Summary
During Emmrich’s recruitment mission inDragon Age: The Veilguard, you can find an oddly familiar note sitting just by a ledge.
It reads, “Treasure… try down”, formatted exactly like anElden Ringmessage. It’s a fun little homage, but I wanted to put to the test just how accurate it is.
In Elden Ring, you can’t recreate the tattered note 1:1, the closest you can get is, “treasure chest, Try down”, but inDark Souls, you can make the tattered note almost verbatim: “treasure, try down”.
What Are Elden Ring Messages?
If you haven’t played Elden Ring and are wondering what the hell I’m waffling about,you’re able to write notes in-game using a list of prompts. Think of it like dark fantasy Madlibs. Other players can then see what you wrote in their game, choosing to upvote or downvote your message (an upvote heals you).
Helpful players use these messages to point out hidden paths and treasure, others write jokes (likecalling every animal you see ‘dog’or scrawling ‘fort night’ everywhere), and the trolls try and trick you into jumping off a ledge to your death.
Before I get yelled at, messages first appeared inDemon’s Souls, and have since become a Soulslike staple, appearing in the afformentioned Dark Souls as well asBloodborne.
Elden Ring was an unprecedented success for FromSoftware, garnering even more popularity than Dark Souls, so while messages might have originated in past games, newcomers will likely know them from their time in the Lands Between.
But now, they’re crossing over into Dragon Age. Kind of. Let’s just hope there isn’t a trail of glowing gems at the end of this tattered note, with a bald guy waiting to kick us into the abyss. I guess that’s just Solas.
