Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree, Shaman Village Music

A braid of golden hair, cut loose. Queen Marika's offering to the Grandmother. What was her prayer? Her wish, her confession? There is no one left to answer, and Marika never returned home again.
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[LeFork]

Keep in mind this is the same dlc where you can oil up people with a physic tear

[Tangozzz]

Damn. All this happened because the greater will went to the store to buy cigarettes a million years ago, and never came home…

[rhymenoceros]

"one day we will return together to our home bathed in rays of gold" Why do I get the feeling this is something Marika told her children.

[matesquilos]

"Marika bathed the village of her home in gold, knowing full well that there was no one to heal."

[SpectraLight]

The ambience of this place and St Trina's place are next level. So beautiful

[woahthatscrazy]

makes you wonder what kind of woman Marika was like before she snapped, and judging by the scenery of her home, she might have once had a nurturing side, until godhood made her lose it with vengeance, and shatter the elden ring

[Garbageman]

Given everything going on in the world rn this really made me appreciate the subtlety and restraint From show. All the bitterness and twisted logic of the lands between stem from a woman who was wronged and hurt, truly and deeply. She tried to fight fire with fire and only entrenched the problem. A land means nothing if its people are in turmoil. Life without death has no meaning. Her son tried to go the other way, but enforced compassion is mind control. Perhaps realising that she’s only made it worse she shattered the elden ring. Bring something new to the world, because we simply can’t keep going like this.

[Dressyone]

This dlc is making us change our views on so many characters. Mohg, Miquella and Marika. None are who we thought they were

[boylan]

SPOILERS if you want to know about Marika’s cruel fate:
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We can learn a few things from piecing together the descriptions of the golden braid, minor erdtree and the spirit's dialogue in Bonny Village, namely that the shaman village was Marika's home. It was there where her people were slaughtered by the hornsent to become jar "saints" and she would begin her path of vengeance and ascent to godhood. As Leda remarks of the hornset "They were never saints. They just happened to be on the losing side of a war".
After putting the hornsent to the sword with the power of the base serpent within Messmer and an army of tarnished, Marika would reach the top of Enir-llim and the gate of divinty. It was here she sought to create a perfect world where nobody would truly die again and would erase any signs of the existence of the crucible and its people who wronged her. Marika would return to her village and sprout a minor erdtree to show them just how far she had come, but nobody remained...
During her reign as god and vessel of the Elden Ring, Marika would birth many demigod children, however in a cruel twist of fate, her and Godfrey would birth the omen twins. Her own flesh and blood bore the traits of the very people who committed atrocities against her family and loved ones. After everything Marika did, even after ascending to godhood she still could not deny the reality of the crucible of life and so they were exiled to the depths below the royal capital.
As undeniable as the crucible of life, is the fact that it must end. Marika likely plucked the rune of death from the Elden Ring so nobody she loved may die again but tragedy would strike again for Marika. Her golden child, perfection incarnate, Godwyn would suffer the first death of a demigod and so Marika would learn she could not escape the nature of the world, not even in godhood.
Perhaps this led to the shattering of the Elden Ring, an act of vengeance on false promises or perhaps she realized Metyr's fingers were in fact broken from the

start, either way it adds a lot to the character of Marika and the overall story of the game.

[Cobregn]

I was so confused when i arrived here and found no one, no beast that wanted to kill me, no sheeps, no shadows, no knights, just a tree, spreading golden rays, a haunting music, and some little houses. I stayed there a long time. Listening to the music, surroundes by immense dark walls of Mesmer's Fort and Tower. I didn't even noticed the statue in the tree at first.
With a tiny place, two items, one melody, FS made us care for Marika. The most hated character of the base game. I'll never forget that

[JeanneFeisont]

This gave me immense chills finding this. Absolutely the most haunting area FromSoft has ever made. It holds so much meaning it's INSANE

[fynn]

fromsoft achieves so eloquently in a simple item description what other game developers would spend dozens of hours attempting to establish. its remarkable how they were able to completely alter our perception of marika so effectively. the power of a good narrative and art direction

[nahthisaintit]

After this DLC I completely understand Merikas hatred towards the Horned and Crucible knights. The shit they did to the shamans was awful beyond words.

[boyyladd]

too peak. the dlc brought some truly divine tracks to the table.

[owenmanley]

This place is so interesting because there is so much meaning to the area, and we learn so much from what items we get here. However, what makes it even more special is the atmosphere.

There are no enemies here. So, the only audio the player hears is the music, the wind, and the player’s footsteps as they brush past the fields of flowers dotting the village.

When I found this place, it was late evening and the sky was gleaming in orange. The rays of light were hitting the trees, and I got on top of a rock that faces the Jagged peak… and I looked to my right.

What I saw was all the realm, and it was utterly ethereal. So many landmarks that I’ve been to was able to be seen from where I was at and it really resonated with me.

This area encapsulates so much it’s mind-boggling. It’s one of the prettiest areas in the game…

Afterwards I had to jump back from the rock, missed with Torrent, and fell to my death dropping 2 million runes…

Thank you for this memory, FromSoftware.

[JK_Snacks]

Kind of music where you just sit down, legs stretched, and just watch the sun rise and set.
A warm but back chilling bgm if you realize the back ground lore of the town and its people's speculated demise.

[anteros__]

Honestly, this place fills me with so much hopelessness and despair when i looked at the themes of it in the context of our real world. The cycle of violence continuing in different places, the grief of loss in general, and just the vengefulness & hatred that comes with being hurt from someone or something.

From did a great job here. The shaman village has had me thinking so much of who marika really was and how difficult a position she was in. She is inherently flawed, but i believe she really tried to make things a little better. It failed miserably and the world is in tatters....just so sad.

[alemaniacreyon]

I love how in the music in the title screen has these same instruments with similar notes playing right before it becomes bombastic, I'd like to think that this whole time they where foreshadowing this moment in the village

[Lena-dews]

Alas, that land, once blessed, now has diminished. (O, locus ille, beatus quondam, nunc deminuit.)
We destined to be mothers, now become tarnished. (Nos, destinatae matribus, nunc fiunt turpes.)
We have lamented and we have shed tears but no one consoles us. (Ploarvimus lacrimavimusque sed nemo nos consolatur.)
*Golden One, at whom you were angry?* (Aureum, cui irascebaris?)

[mattnsg]

i'll never forget my first time reaching this village and thinking an elden beast would spawn