What Happens In Elden Ring? The Game's Story, Part 8: Miquella's Haligtree

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In Elden Ring, we've visited some pretty awful places during our journey through the Lands Between, where any number of people have been tortured and murdered. Traveling through the Consecrated Snowfield, however, we can finally find our way to somewhere that's not quite so horrifying--at least, on paper. That place is Miquella's Haligtree, another giant tree that once might have been the seat of a new religion to replace the Golden Order and the Erdtree itself. But nothing good can survive the Lands Between, and that's true of the Haligtree, as well.

Miquella's Haligtree hides another demigod Shardbearer who's waiting for you to face her: Malenia, Blade of Miquella. She's the demigod who fought Radahn and blanketed Caelid in Scarlet Rot, and she's still pretty formidable. We can also learn about another demigod, Malenia's brother, Miquella, although you won't be able to fight him. There's a huge amount of story surrounding Miquella, even though we never get a chance to meet him; his influence on the Lands Between is huge.

Here's everything you'll uncover within the Haligtree as you travel down to fight the Goddess of Rot herself. Once again, there are so many spoilers in this article; you've been warned.

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The first thing you'll notice when you come to the Haligtree, starting at the top, is that it's filled with Oracle Envoys, those weird trumpeters from Leyndell. Oracles, as we previously discussed, are non-human creatures that show up to herald the rising of a new god, or the dawning of new age. Somewhere far below waits Malenia, a demigod and Shardbearer whose Great Rune you could claim, and the Envoys likely seem to be here for her, as the lore you can discover later tells us that