A talented Elden Ring fan has created a gorgeous drawing of the game's massive open world, The Lands Between. As one of 2022's bestselling and most critically acclaimed titles, Elden Ring has garnered an incredibly large and devoted fanbase since launch. Many of Elden Ring's fans use their artistic talents to celebrate 2022's Game of the Year.
As FromSoftware's first open world Soulslike game, Elden Ring's The Lands Between amazed audiences and critics with its sense of freedom and pleasing lack of objective markers and mission logs. Stepping out into Limgrave for the first time and finding one's own way in the perilous world is surely a moment that's impossible to forget for any Elden Ring fan. Taking the Souls genre and pushing it into a beautiful yet horrifying open world was a big risk for FromSoftware, but it paid off in spades as The Lands Between is celebrated for its many diverse and iconic open world areas.
Reddit user Vigamox posted a gorgeous and stunningly accurate drawing of Elden Ring's The Lands Between on Reddit. Framed by the open world's two largest land structures, the scalding Mt. Gelmir and the snowy peaks of The Mountaintops of the Giants, the drawing features every above-ground area in The Lands Between with impressive accuracy. The giant Erdtree makes its home at the center of the image, so too does the player character who's rocking the iconic Raging Wolf armor set atop their trusty steed Torrent.
Every major area of The Lands Between can be seen below the cliff that the player is standing on from the red hellscape of Caelid all the way up to the golden fields of the Altus Plateau and Leyndell, the royal capital at the foot of the Erdtree. Major landmarks like Stormveil Castle, Raya Lucaria, and the red beach where players take on Starscourge Radahn in one of the game's most exciting boss fights is visible as well. Scattered across the world are some of the minor Erdtrees, all accurate to their in-game locations. Even Miquella's Haligtree peeks out from behind the Mountaintops of the Giants in the top right corner. Speaking of, floating between the Mountaintops and Caelid is Crumbling Farum Azula, a late-game area home to many fearsome dragons.
With Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC confirmed and in development, it will be interesting to see if the expansion will add new areas to the already massive world of The Lands Between. Judging from the image that accompanied the announcement, some fans have pointed to the possibility of the DLC taking place before the events of Elden Ring. If this is the case it's possible that the world would look much different, thus using the already established areas would be feasible. With no release date or window attached to Shadow of the Erdtree, fans will have to wait longer to learn more about the future, or past, of The Lands Between.
Elden Ring is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.