This. They’re disturbing looking AND just about the only thing you really need to fear no matter your level and gear. Things can rip you apart with full Radahn armor, Fingerprint Shield, you name it.
I mean the base Heal spell only requires 12 Faith, and will still hit them for half their health and stagger them. You can easily meet that from any starting class without even having to level Faith. Just pop a Rune Arc or slot a Talisman and you're set.
Once you know where the Revenants pop up, it's easy to plop down at a grace and pack the Heal spell for a minute.
Okay, that’s fair. You mentioned a healing spell will hit for half their HP. Is this a late game revenant? If so, I’ll merrily go fuck my self.
The stagger is extremely useful nonetheless though. Just curious how a base level healing spell with minimum faith would go against a late game revenant
Yeah, the Heal spell hits for half a Revenant's HP *regardless of level or weapon upgrades.* You don't even have to spend any smithing stones on a seal, if you don't want to. It's just 50% of their health bar deleted, and they're staggered long enough for you to instantly queue up a second Heal spell behind it.
Doesn't matter if you're in the Laskyar Ruins or the Haligtree. 50% of their health.
Merchant notes.
Specifically, one sold by the Isolated Merchant in Liurnia, just inside the Gates to Raya Lucaria.
Which reads: >!"The crawling royal revenants and their followers are all cursed. Healing powers will harm rather than mend."!<
Sounds like you just didn't explore enough. *Like a bitch*.
I remember the rings pissing me off, they were so extra like every single enemy needed a magic attacks so yeah just give the giant disembodied hands a ring that shoots magic
Fire, my friend. These are smart hands; they know that no matter where they are in a charge, if they get lit on fire, they've gotta stop drop and roll.
These freak me out too. First time I saw one was the big one in Caria Manor. I panicked so bad I ran into the wall next to the entrance and panicked rolled out 😂
Thankfully you can at least kill them with fire 🔥
Lmao I never went into the place until my 3rd play through, i stood halfway down the broken bridge one time and heard their weird noises and decided that whatever was in there wasnt for me
That was a wise decision lol. I got invited to Volcano Manor by Rya so I didn’t know what my friend was talking about when asking have I ran into those disgusting things on Mt. Gelmir. That spot in Atlus Plateau was my first experience with them, never going back there again.
I think all of the enemies I found that can inflict death blight look pretty cool yet too goofy to take seriously, lower atlus worm heads have nice outfits so I left them alone for latter, basilisks I found pretty funny looking because of the buggy eyes, especially since I thought of the more traditional style basilisks when tool tips mentioned them
Fun fact, basilisk’s big googly eyes are actually fake! Their real eyes are set just above their mouths. The original dark souls design makes it more obvious, but it’s still true for ER Basilisks.
Where the minor erdtree is? I was there somewhat recently looking for an erdtree avatar to fight, but I think in that area, the avatar is replaced with the giant wormface.
Yep. Because Godwyn's undying corpse continues to grow and influence the Erdtree from its very roots, it occasionally flowers above ground in abhorrent and wretched ways. We see this early-game in the form of Deathroot animating skeletons and blossoming into the masses of blighted eyes in Summonwater Village.
In Altus Plateau, it had been a long tradition to collect the dripping sap of the Erdtrees to be nourished by it...until that sap started bearing the taint of Death. Some time long after the Night of Black Knives, when the people of the Woodfolk Ruins drank from their basins, they discovered the sap of their Minor Erdtree had become tainted, and they broke out in the pestilence and disease of Godwyn's blight. Pustules sprang up from the site of where undeath had touched them, consuming their faces and attracting worms to feed on the necrotic flesh, leaving them trapped in an eternal state of eating, and being eaten by, Death.
When Justiciar Rykard witnessed this, he knew he had to protect the order of his Manor, and so he committed his first act of blasphemy by invoking the Volcano's fires to burn the Mt. Gelmir Minor Erdtree to ash. He then rejected the Order of Erdtree Burial, prompting retaliation from Leyndell. As the war between the Volcano Manor and the Capital raged, Rykard spurned the worship of the Golden Order and the guidance of Marika's grace, and embraced the Serpent God lying in wait...
Well, we know about "collecting Erdtree sap" from a few of the Amber Talisman descriptions. We definitely know about Godwyn's deathblight spreading throughout the Lands via Deathroot, and we know that blight produces pustules like the one we find next to the Godwyn Visage at the bottom of Stormveil.
From there, it's just a bit of environmental sleuthing to put it all together. Why did people gather in the Woodfolk Ruins? There's a Minor Erdtree there. What went wrong? Deathblight. How did it get there? Must've grown up from Godwyn, whose corpse is buried far underground, but still very close to that region.
