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Alas, that land, once blessed, now has diminished. (O, locus ille, beatus quondam, nunc deminuit.) We destined to be mothers, now become tarnished. (Nos, destinatae matribus, nunc fiunt turpes.) We have lamented and we have shed tears but no one consoles us. (Ploarvimus lacrimavimusque sed nemo nos consolatur.) *Golden One, at whom you were angry?* (Aureum, cui irascebaris?)

"Marika bathed the village of her home in gold, knowing full well that there was no one to heal."

"we are all.. we are all forsaken"

Why did we all use the same armor

i go to this place and use my summon signs to help bosses lol this place is so beautiful 😭

instead of standing there, why not emote in a meditative position? /:

This feels like a more solemnly more pleasant version of majula

Same exact harp notes are in the elden beast fight (but some are repeated), makes the fact their body is the sword even more messed up.

This song gives the same vibes as gats, from berserk

i wanna live with her here

I love how in the music in the title screen has these same instruments with similar notes playing right before it becomes bombastic, I'd like to think that this whole time they where foreshadowing this moment in the village

peak

Time for bliss And then Sadness ahead

Its crazy that on the same map you have chill place like this and horror abyssal woods on the other

This place is so interesting because there is so much meaning to the area, and we learn so much from what items we get here. However, what makes it even more special is the atmosphere. There are no enemies here. So, the only audio the player hears is the music, the wind, and the player’s footsteps as they brush past the fields of flowers dotting the village. When I found this place, it was late evening and the sky was gleaming in orange. The rays of light were hitting the trees, and I got on top of a rock that faces the Jagged peak… and I looked to my right. What I saw was all the realm, and it was utterly ethereal. So many landmarks that I’ve been to was able to be seen from where I was at and it really resonated with me. This area encapsulates so much it’s mind-boggling. It’s one of the prettiest areas in the game… Afterwards I had to jump back from the rock, missed with Torrent, and fell to my death dropping 2 million runes… Thank you for this memory, FromSoftware.

you know it's special when an area get backround music

so sad and peaceful

When I first discovered the Shaman village, the music somehow reminded me of the Dark souls 2 Majula days and it hit me twice as hard.

Can't hear sht

Lets give Fromsoft a hand of applause 👏🏾

so pretty...

Plin plin 😢

I was so confused when i arrived here and found no one, no beast that wanted to kill me, no sheeps, no shadows, no knights, just a tree, spreading golden rays, a haunting music, and some little houses. I stayed there a long time. Listening to the music, surroundes by immense dark walls of Mesmer's Fort and Tower. I didn't even noticed the statue in the tree at first. With a tiny place, two items, one melody, FS made us care for Marika. The most hated character of the base game. I'll never forget that

I have no idea how FromSoft can make something new feel so deeply nostalgic

"Why is it always despair.."

Marika still a heartless witch tho

I took a moment and explored the area because the music was so calming, I spent like 20 minutes just wandering.

I sat here for 30 minutes after finishing the game It was a strange feeling, but i am satisfied with elden Ring. It's over

"I abandon here my love."

doesnt it sound like elden beast without the choir?

Gives me Majula vibes. The quiet music, the wind and the inner peace you feel just standing/sitting there

This gave me immense chills finding this. Absolutely the most haunting area FromSoft has ever made. It holds so much meaning it's INSANE

Raw Nostalgia in musical form

fromsoft achieves so eloquently in a simple item description what other game developers would spend dozens of hours attempting to establish. its remarkable how they were able to completely alter our perception of marika so effectively. the power of a good narrative and art direction

All what I can say is that the Hornsent deserved every ounce of retribution Marika sent their way

Honestly, this place fills me with so much hopelessness and despair when i looked at the themes of it in the context of our real world. The cycle of violence continuing in different places, the grief of loss in general, and just the vengefulness & hatred that comes with being hurt from someone or something. From did a great job here. The shaman village has had me thinking so much of who marika really was and how difficult a position she was in. She is inherently flawed, but i believe she really tried to make things a little better. It failed miserably and the world is in tatters....just so sad.

Ash lake vibes

too peak. the dlc brought some truly divine tracks to the table.

Sadness ahead

Death ahead

We’re all is begin.

After this DLC I completely understand Merikas hatred towards the Horned and Crucible knights. The shit they did to the shamans was awful beyond words.

Miquella's basically a 2nd Marika that's why I think it's a good thing we put a stop to him he's honestly way more threatening than Marika since he can charm things and people freely to do his bidding whereas Marika achieved this by using War as her form of dominance and control although this area of the dlc and lore humanizes her for why she is the way she is its still not 100 percent justifiable as she ends up even doing worse things to people and races in the lands between in the future as the saying goes you either die a hero or live long enough to become the Villain

Kind of music where you just sit down, legs stretched, and just watch the sun rise and set. A warm but back chilling bgm if you realize the back ground lore of the town and its people's speculated demise.

There were never good or bad people in this story. A nation driven by religious fanaticism committed genocide only to receive the same fate as a result War, revenge, regret, the very world of Elden Ring is nothing but broken people trying to piece things together no matter what. Marika plucking the rune of death, Miquella's brainwashing, Ranni's betrayal, Mohg's blood cult, Our falling to the Flame of Frenzy No matter what good intentions people have, they only threw the world into deeper chaos. Goldmask and Ranni were right in one thing, the pettiness and pride of the gods was a curse upon this world Even if we fix it, it will break away again someday

i'll never forget my first time reaching this village and thinking an elden beast would spawn

Given everything going on in the world rn this really made me appreciate the subtlety and restraint From show. All the bitterness and twisted logic of the lands between stem from a woman who was wronged and hurt, truly and deeply. She tried to fight fire with fire and only entrenched the problem. A land means nothing if its people are in turmoil. Life without death has no meaning. Her son tried to go the other way, but enforced compassion is mind control. Perhaps realising that she’s only made it worse she shattered the elden ring. Bring something new to the world, because we simply can’t keep going like this.

This is were Marika was born and raised in

Seeing not only Marika's birthplace but also the Minor Erdtree spell here was so cool. Melina is the only other person besides Marika that is known to have used this spell, really showing how much Marika trusted Melina. Melina must have seen how, despite Marika believing that the Greater Will would help everyone, Marika and the subsequent Golden Order were slowly being turned into The Greater Will's pawns. This is probably what led to her and Ranni betraying her. This also might've led to Marika shattering the Elden Ring in a last-ditch attempt to help her children like Melina and Ranni, and maybe even as atonement for the Hornsent massacre to end the cycle of violence; she might've known that those two could help someone (the Tarnished) destroy the Greater Will or at least lessen its influence. It's possible that it might've even been the Radagon side of her that did the massacre while Marika was trying to rectify it, as it seems like Radagon was the one that was more in control when it came to the suffering of the people of the Lands Between and the adherence to the Greater Will in general. I wish we got a bit more of Melina both in the main game and in the DLC; she's by far the most interesting character in the game imo, and I wanted to see if my theory that she was the Gloam-Eyed Queen was true :( The parallels between her and Messmer were super cool, though, especially how his essence references her! Glad we got more info on Marika, though. It really seems like she was also just a victim of Radagon and the Greater Will.

Marika ... The next on my list of people I want to hug and tell: Everything will be alright...