🏔 Elden Ring Poster UK

FromSoftware · George R.R. Martin · GOTY 2022 · 96/100 Metacritic — confirmed at 98types from £3

Elden Ring is the most critically acclaimed video game of 2022 and the most significant open-world action RPG ever made. Developed by FromSoftware under director Hidetaka Miyazaki and co-written with George R.R. Martin — author of A Song of Ice and Fire — the game won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2022, received 96/100 on Metacritic, and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide. The Elden Ring poster at 98types is a confirmed individual product on 260gsm museum-grade archival matte paper. From £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day first class dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

🌎 The Miyazaki & Martin Collaboration

The creative partnership at the heart of Elden Ring is genuinely unusual in the history of major video game production. Hidetaka Miyazaki — who had spent the preceding decade building the Soulslike genre with Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro — approached George R.R. Martin directly with a proposal: Martin would write the mythological foundation of a new world, the “myths and legends” that preceded the present-day events the player would inhabit. Miyazaki and FromSoftware would construct the present-day world, its gameplay systems, its quests and its characters.

Martin's contribution was the history of the Lands Between: the creation of the Elden Ring by the Outer God known as the Greater Will, the reign of the Elden Lord Godfrey and Queen Marika, the shattering of the Elden Ring and the Great War of the Demigods that followed. The six demigods — Rennala, Radahn, Morgott, Rykard, Mohg and Malenia — are Martin's characters in the mythological sense: their personalities, relationships and choices are the backstory against which the Tarnished (the player) acts.

What Martin brought to the project was the writer's discipline of a novelist who builds fictional histories. In his Song of Ice and Fire novels, the ancient history of Westeros — the Long Night, the Dance of Dragons, the War of the Five Kings — is felt in every present-day chapter as a weight, a consequence, an inheritance. Elden Ring's world has that same quality: everything the player finds — a ruined castle, a dead knight, an item description — is part of a history that was real before they arrived. This is the quality that separates Elden Ring from almost every other open-world game, and it comes directly from Martin's involvement.

🏔 The Lands Between — The World

The Lands Between is FromSoftware's most visually spectacular and geographically coherent game world. Divided into six major regions — Limgrave (the golden-green grassland opening area), Liurnia of the Lakes (the flooded former territory of the Raya Lucaria Academy), Caelid (the scarlet-red wasteland of Malenia's Scarlet Rot bloom), Altus Plateau (the golden elevated plateau under the Erdtree's direct influence), the Mountaintops of the Giants (the frozen desolate far north), and the Consecrated Snowfield (the hidden late-game region) — each area has a completely distinct visual identity, atmospheric register and enemy vocabulary.

The Erdtree itself — the vast luminescent golden tree at the centre of the map, visible from almost every point on the Lands Between — is one of gaming's most effective visual devices. It functions simultaneously as navigation landmark, narrative object, metaphysical symbol and composition anchor. Every photograph or artwork created from Elden Ring references the relationship between the player's position and the Erdtree's omnipresent golden light. The Elden Ring poster at 98types captures this relationship: the specific quality that makes Elden Ring's visual identity immediately recognisable and instantly beautiful as wall art.

Limgrave — The Beginning

Limgrave is one of the finest opening areas in RPG history. The Tarnished emerges from a cave onto a cliff overlooking the Gatefront Ruins, the Erdtree visible across the plain, Stormveil Castle visible to the north, and the whole of the Lands Between implied beyond. The visual design of Limgrave — golden afternoon light on green grass, ancient stone ruins, the scale of the Erdtree against the sky — establishes the game's visual register in a single moment. Every subsequent area deepens this register: Caelid makes it horrific, Leyndell makes it grand, the Mountaintops make it desolate.

The Legacy Dungeons

Within the open world are six Legacy Dungeons — enclosed, architecturally dense environments that function like traditional Soulslike level design. Stormveil Castle (Margit the Fell Omen, Godrick the Grafted), the Academy of Raya Lucaria (Red Wolf of Radagon, Rennala Queen of the Full Moon), Volcano Manor (Rykard Lord of Blasphemy), Leyndell Royal Capital (Godfrey First Elden Lord, Morgott the Omen King), Crumbling Farum Azula (Maliketh the Black Blade, Godfrey again) and Elphael Brace of the Haligtree (Loretta Knight of the Haligtree, Malenia Blade of Miquella) each represent FromSoftware's most ambitious dungeon design.

⛈ The Characters

Ranni the Witch — The Blue Moon Witch: Ranni is a demigod, daughter of Rennala and Radagon, who chose to reject the order of the Greater Will at the cost of her own life — stealing the Rune of Death to kill her golden order patron and transferring her soul into a doll body. Her questline spans the entire map of Elden Ring and concludes with the Age of Stars ending — the most cosmically ambitious of the game's conclusions. Her visual design — four arms, pale blue spectral skin, a wide-brimmed hat — made her the most iconic character in Elden Ring's visual identity and a cultural phenomenon in the year of the game's release.

