Who Is St Trina? | Elden Ring DLC LORE 

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Super stoked Miyazaki confirmed St. Trinas appearance. Must not go hollow

Okay: predicting the next swamp is a sleep-inducing mess where enemies constantly kick your ass. At the end, you gotta fight St. Trina.

miquellas adult form is described as unnerving because it contradicts his curse of forever being a child.

One last bit of St. Trina lore that flew under the radar here is the Dolores the Sleeping Arrow Puppet: "One of Seluvis's favorite puppets. Spirit of a handsome archer who dressed in the style of a man. Called the Silent Hunter by some, she fires St. Trina's arrows from her shortbow." "Dolores once belonged to the Roundtable Hold, where she was both a critic and a friend of Gideon the All-Knowing. It was because of her that he and Seluvis went their separate ways." The full story is likely just as complex as Radagon and Marika, but I highly doubt Trina is merely an alias of Miquella. At this point I mostly regard them as two characters merged together instead of a single split character On the whole I believe she comes from an older time than Miquella, with hidden ties to the Albinaurics and their specialty of archery. Particularly when Miquella lilies appear to be modified Trina lilies instead of vice versa.

Ohhh Elden ring, a truly special Game

Almost my entire recommended is elden ring lore and theories and i love it

I can't wait to know more about St.Trina in the DLC

6 weeks to go boys!!! Don't you dare go hollow!!!

St.Trina can be the teacher of Miquella. adult St.Trina = St.Trina as the teacher child St.Trina = Miquella as the scholar

The Elden RIng IS the Elden Beast. And we know that the shape of the Elden Ring has changed over time. Does that mean the Elden Beast looked different when they first came to the Lands Between?

I think Miquella's mere presence has unnerved people. In this case, I believe being entranced by him would be a loss of a power to act.

If I had to guess the reason their Adult form is unnerving is because they're awake. The middle eye is open, which usually represents an enlightened mind. Then they have mist like tendrils coming off that eye and making 2 more eyes on the top Left & Right. They're super awake lol

I'm pretty much a hollow at this point. I hope I can maintain my humanity and sanity until the DLC drops.

Your and Ziostorm's content are so similar I sometimes can't tell on whose channel I am on

maybe it is unnerving to depict st. Trina as an adult because miquella was cursed with eternal youth

What if the character we see lying in that purple swamp in the trailer is one of Santa Trina's clerics?

The purple flames of st Trina's torch and the colour of black flame once being purple is definitely interesting. I personally wouldn't be surprised if st Trina is connected to the gloam eyed queen.

Its possible that mohg was bewitched by miquella

It could be a similar situation as Ranni and the snow witch where Miquella was taught some of the things he knows by St. Trina who was the woman everyone saw, and Miquella was the boy everyone saw.

check out the shield of the guilty, when equipped it gives you resistance to frenzy and sleep and if you look at it, the guilty maiden depicted has a striking resemblance to st trina

It would be sick if the DLC, with the introduction of that pink magic, had some Miquella charm spells - similar to the bewitching branch

"Quite the habit".. it sounds like sleep is used as a drug imo. I can see how they see him as extremely dangerous. (Adult st Trina) also, have you ever been deprived of sleep? It's like your tripping on acid.. just from not sleeping. Imo, no sleep, is the worst "drug" effect.

The carving on the sword looks just like Melina at frenzied flame's end

What’s crazy is that the commonly accepted idea is that st trina and miquella are the same , but Miyazaki kinda made it sound like st Trina wasn’t the same as miquella. even without cut content the game makes it seem like they’re the same and he knows that we think that, but instead said “they are distinct entities with a close relationship, and more about this relationship will be revealed in the dlc” (approximation of what he said) so that makes it sound like it’s more nuanced than just them being the same like radagon and marika and we have it wrong. But idk maybe it was the translation or he just gaslight and pretended we didn’t know she was miquella.

I'm not that deep with the lore.. but something tells me st trina is Miquella like his alter ego or something

On the close up of Miquella's and Trina's Lillys - you can see that Miquella's almost seems like like Trinas - but with new root growing growing from the bottom up, sapping life from the leaves, and sprouting a new bud out of the end of the flower. I've never seen it in such detail until now. I think Miquella is in control of the tree that is sapping the other of it's life in the shadow of the erdtree trailer.

