What Happens In Elden Ring? The Game's Story, Part 6: Mountaintops Of The Giants

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You've defeated Morgott and made your way to the Erdtree, only to discover the way forward is blocked. During your journey through Elden Ring, your goal has always been to make your way to the Erdtree and seize the title of Elden Lord, but even though you've acquired a number of Great Runes at this point, some force is still barring you from entering the tree and claiming what's yours. There's more to the story of what's going on with the Erdtree and the Elden Ring, but we won't discover it for some time. Right now, we have to figure out how to go forward, and the quest is about to take us to the lands of a people Marika and the Golden Order truly conquered: the Mountaintops of the Giants.

The frozen lands to the north of Leyndell seem to be some that few visit, which also makes them something of a safe haven for some. It's here that two more demigods have tried to make their homes: Malenia and Miquella, the children of Marika and Radagon. Finding those two Shardbearers--or Malenia, at least--is not easy, but doing so reveals a whole lot more about the story of Elden Ring and what has happened in the time between the Shattering and now.

As always, this article contains tons of spoilers.

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Finding the Erdtree blocked doesn't leave you with a lot of options. Your only real course of action at this point is to return to the Roundtable Hold and visit Finger Reader Enia and the Two Fingers to ask for help. After all, the guidance of grace led you to this point, so why would the Erdtree be sealed up? Isn't grace born of the Two Fingers and the Greater Will? Haven't you been following some divine plan all along?

Heading back to Enia is...interesting. The Two Fingers, it seems, were not very well