Mobilenews24x7 Bureau
New Delhi, Feb 1 : Software president and director Hidekata Miyazaki has said author George RR Martin, who helped creating the lore for Elden Ring and world-building, will be in for a “bit of shock” when he sees the final product. During a recent interview with Game Informer, Miyazaki delved deeper into the mythological lore that Martin created for Elden Ring, which set up the world before its catastrophic Shattering event.
The game’s location called The Lands Between, was once a kingdom blessed by the titular Elden Ring, and the Erdtree at its centre. However, a war known as The Shattering saw the ring broken and its shards called the Great Runes scattered, and the land’s inhabitants transformed. The realm in its current form is now ruled by the demigod offspring of Queen Marika the Eternal, each possessing a Great Rune that has caused corruption and tainted them with power.
The player is a being called a Tarnished exiled from the Lands Between and who has lost the Ring’s grace and been summoned back after the Shattering. The Tarnished must travel the realm to ultimately find all the Great Runes, restore the Elden Ring, and become the Elden Lord. In explaining that the writer has conjured up a number of human characters for the game. Miyazaki then went on to state that the writer may be surprised to see what inhuman monsters have been created on the back of his initial concepts. Although the ‘Game of Thrones’ creator recently took to his personal blog to call the action RPG “incredible”, Miyazaki now says he suspects that the writer might have been “envisioning something a little bit more human” than the game’s deviation from “traditional human drama”. “When Martin wrote these characters, and when he provided that original 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,” explained Miyazaki in the interview.
“So it was more up to us to interpret this and say, ‘how did they become such inhuman monsters? And how did the mad taint of the shattered shards of the Elden Ring and its power affect them?’ So that was our job to take these grand heroes and sort of misshape them and distort them into something they were not. “And I think if we get a chance to show Martin and if he gets a chance to see the game and see these characters, I think he might be a bit shocked. “When he wrote them, he was really envisioning something a little bit more human, a little bit more traditional human drama and fantasy characters. So I hope he gets a kick out of that.” Miyazaki said.
