Elden Ring's first expansion announced
Bandai Namco and Fromoftware have announced Elden Ring's first expansion is in development. Named Shadow of the Erdtree, the announcement comes with a piece of concept art which I'm going to rampantly speculate on, and not much else.
The official blurb:
Rise, Tarnished, and let us walk a new path together. An upcoming expansion for #ELDENRING Shadow of the Erdtree, is currently in development. We hope you look forward to new adventures in the Lands Between.
The art shows a character riding Torrent, your in-game steed, through a field filled with illusions of gravestones. In the distance can be seen the Erdtree with a substance that has the right colour for deathblight leaking from it like sap.
Specul-a-tron time. This looks like a prequel to the main story of Elden Ring, which would fit with the title, and with this character being Miquella. Miquella is the brother of Malenia and one of the Empyreans, who's cursed to be forever young and created the Haligtree to purge the rot from Malenia. Radagon's Rings of Light description says:
One of the incantations of the Golden Order fundamentalists. A gift of gratitude to the young Miquella from his father, Radagon… And yet the young Miquella abandoned fundamentalism, for it could do nothing to treat Malenia's accursed rot. This was the beginning of the unalloyed gold.
Rise, Tarnished, and let us walk a new path together.An upcoming expansion for #ELDENRING Shadow of the Erdtree, is currently in development.We hope you look forward to new adventures in the Lands Between. pic.twitter.com/cjJYijM7MwFebruary 28, 2023
By the time of the events of Elden Ring, Miquella's imprisoned by Mohg, Lord of Blood, and can be seen in a kind of cocoon form in the boss room. Mohg apparently
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