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Miquella, when you first get into the Shadow Realm: “Alright, what’s goin on tarnished?”

I swear we will keep finding new stuff in the trailer 2 years from now.

The iron maidens also grab you with snakes. The woman in the iron maiden is holding a baby, swaddled in cloth, like the GEQ and her newborn godskin apostles. I think Messmer was born the same way as a godskin apostle. Through the amniotic sac. Like a godskin apostle/noble, Messmer seems to assimilate physiology foreign to him.

What if the person missing from the painting is the father of the baby, with the person sitting on the chair being the old head of the house, that would mean that they don't want to tell us who the father is.

A small thing I noticed: In the intro of the game, when Marika is shown in her crucified pose with the dress swirl behind her, she is wearing what appears to be snake bracelets. In every other image or depiction of Marika, she's never shown with these outside of that one shot.

I dont want to be disappointed. I'm gonna say the kicks are just an ash of war you can put on fist weapons

I think that pregnant lady in the painting is a deathbed companion. She has the same clothing style as Fia's. And with Mesmers Flame, you said it could possibly be every kind of flame, which makes sense, because Mesmer is all sinfull archetypes in one. But I think that those 'tendrils' are the thorns from the Thorn/Aberrant Sorceries, which are also sinfull in Elden Ring. I haven't heard anyone speak about this tho.

6:30 that might be the reason Mogh's armor calls him a 'raving lunatic', he thinks he caught Miquella but instead he got duped xD

I just considered that among the 8 new weapon types, not even thinking that they are probably adding some new weapons to the classics we already have

The big question is: Will we get Alexanders flaming shoryuken as an AoW?

I’ve seen in the comments multiple people saying how they’re on break or something like than. And I’ve noticed that everytime Zio posts it’s basically near lunch time in school as well. He found the perfect time to post videos lmao, when everyone is free to watch in the work day.

Suppose the painting in the dlc trailer could be a family portrait ? Thus it could be that the painting is damaged and we learn that in the dlc or they deliberately showed off a damaged family portrait

It also looks like messmer has both of the godskin bracelets on. One of their bracelets on each hand.

Why is nobody talking about the giant boomerang that the guy in the purple swap throws at the player?? its gotta be one of the new throwing weapons!

I mostly remember the painting for the epic violin that plays during the shot

The ring in Miquellas looks like the "Entwining Umbilical Cord", a talisman that is not avaible. I think its supposed to do the same as that ring from DS3, perform as the opposed gender. Sice both are the same gender it would be needed for god and lord relationship

Using mighty mouse clip to rep champion belts was indicating a man of culture. Respect

Something I noticed but am not 100% sure of, the miquella ring design also resembles the design on the elevator floor of the divine towers.

Great video! To me it feels like Messmer is like an amalgation of all of the aspects. You mention the flame in this video, but I think we've also discussed his armor with an oddly Godskin-like look and his different eyes and snake imagery. Can't wait for the DLC's big reveal.

In the painting. It looks like there is a baby in his lap.

Maybe the „Mother“ this guy in the trailer is referring to isn’t even Marika but the Formless Mother ?

Arise and shine ye Tarnished!

38 days from now until release lads!!!

I’d say there is 100% something more to the painting not even a question in my mind there is more to the side.

The ring might be twigs hence the haligtree.

Nothing like waking up to a Ziostorm video posted 1 minute ago.

Personally, I think Miquella is in the cocoon. I think the quote refers to the body being a husk and Miquella's soul no longer being attached. Kinda like he has transcended his body.

In regards to the corpse, maybe it is Messmer. If thats the case, then there may be a common theme between him, Ranni, and Melina. All 3 would be dead in body, with one eye closed. Maybe the closed eye symbolizes being "half asleep" in the same vein as death being the long sleep.

Interesting theory with Messmer being the body in the cocoon. Messmer has similar long fingers as the hand in the cocoon, and he is wearing a ring in the fight on the middle finger of his left hand. However, hand in the cocoon wears it on the right hand. Haven't been able to see which kind of ring it is he is wearing in the fight, though.

