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It would be interesting if this dlc explored some background of Melina and possibly her mother.

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FromSoftware dlcs usually have the hardest bosses compared to base game. It will be interesting if they can top Melania for difficulty.

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It's said that the crucible before the age of the erdtree was numerous sprouts emerging from the same stump, struggling over control until the fittest tree was the last to survive. This could be a look into the past, where two trees are fighting for dominance, and I wasn't sure the erdtree had any sap left by our time. On the other hand, since the center tree is straight, like the erdtree, and the second one is hunched, like the haligtree, supporting that it could be Miquella's dream of his tree snuffing out the fallen erdtree, or maybe even supporting its dying weight?
Of course, I can't say much referring to the landscape that doesn't even look familiar to where the erdtree is located, or the horse in the room.

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I think since the gravestones are shaded that represents the real world but everything else is Miquellas dream except for the Erdtree which is the center. And reaching the Erdtree has her wake up.

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Hope they raise the attributes caps passed '99' for those of us who already maxed out their characters.

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Im hoping for more mounts-or at least giving torrent armor sets

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Still waiting for Queen Marika's an updated autopsy report.

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I wonder what ending the dlc will be based/contingent on

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A tip for new fromsoftware players, start the dlc with your first playthrough if you haven't finished or create and strengthen a new character if you already have.
Playing DLCs on NG+ can be a difficult and frustrating in any Soulsborne game for any fan! I hope this saved some headaches.

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Could the painting called "prophecy" have anything to do with this?

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Miquella is cool and all but I'm more excited to get more Godwyn lore/ a boss fight. As the first of Marika's kids he had to be important not to mention incredibly powerful.

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My speculation , this is post erdtree burn , with miquella comeback of his slumber

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There should really be a good ending for the expansion. But knowing From, the world would probably be worse off at the end of the expansion lol.

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Miquella being Torrent's former master could have some lore-shattering, no just straight up plot-shattering implications. It might mean he worked together with Ranni, who orchestrated the death of his "dear brother," and maybe Melina as well. This would be something basically no one had speculated.

Did Miquella plan everything that transpired? Were we doing his bidding all along? Did he see Ranni as the only one capable of removing Outer Gods from the Lands Between? Was that why Malenia fought Radahn? What the hell is even going on in this game's story?

I guess we'll eventually find out. since I expect this expansion to be much more like Old Hunters than Ashes of Ariandel/The Ringed City, where it ties up remaining plot threads rather than introduce something completely new. By the same token, I also expect that we'll find out more about the first wave of Tarnished that returned to the Lands Between, like Vagram, Tragoth or Istvan.

Some really exciting stuff. And I think we'll have a lot of revelations that not many people expect. "Shadow of the Erdtree" certainly is mysterious enough of a title to warrant that hope, it sounds like something very insidious was hidden from us all along.

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im geussing this is all of the ''covenants'' we see in game having theyre story continued, the burned erdtree is possibly being taken over by godwyns death root and miquella/St trinas eclipse has come aswell, im hoping its something to do with those two anyways

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im geussing this is all of the ''covenants'' we see in game having theyre story continued, the burned erdtree is possibly being taken over by godwyns death root and miquella/St trinas eclipse has come aswell, im hoping its something to do with those two anyways

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The character is most likely Miquella. The hairstyle matches, the wheat (abundance) matches his great rune, connection with Torrent, connection with Godwyn, bleeding Erdtree means this is not likely to be a prequel (and so Marika is out of the question).

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My pipe dream is that they'll go and fix all the copy pasted base game weapons

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Maybe this won't suck like elden ring. God the pvp and matchmaking sucks! How do I end up fighting the same players everytime at sl125 - 165? Oh its because the server only goes to the end of the block. I'm bummed you can summon torrent in the dlc. I'm also still bummed that you can duel wield every weapon and jump. Hopefully the final game 'Patches' is more like demon souls or any dark souls.

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A shadowy Erdtree.... I guess it's either like time/dimensional travel with what Dark Souls 3's DLC did, or perhaps it's just an opposite dark reflection of the current lands between (like Yang compared to yin...)?

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Could this be lover?

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As long as there are covenants i'm happy

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Please give us the fly attack of the Crucible Knights

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Maybe there’ll be a new Miquella ending that frees the Lands Between from otherworldly entities

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FROMSOFTWARE is known for sending the player back in time just like bloodborne and dark souls (DLC) so it might go something like that!!!

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Im still on playthrough 1, I wanna be able to enjoy the dlc for the first time just for the juicy lore

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the lonely erdtree seems to shine with gold at night

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My theory is that you have to kill Mohg to enter the DLC so you can approach Miquella and enter his dream.

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I think that might actually be queen Marika.

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I think fromsoftware will not do a new area for DLC

They will do a "memento option", with echoes of miquella in each grace, like Melina do, telling the stories for each place.

So, you can do the DLC as a extension of each place, but in another time, like happens un the royal capital.

So, even in the start, you can "clear" stormveil castle in "this time", and then, restart the "flashbak", with will change this dungeon.

So, DLC coul rewrite every place, reusing a lot pf props, doing a 200h of DLC

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Although we can speculate until our brains explode, (and speculation is fun to do), do keep in mind that most or potentially all of our theories could be prove to be completely wrong once the dlc is released. I say this only because it's happened before.