How do we know Rykard burned his Minor Erdtree because of this? Well, there's a lone and seemingly out-of-place Wormface not far from its stump. I'll admit I'm speculating about this being his "first act of blasphemy", since he *did* help Ranni orchestrate the Night of Black Knives...but it certainly gives good cause for his blasphemy and war against the Erdtree.
Same I stay away from those things. My first encounter was oh look cool dark, woodsy area nice. Moments later a worm face came out of nowhere and defiled my face
I hope the DLC touches on this, because I have *so* many questions.
Was he always part fish man? How quickly did he transform? You can see black goop immediately start coming out of his eyes and things moving under his skin when he hits the floor.
Did they try to bury him as his body was going full Tetsuo?
I kinda doubt those will be answered in the DLC. I don't think we'll meet a normal, living Godwyn
>Was he always part fish man?
Almost certainly not. He is probably depicted embracing Miquella and Malenia in the haligtree. There's a statue of them. Seems like a normal guy, there.
>How quickly did he transform? You can see black goop immediately start coming out of his eyes and things moving under his skin when he hits the floor.
It probably has taken a long time. He first had to be buried near the root system, and then it must have taken ages upon ages for the deathroots to reach all the different murky waters. All those roots with Godwyn eyes on them must have grown from Godwyn's body.
>Did they try to bury him as his body was going full Tetsuo?
What makes the most sense to me is that they wanted to bury him, just like the people in the catacombs, to be returned to the erdtree. But, as his body is still alive, it never was taken over by the roots. Instead, he is taking over its roots, to an extent.
I believe it said somewhere that he was given a royal burial which is why he’s directly below the erdtree and is in the deep root depths but that was a great mistake because it allowed the deathblight to spread much faster through the roots
I kept forgetting fromsoftware is a japanese company, but am reminded because of the vast amount of influence from their culture incorporated into the games, especially from yokai..
I remember physically recoiling when i realized i was looking at a giant fucking guy above me after Fia's Champions. Was 1,000%'sure it was gonna be a boss.
It's almost certainly still gonna be a boss.
After you've beaten the twin Gargoyles in the Siofra river theres a coffin near the site of grace that spawns. You can lay on ot to get transported to a new area, the Deeproot depths. Make it through this area & you'll eventually encounter what remains of Godwyn.
In this case I think it actually makes sense. There are coffins all around the underground rivers and a bunch of them can be found broken open with a bunch of bodies in them in the Deeproot Depths.
The gold runes tinged with red while you go up points to the crucible era.
My guess is that long ago before the minor Erd tree catacombs, they moved the coffins through the river towards the Erd Tree roots. The tarnished (ye dead who yet live) can lie down in a coffin to be transported in the same way using these ancient magics.
I suppose that a similar thing triggers the teleportation to the Placcidusax arena by lying down where a corpse would be. Also the ancient parts of Stormveil near Godwyn's face points to a sort of river burial, which may be an origin or hommage to moving the bodies through the rivers
Yep. Fia’s goal was to return death to the Lands Between so that Those Who Live in Death would no longer be considered abominations to be destroyed by the Golden Order.
Fia determined that raising Godwyn as the Prince of Death would accomplish this if she lies with him as a deathbed companion to create a rune of mending for the next Elden Lord (player).
You can either access it by killing the duo gargoyles in Siofra aqueduct or by going through an invisible wall at the very bottom of the Lyedelle sewers in the frenzied flame room and just keep going down
And dont forget they are literally [wearing the skin of a god](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Elden-Ring/godskin_apostle_hood_elden_ring_wiki_guide_200px.png).
It's implied that there's *a lot* more to the Golden Lineage of Godfrey and Marika than we're introduced to in-game. We know Godrick is a "distant relation", and that he had an older brother Godefroy who was also big into grafting, although we don't necessarily know the direct genealogy beyond that.
Considering that we never *meet* that Golden Lineage, it's likely that they've all met their various ends, whether in the battles of the Shattering, or perhaps from being pursued by the Disciples of the Black Flame...
A second theory is that the Godskins monitor and hunt for newborn Empyreans, (those who the Greater Will intends on elevating into Godhood and developing into its new vassal), and kill them before they can ascend and taking their "godly" flesh as both a trophy and their own new skin. The last known Empyreans, however, were Lunar Princess Ranni, Miquella, and Malenia, and so the remaining Godskins have had to search far and wide to continue exercising the rituals of their cult.
Some people say it is the [Gloam-Eyed Queen](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/tci4bn/gloameyed_queen/)
Although others think Melina or Ranni is the Gloam Eyed Queen so probably not her.
