Elden Ring Lore Analysis: The Logic of Feudalism and the Ideology of the Golden Order

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In this installment, I want to talk about Elden Ring, a game I have played my fair share of at this point. Elden Ring was developed by FromSoftware, a company largely known for Dark Souls. FromSoftware games have a notorious reputation for being extremely difficult. I’m not going to say Elden Ring isn’t difficult, but if you’re a moderately experienced gamer, I think you’ll be able to get the hang of it fairly quickly. The UI is a little wonky, and rest assured, you will die countless times in your quest to become the Elden Lord, but if you have some persistence, you can beat this game in a reasonable amount of time. It took me about 70 hours. I’d argue that the majority of its content constitutes a grotesque mockery of Feudalism’s ideological foundations.

References:

A Video About Elden Ring and Death - Labor Kyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IIZdU_PYqY

How did the Feudal Economy Work? the Economic Logic of Medieval Societies - Chris Wickham
https://academic.oup.com/past/article/251/1/3/6254199

Lore/Theory on why the Erdtree is a Parasitic Entity
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/u4j545/loretheory_on_why_the_erdtree_is_a_parasitic/

Pic of George R. R. Martin: Henry Söderlund
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Photo of Chris Wickham during a conference at the University of Almería: Tajotep
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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