The Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree trailer is right here, and with it comes rampant hypothesis on the gameplay, the setting.. and the juicy juicy lore implications. The spotlight of the trailer is the mysterious Messmer. This red-haired enigma has us all stuffed with questions. Who’s he? How does he relate to the dysfunctional prolonged demigod household we all know/love/homicide, and what does he need?
That is what I’m right here to look into.
The Catacombs Concept Is Unsuitable (Sorry!)
There are a number of clues. Within the dialogue we do get from the trailer, he says ‘Mom, wouldst thou really Lordship sanction in a single so bereft of sunshine?’ So far as we all know, there’s just one particular person sanctioning Lordship, and that’s Queen Marika.
The official statue refers to him as ‘Messmer the Impaler’. This drove some lore hunters to look into the Impaler’s Catacombs on the Weeping Peninsula, and some have attributed {that a} ghost there talks about ‘Marika’s undesirable baby’. Whereas this appears like a giant breakthrough it’s… sadly not true.
Whereas there’s a ghost that does say this, he’s really on the Church Of Pilgrimage, on the opposite facet of the Weeping Peninsula, and this refers back to the soulless demigod throughout the Strolling Mausoleum.
I checked.
In reality the Impaler’s Catacombs doesn’t have a lot to supply by way of lore. Essentially the most you’ll study impalers is getting caught on the spikes peppering the world.
The Secrets and techniques Of The Snakes
So with that lead useless for now, what can we inform from the trailer?
We are able to see his unusual ties to snakes. He has a snake on his shoulder. Is it a tie to Rykard and the god-eating serpent? Or a really scaly model of Godfrey’s beast-grafting? There’s even a snake on his helmet. In line with the Gladiator Helm merchandise description:
“The snake is considered as a traitor to the Erdtree, and the viewers delighted in seeing these bronze effigies crushed and battered.”
We’ve all the time assumed that the hatred of snakes is because of the God-Devouring Serpent, however maybe there’s one more reason? Maybe a literal traitor to the Erdtree with the snake as his image and shadow?
The Hearth Colour Is So Essential
We are able to additionally see him summoning hearth. That may not appear to be a giant level to an off-the-cuff observer, however there are many totally different kinda of fireplace within the Lands Between.
The fireplace he summons is just too pink for the yellow flame of chaos. Is it the pink flame of the fireplace giants that would burn the Erdtree? Or, is it the Bloodflame gifted by Mohg, the Lord Of Blood on his trusted servants?
Whether it is Bloodflame, and my time spent staring on the Mohg and Hearth Big boss fights has me leaning in direction of Bloodflame. If that’s the case, and Messmer is tied to Mohg, and the Formless Mom, then maybe he had one thing to do with Miquella’s present scenario within the first place.
That’s it. That’s my greatest prediction. Messmer is behind all of it. A traitor to the Erdtree and the explanation Mohg stole Miquella and doomed the Haligtree.
Fairly potential that the wheels fall off my grand concept with the arrival of DLC itself, or a greater lore dive, however that’s the enjoyable of lore looking, isn’t it?
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