The world of Elden Ring feels like Alice in Wonderland

Rinse out of handg, like so many other FromSoftware games, evokes the same eerie feeling as a nightmare. You meet a bunch of strange creatures in his mysterious world and his story plays out like a parable. It’s very similar to the world Lewis Carroll created in Alice in wonderlanda novel about a young English girl named Alice who has a long dream of a hostile world filled with similarly bizarre characters.

The minimalist, symbol-packed storytelling in FromSoftware games allows players to find their own meaning. I personally compared the “bagging”. Dark Souls living with depression, and other critics have compared her doomed world to it the experience of life under capitalism. Similar, Alice in Wonderland and its continuation closer look have inspired critics over the centuries to believe it was a commentary on the mistreatment of children in Victorian society, or perhaps political satire on the part of royals. By creating a dreamlike world filled with vague and relatively undeveloped yet provocative characters, both FromSoftware and Lewis Carroll have fueled endless debates about these works.

I could spend the rest of this article explaining why elden ring and Alice in Wonderland both effectively mess with different societal norms, but I’d much rather tell you Alice’s story through the lens of Lands Between. Finally, it is clear that the smoking caterpillar and the smiling Cheshire cat would go well with it elden ring

– and my own journey as a Tainted One leaves me feeling as stunned as Alice in Wonderland.

Let’s go down the rabbit hole!

The player character in Elden Ring takes a sip from a bottle

Saying ‘drink me’ was all well and good, but smart little Alice wouldn’t be so quick to do that: ‘No, I’ll look first,’ she said, ‘and see if it says ‘poison’ or ‘poison’ is not marked” …

This bottle wasn’t marked “Poison” though, so Alice dared to try it and thought it was very good (it actually had some sort of mixed flavor of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast), she finished it very soon.

The Elden Ring player character faces the golden earth tree beyond Caelid

‘The first thing I must do,’ Alice said to herself as she wandered about in the woods, ‘is grow back to my proper size; and the second thing is to find my way in this beautiful garden. I think that will be the best plan.”

The Elden Ring player character approaches the Earth Tree in Caelid, but on the horizon a dog is waiting to attack

It no doubt sounded like an excellent plan, and was very neatly and simply arranged; the only trouble was that she hadn’t the faintest idea how to go about it; and as she peered anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just above her head made her look up in great haste.

The Elden Ring player character faces off against one of the giant dogs in Caelid

A huge pup looked down at her with big, round eyes and weakly reached out a paw to touch her. “Poor little thing!” said Alice in a coaxing tone, and she was trying hard to whistle to it, but she was terrified all the time to think that it might be hungry, in which case it was very likely to eat them up anyway would persuade.

The player character in Elden Ring looks down at a caterpillar

Her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar sitting on the top, arms crossed, quietly smoking a long hookah and not taking the slightest notice of her or anything else.

A bird with knives in its claws attacks the player character in Elden Ring

A sharp hiss made her back quickly: a large dove had flown in her face and was beating her violently with its wings. “Snake!” cried the dove.

“I’m not a snake!” said Alice indignantly. “Leave me in peace!”

Renalla sits in her chair with her egg while the player character looks on

“Oh, don’t disturb me,” said the Duchess; “I never liked numbers.” And with that, she began breastfeeding her child again, singing a kind of lullaby to him, shaking him violently at the end of each line…

The Tainted sits at Renalla's feet as she cuddles her egg

“Talk roughly to your little boy,
And hit him when he sneezes;
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases.”

Alice caught the baby with some difficulty as it was an oddly shaped little creature.

The Erdtree Burial Watchdog that looks like a three-headed cat

‘In that direction,’ said the cat, waving its right paw, ‘lives a hatter; and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit one you like: they’re both crazy.”

“But I don’t want to go among crazy people,” remarked Alice.

“Oh, it’s not your fault,” said the cat, “we’re all crazy here. I’m pissed off. You are crazy.”

“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.

“You have to be,” said the cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

The player character in Elden Ring meets Renna again; She walks past Ranni this time and invites the player to place themselves in her service

“I haven’t had anything yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take any more.”

“You mean you can’t take it fewer‘ said the Hatter: ‘it is very easy to take more than nothing.”

Queen Marika destroys the Elden Ring in the game's opening sequence

The queen had only one way to solve any trouble, big or small. “Chop the head off!” she said without even looking around.

Miriel the Pope Turtle welcomes an Astrologer to Elden Ring

“When we were little,” the Mock Turtle continued more calmly, although she still sobbed a little from time to time, “we went to school in the sea. The master was an old tortoise – we used to call him a tortoise -”

“Why did you call him a turtle when he wasn’t?” asked Alice.

“We called him Turtle because he taught us,” said the Mock Turtle angrily; “You are really very boring!” …

Alice didn’t feel encouraged to ask any more questions about this, so she turned to the mock turtle and said, “What else did you have to learn?”

“Now there was Mystery,” replied the Mock Turtle, counting off the motives on his flappers, – “Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling – the Drawling Master was an old conger eel, who used to come once.” a week: He taught us to draw, stretch, and swoon in convolutions.”

One of the formidable Lobster enemies in Elden Ring

“‘You really have no idea how lovely it will be
If they pick us up and throw us out to sea with the lobsters!’
But the snail replied: “Too far, too far!” and gave a wry look—
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he wouldn’t dance.
Didn’t want to, couldn’t, didn’t want to, couldn’t, wouldn’t dance
Didn’t want to, couldn’t, didn’t want to, couldn’t, couldn’t dance along!”