Unraveling the Story of Shadow of the Erdtree

Projektitachi (00:26.86)
What is up everybody? Welcome back to another week of the GZ Chop Shop podcast. I'm your host, Projekt Itachi joined by my good friend and co -host, Warnurse And this week we are gonna be talking about Elden Ring. I'm sure you guys have already figured that because our last episode was before the DLC dropped and we were talking about Elden Ring. And we said we were gonna do a follow -up episode, which by the way, there's actually another part to this, part before this one where we kind of dove into it a little bit, but you guys can catch that.

over on Patreon because we didn't want to make it a super duper long episode. So if you want to catch both parts of this, go check out our Patreon page to get part one. And I guess you could call this part two because we're going to dive a little bit into the lore. So this is your spoiler warning right now. If you don't want anything spoiled from DLC and you're still finishing it, go back and watch our previous podcast episode with our predictions, finish the DLC and then come back and listen to this episode because we were right.

So all I'm gonna say, you're right. This is your spoiler warning, final one, and we're going into it now. You and I have played a lot of Elden Ring, and we had just got finished talking about a little bit of the lore, but for this episode, I wanna dive into it a little bit more for those who just enjoy the experience of Elden Ring, our experience with Elden Ring.

Did we get the questions we had answered? Are there still some questions left unanswered? And I know for you and obviously other gamers out there, you want another DLC to which I would be 100 % for. I just want to get that out there. I would be 100 % for it, but I do not think we will get one because they have kind of closed up almost, I want to say almost all the loose ends for the story.

for our character are tarnished right now. I think they would just wind up having to do an Elden Ring 2 at this point instead of another DLC because as we know, Elden Ring does not hand you the story on a silver platter. You have to put the pieces of the puzzle together for yourself. You have to do some reading. You have to do some research.

Projektitachi (02:47.468)
You know, you gotta look at the paintings on the wall, sometimes literally, to get the full picture of what's happening in the Lands Between and the Shadow Realm. And the only missing demigod from the base game originally was Miquella. Godwin is dead. Ranni made sure of that. So the last standing but not confirmed dead demigod was Miquella, and this is who the DLC revolved around.

Well, that was brought to a conclusion and you kind of find out that Mikulow has been pulling the strings since the base. The man was he was pulling strings.

Daniel (03:32.08)
He pulled, he indeed pulled a Griffith and I was saying this, I was saying this back and when we did our, the episode we dropped, the last episode we dropped back a few weeks ago before the DLC released, I was like, I bet you I'm thinking that Miquella is the bad guy here. I think he's been behind everything. What I didn't expect,

was two things. I didn't expect you to be right about him being St. Trina. You somehow called that, which you do tend to... You're more detailed about the reading on items than I tend to be. And I did not expect... Poor Moog. I did not expect to feel so bad for Moog. Because the man was used and abused...

through Michaela's charm, through his power, and then his body was used to bring Radahn back to life.

Projektitachi (04:39.052)
So, fun fact about it, I call them the Omen Brothers because they were, I wanna say the originators of the Omen curse. When you think about it, now everyone remembers Morgoth. Morgoth was the first boss you face of the demigods and he would whoop on us and we all hated him because he was this roadblock as the first boss in Elden Ring. And we were like,

Moog is a piece of shit. But the most wholesome of the demigods were actually the Omen brothers, Morgoth and Moog. Morgoth was protecting his home, the home his father fought for, his father Godfrey. All Morgoth was doing was protecting his home, and he just wanted the respect.

and love of the urtri that he never got. He just wanted to be loved. His mother cast Godfrey out when the grace left him, so he no longer had his father. He declared himself the protector of the urtri because he knew his mother was inside of it. But the urtri showed him no favor, but yet he stood firm in protecting his home. His home his parents had built.

That's all he was doing. And he was willing to try to become Elden Lord solely for that fact. And here we came as tarnished to burn it, literally burn it to the ground. He did not know that that was his mother's wishes. She was in prison. How could he have? His father was gone. And then we forced him to use all of his power, kill him, and then his father comes back.

And he finally, you know, he dies in his father's arms. That's the last time they see each other. The Omen brothers, while they looked evil, were not evil. And everyone says, well, Mo ran a blood palace and he did XYZ. You had to be a willing contributor. You had to willingly seek them out to join their cult. And Mo was enchanted. So all we know is

Projektitachi (07:04.3)
Miquella could have enchanted Moog to create that covenant in the first place.

