REACTING TO ELDEN RING DLC STORY TRAILER - Shadow of the Erdtree

THE TIME IS ALMOST HERE. ONE MONTH TO GO. ELDEN RING SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE IS UPON US! MIQUELLA V MESSMR DANCE OFF!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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Winner of hundreds of accolades including The Game Awards Game of the Year and Golden Joystick Awards Ultimate Game of the Year, ELDEN RING is the acclaimed action RPG epic set in a vast, dark fantasy world. Players embark on an epic quest with the freedom to explore and adventure at their own pace.
The Shadow of the Erdtree expansion features an all-new story set in the Land of Shadow imbued with mystery, perilous dungeons, and new enemies, weapons and equipment.
Discover uncharted territories, face formidable adversaries, and revel in the satisfying triumph of victory. Dive into the riveting interplay of characters, where drama and intrigue intertwine, that create an immersive experience to savor and enjoy.
Elden Ring DLC story trailer reaction video reacting to fromsoftware

[@Morrov]

6:18 that's almost certainly Marika! It might even be the very moment she's establishing the Golden Order, splitting the Lands Between form the Land of Shadows, or maybe that's her assuming godhood. That pose with the rune flowing around looks a lot like Marika's rune we have in the game (the inverse of the Rune of Death)

[@Emmalition]

Agree agree agree!

[@timkom2289]

Its definitely Marika, but I don't believe this is related to Golden order - that come much later with Radagon. Most likely she is ascending to godhood or maybe she is creating the first Eldtree.

[@Morrov]

@@timkom2289 the Golden Order definitely predates Radagon. He only appeared during the Liurnian wars, which was very much after the Golden Order was established. What started the Golden Order was the removal of the Rune of Death, after the Gloam Eye Queen threatened to replace Marika with her black flame (fire + rune of death). I agree with the second paragraph, but it could still be her killing the GEQ here (that lump of flesh looks kinda like a Godskin) and startng the new order without death.

[@timkom2289]

@@Morrov About the death rune, before the DLC I got theory that it was already part of the Elden ring independently on Gloam eyed queen and then Marika somehow "unplug" it which might be related to the cataclysmic events as first cardinal sin and first shattering. After the first trailer I thought Marika might used Messmer to burn the Eldtree to get access to the Elden ring itself that was embedded in the trunk. Now I need to let this second trailer sink and reevaluate.

[@Morrov]

@@timkom2289 the Rune of Death was 100% a part of the Elden Ring, the GEQ simply used it to her advantage. Since Marika became Greater Will's god, she had full access to the Elden Ring. She tells Godfrey to brandish it in battle, and Enya tells us that she simply "plucked" Destined Death from the ring. She became a god because the Fingers, Greater Will's mouthpieces, chose her as one, so I don't think she needed to fight for the access to the ER. We can even see it being a part of her/Radagon's body during the Radabeast fight. I do think Messmer might have set the Erdtree on fire though, it's a glowy ghost very different to its offspring (Minor Erdtrees) that are made of normal wood, and the Erdtree was depicted as a normal wooden tree on old paintings too. Now Leyndell has a layer of ash and the tree is merely a "symbol of faith". It's probably why snakes are seen as blasphemous as far back as Godfrey's era, and that would be why Rykard, the blasphemous, associated himself with snakes, following the footsteps of Messmer probably not even knowing he existed, just knowing his long lasting legacy.

[@nathanplumb3782]

Messmer is totally looking like Vladd the Impaler there when he’s standing amongst the impaled omen things.

[@merManc]

Great reaction! The "jellyfish" image of Miquella looks to be his Saint Trina aspect. And the figure at the beginning pulling out the gold threads and holding them up, judging by the bracelets and bangles on the arms, is actually Marika. Probably this is when she became a god.

[@Emmalition]

This is so awesome!!!

[@MaQuGo119]

Miquella is Saint Trina?

[@merManc]

It's hinted at by several in-game item descriptions, and there's a lot of cut content surrounding Trina that confirms it. Of course, cut content isn't "official," but it confirms that St. Trina being an aspect of Miquella was the original idea, at the very least.

