My Elden Ring... bingo? Bulletpoint wishlist? Wild theorizing?
Okay so here's my very improvised Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree... bingo? That is also a bulletpoint wishlist? Along with some very, VERY abridged mix-up of some of my theories? I did this in a rush because I wasn't expecting the expansion trailer to drop out of the blue like this haha.
Anyways, here's my "bingo":
The world of Elden Ring is in an eternal succession of cycles like Big Bangs and Big Crunches (I think it was called like that?) where the Great One gets divided into all that exists and then merged again like it would happen with the Frenzied Flame
In SOTE you’re in the future but at a point where everything is merging together again like in a previous cycle so you’re also technically in/seeing the past
Since everything is blending back together in SOTE and therefore returning to its former states until going back to the origin, you might be able to meet characters how they were in the past even as you are in the future
New area the size of Liurnia, with some of it being in the middle of the map where the giant cloud is, some of it underground, and some of it far away
The SOTE map has the center of the map having lost most of its waters due to a meteoric impact
The map of the Lands Between changes in appearance if you’re in the world of dreams which is implemented retroactively unlike SOTE itself
Customization for Torrent
In SOTE, Torrent’s horns have grown
Miquella is neither a pure nor evil character but rather a gray one able to go to extremes for his loved ones or for loyal causes
Miquella has been planting lilies all through the Lands Between with the goal of making the most inhabitants fall asleep as both a substitute for death and so that their souls will be at peace for as long as needed
You meet both Miquella and St. Trina, Miquella is asleep and his soul is St. Trina in dreams while his body mutates and grows inside the cocoon
Mohg was charmed by Miquella
Might was charmed by Miquella on purpose as per Miquella’s will
Mohg and Miquella were allies and had conjoined plans
Miquella wanted to restore Godwyn’s soul back along with these of the Ones Who Live in Death so that he may give them eternal rest
St. Trina made Godwyn fall asleep and facilitated Fortissax’s entry into the prince’s Deathbed Dream
The Formless Mother aka the Mother of Truth is the “pale star” of the banner of Castle Sol, turned into the Blood Star of that banned by means of the eclipse ritual, and Miquella needed that ritual to happen to both give rest to Godwyn and to become the new vessel of the Blood Star to help, protect and give further power to those deemed accursed just like him (Malenia, Mohg and Morgott and all the other Omen, Godwyn perhaps, the Misbegotten…)
At least a new rune, obtainable from Miquella
At least one gimmicky fight
Silver Tear Asimi’s quest restored
More Marika and Radagon lore
Marika was the Gloam-Eyed Queen
The process by which Marika gave birth to Miquella, Malenia and Melina, was a literal “shattering” of her soul and aspects of herself, hence the overlap of death themes in all of them (Miquella and St. Trina related to sleep while sleep is related to death, Marika herself fitting in the role in too many ways, Melina showing in such an appearance in that cutscene variant of the Frenzied Flame ending)
Malenia gave birth to Millicent and the other Four Sisters in that same way by “shattering” her soul and the aspects of herself
Miquella’s alter ego, St. Trina, since she’s aiming to make sleep into the new form of death, becomes a deity of death of sorts
Radagon was created by accident by Marika by being the first time her soul “shattered” while during the last battle against the giants
What Radagon felt when he wasn’t fused with Marika, she felt it to a degree too
The concept of divisions (the Great One, Marika, for example) implied to be inspired by cellular division but also on the philosophical concepts of Monad, Dyad, Triad…
The Numen were the ginormous giants who first brought the forging to the Lands Between and Marika is of Numen descent mixed with astrologer descendance and so are the Nox
The first Silver Tears were created by the Numen
The Alabaster Lords and the Onyx Lords were the ones who built that ancient, unnamed civilization that predates Stormveil Castle and who built the Divine Towers and the “furnace giants”, and they worshiped meteors because they were what gave them life
The Elden Beast looks the way it looks because it fell into the waters of the crucible of life, aka the “primordial soup”, and literally, pun not intended, the crucible mutated it into looking like many things blender together because of the “genetic pool” of the crucible’s waters
Godwyn and Fortissax as a canon romance
Lore of the Shadows of all the Empyreans
Rykard’s serpent deity returns
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