But we don't know that he didn't. So Moog was pretty much minding his business. He knew what he was. He knew that he was frowned upon. So he isolated himself. Even Gideon says, you can leave Moog alone. Moog is literally optional, making the entire DLC technically optional. You don't have to go after Moog. And Moog being the roadblock is by Mikkel as designed. If Moog wasn't enchanted, he probably would have been like, are you here to kill me?

No, I don't really care what you do. Go, go ahead. Suit yourself, Tarnished.

Daniel (07:49.36)
He kinda... It seems like Moog kinda just wanted to stay out of it. He wanted to stay in his lane. And then we walked into his palace and we murdered him. We... You know what we did? We judged Moog. We said, you look like an evil bastard and you've gotta die. And turns out, the poor guy was just being... Poor guy was just being controlled.

Projektitachi (07:54.956)
Mm -hmm.

Projektitachi (08:07.916)
The first sign that Moog wasn't evil is when you go into the sewers of Lindow. And if you remember, every time an apparition of Morgh got would pop up, it was to prevent our progress from burning the urtree. He was just trying to roadblock and protect his home. The first time you fight the apparition of Moog,

is when you're on the quest for the frenzied flame. Mogues apparition is there to stop you. Also with the seal that Morgah added, the two brothers combined are literally literally trying to prevent you from communing with the flame of frenzy. You will have, we as the Tarnished have to go out of our way to get that bad ending. Even

Melina tries to stop us. So there are like three to four forces that are telling you don't do it. This is not the way and Mo being down there. Yes, he was a nuisance. But then when you look at it in hindsight, it's like he put that there even though he had no stake in the throne, didn't really care about the goings on. He at least knew this needs to not happen. So he put an apparition there to prevent it.

Daniel (09:38.16)
And then there we were.

Projektitachi (09:39.372)
And then there we were, the meddling tarnish and going for the frenzy flame. But yeah, for those who didn't know, Miquella had enchanted Mog. Mog was under Miquella's spell. So it was Miquella that was the problem. Melania knew Miquella's plan all along, because once you get to the final boss, Radahn, in his prime,

Which by the way, all of you who now say Radan is easy after he was patched the first time, this is your fault because now we have to fight Radan in his prime and I do not see them patching that anytime soon. Anyway, if you read the end game armor from Radan and you actually go by the remembrance armor, it says that when Melania released the Scarlet Aeonia,

At this point, if you remember from the base game, you see in the trailer, she attaches herself to Rodin's back. That wasn't just the desperation move. That was so she could say something to him. And the line is in the armor. It says, Mikaela awaits the O 'Promise concert. It says, Rodin heard a whisper in his ear. She said that to him before she released the Scarlet Rot, which tells me Rodin at this point was fully literally grown.

He was beyond his prime. Miquella wanted him at his prime, the prime he first saw him in and adored him at. But at this point, Radan is older. He's probably more relaxed. He's bigger. So Miquella needed a way to get Radan back into his prime. How could he do that? He needed a body that could hold it and he needed Radan's spirit. Radan's body is...

no more. So he sends, and this part is just me theorizing, but I feel that it lines up. Nicholas sends Melania to wage war in Radahn's territory. Because if you look at it, Radahn had Calid. For the most part, Calid looks like Lemgraf. Radahn had Calid, and Melania came from the Halle tree. That's a hell of a march. And waged war.

Projektitachi (12:02.668)
under the guise of, you know, the parts of the Elden Ring, because Merika did have pit her children against each other, but she came after Radan specifically. Melania could have took on any of the demigods for it, but she came after Radan specifically, the strongest of the demigods, because her brother wanted him. Waged war in his land, unleashed the Scarlet Onion, destroyed his lands, completely rotted him from the inside out.

which tells me Miquella knew that the tarnished were coming. All of this chaos, somehow he had to have known someone would come in and trump Radahn, and he just needed to wait for that. And that's what Melania is just sitting around waiting for, waiting for Miquella to wake back up. She did her part. Finlay carries her back across the lands between.

back to the hallowed tree where she falls into her slumber and waits.

Daniel (13:05.84)
You know, what's crazy to me is even at Radahn's weakest form, his worst form, he was still holding the stars back.

Projektitachi (13:18.252)
Yeah.

And all of this stuff had to be set in motion for Ranni It had to be set in motion for Miquella. Radahn was holding, Radahn is the centerpiece. He was a bigger centerpiece than people realize. And Ranni needed him dealt with. Miquella needed him dealt with. Everyone needed Radahn dealt with. Also probably why Malenia is optional.

as a boss is because all she was doing was being an enforcer until Miquella got his promised consort because from, you know, from what you read in the lore, Miquella had pretty much told Radahn years ago, I, you know, want you to be my, my consort. When I become a God, I'm choosing you.

