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Elden Ring Inspired - Marika’s Cathedral of Gold
After her ascension to godhood and before Messmer’s Crusade there was a brief period of peace between Queen Marika and the Hornsent. Built as a celebration of the two cultures, the cathedral thus shares Leyndell’s golden lineage and Enir Ilim’s heavenly spirals.
During the War of the Ancient Dragons however the cathedral was unfortunately destroyed and lost to time.
I’ve been working on and off on this passion project for the past year and I am so excited to finally share it (also relieved it is finally over).
There have been several goals I wanted to achieve and explore with this scene:
-Pay homage to my all time favourite video game Elden Ring (i can finally resume my RL1 playthough now that this is done)
-Push visuals as far as I can with Nanite, Lumen and Megalights and see what I learn from it
-Last but not least, I wanted to see if I’m able to create a scene that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the original game. Let me know if you think I managed to meet this expectation.
The Foliage and the one pile of dirt I used everywhere are Megascans. The Sky is by Velarion and our tarnished warrior is by TalkingDrums.
Everything else was modelled, textured and assembled by me in Unreal Engine 5
The full Artstation post features a bunch of videos I wasn’t able to upload here, please have a look:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/a0529z
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I still see the columns and spirals in my dreams sometimes.
In my mind this area is accessible via a flashback similar to the DLC, so I guess candles would be lit by believers that have been at the cathedral. There is indeed some accounted for inconsistency between the abandoned visual language of the broken tiles, vegetation, broken benches and the candles newly lit candles.
Maybe the candles were lit by a sect of the ancient dragon cult that persisted in the destroyed part of leyndell where the cathedral was placed, and you find out more about them and their intentions as you explore the area.