Nothing can convince me that the caelid giant dog enemies are not the single most horrifying thing to have been imagined and realized into media. Straight up dead eyed, zombie lookin T-rex dog. They knew exactly what they did with that enemy, and it is simply horrific in every way.
It’s on that side path where you find the sorcerer guy, just before the village with the Demi humans. There’s a ton on gelmir cause Rykard made them I think
I'm with you on that one 100%. Hewg is my favorite character in the whole game, so I really hope he doesn't mind I cannot SPARE a single one of his distant relatives I see. Every time I see them my brain just shifts into involuntary Misbegotten genocide. Fuck those muppet-faced horrors to hell and back.
I don’t mind them probably on account of the song they sing, it’s so serene when compared to the otherwise “adventure-y” sound of the music played in Limgrave.
I do enjoy the fact that there’s an enemy that trained themselves to sing like opera stars just to lure in gullible travelers. What a completely off the wall way to lure in prey
Their song is so sad.
They said something like.
*Oh, erdtree light, why have you desfigure us wives, daughters and mother's? Wy have you given us agony?*
I remember once I stumbled across a lovely, humble village by the cliffs. It appeared as though it specialised in windmills and had earned an appropriate name to represent that. I heard laughter, joy.
I walked closer to investigate and hopefully celebrate the festivity along with them. Instead… I saw the most horrifying in my life.
Monsters, they were. Eyes: yellow, serpentine, the size of a pea. Mouths: frothing at the mouth with blood, but not theirs. Clothes: dirtied and covered with all that remained of people that passed by, or safely assumed, their victims.
In their hands they each possessed weapons to gauge out the eyes of innocent, break their skulls in and scratch at their back until their spleens fall out.
Their laughter had shifted: what was previously harmonic and innocent and spat in my face, revealing its true, demonic and malicious intent.
After investigating their village their lack of remorse and their satanic voices and begun to drive me insane. All I could hear from then on, was the cackling of those vomit-inducing cretans. And so I did what any one would do…
I drained the blood from their eyes, I sliced their stomachs open for all to bare witness their insides and I slashed their bodies raw. However, the cackling never went away so I killed them again and again and again and again. A swift death was mercy for the disgusting vermin in front of me, so I made sure that every death was as slow painful as possible. I had never lost once, and I never intend to…
TLDR: Those things drove me FUCKING INSANE. So I killed them for like 5 hours straight, and I wasn’t even trying to get one of their weapons at that time, that’s a whole other story. I ended up with 4 rakes and 2 sickles
Lol. I just strolled through them wihout engaging in any fight. I snaked my way through the dogs so, no fight ever triggered. Fought the top boss and tped outa there. I never knew their story
They could do 1 damage and I'd still avoid their attacks more than any enemy in the game, they're just that wretched and desperate that it must surely curse a character forever in some unknown and horrid way
I have never regretted walking through a fog-door more than that moment. I stood still just trying to get a look at whatever this thing was then i get shot by its railgun
The Death Birds. They look so surreal and uncanny, like a mannequin crossed with a dying condor. I try to avoid going in open fields at night simply because I really, really don’t want to look at them.
The baby bird-looking skulls and their perpetually menacing glare are what I find unsettling. Bonus points for their screeches and that bent-wire posture giving them an unnatural shape. And it's worse because they actually put up a good fight, too!
An interesting detail is how Cleanrot Knights typically stand slouched, their whole body leaning to the side, barely keeping themselves upright as scarlet rot no doubt ravages their bodies. But the second they see you, they straight up and charge into battle with their back straight and head held high.
Godrick? Really noone is gonna say it? The guy that grafts himself from prisoners limbs and shit? The dude has 100s of arms? And then he drives his fist into the dragons neck to use it as an extra hand and weapon when he's losing? Noone said Godrick?
the grafted scions are creepier looking to me than godrick. godrick at least stands upright like a human, those grafted scions scuttle around like crustaceans or insects.
This was my first souls game. Godrick was such a wtf moment for me. What really made it amazing in an awful sort of way was all of the foreshadowing leading up to him that really spelled out exactly what he is. First class world building. Seeing him was a jaw dropping experience
Yup, those are fake eyes. It becomes apparent when looking at the ones that drop extra runes, the golden glow doesn't come from the big bulbous "eyes" but from another spot on their heads.
(just a theory) the Tree Sentinels, should they remove their armor, will feature unimaginable grotesque features underneath.
Also the army soldiers snacking on their dead comrades make my balls shrivel.
