Elden Ring's first and only expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree, is almost upon us, with the eagerly-anticipated offering available on PS5 and PS4 on 21st June. To properly set the stage, Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have released a trailer that sets the stage for the journey to come, without spoilers, in a reasonably concise fashion.
Set in a broken age, the story of Elden Ring is a tale of demigods fighting over the scraps that remain and the inevitable stagnation caused by such a stalemate. As a Tarnished, one banished from The Lands Between long ago, you are tasked with gathering the shards of the titular Elden Ring. Over the course of this dark odyssey, a Tarnished becoming powerful enough to crown themselves as Elden Lord is the only way to break this bleak cycle, one way or another.