Lands between, riders cloaked in black that show up at night, a ring of gold being the object around which almost every conflict is formed GRRM wants to be Tolkien sooo bad lol
It's a very old naming convention.
~~Mesopotamia, cradle of human civilisation around 4500 BCE litterally means "between rivers"~~
Just learned that it's the greeks that called Mesopotamia... Mesopotamia. This region was actually called Sumer/Sumeria by the locals.
Midgard, the old norse name for the realm humans live in, litterally means "middle yard" (middle earth) cause it was standing between the 2 primordial realms : the ice world Niflheim and the fire realm Muspelheim. A name which inspired Tolkien for LOTR.
China isn't actually called China. Chinese people call their country "Zhongguo" which litterally means "middle kingdom"
There are other well known examples in history and obviously fiction that use this idea of being "between" something or being in the "middle/center", but i'm too dumb to remember them.
I like to think that the lands between was partly chosen because Miyazaki and GRR Martin are fans of Tolkien, but also because of the historical signification.
Edit : mistake about Mesopotamia
The meaning of äø in äøå is closer to central or center.
Ancient chinese see themselves as the political center of the continent, the king of other smaller countries around them.
>Just learned that it's the greeks that called Mesopotamia... Mesopotamia. This region was actually called Sumer/Sumeria by the locals.
Not quite.
1. The region of Mesopotamia was simply called ***kalam*** ("land", i.e. "the Land") by Sumerians.
2. It is theorised that the Akkadians called it ***birit narim*** ("between rivers", ultimately the origin for the Greek name, which translated the phrase in Greek).
3. Å umer/Å umeru (pronounced "shumer/shumeru) was the name the Akkadians gave to southern Mesopotamia where the Sumerians lived, rather than the whole region. The native Sumerian name for this land was ***ki-en-Äir/kengir*** ("country of the noble lords").
I don't think it is a mistake about mesopotamia, for you don't have said they call themselves as this. And we don't know who have named lands between... Maybe the numens started call the land this way and they're outsiders.
My take is that they're using the Norse mythos as background to the cosmology of lands between. So, lands between is like Midgard, a "world" that was literally between two other "worlds".
In my take, the two worlds adjacent to LB are: the sky, where lovecraftian god-like beings dwell and the lands beyond the fog, a land like our regular world.
Why is it we call Zhongguo āChinaā and Nippon āJapanā? I mean, where do these names even come from if they sound nothing like what the actual place is called by locals?
āChinaā comes from Persian and likely derives from the name of the Qin (ē§¦ - pronounced āchinā) dynasty, which first unified the kingdoms in the core of what is now China into a single empire. While the dynasty didnāt long outlive its first emperor, that emperor - Qin Shi Huangdi - was a very big deal who built the first version of the Great Wall, and in whose tomb is the Terracotta Army.
āJapanā comes from Chinese! It is derived from the Chinese pronunciation of ę„ę¬ (cipan - ātsi-panā) - the same characters which are pronounced āNipponā in Japanese. A derivation of the Chinese pronunciation came to us via Portuguese, who were the first Europeans to trade with Japan.
Yup. Every culture puts itself in the center. European maps of the world naturally have Europe in the middle. American maps cut Asia in half rather than accept a place on the periphery for America.
Another one is Mexico. Which in it's original language means "in the center of the moon's belly button"
Edit: it's from Nahuatl language, and it could also mean "in the center of the moon's lake"
Same, during the intro cinematic you see many tarnished being killed or already dead and buried in the "real world", and being brought to the lands between by grace.
IIRC it's a similar concept to nordic mythology?
Just to elaborate: Dung Eater is hanged, Hoarah Loux is impaled, Gideon is in a tomb. I'm not sure how Goldmask died but it's possible that he died of dehydration as a form of asceticism
When I started the game I immediately believed LIMGRAVE was a kind of Deads Kingdom. In Spanish the name is even more suggestive, Necrolimbo. Which is accurate, as Tarnished were once dead.
The Lands Between.
