Elden Ring (DLC) - Shrines Long Forgotten, Sacred & Profane – Rob Haines Creative Space

in game photography

All photos were taken on PS5 in Quality mode with ray-tracing, and post-processed in Affinity Photo. Cinematic angles are the result of looking through the telescope, or crouching in front of a large rock to clip the camera through my character.

A pale blue-grey night time sky, with a large crescent moon over dark silhouettes of ceramic pots hung from rope strung between wooden poles. On the ground, larger pots sit on the grass, and in the background, a jagged peak pierces into the cloudless sky.

A skyline of ceramic pots hung from ropes criss-crossing over a village and the surrounding grey cliffs. The sky above is gold and grey, dominated by the vast bulk of the Scadutree, its dark branches and trunk weeping golden sap.

A wooden village strung with ceramic pots beside a field of yellowed grass. A grey cliff topped with sunlit pine trees rises high above, and the golden sky is filled with grey veils rising to the distant Scadutree.

A view from outside a cathedral; pillars and archways rise up the right-hand side, and a fluffy green tree covers the bottom-left. Between them, a cliff edge leads beneath floating ash towards the distant Scadutree and the half-moon tower of the Shadow Keep.

A wooden pew caught by a beam of sunlight in a dark cathedral. A pair of white candles are lit on the floor nearby, and a pair of sunbeams touch on assorted debris scattered across the broken paving.

The altar-end of a cathedral, wreathed in blue-green mist. Instead of an altar, a serious-looking priest sits on a wooden throne; he has a golden hat and a golden ruff of feather-like fingers. The pews in the foreground are askew and surrounded by planks and other debris, and white candles mark the central aisle.

A robed priest sits on a throne at the head of a cathedral cast in blue light, looking down the aisle. Pops of golden sunlight through arched windows paint colours against the stonework, and there are iron cages both hanging on chains from above and standing in the corner of the room. The floor is a mess of broken paving, white candles and uneven wooden pews.

A view upwards of the ornate windows at one end of a cathedral; three arched windows topped with horseshoe-like decorations, then two similar windows supporting a very large circular window at the very top. Inside the cathedral, long chains descend from above, lit blue by passing sunbeams, and a stack of black iron cages is piled against a pillar in the bottom left.

An atmospheric cathedral, misty with blue light. A shard of Grace sits beside wooden pews and small metal cages in the bottom-right corner, and at the far end of the cathedral a series of open archways lead up to an ornate circular window. Chains dangle from the vaulting high above, carrying black iron cages.

An underground cavern, drenched in blue mist. An uneven winding path leads through a series of finger-like pillars to a shrine in the distance, lit with shafts of light from above. The shrine itself is three steepled fingers, and a finger-like bell dangles from where they meet.

A close-up of an underground shrine made of steepled finger-like rock protrusions. A bell resembling a pock-marked finger hangs in the centre. A path of rough grey stone leads to the shrine, with finger-like pillars lining the way.

A vast underground lake swathed in blue fog. Vast tube-like corals descend from on high, while finger-like rocks emerge from below. In the centre of the lake lurks a monstrous creature from beyond the stars, made entirely of hyperflexible fingers entwined with each other.

A flooded district within the walls of a castle of dark-grey stone. Dark buttresses emerge from the water beside the upper branches of silhouetted trees, and decorative spires adorned with what look like stone-carved bells rise into the sky. A sweep of pale grey veils soars above the castle walls.

A broken archway in the Church District, where pale fog wends its way through ruined stone buildings, stripped trees and metal pikes stabbed into the ground. Above, tall octagonal towers of black stone rise into the night sky.

A small black-stone tower and a low church-like building with arched windows, in the freshly-drained Church District. The debris-strewn road is still partially flooded, and a pair of disc-topped metal poles emerge from the ground at skewed angles.

A deserted castle courtyard, still glistening with recently-drained floodwaters. Piles of fallen stonework and dead crabs cover the foreground; beyond, a pointed archway leads into a cloister, wreathed in pink fog, while the sky above is heavy with pink-cast veils.

A view from within the dark castle walls, up past multiple levels of stonework to the gossamer-white veils sweeping across a grey-green clouded sky. In the immediate foreground, a shattered series of archways curves down to the right, where a tall church steeple stands. The curve is echoed by a heavy wall with ramparts and octagonal towers partially obscured by white fog in the midground, and beyond that the castle rises into layers of buttresses and high towers.

Looking up at the heights of the Shadow Keep from the ruins of the Church District. The towers are thin and dark grey, and supported by a series of arched buttresses. Pale light shines from the left, casting one side of the building in light grey. Church steeples rise from below, and in the top-left the sky is filled with grey-brown veils.

