[quote=@Zyx] >I'm curious to know how this will work given the inherent lack of freedom in the premise. Don't get me wrong, I love Elden Ring and I'd love to faff about in the Lands Between pre-Shattering, but if we're all ending up at the same destination then I've got to wonder what the point is beyond playing canon characters and maybe a select few OCs. If that's the entire reason for the roleplay, then fine, I'll withdraw my interest in that case - but I'd like to know beforehand how much creative freedom we truly have. [/quote] I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with diverging from the canon timeline if it comes to it. I mean, even if it was sticking to what we do know, a lot of the canon itself is so ambiguous that it could go a ton of different ways and fit in many stories we never encounter. For the interest of player agency though, I'd probably opt for taking the situation as a jumping-off point and worrying less about ticking off lore events from a list.