Now, I don't see if it agreed where Radahn was like, yeah, sure. But Miquella had already a sign in his head. It's going to be you. Period.

And Miquella's whole thing with the Shadow Realm was seen it through. Now, the interesting thing that also is spoken about in the DLC is the Marika -Radagon situation. Because you and I, we've talked about it before. Were they two people? Were they always one person? How did that work? Radagon being Marika, having kids, all that. How did that happen?

Projektitachi (14:55.884)
Well, in the Shadow Realm DLC, when you're following Miquella's crosses and you eventually, if you wander far enough, you come across Saint Trina, who is the other half of Miquella, the more feminine half of Miquella, and is also Miquella's love given form. Miquella was kind, and they went around as Saint Trina helping people. That was true.

but the steps to becoming a God in the lands between is shedding your physical body as well as your emotion.

And we saw the end result of what it means to become a demigod with Marika. It becomes a prison. And Trina tells us that. She tells us to kill Miquella because becoming a god would only be a prison. Miquella knew the path to becoming it, but he did not know the end result, nor what his mother wound up being. So we wound up through Miquella's journey seeing how Marika herself had become a god.

and where that led her. And Radagon, when you think about it, Saint Trina is Miquella's more feminine love side given physical form. Radagon was the physical form, was the, I guess you could say the body of Marika given shape, given physical form. When Marika became a god herself, Radagon,

was the physical shell she left behind. And you can visit Marika's birthplace, which is the Shaman Village, and you find the gold braid that she left for the grandmother. And it starts to make sense. Radigan was her other half. And just like Trina, Radigan wanted to be whole again.

Projektitachi (17:03.052)
it you know, Radegon was seeking out Marika to become one again.

Daniel (17:10.192)
There is a question that I have that wasn't answered unless there's a piece of lore on a shield or something somewhere I didn't find. But Melania has three children. Yet outside some NPC, like a quest line in the base game, they don't really do anything. They don't seem to have any abilities.

Nothing was really passed down to them. They have no, they seem to have no desire to go for the throne. So I've always been curious what happens to them and why they just stay out of everything.

Projektitachi (17:52.076)
Well, given that you follow Millicent's quest line, if you aid Millicent, you killed them. You killed the other sisters. They all, technically they all die. No matter what, they all die. If you help Millicent, you kill the other three sisters. And then she in the end chooses to take the gold needle out herself and die. So.

They all succumb to Scarlet Rot or the end of a blade.

Daniel (18:27.664)
See, this is why I think despite how Miquella pulled a Griffith on us here, I still feel like we as the Tarnish are the foreign enemy and we are still the bad guy. We came into what is basically a family dispute and then we just murdered everyone.

Projektitachi (18:49.868)
So we technically, I'm glad you brought up the family dispute. We are technically not entirely outsiders in this family dispute because the origin of the tarnish stems from Godfrey.

When Godfrey lost the grace in his eyes and created the first tarnish when Marika banished him. And we're a tarnished, we're descendants of that lineage. So technically, though generations and hundreds of years later, this is a family dispute that still includes us. We're kind of descendants of Godfrey. When he got sent out there.

to the lands between and I'd lost the grace, Marika vanished and he didn't come back until we came to claim the throne. We're part of this dispute in a really, really roundabout long generation of gap way. We're coming to resolve the issues of family. And with

Daniel (20:01.168)
the black sheep, the black sheep of the family.

Projektitachi (20:02.348)
Yeah, basically. So when we come, when we're coming back, because the whole thing, I still in my head cannon think Marika's evil, mainly because there's things she did that I'm just like, that was overkill. But ultimately, her goal is to break away from the greater will. She wants to be free. And if you remember, Hugh, she had

chained Hugh to the round table and gave him one purpose, create a weapon that could kill a god. Now we're thinking the Elden Beast as playing the game. No, that was not the, yes, it says God slain, but that was just the manifestation of the power that was inside Marika. The god we slayed was Marika. She had tasked Hugh

to create a weapon that could kill her. That is the freedom she sought. She knew as long as she was alive, the greater will would never let her go.

