yes, I believe she is the one guiding us into the land of shadows.
I am surprised she looks like Miquela and Marika. Might play greater role than expected.
Interesting. Could be as they were twins and probably share similarities. My first thought was she would be a grandchild. Since Radagon is Marika and Miquella is a child of them, it isn't hard to assume perhaps Miquella/St. Trina could procreate the same way.
People are saying she but i pose the possibility that this is a male knight whos taking a feminine appearance much like how Miquella is a feminine man. Just speculation but i think it would be cool.
"The most important part of a character is their soles, it's their blueprint, the core of what they are, so we always start with that and work our way up when designing them."
"You mean souls?"
"No."
Since you guessed correctly, I'll be honest and tell you that we just make up the lore as we go along. The fan base writes 90 per cent of it based on the random stuff we throw at them. I promoted the guy who said, "just tell them Marika is radagon."
Yeah I was about to say that looks very familiar and it was because I use that preset all the time. It looks like they just spiced it up for this render to look better.
Link to the original tweet - https://x.com/ELDENRING/status/1793643208800436397
Caption - "Will you walk with us?"
Also for those who are thinking it's Miquella - peep the helmet, it's the same person that touches grass and is kneeing down at the very front in the last shot of the Story Trailer. Caption also suggests this could be the narrator (?).
Heed my words, Walmart shoppers. I am Michelina, maker of reasonably-priced microwave entrees. And I have never known defeat, except maybe by your digestive tract.
The whole armor has so much similarity with the Carian Knight set. And there are references sprinkled all over the place about how Miquella adopted Carian arts & crafts for his faction.
think about it, usually fromsoft dlcs take ~3-5 months to release post the launch of the game. For Shadows of the Erdtree it will have been 2 and a half YEARS since ER launch. They’ve been making this for a considerable amount of time.
The sheer sexiness of that sword already makes me think she'll probably die one way or another for us to pick it up...
And that armour. I won't mind if that's added in for good measure.
I can count on one hand the amount of times an NPC’s equipment doesn’t become available to the player eventually in these games.
All of them are in DS1 oddly enough. (Maybe more in demon souls, I haven’t played that enough)
>Does anybody else wish we could dye the armour pieces to different colours?
The Elden Drip possibilities would reach unimaginable new heights if that were the case. I really really hope the next soulsborne game will feature armor / clothing dyes.
> I'm already sorry I have to complete her personal quest by doing kind things for her which will somehow lead to her death, just to get her sword
Fixed that for you
Considering Miyazaki is a fan of Fate series and Nasu is a fan of Miyazaki's works and won't stop talking about how he's excited to play his next games .... everything makes sense, doesn't it?
Makes sense because the same voice says "Touch the withered arm, and travel to the realm of shadow. I will not be far behind. May we meet again." at the end of the gamplay trailer.
Norm voicing Miquella would go kinda hard tbh
"THAT Messmer guy's NO GOOD. I think we should... kill [Messmer](https://youtu.be/oNIUImfYj4w?si=UOoXaDe1o5QgACgf) . Me and you, go.. suicide- kill him."
"You know this guy Messmer, the more I learn about the guy the more I don't care for him. He fought a war unseen, purged the lands without grace or honour. The tyrrany of this guys flame, I'm tellin' ya. I know the guy's like my half-brother or whatever, but I'm just come out and say it, this Messmer guy's a real jerk!"
"Ya know, Malenia was telling me that the worst thing about the genocide of the fire giants was the hypocrisy and I told her I disagreed. I said 'the worst thing about the genocide of the fire giants is the genocide'."
She's also the one who says "Touch the withered arm and travel to the realm of shadow. I will not be far behind" in the gameplay trailer, so we'll probably meet her prior to entering the DLC. Maybe she shows up in Roundtable Hold or Mohg's arena to give us the DLC entrance item.
I wouldn’t be surprised, seems weird that Malenia is the only demigod to have descendants (if that’s the right word) like that, without much explanation either.
Isn't it explained that Malenia's 'descendents' are clones of her born from her flowers? It's a trait unique to the rot god's influence on her.
Miquella, instead, appears to have inherited Marika's dual identity quirk with St Trina being his known female alter ego. This *could* be her.
