Rata are you sure this isn’t just Copium??

Finally I will have an answer to the one question that keeps me up at night: who the hell is Godefroy?

Imagine if: DLC: So, here are Marika's, Miquella's and Godefroy's motivations and all these cool answers -Lorehunters: Cool! DLC: But... -Lorehunters: ... But what? DLC: There's this other super important series of events that predates all that, regarding those same characters -Lorehunters: ...W-Wait what do you mean there's.. DLC: K bye!

Ahhh my guiding moonlight

"After the Patches settled down a bit" So, like when he got to Volcano Manor or...?

I don't need sleep I need awnsers

Inb4 godefroy becomes the secret centerpiece of the dlc. With lore that is the lynch pin for everything. Godefroy was the key all along.

Chrono Trigger as background music is something I would love to see wayy more. Great choice

Hell yea! My daily cope is here but I agree with Rata. I personally feel like DLC is just going shine a big damn spotlight on the plot and tie everything together more clearly.

Even without the Miyazaki quote, based on the content of the trailer alone it would be difficult for the DLC to *not* include some big answers. The quote is even more encouraging. Less confidently, I’m still hopeful that Godwyn has a significant role and has been deliberately omitted from marketing thus far for a special “oh shit” reveal. Can’t imagine what kinds of surprises they’ll have for us regardless. In 9 days we all might be experiencing another Siofra elevator moment.

i saw that part of the interview with quelaag you said that you ask around if people think the dlc will answer questions, hoping their answes is 'yes' to get that little validating feeling of cope & hope and it's so true, i so get that feeling from you and other creators saying it too lol. You saying this is what is gonna let me sleep this week

Will the DLC give us answers? Miyazaki: not on my watch

Been really enjoying your daily no spoiler hype videos, thanks Rata!

9 days already? Man time is FLYING

Rata: We will get answers Miyazaki: 😂

It's like explaining a math problem, and if the listener doesn't quite get it, you show another problem to demonstrate the same concept from a different angle. The listener could recoil and say "wait a minute, *more* math? But the first was already too much!" Or they could use their new perspective to assimilate the second example, then take that back to better understand the first.

Hopefully DLC adds to Melina's character, even if she doesn't appear herself. That was my biggest problem with the story.

I want to know more about Melina's origin her connection to Marika the gloam-eyed queen, the godslayers and destined death but unfortunately the DLC will be more focused on Miquella, dark secrets of the golden order, Marika's affair or secrets too and possible Godwyn connections..

I recreated the DLC Map, no preview footage just from the trailers - Would you be interested in that sort of thing? There's also a bunch of stuff people may have missed (in the trailers), and I'd love your thoughts on it

I feel like From usually answers about 5-10 things in the DLC but then add about 20 other mysteries that never get answered

I don't want answers. I want to struggle for eternity.

That Carian Piercer hit box….

I think it will solve a lot, but also add new and even more confusing stuff. We'll see stuff about Miquella, explaining a lot of lore missing in the main game. But then there's also new characters, who'll probably be confusing as all hell.

Lore accurate carian knight will always be a chad build. Your PvP gameplay is pretty good! Great use of the carian knight sword moveset, I have a soft spot for that weapon. Despite its shortcomings, the unique moveset is fun and interesting, along with being quite effective in PvE. They really should have either made it so the guard boost/damage negation is higher to lean into the blocking R2 better, or make it double as a catalyst like everyone was expecting it would. Please From, just give it a little something at least. Also, I definitely think the DLC will answer a lot of basic lore questions that have been plaguing the community since launch, while also introducing new mysteries that will become the central focal point for the lore community. I think it’s a safe bet considering that: 1) the DLC lore was already laid down by Martin from the beginning 2) huge chunks of basic lore/timeline are glaringly missing 3) cut content from the base game along with interviews from Miyazaki and team heavily imply that From simply didn’t have time to fully flesh out the whole story in the base game, and barely made the release deadline as it was. Martin wrote a ton of material for them to work with, I don’t see them wasting much of that for the purposes of creating ongoing mysteries, although we can expect they’ll still leave a lot open for speculation.

Finally subscribed; your voice is so agreeable and the context is reflective and mature, without being dragging

For a future video I hope you elaborate on what these big questions are. There's still plenty I don't know about Elden Ring's story, lore and characters (just speaking about myself personally), and it would be really cool if you made a video clarifying what still needs to be answered by the DLC. So everyone can be on the same page.