[@Tsukune2001]

@@MaQuGo119yes

[@youngrootv]

From the way the lady talks in the trailer, she makes it seem like Miquella was tired of being a child and just wanted to grow up haha

[@Emmalition]

We’ve all been there

[@aridbreeze8613]

​@@Emmalition Yeah we feel you Miquella... We were all tired of puberty, at least once😂😂

[@erenyeager8486]

Miquella is cursed with eternal youth so its no suprise he wishes to grow old

[@wiseausrs]

probably just wanted to buy alcohol

[@PayYourTick]

Couldn’t come up with a more reductive summary if I tried lmao

[@TheGentleCreepers]

F***!!!! I'm still stuck with Commander O'Neil!!! Wait for me 🤣

[@Emmalition]

hahahaha quick!!

[@matiasluukkanen7718]

Marika's "Ascension" in trailer really reminded me of Ranni's Age of Stars. I wonder if Empyrean can only become a fully-fledged God in a "place of power" that belonged to the previous order. Marika became Goddess in Red Crucible by summoning the Greater Will. Ranni became Goddess in Erdtree's husk by summoning the Dark Moon.

[@Yal_Rathol]

alternatively, the god of the age happens to be in a place of power, since marika seems to never leave the vicinity of the erdtree (even as radagon, she never crossed the fog to the outer world, only stayed in the lands between), and killing the god and claiming the elden ring is how the ascension happens. or, third option, claiming the elden ring makes the god and the location is meaningless beyond symbology.

[@Candy0974]

It was officially stated by Bandai Namco that Marika began the Golden Order in the Realm of Shadow so I believe the first scene of the trailer we see is that. Especially since the golden thread she holds seems to resemble the rune arc she's crucified to. Also the pile of bodies with the opening in the middle reminds me of the opening that leads inside the Erdtree 🤔

[@Emmalition]

You’re absolutely right i think… i got lost in the sauce Also ooh such a good call back there!

[@Candy0974]

@@Emmalition With the roots of the Erdtree taking the corpses of those that die, and minor Erdtrees being given human flesh from living jars to grow, the Erdtree itself being born from the corpses of so many doesn't seem too far off!

[@elgoblinax8796]

@@Candy0974 That would make sense why Mesmer was purging Omens in the trailer. Mesmer was doing her dirty work

[@michaelhenry3234]

@@elgoblinax8796 Yeah I think Omens were revered and maybe the ruling class of the previous Order Marika replaced. Then she did a genocide of them to fuel her new Order.

[@simongomes7250]

The woman is the beginning is Marika. Starting the creation of the Erdtree, remember from last trailer it said Miquella went to the this land to do what his mother did long ago, when she became a God, and whatever QM did lead to the war that we saw in the trailer, having his first born Son leading and winning the war Mesmer.

[@Shad0wmoses]

Miquella in that egg reminds me so much of griffith in that one arc where he is reborn back into earth.

[@Polensun1]

It's interesting to note that the background surrounding Marika closely resembles the substance of the blasphemous blade. It's as if a blasphemous ritual had taken place at that moment or a blasphemous act had been committed. Additionally, there's the fact that this occurs long before everything else, as the trailer mentions: "Miquella speaks of the beginnings." Possibly, this refers to the creation of all that is golden and Marika's ascension. As for Messmer, he gives me the impression of being a scapegoat or, rather, a military straw man. I mean a person used in war to carry out brutal actions and then eliminated to dissociate from those acts. That's why it's an unsung war, an ignored or invisible war. Perhaps this ancient land, before the Erdtree and all that is golden, was used as a sacrifice, as fertilizer, for Marika's ascension and the golden age. At the same time, that land was hidden in the shadows to conceal that the holy emerged from the impure, or rather, from the sacrifice of an entire civilization, you know? So that no one would doubt the purity and divinity. This is as far as I can speculate. Another topic would be discussing the role of Miquella, who, along with Godwyn, seems to me the most interesting character in all of Elden Ring. PS: Well, there's also Marika. She is just as interesting.

