With the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree out players are now discovering just how big the DLC is. Reddit user u/GilliamYaeger overlaid the DLC’s map on the Land of Shadow and it perfectly matched the base game’s The Lands Between. In doing so, they showed that the game is much bigger than Limgrave, who is a game director Hidetaka Miyazaki mentioned before it was comparable to in size.
Looking at both maps, it looks like the Land of Shadow not only includes regions the size of Limgrave, but also Liurnia, Caelid, Raya Lucaria, Altus Plateau, and Leyndell. These areas make up about 70-80% of the base game’s content, so the fact that the DLC is the size of these areas combined makes it almost feel like a separate game in itself.
Another amazing thing, as demonstrated by u/GilliamYaeger, is that the Land of Shadow fits perfectly with all the empty areas of the Lands Between, like a jigsaw puzzle. About this u/pichael289 said ”The lands between are the lands of golden light. The shadow lands are the reverse of that. It makes sense that the maps would work that way too.”FromSoftware must have designed the DLC map to work perfectly with the base game’s.
Like the base game, the Land of Shadow is full of various amazing locations such as Belurat, Castle Ensis, Ellac River and the Cerula Coast. The overall feel of the DLC also gives it a different feel compared to the base game; the last places like Limgrave, Liurnia, Leyndell (before the ash) are lively and make them much more compelling to explore, while the areas and environment in the Land of Shadow give a kind of gloomy feeling (in addition to the super difficult enemies).
For more on Elden Ring, check out Where to get Throwing Weapons early in the DLC, here on Pro Game Guides.