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Now the real question is when to start the dlc. I liked to think it will start in the midgame but considering the amount of early game cut content and quests, I'm not sure if starting as a new character would be better.

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"Torrent being ridden by an unknown female, (...) possibly Miquella"

Editor is sexually confused

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I'm really curious how they would make a prequel story. Because I don't know how they would connet them, without us playing with 2 characters for both stories or something like that... I really don't want that.

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Just my two cents but this looks like a different Erdtree. It looks like it’s possibly in a different location and it looks kinda smaller. So maybe we’ll be getting a prequel of sorts.

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yay miquella. Finally

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The Shadow is already covering the Erdtree…
-Miquella probably

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AH yes finally, more than 100% completion...

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It weird that this wasn't revealed on the Anniversary Date, but three days later. i wonder if something happened behind the scenes. Anyway, Im glad there is finally a conformation that From Software is working on it.

Whatever happened with that "Barbarians of the Badlands" thing, though? I read that this was a fake, but couldn't find anything more to it.

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it's porbably miquella seen the hairs and the resembance with HALIGTREE helm. The entrance can be the malenia's rooms, based on the dialogue line of her cutscene "I dreamt for so long..." touching the tree.
It can be a dream in the Helphen realm based ont the description of the sword and the many spectral tombs, where miquella is searching for godwyn soul, and the two great tree are, the one how parassite the rappresentation of the godwyn rooted body in the fia bossfight, the other the Erdtree.

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Some people are saying the person in the image is too big to be Miquella as he is in child form and the hair style isn't Marika's, so it can't be her. I'm leaning more towards it being Miquella but there is a chance it could be Ranni in her empyrean flesh, before she cast it off. The Tarnished's first meeting with Ranni, she mentions Torrent's former master, meaning she has some kind of connection with Torrent and his former master. It's not too far fetched to assume Ranni has ridden Torrent at some point based on that fact. If it was Ranni that could mean the DLC takes place before The Shattering. This is just pure speculation from me though.

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Could this be Torrent's former master? But I see no bell for calling forth spirits?

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Would be nice if this could play in a dream world and around Miquella and his/her Story.

Would be cool af.

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WOOOOOOOO

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Let's get to it!

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Why do Miquella ride like a lady? (With both legs on one side of the horse)

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FIND THE ALBINAURIC WOMAN. SHE HIDES IN A CAVE TO THE WEST OF THE SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE

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This is a good birthday present :)

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fr tho you could consider this to
be the land of reeds

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Rise, ye Tarnished, ye who have conquered death. Display your power and might and destroy those who yet oppose thou. In the wake of their blood, a new age will rise, the age of the shadow.

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hey thats pretty good

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AAAAAÁAAAAÁAÁAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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I bet the entrance is the cocoon with eepy miquella

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The coloring reminds me of the older crucible tree in the Nameless Eternal City at the Deeproot Depths. Doesn't fit the surrounding landscape, but this doesn't look like any part of the Lands Between from the main game either. Could also possibly be a dreamscape from Miquella/St. Trina's slumber, so a warped version of an existing area or a new one all together.

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Guys, believe me or not, but i think this DLC will not even be the first to release. While we will live in the anticipation of this one, they will release another one before, by surprise.

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Why would anyone assume that is Marika have you played elden ring?

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I think this DLC will have something to do with the spirit world that was vaguely referenced in the base game. Since "Shadow of the Erdtree" is a metaphor because the Tree itself casts light and can't have a shadow, the giant black tree in the image might be a counterpart to the Erdtree in the spirit world, especially since it bears a resemblance. Compared to the base Erdtree, this new tree is leaner and is apparently infested with death blight. There's also hundreds of ghost gravestones littering the ground. And as for why Miquella is in the image; I believe Miquella's soul has left his body after its corruption by the Formless Mother, hence his appearance in the world of the dead, with us having to fight and kill the evil blood miquella as the final boss.

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OMG YEEEEEEESSSSS

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Hopefully we get more info on the more unknown parts of Elden Ring lore, like the Eclipse, the Helphen, the Crucible and Melina.

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Cool

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Lessssss gooooooooo

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to all of you dumbasses who think that it's marika not miquella just check the opening cinematic and look at marika and miquella and compare their hairstyles to the one in the dlc

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NEURON ACTIVATION

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Finally i can put another few hundred hours in the game

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We can see all the Marika Church in the fog.

The tombstone are from everyone who dead (death rune gave death back to the world).

Marika will return, piss off after the ending game.

She will try to restore everything again, now erdtree is ruined.

She will be the final boss, like ashes of aryandel.

New spells: enchantments based on great will

Magick based on ressurections

Skills based on area.

You will be prepared for a last stand against Marika army.

Will be a lot of flashback.

The secret powerful boss will be the right five fingers, the "right hand kf Marika"

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Miquella is a child. The woman in torrent is Marika.

Womans legs

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Vaati is going to have a good time with this one! Prepare!

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FINALLY

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I CANNOT WAIT

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it's miquella on the horse

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Oh... let me just check Fextra to see which fist weapon scales best for streng-HOLY BAJESUS BATMAN!!! IT'S A DLC?!?

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It's time to buy a Hype Train ticket

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It's time to buy a Hype Train ticket.

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YAY DLC!!!!!!!!

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