Elden Ring Is About MUSHROOMS and the DLC PROVED IT! | LORE THEORY

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Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree is here and we have a lot to discuss. We discuss new secrets in the DLC and awesome community discoveries. Elden Ring is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware. It was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki with worldbuilding provided by fantasy writer George R. R. Martin.

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0:00 Intro
0:51 Erdtree Secrets
4:03 Finger Mushrooms
6:24 The Nox
8:30 Major Lore
12:41 Ranni And Godwyn
14:08 Conclusion
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Music:
Metroid Prime OST

[Chris-vxkp]

"Why is it always mushroom?"

[aranthur]

I've been thinking similar things recently, after reading the epitaph at the Tower of Suppression. The Lands Between was once a place where the dead of the world were drawn, their spirits gathering together in one huge melting pot, then bursting back out in one massive current of spiritual power to give new life to the world. The true nature of the Crucible, a fountain of life from death (probably not dissimilar to the spirit springs spread throughout the lands actually)

Upon becoming a God, Marika turned the Crucible from a fountain of life to a tree of life, but it was never meant to be separated from the Scadutree, they were supposed to balance one another, and after she did that and subsequently removed the Rune of Death as well to create a world of eternal light and life, she inadvertently removed the source for the Erdtree's power and its life-giving sap dried up

[DreamskyDance]

I remembered your mushroom theory as soon as i picked up a finger mushroom in those finger ruins... XD

[samuelcoward]

The spirit grave stones in the shadow lands behave like mushrooms too. When you see them at night surrounding a larval tear they form a fairy circle around the larval tear.

[killerbee]

One science guy years ago said that the Erdtree looks more like a mushroom than a tree

[mukelson]

also fun fact: the Paleozoic Age, when lots of forms of life that we know today originated (around 400 million years ago), is divided in six fragmented periods: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferus and Permian. It's curious for me to see the reference to the Crucible with the 3 main Crucible Knights shown in game having the names of these periods when life was evolving at its fullest and most of the ecosystem and life of the earth as we know was formed

[Juggla]

I believe this is 100% the right direction for overall theme.

[fabioeliasreisritter]

Miazaki: Ok George, what do you think the story should be lik-
R.R. Martin: Shrooms.
Miazaki: ... what? I mean the story of this new game we are collab-
R.R. Martin: Giant. Shrooms.
Miazaki: ...
R.R. Martin: And feet.
Miazaki: SAY LESS.

[piotrgrzadziel]

Soooo, we can also find the gigantic ants which I assume to be Fungus-growing ants. Their habits are quite similar to what the Golden Order stands upon - collecting dead material in one place in order to create food/life

[xyz_exodia]

I remember one of the first Elden Ring theories I watched was about the Erdtree being a parasitic mushroom

[miguelbustiogarcia]

Furthering your point about the spores underground:

Those big white "trunks" in siofra look a lot like ancient fungi that used to look like trees

[nathananderson]

I'd like to note that the finger notrum gives the effect of not only Miquella's circlet but also Trina's flower that you also get after their deaths. Not sure if that affects the theory at all but it felt important.

[andresouzar]

I listened to a guy speak for 25 minutes rambling that elden ring world lore is a mushroom....and it makes sense....man....i need mushrooms now

[Gonadsonfire]

very interesting theory. one interesting thing I myself noticed is that the fingers in the DLC have a lot of comparisons and similarities to parasitic worms. things like the nostrum's description about "something wriggling inside" and the small nodule that looks similar to a botfly, the finger-weaver desire to "turn their bodies into fingers", how metyr "births" her children out of her flesh and the worms that she spews from her wound, ymir's horrific transformation into a "mother", etc. it also creates new interpretations for things that already existed in the base game, like the term "glistening with life" essentially meaning "infested with parasites" in comparison to metyr being described as "magnificently gleaming" as well as the large amounts of worms that she spews from her chest wound, "host of fingers" as a title, the unexplained worms that leave godwyn's body upon his death in the original story trailer, etc. A lot of the effects attributed to grace are seen particularly in insect parasites, like mind control/manipulation, drastically extended lifespans, and "undead" bugs.

it could be that in some cases, "finger" is more-or-less an in-game term for worms.

[BigBossDP]

Your theory is very much on point. Life from death is the central idea of the game and the great debate of whether death should be a boundary or not is touched upon multiple times. But to relate all this to an actual real life representation like the mushrooms takes a very keen understanding. Good work.

[tobeymalone]

I like this because it also ties in with the alchemical themes; with equivalent exchange and the idea that only death can pay for life meshing with the mushroom imagery so well

[greenbean]

Botanically speaking I've seen lots of people try and identify plants from around the game

On that note, the Miranda flower always reminded me of a giant pinguicula.

Rosette shaped in appearance often with flower stalks protruding from its crown, these plants are carnivorous in nature and have often been noted to "crawl" by using its roots to anchor in a location it prefers to be

[loblo]

Everything was layed out from the start and yet I never thought about Erdtree's gold being like slime mold and Erdtree Seed behaving like a spore. Oh man, it makes so much sense now.

[antigrav]

It's all tied to the stoned ape theory. God/greater will = mushroom. It comes in contact with the Crucible which had been exploring several evolutionary paths and raised up humans to the point that they created Marika and radagon. The golden order is the alchemical process of turning lead to gold, which is a metaphor for the evolution the greater will is attempting.

[LokiHades]

I think this theory is heading in a great direction, mostly agree with everything but think the Golden Seeds could still be actual seeds.

Just because thats how conniferous trees spread their seeds after experiencing release factors like trauma or more commonly, fire. The pinecones are shunted sealed with sap from the tree, and fire heats them up until the sap melts away, the cone stays dried but filled with seeds in it, rehydrates from rain and moisture and slowly releases seeds to fall into the soil. The process of Serotiny, very common in trees and plants and in lands that experience wildfire.

The wow factor for this video for me was the nokron/nokstella false night sky and them being spores, marvelous!

Loved it Zio, keep being awesome!