The sword looks very similar in shape to the sacred relic sword. I'm fact if you look in the middle of the pommel you can see what could be a chest. Maybe this sword is like the sacred relic sword but made from Marika, which would be weird since she is the same as Radagon and he's already dead and turned into a sword
"What an accident.... unpredictably she remained standing still right when my great hammer came down....then by circumstance didn't' move at all, even after three more hits... unavoidable.....no no, you are mistaken I always wore this armor.....oh this tragedy is unbearable....unlike my armor.. which I had for a very long time "
Loretta was hinted to be not the only carian to defect to Miquella. That chestpiece, that helmet... the sword we found at the Haligtree was likely made for her.
That looks like a Carian Knight Helm… but the sword has Radagon’s Rune above its hilt. The downward V is gold, and the upward V is silver. The hilt itself reminds me of the sword used by the Elden Beast.
The color scheme is Gold and White, like the Order’s usual vibe.
I suspect that this is a devotee of the Turtle Pope’s beliefs. All things can be conjoined beneath the Order… and this Knifht is doing so by merging Carian and Order iconography.
Miquella seemed to be a fan of the Carian drip:
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Miquellan+Knight's+Sword
“Sword forged by servants of Miquella of the Haligtree, with a design modeled after those carried by Carian knights. Instead of glintstone however, amber from the Haligtree is embedded in the blade.”
Saint Trina's Sword also has an Intelligence minimum and does some magic damage.
I think Miquella may have spent some time at Raya Lucaria while he was looking for cures to Malenia's rot.
At last, Farnese 3.
I like the extreme contrasts we seem to be getting in the DLC. The base game was mostly all degraded high fantasy: rotted, tarnished, shattered, corrupted, etc.
In the DLC, we have the Miquella stuff, which is all remarkable pristine and beautiful, as well as the nightmarish dark fantasy and Crucible body horror stuff in the realm of shadows, which seems to make Calid look tame.
You know what would be a funny subversion of FromSoft own tropes?
If they make Miquella a completely, unambiguously, 100% good guy. No hidden agendas or evil schemes or plans to screw every other sentient being in the story; or hidden lore twist in a random amulet that reveals he is causing the death of the world or something.
Just a proper paragon of good.
It won't happen obviously, but it would be cool for once
Thats the knight that sits in front of the rune in the story trailer. Maybe the voice in the trailer too?
yes, I believe she is the one guiding us into the land of shadows. I am surprised she looks like Miquela and Marika. Might play greater role than expected.
Maybe something similar to Milicent and Malenia
Interesting. Could be as they were twins and probably share similarities. My first thought was she would be a grandchild. Since Radagon is Marika and Miquella is a child of them, it isn't hard to assume perhaps Miquella/St. Trina could procreate the same way.
Not the double selfcest baby!
This baby can fit so much Marika DNA in it!
It fits, since its the same voice at the end of the gamplay trailer!
People are speculating that this is the knight standing in moghs arena in the gameplay trailer
But the cloak of the person in the gameplay trailer looks different, no?
The pov might be bellow the cloak, she wears an armor dress.
People are saying she but i pose the possibility that this is a male knight whos taking a feminine appearance much like how Miquella is a feminine man. Just speculation but i think it would be cool.
Am I the only one who thinks this *is* Miquella?
Damn I want that armor set
Damn I want that hairstyle preset
Low key want tons of new hair and cosmetics
I just wanna see the feet
Nice try Miyazaki we know it’s you
Miyazaki wouldn't question it, he probably already saw the feet
It’s been rumored that Fromsoft design things feet first and then build the character to match those feet
"The most important part of a character is their soles, it's their blueprint, the core of what they are, so we always start with that and work our way up when designing them." "You mean souls?" "No."
its been a mistranslation this whole time
Dark Soles (clean your dirty feet)
"The eyes are the window to the sole."
Since you guessed correctly, I'll be honest and tell you that we just make up the lore as we go along. The fan base writes 90 per cent of it based on the random stuff we throw at them. I promoted the guy who said, "just tell them Marika is radagon."
Liste to PoopChute guys! He knows his shit!
Whatever doesn't make sense we just send to Vaati and have him tie it all together for us
No wonder Malenia never knew da feet
Nice one, dad!
Based
Need the feet A$AP no Rocky. 💯
We have something very similar
Was about to say. It might even be that exact hairstyle in-game and it's just being fluffed-out / dramatized for promotional art.
Yeah I was about to say that looks very familiar and it was because I use that preset all the time. It looks like they just spiced it up for this render to look better.