In regards to the speculation around the "new" martial arts weapon. In the examples that Zios compares, pretty sure both characters are wearing the exact same chest piece, with one of them being tailored to remove the necklace and cowl through Bok/Golden Needle. I've seen so much speculation about this weapon being something completely knew, but I haven't really seen anyone speculate that's it's just a new weapon in the fist category. One that doesn't have a cestus around the hand like the other fist weapons, while having a completely unique move set that incorporates kicks in it's basic attacks or Ash of War... I love this community and I love how much we speculate every morsel we get in trailers, but sometimes I think we overthink stuff and the answer is often straightforward. 😁

Messmer also has a ring but on his other finger as opposed to the one we see body in the cocoon wearing. I doubt that has anything to do with anything but maybe worth looking into. Also, the position of the ring on Messmer's finger as well as the ring on the said body in the cocoon. On Messmer's hand, the ring is on his left middle finger but the ring on the body in the cocoon its on the right hand and the second to last finger from your pinky (don't know if this also considered a ring finger but hopefully you get what I mean). Looking it up, the ring on the middle finger means responsibility and individuality, power and like balance. And wearing a ring on the right ring finger can symbolize I think a connection to someone but in some cultures it can mean being engaged or marriage. So if the body in the cocoon is indeed Miquella' (don't know) that finger could mean like a kind of devotion of some sorts. Obviously the only other person that I can think of that Miquella is extremely devoted to of course is his sister Malenia. And Messmer's ring and where it's position is could possibly show his status in the realm of shadow as someone who is trying to balance certain things and shows he is responsible for something. What that something is well, it's either eliminating things that have been "stripped of the grace of gold," or something else completely. I get it if I am reaching I get it if I sound crazy but the sheer hype that I have for this particular game is actually insane so I wanted to just incorporate some of my thoughts and I hope this could sit well for some people and if it doesn't well I do apologize lol.

Doesn't look like a belt. There is a strap coming from the left shoulder. Looks more like a bag/ fanny pack/satchel.

Maybe you could argue that the body in the cocoon was actually Messmer trying to come to the lands between from The Shadow Lands and Miquella sabotaged it and Mohg though he was bringing the coming of Miquella but actually it was Messmer

Another thing to stare "hours" at is Messmer's bracer. It has a mark on it, I have been trying to match it up. They aren't just showing you that little flame from his hand. His ring likely has a seal on it but they have hid it. The old dude in the painting is "royalty," but it's possible something is not on the left side there. Good catch. Also, Messmer's flame when he throws it has a "rot" tinge to it at the end. It's not white or red, it's more like a peach color.

The ring looks more like it’s made of those little red limbs on the Rykard remembrance sword

Love when I get the notification that zio video just dropped!!!😊

It's not a crest, it's a bag. At least from what I can tell. If you look closely in the clip where he kicks the knight, you can see the flap of it, seperating it from the rest of the bag. There's also some stuff hanging on the bag in the image, that isn't there in the video, from what I can tell. So I wonder if this is the weapons item afterall, or if it's just part of the armor. But the way the straps work in conjuction to the armor itself, it would surprise me if it really IS the weapon. I'm much more looking at the weird fog/mist/steam coming from the characters legs, and assume this, as a visual effect, may be what tells us they're using this weapon. The way it shapes almost like an extension to the foot while he's preparing his next kick during the video, and the way we don't see it fully dissipate afterwards leads me to believe this might be the actual weapon "indicator" or whatever. Edit: Also, forgot to mention, it looks like in both the image and the video the character is wearing the exact same armor set, just in the image without the hat, and the missing necklace and cloak probably being an altered version of the chest piece. But both still have the same design regardless. Look for example at the gloves, the boots and the sleeves of the chest piece. Maybe I'm wrong tho, who knows.

Me looking at my ps4 "Here we go again old friend"

the image on the right is not a belt, it has straps on both sides running up and around his neck.

The belt may be the new leveling system item

I have always thought since the beginning of the game that at one point all the different fire types were once one flame. Probably when the shattering happened, the flame also shattered into different specific types

2:03 I just noticed that the knight has a MASSIVE twin blade I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone talk about that considering all of the knight weapons very much are obtainable. Edit: 6:58 I believe we're holding the same weapon here as well looks pretty similar.

