Predicting The Elden Ring DLC - (shadow of the erdtree revealed) 

Hey everyone. Finally the DLC shadow of the erdtree has been revealed and it looks to be the spirit world / miquella DLC to me. Video analysis coming soon.

I can't wait for the torrent armor dlc.

Man I fucking love the idea of Godwin as a Ludwig-esque fight where in he starts as prince of death yet finds himself midway getting closer to his Golden days. Ludwig was by far my favorite FS moment and Godwin is just begging for a similar treatment. Edit: all that said, FS DLCs never even could have been predicted, and I mean that never. They expand their stories rather than elaborating the whys and hows of the base story. Fair enough they often answer those questions in other ways via that DLC clues, just not in a way that our simple minds imagines a straight answer.

I am hoping we receive three DLCs - one for Miquella/Mohg/Godwyn, one for the Badlands/Godfrey, and one for the Void(the realm where Alabaster/Onyx Lords and Astels' reside).

If Miquella's Dream were to have a gate-way into the Helphen, I think that his dlc would be set-up similarly to how Ashes of Ariandel functions between the base game and Ringed City. You might be able to find a normal entrance into the Helphen from the Forsaken Lands, given the red grace we see all around, or once we defeat Mohg, enter Miquella's Dream, and complete that dlc, there is another entrance presented to us to enter the Helphen. Remember, Miquella MAY have gone to sleep to search for the spirit world, like you suggest, but due to Mohg and the Formless Mother's intervention, he's more-than likely being corrupted and as a result, locked himself in a stasis to prevent further interference until the player solves the issue (i.e. slaying the Formless Mother's avatar which would be residing within Miquella in some form). I like the idea of being transported to these DLC, but I do hope we get something in the world like a city or land emerging from the big empty space in the middle of the map (and it being visible from anywhere from that point on), or the Bad Lands being revealed to the East, etc.

I don't know why but it never occurred to me Radahn was behind the sun being locked in place. Despite knowing it was a star, the dots never connected. Which would've been helpful when me and another person were discussing why Malenia and Radahn were fighting in the first place (their idea was that Malenia was looking for Miquella and I was trying to explain to them I felt like the fight was prior to Miquella being kidnapped; her having left allowed the opportunity, at least by my logic). That being said, I do feel like the first speculation is an obvious (every Souls game had an arena of some sort other than DeS, albeit varying popularity). The second speculation about Helphen never crossed my mind (a lot of the lore-related items I've never had an interest in using and rarely collect on builds I make so that knowledge oftentimes gets over-looked by me). All in all, great video. Thank you for making it.

I’ve always really enjoyed it when Fromsoft actually include characters or people we’ve heard so much about in lore but have yet to see. Meeting Artorius was one of the greatest moments in Fromsoft history and they capitalized on his legacy to the fullest

I'd get excited for any DLC they announce. If I had a say in what it was about, I'd want to see more 'alien' creatures like Astel or the Falling Star Beast. Maybe we get transported to a castle that acts as a 'ship' and it's just a bunch of lovecraftian aliens made up of stars or something lol

I would love them to release quite a few DLCs for this. One about Miquella, the Outer God of Blood, and the afterlife realm. One about facing the Outer God responsible for the Scarlet Rot One about the Moon(s) and recovering Miquella's rune (this could easily be added to Miquella's DLC One about the Badlands. 3 DLCs. The arena's can be added on to the Badlands DLC or just an update.

Think about this. The lost city and seat of SUN. Then the MOON. and then the ECLIPSE. I imagine 3 dlc in a sequence like that

A dark cosmic horror dreamscape for dlc would be perfect. Fitting for Elden Ring and satisfying for the Bloodborne fans.

How did you manage to blow this so wide open in a DLC prediction video? Like damn, I am in awe of your knowledge and intellectual skill. Thou'rt a true lord. Thy wit befits a crown.

Your predictions are so interesting and also seem very likely to happen. Cant wait to come back to this video after dlc is released

fighting a corrupted blind swordsman could be an explanation why the other version of the waterfowl dance was cut from malenia's moveset, as they might want to reserve that move to him.

They decided to go with the single most obscure piece of lore in the series I'm convinced which is the reference to the Helphen tree -- That's what I'm convinced we see in the new DLC photo

there's so much potential from the lore. i'm hoping for multiple dlcs but I NEED A GODWYN FIGHT. he's elden rings artorias/ludwig/gael.

I gotta say the quality of this great informative video compared to your subscriber count is criminal. Keep working my guy, you’ll get there one day!

