Hidetaka Miyazaki, FromSoftware president and director of Elden Ring , and George R.R. Martin, the fantasy author hired to create the game's mythical foundation, were likely both aware comparisons would be drawn between Elden Ring and its inspiration, LOTR , based on their titles alone. Rather than being daunted, however, these two creative luminaries were likely inspired to create a brand new fantasy setting full of dark, strange, and decidedly non-Tolkien-esque world-building details. The shattered Elden Ring , for instance, is not a physical artifact of power, but an ethereal magical c0de that imposes a set of natural laws over reality. The various non-human species populating the Lands Between – chimeric Demi-Humans and Misbegotten, Omens, Onyx Lords, and Albinaurics – are wildly different from the elves, dwarves, and hobbits populating Tolkien's Middle-earth. Fissure In the Fog Expedition place of a story about the forces of good fighting against once-noble powers corrupted by their pride and hubris (a very Christian tale inspired by Tolkien's devout Catholic beliefs), Elden Ring's often regretful story is a Darwinian battle of ideals between different factions, visionaries, and cosmic gods who want to change the world to fit their principles. And yet, though they may differ in big ways, Elden Ring and The Lords of the Rings are epics akin to each other in small, yet meaningful w

Many players would almost certainly welcome seamless cooperative sessions by default in future FromSoftware games, but the help of transient strangers has become a cornerstone of the Soulslike experience. Since FromSoftware was uncompromising in its vision for more than a decade before Elden Ring 's massive success, there's really nothing to suggest the studio will pivot to new multiplayer systems in the near future. It isn't out of the realm of possibility; FromSoftware could, after all, make a game specifically designed to be played in co-op. For now, though, downloading **Elden Ring ** 's Seamless Co-op mod will have to satiate players looking for a more straightforward experie

Level-scaling will prevent the Phantom Great Rune from being mostly effective, as the invader will not be able to invade and draw challenge to a player who has a rune level far higher than their own. Level-1 runs should be reserved for those that want a challenge in the PvE content rather than the PvP cont

To escape the prison she'd forged around herself, Marika resorted to dark schemes of destruction. She stripped Grace from her consort Lord Godfrey and sent him into exiled with the other Tarnished. She persuaded Lunar Princess Ranni to steal a fragment of Destined Death from Maliketh the Black Blade, then imbued that stolen power into a series of Black Knives she gifted to Numen assassins from her old homeland. These Black Knife Assassins were dispatched to murder Marika's own eldest son, Godwyn the Golden, along with several more of her Demigod children in the Lands Between. Finally, Queen Marika the Eternal shattered the Elden Ring , instigated the war known as the Shattering, and set in motion a conspiracy to have one of the Tarnished slay the god she drew her own power from. For this act of treachery, she was imprisoned in the Erdtree, crucified by the Elden Beast, and reduced to a literal hollow shell of hers

Elden Ring has proven to be incredibly popular, and while the active player base has dwindled recently alongside many completing the game (or giving up), FromSoftware's titles typically retain a smaller, dedicated multiplayer community. Many flock to PvP, and will engage in duels outside the gate to the Academy of Raya Lucaria, but other longterm players also climb through many new game plus tiers both solo and in co-op. LukeYui's Seamless Co-op mod will likely contribute to the continuing health of the game, making it less frustrating for players to team up and see all of Elden Ring 's best and worst endin

Initially located in Lake-Facing Cliffs

Lightseeker Hyetta is a blind woman whom the Tarnished will stumble across shortly after defeating Godrick the Grafted. She requests the Tarnished feed her Shabriri Grapes for her to witness a faint light she thinks is guiding her to her destiny. Aside from her being blind and placing full trust in the player, killing Hyetta will reward the player with Frenzyflame Stones, which is a very easy resource to cr

Upon use of Mohg’s Great Rune, and invading another player’s world, Rune Level 1 players will travel through online play to that player's world. When they spawn in, they will get three Phantom Great Runes, which can each be used once to re-set your position. This can help get closer to the host, or can be used in combat as a quick geta

These days, it's hard to write a fantasy story or design a fantasy RPG not influenced by (or a reaction against) The Lord of the Rings and its legendarium. When J.R.R. Tolkien, a philologist and academic by trade, published the three volumes of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy in the late 1940s, he upped the ante for fantasy world-building by creating a world with unique creation myth, a history filled with ages of heroic tragedies (inspired by epic poems such as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf or the Finnish Kalevala ), __ and even constructed new languages and writing systems for the species and cultures of his Middle-earth setting. The general premise of Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings - a world haunted by the ruins of previous ages, populated by humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings who fight a war of resistance against a totalitarian dark lord - inspired the character creation rules of Dungeons & Dragons _ , which then went on to inspire a host of epic fantasy novels and computer RPGs like _The Elder Scrolls (another famous franchise Elden Ring developers likely wanted to distinguish their game fr