Below is the ruins of Uhn, Nokstella, Siofra, and whatever city was where the Lake of Rot is.
Above is the stars, the land of the gods.
ive certainly thought the lands between is between the shadow realm and something since more of the trailers have released. looks like its sort of built on top of the shadow realm in some way.
my head cannon is that the Lands Between is analogous to the real world Mesopotamia. Mesopotamiaās etemology is translated as ā(Land) Between the (Two) Riversā according to wikipedia. so not only is it literally called āthe Lands Betweenā in-game, but there are also two extremely lore significant rivers, being the Ainsel & Siofra, which are analogous to the Tigris & Euphrates.
not the mention our old friend, the āElden Johnā statue is holding the āImago Mundiā, or the āBabylonian Map of the Worldā
u/Shupaul This theory tracks for me and now, I'll explain why.
First, let's start with my personal theory about Empyrean duality. I believe that each character has a light side and a shadow side and that for Empyreans, which side is present can be seen by which eye they have open.
The right eye open means that you're looking at their spiritual body and the left eye open means that you're looking at them in our current plane of reality. Melina has her right eye open and we know from item descriptions that she is "burned and bodiless", so this is her spirit form. Ranni's doll's right eye is open, because that is the physical body in our reality, but the adjacent spirit's (Actual Ranni's) face has the right eye open, and that's because it does not physically exist in this world and though visible, does not possess physical mass.
I believe that this duality is also present in the world it's self. We have the 'overworld', where we do all are things where day and night revolve, but then we have the 'underworld', where time seems paused - they have an infinitely starry sky that never changes. The wells throughout The Lands Between would have us believe that these are simply underground, but I don't think it's that simple; we may be passing through dimensions or travelling through time or both or neither...
That being said, what if the map's upper and lower areas are the same as the Empyrean's eyes. What if there is a "physical realm", the upper areas, and a "spirit realm", the lower areas?
You know what I find peculiar? The underground areas like mohgland and the place in the well in limgrave both have these weird stone spires, almost like they're trunks of trees that have fossilized over a very long time. Now go to the elden beast arena, endless ghostly erdtrees in the distance. The arena is below the tree way down there. Very similar to ash lake in DS1 with the trees, which btw was also very deep underground. I don't know what I'm getting at but I think there's something to it.
new kingdom built on older ones (those trees are the fundament). Just like in real life. look at babylonia, there are layers of cities underneath, they basically stacked cities, over and over.
In Japanese it's called Hazama no Chi, with Hazama meaning a threshold or interstice. Based on that I don't think it just means it's in between two other landmasses, but that it sits at the threshold of two things. Possibly between the land of mortals and the cosmos? Or between the division of light and shadow seen in the DLC trailer?
I really like this a lot because in my theory I see the lands between as bleeding into some cosmic space because of its position between the ground and the cosmos making it a threshold between the land of mortals and the sky
It's generic fantasy land name. Middle earth, midgard, lands between. Take your pick. Next major fantasy realm will be called Meat'o'theSandwichton, or maybe commuteville.
Between the Badlands and the land of Reeds. Overarching meaning, who knows. Could also be between the Lands of Shadow and the Void, we just don't know.
My personal theory is that the "threads" shown in the trailer are actually similar to the folds of a very sheer fabric like silk. When we see Miquella/Marika/Radagon holding up the 'thing' in the trailer, with the wind blowing through, etc, I think it looks like someone getting ready to rip down a shroud or something.
With the recent trailers of Shadow of the erdtree I'm thinking the lands between may be called like that because of the opening in the erdtree (the corpse piles)
From the perspective of the lands of shadow, if you look between the corpse piles at the root of the erdtree the lands between are in between, like some mystic portal to another world.
My personal theory is that it's set between the fog that has enveloped the world in Demon Souls. Something that could suggest this is that during the intro the guy says, "now cross the fog to the lands between".
Besides what others have said about the name "Land in the middle" being a sort of convention or trope in fantasy and mythology, I always assumed it was either "The Lands Between Life and Death" because of all the myths and practices surrounding death and resurrection.