Since there looks to be a sleep inducing swamp, and St. Trina is confirmed to appear I wonder if we will be able to go to sleep somewhere (at site of grace or the like) to be able to see her in our sleep. Since that’s seems to be where people have met her. 😴

Another awesome break time lore video. Love the vids @ziostorm.

Love your work

Just speculation with nothing to base it off of - perhaps the super sleepy sleepy boi in the DLC trailer IS Fevor

I'm curious how St. Trina is connected to Dolores the Sleeping Arrow puppet. The description reads: Spirit of a handsome archer who dressed in the style of a man. Called the Silent Hunter by some, she fires St. Trina's arrows from her shortbow. Dolores once belonged to the Roundtable Hold, where she was both a critic and a friend of Gideon the All-Knowing. It was because of her that he and Seluvis went their separate ways.

Another great video, keep them coming! 👊🏻

something interesting about miquella and saint trina is that in real life, the hormone that allows physical growth, the GH hormone, only gets secreted during sleep, which both explains the cause for miquella's eternal youth and the need for an alter ego that could fulfill the lack of sleep

Have you looked closely at the statues at the Precipice of Anticipation? There is a small one up in the arches of the Grafted arena and along the walls an adult man statue in long hooded robes. The columns along the walls depict a man tending to two intertwined trees. Those two show up together again outside of the area where Godwyn’s head is. Just before you enter the aggro area down there the adult one is now in bad shape with his face blasted off. The little one is at his feet, missing its head. Marika’s two golden children Godwyn and Miquella? G & M seem to have some relationship to Trina and Gloam Eyed Queen (fish tails on GEQ door in Caelid). I wonder if GEQ and Trina are related in a sleep/death way? We see people like Ranni, Rogier, Fia and the Direwolf trapped in sleep too.

Nice investigative work as usual 👍

There’s a theme in this game of becoming too consumed with something and being destroyed by it. Like those crystal sorceress who end up turning into crystal. Also whatever happened to Radahn. He became like an avatar of the gold, the energy kind of became his body. Then there’s what happens when you get too into dragon magic, or frenzy flame. It’s all people who become consumed and destroyed when they go too far.

That Big Purple Flower Field In The Trailer Is Where Miquella/St. Trina Will Be! Cant Wait To See It

That's exactly why the item description for the bewitching branch is so misleading. It's all recipes for sleep potions, so it's meant to be a calming tranqilizing agent used to soothe and quell aggression. It makes sense why Miquella's needle is also used in the same way for the scarlet rot and frenzied flame. It's the calmness that keeps your wits about you in the heat of battle or the sleep aid needed for inducing a restful dreamstate. Distilled from water lilies to create a sleep inducing drug with similar affects to alcohol. He's making a pain relieving anesthetic called Ether to treat patients as a doctor in a clinic would. (The downside however being that its addictive and highly flammable) Interesting Bloodborne similarity with the purple mist as well. St. Trina is definitely a healer which aligns well with the idea of Miquella wanting to help people and creating his Haligtree or "Healing" tree 😊👍

An interesting video bro, it's a complicated story 😮😊

As always love these kinds of content about the lore and can't wait for the DLC stay safe everyone!

Hopefully sleep builds become more varied and viable with the new content. I feel like that sleep swamp area will have respawning Trina's Lillies

There’s one point I would’ve added was cleanrot knights are very close in relation to miquella, and the knights drop both Trina lily and miquella Lilly

Uhm, this is video is only on the playlist, but not under new videos. Anyway, thanks for the vid.

Great video, I’m hyped for this DLC ☝🏼 What is that chest/cape piece at around 3:40?!

Yooooo about time

Hey Ziostorm, i have a suggestion for a video which, honestly, would be pretty cool imo. Can you make a video about all (or the most popular) unanswered lore questions? Or the most popular misteries we expect to get a conclusion after the the DLC?

