{"id":520875,"date":"2026-03-04T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:07:15","slug":"elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\/","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring has turned me into a Souls lore goblin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve always appreciated <strong>FromSoftware<\/strong>&rsquo;s minimalist storytelling style across its various Soulsborne-type games, but I also wasn&rsquo;t exactly one of those people completely obsessed or enamoured with it. I knew what was going on, more or less. I understood the concept of The First Flame and all that. I just wasn&rsquo;t reading every single item description in search of scraps as some fans were &ndash; though I always respected their dedication.\n<\/p>\n<p>And boy, am I now glad that I didn&rsquo;t mock those folks back then &ndash; because <strong>Elden Ring<\/strong> has turned me into one of them. I can&rsquo;t quite pinpoint what caused this change in me.\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is the result of George R. R. Martin&rsquo;s influence over the world and narrative. Though Martin&rsquo;s involvement was seemingly limited to telling the story of the Lands Between before the events of Elden Ring, that&rsquo;s also one of the most intriguing aspects of the narrative and lore &ndash; piecing together what this world looked like before the Shattering, the event that tore it asunder. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve always appreciated FromSoftware&rsquo;s minimalist storytelling style across its various Soulsborne-type games, but I also wasn&rsquo;t exactly one of those people completely obsessed or enamoured with it. I knew what was going on, more or less. I understood the concept of The First Flame and all that. I just wasn&rsquo;t reading every single item description in search of scraps as some fans were &ndash; though I always respected their dedication. And boy, am I now glad that I didn&rsquo;t mock those folks back then &ndash; because Elden Ring has turned me into one of them. I can&rsquo;t quite pinpoint what caused this change in me. Maybe this is the result of George R. R. Martin&rsquo;s influence over the world and narrative. Though Martin&rsquo;s involvement was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,963,47,964,79,965,1266,424,59,52,44,45,99,60,4616],"class_list":["post-520875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-bandai-namco-entertainment","tag-blockbuster","tag-elden-ring","tag-fantasy","tag-fromsoftware","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-open-world","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elden Ring has turned me into a Souls lore goblin | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&rsquo;ve always appreciated FromSoftware&rsquo;s minimalist storytelling style across its various Soulsborne-type games, but I also wasn&rsquo;t exactly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elden Ring has turned me into a Souls lore goblin | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&rsquo;ve always appreciated FromSoftware&rsquo;s minimalist storytelling style across its various Soulsborne-type games, but I also wasn&rsquo;t exactly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-04T13:07:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"headline\":\"Elden Ring has turned me into a Souls lore goblin\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-04T13:07:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":202,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/elden-ring-has-turned-me-into-a-souls-lore-goblin.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Action-Adventure\",\"Bandai Namco Entertainment\",\"blockbuster\",\"Elden Ring\",\"fantasy\",\"FromSoftware\",\"George R.R. 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