She had achieved Godhead and the greater will imprisoned her and pretty much did everything through her and she no longer wanted it. She's like, I can't do this anymore. The only way out is to die, but there's no current weapon strong enough to kill me. So she set things in motion.

bringing, allowing the tarnish to come back in. So one of us could wield the weapon that could slay her. However, unbeknownst to everyone else that that was her grand plan, Godfrey didn't know. Merrick and Godfrey hadn't had any kind of relation for years. So he just came back to do his due diligence of defending home and tree unless...

Daniel (21:58.288)
He comes came came back home to a whole continent just wiped out everyone dead and then there's me Act like I can explain

Projektitachi (22:10.668)
I get explained. Unless, unless, prior to us showing up, Godfrey knew, somehow been able to communicate with Marika knew Marika's plan and needed to test us that we had the strength to do it. And being he was the pinnacle of an Elden Lord, a man who slayed a Dragon Lord, brought down countries, he needed to know that we could do what Marika

needed done. That's why he was there. Test us because if we couldn't overcome the first Elden Lord, how could we be an Elden Lord? So there's that side of it. He may have known Marika's plan and said, you got to come through me so that I know when I send you in there, you got it. You can do this. And Radagon wanting to reconnect with Marika to make her whole again obviously is going to stop us.

because Radigan's whole purpose is to become one again, fix the ring, fix this problem, become one again. So of course Radigan's gonna stop us.

Projektitachi (23:21.26)
And then the powers that Marika had in her takes the form of the Elden Beast. Now we take those weapons upgraded by Hugh to slay a god, therefore killing Marika, granting her wish of freedom.

Marika is dead. Yes, we reattach her broken head to the body, but she's gone. She's dead. She's officially dead And now her son Michaela is trying to make the same mistake

Projektitachi (23:52.044)
So we had to step in and.

Daniel (23:52.06)
Why? Well, you know, it was enough to have to fight Radahn in his prime. But when you get him to his second phase and then you got to fight Radahn in his prime with Miquella attached to him and the most the most spammed holy magic I have ever seen in this game.

And if you don't have that, what's that new talisman called? The golden braid. Man, if you don't have that equipped.

Projektitachi (24:20.428)
Golden braid.

Projektitachi (24:24.968)
it's a rough day. It's a really rough day.

But I have thoroughly been enjoying exploring the land of shadow, really getting into the lore. And like I said, I know a lot of people, they want a Godwin DLC, but lore wise, it wouldn't work. Godwin is dead. Destined death is permanent death. Ranni saw to that. That is canon. There's no way around that. Ranni's story also...

leaves Age of Stars ending not good. Yes, her version, she broke away from the greater will, but Godhood is still a prison. She takes you as her consort, but to achieve Godhood, Ranni gave away her flesh in one go. She burned all her flesh in one go when you go and find the rune of death on her. And by her end, you help her achieve Godhood, which

Now you realize is not a good thing because now she has become a God, broken the world away from the greater will. But now it's under her rule and however she becomes over time as a God, because that means you got to give away feeling. You give away everything that makes you mortal, let's say. So for a thousand years.

Ranni could change and become the problem herself.

Daniel (25:59.408)
plot twist they do add a DLC and it turns out you gotta you gotta go find Ranni and kill her too

Projektitachi (26:03.628)
You gotta go fire. Now that might work a DLC to go track down Ranni because I believe even because the canonical ending is just you taking the throne.

Daniel (26:13.424)
But she, you just don't go with her. In her ending, you go with her, but even in the original, like the real ending, she's still going to go do what she was doing. It's not like you killed her or she was stopped.

Projektitachi (26:16.3)
You don't go with Ranni.

Projektitachi (26:24.076)
Yeah, she still leaves. Yeah. When she says her final farewell, she's gone. She's...

Daniel (26:32.112)
But I've wondered the age of stars is because the outer gods and then we have creatures like Estelle and those creatures that they came that, you know, know, was holding the stars back and then when he stops holding the stars back, that's when we start seeing these creatures show up. So I wonder is Ronnie, Ranni, Ronnie Ranni part of that now?

Is she within the realm of those gods and those creatures or is it a separate thing?

Projektitachi (27:05.42)
I think her thing is in separate entirely because when you read the lore of some of the new weapons, the natural born, they've always been there and they came from, I forget what it's called. There's a specific place that they came from, but they're not gods. They're just very powerful gravity creatures. And I think they had ties with the alabaster lords, which fun fact, the alabaster lords, even though yes, we fight them as tarnished.

They were not villains before. It was actually the Alabaster lords that taught Radahn and Gaius gravity magic. Yeah, let's not talk about Gaius. He's a problem. But the Alabaster lords were good guys before. They taught gravity magic. They had a teacher. They had everything. You could just kind of look at.

