


We can also learn about another demigod, Malenia's brother, Miquella, although you won't be able to fight him. She's the demigod who fought Radahn and blanketed Caelid in Scarlet Rot, and she's still pretty formidable. Miquella's Haligtree hides another demigod Shardbearer who's waiting for you to face her: Malenia, Blade of Miquella. But nothing good can survive the Lands Between, and that's true of the Haligtree, as well.

That place is Miquella's Haligtree, another giant tree that once might have been the seat of a new religion to replace the Golden Order and the Erdtree itself. Traveling through the Consecrated Snowfield, however, we can finally find our way to somewhere that's not quite so horrifying-at least, on paper. Regardless, it would be an exploration of a character that was not given much screen time within the game itself, but whose presence looms large over the landscape of Elden Ring all the same.In Elden Ring, we've visited some pretty awful places during our journey through the Lands Between, where any number of people have been tortured and murdered. So yes, this is the Miquella of “Malenia, Blade of Miquella” fame, and it’s possible we will end up learning way, way more about them, if not possibly playing as them. This is after the realization that the Golden Order was unable to cure Malenia from the rot.” Cursed to be forever young, he created the Haligtree to allow himself to grow to be an adult and to purge the rot from Malenia. “Miquella, the brother of Malenia, is one of the Empyreans. Here’s who that is, in case you weren’t paying attention to the lore: Despite perhaps looking like a woman from this perspective, fans seem to have reached the conclusion that this is actually Miquella. Update (3/1): I thought I would expand on something that fans have dug into a little bit more here, the identity of the person on the horse. But I’m glad they’re doing it, and of course, I cannot wait to play it. Sekiro, for instance, never got DLC, and it’s not a sure thing for big releases anymore the way it used to be essentially a guarantee. It’s just good that they’ve said something, as at a certain point, everyone was wondering if they’d simply move on to Armored Core and not do DLC at all. Generally speaking, FromSoft didn’t take that long between announcing DLC and releasing it for past games, just a few months, but my gut tells me this is probably more ambitious DLC than they’ve done previously, given the scale of Elden Ring itself, so it’s possible it takes longer. I would imagine the soonest would be holiday 2023. While it is “in development,” we have no date or time window for it. Of course, what we do not know about the just-announced expansion is endless, including its release date.