A large drowned tree in the heart of the Church District, now revealed by the receded waters. It fills a circular courtyard, its thick grey branches like fingers reaching down to the last dregs of water below.

An interior chamber in the Church District, covered in debris and broken furniture. The floor is still wet from the flood-waters, and at the far end of the room a humanoid figure stands silhouetted in the fog, their arms raised.

An interior castle chamber, recently drained of floodwaters. The stone paving is still covered in a thin sheen of water, and debris and waterlogged furniture is scattered throughout. The chamber is dense with fog, and a succession of pointed archways - two wide, two narrow - lead the eye deeper into the structure.

A vaulted two-level chamber in the Church District, lined with broken cupboards and drawers. Chandeliers hang from the vaulting above, and a set of wooden stairs curves to the left to a mezzanine level with an ornate wooden rail.

A field of long grasses, pierced by long disc-topped pikes and distant pine trees. To the left, a gatehouse of grey stone guards a curving path towards a monolithic archway facing the Scadutree. To the right, the vast, twisted trunk of the Scadutree itself stands black-and-gold against a piercingly bright golden sky.

Gille rides her horse between two high black-stone walls towards a root-bound crucible. The sky beyond is bright ivory and filled with thin branches and dark petals.

A large crucible supported by a system of interlocked tree roots, beneath a pale golden sky speckled with dark particles. A field of dead sunflowers - their petals folded in on themselves - face towards the altar, and a cluster of wisp-like offerings are scattered at the base of the roots.

A view through a tall black-stone archway back towards the Shadow Keep, where a pair of high towers rise into an ivory sky. To either side, the black stonework of the archway is crisp and well-defined, with finely-worked square columns.

A near-monochrome image of an underground wooden bridge with uneven slats, suspended between a rocky outcrop and an arched doorway. A shaft of light illuminates the bridge and the pale mist that fills the chasm below.

A swamp of black and gold at the foot of the Scadutree. Acrid golden mud flows between dying patches of vegetation where long-dead sunflowers bend their necks, and thick trees contort into jagged, unearthly agony, their bark riven with the same golden sap coursing from the Scadutree above. At the heart of the swamp, a giant dead sunflower sits silhouetted in the pale mist.

A shining shard of grace stands amidst a black-and-gold swamp, beneath curving silhouettes of corrupted trees, the swamp water below reflecting the black and gold of the Scadutree above. Arcs of golden particles sweep through the pale white mist, tracing patterns through the air.

A decapitated statue of the goddess Marika in a darkened chapel. She's wearing a braided belt and a light dress which billows out behind her torso and gathers around her bare feet, and her arms are spread wide. Rows of wooden pews lead up to a podium of scripture and a pair of candelabra, while the rest of the chapel is lit by dangling chandeliers and a shaft of pale light from the right. In the immediate foreground, two heavy pillars of black stone frame the scene.

A lush valley of rough grey cliffs and many-coloured wildflowers and pine trees. A shaft of sunlight shines from the right, past the ramparts of a castle at the edge of the scene, and further down the valley the colours wash out into pale mist, leaving only the silhouettes of trees reaching into the golden sky.

A picturesque ruined village of low wood-and-stone houses, surrounded by lush trees and a carpet of wildflowers of pink and purple, blue and orange. Golden petals float on the breeze, and at the heart of the village stands a small sapling of gleaming gold, its light suffusing the ruins. In the foreground, the remains of a cobbled path and a pair of broken fences lead into the scene.

A statue of Marika - with arms spread wide - kneels in a rough shrine in the V of a large tree. Orange, purple and white wildflowers grow in profusion around her knees, and thin branches grow down from above to wrap around her arms and obscure her face.

A field of wildflowers and leafy bushes beside a wooden house, a jagged rock and a spindly tree. The sky is heavy with yellowed cloud, and to the right, the Shadow Keep stands as a tall dark tower with a series of supporting towers linked by buttresses.

A pond in a picturesque forest, flush with wildflowers. The golden sky is reflected in the water.

A shattered crater filled with large finger-like rocks, their surface whorled like fingerprints. The air is dense with mist and golden particles, and a jagged ridgeline of grey rocks pierces a pale-pink clouded sky above.

A sun-lit grove of tall finger-like rocks covered in fingerprint-like whorls. In the foreground, a single finger curves backwards to the right of the scene, and in its crevices gold lichen grows. Bright sunbeams fill the air, sneaking over a high clifftop to the top-right, and golden petals fill the air. The sky above is clouded, and in the distance the vast edifice of the Shadow Keep stands silhouetted.