Daniel (27:41.168)
God I hate guys.

Projektitachi (28:03.308)
the natural born as literal alien invaders in the land between that just happened to travel among the stars from where they were.

Daniel (28:07.632)
You know, I imagine the height, the height of the golden order and the time period where we're at dawn and Gaius and all these demigods were growing up and learning. I imagine that that world was pretty, was pretty cool though. Much different than what we see because we come in when the entire continents just completely destroyed and in chaos.

Projektitachi (28:26.732)
Yeah. Yeah.

Projektitachi (28:35.82)
Yeah, and it pretty much got completely destroyed because Marika no longer wanted to be a god, which, you know, find out she had a third kid, Messmer. I don't think they specify if Messmer is another offshoot of her and Radagon, but I get the feeling he is. I think he's a third child of her and Radagon.

because his eye has the grace that Marika bestows on her children. And he has the serpent, and it looks kind of like he's cursed in his own way.

Daniel (29:26.143)
Mezmer. I what reason did we really have to kill him? Because when you walk into his room, he he's like, what's what's going on here? Like, it's not like he was doing a bunch of crazy shit and expecting someone to come after him. He was legitimately just chilling and we walk in and he's very confused. Why are you in my house?

Projektitachi (29:32.748)
He's confused.

Projektitachi (29:45.836)
Yeah, Messmer was more confused than anything and Messmer is not. He's not the bad guy that the trailer tries to portray. He did his mother's request because the horn sent the race that habitat it. Most of the shadow realm. Had. Pretty much.

killed the shamans and you visit the shaman village. The shaman villages where Marika's from. And it seems like the horn sent had done the shamans wrong, killed them, enslaved them. And you meet a horn sent and you almost feel for him because he's got the, he wants revenge on Messmer. But the thing is it's a vicious cycle. Horn sent wants revenge on Messmer for killing all the horn sent and pillaging and waging war.

However, Messmer was sent as revenge on Marika's behalf because the horn sent killed her people in the shadow realm of the shamans. So she was returning the favor that the horn sent and kicked in first place to start the whole thing. Messmer was sent as the avenger on Marika's behalf when she came into power because the horn sent killed her people. So she killed them in return.

And the Horned Scent are not all saints, because I don't know if you play DLC and you've been to a place called Bonnie Village, I don't know how many people actually speak to the spirits that are lingered through the lands between. There is a lot of lore you can learn.

Daniel (31:14.16)
God.

We, we. I have questions about Alexander now. Was he, was he, was he a horn sent? Was he, was he butchered and shoved into a pot and made created like that? Like, yeah.

Projektitachi (31:24.3)
Yeah.

Projektitachi (31:30.412)
I think that person was a horn sent because they said.

Projektitachi (31:36.076)
And they made the those pots like Alexander. But when you listen, when you read the dialogue of the the the white spirit that's speaking, they referred to the person they're talking to as a shaman. They're talking to a shaman saying that their place belongs in the pot. That means the horn sent were stuffing shamans into these pots. And then putting them in these jails, never to be seen or heard from again.

That's what happened to Marika's people. That was what was happening to the worst criminals and the shamans they killed.

Daniel (32:11.088)
And then.

Daniel (32:15.44)
And then remember the little the little jar village we find and and the little childlike jars like are you going to be our new upon a tape and he says it in such a happy go lucky way. But now that we know what a punitate is I have questions about that too. Are you asking me if I'm going to

Projektitachi (32:20.172)
Yeah, jar bug.

Daniel (32:40.56)
butcher people and shove them in pots and make more of you? Like what, what is the question here? Cause I remember when he was like, let me see your hands. you can't be a punitate. And I'm like, well, why not? And now, now in the DLC, I'm like, I don't want to.

Projektitachi (32:47.404)
Yeah, it really paints a dark picture.

Projektitachi (32:56.236)
I don't want to be a pot neck. I'm good. I don't want to.

Daniel (32:58.928)
So now I got questions about that.

Projektitachi (33:02.7)
So, you know, Marika sends Messmer, Messmer is exacts his revenge. Marika then abandons Messmer, gives him no more command, abandons him. They're waiting for her to say something, but I don't think she abandoned him willingly. I think she wound up, everyone who's waiting to hear from Marika doesn't realize she was imprisoned as punishment for her trying to break away. She set a lot of things in motion and she couldn't finish them.

