Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC Trailer REACTION AND ANALYSIS 

Ngl this made me a little teary to read, how cool!!! I love this and I'm so excited to share this experience with you all again

@@itsjavachip Aww now I'm really glad that I wrote it. You're lovely, keep up the good work 😊

I dont think it started with Miquella. I believe that was the player character standing in Mogh's room

@n09 You know what I mean. The first non-player character is Miquella in his egg. I don't think the bottom of a PC cape counts. XD

@@lockekappa500 oh you meant the egg

Love this theory!!! I never did the dragon communion so that's cool to hear too!

Idk why but I can NOT get the idea out of my head that that's meant to look like a snake's egg even though the texture isn't the same 😂

THANK GOD HONESTLY

We hear him address Miquella, but it could be that he's addressing him in the abstract since we know the egg is the entry point

@@itsjavachip Miquella cocoons himself in the Haligtree, but Mohg finds him and takes him back to Mohgwyn Palace. Multiple sources confirm this

streamer problem haha

And now I'm hoping all other devs are too scared to publish anything at the same time so I can devote all my attention to this 😂

LMFAOOOOOOOO YER RUDE

Me too. Miquella already has Saint Trina as a alter ego (it’s implied). So him having another one; one corrupted because of Mohg, the formless mother, or something else- makes a lot of sense. Plus Marika has Radagon, why wouldn’t the prodigious Miquella have another (more powerful) persona? Especially since he wanted get rid of his flesh and all that is gold (Messmer could be his corrupted gold or something).

I mean HOW COOL DOES IT LOOK????

LMFAOOOO wait maybe you're on to something here...

@itsjavachip You could try a magic runnn... there's a lot of coool spells 😏🎩🪄🐇

This is SUCH a good point! Perhaps related to Melania and Miquella then? Melania does have red hair

I was thinking like you until Godwyn the Golden has a G from his father, Godfrey. And Godrick, is one of Godwyn child…

I think Radagon and Marika were always the same person The only thing in the entire game that hints that Radagon could have fused with Marika is that she says he hasn't become a god yet, but that line could very easily be interpreted as him reuniting with Marika. since there is much more evidence to the contrary, in the preceptor's set it is said that the sewn mouth of the mask represents their commitment to keeping the secrets of their lord Radagon, but what secrets would Radagon have at the time of his union with Rennala? Of course, you can say that he could have many secrets unrelated to Marika, but narratively this decision to put this description makes no sense as it doesn't mean anything to the story and with the whole revelation of Radagon being Marika this description is simply not random, Radagon and Marika seem to represent the laws of cause and effect and the law of regression, Marika as cause and effect as we see her destruction of the elden ring as a catalyst for events and Radagon regression for trying to repair the ring and unite with Marika again but this second part loses all meaning if he was never Marika, if he united with Marika and was never her then he is not regressing to Marika since he was never part of her, that only makes sense if he was originally Marika and split from her and eventually rejoined, obviously they were physically separated since Radagon was on Raya Lucaria and Marika was on Lyendell, and that also leaves the entire lore of why Malenia and Miquella are empyreans totally without a sense, Miquella and Malenia are described to have been born Empyreans because they were born children of a single god, this makes sense if Radagon and Marika are the same person as they would have the same blood, which would result in the twins being 100% divine blood o which would also explain why they have vulnerable births and have curses, because you know... same blood, the whole game we see twins, things dividing in two, and being born with two consciousnesses like Messmer's own snake that has two heads, and what all these things have in common is that they did not become that way but were born that way

I LIKE this theory though!

SO TOUGH to say! Honestly the Rebirth hype is so real, but this DLC might have edged that out. It just looks SO SO SO good

I think the interview meant to say Marika first set foot in the Lands of Shadow before she came to the Lands Between, but I don't think it black on white states she originates from there (in the sense : this might be one of the many places she travelled to before she got to the Lands Between). But yes Miquella still seems to be "tracing back" his mother's footsteps. Marika is a Numen, and the Numen are said to have come from outside the Lands Between from a place known only as 'the lands of the Numen' - this, in theory, could be the Lands of Shadow, because....who knows... but it woud be just that... a theory. There's nothing to confirm that just yet. A lot of the terminology surrounding Numen seems to be in relation with "the sea" - in the sense, that they lived "in a land across the sea". If you look at the map of the Lands Between, you'll see lots of water and also boats. So personally I always theorized that the Numen are very much from the same world as the Lands Between, just from a land far away, from across the sea. But again...just a theory. On the other hand, from the way Miyazuki spoke of the Lands of Shadow, it almost feels like a... "land that lives in the shadow of the Lands Between" - some sort of Shadow Realm or something. It doesn't actually strike me as a Land from a Boat Ride distance. But pure speculation, of course.