Thank you Rageikari and Lance mcdonald for letting me use their footage! The video turned out a bit of a mess tbh but i am glad i can move on to other stuff now. Next video is going to be about stormveil! Until then you catch me live here: www.twitch.tv/kosmos_er

They're all pretty cool ideas for DLC. For my own preferences I'd love to see more of the Blind swordsman the tribe he comes from etc. more Amazigh/Berber/desert themed areas and items, but I'm probably overdosing on Copium at this point lul

Here's a speculation I've come up with. To start Placidusax's fight, you have to lie down in an empty grave and time begins to flow backwards, eventually leading you to an arena. After discovering that, before ending up in the sky, Farum Azula may have been located just before the Bestial Sanctum in Caelid due to the debris nearby, I think it would be cool to be able to lie down in another grave stone and go back in time, but now in a pre-rot Caelid. You would get to see Farum Azula intact and fight Placidusax in his prime, Sellia wouldn't be in shambles, the environment wouldn't be infested with rot so you could see what creatures lived in Caelid before the rot and you may even get to meet the Blind Swordsman and take on The Outer God of Rot themselves, or even that giant skeleton in the cliff face when it was alive in a Wolni/Ceaseless Discharge style boss fight! It would also explain why the DLC is taking longer than usual as designing a whole new area along with potentially 2 legacy dungeons would take a lot of time, but I'd be happy with this outcome, especially because there are a lot of potentially hard boss fights, like Placidusax who could be Midir 2.0. Edit: Also that Helphen DLC sounds like the most probable one yet, as getting to see Miquella and Godwyn in the flesh would be incredible, not to mention the gothic architecture that Helphen could lean towards!

never seen a video of yours but that ensha n miquella video looks dope af. gonna watch that first then come back here

Another banger, excited for part 2 and for the next stream

Happened by your content which was recommended by RU-vid. You have a great channel. Love the videos

Godwyn and Miquella helphen connection is probably theeee most satisfying lore theory

This was an interesting watch! Great theories.

Along with colosseums being PVP based, I would love wave-based survivals kind of like ghost of tsushima Legends

10:32 The mending rune of death looks a bit like an eclipse

3:19 that art is very good

wow you seem to be hitting the nail on the head so far. if there is another dlc after shadow of the erdtree and its space/cosmic horror I will be ecstatic. I feel like the cosmic horror elements of elden ring are only teased a bit in the base game

I think that the moon situation is very "flat earth" like, where the moon and sun are orbs in the sky and not in outer space. which would be very interesting.

I really want the dlc to be the land of reeds, maybe there’s dragons there that are from ancient Asian origins, other samurais, that would be cool. New katanas, samurai armor.

Good job mate!

Great video ! Just to add some food for thoughts, an eclypse in alchemical symbolism can be described as an Union of the Sun and Moon which correlates to body and soul/mind... For the soulless demigods

I hope if they add the colosseum for over stuff they also add a boss rush like Sekiro has, probably one of my favorite parts of that game

Whatever they do for a DLC or 2, it will be brilliant, that I am certain of.

I could 100% see Miquella’s dreams transitioning into the Helphen, like how the Hunter’s Nightmare transitions into the Astral Clocktower, or the Dreg Heap transitions into the Ringed City.

The fall of Farum Azula could be an interesting one, maybe we get to see a time period where placidussax was elden Lord at the height of farum azula society, instead of the crumbling ruins we explore. Also, seeing ancient dragons (red lightning) at the peak of their power and maybe fighting placidussax at his peak as well? Or maybe we get to know the reason why lighting the giant forge leads us to farum azula, and find out the reason why it's frozen in time? There's so many possibilities for dlc's which the lore implies, the full realisation of the eclipse, the outer gods stuff like you mentioned, the lands between before the fallen ruins across the land, the reedlands, a time before nokron and nokstella got banished, maybe even a black knife quest and finally knowing word for word, who actually planned the assassinations on the gods, either marika or ranni, or the biggest one I'm hoping for is a dlc all about the gloam-eyed queen!

Great video! everything makes sense

Great video, I enjoyed especially in HDR.

I hope if we get dlc it'll be just as epic and big as the main game

That's so cool that the warrior class is based on the Tuareg

the moon at the end of rannis quest looks like a waygate, maybe it's a gate to helphen. that could explain what the dark moon is and maybe why her fate was stoped by radahn because her fate is in helphen which can only open if a eclipse happens

Things I’d like as DLC -PvE horde mode similar to Bloody palace from DMC -A full fledged co op playthrough option Things I’d like to see added for free -X & Chackmark symbols to place on the map -X and Y coordinates for the map -cuztomize torrant

It's possible that we may get several DLCs, this happened with DS2, and FROM has hired more people so it's possible that we may get several dlc over the coming years.

