Brandon Sanderson, the fantasy and science fiction author that Soulsborne fans have been hoping could team up with in the future, has been trying his hand at DLC, adding a bit more fuel to the fire to the hype of those hoping for a collaboration. Sanderson is arguably best known for his Mistborn series, but his bibliography is enormous – he's also the author behind The Stormlight Archive series, as well as the final three books in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. FromSoftware fans really started talking about his potential involvement with a future project shortly after Elden Ring's launch, when he revealed that publisher had reached out to him with some Elden Ring goodies, and a note to say At the time, he confirmed "I am as well," and even revealed that he in his head.
With that in mind, it's pretty cool to see Sanderson playing through Shadow of the Erdtree, and doing a really solid job of it, too. He streamed almost four hours of the expansion over the weekend, in which time he was able to beat the , as well as the first major story boss in the DLC. While the latter took him around an hour to beat, considering he went into the DLC with a level 80 character (in our guide, ), that's some seriously impressive progress.
He's confirmed he'll be back to play more of it, too, so it sounds like more streams are on the way. While Sanderson playing through the DLC is obviously no confirmation of any FromSoftware collaboration actually happening, Elden Ring director Hidet.
