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 Principle Is Fallacious (Sorry!)
There are just a few clues. Within the dialogue we do get from the trailer, he says ‘Mom, wouldst thou actually 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 youngster’. Whereas this appears like an enormous breakthrough it’s… sadly not true.
Whereas there’s a ghost that does say this, he’s truly on the Church Of Pilgrimage, on the opposite aspect of the Weeping Peninsula, and this refers back to the soulless demigod throughout the Strolling Mausoleum.
I checked.
In fact 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 realm.
The Secrets and techniques Of The Snakes
So with that lead lifeless for now, what can we inform from the trailer?
We will 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 another excuse? Maybe a literal traitor to the Erdtree with the snake as his image and shadow?
The Hearth Coloration Is So Necessary
We will additionally see him summoning hearth. Which may not appear to be an enormous level to an informal observer, however there are many totally different kinda of fireplace within the Lands Between.
The fireplace he summons is simply too purple for the yellow flame of chaos. Is it the purple 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 Large boss fights has me leaning in the 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 state of affairs within the first place.
That’s it. That’s my finest prediction. Messmer is behind all of it. A traitor to the Erdtree and the explanation Mohg stole Miquella and doomed the Haligtree.
Fairly attainable that the wheels fall off my grand principle 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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