[@jaibahra5404]

The blonde woman in the beginning is marika as she has the same bangles as marika at the beginning of the radagon fight

[@hijodelrock6014]

No, the woman in the beginning is not a woman nor Marika, is Miquella.

[@LePeppino]

What a time to be tarnished!

[@Emmalition]

joy ahead!

[@toddbrimstone]

Hang on, hang on, hang on. Marika pulls blonde hair out of what i presume is the godskin swaddling cloth, when she is walking uo the steps her hair is red, then turns blonde as she appears to start the golden order.

[@mohammadjavadyeganeh6422]

So it means she was Radagon from the very beginning, and there wasn't any strange fusion afterwards.

[@inllustria]

Ahhhh I didn’t know this was released! I saw you uploaded and thought it was about the last trailer but goodness me this was a delight! You are the bearer of great news to my day

[@toddbrimstone]

Marika's bangle, pulling something out of what looks like a godskin.

[@Emmalition]

god yuck

[@hijodelrock6014]

Is Miquella, not Marika.

[@PersonofInterestGr]

Emma's reaction can literally be summed up in a phrase: screaming, crying, throwing up.

[@Morrov]

Man, the music in this trailer is AMAZING, I'm so excited. Can I just go to sleep for a month?

[@Emmalition]

Hibernating in mistwood with the bears

[@Inshabael.]

It was glorious, it will be glorious!

[@Emmalition]

joy oh joy!

[@kingnarothept6917]

Glory! Oh lord oh glory! Death to the Golden Goddess! Let her child be god now!

[@davidtays3625]

Thanks for the video Emmalition. It's fun to have your commentary on what others have said, sort of like getting to engage in a dialog about it and hear reactions and opinions in a way that's totally different from reading what people have posted in the comment sections. Hope you do more.

[@TallShepherd]

YESSs Emma!! Unexpected Elden Ring trailer days are the best. Also I'm thinking maybe that's Marika at the beginning?? Like setting up the golden order?

[@simplyrevolting9907]

I was thinking the same too, mostly because the body shape seemed way too "mature" to still be Miquella

[@Emmalition]

⁠@@simplyrevolting9907yeah I think in hindsight you’re most definitely right about that! I could barely remember anyone’s names I was so stoked hahaha

[@simplyrevolting9907]

​@@Emmalitionyeah I feel that 😂 Definitely one hell of a trailer to wake up to

[@TallShepherd]

@@Emmalition I thought it was Miquella first and my partner was just straight up like "oh it's marika" and I was like HUH and it made so much sense.

[@Mr_Flibble716]

Your excitement is going to make this playthrough the absolute best!!

[@Emmalition]

It’s going to be the most fun we’ve ever had EVERRR

[@marzzattak]

That Miquella/St. Trina shot was so gorgeous! So excited!

[@wereshnefer]

I'm pretty new to Elden Ring but I've been binging through your playthrough more or less at the same pace to see if you did something I''ve missed. Looking forward to being here in real time for your playthrough!

[@fernandofaria2872]

3:21 -> The *music* from this point onwards is GLORIOUS 😮!

[@Yal_Rathol]

that first thirty seconds of marika is probably the most important part of the whole story trailer.

[@loup-hole]

I think that that Miquella image underwater with those purple colors is his form as St. Trina right?

[@Emmalition]

such a good spot and also there was lots of St Trinas lily imagery in the last trailer too

[@loup-hole]

@@Emmalition Miquella is the ultimate they/them

[@2JOfficial]

Why don't other youtubers ever remove the "annotations" from the video settings so they don't have that little Bandai Namco thingy in the corner?

[@Emmalition]

I didn’t know you could do that to be honest..! 😊 so maybe other people didn’t know either

[@2JOfficial]

@@Emmalition Yeah, next time you react just turn off "annotations" in the settings 😎

[@Emmalition]

@2JOfficial that’s awesome thank you!! 🙏🥰

[@sebastianpossel6687]

first time i see one of your videos, I do like your descriptions of the trailer :) arstistic view

[@helzpont]

i think i was equally excited by the trailer and the shirt. very nice 👍👍

[@Emmalition]

hahaha yay!

