Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Story Trailer Breakdown - Lore Connections & Dialog Explained

Exactly a month ahead of the launch of 's DLC, the expansion received a story trailer. Perhaps unsurprisingly, and in spite of the trailer's title, the story trailer's details are incredibly cryptic. At face value, it essentially reinforces what was already known about the expansion, which will take players on a brand-new, apparently quite extensive, journey to a place called the Land of Shadow. Despite the trailer failing to be forthcoming, there are some interesting insights able to be gleaned.

's release date is set for June 21, 2024, over two years after the base game arrived to much fanfare and critical acclaim, including later earning the top spot on 's best games of all time list. Ever since it was first announced via a single piece of promotional art, has been presumed to chiefly be about Miquella, an important but still mysterious figure in the base game. The story trailer effectively confirms this presumption, but offers a glimpse into the broader themes and subjects that will be explored.

With Shadow of the Erdtree set to arrive in June, players should be looking to start playing again now, instead of when the DLC releases.

Marika is perhaps the single most important character in. It is by her guiding Grace that the Tarnished – the player character – returns to the Lands Between and seeks the throne of the Elden Lord. Despite her prominence, including her alter ego, Radagon's, appearance as the game's second-to-last boss, exactly how Marika came to power atop the Golden Order is largely a mystery. The Golden Order itself springs from an entity presumed to be an Outer God – the Greater Will, which imposed Order onto the Lands Between via a beast that would become the Elden Ring, an artifact which dictates the nature of the world itself.

Marika's destruction of the Elden Ring would later cascade into the Shattering, a war which left the Lands Between in the sorry state the Tarnished later comes to experience. How exactly Marika inherited the power of the