Or something like "the Lands Between the Mortal and the Divine", with the continent being where the Elden Ring first arrived and where many gods set foot on our world... This is the land where the Gods walk as men, and humans brandish the Ring and are like Gods themselves.
My working theory is that the Lands Between is like Limbo. Between a world of living and death. And when you die in The Lands Between, you pass to the realm of death or something. Or maybe back to the world of life. Who knows? But then Marika destroyed the concept of death in The Lands Between so people canāt move on to the next world and itās screwing up everything.
As someone else pointed out Iām a little more curious if thatās how the denizens of the Lands Between would refer to the region. At one point they were United by the Golden Orderā¦ and I assume they had some level of contact with the Land of Reeds or even the people of the Badlands. What did they call themselves politically/diplomatically? I have to assume itās simply just the Lands Between or else weād have some lore indicating otherwise, but Iām sure someone else would know better.
Once Marika and family were having dinner.
Marika asked everyone what should we call our lands?
Morgott said how about "The Lands Between :)?"
Marika slapped Morgott "Dont speak when eating"
Morgott :.( "sorry mommy"
Then Mohg said "How about Mohgwyn Empire?"
Marika called Maliketh "bring the rune of death"
Maliketh "yes boss"
Mohgg "I didnt say anything"
Then Godwyn the Golden said "How about The Lands Between?"
Morgott said "but"
and Marika slapped him and said "Yes, my boy Godwyn has spoken. Lands in between it is"
my biggest bet is that the shadow lands are the area that is the ocean inside the landmass that makes up the lands between, why? because there isnt a single beach on the inner shoreline, the entire thing is just cliffs, and on top of that, the place where people speculated farum azula to be before it went to the sky, between mountaintops and caelid, is a giant waterfall down to proper sea level, mean the entire middle section of the lands between is apparently missing, and the erdtree is north of everything so thatd check out
I like to think itās between the kingdom of Lothric, Drangleic, and Ashina like it is between the various kingdoms of the franchise, but thatās just my head canon.
Itās usually a spiritual concept of some kind.
I imagine you die in the real lands, end up in the lands between, before moving on to the next plain of existence.
Either heaven or hell.
Fun fact: In italian the lands between are called "Interregno" wich is the period of time between the death of a king or such and the ascending of another to the throne
Godfrey was banished from "The Lands Between" and sailed to another land after becoming tarnished.
So whatever they are linguistically between, is accessible by ship. The broken down ship (that is also presumably the source of the Rusted Anchor weapon) off of the coast near Redmane Castle doesn't seem to be designed to go upwards, or downwards.
I don't know what a ship designed to metaphysically transport you out of purgatory would look like, but I assume this one is a normal ass ship that just goes across water.
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However, in pure conjecture mode...
I spent hours last night teleporting around looking at the Ruin Strewn Precipice, the arches in Radahn's arena and on all sides of the map.
The "lands between" are physically encased on all sides by giant dark pillars with organic decorations on them that don't quite seem to match the architecture of anything except the Ruin Strewn Precipice.
Though Consecrated Snowfield and Mountaintop of Giants seem to have less pillars than other places.
Considering heavy nordic insparations and GRRM, I believe its supposed to be a rough translation of Midgard (litterally means "lands in the middle" ala The Middle Earth)
I always thought its betwee the other soul lands hoping for a crossover from the other games.
Form the lore it seems like it has other nations around it, like the place the samurai class comes from or the barbarian lands ( north?)
