In the grand fields where your journey begins, mythic creatures prowl the veldts, ineffable horrors lurk in the bogs and marshes, and all manner of soldiers and itinerant warriors are waiting for those who wander unawares. You will ride through the vast fields, gallop over rolling hills, and leap to the top of rocky crags on your ephemeral steed, revealing a world teeming with life and danger.

As a Tarnished, the Lands Between await your exploration. They are the Tarnished, and they have returned to claim the Elden Lordship promised to them by legend. Once, their ancestors called the Lands Between home, but the blessed light of grace was lost to their tribe long ago and they were expelled from the kingdom. Throughout the Lands Between, Demigods holding shards of the Elden Ring squabble and make war over the ruins of a perfect realm, now abandoned by the golden guidance of the Greater Will.Īs the echoes of this coTnflict thunder in the distance, an outcast arrives. Stand ready, Tarnished, and prepare to claim what fate has promised you. Soon you’ll venture into the Lands Between and strive to become its Elden Lord. There is only one hope left: the hope that a new Elden Lord will rise and lift the veil of shadows that has fallen over Marika’s domain.

You’ll fight alongside General Radahn and Malenia the Severed, but even these two undefeatable warriors couldn’t reunite a world so badly broken. Transported to ages long ago, you will relive the Shattering, a war that brought darkness to the Lands Between, initiated by demigods’ hunger for power. Martin – author of The New York Times best-selling fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire – and the world created by FromSoftware based on his work in this new trailer available here. Take a deeper dive into the carefully crafted mythology of George R.R. “Unless of course,” the storyteller says, a coy smile on both her lips, “thou shouldst take the crown?”

And so, the Lands Between are no longer gripped by open war, but caught in an uneasy stalemate that seems impossible to resolve. The battle of General Radahn against Malenia the Severed illustrated that neither strength nor skill alone would be enough to take control of the entirety of the lands Marika had united. No single side could find enough purchase to maintain a decisive victory, even when fueled by the power of a Great Rune. The conflict broke a vast and prosperous empire into brittle fragments. Open, bitter war, pitting blood against blood and kin against kin. After his death, the Elden Ring was somehow shattered, and the order of the world broke with it. The assassins’ targets were multifold, but none was as devastating a loss to the Eternal Queen as that of Godwyn the Golden.

In a coetaneous attack, this foul covenant snuffed out the lives of many of the God-Queen’s kin throughout the empire, too numerous and too scattered for her godly protection to save. One grim night in the depths of winter, a flock of unknown assassins stole across the Lands Between. But when I recall, I see it true.” So begins the tale of the Shattering, a devastating war between the children of Marika, Demigods of the Lands Between. The storyteller folds her slender hands - both pairs - and speaks.

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