Based background music as always~ Hoping for more answers, and questions too with the dlc

Playing the DLC will be amazing. But also, that first next full play through….what a massive full game with the DLC added

I feel like every one of these videos is like an injection slaking my ER thirst. Thank you sir 🙏

Praying Margit's Shackle still works in The Land Of Shadow. Im going on a hidden wall expedition when this drops

glad you went full time youtube rata, these daily uploads have been a treat!

Dark souls 3 answered stuff very in your face that was very subtle in 3, being how time was being held frozen in reality, darkness being natural, dragons being a form of humans that evolved etc

Im just hoping for more lore on ancient dragons, specifically placidusax's god

From what I could tell from every preview-related content, yes it will

The dlc is specifically going to add content that couldn’t already fit in the base game. That will certainly answer or at least give bigger hints at some of the major plot points, but with the new content it will bring topics that we didn’t even consider and were gonna be mulling over it for years to come. Leaving things up for the community to speculate over is one of things miyazaki likes more than even swamps. Impossible to imagine, I know.

I just need reminders of what those questions are so I can look out for them

My theory is that st Trina was changed from being Miquella after being cut, and is actually the gloam eyed queen, afflicting Miquella and preventing him from achieving his dreams. A parasite rather than an alter ego

3:49 Town of twilight from shadow hearts covenant. Always love to hear it❤

Love this channel!!!! ⚔️

I’ve never heard anyone saying that their dlc’s only give more questions. Literally every Dark Souls dlc and The Old Hunters too simply dump the facts and always make the story more clear. Especially The Ringed City

How mad will people be if the answers arent what they want to hear? 🤔

2:56 Messmer - child of America, lol

I think we'll get a lot of answers to questions we've had, but also be left with an equal amount of new questions. I just hope we get clear and relatively concise lore on: Marika, Miquella, Messmer, and Melina. Anything else is just an additional blessing.

finally some recognition for Martin

The thing that's been driving me up the wall since the main game came out is Elphael's layout and the situation with Mohg and Miquella. To sum up my notes at the time is that the kidnapping idea made no sense- Mohg couldn't have snuck out of Elphael. (He did get noticed by that one wandering noble in the snowfield, but he would have been noticed by everyone in Elphael, too, because it's *way better guarded* than that area in the snowfield.) As I'm prepping my DLC character, I've been back through Elphael and it still bothers me to no end. Stuff like that layout of the guards, along with how Malenia and the Haligtree soldiers know Miquella is gone and yet they guard the place like he's still there and they expect Miquella to return on his own. (Not to mention the question of how Mohg knew that Miquella was embedding himself in the Haligtree roots at all, and the strangeness of Miquella respinning the cocoon on the Mohgwyn grounds...)

It’s downplayed in current game but may elaborate on what the sun is cosmology. Sun imagery appears related to omen, with dung-eater armor being the main example until the dlc wickerman. The shadow lands is probably the sun kingdom that’s mentioned on that one shield and we probably get more elaborate how eclipsing (ie told worm-eaten in the Japanese) the sun relates to fixing soullessness. Do also have a prediction that the Oman demigod twins may be the product of a consort before Godfrey like the old man in the first dlc trailer (or is just a cured byproduct like all fromsoft root-of-problems suffers).

Hey Rata. FROM did something similar with original Dark Souls regarding content. I don't know if you remember, but there was an art book released and it had those manticores you fought in the beginning of the DLC. Well, the fact they were in the art books really confused people until the DLC came out lol. I think we will get Marika answers about her past for sure, but only to serve as foreshadowing for Miquella's path. Those ashes Vaati mentioned was a pretty big nugget. I would not be surprised however if we don't hear a lot about the GEQ. I think she's a good start to ER 2, if I am correct. A lot of people are in for a really big treat on the 21st. FROM has the best DLC's like ever, and it looks like it's gonna be huge.

Rataoskr you forget the ringed city and ashes of ariandel dlcs. Both of them never answered a dam thing, but posed more questions to the player that to this day we still don’t know the exact answers to.

I don’t think the story is confusing at all. Many things are ambiguous, but the backstory and the different endings made sense to me.

Nice Zullie track. I think even if the DLC doesn't clarify basic history & archaeology, it may recontextualise things in the base. the Dung Eater will get more lore, or perhaps some understanding/sympathy. Maybe he saw the omen culture purge conducted by Messmer. His antipathy and vindictiveness really makes no sense without something like this.