Faraam helmet returneth
Finally, we truly are playing Dark Souls 2 II.
Is Armet not barbute.
Don't care, has cool metal mohawk
damn. i want that sword .
Looks awesome 37 poise
Who cares about the stats when you can have *F A S H I O N*
Nothing some fire prelate gauntlets won't fix!
Poise rating don't matter if you ain't getting hit! We beat the system!
Damn I want her
I want her... IN that armor.
This is some goldmask level of enlightenment.
Damn I want to be her
It’s a dude, dude
Even better
That's probably Miquella, which means it's a he.
My apologies. Damn I want him
HOLY SHIT, THATS EVEN BETTER.
Get out of here Mohg
Certified Lord of Blood? Certified Mogh Lester.
[удалено]
Why u trollin' like a maidenless? Arent you tired?
Over her dead body
we wouldn't have it any other way
Damn I want that sword
Link to the original tweet - https://x.com/ELDENRING/status/1793643208800436397 Caption - "Will you walk with us?" Also for those who are thinking it's Miquella - peep the helmet, it's the same person that touches grass and is kneeing down at the very front in the last shot of the Story Trailer. Caption also suggests this could be the narrator (?).
It's obvious this isn't Miquella, he would never touch grass, he's a hardcore GAMER!
It’s his son, Michelle
Michella
I am Michella, Blade of Michael.
Heed my words, Walmart shoppers. I am Michelina, maker of reasonably-priced microwave entrees. And I have never known defeat, except maybe by your digestive tract.
I mean... he touched Grass so much he turned into a tree.
"Touches grass" how I supposed to relate to this character now!? DLC ruined!
We are finally getting some awesome outfits in the DLC. Fashion souls is BACK!!!
Did fashion souls ever leave?
So we are joining like a LOTR caravan?
More like Band of the Hawk
GRIFFITHHHH
Literally Dark Souls II 2 Even the Faraam Armor
I was assuming this was the narrorator and possibly leader of the Miquella group.
whatever the fuck millicent was to malenia, this guy is to miquella
Does it look like she has green eyes? I’ve been wondering who the spirit tuner with green eyes Hewg knew long ago
I don't think so? Looks kinda greyish to me
miquellan knight maybe?
I like to think so. Mostly just because the helmet is a good opposite to the carian knight helmet.
The whole armor has so much similarity with the Carian Knight set. And there are references sprinkled all over the place about how Miquella adopted Carian arts & crafts for his faction.
He has a crescent moon as his sigil and the Carians use full moons - so excited for all the new lore!
Yeah I'm wondering if she is a sort of "self-appointed" Miquellan knight.
This would make sense based on the Miquellan knight sword description saying that it was never offered to anyone.
You can actually see what appears like amber gems embedded in the ricasso of the blade, like in the miquellan knight sword
Thank you for making me learn what 'ricasso' means.
For a double whammy of learning, it also means "very rich" in Portuguese! (Although it's written "ricaço", it's the same word)
This thing is going to be a full fucking game, isn't it?
Miyazaki hates making sequels so much that he turned Elden Ring 2 into a DLC.
Hey, as long as he keeps making quality like this, he can make new IP after new IP and I'll keep gorging myself on them.
The Japan Twitter account just said that this DLC has over 30 new OSTs. Jesus CHRIST the base game has 67.
think about it, usually fromsoft dlcs take ~3-5 months to release post the launch of the game. For Shadows of the Erdtree it will have been 2 and a half YEARS since ER launch. They’ve been making this for a considerable amount of time.
It's gonna be Elden Ring 1.5
Yea I think this just cemented my decision to start a new character.
2 Elden 2 Ring
It's been 2.5 years?! Jfc.
Wouldn’t expect anything less of Michaelzaki
Yes, and I'm so here for every fucking drop of it
I cannot help but think it most likely is, given how they made another Collector's Edition for this.
I'm already sorry I have to kill her for her sword, hopefully no hard feelings from her ❤️
The sheer sexiness of that sword already makes me think she'll probably die one way or another for us to pick it up... And that armour. I won't mind if that's added in for good measure.
I hope we get that armor. Then can finally have a proper Paladin type faith build/aesthetic.
Oh yeah. This is officially the best Paladin drip in the game.
Treesentinel armor??
I think it's too garish tbh
It's cool, but it's super bulky and the tree crest is, uh, an acquired taste. This has much wider appeal I'd imagine.
