Shadow Of The Erdtree Rauh Ruins Can Be Discovered In The Base Sport

Anybody accustomed to Elden Ring is aware of how deep the sport’s lore goes, and this yr’s launch of the Shadow of the Erdtree enlargement has solely compounded this, creating much more questions for discerning lore buffs.

We all know from a notice discovered within the Suppressing Pillar that the Land of Shadow used to lie on the centre of The Lands Between earlier than it disappeared from existence and have become a liminal airplane for the souls of the lifeless.

As you might have guessed, theorists have discovered that should you overlay the Land of Shadows map on prime of The Lands Between’s map with the Suppressing Pillar on the centre, the Land of Shadows’ place roughly correlates with the area in the course of the bottom sport’s map. As with the whole lot in Elden Ring, a whole lot of what we predict we all know concerning the lore is predicated on educated guesses. In spite of everything, explicitly giving the participant data is not actually FromSoftware‘s model.

The Reign of the Rauh

Now, anybody who’s performed Shadow of the Erdtree will bear in mind the Historical Ruins of Rauh, the placement the place you utilize Messmer’s Kindle to entry Enir-Ilim the place the Tarnished finally confronts Miquella and Radahn. With all the above lore in thoughts, Reddit consumer Lili-Dub has speculated the Ruins of Rauh are related to the ruins that take you as much as the Altus Plateau in The Lands Between.

Visually, these two areas are very comparable and importantly, the placement of the respective ruins correlates with the overlaying of the enlargement’s map onto the bottom sport’s map. The ruins main as much as the Altus Plateau could also be remnants of the Ruins of Rauh that have been left behind when The Land of Shadow was ripped away from The Lands Between.

As identified by -The-Senate- within the feedback, the poetry of traversing up the ruins of an outdated, forgotten civilisation to achieve the centre of a brand new one (the Erdtree) is a incredible piece of worldbuilding and storytelling.

The Atlus Plateau is not the one location in The Lands Between with clear proof of Rauh structure. The Forge of the Giants and several other different ruins are clearly of Rauh design, illustrating how a lot of The Lands Between they colonised.

There actually exists deeper dives by Elden Ring lore lovers that may let you know extra concerning the Rauh than I can as a novice, so I counsel digging into it if you wish to discover out extra. The depth of Elden Ring’s worldbuilding and lore is all the time a marvel to behold.