Cool detail I noticed about the Sword of Saint Trina. Although its iconography is heavily associated with St. Trina and sleep, it actually has a real world counterpart. Tizona, or Tizón, was the sword of errant knight-turned-crusader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, more commonly known as El Cid, a transliteration of his title given to him by the Spanish Moors, as-Sayyid. El Cid was originally a mercenary who fought for both the Spaniards and the Moors in their wars over the Spanish peninsula in the late 11th century, although he would later come to ally himself fully with Spain in their Reconquista. Also notable about El Cid (in relation to Elden Ring), was his legendary warhorse Babieca. There’s disagreement on how he came to own this horse, but one poem describes Babieca as being a “gift from a barbarian”.

V-Rising is super fun! Been playing since it showed up on early access, 1.0 release should be even better!

I think st. Trina will be our guide like Melina at graces and telling us about marika and miquellas path

I know sacred blade isn't a unique skill, but given that it is the skill on the Miquellan Knight sword and the mists of slumber skill on St Trina sword uses the same animation as sacred blade, this could point to another connection between Miquela and Trina

I love watching lore videos sharing them with my friend

Cant wait for chasethebro to use saint trina's torch.

Surprized you didn"t talk about Slumbering Egg. This item is quite rare to find and its description is very intriguing. "Owl eggs that will never hatch. Prized as a symbol of the most sublime slumber." This could be either a reference to Miquella's eternal childhood or Renalla Slumbering Egg.

I think we will he his/her clerics in the dlc. "My brother will keep his promise. He possesses the wisdom, the allure, of a god - he is the most fearsome Empyrean of all.”

Hey Zio. Gonna throw this one out there for you. Lilies are a "hermaphroditic flower." Miquella is one and the same. Upon birth, he/she would have been treated like a god in the same manor as Markia and Radagon (Rebis). Only issue is Miquella was cursed, like all of Marika's children. You have to be dead to become a "saint," so Miquella is similar to Ranni and Melina. A spirit in a sense. Don't be surprised to see a "lily" over Mequilla's left eye in the same way you see that crow claw over Melina's eye (GEQ). You kinda of see something over Ranni's eye but it's hard to make out. Anyway, finding out about the whole St.Trina thing and how they are a part of Miquella should be interesting.

St trina is probably an aspect of miquella that got split off from him. Which might explain radagon is marika thing. Radagon is an aspect of marika which was split off

This DLC and the wait for it keeps me going with writing my Thesis. Because I know the earlier I finish that, the earlier I'll be able to play this!

My theory is that Miquella's plan is to fuse with Messmer to become a god of the Shadow plane (the soul realm). In Alchemy and Hermeticism it's worth looking into the Alchemical Wedding. Miquella and Messmer are 2 sides of the same coin. Like Marika and Radagon. I believe Marika and Radagon were once separate and she ascended her qualities that made her the other half of Radagon. I believe they fused in the same principal of the Alchemical Wedding. I think each Empyrean has a plane they must belong on. There are 3 general planes of exiatence: the physical, the astral / mind, and the soul. I believe each Empyrean aligns wirh this; Malenia being the physical plane where she is a swordswoman who's main deal is decay, rot and rebirth. Ranni being the Astral / mind / psychic. And Miquella being of the soul. Based on this I believe the butterflies represent each Empyrean. Since we're on the Lands Between I believe we are on the Astral (Ranni's) plane. I think Miquella knew this and that's why he never chose to fight Ranni because he knew it was her plane to begin with. The Astral plane is the 2nd stage in the cycle: Physical > Astral > Soul, so it would make sense it would be the Lands Between. I think Ranni and Miquella (maybe Malenia too) all conspired in the Night of the black knives. My theory beforehand is that Marika made it impossible for the Empyreans to leave to their respective planes because she didn't want to lose any children and broke the cycle. I believe across the other planes there will be respective "other half" Empyreans for both Ranni and Malenia too. - I have a dew more ideas that seem to go with these theories and make sense. Between looking at Jungian Psychology, Hermeticism, Alcehmy, Tarot, Kyballah and the Rosicrucians, there is some real similarities.