So the little power she had, she sent Melina our way to get us going to slay her. And then that severs the connection of the lands between and the greater will. She was that connection.

Daniel (33:51.632)
I think I think Melina was also another off like another child and they never fully explained who she was and why she existed. But I think she was another child like like Messmer was. I think she was too.

Projektitachi (34:07.084)
People were theorizing that she was probably the gloomy queen, which I guess if they did another DLC, they could dive into that more because you only learn about the gloomy queen through lore and little pieces here and there. But. Molina was probably a. Mental offshoot. Of Marika. More than a child.

Daniel (34:34.192)
that's another thing. She could have been like, she couldn't, it's possible she wasn't even a real physical person, just like a spiritual manifestation of Marika trying to string you along and direct you to her so you can kill her.

Projektitachi (34:45.548)
Yeah, because look at how she could come and go.

Projektitachi (34:51.692)
Yeah, because look at how she could come and go. No other finger maiden could do that. She pretty much was spectral, just like Torrent, which says, could she take a physical form when necessary? Yes, but she had a strange power no other finger maiden had, which was coming and going as she pleased. I think she was. I think she was a mental offshoot of Marika in the younger days of Marika.

And she had one eye probably because like Messmer, Messmer had one eye. He looked kind of similar to Melina in that aspect. And it probably has something to do with the grace that Marika bestows upon her children and maybe mental offshoots. I don't know. There's still a lot of mystery surrounding Melina that could be a whole thing.

I have to go into a lore video to learn more about that. But yeah, none of the baddies were actually true baddies. Mikla was an ultimate manipulator, which in society would paint him as evil. But he started with the goal of undoing the wrongs his mother had set. He didn't know.

why Marika killed the horn sent. So he told the horn sent, I'll fix it.

He didn't know why his mother wiped out the giants. The wiping of the giants was the greater will's request. And then she left that giant, that one giant alive to tend the flame because the flame could never be extinguished as the ultimate punishment. Yes, Marika made some really, really, really harsh decisions that just seemed downright evil. But she never got the chance to fix it.

Projektitachi (36:53.996)
Because the minute she said, I don't want to be a god anymore. I'm breaking away from the greater will. The greater will is like, no, you're not. You're getting locked in this tree. So Mikkel is like, I'll fix it. And then he wound up becoming the greatest manipulator in history. Griffith would be proud.

So the only person realistically that is just downright evil that we came across, Godric.

Godric the Grafted. He was actually a known criminal.

Daniel (37:27.505)
Yeah, he did some wildly messed up things.

Projektitachi (37:32.62)
Yeah, I think Gaius. If I remember correctly in the Lord, Gaius actually had. Taken down Godric before. And he was rewarded for that. Because Godric was a menace long before we even got there, and because the lands fell in the chaos, Godric used that to his advantage to take the castle.

Godric was just, he was just downright evil with grafting, which is a skill he learned from the potnays, if I remember correctly, which is why he was able to graph so many parts to himself.

Daniel (38:13.392)
That meme's gross.

Projektitachi (38:14.828)
Yeah. Crazy, crazy stuff. But all that to say, shout out of the Ertree, phenomenal DLC, hundreds of hours, still have barely scratched the surface. Love it. Can't get enough of it. Probably going to play some more after this podcast wraps up. It's just that addictive. Sorry to all of my friends who've been wanting me to play other games and can't get me to play other games. It's Elvin Ring. I got like 808 hours in this game.

One console, just console. Still haven't been my Destiny 2 time yet. I got 40, 40 more hours before Destiny 2 was finally dethroned as my most played game, which is weird because I barely played Destiny 2. I played it so much when it was at its peak that I clocked in those hours and then I never played another game to match it. But Elden Ring is probably going to top it. I'm determined and it's just so much fun.

but are you guys playing shout of the earth tree? Do you plan on playing sound of the earth tree? Would you guys like to see some more lore? videos we're thinking about putting out some, some more videos for you guys. So let us know, hit us up, check out our website, gzchopshoppodcast .com where all of our episodes will be. You can check out our previous episodes, current episodes, all of our YouTube videos and visit our store all.

on our website. Go and check it out. Totally worth it. And anyway, don't forget if you guys wanted to check out the first part of this, you can check this out on our Patreon, patreon .com forward slash OSM media, where we had an episode prior to this, but it is exclusive on Patreon for mainly blooper reasons. So yeah, go and check that out. Anyway, you guys have been amazing. Thanks for joining us on our return episode. Take care of yourself and each other and we'll catch all you wonderful people on the next.

episode. Later.