Elden Ring (George RR Martin and From Software)

Not to mention many of the characters have two names. Godfrey is also known as Hoarah Loux (but seemingly not related to Nepheli Loux, they're just part of the same tribe/clan, and Nepheli's adoptive father is Gideon). Ranni calls herself Renna at the start as if she's trying to hide the fact she's Ranni even though we don't even know who Ranni is by that point anyway, but also not to be confused with her mother, Rennala. Marika was married to Radagon and they had kids, even though you then learn that Marika is Radagon. Margit is just some sort of apparition or summon of Morgott.

Basically, Marika's family tree is squiggle.

Marika was married to Godfrey (Hoarah Loux) and had Morgott, Mohg and Godwyn. Godwyn's son is Godrick (and possibly also Godefroy who is found in one of the Evergaols, but he's only referred to as 'kin' to them, but that fight is pretty much the first phase of the Godrick fight again with more damage).

Radagon was married to Rennala and had Ranni, Radahn and Rykard.

Marika and Radagon then left their spouses and married each other, and had Malenia and Miquella (possibly also Melina and Messmer (from the DLC), but both of those are unconfirmed). Malenia also had Millicent and her four sisters. But also Marika and Radagon are the same person.

(Kinda Funny did an Elden Ring podcast recently and went through a lot of this).

But yeah, I was wondering about why Radahn would need to be beat for the DLC too. I guess it's more for story reasons, that you need to have reached that for parts of the story in the DLC to make sense even though you can get to Mohg without beating Radahn.

Oh, you're struggling to keep up with the story? Pfft…. git gud, scrub!

Haha... i gotta admit, i kind of wouldn't mind that 😂

You'll probably still find it hard and then some gowl on youtube at level 1 in his jocks will speed run the dlc taking no hits on day 1 😫

I watched one the other day where a guy did it in 40 minutes i think while picking up some handy items. Not ideal though as you are going in at a low level.

New patch on June 20th to prepare for dlc and add 'balancing. New features like inventory improvement, details below.

Very annoying that twitter posts can't be linked anymore.

Edit: thanks Retro

Oh my god i can't believe that works, he's such a tool.

Right I am all set. Defeated Mohg. I completely forgot about mimic. Made it a bit easy but I just want access to DLC so that’s all that matters

Just to check, have you beaten Radahn too? For some reason you need to have beaten both Mohg and Radahn to access the DLC.

If so fair play, you tore through that quick enough!

I was actually gonna trade in a remembrance for the blasphemous blade yesterday but I'm not a fan of great swords. Saying that, i'm currently using a great spear which i don't like using either and wonder if it's been a bit pointless one handing it as i use a shield as well. Tried going back to my rivers of blood katana but the spear is so much more powerful.

Edit: actually scratch that, gonna just wait to see what the dlc brings in terms of new weapons before upgrading a weapon from the base game to +10.

Review embargo is up, starting to see reviews pop up. Needless to say, getting full marks.

Ah yeah if you've beaten Loretta in Caria Manor and reached Ranni then you've mostly completed that area.

Yeah I'd say just get used to the game again, start in Limgrave and work your way back round Liurnia and Caelid,see if there are any caves or catacombs with minor bosses you haven't done yet. Should get you back into the swing of things. Could also try making your way into the early areas of Altus Plateau (northeast of the Academy in Liurnia). In terms of difficulty it's around the same as Caelid.

Have it pre-ordered so gonna give it a lash Thursday night. I like the idea of another wide open area, pick a direction and see what happens, especially with the account of surprises from the base game, can't wait to see what From have in store.

I'm ready...

Yeah the guys at Kinda Funny reviewed it and one said he reached the final boss but still hasn't beaten them 8 hours later (not all that time was fighting the boss, he said he'd go somewhere else to look for upgrade material to get stronger, try the boss again etc). Another guy said he was doing a run without using summons or spirit ashes but after two hours couldn't beat the final boss, so started using Mimic and still took about half an hour after that to beat it.

Going to be a tough fight for sure. Will be worth finding as many of the power upgrades in the DLC as possible before taking on the boss.

With all the talk of Mohg, i can't remember if i fought Mohg Omen before so off to the sewers i went. Instantly remembered why I probably didn't fight Omen to begin with as i spent hours sprinting through this damn place! Every room i went in to had an incredibly annoying enemy and then that bastard hand made me jump when it came out of the water, which I'm fairly sure caught me the first time through as well. Hate this place, might give Mohg Omen a miss as I'm sure I'm gonna be coming across plenty more tough areas tomorrow night.

It did make me go back to Rivers of Blood instead of Mohg spear as i need a quicker attack and it reminded me how much i love Katanas in this