Malenia, Blade of Miquella — The Hardest Boss: Malenia is the optional boss in the Haligtree — accessible only through a hidden path requiring two halves of a medallion found in separate locations — and is widely considered the most mechanically demanding optional boss in FromSoftware's history. Her life-steal mechanic (each attack heals her regardless of whether it lands on a shield), her dance-like attack patterns, and her Phase 2 transformation into a winged Valkyrie with Scarlet Rot blooms made her the subject of the gaming year's most significant cultural phenomenon: “Let Me Solo Her,” a player who helped thousands of other players defeat Malenia as a co-op summon, wearing nothing but a jar on their head.

Melina — The Maiden: Melina is the Tarnished's guide — a young woman without a body of her own, who offers to act as the Tarnished's maiden and guide them to the Erdtree. Her origins are deliberately obscured throughout the game: her closed eye burns with the flame of the Erdtree, she knows Queen Marika personally, and her role in the game's endings varies dramatically depending on the path the Tarnished chooses.

Radahn — The Starscourge: Starscourge Radahn is a demigod of enormous physical and magical power who fought Malenia to a standstill at the Battle of Aeonia, triggering the Scarlet Rot bloom that destroyed Caelid. Afflicted by the rot himself, Radahn now wanders Caelid in a mindless, animalistic state, attended by his beloved horse Leonard — a small horse who carries a man the size of a building, a visual detail that encapsulates the specific quality of FromSoftware's humour within tragedy.

🏗 Shadow of the Erdtree — The Expansion (2024)

Shadow of the Erdtree was released in June 2024 and received 95/100 on Metacritic — the highest score ever given to a DLC expansion by the platform. Set in the Shadow Realm, accessed through the preserved body of Miquella at Mohgwyn Palace, the expansion introduces a new area as large as the base game's Limgrave, with new weapons (the Backhand Blades, the Dueling Shields, the Great Katanas), new ashes of war, new spells, and a new progression system of Scadutree Blessings.

Messmer the Impaler — the expansion's central antagonist — is a fire-wielding demigod, a son of Queen Marika whose existence was deliberately erased from Elden Ring's history. His serpent-fire magic, his tragic backstory and his visual design — red hair, golden armour marked by flame — made him immediately acclaimed as one of the finest boss designs in FromSoftware's history. The expansion's conclusion, which recontextualises Miquella's relationship with both the player and the Lands Between, is the most narratively significant addition to the Elden Ring world since launch.

📌 The Elden Ring Poster — Room, Size, Visual Context

The Elden Ring print has a distinctive visual identity among the 98types gaming collection: where Dark Souls is dark and austere (black, grey, the deep orange of bonfires), Elden Ring is golden and luminous (the warm gold of the Erdtree, the deep blue-green of Limgrave, the red horror of Caelid). This makes the Elden Ring poster specifically right for rooms that run cool in ambient lighting — the warm golden tones of the Erdtree provide visual warmth against a blue-lit gaming setup.

In a gallery wall: Elden Ring + Dark Souls (the origin of the tradition) + Cyberpunk 2077 (a completely different aesthetic — warm gold vs cold neon) = three gaming prints with distinct and complementary visual identities. Three prints + 1 free from £9 at A6. For a feature wall: A3 (29.7×42cm) is the optimal size for the Elden Ring print — large enough to show the scale of the Lands Between, proportioned correctly for most UK gaming room walls.

🎁 Elden Ring as a Gift UK

The Elden Ring poster is the most precisely right gaming gift for the player who engages with the Soulslike tradition — and increasingly, for the George R.R. Martin fan who discovered the game through the collaboration and considers the Lands Between the finest new fantasy world of the 2020s. The game's crossover appeal — attracting players who had never played a FromSoftware game before because of Martin's name, and retaining Soulslike veterans through Miyazaki's craftsmanship — makes it the gaming print with the widest potential recipient pool of any action RPG poster.

Buy 3 get 1 free: Elden Ring + Dark Souls (the origin of the tradition) + The Witcher 3 (the other gold-standard open-world RPG) = the three most critically acclaimed action/RPG games in gaming history as a gallery wall. Or: Elden Ring + Baldur's Gate 3 (GOTY 2023) + Cyberpunk 2077 = the three consecutive year-defining RPGs of 2022/2023/2020. From £9 at A6, same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

📈 Elden Ring vs The Competition — UK Gaming Print Market

The Elden Ring poster market in the UK is dominated by generic marketplace sellers on Etsy, Redbubble and Displate who offer low-quality prints without the museum-grade paper specification that makes a gaming print worth hanging. The 98types Elden Ring poster is printed on 260gsm fine art satin paper with archive pigment inks at the Camden Market studio — the paper weight and ink quality that museum-grade framed prints use. The difference is visible at framing: 260gsm paper does not buckle, does not show through, and sits flat in a frame without warping. The Elden Ring poster as serious wall art rather than gaming merchandise.

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