I wonder if the NPC’s feet we see at the cocoon in the trailer belong to Fevor.🤔

Perhaps only Miqueloas body is cursed and upon exiting and relinquishing his body he is free of the curse

St trina will be to miqula just as radagon is merika they are and aren't the same

Thinking of that Miquella is Melina video, I wonder if perhaps Melina is Miquella's divestiture of everything Golden? I only think of that because of the scar on St. Trina's face on the torch and considering it was likely made when the Haligtree was being grown then perhaps it was before Miquella went to the Land of Shadows? Melina being his incantation/faith side of the equation with Trina being intelligence/sorcery could be a very compelling thought given Miquella explored Golden Order Fundamentalism and that requires equal balance of Faith and Intelligence. A sort of split like the Dung Eater's though a bit more extreme. Especially since that Torch has a Faith requirement when everything else Trina-related uses intelligence.

ziostorm, my beloved

Still waiting for Miyazaki's inevitable foot enemy

I'm still cooking on the schizo theory that St. Trina is Melina's mother. And Messmer is the father. [Insert Charlie Day conspiracy board]

Perhaps St Trina is the champion of an outer god of dreams? Manifesting itself as an alter ego of whomever it chooses to be its scion? It’d certainly be a play/callback to Marika and Radagon, and could also play into the dual nature of Miquella’s many dichotomies (male and female, willing to give up its form for the sake of rebirth (but pairing with Miquella’s prescience provides another layer of Miquella’s intent by cocooning itself- if he knew mohg was coming to mess up his plans, thus severing Miquella’s ties to the land of the living, it would set them on a straight shot to the lands of shadow). The possibilities are endless

I'm pretty sure Miyazaki just confirmed in that China interview that St.Trina and Miquella are different beings.

Marika represents a tree, Melina represents a branch of that tree.

Maybe St Trina is an Outer God that possesses Miquella and is inflicting him with the curse of eternal youth?

Godhood in Elden Ring seems to require the ability to be a vessel for a God/Outer God. Marika/Radagon bears the Elden Beast/Elden Ring Malenia bears the Rot God. Ranni shed her Empyrean flesh, but that may be because the God of Night needed an independent vessel. Miquella is associated with Youth/Abundance, but if he is confirmed to also be St. Trina, the Goddess of Sleep/Dreams, this may indicate that Miquella has already ascended to the same level of Godhood as Marika/Radagon, and St. Trina. On a somewhat unrelated note, the Palace Approach site of grace: I believe it being the most popular farming location with the despondent Albinaurics is no coincidence. I like to think that those particular Albinaurics have seen the truth of their lord Miquella. Beyond his kidnapping, I believe they have seen and are awakened to Miquella's terrifying nature. "Pure and radiant, he wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying." I like to speculate that those Albinaurics, like almost everyone else, has been orchestrated by Miquella to be there... for our express purpose of farming them for runes. "What is my purpose?" "You pass butter." "...oh my god."

Will your first dlc through be streamed or solo and then take things from there?

We are so close

It would be funny if the one in the cocoon in Mohgwyn Palace isn't Miquella at all, but rather the guy who made the cookbooks mentioned, and the painting in the intro was a red herring of sorts to lead us to think that the hand was Miquella's, but in reality he compelled Mogh to bring some of his followers along with him, and he used the scholar instead as a gateway to the Land of Shadow.

If Miquella is forever a child then it's not him in the cocoon but instead it's Mesmer the Impaler.

St Trina is the adult other half of Miquela who came into being when Miquela planted the haligtree and went to sleep, St Trina exists in the land of shadow and can interact with the land between through peoples dream. I think much like Merika and Radagon are the same being that when Merika became Elden Lord and created the land of shadow the Erdtree split her being as part of the contract and the Haligtree offers the same sacrifice as the Erdtree therefor splitting Miquela’s being as well, this allows both Miquela and Merika access to both the land of shadow and the land between simultaneously granting them lordship of both realms

St trina has a waterfowl dance kinda move but it puts u to sleep

Remember to pick up all focus increasing talismans and items

Fun fact, rune bears are susceptible to sleep. Like, two sleep pots with almost base arcane stat as an example.

St. Trina boss fight is going to be such a pain in the ass. Dodge/roll too soon, sleep. Dodge/roll too late, sleep. Do nothing, super sleep. Can't wait!

I hope the DLC gives us a good way to farm Trinas Lilies.