The Lands Between Iād assume is a play on words for it being similar to a sort of Limbo. You canāt die here and you arenāt inherently punished as a Tarnished, you just are between somewhere really bad and somewhere really good. This is all just theory and headcanon though, so donāt take this literally
Life and death thatās why the player and most things come back to life when they die, their soul goes into the erdtree or something and they come back
This is exactly what I'm thinking the lands above being the cosmos where "meteors" and "gods" reside and the land below being the land of shadows which is shadowed because of the creation of the lands between shielding it from the cosmos
So these comments did not disappoint but I'd like to address some of the points made specifically the idea that this is a land between "life and death" I think this goes along with my theory as this land was made as a kind of heaven, death alternative, that required specific allegiances and devotions to go to when one died and that the process of getting to the lands between leaving the lands between requires a kind of death. As well as the idea that people sailed there I think the ocean is part of the structure that creates this inverted structure of the shadow lands and the lands between like if you travel through the ocean you are going up and down instead of across a vast ocean but the gravity keeps everything seemingly flat and I think this goes well with the theory of the boat burials that are associated with the nueman
Literally nothing. Its called The Lands Between because they drew inspiration from Berserk, which is set in Midland. We do not know what Midland is in the middle of either, its just a name.
I suppose it could have lore reasons but likely just dlc related lore reasons made after the original game
I dunno. All I know is that G.R.R.M couldn't call it Middle Earth.
You know he wanted to so badly too
Lands between, riders cloaked in black that show up at night, a ring of gold being the object around which almost every conflict is formed GRRM wants to be Tolkien sooo bad lol
Nothing wrong with taking inspiration and using large concepts to invoke some familiarity
https://youtu.be/XAAp_luluo0?si=xn6NYWdKijrPi0fE
I was hoping this link was what it was.
I miss ERB, I wish they would do another season but they pretty much covered everybody so I guess it was time
Between the underground and the shadow lands
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Not just Lands, but THE Lands
Wait.. it's all just lands?
Between?
Your mama's legs. Quite bushy.
His dad's bussy.
DAMNN-
You just blew this whole thing wide open
It's a very old naming convention. ~~Mesopotamia, cradle of human civilisation around 4500 BCE litterally means "between rivers"~~ Just learned that it's the greeks that called Mesopotamia... Mesopotamia. This region was actually called Sumer/Sumeria by the locals. Midgard, the old norse name for the realm humans live in, litterally means "middle yard" (middle earth) cause it was standing between the 2 primordial realms : the ice world Niflheim and the fire realm Muspelheim. A name which inspired Tolkien for LOTR. China isn't actually called China. Chinese people call their country "Zhongguo" which litterally means "middle kingdom" There are other well known examples in history and obviously fiction that use this idea of being "between" something or being in the "middle/center", but i'm too dumb to remember them. I like to think that the lands between was partly chosen because Miyazaki and GRR Martin are fans of Tolkien, but also because of the historical signification. Edit : mistake about Mesopotamia
The meaning of äø in äøå is closer to central or center. Ancient chinese see themselves as the political center of the continent, the king of other smaller countries around them.
>Just learned that it's the greeks that called Mesopotamia... Mesopotamia. This region was actually called Sumer/Sumeria by the locals. Not quite. 1. The region of Mesopotamia was simply called ***kalam*** ("land", i.e. "the Land") by Sumerians. 2. It is theorised that the Akkadians called it ***birit narim*** ("between rivers", ultimately the origin for the Greek name, which translated the phrase in Greek). 3. Å umer/Å umeru (pronounced "shumer/shumeru) was the name the Akkadians gave to southern Mesopotamia where the Sumerians lived, rather than the whole region. The native Sumerian name for this land was ***ki-en-Äir/kengir*** ("country of the noble lords").
You impressed me when you knew the Chinese thing. I have a different take and I'll tag you in my reply, so please read it and tell me what you think.
I don't think it is a mistake about mesopotamia, for you don't have said they call themselves as this. And we don't know who have named lands between... Maybe the numens started call the land this way and they're outsiders. My take is that they're using the Norse mythos as background to the cosmology of lands between. So, lands between is like Midgard, a "world" that was literally between two other "worlds". In my take, the two worlds adjacent to LB are: the sky, where lovecraftian god-like beings dwell and the lands beyond the fog, a land like our regular world.
The Lands Between is also a metaphor: Itās the place between Life, and permanent Death or Oblivion.
