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Dark Souls is full of dark romanticism where certain backdrops in the game will feel like a Francisco de Goya painting with a mixture of big bright gothic buildings that imply a dark haunting tone in their structures and the way the bright lights hit them. The Anor Londo location is a perfect example of t
The mist being dead souls explains a lot about this Elden Ring mystery . One of the biggest things it helps clarify is what the Lands Between is. Both in the Age of the Duskborn ending and in the prologue of the game, the narrator repeats the line " In our home. Across the Fog. The Lands Between ." This fog is literal, as the distant ocean is obscured in mist all around the Lands Between. Should the mist be souls, it would explain that the Lands Between is some sort of Edenic promised land related to the afterlife. The souls of the Tarnished who were banished were forced to leave, and now that they are no longer touched by Grace, their souls cannot make it back to Elden Ring 's mysterious and coveted Erdtree . They instead seem to only come close to it, obscuring the world of gods and the afterlife from the liv
"Challenging but rewarding" seems to be a core design ethos of developers at FromSoftware, which has contributed to the popularity of dark fantasy action-RPGs like Dark Souls , Bloodborne , __ and now Elden Ring . In the Platonic ideal of a FromSoftware RPG, every open-world enemy, dungeon boss, collectible weapon, and collectible spell should be powerful and punishing, but still possible for any player to overcome with the right tactics and mastery of game mechanics. Elden Ring , large open-world game that it is, hasn't entirely perfected the formula established by Hidetaka Miyazaki's genre-defining Demon's Souls , but does seem to draw closer to perfection with each new software pa
What’s More Help, the mist being souls explains the few areas in the game where mist exists before the Duskborn ending: the Mistwood and the forest of the Altus Plateau. The Altus Plateau’s woods are directly above where Godwyn is buried, so it would make sense that his curse mark would have infected the area's roots and killed the souls they contained. As for the Mistwood, this is the first area in the game where players have access to the ancient world buried beneath the Lands Between. This ancient world was rejected by Elden Ring 's Golden Order , so it would only make sense that their souls were rejected from the Erdtree and thus smothered the Mistwood in
Fia’s ending in _Elden Ring _ raises more questions than answers. Also known as the "Age of the Duskborn," Fia’s ending causes a mist to descend onto the Lands Between. Given Fia’s association with Godwyn the Prince of Death, players have suspected that this mist represents - and even causes - the end of immortality in the Lands Between. However, diving deeper into the lore behind the Duskborn ending makes it clear this is not the whole story behind this mysterious m
This fact becomes important to the mist when Godwyn’s curse mark is combined with Ranni’s to make the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince. Since the curse marks are combined, the rune can cause both the souls and bodies of living things in the world of Elden Ring 's Lands Between . This is why the Erdtree turns pallid and leafless when the Rune of the Death-Prince becomes part of the Elden Ring: the souls and bodies buried in its roots face permanent death, removing the life force from the tree. And just as Erdtree’s leaves die and fall as a result of this, so too must the tree shed the dead souls it contained. And since the Erdtree emanates a mist in the Age of the Duskborn cutscene, it appears the mist is precisely how the Erdtree sheds itself of these dead so
While there is only so much to learn from interacting with him, his character and the mark he leaves on the world around him are intriguing. By no means does anyone want to tolerate his being, but still, the player can choose to kill him, turn him into a puppet, or even help free him so that he can continue his work of cursing the liv
The comparison between fallen leaves and the mist is even made explicit by the cutscene’s narration. Like the other non- Duskborn Elden Ring endings where the player becomes Elden Lord, the narrator states, " The fallen leaves tell a story " about how a Tarnished became Elden Lord " In our home. Across the Fog. The Lands Between ." However, the Age of the Duskborn ending is the only ending to intercut these two lines with " Our seed will look back upon us and recall ." This line emphasizes that the fallen leaves and fog represent death. Furthermore, it makes it explicit that the "seed" or future generations will only be able to remember the Tarnished through stories because the souls or "Remembrances" the Erdtree used to contain are now d
Though this is only speculation, it provides the best explanation for what happens in the Age of the Duskborn ending. Furthermore, it clarifies important facets about the Lands Between that otherwise have no explanation yet. Even so, true confirmation for what the mist is will likely remain another **Elden Ring ** myst