I think we are about to find out why every castle has battlements and set up for attacks... Lands between about to be attacked

Id argue that ds3 does nothing to answer the actual questions introduced in the base game, it more so answers questions from ds1 actually with the ringed city, but nothing about the deep, profained flame, londor church, or even history of lothric was not explored in the dlc, the dlc was just a conclusion story to ds1 and series as a whole, not to ds3 specifically. I think this is where popular idea that the dlcs never answer questions from the base game came from, even when bloodborne dlc literally revealed so many big named characters from the base game. And ds1 and ds2 revealed in great detail about past events the base games only briefly mention, like the story of the abyss walker and the old kingdoms in dranglaic

There’s also an extra answer from a recent Chinese interview, that you didn’t mention, where Miyazaki straight-up blatantly says that there will be answers to lore questions. He also said that he will create more questions, but that’s not surprising given the type of narrative director Miyazaki is

Elden Ring lore community when Miquella isn't even in the DLC and every piece of new lore contradicts a piece of existing lore: *surprised pikachu face*

We got even more questions and no Radagon.

The game is like 10 FS games in one game, so of course it's gonna be more confusing with such a larger canvas to paint on

I see it that there are several core truths about every DLC -It's never what you expected it to be -It answer's the most important questions -It DOESN'T answer most smaller questions and once the final DLC of a series is released -It completes itself, as in it'll raise alot of new questions, but this time they will also be answered with enough piecing together.

Ratatoskr: "The DLC will answer questions, it will provide important context" The DLC: "So, Marika has 8 sisters and the Elden Beast is actually Melina's brother. Also, Radahn had another horse"

Was looking for the link relating to the DS3 dlc you said would be in the link. Youre getting me through this last week and a half

Questions Previews Promised Answers To 1. What happened to Miquella and what is his ultimate Fate. (This will include side questions like “How good of a person is he?” and “Is Trina a disguise or distinct persona?”) 2. What did Marika do to become a god and plant the Erdtree, & what were her ambitions (which will at least have strong implications for how competent a ruler she was along with why and how she tore her realm down). Questions That Implicitly Will Get Answers 1. What was the exact nature of the Crucible and why did the Order grow to hate it and the Omens (Shadowland culture & “Hornsent” are so blatantly made by Omens they can’t not explain the deal. May also have ties to the colonized natives of Limgrave and the Banished Knights,but that veers into tangent) 2. Details on the latter descendants of Marika/members of the Demigod Family besides the surviving major warlords of the current era (I cannot begin to guess the precise answers, but simply adding Messmer to the family tree and pinning down his relationship with Marika and everyone else will be fodder for theorists. I ardently hope we will at least be told about other, minor demigods, but I’ll be understanding if all we get new is him, & grateful if it includes deets on the alliances and politics between the pre-existing family members in their early days.) Questions With A Small Chance Of Answers 1. What exactly is the deal with Godwyn’s lobotomized body. (According to at least 1 or 2 pre-viewers, a Knight Miniboss that is claimed in flavor text to revere Godwyn post-Black Knifing is encountered, plus Miquella is recorded as stating that giving the Prince of Death a proper death is one of his specific goals. This will not be a major storyline like Miquella’s personal quest or the truth of the Omen persecution, but I will be shocked if we don’t get a mini-quest chain or at least encounter a minor side-faction that is exploiting the Prince of Death for expanded lore on this front.) 2. Insight about past/rival cosmic entities, their mortal champions/contenders, and why is everyone fighting for the Lands Between (Learning about Marika and the Erdtree will necessitate learning at least a hint about the Greater Will, Shadowland is where “unwanted forms of death” were sealed and there are Ghostflame-fueled golems to fight, so that’s a bit of guaranteed extra lore on the Twinbird, that one talisman or trinket Vaati transcribed talking about “a harrowed clan worshiping a horrific being in the shadow of the ancestor’s corpse” strongly implies Frenzied Flame presence, and in general it makes sense to learn about failed Outer Gods and such forces in this tomb of Marika’s enemies. Also there is literally an NPC named the “Empyrean Grandma”. I REALLY hope we learn SOMETHING about Gloam-Eyed Queen, but if it’s just the Bird, the Flame, & whoever Marika screwed over for power, that’s plenty).

Yes it will, but it will also give us double the amount of questions.

I love the music from Zelda. Such a great sound track

I'm convinced that Martin wrote his signature on a contract and that's it eheh😊

- Culture that preceeded Erdtree culture - The land where Marika first set foot and became a god\ - Birthplace of the Erdtree Anybody who thinks we aren't getting MOST of the answers is the one huffing copium. We're getting foundational lore.

