Nomadic Merchants

Just Another Path The nomadic merchants were once a great caravan, flourishing as their clan traveled around doing business with others. Taking clear inspiration from cultures of the Eurasian Steppe, they garb themselves in distinctive clothes of varying colors and ride pack mules across the lands. Looking at their different inventories, their wares tend to […]

Age of Plenty

Preface Rarely are “the good times” the most interesting part of a story, and Elden Ring is no different. Much of this period in the setting’s backstory is simply stacking the building blocks to be knocked down by subsequent events. What little conflict can be mined is narratively flaccid, with hardly many tantalizing secrets to […]

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 […]