Elden Ring Fans Think Shadow Of The Erdtree Trailer Showed St. Trina
thegamer.comEver since Elden Ring launched in 2022, fans have sleuthed through item descriptions to try and figure out who the enigmatic St. Trina is.
What we do know is that their gender is ambiguous, they disappeared without warning, they're associated with sleep magic, and they even have faithful priests who worship them. But there's a popular fan theory that Miquella and St. Trina are one and the same.
Miquella and St. Trina are the only two characters with lilies, and while St. Trina is associated with sleep magic, Miquella is found in an eternal slumber within a cocoon .
Director Hidetaka Miyazaki confirmed that both characters will play a role in Shadow of the Erdtree, so St. Trina likely vanished to the Land of Shadow before the events of the main game, and fans think the new story trailer was hiding them in plain sight.
Right when the narrator says that Miquella abandoned "even his fate", the trailer cuts to a shot of a figure in purple robes falling down a dark void. Trina's Lily is described as a "light-purple water lily", and given the assumption that St. Trina was cast to the Land of Shadow, this image lines up almost perfectly with that theory.
Some fans even think that this figure looks like the Nascent Butterfly, which is even more interesting as the item description says that it "appears as if it's just emerged from its cocoon for its entire life." If St. Trina is an aspect of Miquella that was cast off to the Land of Shadow, emerging from a cocoon would describe them, too.
As for the discarded fate, one fan speculates that--as Miquella was one of god's children--he was fated to become god himself one day. In becoming St. Trina, he gave up his fate and thus his power. We know that he shed his "golden flesh", which could even mean that the Land of Shadow is a dream world Miquella now lives in as St. Trina, tying into the sleep magic mentioned earlier.
There's still the question of where Messmer fits into all of this, but the leading theory right
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