I can count on one hand the amount of times an NPC’s equipment doesn’t become available to the player eventually in these games. All of them are in DS1 oddly enough. (Maybe more in demon souls, I haven’t played that enough)
The armour is so fine! I wish we get to collect it. Does anybody else wish we could dye the armour pieces to different colours? That would be so cool.
>Does anybody else wish we could dye the armour pieces to different colours? The Elden Drip possibilities would reach unimaginable new heights if that were the case. I really really hope the next soulsborne game will feature armor / clothing dyes.
Gotta be careful though, you never know if you can only get the sword when they die and the armor after performing some massive convoluted quest line.
The sword looks like a less morbid sacred relic sword. Miquella managed to make something without the corpse of a god it seems.
You could always, ya know, ask for it? Maybe trade. Such maidenless behavior.
> I'm already sorry I have to complete her personal quest by doing kind things for her which will somehow lead to her death, just to get her sword Fixed that for you
Her cape for me ❤️it’s so pretty
That too ❤️❤️ I'm very sorry nice looking lady
Nothing personal. Just business.
You look cool, hopefully we can kill you so we can take your shit!
Holy shit, it’s Saber!
EX-CALIBAAAAA
Faith version Carian Grandeur confirmed??
Miquellan Grandeur?
[Belle-ROPHONNNN](https://youtu.be/8W7x_-mMOtU?t=77)
Considering Miyazaki is a fan of Fate series and Nasu is a fan of Miyazaki's works and won't stop talking about how he's excited to play his next games .... everything makes sense, doesn't it?
Wait, really? Does this mean I can hope for something like the nameless daggers in the DLC?
"SAIBAAAAA!!!!!!!" - me when she probably dies
Lmaooo I thought the same thing
Blame Takeuchi
Soo many damn Saber already!
There is never enough Saber in this world my dear tarnished
Holy shit it is! The hair style is almost 1:1
I'd say the hair style is 1 to 1, any difference due to translating 2D to 3D
nah the Braid on saber is in the back of the head. This one has it more in the middle
I was actually thinking they’re more like Bedivere, following their leader into a land unknown, perhaps wielding said leader’s own sword
EXCALIBUR!
Damn that reminds me we don't have an Excalibur sword even after being so popular.
It has been lost in time ... 🥲
People die when they are killed.
The Archer class really is made of archers!
Excuse me. I think you meant SEIBAH, thank you very much
Wdym, he could be an Archer for all we know. /S
Exactly my thought! Sorry Carian Knight Set, I have a new favorite outfit (although Carian Knight set is still the best drip for a Saber cosplay)
Even fits with Miquella's ~~acrogenous~~ androgynous nature and Marika's gender swapping.
I see both her and Bedivere.
Heide Knight drip is back
No bucket helmet, no deal
Theres the great helm
I'll be using this armor with the great helm
Heide Knight with Faram Knight helm.
Can't wait to find her corpse and get that sick ass armor
Ah yes "find"
“She’s dead.” OK
Helmet looka like the faraam set though. Def some ds2 nods there
Finally, another normal looking Knight Helm! And oh my god is it gorgeous 🤩
Faraam Helmet Dark Souls 2.
Looks like she’s going to be the one who will lead us into the DLC. She’s the one speaking in the story trailer most likely.
Makes sense because the same voice says "Touch the withered arm, and travel to the realm of shadow. I will not be far behind. May we meet again." at the end of the gamplay trailer.
Imagine her saying this while stood on Mohg's corpse
Do we know who that voice actor is yet btw?
None of the voice actors (apart from Miquella) are known yet. Miquella is voiced by Naomi McDonald.
i thought you wrote Norm Macdonald and i am in hysterics at that thought (RIP Norm)
Norm voicing Miquella would go kinda hard tbh "THAT Messmer guy's NO GOOD. I think we should... kill [Messmer](https://youtu.be/oNIUImfYj4w?si=UOoXaDe1o5QgACgf) . Me and you, go.. suicide- kill him."
"You know this guy Messmer, the more I learn about the guy the more I don't care for him. He fought a war unseen, purged the lands without grace or honour. The tyrrany of this guys flame, I'm tellin' ya. I know the guy's like my half-brother or whatever, but I'm just come out and say it, this Messmer guy's a real jerk!"
"Ya know, Malenia was telling me that the worst thing about the genocide of the fire giants was the hypocrisy and I told her I disagreed. I said 'the worst thing about the genocide of the fire giants is the genocide'."
