#ok lol no more dlc asks pls unless it’s about ranni

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someone brought up the idea that it might be marika there Post Placidusax (placidusax is called First Elden Lord whos god abandoned him) and not miquella and honestly. god. they fucking would

itd tie a lot together. a previous leak/comment about the dlc mentioning wed see hourah loux's badlands (marika meeting him pre godfrey), torrent (marika having torrent then leaving the spirit steed calling whistle for ranni or melina, linking to rannis dialogue where she hands over the bell and then wonders if wed grow tired of listening to the two fingers), cementing an appearance theme among her golden scions (the long golden hair and circle of braids that we see on miquella and the Possibly Godwyn statue in the haligtree), why shes seemingly in some version of limgrave (the tall grasses usually used to visually demonstrate the wind, which limgraves known for. the placement of the erdtree and the ruins which litter limgrave. limgrave being used as the poster child for ER adverts) as shed be ascending towards the soon to be erdtree

itd be easier to show the world Pre Golden Order than Post Your Playthru Ending, and its the exact bait and switch from loves to pull, knowing that people are pushing HARD for a miquella dlc. so to drop someone who looks almost identical to miquella in a dlc trailer, only to reveal its someone different is exactly their style. plus from looooves their time travel dlcs

hmmmm all of this sounds very compelling too… and I have also heard from elsewhere that it is very typical of From to pull a bait-and-switch with their DLC announcements…

My one thought is that the character in the art has the exact same hairstyle with the exact same braid pattern as Miquella does, a style which no other character wears. So either they’re very deliberately trying to trick us (still possible) or it’s supposed to be Miquella.

Looking at the trees, what I’m seeing is what looks to be the Erdtree in combat with another tree acting as a parasite.

It looks to be gnarled with small spindly growths, growing around the Erdtree and masking its golden light, and consuming its life essence. There’s also some kind of dark particle cloud hovering around it. If the figure is Marika, it’s possible we’re seeing whatever happened to the tree that existed before Marika’s Erdtree? My other thought is that if the figure is Miquella, this growth could be related to Godwyn’s spreading influence… the spindly growths on the parasite tree and the particle cloud remind me visually of deathroot. And we also know that before he was stolen, Miquella was trying to grant Godwyn a true death.

Great point though that the dlc taking place present-day creates some complications for the endings. I’m honestly not sure how that would play out!