Elden Ring's Early Game Secrets (As Told By A Lowly Tarnished)
The open world of Elden Ring is filled with many of the dangerous perils commonly associated with Soulslike RPGs — relentlessly powerful enemies, twisted death traps, and steep cliffs players can easily plummet from if they roll the wrong way. Elden Ring's game world is also full of intriguing secrets, side-paths, and lucrative dungeons tucked away in strange alcoves and forgotten grottos — and how better to chronicle these secrets than from the perspective of an Elden Ring player character (and their player) exploring the Lands Between for the first time? To this end, let it be known that in the twilight of the Shattering, when the Demigods of the Lands Between had fought each other to the point of exhaustion, a lowly, humble Tarnished character seeking the Elden Ring known only as Ascalon the Astrologer, journeyed to the land of Limgrave — not for glory or Grace, but to learn forbidden knowledge and uncover ancient truths.
[Warning — Spoilers for Elden Ring's early game follow.]
In the months leading up to the release of Elden Ring, the author of this article wrote many speculative pieces about FromSoftware's newest dark fantasy RPG — analyzing the gameplay footage from the Network Test, speculating about the storyline crafted by FromSoftware President Hidetaka Miyazaki, his team of developers, and fantasy author George R.R. Martin. After purchasing Elden Ring upon its February 25 release, the author was faced with a quandary; write more articles about Elden Ring's grotesquely beautiful world, or play through the open-world RPG blind and mostly spoiler-free. How could these two desires be reconciled?
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The solution was to write an article filled
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