Hidetaka Miyazaki’s games, from Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring, have rich and complex lore. In fact, difficult gameplay and complex lore have become his signature elements. Although Miyazaki has created several iconic games over the years, Elden Ring is the latest jewel of his career.
Elden Ring has a vast and cryptic lore, thanks to Miyazaki’s collaboration with George R. R. Martin. While Miyazaki worked on the game’s story and characters, Martin created the overall mythology for Elden Ring. His narrative was the backstory that set the events of the game.
Hidetaka Miyazaki made changes to George R. R. Martin’s characters from Elden Ring
During an interview with Game Informer in 2022, Hidetaka Miyazaki discussed the mythological lore created by Martin for Elden Ring.
Surprisingly, Miyazaki added that Martin crafted the characters in the lore as humans. He then said,
“When Martin wrote these characters, and when he provided that origin story, that mythos for the world of Elden Ring, these demigods were much closer to their original form, and maybe closer to human form back then, before the Shattering, before it all started”
However, things changed when Miyazaki and his team took on the task of making these characters fit into the game. Changes had to be made to Martin’s characters so that they become a perfect fit for the game’s bosses. He then added,
“So it was more up to us to interpret this and say, ‘how did they become such inhuman monsters”
For Miyazaki, the catastrophic Shattering event justified the changes made for the characters. He, however, added that Martin would be shocked by what they did with the characters of Elden Ring. He wrote the characters for the lore with the idea that they should be a little bit more human, and have some elements of human drama to them.
Elden Rings’ upcoming Shadow of the Erdtree DLC
With the success of Elden Ring, many are now eagerly waiting for Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. The paid DLC will be released on June 21. Shadow of the Erdtree will take players in the same time period as Elden Ring.
While the game is set in the same time period, it will net a new map. This information has been confirmed by Miyazaki in an interview with Eurogamer. Here he adds that the new map will be,
“larger even than Limgrave in the base game”
Additionally, according to Miyazaki, the DLC will be the “largest expansion” they ever created in terms of the overall volume.
FromSoftware released a trailer for Shadow of the Erdtree which came out on February 21. The trailer gave a glimpse of what to expect from the must-awaited DLC. Moreover, we also know that at launch, the DLC will be made available in four fully-fledged editions.