We all know every answer we get will raise 2 more questions

It will have a door leading to Jack Nicholson yelling 'YOU WANT THE TRUTH U CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH'

Here's me hoping we get the gravity cultists' drip and their pickaxe is a throwing weapon.

the DLC wil give us answers on the bigger picture but it still leave many unanswered questions

Short answer: no Long answer: lol absolutely not haha

The chrono trigger music 🙌

As someone who feels they have a decent grasp on the lore, although far from fully understanding it. I would love a video outlining these "biggest questions" you have regarding the lore going into the DLC.

Cant wait for the final boss of SotE to be Godefroy the Grafted

It'll give you more questions than answers.

I definitely think we'll get answers, but I think a lot of them may end up feeling underwhelming - not because they'll be bad or anything - just because they've been hyped to hell and back. Though I do think there will be a pretty interesting twist that almost no one will see coming. I'm hoping for something like that anway.

I would really love to know how the Marika/Radagon thing happened and how that worked

The biggest question I'm hoping for is, after everything that's happened, why did Marika destroy the Elden Ring? Did she have regrets about how things came to be, or how they turned out? Did Godwin's death change her mind?

Ratatoskr, you see the new Elden Ring Journey So Far trailer? I enjoyed it, good hype trailer.

"Martin didn't write any new content" yeah no shit

The background music was neat.

I really hope there is different dialogue, or that something in the story (both main and dlc) changes depending on whether you defeated Malenia or not. Really want to know whether she knew Miquella was 'divesting himself of his flesh' and heading to the Shadow Realm. Or maybe we could tell her (pure cope) of what Miquella was doing if you did the dlc before the Malenia fight. Also is that woman in the story dlc trailer wielding the 'Godskin stitcher' kind of weapon during Messmer's siege the gloam-eyed queen perhaps? Can't wait for this dlc man, I need more Elden Ring hahaha

Only answers I need are for if there are new axes, maces and throwing hammers

Im thinking about all the lore information that has been put together based on what we have and how much of that will need to be revamped once the full story is on the table.

My most itching questions are about Radagon.

i don't get the worry tbh, both the old hunters and the ringed city/ashes of ariandel explain A LOT about bloodborne and dark souls (3, but even about the whole trilogy) And, as we know "Miquella spoke of the beginning"

Honestly, I'm VERY hopeful this time, for three reasons, besides it talking about Miquella, Marika and the emphasis on "the land where marika first set foot and the erdtree was born". Those are the three BIG things we wished the dlc gave us, no one cares about the fucking land of reeds or things like that 1 it being about someone we well know from the base game 2 that they didn't forget St Trina 3 (spoiler for footage showed in the previews) There are DEATHBIRDS. i genuinely thought they would have been forgotten, which doesn't seem the case

Some answers on Melina would be nice

how are new weapons, armor, spells, miracles and ashes of war going to work in the original game areas? will they work at all? can the player easily go back and forth between expansion area and original game content? will expansion owners and non-expansion owners be able to interact with new gear in the original areas via multiplayer?

What build is that in the background? Stats and weapons

Now we wonder what Elden Ring won't talk about!!

If you think about it, if the dlc stuff wasent cut from the main game, it would have probably taken one more year to make. When everything is sead and done this game is going to be massive takes allmoat 150 hours to beat it normaly but i am slow and check everything

Grant us EYES.

Hey Rata are you gonna discuss all the new details that came out today about Wilds or is that all on the back burner till you're done with Shadow of the Erdtree?

Is that Chrono Trigger I hear?

My prediction is the DLC will give us 100 times more lore on stuff we never thought about or never even knew about than actual answers to preexisting questions. And yes, this is my Ringed City PTSD talking.

If we consider that the dlc in er is really gonna be another 2/3 of the game then there’s gonna be a crazy amount of lore we don’t have

Meanwhile, Miyazaki: Here's a ton of answers to questions you didn't have, and no answers to any questions you did have. My job here is done. Me: ... Me: But you didn't do anything

I want to know where that secret hidden dragon Nutsax is so I can go beat him.

I don't want too many answers, think about it. If there were definitive answers, would the community have been so fueled to find answers by working today together.

Ha, every Souls DLC always just adds more questions that make you question if you even knew anything in the first place.

what would really help would be things in the DLC that will set the timeline in stone.