An important part of Elden Ring’s DLC is being horribly mispronounced

Elden Ring and its tough-as-nails Shadow of the Erdtree expansion take heavy inspiration from English folklore, including a few terms that have utterly baffled gamers who aren’t familiar with them. You may have been staring up at the Scadutree for hours, but odds are you’re also mispronouncing its name.

To say that the Scadutree dominates the DLC isn’t an overstatement. Much like the Erdtree of the base game, it can be seen from nearly anywhere in the Land of Shadow, its gnarled form serving as a constant landmark. As if that’s not enough, collecting the Scadutree Fragments chipped from its trunk is necessary to make any real progress in the DLC, and you even eventually get to fight the tree itself, in a sense. Crucially, however, nobody ever says the word Scadutree out loud, leading to some understandable confusion on how exactly it’s meant to be pronounced.

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