I don't think he meant EVERY new boss is a similar challenge to Malenia, just that there will be similar challenges

I totally should!

Nah its The Cacoon The Requirements to access Are mogh defeated and Radahn defeated 10 new bosses all On the Lvl of Malenia 8 New weapons

@@ItachiUchiha_1724 oof

​@@ItachiUchiha_1724 I think it's more than 8 new weapons. Iirc, it's 8 new weapon TYPES. Like, unarmed combat and the Throwing daggers(without wasting consumable daggers).

The entrance being there was confirmed in an interview, and yeah, there are 8 new weapon types, so much more weapons. The types already confirmed are the automatic crossbow, throwing daggers, martial arts, reverse swords (wielding them backwards) and dueling shield (looks like a shield and a twin-blade merged together, the character fighting Messmer is using it)

The game is SO FULL with it, I just do my best to understand as much of it as I can but I know there's still SO much I don't know!

No no we'll still be doing that!!! I promise :)

Massive thank you lovely and big welcome on in ☺

@@itsjavachip 😁😊

AYYYYY THAT'S THE SPIRIT! Honestly this comment made me a little emotional to read, how special 😭💖 I'm so excited to share my pantless experience again

Awesome! I'm so so so excited

Honestly SO TRUE, you're so real for this. Also let me customise Torrent goddamn it 😂

@@itsjavachip who was your favorite character in the game? For me hands down radahn. Even with his brain being eaten n rotted. He didn't eat Leonard the horse but everyone else he did!

Massive thank you lovely!

Yeah this is what's making me more and more convinced Messmer is some sort of "banished" 3rd child of Marika and Radagon. Although to me it just makes me more curious about what is Melina's relation to Marika and her offshoots - afterall, before Messmer came into the picture with this DLC, Melina was the one associated with the Smoldering/Fire Butterfly in this specific theory - her name starts with an M (and ends with an A, for what it's worth lol - making it closer to the other 3), she had burns all over her arms (at least, maybe more) even before she burned the Erdtree, and while her hair isn't red (or blonde), I always felt like her hair color was a good middle-ground between Radagon's red hair and Marika's dark blonde hair giving her this sort of strawberry blonde/light brown color - which I thought would make perfect sense as the 3rd child (Malenia has red hair like her father, Miquella has blonde hair like his mother, and then boom Melina would be in between both). Not to forget, Melina is clearly associated with Miquella in some way, as it's theorized Torrent belonged to Miquella first, and Melina is stated to have known the previous owner of Torrent (so....Miquella). So it's like...okay...Messmer can be the 3rd child here, I could totally see that... but where does Melina fit in all of this? She's clearly entangled with Marika and Radagon's side, one way or another. But who knows how.

I thought so too at first, but when looking at the description of the butterflies, they are undeniably tied to Miquella Malenia and Melina.

SUCH a good point about the fire butterfly! Perhaps Miquella went there in search of this third sibling?

@@itsjavachip probably,probably not…who knows

WE LOVE TO SEE IT BAYBEEE

I loved reading this!!!

@@itsjavachip I always get caught by Java itself responding my comments, really happy that you see this, thanks for affection, and for the incredible and honest content, love it, aaaa

Miyazaki said in an interview with Famitsu they were another child of Marika.

Nah it’s not. It’s probably his brother that was shunned to the Shadow realm

how it is obvious dude can you explain :D

@@optimalrefundablecan you sent a link to the interview? I would like to read it. I know Messmer is confirmed to be as powerful as the other Demi gods (which is why Miyazaki said he had him sitting on a throne within Morgott’s boss arena, to show he’s on equal power to the others). But I haven’t read or heard he’s another child. Though I’m pretty sure he is Marika’s child.