[@ishfaqhamza6607]

Loved it ❤❤❤

[@adipramana7]

Obsession with the conviction with which you said “and I may cry”

[@MartialBoniou]

Thank you kindly!

[@captainlovebug]

Go Emma go! I love your channel and personality so much! LETS GO FOR SHADOW OF THE ERD TREE! I think the person on stairs in the beginning is Marika. Since the land of shadow is where she became a god

[@lexlewis550]

I’m so sorry I’m late to the party 🥺thank you beautiful one 3 minutes was awesomeness 🥹❤️

[@TheConnoisseur17]

I think the "beast clergyman at 7:43 kind of looks like Mohg. I have no idea how that would make any sense but the robe looks super similar to his and I think I can make out a few horns on the top of his head, he looks too smol though

[@not_ecchi2806]

I know everyone is excited for Messmer (I am too) but what truly gave me chills was "Even his fate" and showing Miquella falling into purple mist. I'M SO EXCITED FOR ST. TRINA!!!! I hope their design hasn't changed too much from what we saw from the base games cut content.

[@DuffbagYT]

I love your top!

[@osric190]

The 720p save at 0:58 is iconic. Can you imagine watching the new Elden Ring DLC trailer in anything less than 4k? Jesus. Doesn't bear thinking about!

[@rkmugen]

As much as I can't wait to get my hands on the DLC, for the single-player stuff, I also can't wait to see what updates they've brought to co-op.

[@itsthatmemelowell]

Fromsoft gang we eatin GOOOOD like always🔥

[@derekjohnson8910]

So I’m assuming the two major tracks we hear are Messmer’s and Miquella’s boss themes respectively. I swear, if that final theme isn’t boss music for Miquella, St. Trina, or Godwyn, I’m gonna scream.

[@Marginallyflailing]

The figure in the beginning is marika! Shes frequently depicted with that bangle

[@Emmalition]

Yeah I don’t know why I didn’t think at the time! The adrenaline took over my brain 😂

[@hijodelrock6014]

No, is Miquella, not Marika.

[@Marginallyflailing]

@@hijodelrock6014 You are allowed to be wrong. That bracelet belongs to marika.

[@hijodelrock6014]

@@Marginallyflailing Of course I can be wrong, but there's a lot of info that tell us hi is Miquella. And that happen for varous reasons: people dont play the game, or dont pay attention while play it.

[@Marginallyflailing]

@@hijodelrock6014 Real question, what is your explanation for the figure being 1. an adult 2. wearing marika's bracelets 3. all of that being shown while the narrator talks about things happening BEFORE miquella, back when the golden order was first made which is what marika did? All of those things indicate Marika, not miquella. There's more than one blonde person in this game. I think you're wrong and people are paying attention just fine.

[@anthonypolito9784]

“We choose to follow.”

[@cklambo]

We walk with Miquella

[@haydenlindley7313]

cannot wait for the new outfits for Elden bling 😅

[@saitama9529]

I’m hyped

[@whitneysvision]

wtf that was so fast LMAOOOOO

[@pajeetsingh]

Marika is actually like Griffith. Miquella; we are yet to witness. Make sure your have Frienzied Flame ending for a chance to meet Melina in DLC.

[@payne7761]

OMFG it was hair being pulled out of a sac, his mother's golden hair.

[@leewes]

this looks awesome. Emma, will you go back into Elden Ring and post some on here before the DLC to get back up to speed with controls and dynamics, etc...? please do

[@Emmalition]

Yep I am planning that exact video.. it’s gonna be called Defrosting Fanta 😂

[@nathanplumb3782]

That’s a dope shirt

[@nully5904]

Forget GOTY...i think its viable that Elden Ring win the fucking OSCAR with these cinematics holy shit

[@Mackthecatdad17]

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH I’m so excited holy CRAP

[@Emmalition]

I ACTUALLY CANNOT COPEEEE

[@Mackthecatdad17]

That made my absolute morning. I could not be more excited for the new lore!!! Thanks for posting this! It’s always fun to see these things through your perspective and excitement.

