Several days ago, I was thinking about when Elden Ring would announce its DLC plans to you. Because it has been one year and four days since it was released on February 25, 2022, and its sales have reached 20 million.

Well, what a magic number a year and four days is. FromSoftware also posted a new post on social media yesterday. In the post, it announces to you a DLC for Elden Ring called Shadow of the Erdtree.

DLC itself belongs to the "expansion" category. According to the developer, there will be many things. Usually, for smaller DLCs, expansion is a more important step, and it refers to adding some important content. In this regard, I am very curious if this content is a $40 content and what content it will add.

This photo is our only clue. According to the name on the photo above, it is Shadow of the Erdtree. This refers to those giant trees all over the map, and it can be expanded later on as well.

Erdtree in this photo looks charred, broken and molten. Given the events of the game, this doesn't surprise us. Because this DLC will not happen with the main story, but after the main storyline.

In this landscape, there are unidentifiable ruins, which are like a field, full of ghostly tombstones. While not actual ghosts, the tombstones themselves are like ghosts.

Then, from the photo, you can see a character with blond hair looking very lonely from the back. It is dressed in white and is riding a horned horse. I guess, this horned horse should be Torrent. In my opinion, it could be a player Tarnished character, because you can make it look like any character you want. However, it is also possible that it is a DLC NPC. Because it's on this photo of DLC, it shows that it's a certain amount of importance to the stories that FromSoftware makes. However, since the horned horse it rides seems to be Torrent, I thought it might just be the player. Later, I took a closer look and I was convinced that Miquella was riding Torrent.

We know very little about the expansion announced yesterday, including when it will be released. Right now, we only know it's "in development," but we don't know its release date or time window. My guess is that it should be released on the holiday of 2023 at the earliest. By convention, FromSoft announced DLC for past games and it didn't take much time until the release of DLC, usually only a few months. However, my gut tells me that Elden Ring's DLC this time will be more ambitious than the ones released before. Considering the relatively large scale of Elden Ring itself, its DLC needs to spend more time to make. So, we won't necessarily be able to see it until 2024.

But, I'm glad that they finally said something about DLC. Before, I always wondered if they didn't plan to make Elden Ring DLC, but turned to Armored Core. For example, Sekiro never had DLC. For this kind of large version, since it has been a guarantee in the past, this matter is no longer certain. However, I'm glad they did it this time. I really can't wait to play it, and I'm sure you can too.

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