It's been about three months since I started this book, I suppose. I rushed into writing it back then, purely on a whim, with the thought, "Ah, the game is pretty fun, and the story is great too. Let's make up a story." Then, without doing much preparation, I started writing.
What kept me writing was this question: what were the Lands Between like before the Elden Ring shattered?
Who was good, who was bad, blah blah blah-I honestly never gave any of that much thought. Whether there was a conspiracy didn't matter either. To me, focusing too much on one point, on something that couldn't be clearly explained, was meaningless and didn't help me. After all, this is fanfiction; it doesn't mean things are necessarily that way in the game. It's precisely because so much about the Lands Between is unclear that I wanted to make things up myself. And I don't think I'm particularly good at it, either. My imagination is probably about on the level of an elementary school composition.
Besides, the world of Elden Ring is nowhere near as hopeless as the world of Dark Souls.
Ever since Elden Ring came out, there have been plenty of analysis videos. I've watched a lot, and I'm sure those of you following this story have watched quite a few too. Some make well-supported arguments, while others let their imaginations run wild. Everyone can choose what they want to believe, but sometimes things really aren't that complicated.
Everyone knows that George R. R. Martin wrote the broad framework for Elden Ring this time, and Hidetaka Miyazaki wrote the text within it-the actual content. Two heavyweights joining forces. I don't know how many of you have read Martin's work, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that I haven't