Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree trailer confirms that Miquella is the star
rockpapershotgun.comRise, Tarnished! Actually stay sitting down, because it's time to watch and think about the first trailer for Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, which confirms that the Elden Ring DLC expansion will focus on Miquella, a rather tragic demigod character from the main game. Find the full video again below, together with my thoughts on just what the heck it all means.
The trailer accompanies a typically From Software blurb, according to which the new DLC takes place in "The Land of Shadow", which is "a place obscured by the Erdtree", "where the goddess Marika first set foot". This is "a land purged in an unsung battle" and "set ablaze by Messmer's flame".
"It was to this land that Miquella departed," the blurb goes on. "Divesting himself of his flesh, his strength, his lineage. Of all things Golden." Well then. Let's play all that back and form some speculations.
The blurb confirms that Miquella, brother of noted hell-boss Malenia, goddess of rot, is at the heart of the new Elden Ring DLC, as has been rumoured since the DLC's announcement. The children of Radagon, Miquella and Malenia are twins but they don't look it, because Miquella has been cursed with eternal youth, while Malenia is a big old bag of cosmic disease. Miquella doesn't appear in the main game, having been abducted by Mohg, Lord of Blood. It's not clear whether you'll fight him or save in Shadow Of The Erdtree, but I imagine you'll get to choose.
Mesmer, meanwhile, appears to be Mesmer the Impaler - the Elden Ring subreddit has already flushed out an image of a new Elden Ring special edition with his full name on it. You can see him in the trailer - he's the lanky, trident-wielding dude in the flappy red gown with respectable "final boss" energy. I don't know much about him beyond that. He certainly lives up to his epithet in the trailer, though.
The video is a juicy montage of glimpses of different Shadow Of The Erdtree features - certainly, more revealing than Ed Thorn's grim prediction earlier today
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