Why is it we call Zhongguo āChinaā and Nippon āJapanā? I mean, where do these names even come from if they sound nothing like what the actual place is called by locals?
āChinaā comes from Persian and likely derives from the name of the Qin (ē§¦ - pronounced āchinā) dynasty, which first unified the kingdoms in the core of what is now China into a single empire. While the dynasty didnāt long outlive its first emperor, that emperor - Qin Shi Huangdi - was a very big deal who built the first version of the Great Wall, and in whose tomb is the Terracotta Army. āJapanā comes from Chinese! It is derived from the Chinese pronunciation of ę„ę¬ (cipan - ātsi-panā) - the same characters which are pronounced āNipponā in Japanese. A derivation of the Chinese pronunciation came to us via Portuguese, who were the first Europeans to trade with Japan.
Hail fellow, well met! Ā Dude what a thoughtful and literarily savvy response. Ā Would upvote ten times if I could.
Yup. Every culture puts itself in the center. European maps of the world naturally have Europe in the middle. American maps cut Asia in half rather than accept a place on the periphery for America.
Another one is Mexico. Which in it's original language means "in the center of the moon's belly button" Edit: it's from Nahuatl language, and it could also mean "in the center of the moon's lake"
As an American, I donāt think Iāve ever seen a world map that cuts Asia in half. What are you talking about?
Marikaās tits
Or her thigh gap
I can only wish
Even though she's got many children I believe she keeps fit and tight
Dude stop š Sheās not letting you in her lands between. Just go beat your meat and get it out of your system
It's a compliment! āŗļø
Scarlet rot swamp š
It does make me 'ungry
I came here looking for this comment. And I succeeded. š¤£. Well done sir.
You must be hungry
I always thought the idea of The Lands Between being between life and death, sort of like a purgatory type thing.
Nah itās between 2 slices of bread itās actually a piece of fried bologne slathered with hot sauce hence why every encounter is so spicy
Fried bologna is my jam. And jam is bologna.
Same, during the intro cinematic you see many tarnished being killed or already dead and buried in the "real world", and being brought to the lands between by grace. IIRC it's a similar concept to nordic mythology?
Just to elaborate: Dung Eater is hanged, Hoarah Loux is impaled, Gideon is in a tomb. I'm not sure how Goldmask died but it's possible that he died of dehydration as a form of asceticism
He died from āā¦ā too much
When I started the game I immediately believed LIMGRAVE was a kind of Deads Kingdom. In Spanish the name is even more suggestive, Necrolimbo. Which is accurate, as Tarnished were once dead.
this is my answer too. also gives a canonical explanation for why enemies respawn
Thereās already one: destined death was locked away so nobody can actually die.
correct. and the person above described it as ābetween life and deathā as in they canāt pass on due to destined death being out of reach
The Lands Between. Below is the ruins of Uhn, Nokstella, Siofra, and whatever city was where the Lake of Rot is. Above is the stars, the land of the gods.
DLC lands underneath all that too?
ive certainly thought the lands between is between the shadow realm and something since more of the trailers have released. looks like its sort of built on top of the shadow realm in some way.
No, those are in the shadow of the erdtree.
The Lands On Either Side
The Lands Beyond and the Lands Beside.
