#minor erdtree

[upongoblinhill]

✨𝔐𝔦𝔫𝔬𝔯 𝔈𝔯𝔡𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔢✨

[kouvisart]

“One day we’ll return together, to our home, bathed in rays of gold.” WIP

[acidyellowlava]

They're in the middle because they are the Elden Ring, you get it? They're th- [cast into the Evergaol by the Golden Order] 🙊

There's more stuff cooking while I finish the BB document, but I didn't want to leave y'all without anything for so long. It's almost done, hold on! In the meantime have this art nouveau-inspired (duh!) illustration. ✨

Image ID under the cut:

[Image ID: A digital illustration of Marika the eternal and Radagon of the Golden Order in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh posters. At the center of the picture there are Radagon and Marika, him positioned behind her and visible only from the waist up, while she's entirely visibile. Both of them have their arms stretched outwards, Radagon straight out while Marika's are front-facing and lower. Behind their figures there's Radagon's grid lightly illuminating the sky, while above and below there are two rune arches of the Elden Ring shining. Below them illuminating the scene is a site of grace, while on the sides there are the trunks and branches of minor erdtrees.

Under the ground line on the left there's a death root bearing the face of Godwyn the Golden in his altered post-mortem form, and behind him and also on the other side are visible the roots of the minor erdtrees and the barbs growing from below. High at the center in the sky there's the writing "Fromsofware", while down at the roots level the one "Elden Ring"./end ID]

[lies-of-fox]

ELDEN RING PLAYTHROUGH

part7

On my way to the capital, for real this time

Hmmm..?

I've read only women and Miquella have their feet out, so I guess they are?

Nice to meet you two!

oooh~ nice armor!

This could be a really pretty drawing

I'm done being stubborn with the Lusat staff, I need a break :'D

Oh wow what's that?

Three of them

Very pretty, as usual

Oh god, his eyes...I didn't remember he looked like that under the emo hair :'D

umm ma'am you're a bit too close

You could say defeating death chickens is one of my hobbies (unintentionally)

She's missing her face, but many thanks for her help :)

This looks important, and I might've seen more like this? Seems like an other future project

[wraith-caller]

Minor Erdtrees 🌲

[wraith-caller]

Mt. Gelmir's Minor Erdtree is weird

Most minor Erdtrees in the game look like this:

They're tall with bright gold leaves like their pappy erdtree, and often(but not always) have loads of warrior jars around them. Most have an Erdtree Avatar defending them, with a few exceptions. And all of them except one have yellow or gold flowers blooming around them. Mt. Gelmir's looks like this:

It's not the only broken and dead minor Erdtree. The two on the Mountaintops of the Giants are this way. I'm not sure if that's a consequence of warring with the giants or something else, but even in their death, they are still guarded by Erdtree Avatars, the one in the Consecrated Snowfields being a putrid variant with Scarlet Rot. In spite of being dead and in the harsh frigid mountains, they, too, are surrounded by golden flowers. Mt. Gelmir's Erdtree bears signs of something I haven't yet been able to place elsewhere in the game. For one, the bark or the vines which used to grow on it are all mottled and black, possibly from being burnt.

The feature I'm still puzzled over are these growths bubbling up at the base of the tree:

The greenish/yellow stuff kind of looks like lichen, but that still doesn't explain much about the blackened stuff under it. It's very pallid and off-putting, definitely indicative of some kind of disease. And this tree isn't guarded by an Avatar, like most the others. Instead we find an Ulcerated Tree Spirit, and it appears in a cloud of something that looks a lot like deathblight:

(Screen from this video by user auralien.)

Ulcerated Tree Spirits are often found in places associated with death or decay, like rot-heavy areas, a few catacombs, and just before the face of Godwyn under Stormveil. That this one shows up shrouded in deathblight mist makes that connection even stronger. And weirdly enough, there's a lone wormface just up the road from this tree, another creature with a strong link to deathblight.

A final association with death is in the pale purple flowers. I may be wrong about this, but the only other place I can definitively remember seeing them is in the Wyndham Ruins where we fight a Tibia Mariner. These flowers are also very close in color to the Mariner's particular flavor of magic.

(Screens from this vid by user Dougers7.)

We know from the Blasphemous Claw item info that Rykard was given a fragment of the Rune of Death by Ranni. It makes me wonder if Rykard having this has any connection to the various symbols of death surrounding the Mt. Gelmir Erdtree.

The other minor Erdtrees not guarded by Avatars are guarded by things with links to death, save the real oddball Erdtree in the Mistwoods with not even minor enemies watching over it, instead being surrounded by scarabs. The two remaining other trees are both in Altus Plateau, one being guarded by wormfaces, the other being guarded by a rather mysterious group.

They're all in black, with the humans wearing veils over their faces. And all of them wield Fia's Mist. Of all the minor Erdtrees, this one is closest to Godwyn's resting place, so I assume them to be followers of the Prince of Death/Fia.

Not sure what it all means, if anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[eldintower]

"When you half healed your friend's wounds, it was because it bent the moment to one when they would nearly be healed. And when you fell into the fen in the Garden of Endless Sleep, it must have touched me or nearly touched me, and for me it became the time in which I had lived, so that I lived again. But I have been dead. For a long, long time I was dead, a shrunken corpse preserved in the brown water. And there is something in me that is dead still."

sword of the lictor, gene wolfe

[oathswornmaliketh]

[Image description: A large golden flower. The head is round with a darker inner circle, a lighter outer circle, and those ringed by long, thin petals. It appears wilted. End description.]

Tarnished Golden Sunflower

A large flower that blooms facing the Erdtree. Material used for crafting items. Found near Minor Erdtrees.

Though wilted and faded, it still retains its holy essence.