Like the Flying Senpou Monk The DLC fighting style /martial art seems looks the part for Martial Art Monks

when messmer burns his flame in the cutscene it looks like the shape of the erdtree

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I really love the speculations:)

The person laying in the sleep lake and lily’s is actually the skeleton riding horse thingy. From what I see in the trailer, it’s the same exact area. I think that boss will emerge from that body

I've been saying this about the cocoon from the start. Looks like messemer and the ring was very snake like. Can't wait to find out what everything means I can barely keep it together

It also has the yellow of frenzied flame js

in 2:32 of the trailer, there is something similar as the painting you mentioned covered during Messmer grab Attack, the throne behind him suddenly gets Dark maybe about the statue behind him

The differences in the attire seen in the screenshots could very well be due to alterations...

Well it can't just be me scouring the Internet for crums of news and any lore pretty sure I'm going insane

everything points to rykard and the dancers

The wide shot of the church at 8:09...purple flames in the hanging lamps and then the large candlestick thats fallen over on the right kinda looks like a bewitching branch. The motifs look almost like Raya Lucaria, but these other details are of course related to St. Trina. I wonder if there is some faction that is a combination of the two.

1:58 The two armors look quite different in my opinion. The one on the left is wearing what looks like an outfit completely out of leather while the one on the right looks like it was made from fabric.

The body in the cocoon matches Mesmer more than what we think Miquella would look like too.

The old guys brooch looks just like the head of the burial watchdog staff/hammer thing

It crossed my mind the other day about the coccoon , I think it is the child of Miquella and Mogh. Messmer. Look at the long dangling arms , same as the coccoon . Plus Mogh is speaking to Miquella as she is there but referring to their child a creation of both. That is also why he has the blood flame included in his powers

with the painting smudge I think that there might be another character on the left smudge, a big theory is that the old guy is marikas father and the character on the right is marika, i think it could be cool if the thing on the left if it turns out to be another character to be radagon, would make some sort of sense if they where siblings or smth and joined idk something outlandish like that, im just guessing but would be very cool to see

It looks more like a satchel/over the shoulder bag than a belt to me.

Cool thing to note: When we kill Morgott in Leyndell, we see his body. However, in both instances we kill Mohg, he always fades away, and we do not see his body. It is entirely possible Mohg will be in the DLC.

Nooo all the elden ring content is getting me hyped I can’t take the wait anymore

In conjunction to the ring thats on the hand of Miquella's supposed corpse, i saw a video explaining that it has a veey similar design to that of the ouroboros wich is a snake eating its own tail. In the ring we can se that its not one but many snakes intertwined. So maybe it could be a symbology about the story of the dlc that it is mainly about destruction and creation wich is what the ouroboros means

my theory is that the Land of Shadow is a mirrored but twisted version of "banished" things from the Lands Between. Messmer being the banished body of Miquella, who has taken inheritance from a lot of the lesser outer gods (formless mother, fell god of giants, etc.) which leads to his flame having aspects of multiple outer god flames.I dont think it is destined death, as the only ones who have been able to take control of it were malikith and ranni, but instead potentially aspects of blackflame. we just akin it to destined death because the other influences make it look similar. (and maybe all the other flames are lesser offshoots of destined death, and when they blend together, they become similar in power)

this is realy a good video , am I crazy to think the other half of the painting maybe it will allwo us to enter the painting

I know is disappointing but the kick will most likely to be an ash of war for fist weapons or something like that, not a new weapon type, just like it's an ability in Sekiro

Weird theory, but if the ring of Miquella is indeed where we will enter the DLC, could Mohgwyn come out of the Land of Shadows as he comes up from the ground in the cutscene before his boss fight. I know it could just be him coming out from wherever or maybe perhaps where the Formless Mother is, but i still find it interesting that maybe Mohgwyn was in the Land of Shadow. Also maybe there is a link between Messmer and Mohgwyn having similar fires. My theory has always been that when Messmer says "Mother", he is not saying it to Marika, but rather the Formless Mother.

I'm going to the beach when this releases😬 might have to bring the console with me

Is the man in the painting holding a baby in his arms?? There is in indent in his left arm that appears to be the shape of a babies head with room on his lap for the body. Am I the only one seeing this?

if the one inside the cocoon isn't Miquella why would that person be inside there anyway?? Like, that cocoon was extracted by Mohg from the Halightree from the hole we can clearly see in Malenia's arena. Who could possibly be stuck in there if not Miquella?