[@Emmalition]

@@Mackthecatdad17aww thank YOU for being here!! It’s always my pleasure

[@Nathanaelelliott]

I wonder how many people died just during the trailer. They should get a trophy.

[@josiahorozco1841]

It’s just my personal thought but could the beast clergymen on the steps could he have been Miquella’s “Shadow” like how Maliketh was Queen Marika’s and how Blaidd was Ranni’s. When I watched the video I was like could it be but idk if it was just a thought tho

[@Guldangut252]

It was an eye that was shown in the first seconds, not a V

[@robjones2206]

Oh my lordy ❤

[@JohnDWJ]

I love how Miquella was the elusive tragic demigod in the base game… and little by little it is revealed he maybe the most important one.

[@CarlWheatley-wi2cl]

I just live in hope for the day when Bandai Namco take on Tolkien. The opening Marika imagery and the beginnings of the Golden Order was just stunning.

[@mrvoodoo4046]

Babe wake up Emma from Emmalition posted

[@Emmalition]

hahahahahahah

[@gelphaze1229]

I am ready baby!

[@Emmalition]

MEEE TOO

[@UchihaLeffjoe]

i think the first woman we see is Marika establishing the golden order. Same bracelet

[@TheJerbol]

So that's gotta be the Haligtree but in this parallel dimension right?

[@eyesweyedopen4599]

Thousandth like here! Booyah!

[@parthpandey1920]

Still waiting on that maxor elden ring part 3 reaction

[@azurite4296]

4:52 ok I wonder if all this imagery is saying this place is the birthplace of Marika. (Birth of her godhood) Speculation 🤷‍♂️

[@anonymous10001100]

From Soft, take my money again...🤩

[@Scarygomez]

"Affair" in this contect means "an event or sequence of events of a specified kind or that has previously been referred to." i.e. not an affair between people!! They are just trying to throw us all off !!

[@Recon-601]

Am I the only one who thought the dead body was a Crucible Knight at 2:15 ?

[@chanumarqu3723]

I love your tshirt

[@Emmalition]

thank you me too!

[@Shad0wmoses]

i love your tweets. "are u single" XD also idk if it has always been that way but i never noticed your name is Eldenlition. 😂 (also im just commenting this here cuz i didnt know which tweet to make this comment under) edit: i went on that are you single guy's channel and the first comment i read is "She’s with someone that’s not you." referring to another comment he made on someone else's video. which implies he does this alot. LOL

[@jarmelldavis1313]

I feel like this dlc will show us how radagon and marika where one person all along because how could she half a child by herself

[@hijodelrock6014]

I dont think so, this is only about Miquella.

[@GeordieGamerGuy]

Do we think the third type of Butterflies are Messmers? The Aenonian butterflies are Melanias.. (because rot)? The Nascent butterflies are Miquellas.. (because cocoon)? The third type, the Smoulderding butterfly, nobody could figure out who they were linked to.. But now with Messmers reveal.. it's safe to say they are his? (because fire)? Messmer has to be Miquella and Melania's other brother who stayed behind in the land of shadow. So he is Marika's other child with Radagon? Thoughts?

[@robsch21]

Well it’s either his butterfly’s or they belong to Melina.

[@evemariethor6240]

Hey emma just checking are going to be on new walking dead this week

[@mrrehino]

Hype

[@bonegold3155]

So many people don't know about the 宵色眼眸的女王? She may be Marika's former lord

[@raqueltonks]

I might be wrong but I got the impression you are excited for the DLC?