St Trina is a alter ego of miquella

I have a theory primarily drawn from color scheme between Gold and Purple. These are the colors represented by Miquella/St. Trina, where else do we se those colors represented? The eyes of Melina. Anyways I am not claiming that Melina is Miquella, just that there are glaring clues within the game that point out towards The Source of everything.

Won't catch Chasethebro anywhere near this video 💀

Miquella learned how to captivate ppl from St. Trina. Induce a sleeplike state and plant an idea, like the movie Inception.

I think the "depicts st trina as an adult" comes from the fact that many people in game seem to mistake Miquella for st Trina, as you said. Every depiction of Trina, in game, so far seems to be an adult.

So… I wonder if the part in Caelid that’s on fire/burnt has something to do with Messemer.. Did messmer and miquella meet there perhaps?

Am I trippin or could the statue in the mimic tear arena be st trina? (4:11) robed figure idk

When I was a newby, I thought Miquella was following Trina's teachings. That's why he chose to protect the species rejected by the Haligtree. I thought that Trina was ancient, older than maybe even the Erdtree. It seems like the people of Uhl palace were Trina's believers and since they live underground, I thought they were around before Miquella. I could be wrong. What if we are all wrong and she's the gloam eyed queen loool

43 Days to go!!!

What if melina, messmar, and rani are all st. trinas split personalities? They all have the one eye closed. The St. Trina picture with the eye in the middle is interesting. They all have a mark from their closed eye except Messmar although I think there maybe a mark that goes up and to the right instead of down. Then we’d be missing one last mark

The Albinauric archers do not shoot St.Trina arrows. I don’t know how you’ve come to this conclusion. 7:34

Is that a mimics veil at the bottom of the St. Trina's sword handle?

Trina is an adult, Miquella is an eternal child. Trina is the "dreaming", Miquella is part of being "awake". Trina can visit you in your dream, but also make you dream. My theory therefore could be that St.Trina and Miquella are a similar split entity like Soul and Body for Ranny and Godwyn. St.Trina is the adult body that Miquella "created" or even "is", but Miquella is the spirit. The sudden disappearance might be due to Mogh: Because I have the idea that the hand in the egg might be St.Trina - the "body of Miquella". We know that the hand will take us to the DLC and that Miquella, their spirit, dwells inside that world. So if St.Trina is the body in the egg that makes us join the "dream world" and Miquella is inside that dream, then it would explain: - Why he vanished so quickly - Why he can come and go as fast as he does (since he also comes in / through dreams) - Why Miquella can be in the DLC but also present in he actual world Also: "Dreams" can be also thought of as "wishes" (I dream of becoming an astronaut). And wishes like these are ambition. So is Miquella the "flame of ambition"? Can Miquella thus come to those, as a guiding Grace, to those with ambition / a dream? Is this why Grace guides us, why after 3 graces we get Torrent, who's former master was Miquella? And if Miquella is the "flame" of ambition, would this be a further connection that he could be Melina? And chose to be Melina because his other body, St. Trina, is occupied and would be identified anyway?

Sooo on a total sidenote i bet that pink magic from the dlc trailer are poison spells. Its the same color as the poisonbloom flowers.

5:55 never realized that Miquellas-Lili is tangeld by another plant !!! So, wich of those two plants is now the "Miquellas-Lili" ?! Maybe the parasite? And what does it mean for the Haligtree if that's the case..

I'd like to fight strong enemies in dream spaces, kinda like everjails.

8:09 who is this a statue of? Is that all the forms of Miquela

I just came to realization that the cocoon is probably at Trina not miqualla because we know miqualla did not break his curse the size of the body in the cocoon is bigger than all the demigods even radahn and another discovery I found is the cocoon does not match the hole in the haligtree it's too big which leads me to believe miqualla left the haligtree and when to the shadow realm with the help of mohg and that body in the cocoon could be st trina or some other being we don't know about ive even suggested it's messmer buttt that doesnt clear out because the land of shadow is not a dream place it's a place that exist just like the lands between so who ever it is in that cocoon had access to the land of shadow but I'm sure it's not miqualla I'm almost certain it's st trina

Think they will touch on anything about being a maidenless tarnished? Vari was the only one to mock us many maideless ones with that diss.