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Elden Ring Loves Moms
Shadow of the Erdtree treats motherhood like a classical power, like bloodlust in the Colosseum.
“By turning all our attention on the biological and social aspects of motherhood […], we have become the first civilization which lacks a discourse on the complexity of motherhood.” Shadow of the Erdtree makes a formidable attempt at packing this passion — as Kristeva describes it, “a reconquest that lasts a lifetime and beyond” — into its ethics. In another attempt at becoming his own mother, he sheds all of his flesh before descending into the DLC’s Land of Shadow, where he memorializes hunks of his skin, eyes, and heart — not unlike the way some people preserve their placentas after giving birth. Shadow of the Erdtree doesn’t bother with the boring bounds of physicality; it makes traditionally feminine emotional qualities — nurturing, submitting to nature — universally aspirational.
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