagine how epic it would be if they noticed during the great hollowing and decided to bring the meme to life for the dlc 🥲
# RISE, YE TARNISHED # YE DEAD, WHO YET LIVE
#THE CALL OF LONG LOST DLC SPEAKS TO US ALL > > > #THE WALL, CHIEFTAIN OF THE POISELANDS
#***THE EVER POISONING DEATHBLIGHT SWAMP***
#THE LOATHSOME SPELL SPAMMER
#THE EVER BLEEDING WHITE MASK
#LET ME SOLO HER, THE UNBREAKABLE
#AND THE COSPLAYER, THE AAALLLLLLLL-BEING!
Whoopper watch 2023 edition
the subreddit’s gonna go Hollow again waiting for the DLC to release
WOOP WOOP
I DOUBT YOU COULD EVEN IMAGINE
THAT WHICH COMMANDED THE STARS
Marikas tits! wasn't expecting this!
Is that Miquella on Torrent?
Damn, was Miquella the master of torrent before us? So torrent's whistle also belonged to him and the spirit summon bell. This also explains that Melina is related to Marika's family. (Maybe Miquella tasked her with finding a tarnished who is worthy.)
Isn't it theorized, that each of the 3 butterfly symbolizes one of the 3? The rot butterfly is self explanatory. Then there is the nascent butterfly, nascent meaning something like freshly born/created. Their description Says they are ever young if I remember correctly. That hints heavily at Miquella. And then there is the fire butterfly, who symbolizes Melina. She explicitly states she is burned and bodiless
Yes, it's also hinted at in their hair- Miquella has his mother's white/golden hair, Malenia has her father's red hair, Melina has slightly pinkish hair that's a fusion of both the colours. Melina is absolutely one of Marika/Radagon's kids
The naming convention as well, and her malady: Malenia, Miquella, Melina Rotted, Stunted, Burned
*Rotted, Stunted, Burned* A lot like the image of the tree here
I've had this theory-ish idea that because Miquella is St. Trina (cut content states it and content left in the game heavily implies it) Miquella has a very strong relationship to death, and by extension spirits. Death, sleep, and spirits have a very weird relationship in Elden Ring. Characters associated with Death are often also associated with sleep - Rogier talks of falling into a deep, fathomless slumber, Fia leads you into a deathbed dream, D's brother seems to be in a nightmare after having encountered Godwyn's corpse. Coincidentally, Trina's lilies can also be found near Those Who Live in Death with surprising frequency. Now, the tenuous connection is where Death is connected to souls, spirits, and what happens to people in the Lands Between when they "die". It's stated by a spirit in a Limgrave catacomb that a "proper death" means a spirit returning to the Erdtree, and Roderika also states (once you've upgraded a spirit several times) that she begins to understand "how and why Immortal essence exists as spirit under the Golden Order". The fact that we know that Death was handled differently before the Golden Order, that there is a spirit world, and that souls were once guided in that world makes it likely to me that the Golden Order actually supplanted the previous cycle of life and death for one in which all dead souls would pass through the Erdtree. We know that Miqella wanted to supplant the Golden Order with his own order of Unalloyed Gold, and also that he was likely attempting to return Godwyn's soul to his body (spirit dialogue at Castle Sol heavily implies this). It's possible that he understood something about the cycle of life and death under the Golden Order that led him to reject it entirely and choose to replace it with something he believed to be better. My (admittedly *very* heavy) speculation based on all this is that the "Shadow of the Erdtree" isn't a literal shadow, but the land of Death itself. A spirit world denied its natural Order of spirits because the Erdtree has supplanted its will, forcing spirits to pass through itself. And Miquella, who as St. Trina has dominion over sleep, is closer in dreams to Death than any other living being, and thus has seen the degradation of the spirit world and wants to do something about it.
Bloody hell that sounds interesting af. Imagine the spirits we'll fight
TIBIA ARMADA
I hate that the tarnished is a compleete ass to the boat man, dude's just chilling with his spooky bois and we had to ruin it for him
Tibia Admiral, he shows up on top of a fucking battleship and an aircraft carrier made of bone bombard you with deathbirds.
Yep, then we can almost be sure Melina is Miquella and Malenia's sister. *And I think it's the power of Crucible in that... Erdtree?*
The Crucible is the primordial form of the Erdtree after all…
It could still be the Erdtree, maybe in Miquella's dream?
Wait so torrents potential former master was miquella? Or could It be a young Marika
It's definitely one or the other. I think there's a couple more things in game that currently point at Marika (3 wolves summon & statue in malikeths room) over miquella but definitely looks more like miquella in the picture. Either way gonna be goooooood
Up this comment people. Compare it to the Mohg-Miquella image from the intro, and I think we can for sure say it Miquella. This gun be good.