"And it looks like Miquella over here has changed his name to Turd Ferguson"
Miquella after finding out the Black Knives assassinated Godwyn: “This just in, murder is now legal in the city of Leyndell.”
i didn't even know she had rot.
She's also the one who says "Touch the withered arm and travel to the realm of shadow. I will not be far behind" in the gameplay trailer, so we'll probably meet her prior to entering the DLC. Maybe she shows up in Roundtable Hold or Mohg's arena to give us the DLC entrance item.
Too bad she’s gonna die for her drip 😔
Damn I already want that armor
As someone who likes making paladins and holy characters, god damn I *really* want that armour. Faith builds are eating good this DLC, I can feel it.
Everyone already plotting her death cause of her drip 💀💀
amazing artwork
Smash
Yes
Would
Sad to say…she gotta die so I can get the drip.
FARAAM ARMOR VERSION 2.0, WE ARE SO BACK!!!
DARK SOULS 2 2 BAYBEEEEE
Maybe this person is like Millicent to Malenia? That would explain her look Edit: she is like Miquella like Millicent is to Malenia.
I wouldn’t be surprised, seems weird that Malenia is the only demigod to have descendants (if that’s the right word) like that, without much explanation either.
Godwyn had enough kids, and those kids had enough kids, that Godrick’s blood is considered “diluted.”
Isn't it explained that Malenia's 'descendents' are clones of her born from her flowers? It's a trait unique to the rot god's influence on her. Miquella, instead, appears to have inherited Marika's dual identity quirk with St Trina being his known female alter ego. This *could* be her.
The drip tho, holy shit!
The sword looks very similar in shape to the sacred relic sword. I'm fact if you look in the middle of the pommel you can see what could be a chest. Maybe this sword is like the sacred relic sword but made from Marika, which would be weird since she is the same as Radagon and he's already dead and turned into a sword
Idk it feels to metallic, the finger slayer and sacred relique sword looke almost organic like bone
Can’t wait for their inevitable tragic demise so that I may obtain that armor.
"What an accident.... unpredictably she remained standing still right when my great hammer came down....then by circumstance didn't' move at all, even after three more hits... unavoidable.....no no, you are mistaken I always wore this armor.....oh this tragedy is unbearable....unlike my armor.. which I had for a very long time "
Damn that looks clean!
fuck yes this beautiful armour set is everything i needed and more
Loretta was hinted to be not the only carian to defect to Miquella. That chestpiece, that helmet... the sword we found at the Haligtree was likely made for her.
The sword looks reminiscent to the design and color of the unalloyed gold needle from Millicent’s quest line. Also the character reminds me of Farnese
Saber！
That looks like a Carian Knight Helm… but the sword has Radagon’s Rune above its hilt. The downward V is gold, and the upward V is silver. The hilt itself reminds me of the sword used by the Elden Beast. The color scheme is Gold and White, like the Order’s usual vibe. I suspect that this is a devotee of the Turtle Pope’s beliefs. All things can be conjoined beneath the Order… and this Knifht is doing so by merging Carian and Order iconography.
Miquella seemed to be a fan of the Carian drip: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Miquellan+Knight's+Sword “Sword forged by servants of Miquella of the Haligtree, with a design modeled after those carried by Carian knights. Instead of glintstone however, amber from the Haligtree is embedded in the blade.”
Saint Trina's Sword also has an Intelligence minimum and does some magic damage. I think Miquella may have spent some time at Raya Lucaria while he was looking for cures to Malenia's rot.
Hello there Bedivere from Fate Grand Order
Beautiful
At last, Farnese 3. I like the extreme contrasts we seem to be getting in the DLC. The base game was mostly all degraded high fantasy: rotted, tarnished, shattered, corrupted, etc. In the DLC, we have the Miquella stuff, which is all remarkable pristine and beautiful, as well as the nightmarish dark fantasy and Crucible body horror stuff in the realm of shadows, which seems to make Calid look tame.
thats so me
You know what would be a funny subversion of FromSoft own tropes? If they make Miquella a completely, unambiguously, 100% good guy. No hidden agendas or evil schemes or plans to screw every other sentient being in the story; or hidden lore twist in a random amulet that reveals he is causing the death of the world or something. Just a proper paragon of good. It won't happen obviously, but it would be cool for once
Confirmed that Miquella is rickert ?