[@timkom2289]

I am bit confused with chronology on multiple places. First scene looks like end of some battle, we see hundreds of death bodies and Marika pulling something gold from death enemy - maybe Gloam eyed queen and the perform some ritual. If it is the first time she becoming god, does that mean Shadow realm and Lands between was connected at that point? Because the land of shadows seems already separated, so either Marika somehow manage to do it before she became god or she is already god and the ritual means something completely else. Also how Miquella fit into it? Is the battles in lands of shadow happening in recent history? Is this before he went to make is own Eldtree or is it after Mogh capture him (and I assume Miquella somehow escape to the land of shadow). More likely it happened more in the past, because when Miquella was captured by Mogh, the Elden ring was already shattered and Marika imprisoned. Bu that mean Miquella was already here before the Golden order was established and Gloam eyed queen defeated, so he is much older than I expected. This also means Radagon was already part of Marika at this point. While current gamr lore suggest he was champion appearing around war with Carian and then somehow merged with Marika, now it seems like Radagon was always part of Marika (or at least much older than we expected) which can have further lore implication. And when and what he abandoned and how and why he get rid of his flesh. Because he was obviously fully alive and study in Golden order under his father Radagon when searching for cure for Malenia. This timelines quite confuse me. Anyway my expectation is to see almost post apocalyptic land torn by Messmer war campaign and Miquella is paying the land of shadow second visit to somehow fix it or deal with unfinished business.

[@Yal_Rathol]

the poem from bandai-namco on their site says marika split the lands of shadow from the lands between when she became a god. the war in the land of shadow also seems to be ancient history, but messmer could be fighting a new one (there were multiple wars during the shattering, for example). miquella only fled to the land of shadows recently, as late as his abduction by mogh, the person in the opening seems to be marika.

[@michaelhenry3234]

The war unsung is ancient history during Marika's rise to power. Probably before Godfrey even. Miquella would not have been even born yet for a long time. Miquella "spoke of the beginning" but that doesn't mean he personally saw it, he just knows of it. Miquella abandoned everything to go to the Land of Shadow probably during the Shattering, after he was stolen by Mogh, since we know he had a body up till the Shattering. Radagon has always been a mystery. Him being his own person and becoming part of Marika later was always just one interpretation. His red hair and the connection to the fire giants was a sore point for that theory.

[@vadersreign]

lets goooo

[@Emmalition]

lets freaking goo

[@creepyboy6593]

Emma Rules!😅❤

[@Emmalition]

No you!

[@Exarathas]

Aren’t you the screaming girl who played DS2 with Symbalily?

[@IchbinX]

So Ranni is kind of the Neutral Good ending. Miquella will be the true Good ending?

[@Shad0wmoses]

Miquella is already seducing me with this trailer and ive never even met him 😵‍💫

[@Emmalition]

why he kinda 👀👀👀

[@HorridOnlineTroll]

DLC will be lightwork for Fanta 😤😤😤

[@Emmalition]

she’s got 2 curved greatswords at +10 and is NOT afraid to use them

[@NeedsContent]

Hold up, is the narrator Marika!?! Wait, nvm. The narrator says at the end "We chose to follow." It can't be her.

[@loup-hole]

I was there for the twitter meltdown!!!!!!!!

[@Emmalition]

HAHAHAHA

[@isabellazeiler1454]

omg omg OMG

[@Emmalition]

I KNOWKSKSKSKSKS

[@MaQuGo119]

ERUDEN RINGU

[@braetff]

I NEED TO TAKE MESSMER DOWN MAN

[@hijodelrock6014]

People are confusing, cause Miquella is very similar to Marika, but is not. Is Miquella and the all DLC is about him and the inmaculate gold that he create.

[@oddlang687]

It's BALL-duh-kin, not ball-duh-chin

[@miriamstarling]

The devil works fast but Emma works faster

[@Emmalition]

my heart is racing Miri

[@miriamstarling]

@@Emmalition s o o n

[@Malvin1211]

LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@malcomf7991]

The pick-me energy is strong with this one

[@IamLegendaryguy1998]

Are you single?

[@seanclive1599]

really bro

[@Emmalition]

@@seanclive1599🫶

[@Emmalition]

no and to top it off i actually got married on ELDEN RING’s 1 year anniversary of release :)

[@thorn.fieldnsta]

I can't wait for St Trina. The way the music switch from Messmer's Massacre to this angelic melody introducing Miquella, Trina and their followers is amazing, I actually cried watching this it goes from my stomach straight to my brain no joke intended. Loved your reactions, we'll rejoice in a month