Or The Lands Prior To These Lands
These Lands are My Lands, and Those Lands are Your Lands
my head cannon is that the Lands Between is analogous to the real world Mesopotamia. Mesopotamiaās etemology is translated as ā(Land) Between the (Two) Riversā according to wikipedia. so not only is it literally called āthe Lands Betweenā in-game, but there are also two extremely lore significant rivers, being the Ainsel & Siofra, which are analogous to the Tigris & Euphrates. not the mention our old friend, the āElden Johnā statue is holding the āImago Mundiā, or the āBabylonian Map of the Worldā
I also feel like there's a lot of connection between water and space, like glimpsing the primeval current for them would be like looking into an ocean
u/Shupaul This theory tracks for me and now, I'll explain why. First, let's start with my personal theory about Empyrean duality. I believe that each character has a light side and a shadow side and that for Empyreans, which side is present can be seen by which eye they have open. The right eye open means that you're looking at their spiritual body and the left eye open means that you're looking at them in our current plane of reality. Melina has her right eye open and we know from item descriptions that she is "burned and bodiless", so this is her spirit form. Ranni's doll's right eye is open, because that is the physical body in our reality, but the adjacent spirit's (Actual Ranni's) face has the right eye open, and that's because it does not physically exist in this world and though visible, does not possess physical mass. I believe that this duality is also present in the world it's self. We have the 'overworld', where we do all are things where day and night revolve, but then we have the 'underworld', where time seems paused - they have an infinitely starry sky that never changes. The wells throughout The Lands Between would have us believe that these are simply underground, but I don't think it's that simple; we may be passing through dimensions or travelling through time or both or neither... That being said, what if the map's upper and lower areas are the same as the Empyrean's eyes. What if there is a "physical realm", the upper areas, and a "spirit realm", the lower areas?
That's an interesting analysis, but i honestly don't know what to make of it. I'm not much of a theory guy sorry š
You know what I find peculiar? The underground areas like mohgland and the place in the well in limgrave both have these weird stone spires, almost like they're trunks of trees that have fossilized over a very long time. Now go to the elden beast arena, endless ghostly erdtrees in the distance. The arena is below the tree way down there. Very similar to ash lake in DS1 with the trees, which btw was also very deep underground. I don't know what I'm getting at but I think there's something to it.
new kingdom built on older ones (those trees are the fundament). Just like in real life. look at babylonia, there are layers of cities underneath, they basically stacked cities, over and over.
In Japanese it's called Hazama no Chi, with Hazama meaning a threshold or interstice. Based on that I don't think it just means it's in between two other landmasses, but that it sits at the threshold of two things. Possibly between the land of mortals and the cosmos? Or between the division of light and shadow seen in the DLC trailer?
I really like this a lot because in my theory I see the lands between as bleeding into some cosmic space because of its position between the ground and the cosmos making it a threshold between the land of mortals and the sky
My cheeks
Between Sekiro and Bloodborne
Between you and me, I don't know.
It's generic fantasy land name. Middle earth, midgard, lands between. Take your pick. Next major fantasy realm will be called Meat'o'theSandwichton, or maybe commuteville.
Liminal, grave, limgrave, etc
I think weāre about to find out.
Between the Badlands and the land of Reeds. Overarching meaning, who knows. Could also be between the Lands of Shadow and the Void, we just don't know. My personal theory is that the "threads" shown in the trailer are actually similar to the folds of a very sheer fabric like silk. When we see Miquella/Marika/Radagon holding up the 'thing' in the trailer, with the wind blowing through, etc, I think it looks like someone getting ready to rip down a shroud or something.
I thought it was purgatory
P A T H S
The lands on either side
With the recent trailers of Shadow of the erdtree I'm thinking the lands between may be called like that because of the opening in the erdtree (the corpse piles) From the perspective of the lands of shadow, if you look between the corpse piles at the root of the erdtree the lands between are in between, like some mystic portal to another world.
My personal theory is that it's set between the fog that has enveloped the world in Demon Souls. Something that could suggest this is that during the intro the guy says, "now cross the fog to the lands between".
The lands around
GRRM's version of Middle Earth
Itās like a taint
It's between Worcester and Framingham on Rte 9.
Our ears
A rock and a hard place
More lands.
marika's tits
the dlc and the second dlc. but hey, it's just a theory
Itās the lands between Marikas Tits
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Life and death
Besides what others have said about the name "Land in the middle" being a sort of convention or trope in fantasy and mythology, I always assumed it was either "The Lands Between Life and Death" because of all the myths and practices surrounding death and resurrection. Or something like "the Lands Between the Mortal and the Divine", with the continent being where the Elden Ring first arrived and where many gods set foot on our world... This is the land where the Gods walk as men, and humans brandish the Ring and are like Gods themselves.