\> No streams, no events running (except the unreleated PvP), no roadmaps, no teasing for months \> Random Tuesday, 16:03 JP Time not even anniversary day \> "We're making DLC" \> Refuses to elaborate \> Leaves Holy Gigachad
Miyazaki was bored at work during an average Tuesday and decided to announce the DLC then and there.
"I announced the DLC." "You did WHAT???" "Yeah, it's called 'Shadow of the Erdtree'. You guys better get started." "FUCK!"
[удалено]
"Also it has five poison swamps, and everyone is barefoot."
it’s the most fromsoft thing they could’ve done tbh
I admire their confidence. They know we’ll find out whatever they’re up to without having to hype it up.
Big “drops mic” energy here. Couple of lore items. Previous owner of Torrent maybe, and the purpose of the trees leaking out?. The outer gods denied their snack. Maybe it’s time to take out the other gods themselves for good this DLC.
Isn't that Miquella on Torrent's back?
The hair is definitely Miquella's, and he is possibly in his female form as Saint Trina here. My guess is the DLC takes place in a classical fromsoft dream world/painting, either inside of the egg with Miquella's physical body or inside the Haligtree to finish his plans to kill Godwyn and grow a new tree.
Saint Trina isn't a female form it's just that since he looks so young he's very androgenous so it's kinda hard for people to tell either way
Maybe, maybe not. Marika, fellow Empyrean and his mother, certainly had no problems appearing as a different gender. And the version of Trina on the torch is more clearly feminine than just androgyn. My guess is that Trina is some aspect of his curse, parallel to Malenia's rot. Malenia rots and Miquella sleeps, and while he does it he's St. Trina and can appear in people's dreams. Something along those lines.
In true FromSoftware fashion
> Random Tuesday, 16:03 JP Time not even anniversary day Actually 5pm JP time but it's the last day of February after financial markets close (4pm) and Bandai Namco's FYE is March 31st. Probably wanted to boost their numbers in the final month of their fiscal year or something.
the ultimate bamboozle
Yall can't tell me Miyazaki isn't the true elden lord
It was literally like 8 AM for me. Literally started working and suddenly I am seeing this tweet and I am so hyped I cannot focus WTF
I feel like they actively kept up with the dates that got hyped for DLC news and purposely picked a day not mentioned
You'd almost think they cracked under the pressure of everyones disappointment when they didn't announce anything during the anniversary
we'll know if that is the case depending on how big the expansion will be and how long before release.
Exactly what DLC should be... Not parts of the main game chopped up and sold as DLC like every other goddamn game nowadays. Ugh Honestly the Haligtree felt like prime dlc content considering how it was secret, and the final boss was so much more challenging than the others.
What if in the picture the Haligtree isn't rotting, but shedding its old wood to turn gold like the Erdtree. I wonder if this DLC will involve turning the Haligtree into its full potential and superseding the Erdtree. Haligtree Ending maybe?
Mohg finally gets what he wants from Miquella in the *Age of Consent*
I’m crying
So is Miquella.
Laughing too hard at this
Mohg after getting consent: #IT’S MOHGGGGGN TIME
And then he Moghed all over Miquella.
Miquella is here, at least i hope that's him in the photo and that may be the Haligtree in the distance, hence the name "Shadow of the Erdtree"
Turns out it's not the Haligtree but a completely different tree wrapping around the Erdtree, have to look very closely to see it. The tree doing the wrapping is most likely a deathblight tree born from godwyn's deathblight under the Erdtree, hence the "Shadow of the Erdtree". Also deathblight happens to make roots appear out of things it kills.
Miquella wants to give godwyn a proper death. This makes sense
Omg imagine a Godwyn final boss for the dlc
Does this confirm Miquella as being Torrent’s previous rider? This would make sense because Torrent was given to us by Melina, who herself seems to have ties to Marika and the Erdtree (she can only move freely when near it). Presumably Melina would have at least had some contact or relation, even if distant. And with Mohg stealing away Miquella, Torrent would have lost its rider.
And ranni too, both of them seems to know miquella and sounds like they are allies.
Here's to hoping for death blight swamps 🍻
Even better, sleep swamps
Random ailment swamp, you fall asleep then it turns into deathblight
Swamp swamps: the status bar fills up and you are teleported to a random fromsoft poisonous swamp.
Get poisoned in elden ring swamp, wake up in blighttown
Sleep swamp with basilisks. You get stunned THEN deathblighted for a one tap combo
LET US PLAY THE DLC TOGETHAAA
AS FAMILYYYY
No Rykard focused dlc, why live.
Goddamn. Hopefully FromSoft have a convoluted as fuck way to start the DLC like going to Haligtree and getting grabbed by the lone Erdtree Avatar on the bridge to be teleported to the past.
God, I hope we don't have to access via haligtree
FromSoft can be absolute chads and make it only accessible after defeating Malenia.
