Erdtree’s Beginning

Preface I often joke about needing another decade before finishing an exhaustive analysis of Elden Ring. For a world as broad as in this game, getting a grasp on everything is a trying task. There is so much history, so much cosmology, that sifting through it can feel like a never-ending abyss. It is just […]

Adan

The Fire Monks are supposed to keep watch from their mountaintop, and yet we find them in Liurnia. With camps to both the east and west, the warrior monks lead the thorn sorcerers in patrols around their area, the red tents and Prelate-head braziers confirming that these encampments weren’t taken over from local Cuckoos. They […]

Kaiden

Kaiden is home to the mercenaries we see mostly roaming the frontier. And while we don’t find even ruins of a settlement by that name, we shouldn’t expect to. The Kaiden are a hardy warrior culture, roaring before battle like barbarians down on the neighboring highlands; their helmet even bears similarity to those savages’ Leather […]