“there's always talk and hope about possible news, and as every gaming event passes without new information, more and more people look to the fake lore and memes for a sort of comfort." The lore, Imomushi8 explains, is also built on constantly dashed expectations. "You can only break down a two-minute trailer so many times before you start coming up with your own ideas”. "It's been a slow descent into hollowing over time," one of them, who goes by Imomushi8 on the forum, tells IGN. Ironically, some of the moderators of the Elden Ring subreddit believe that a similar fate has befallen their own community. There is a concept introduced in the first Dark Souls game called "hollowing." It refers to a degeneration that the denizens of Lordran eventually face, as the hopelessness of undeath becomes too much to bear, which results in a semi-crippled state that your player-character eventually falls into.
"People who didn't vote for Ring Maiden weren't wearing the Pendant of Burdens for the fight and it shows," comments a user named Imperialvirtue. Here is a thread called Best Elden Ring Boss Fights Part Four, where users are arguing over weapon mechanics, secret phases, and difficulty spikes that will never appear in the video game. (A typical Souls UI has been added, with Health and Stamina bars covering the top-left corner, and a Soul counter in the bottom.) Here, concept art has been created for Elken Forestborn, a Knight of the Green Order, one of the many imaginary factions the fans have dreamt up after being left to their own devices for so long. In one image, a player imagines a dusky hubzone called Gaoth Respite, offering a scant bit of refuge from the overwhelming grimness of the rest of the wasteland. More directly: If it is going to take this long to learn anything about Elden Ring, the fans are going to go ahead and create Elden Ring themselves. So, they've taken matters into their own hands by generating what can only be described as "fake lore"-images, item descriptions, and character models designed by users in order to reminisce, hypothesize, and wax poetic on the Elden Ring tidbits that FromSoftware is simply refusing to offer. Throughout all of those shows, there hasn't been a shred of new information on Hidetaka Miyazaki's next opus, and the Elden Ring fan community is on their 15th consecutive month of having nothing to talk about. We're well past 2020's E3 season, we're finished with the keynote showcases for the forthcoming PS5 and Xbox Series X, Gamescom is in the rearview mirror, and TGS just came and went. That teaser featured zero gameplay, a lean montage of cryptic images, and four-and-a-half lines of equally cryptic dialogue that gave us little to no detail on the story.
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