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If you’ve spent the past few days playing through the Elden Ring DLC like most other gamers, you may have already encountered one of the expansion’s all-important Scadutree Fragments. But what exactly is a Scadutree, and, more importantly, how do you pronounce it? Since we wouldn’t do the game’s mythology any justice, we’ll leave the former’s explanation to the lore keepers at FromSoftware. The latter, however, has a much simpler answer, thanks to the community’s latest discovery.
Based on a post from Twitter/X user , ‘Scadutree’ is pronounced as ‘Shadowtree,’ hence the title of the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree. Now, you may wonder how you get the word “shadow” from the completely different and near Kung Fu Panda-sounding term “scadu.” According to who responded to the same post, “ ” is the old English spelling of “shadow,” a language used in England in the early 1100s.
Scadu is old English spelling of shadow This also isn’t the only instance of FromSoftware using old English terms throughout the game. Over on Reddit, another Elden Ring fan went a step further after revealing the meanings of ‘erd’ and ‘halig’. According to , the ‘erd’ (spelled ‘eard’ in old English) in Erdtree means home or nature, possibly referring to its natural place in the Lands Between as the heart of the G.