I just love that you chose Mighty Mouse Demetrious Johnson as to show a hand to hand combat champion!!! Amazing!!! Respect

The martial arts "belt" looks more like a satchel. You can see straps going up around the neck and shoulder.

Crazy, I forgot this hasn’t come out yet XD

The opening artwork of Elden Ring shows Mohg carrying Miquella after having torn open the cocoon in the Haligtree, so it's highly unlikely that someone else's body is in the Mohgwyn Palace cocoon. It's more likely that Mohg tried his own method of breaking the curse of Miquella's perpetual prepubescence, and the adult body in the Mohgwyn cocoon is the result of that. That's a great spot with the Rykard paintings though! Regarding other imagery that could be major, the "basin" aligned with the Erdtree's sap probably warrants a video. The structure seems like it's meant to capture the sap being forced out of the tree, but it appears to only have two sides rather than being a proper bowl. Even though this shape should be causing the sap to easily spill out of it, we never see where the sap goes once it has reached this "basin." The sap doesn't spill in front of the structure, and the trailer shots carefully conceal if the sap is falling behind the structure, since the vertical slits never properly align with where the sap could be moving. If it's not actually a basin, what might the structure's actual purpose be? If it's meant to harness the Erdtree's sap in some form, it slightly reminds me of the Frenzied Flame "eye" atop the tower at the Frenzied Flame Village, as well as the general image of the sun shining above a tower with crown-like merlons on the Sun Realm Shield. Thanks for another neat video, Ziostorm.

Everytime i see Messmer i think of Rykard

Definitely more to that painting that meets the eye. Interesting 🤔

i would love if they added in left hand back-step attacks and roll attacks

maybe mohg tried to follow miquella to the land of shadows, but for some reason, wasn't able to?

I'm going to hug that shadow tree just watch me.

Been saying that hand is Messmer's since the trailer dropped. I'm more convinced than ever and have some thoughts on why he would be there too.

New Crucible Knight variant? Preferably a bow user? Instead of a zoom function, it has sharp edges and is used as a twinblade?

Maybe it's St Trina in the tree, who has a strong relation to Miquella in a similar fashion to Radagon and Marika; as we know they existed as 2 different individuals at one time.

Online Class or a ziostorm video. Hmmmm such a hard choice. Wonder which I’ll choose..

Messmer’s arm when he’s conjuring the flame IS looking quite a bit like the cocoon arm…

miquella and messmar arent the only ones who had a black aura that fades into cinders…. BELL BEARING HUNTER ALSO HAS A SIMILAR EFFECT

If the belt works like a staff but with physical attacks that would be sick.

Every stone must be "unturned"? Over turned is the closest I can think of... or just use the quote correctly

Reminds me of one of the trio npcs in dark souls 3

Ya, it's pretty much impossible to tell, but in that painting, standing next to the old guy on the other side is John Cena.

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Could be that both martial art characters are wearing the same set, with the altered version being depicted on the official site.

I've been saying for the last couple months that the body in the cocoon is actually Messmer. The overall anatomy is that of Messmer and his flame looks like blood flame, which would fit the setting.

I haven't really seen anyone mention it, but the voice in the trailer that says "touch the withered arm" reallyy sounds like ranni to me. Maybe a bit older? Could just be me but it sounds super similar. With Radahn being a requirement, it wouldn't be far off to think she'd make an appearance

Nothing like waking up to a Ziostorm video posted 1 minute ago

As if I would ever trade in my Greatsword 😂😂

If you look closely its not a belt but a bag they are wearing over a shoulder, super clear @1:30

Bruh. This channel is so 🔥 👌

What astonishes me is how many videos can be made on the trailer

This is actually a good theory...what if the body in the coccoon is actualy Messmer? I always found it wierd that spindly long and sharp nailed hand to be Miquella's hand when the statues of him are so different. We know for a fact Messmer has some relation with a tree (the one in the shadow realm) but what if its linked to the Haligg Tree as well, Messmers corruption beign the reason it didn't get to grow properly.