As an expansion I expect SotE to be like the main game but in the dream world. The seven dead demigods we never got to know the names of. Godwyn being the final boss ala Radagon.

Miquella reminds me very strongly of Griffith. Both having a huge influence and looking for power

There's so much for them to explore, but my personal interest is in Godwyn, Prince of Death. As an avid horror fan, his design is the first thing in quite some time to genuinely unnerve me.

would like to see a simular thing to Gael, where miquella wakes up, acts kinda like an ally, but becomes the final boss. (Gael most underrated boss)

There's going to be 3 DLC's, just like Dark Souls 2, they have the entrances already set up in game. Each DLC will come with an arena.

Well Done!

Great video!

Props to the true gamer waiting in line for the DLC to drop.

Knowing From the DLC is gonna be some place that wasn't even mentioned in the lore once Like Ringed City and Ariendel, when everyone expected Londor

honestly with all the cool looking over the ocean scenes and ships/shipwreck icons all over the map and even some seen in game, my monkey brain wants a dlc with something to do with the sea or something. No lore reason, I just like ships and pirates

That background image in your thumbnail is so cool! Where did you find it?

I predict we as the tarnished will somehow go back in time and if not then somehow reach the lands beyond to reach out to the greater will I feel like a good ending would be to usurp the greater will and become a greater eldrich being just like the bloodborne ending

Saw ur thumbail and felt my heart jumped 🤣 Really hoping it's true

Elden Ring Horde/Zombies kind of mode would be the coolest thing ever

Wave based PVE please!!!! That’s my jam lol

Judging by the size of the game I wouldn't be surprised if the DLC took longer then usual to come out but yet have an enormous amount of content that touches on all the god's talked about in the lore that we never see.

I want to see more on Volcano Manor, maybe Tannith and Rya can continue the legacy with Rykard out of the picture

I have an idea. In the leaked trailer that came out before the game there was talk about a place called the “rift lands” that were beyond the “sea of fog”? Since we never saw any of this In game maybe it could be for a DLC?

Woah man i came here for some speculation and you dropped some huge lore bombs on me i love it

lol with all this they might just make an elden ring 2

Some recent rumours about death bed companions dlc and fighting ressurected bosses in some underground area.

Im hoping for a dlc based on the gloam eyed queen

Maybe therell be a dlc for each of the arenas.

Just a crazy prediction but I feel like the DLC will have some sort of faction system, nothing too big but sorta like how civil war works in Skyrim where it can be ignored.

Hope they do dlc about the huge face under the castle

Glad you mentioned Berserk, people really ignore its influence. All the Hill of Swords monuments in Elden Ring is direct reference to Berserk. Solid theory though with the Helphen

Very well said. I'd be more than okay with any of them.

I hope we get more scarlet rot weapons, and frost lighting incantations

Wow, that map at about 6:30 is super cool. What is it from? Also, really cool video. Subbed.

Bro, where did you get that armour? Is it a computer mod only or did i miss it?

I want every single one of this DLCs. Hopefully Fromsoft makes something closer to any this ideas🤩

Plot twist, we were the one who actually sealed away rot.

I hope we get a DLC that expands upon frenzy magic and allows us to fight Shabriri in his true form(s).

I found that Elden Ring is influenced by Berserk. I saw someone on reddit post about Godwyn had similarity with Ganishka (the unknown creature under Stormveil Castle) while Miquela is Griffith. I hope you cover these one since it supports your prediction in this video. Thankz

I want the coliseum of the great jar

Let's see if your predictions ring truly in these coming days

never knew that about radahn and malenia correlation

The moon makes the most sense because it is the portal through which everything can go I haven’t beat the game yet but I know one of the endings consists of the moon

I wonder if *all* of these except the moon will be in one gigantic dlc that we'll see with the new few months or this will be a two/three dlc type deal.

What would be cool is if the arena was pvp, but also pve with npc invaders that, like the pot warriors, are generated from real player builds.

it is probably gonna lead to caelid because there isnt anything in there yet for the normal campaign.

I haven't even finished watching your vid but I need to ask - why do the Erdtree's branches at the beginning of your vid look mad weird? Like they cast huge spikey shadows.

hope they add more spirit ashes specifically baleful shadow and exile soldier spirit ashes

that 4th is moon is just rannis dark moon? it has the same rune looking markings?

Want a godskin’s dlc. There still such a mystery. We have only seen apostles and nobles. We still can fight. Priests, bishops, the pope, acolytes etc

In my wildest dreams, we get a DLC about the Formless Mother But who actually turns out to be Formless Oedon

Do we evem know if a DLC is actually in the works?