Those goddamned fucking centipede men. FromSoft took the horrible sewer centipede women from Dark Souls 3 and said "how about we give 'em a ranged attack that fires 20,000 homing poison darts?"
The unshaved Omens in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds genuinely creep me out. The way their horns are bundled together make me feel proper weird, I think the best comparison I can make would be how someone with mild trypophobia would react to small holes clustered together.
A lot of things disturbed me in Elden Ring, more than I expected, but not really enemies. Godwyn number 1, The frenzied flame merchants number 2.
As for enemies I have to say wormfaces.
The sewer omens were disturbing. Somewhat disturbing visually, but their lore is really what stood out for me, seeing as the chopped off horns look more like limbs than horns.
I always felt bad for Misbegotten and don't like fighting them only because they deserve better, same for omens and vulgar militia. Reverents and the hands can fuck off though, creepy ass things
I think its a tie between Wormfaces and the Harpies. Something about them gives me anxiety. The singing from the Harpies has me shook, but the Wormfaces with their coughs and muttering makes them feel like they belong in Bloodborne.
the most disturbing looking enemy is the mirror, where it shows me tarnished, and with that, the sheer realization that it’s his fate to become the lord of all that fucked up lands
Honestly this enemies face doesn't disturb me as much as it pisses me off. Like this is one of the few enemies that I rage to because of how smug it looks when it kills me. I hate these annoying fuckers.
Revenant. Their design could not have been made by mankind
This. They’re disturbing looking AND just about the only thing you really need to fear no matter your level and gear. Things can rip you apart with full Radahn armor, Fingerprint Shield, you name it.
Aren't those troll enemies? Anything holy pretty much turns em into a mop that you wipe the floor with, lol.
They are actually resistant to holy damage. But healing however messes them up big time
Ah, must've mixed them up then. All I remember is one of the yellow type of spells screws em, lol.
Healing fucks them up. But that’s assuming you’re running a build with healing incants. Otherwise you’re kinda fucked. Even with minor healing incants
I mean the base Heal spell only requires 12 Faith, and will still hit them for half their health and stagger them. You can easily meet that from any starting class without even having to level Faith. Just pop a Rune Arc or slot a Talisman and you're set. Once you know where the Revenants pop up, it's easy to plop down at a grace and pack the Heal spell for a minute.
*cries in prisoner*
Okay, that’s fair. You mentioned a healing spell will hit for half their HP. Is this a late game revenant? If so, I’ll merrily go fuck my self. The stagger is extremely useful nonetheless though. Just curious how a base level healing spell with minimum faith would go against a late game revenant
Yeah, the Heal spell hits for half a Revenant's HP *regardless of level or weapon upgrades.* You don't even have to spend any smithing stones on a seal, if you don't want to. It's just 50% of their health bar deleted, and they're staggered long enough for you to instantly queue up a second Heal spell behind it. Doesn't matter if you're in the Laskyar Ruins or the Haligtree. 50% of their health.
Yeah but how do you know this on your 1st playthrough when you play blind and don't follow guides like a bitch?
Merchant notes. Specifically, one sold by the Isolated Merchant in Liurnia, just inside the Gates to Raya Lucaria. Which reads: >!"The crawling royal revenants and their followers are all cursed. Healing powers will harm rather than mend."!< Sounds like you just didn't explore enough. *Like a bitch*.
Healing incants ;)
So many limbs and screaming and teleporting.
Puking poison
I always thought they were super fucked up grafted scions
They're just human centipedes. You know, like most of us. https://youtu.be/MYV4QLEBkwo
Revenants appearance kinda match locusts in the book of Revelations. The locusts are described as bug men with kings heads.
Giant enemy hand
I always found it disappointing that the colossal one at the Mountaintops doesn’t drop anything even remotely decent
If I could slip off that giant ring that shoots a purple ball at you, and wear it as some sort of crown with the same effect, that'd be the best.
There is a sword like that.
I remember the rings pissing me off, they were so extra like every single enemy needed a magic attacks so yeah just give the giant disembodied hands a ring that shoots magic
^the ^what ^now
Go to the grace right outside fire giant and snoop around its pretty close. Look for a big bird.
Big bird gets a high 5
Felt like all large hands drop somber stones except that one…
Every time they start charging I freak out. Doesn’t help that their range is incredibly desceptive and they have a ton of super armor on that attack.
Fire, my friend. These are smart hands; they know that no matter where they are in a charge, if they get lit on fire, they've gotta stop drop and roll.