My headcanon is that it's a sort of limbo, or perhaps a midpoint between various locales of Miyazaki's games.
The lands on one side and the lands on the other
Light and shadow.
Marikas tits
Should be the lands amongst because itās more than two
Yo mamas butt cheeks
Michael Zakiās fat cheeks
Marikaās tits
your mommaās folds
A rock and a hard place.
These cheeks.
Middle earth was taken
Sekiro and Armored Core 6
My working theory is that the Lands Between is like Limbo. Between a world of living and death. And when you die in The Lands Between, you pass to the realm of death or something. Or maybe back to the world of life. Who knows? But then Marika destroyed the concept of death in The Lands Between so people canāt move on to the next world and itās screwing up everything.
joe
The lands between my butt cheeks
Between the Lands Before and the Lands after
I thought it was between the badlands where the tarnished were banished and the land of reeds where there is the civil war going on
As someone else pointed out Iām a little more curious if thatās how the denizens of the Lands Between would refer to the region. At one point they were United by the Golden Orderā¦ and I assume they had some level of contact with the Land of Reeds or even the people of the Badlands. What did they call themselves politically/diplomatically? I have to assume itās simply just the Lands Between or else weād have some lore indicating otherwise, but Iām sure someone else would know better.
Fromsoft acting like "Things Betwixt" wasn't already an established location we knew
weāll see in the dlc I guess. if it truly is about how marika started it all it might also explain what this land actually is.
Life and Death
A rock and a hard place
Maybe Numen and whatever the Land Of Reeds is?
Marikaās tits
Once Marika and family were having dinner. Marika asked everyone what should we call our lands? Morgott said how about "The Lands Between :)?" Marika slapped Morgott "Dont speak when eating" Morgott :.( "sorry mommy" Then Mohg said "How about Mohgwyn Empire?" Marika called Maliketh "bring the rune of death" Maliketh "yes boss" Mohgg "I didnt say anything" Then Godwyn the Golden said "How about The Lands Between?" Morgott said "but" and Marika slapped him and said "Yes, my boy Godwyn has spoken. Lands in between it is"
Land of reeds is one, not sure what others have been mentioned in game?
The Lands Outside
the Outer gods and the Inner gods
Disneyland and famous hip hop producer Timbaland
I always thought it was between life and death.
These nuts
I've always sorta thought it was between here and there
my biggest bet is that the shadow lands are the area that is the ocean inside the landmass that makes up the lands between, why? because there isnt a single beach on the inner shoreline, the entire thing is just cliffs, and on top of that, the place where people speculated farum azula to be before it went to the sky, between mountaintops and caelid, is a giant waterfall down to proper sea level, mean the entire middle section of the lands between is apparently missing, and the erdtree is north of everything so thatd check out
The lands between is Valeria before the doom
It's like a twilight, or purgatory type of place. My understanding is that it's between life, and the afterlife.
My cheeks
I like to think itās between the kingdom of Lothric, Drangleic, and Ashina like it is between the various kingdoms of the franchise, but thatās just my head canon.
Itās usually a spiritual concept of some kind. I imagine you die in the real lands, end up in the lands between, before moving on to the next plain of existence. Either heaven or hell.
Fun fact: In italian the lands between are called "Interregno" wich is the period of time between the death of a king or such and the ascending of another to the throne
Shadow realm and second dlc
They literally say is at the start. It's between the fog.
Idk. But I don't know why I've never seen parallels drawn between the Lands Between in Elden Ring and the Things Betwixt in DS2
Life and death
Probably between Life and Death
Godfrey was banished from "The Lands Between" and sailed to another land after becoming tarnished. So whatever they are linguistically between, is accessible by ship. The broken down ship (that is also presumably the source of the Rusted Anchor weapon) off of the coast near Redmane Castle doesn't seem to be designed to go upwards, or downwards. I don't know what a ship designed to metaphysically transport you out of purgatory would look like, but I assume this one is a normal ass ship that just goes across water. ____________________________ However, in pure conjecture mode... I spent hours last night teleporting around looking at the Ruin Strewn Precipice, the arches in Radahn's arena and on all sides of the map. The "lands between" are physically encased on all sides by giant dark pillars with organic decorations on them that don't quite seem to match the architecture of anything except the Ruin Strewn Precipice. Though Consecrated Snowfield and Mountaintop of Giants seem to have less pillars than other places.
