A now-deleted put up on the Elden Ring subreddit states it plainly: “MARIKA MADE THE ERDTREE FROM A MOUNTAIN OF CORPSES …” The opposite half of the title is a Berserk spoiler and the explanation the thread was taken down, however Reddit consumer ILBOI_X is not alone on this principle. Everyone seems to be pointing on the pillars of our bodies within the new Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree story trailer and calling it a tree.
After all there’s lore to help this. Elden Ring followers all the time hold merchandise descriptions of their again pocket when one thing new must be dissected.
Reddit consumer Probablychris believes the stack of our bodies “will likely be on the middle of theorycrafting for the following few years” and made a put up asking for folks’s ideas. A number of Elden Ring followers are fairly positive they’re the Erdtree earlier than it was the Erdtree. Merchandise descriptions within the recreation already reveal that one thing existed earlier than it that was known as “the Crucible”, and it was “the place all life was as soon as blended collectively.”
“I’ve seen some folks speculate that that is the Crucible, which might positively match,” Reddit consumer Skeletickles wrote. “It’s, in spite of everything, the place the place all life [was] as soon as blended collectively, and people our bodies positive do look blended collectively.”
The implication is that the trailer depicts the start of the Erdtree as we all know it within the recreation, towering above the Lands Between as a golden object of religion. The character standing within the middle of the our bodies is Marika, confirmed by the bangles they’re carrying within the close-up shot. Marika, if you have not thought of Elden Ring lore within the final three years, is the crucified girl within the intro cutscene that began this mess. It is clear now that the “historical past of the Land of Shadow” within the trailer’s description can also be the historical past of Marika.
In case you’re nonetheless not sure, Reddit consumer Western-Apple1610 popped open MS Paint to make it further clear—no lore required.
The Berserk comparisons are on the market too. I have never learn far sufficient in Kentaro Miura’s legendary darkish fantasy manga sequence to know them—which I feel makes me a lesser FromSoft fan—however I can see what individuals are getting at. Darkish Souls is filled with blatant references to Miura’s work, so it is most likely not a coincidence that Berserk additionally has scenes with piles of our bodies. The opposite half of ILBOI_X’s authentic put up title in contrast the body-tree to Berserk’s World Tree, which equally has two trunks.
So far as Elden Ring fan theories go, a fleshy origin for the Erdtree is not a lot of a stretch. It already has roots product of corpses and has the facility to resurrect gods. That it began as a betrayal by the fingers of Marika traces up with the few hints we have already got about her life earlier than coming to the Lands Between. Shadow of the Erdtree, it seems, will likely be a prequel of types.
The trailer has lots extra to speak about, like these troopers with the helmets that mirror the design on the Erdtree’s door. All of it has one thing to do with that large evil tree, and on June 21, when Shadow of the Erdtree launches, we’ll hopefully get some solutions about the place it got here from.