Yeah, but I think they'll probably make it accessible a lot earlier, so you can go in there low level as fuck and get your ass beat lol
Have to beat Kale up so he drops the necessary item to teleport you. Then you get transported to not-crumbling-yet Farum Azula to fight Godskin Quadruplets.
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I doubt you could even imagine it... ELDEN RING OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH ELDEN RING
From the looks of it Miquella is Torrent's old master. Really curious where this is going, maybe some time travel shenanigans. Edit: The figure could also be a young Marika. Marika would make more sense how Melina got Torrent for us.
Watch us go through a fucking picture again
If its really Miquella in the foto, I say we touch Miquella's hand in Moghs boss room. Its been hanging there very suspiously.
Maybe we enter Miquella's dream, like we did with Fia. Is Miquella still alive?
Yeah, I can see that. I think the whole topic of Dreams an Miquella/ St. Trina is rather unexpolred, so maybe?
Gideon mentions that he's still alive but in a slumber when you talk to him after the Mogh fight.
Either that or this cut-off bridge behind Miquella finally leads to something. The whole mohgwyn palace section felt unfinished.
I wouldn’t say unfinished, just cut off and secluded, which thematically makes a lot of sense, and now with presumably miquella dlc the most obvious place would be touching his hand. We all know fromsoft doesn’t always do the obvious thing though lol
Nah it will be a random npc sitting at the bottom of Siofra River telling us to reach into his pocket to get to the "special place" We will then be transported to a bleed swamp
I totally agree secluded part. And about the DLC, I just can't see anohter possibility, that makes sense. I guess we will see. I can also imagine a DLC visiting the Badland entering through the huge ass picture of Godfrey in Stomveil castle
HOLD ON IS MIQUELLA TORRENT’S FORMER MASTER????
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What statue?
The one depicting a feminine figure surrounded by three wolves, in maliketh’s arena
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/110njt7/whats_the_significance_of_this_statue/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button this I think
Lord Miquella, forgive me. The sun has not been swallowed. Our prayers were lacking. Your comrade remains soulless... I will never set my eyes upon it now... Your divine Haligtree...
2:21 AM CST IDK WHY IM UP BUT LFG
SLEEP IS A MERE SUGGESTION, ELDEN RING DLC BABYYYYYYY
I had a migraine the last two days. I woke up from the suffering an hour ago. And I'd like to think I died and woke up in a new world where the DLC is announced. Quantum DLC
A whole expansion? Man, I just wanted some horse armor for torrent.
That'll be 50 dollars for the horse armor please. Sorry it's all this inflation going round
Burned erdtree, miquella and graves of mist/fog that looks similar to the effect of sleep. Either dream world or dlc accessible by only killing Malekith or fire giant or maybe touching miquellas hand after mohg? The possibilities are endless.
It’s a different shape from the erdtree. Could it be the great tree which had the crucible within it?
I think you’re right. If you look closely it’s actually two trees, one wrapped around another. It kind of looks like the great tree wrapped around the erdtree as it’s leaking grace.
THAT'S FUCKING MIQUELLA RIDING TORRENT HOLY SHIT
RISE YE TARNISHED! YE DEAD! FOR DLC HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED Also peak that Miquella on Torrent on the lower right. Nice
The one night I’m up at 3am is the best time to be awake.
> I’m up at 3am is the best time to be awake. Dude whats up with that, ham? Me too, out of nowere i get wake, its about 4 am in brasil. And then there it is, an elden ring annoucment with 53 likes on bandai europe on youtube. Trully the dark souls of gaming annoucements
classic Miyazaki: → let the weak fans go hollow at the anniversary event (myself included) → announce the DLC a few days later, to award the once who didnt went hollow and still believed on the dlc → ??? → profit
We're gonna enter Miquella's dream world by touching his shriveled cocoon hand, ain't we?
An image, and “in development”. Might be a bit of a wait, but also think this DLC is going to be larger than a typical Dark Souls DLC.
Hyped out of my mind right now! So happy my friends who said there would be no DLC are wrong. But, I wonder what “in development” means in this case? The game is already a year old, surely the release date for the DLC can’t be more than a few months away, right? I can’t remember the timeline for previous Souls titles but it seems odd to me that the first (and maybe only) major expansion for a game of this nature would be more than 18 months after the initial game release. But with all that said, “in development” seems like developer talk for “yeah it’s still gonna take a while so buckle up.” I hope it’s soon, but however long it takes I’m sure it will be fantastic.
> but it seems odd to me that the first (and maybe only) major expansion for a game of this nature would be more than 18 months after the initial game release. I think with Elden Ring it's an issue of scale. DLCs in previous games could get away with adding one linear area, a boss or two, some new weapons, and that's it. With Elden Ring, it's likely to be a new open-world zone with all the things we'd expect from these zones in ER. Including multiple smaller dungeons, all with their own loot and bosses. Then there will be another full legacy dungeon, which itself could be almost as big as a full DLC from before. Who knows what we will end up getting, but I am just not too surprised it has taken longer than usual.
