#the haligtree

[roundworm1111]

[ladysiryna]

Yes, I have many thoughts about Malenia.

[callibrin]

My artwork for the Souls Zine III 🍂

[stayatsam]

Mending Rune of the Death-Prince

[deadlyspikelover]

worst twins ever they could never make me hate you

[drenched-in-sunlight]

How vexing. That the All-knowing didn't have the full story… Perhaps the Queen's sorrow was justified...

[epiclad]

The Twin Prodigies

[mistleaneous-chaos]

How Shadow Of The Erdtree Portrays Hate, and The Tragedy of trying to Escape

Elden Ring Spoilers(Hey! Been a while since i did this)

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I’ve gotten further into the DLC and this might just be one of the best stories of how Hatred is just a cycle that repeats which consumes innocent people in its wake.

This DLC has done so much to make us understand why Marika did the things she did. She lived in a peaceful village, only for people she loved and cared about to be taken and put into jars. And why is that? Because their bodies meld well with others, something she can’t control since she was just born with it.

And so she becomes the new God of the Lands Between, imposing her new order onto others, and having her own son be the one to lead it. But when the fire fades and the ash settles, the one who suffers of the two of them is Messmer. She leaves him in the Shadow Realm because he doesn’t fit in her new order, representing so much of what is considered “Sinful”. And he is left alone, because of something he can’t control since he was born with it.

And then, as years pass and she makes a family again, she has twins! She can finally begin to rebuild, to move on from the hatred she felt!… except, she can’t. Because of the fact that her children have horns, just as her oppressors did. And so do multiple families in the Lands Between, with this seemingly “cursed” blood spreading, she has a choice to make.

Let go of the hate, try to accept her sons and the Omens.

Or hold onto it, persecute them, cut off their horns, and drop them into the sewers, out of sight out of mind.

We know what she picked.

And it’s this hatred that sparka another ambition just like hers. Mohg.

Imagine you’re Mohg. You have no family save for your brother. You live in the sewers while only ever being able to watch the outside world with happy familes and children with parents who love them. But all the while, what do you have? Nothing. All because of something you can’t control because you were born with it.

And so you decide to build your own order. Away from it all. Your brother wants no part, he clings to the hope of being accepted by that damn tree. But it’s fine.

You take some of the other Omens with you, and get to work. You even have help from an Outer God, so higher powers must want you to succeed! Others shave their horns but not you, no you proudly grow them out, even if it impedes your vision, because they are a part of you.

You take in all kinds, Humans, Omens, even Albinaurics, who had no home before. You give your fellow Omens real clothes, regal clothes. They’ve never had clothes after all, so don’t they deserve the best? You build and you build and eventually you have a beautiful part of the Underground to yourselves, you did it, you’ve won!

Mohg could have broken from the cycle, stayed in Mohgwyn, as he did even when chaos reigned above. People were strong under him, and had a home even if they were shunned in other places.

But that choice was taken from him.

Miquella used him to accomplish his own goal of godhood, robbing him of his own agency. Just like his brothers, Mohg was used by his family, but unlike the others, he wasn’t even aware of it. No matter how far he ran, no matter how much he tried to cut himself off from it. The hatred of his mother reached him, in the form of someone else using him to break away from the consequences of it.

Now I’m not saying Mohg was perfect. His group was no less sadistic than some of the others in the lands between.

But he was robbed of a dream, and told it was never his to have.

[diadoesart]

Charming man cursed with eternal youth got me acting unwise.

Currently Obsessed with Miquella in Elden Ring Shadows of The Erdtree.

HQ and Monochrome versions are available on my patreon.

Please ignore the fact that I accidentally posted this on main first lmao

[all-lee24]

Green eyed Miquella 👁️👁️

Curious to see how his face looks considering how stubbornly Fromsoft has NOT been showing his face

[eldenseal]

Haligtree View - Elden Ring

[style experiment]

[performarie]

And ofc I’ve had to let them be together at least like that 🥹

First and second backgrounds are hand drawn (one for Miquella and one for Malenia solo illustrations), but the third, haligtree one is just a blurred screenshot with a slightly altered colors and I feel obligated to make it clear :D

[ladysiryna]

My take on Miquella, a warm-up before I'm heading out to more complicated ideas.

Playing Elden Ring for the first time and enjoying it a lot!

[yenyenyen19]

Royal Knight Loretta ✨ . .

[upongoblinhill]

I shall nourish every root and stem

with all my Empyrean blood may hold.

To turn this wine dark sea of grief

to unalloyed gold.

A Culver's History of The Lands Between

[lxdymaria]

˚✧ ELDEN RING ∞ ° ˎˊ˗  🠮 ELPHAEL, BRACE OF THE HALIGTREE