Elden Ring Like Game of Thrones, Both Made by George R.R. Martin
The Elden Ring mythology was created by George R.R. Martin - and it shows. Just take a look at the family tree of the game's characters, deceptively reminiscent of the one from Game of Thrones.
When From Software announced that the work on Elden Ring will involve George R.R. Martin, we have long wondered what his role will be. In the end, it turned out that the task of the author of A Song of Ice and Fire was to write part of the game's lore, specifically, as he himself defined it - the mythology of the Lands Between and their inhabitants.
"The developers contacted me a few years ago and wanted me to create a world for them, which I've been doing for a long time [in novels - editor's note] and I really like doing. They specified that the plot of Elden Ring will be set - let's call it - in the present of the game universe. From me, on the other hand, they wanted what happened some 5,000 years earlier, which totally messed up the world and distorted the current reality.
So I wrote a story, set 5000 years before the actual game, described all the characters - who killed whom, who had what powers. At the center of everything were the runes, which were separated into many fragments - that's what messed up and distorted the world" (via YouTube - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert).
Of course, FromSoftware appropriately processed George R.R. Martin's original concepts. Certainly, however, many of their elements are still present in the game. What follows - to a large extent it is to the American writer that we owe the exceptionally rich and complex lore, even by the standards of Hidetaka Miyazaki's works.
Undeniable proof that it is the author of A Song of Ice and Fire co-created Elden Ring, are the connections between the various characters - mainly the bosses, but also the NPCs who give us quests. To explain who Marika, Radagon, Godfrey, Rennala, Malenia or Radahn are, and the reasons why we fight them, would lengthen this news to a several-page article. Therefore, I refer those interested to the fan wiki of the game.
Source: Reddit / octobersveryown616.
For encouragement, take a look at Queen Marika's family tree (above), which - in a rather simplified, but impressive version - was created by Reddit user octobersveryown616. It appears to have been pulled straight from the pages of Game of Thrones or A Clash of Kings by Martin and could as well illustrate the genealogy of the family of Starks or Lannisters. Only that it is a creation made for the game.
Perhaps the above graphic will encourage those who claim Elden Ring doesn't have a plot, to delve into its details, and discover why Radagon left Rennala for Marika, or to understand the intentions of Ranni when she commissioned us on a mission to kill Radahn.