A ruined monastery-like building on a cliff-shadowed island in a dark river. The walls and towers are draped in black cloth, and a golem made of cast-iron is collapsed across the entranceway, its fire burned out.

A close-up of a cast-iron golem, dead and cold against a building. Its face is an iron mask with closed eyes, surrounded by horns which emanate like stylised sunbeams. The mask is attached to the top of a large mesh brazier made of twisted iron braids; around the rim, iron hands reach up and over the brazier's open mouth.

A cast-iron golem, bursting into flames in the night. Its brazier is an inferno, and glowing coals fill its trunk-like arms and legs.

A wildflower meadow within the monastery's decaying walls, where a path leads to a central sanctuary. Ceremonial stairs lead up to a shadowing archway, and a tower rises in three stages above. A large sheet of black cloth is draped over the top of the tower, and falls like a shroud below.

A flooded woodland at the bottom of vast cliffs, where a shard of grace stands small against the ominous gloom. The pale fog is lit by distant light from far above, and on the shores of the shallow water stand heavily-weathered gravestones and stone coffins. A stone archway in a shattered wall leads deeper into the woods, where dark trees rise silhouetted and jagged into the mist.

A shallow river runs through the shrouded woods, past patchy grass and eroded cliffs studded with gravestones. Shafts of pale light pierce the gloom, casting long shadows of dark trees and finger-like branches between the godrays.

An oppressively dark forest, far from the pale light which creeps in from above. Silhouetted trees stand vertical with spindly branches, and the forest floor grows only brown grass and sickly yellow flowers. In the distance, the shapes of larger trees emerge from the pale blue fog, vast trunks reaching desperately for the light.

A gloomy ruined chapel on the forest's edge, where the piercing gold of grace is the only respite against the pink-gray shadows creeping in from all sides. Ivy still drapes from the stonework, but no more than a passing silhouette.

A corrupted stream veined with malevolent red, flowing sluggishly through a dark forest drowned in blue mist. Above the stream, cliffs crowd in to either side, above dark silhouettes of spindly trees.

Three horned figures in yellow-brown robes and carrying branching torches patrol through a corrupted river in a dark forest. Veins of red-gold light threads through the riverbed, and yellow and orange flowers grow in clumps along the banks. Spindly trees reach upwards, silhouetted against a pale blue fog, and in the distance, a massive tree trunk stands partially obscured in the mist.

A handful of grey-wooled sheep stand in a shallow lake, drinking from the dark-red water. The scene is dark, the only light coming from feverish-yellow veins running through the rock of the lakebed, and thin needle-like trees rise from the water towards the thundering waterfalls emerging from the cliff beyond. In the foreground, a flush of bright yellow flowers bring an unsettling light to the shore.

A shambling humanoid figure robed in black stumbles through a shadowed stream veined with yellow light. Their head is monstrously swollen, shining fetid yellow light, and encased in a cage of black tendrils. Around them, the wood is dark and still, needle-like trees looming over patches of yellow and orange flowers and tall grasses turned orange-brown through their long deprivation.

The entrance-hall to a large stone manor house, full of ash and debris. Scattered pieces of wooden furniture are toppled amidst burned piles of books, and the air is heavy with ash. A wide arched tunnel - decorated with stone-carved pillars and archways - leads up a flight of stairs into the main hall of the house.

A shard of grace sits on the crumpled carpet in a debris-filled main hall of a manor house. A spectral figure stands waiting amidst arcs of golden light which curve across the room above toppled tables and broken chairs. Archways lead to the left and right, and the back wall is decorated with fever-yellow banners.

A ruined hallway in a stone manor house. The walls are lined with empty bookcases, their contents lying in piles of ash on the floor amidst shattered planks, decorative pots and wooden ladders. A few candles still burn amidst the ashes, and above the rafters stand bare exposing the chamber above.

A view from the rafters of a destroyed room in a manor house. The floor is awash with broken furniture, shattered wooden planks and burned books, and the air is dense with long-cooled ash. Golden censers hang from the ceiling, and warm candlelight glows from a few lit candles amidst the rubble.

The ruins of what looks like a small pharmacy in a stone manor house. The floor is covered in burned books, ash and cobwebs, and a wooden worktop runs along the left side of the room, with stacked shelves above it decorated with arched motifs, some of which still have pots and jars on them.

An upper chamber in a ruined manor house, where ragged yellow banners drape over tall shelves and stowed barrels. A spectral figure kneels amidst the ash and rubble, and the floorboards have been peeled away from the wooden rafters to reveal the room below. A pale white-skinned corpse dangles from the central rafter.