Ymir’s Questline Proves One Elden Ring Ending Is A Terrible Choice
A new questline introduced by proves that one of the base game's endings is even worse than it seems. 's endings are, on the whole, pretty ambiguous. While it's easy enough to tell which is 's worst ending, even those that seem positive on the surface hide negative implications beneath, and vice versa. Players don't really find out what happened to the Lands Between after the events of base 's story; they only learn where the Tarnished ended up, and are left to imagine the rest.
[Warning: This article contains spoilers for one of Elden Ring's base endings, and Ymir's questline in the DLC.]
Although the DLC doesn't add any new endings to the base game, its events do recontextualize many of the important happenings throughout. That includes each and every one of 's endings, some of which have their meanings completely reversed by 's big reveals. But there's also some new context for one of the base game's most popular endings, hidden at the end of what may be the DLC's longest and most complicated questline. Completing a series of tasks for Ymir eventually reveals that the Tarnished may have made a grave mistake.
Elden Ring’s DLC ending features a fight with a familiar foe, but things are very different this time around. Here’s how Shadow of the Erdtree ends.
The end of Ymir's questline subtly reveals that everyone has lost contact with the Greater Will, and the Age of Fracture ending is all the more dismal for it. Per 's cosmology, the Greater Will created the known universe, including the Elden Ring itself. Most worship the other gods, like Marika or Miquella, but believe that the Greater Will is the ultimate authority, giving the younger deities the mandate to rule. However, with Marika imprisoned within the Erdtree and Miquella wandering the Land of Shadow, there are few ways to communicate with a higher power directly. So people rely on the Two Fingers, envoys of the Greater Will, to relay its messages. However, the movements of the Two Fingers are cryptic,
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