All My Maidens
Welcome to All My Maidens, an Elden Ring lore podcast. Have you ever played 100 hours of Elden Ring and then thought, wow. I have no idea what the heck this game is about? Well, join award winning game writer Aysha U. Farah as she invites various friends and confidants to come on and Explain Elden Ring to her. What is an Elden Ring, anyway? What makes it elden? Who are the Tarnished? Why do a bunch of guys have weird horns on their faces? Who is that dude made of roots? Answer all these questions and more, right here!
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Episodes
Sunday May 25, 2025
Sunday May 25, 2025
This week, Aysha is joined by her friends Miles and Merritt K to discuss the one true golden boy: Godwyn, lord of death. Topics include: "communing" with dragons, turning into a big scaly mushroom man, Godwyn's extensive polycule, that one guy named Devin, and our favorite deadbeat adventurer, Sir Clambrose.
Monday May 12, 2025
Monday May 12, 2025
Aysha is joined by writer Arden Ripley and animator Jenn Doyle as we break down the character with arguably the Most Gender of All Time: Marika. Topics include going boymode for political reasons, the grotesque beauty of From's character design, our ongoing inability to remember anyone's name, and the age old question: what came first, the jar or the meat?
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
This week, Aysha talks to Jacob and Lenore of the Socialist Shelf Podcast, about our favorite first guy you meet in a game who calls you bitchless right off the bat. Topics include the dolls, the surgeons, all the gay drama in Elden Ring, and our inability to pronounce the name "Mohg" in any consistent way.
Sunday Apr 13, 2025
Sunday Apr 13, 2025
Welcome to the Lands Between! In this first episode, Aysha talks to AJ from the Worst of All Possible Worlds and Kevin from The Penumbra Podcast about the first thing you see in Elden Ring - the opening movie. Topics include: the meaning of Elden, who the Tarnished even are, Godwyn's huge face, Mohg beating the allegations, and the hawk tuah girl, for some reason.
Cover art by J. R. Doyle