I personally want a dlc involving ancient dragons and the history of farum azula.

I want to see elden ring go to the land of reeds and maybe for once show us these lands instead of just learning about them in item or armor and weapon descriptions. Alot of other souls games talk about a land to the east and I know none of them are the same place, but for once in a game by from soft I feel like giving us the chance to go and see that land would be amazing as it's said that those lands in elden ring are in a constant state of war. I know we got sekiro but seeing something like that game in elden ring as a massive DLC would be awesome and would expand the games existing samurai inspired armor sets and give us creative look at the world outside the lands between. I've heard there were rumors of leaked names like barbarians of the badlands, what if the land of reeds was these badlands? And we go in and see barbarians fighting against samurai warriors! Food for thought really I just wanna see more samurai stuff in elden ring really lol 😆

God I love this game

Miquella's inspirations come from Mercury, Hermes, and Ningišzida of Sumerian mythology. All three share the Caduceus symbol, as does Miquella in his needle. Miquella means the one who passes the message of God, much like the winged messenger God. Ningišzida was taken to the underworld by Hades, where his sister cried at the side of the boat singing a lament. Ningišzida translates to "Lord (androgynous) of the Good Tree," and is a seasonal, cthonic God; god willing, this tracks and he comes back without being subverted by the neckbeard. Mercury put the many eyed Argus to sleep to kill him, very reminiscent of Miquella putting Godwyn to sleep. Argus' eyes were placed on a peacock's tail, which looks much like the skybox of Godwyn's dream. Mercury creates amalgams with most metals, and was used in the production of pure, Unalloyed Gold. It does not create amalgams with iron however, the thing that makes blood red. Mercury along with sulphur is also part of cinnabar, one of the first scarlet pigments. Cinnabar is obviously very toxic, and was used in the tomb of the Red Queen of Palenque. Additionally, the God Mercury wore a winged cap. Both Miquella and Malenia are mercury; chemically, mythologically, etc.

10:11 harsh

It would be best if it the dlc was about a character most wouldn't know about.

I have an idea I think they will do. A DLC I will call Consequences. It is obvious there is meant to be a story that continues after the end of the Elden Ring and it would do something Fromsoftware has never done, explore the choice ending of the player. The story I think will have to be in DLC as it would be too difficult to do so for an Elden Ring 2, but durable for DLC, especially with the far-reaching consequences of the choices of the character. Partly why I think a future Elden Ring 2 will be set in lands outside the Lands Between due to being easier to write without picking one ending that rules them all. Anyway, the idea was mainly developed when we see Melina has a death animation and her promise to kill you if you become the Frenzy Lord. Not to mention I can see a number of characters that would return if you try to mend the Elden Ring or help Ranni super seed it. So I was thinking of a DLC that is three or more DLC that explores a world based on the choice you make with a unique final boss for each of them. This would be the most expansive as we see the world as described by the end of the Elden Ring. The main bosses that come to mind: Meliana for obvious reasons if you become the Frenzy Lord, and it is a unique battle if she fights you on top of a reforge Torrent that she could fuse with as a second-stage fight. Ranni if you reforge the Elden Ring and she could be a tough fight with her flying around, magic, including frost spells, and close-range ice-bladed attacks. The new leader of the Black Knives for they wanted to end the influence of Outer Gods, not have it reforge in any form, and may see Ranni as a traitor. This will allow for a large way to create a new boss and subtitle way From Software to convey why the Ranni ending is the best since you will not have to kill a character you've grown to like in the game. Tanith and Gurranq are also possible if they were not killable. Still, could be interesting to see what happens to them after completing their quest respectively. Hyetta for its speculated Gods can create people, including her, for their will and the Three Fingers will try to spread. Could even serve as a reason for Meliana to return as an ally for she may have been kindling, but she may not be dead-dead. Then there is the Two Fingers and the crones themselves being another possible enemy for daring to go against the Golden Order. Plus the multiple characters you brought up as they try to bring their Outer God to the Lands Between.

Is the thumbnail's art a official concept art?

Ranni, Miquella, and Melina all are working somehow in cahoots with each other. Speculation says that Miquella is riding Torrent on the DLC image, and Ran + Mel both know of/give you Torrent. They need to destroy the Erdtree, Melina. Bring the moon and sun into position, Ran + Miq. The lands become governed by a God who lets the people decide their own fate. Miquella can Tend the land as a 'God' of Bounty and Melina would become the reaper, guiding souls to their destination. (Speculation that she is the remains or reincarnation of the Gloam Eyed Queen.)