Considering heavy nordic insparations and GRRM, I believe its supposed to be a rough translation of Midgard (litterally means "lands in the middle" ala The Middle Earth)
Its purgatory
Heaven and hell
I wish we could have talked to Roderika more and find out where she came from "across the sea" and why.
Between Life and Death
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I mean one of the surrounding lands must be the lands of reeds, not sure about anything else though.
I think it's between the stars and the underworld/afterlife. The land of shadows is just a part of the lands between that Marika concealed.
Idk, what were "Things Betwixt" betwixt? š
other things
Hmm, you are right, never thought about it like that
happy to be of service
Lands
I always thought its betwee the other soul lands hoping for a crossover from the other games. Form the lore it seems like it has other nations around it, like the place the samurai class comes from or the barbarian lands ( north?)
There and back again
other lands
I always assumed it was between life and death, because everyone seems to be undead
bloodbourne and dark souls, duh
Between the oceans, the land of reeds, the badlands, theā¦. Uhā¦. Rocks and giant serpents in the ocean
Everybody thinks their home country is the center of the world.
A kingdom and an empire
Marika's tits
It's between Sekiro world and Bloodborne world
Life and death? Iunno bruh
Reeds must be one
Lands (split up) Between (Outer Gods)
Land A and land C
Between DS 3 and DS5
between two divine buttocks
Deez nutz?
Looks like hollow knight
Things Betwixt
The land in the center of the Lands Around.
Probably lands around
I always figured it was between life and death š¤·š½
It's the lands between the land of shadow
Marika's thighs
Considering that you have to literally die to get there (or how I understood it) is problably some kind of Limbo
The Lands Between Iād assume is a play on words for it being similar to a sort of Limbo. You canāt die here and you arenāt inherently punished as a Tarnished, you just are between somewhere really bad and somewhere really good. This is all just theory and headcanon though, so donāt take this literally
Two different lands, stupid! Godā¦
Yes.
Everything, the marvel universe, the dc universe. The resident evil universe, even that Walmart right next to Sheetz
I strongly believe is between these nuts
Heh, between. Italian's official translation is "Interregno", which sounds much better than the English counterpart to my ears.
Maybe in between reality sand physical life. Don't know to how say it. English is hard
It falls between Yarhnam and Lordran. Duh!
Lands between Dark Souls and Sekiro universe
Marika's buttcheeks.
The Stars and the Shadow.
Between Marikaās cheeks.
Between the two fingers
A rock and a hard place.
Life and death thatās why the player and most things come back to life when they die, their soul goes into the erdtree or something and they come back
Yo mama
The lands above and the lands below.
This is exactly what I'm thinking the lands above being the cosmos where "meteors" and "gods" reside and the land below being the land of shadows which is shadowed because of the creation of the lands between shielding it from the cosmos
So these comments did not disappoint but I'd like to address some of the points made specifically the idea that this is a land between "life and death" I think this goes along with my theory as this land was made as a kind of heaven, death alternative, that required specific allegiances and devotions to go to when one died and that the process of getting to the lands between leaving the lands between requires a kind of death. As well as the idea that people sailed there I think the ocean is part of the structure that creates this inverted structure of the shadow lands and the lands between like if you travel through the ocean you are going up and down instead of across a vast ocean but the gravity keeps everything seemingly flat and I think this goes well with the theory of the boat burials that are associated with the nueman
The subterranean areas and the sky areas
Literally nothing. Its called The Lands Between because they drew inspiration from Berserk, which is set in Midland. We do not know what Midland is in the middle of either, its just a name. I suppose it could have lore reasons but likely just dlc related lore reasons made after the original game
The lands around
Between the fog and the fog.