Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Item Reveals More Lore On Powerful Beings

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secretly answers one of the base game's most mysterious lingering questions. As a DLC, 's purpose isn't just to throw some tough bosses in front of the player, stick them in a new map, and call it a day. It takes things a step further by satisfying player curiosity about much of the lore. Many of 's DLC reveals focus on Marika, Messmer, and Miquella, but even minor characters are mentioned and recontextualized in.

But sometimes, 's lore drops aren't about particular characters at all. Sometimes, they fill in gaps in the player's knowledge of 's history and cosmology. One such reveal, hidden in an obscure bit of item flavor text that many players will never even come across, seems to approach an answer about one of the base game's greatest mysteries — but still leaves many stones unturned.

The Shadow of the Erdtree expansion answers many questions posed by Elden Ring, but there are plenty that are still unanswered to this day.

As addressed in a Reddit comment by SundownKid, may have finally given a name to 's mysterious dead giants: the Old Gods. This is based on the commenter's interpretation of the Ancient Meteoric Ore Greatsword's flavor text, which describes the item as having been ""

The Reddit comment focuses on the fact that the Ancient Meteoric Ore Greatsword, an enormous, two-handed weapon in its own right, is described as a mere shard of a much larger instrument. That alone implies a much larger being, probably akin to the living giants players face throughout. However, the Greatsword is specifically described as a piece of an arrowhead, which means the actual projectile it came from was probably large enough to dwarf even those behemoths.

The Ancient Meteoric Ore Greatsword is found at the altar of the Ruined Forge Starfall Past in 's DLC.

The only creature, living or dead, large enough to fire a bow capable of nocking this arrow would be one of the now-dead "" that dot 's map. That means these previously unnamed creatures must be the Old Gods mention