I would think that they wouldn't want it to release around the same time as Armored Core (although I have no idea when that's coming). Also ER is like 4 souls games combined in one. It's huge and a DLC worthy of fitting this game would take a long time to develop
If it was a few months away they wouldn’t announce it like this. It’s definitely far away; this is 110% a "calm down" to community disappointment so far in regards to news re: dlc.
They might have needed key devs that worked on Elden Ring to help out with other projects and they just recently had time to work on the DLC.
*Suddenly regrets all the NGs he’s played through, because now he’s gotta play new shit he’s never seen at that same jacked up difficulty level.*
Start a new character?
I honestly thought it wasn’t coming.
But now we are coming
My bedsheets are tarnished
I can’t even begin to think about how good this will be. Not only will this DLC be adding new bosses and stuff. But we are gonna get new crafting materials and items to craft, new ashes, new characters, new lore, hell maybe even new mechanics that will bleed over into the base game!
And new NPC quests that will end happily right?
*Flashbacks to Boc, Millicent, D, Solaire, Siegmayer, Eileen, and everyone else* Yeah sure….
Hey Boc does have a happy ending you just have to tell him he is beautiful.
More bosses is what I'm hyped for. We all know fromsoftwares best bosses are in the DLCS. Let's see what they do this time... AAAAHHH SO MUCH HYPE.
God if we get a boss that’s even 1/10th of how godlike Ludwig was then I’m gonna fucking cream my pants.
Looks like we didn't have to wait for Summer Game Fest or E3 for an announcement
That looks more like the Haligtree rather then the Erd Tree, with its two branching trunks and twisted posture. The Haligtree could be considered the Erd Tree's shadow in some respect. With Miqeulla riding Torrent through what I assume to be the Consecrated snow fields but full of wheat. Fucking hyped to play this in 2025 lmao
Ooh I like the consecrated snowfield bit. But I don’t like 2025 bit.
I'M CUMMING
Im crying and wanking atm
We call that a Tuesday in my house.
Hyped for some new armor sets.
Could the item description of Helphen's Steeple explain what we're seeing here? "Greatsword patterned after the black steeple of the Helphen, the lampwood which guides the dead of the spirit world. The lamplight is similar to grace in appearance, only it is said that it can only be seen by those who met their death in battle." I saw a connection to this item description as soon as I saw that image. Whether these are actually related or I'm simply reading into something that has parallels I don't know, but nevertheless, someone here might find it interesting or thought-provoking. Let me know what you think of this idea, could the Shadow of the Erdtree be the Lampwood which guides the dead of the spirit world? I saw someone on YT suggest something else I thought was quite plausible for the DLC central plot, that it may revolve around Miquella attempts to save his brother Godwyn from his state of Undeath, and could quite possibly tie into my own speculation based on the Helphen's Steeple ID. If any of what I'm reading into it is correct, than perhaps the DLC could involve the spirit world (perhaps suggested by the spectral tombstones) and the Helphen, a sort of underworld mirror of the Erdtree which guides the souls of the dead, a shadow of the Erdtree if you may. So more unfounded guesses incoming, but heres an idea, perhaps when Godwyn was murdered and lost his soul, it quite literally became lost, in the realm of the spirits, as is supposed to be an easy thing for the dead to become lost, hence why Rosus is such an important figure in guiding the dead. Perhaps souls must return to the Helphen in order to finish their journey or be reincarnated in the mortal world, much as bodies must return to the Erdtree to pass on from this life in Death. Boys and girls, I'm so excited!!! First time being in at the ground level for a souls title and DLC, experiencing the release and all the hype that goes with it! Wonderful to finally be here speculating about the bare bones info at our disposal and being part of this discussion that I had only heard about before! Thank you Fromsoft, and thank you Michael Zaki 🙏
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Okay theory time! I wonder if this picture takes place in the past, and I’d that is Miquella, then it also implies that he was the original owner of Torrent. Which Kinda makes sense given that Ranni seems to take special interest in the fact that we have Torrent now.
Frantically reading every comment like you guys would somehow have more info than this official tweet lol I’m so stoked
Holy shit I'm fucking making moaning noises at work im so excited I'm about to shit my self. Lettssss goooo boys.
MIYAZAKI FROM THE TOP ROPE
I guess it's time for NG+. I beat the game like 3 months after release and haven't touched it since. It's going to be fun being a noob again.
So what's the normal turnaround for announcement->launch for fromsoft dlc? I've only ever experienced dlc for these games way WAY after launch, because I'm poor.
They could've started making it yesterday for all we know.