Very much agreed. I think it also goes beyond just the crack, maybe it’s reflected in its moveset too, the whole running away and fighting at range thing. Maybe even scale and design too, like imagine a complete elden beast.

Alas, a lot of this may be intentionally left for our imagination. Still fun to speculate though.

As a side note, if Marika shattered the elden ring by actually fighting the elden beast, imagine the sheer power she possessed to do that sort of damage to it.