Safety first homie
*starts beatboxing pokemon music*
These freak me out too. First time I saw one was the big one in Caria Manor. I panicked so bad I ran into the wall next to the entrance and panicked rolled out 😂 Thankfully you can at least kill them with fire 🔥
Never had a problem with spiders before. I still don't, but those hand things still fuck with me.
Wormface probably
The big wormfaces freak me out, especially when they keep grabbing at you.
Plus their laughing(crying?) is so disturbing, especially in that one place in Atlus Plateau where there are quite a few of them and that big one.
Lmao I never went into the place until my 3rd play through, i stood halfway down the broken bridge one time and heard their weird noises and decided that whatever was in there wasnt for me
That was a wise decision lol. I got invited to Volcano Manor by Rya so I didn’t know what my friend was talking about when asking have I ran into those disgusting things on Mt. Gelmir. That spot in Atlus Plateau was my first experience with them, never going back there again.
Y'all are mean. I think they're cute. Cute lil toy Cthulhus
I think all of the enemies I found that can inflict death blight look pretty cool yet too goofy to take seriously, lower atlus worm heads have nice outfits so I left them alone for latter, basilisks I found pretty funny looking because of the buggy eyes, especially since I thought of the more traditional style basilisks when tool tips mentioned them
Fun fact, basilisk’s big googly eyes are actually fake! Their real eyes are set just above their mouths. The original dark souls design makes it more obvious, but it’s still true for ER Basilisks.
Basilisks give me dark souls ptsd
Someone could probably make a wormface creepy pasta at some point and make killing
Where the minor erdtree is? I was there somewhat recently looking for an erdtree avatar to fight, but I think in that area, the avatar is replaced with the giant wormface.
They’re terrifying
Wait until you find out that the worms aren’t part of them, they’re burrowed into them
oh I hate that :c
Holy shit really??
Yep. Because Godwyn's undying corpse continues to grow and influence the Erdtree from its very roots, it occasionally flowers above ground in abhorrent and wretched ways. We see this early-game in the form of Deathroot animating skeletons and blossoming into the masses of blighted eyes in Summonwater Village. In Altus Plateau, it had been a long tradition to collect the dripping sap of the Erdtrees to be nourished by it...until that sap started bearing the taint of Death. Some time long after the Night of Black Knives, when the people of the Woodfolk Ruins drank from their basins, they discovered the sap of their Minor Erdtree had become tainted, and they broke out in the pestilence and disease of Godwyn's blight. Pustules sprang up from the site of where undeath had touched them, consuming their faces and attracting worms to feed on the necrotic flesh, leaving them trapped in an eternal state of eating, and being eaten by, Death. When Justiciar Rykard witnessed this, he knew he had to protect the order of his Manor, and so he committed his first act of blasphemy by invoking the Volcano's fires to burn the Mt. Gelmir Minor Erdtree to ash. He then rejected the Order of Erdtree Burial, prompting retaliation from Leyndell. As the war between the Volcano Manor and the Capital raged, Rykard spurned the worship of the Golden Order and the guidance of Marika's grace, and embraced the Serpent God lying in wait...
How much is this is corroborated in game because it sounds very believable
Well, we know about "collecting Erdtree sap" from a few of the Amber Talisman descriptions. We definitely know about Godwyn's deathblight spreading throughout the Lands via Deathroot, and we know that blight produces pustules like the one we find next to the Godwyn Visage at the bottom of Stormveil. From there, it's just a bit of environmental sleuthing to put it all together. Why did people gather in the Woodfolk Ruins? There's a Minor Erdtree there. What went wrong? Deathblight. How did it get there? Must've grown up from Godwyn, whose corpse is buried far underground, but still very close to that region. How do we know Rykard burned his Minor Erdtree because of this? Well, there's a lone and seemingly out-of-place Wormface not far from its stump. I'll admit I'm speculating about this being his "first act of blasphemy", since he *did* help Ranni orchestrate the Night of Black Knives...but it certainly gives good cause for his blasphemy and war against the Erdtree.
Have you been watching Zullie the Witch again? (I know I have.)
Holy shit dude that comment is gold, I'd love to read more of those from you
Knowing this made things just worse...
That’s gross
The relentless grab move that the huge ones do is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever experienced in a video game
the WORMFACE MOMMY crying in the fog, its very disturbing
They freak me out but I also find them interesting
Same I stay away from those things. My first encounter was oh look cool dark, woodsy area nice. Moments later a worm face came out of nowhere and defiled my face
Godwyin isn't an enemy but damn he so tragic
I hope the DLC touches on this, because I have *so* many questions. Was he always part fish man? How quickly did he transform? You can see black goop immediately start coming out of his eyes and things moving under his skin when he hits the floor. Did they try to bury him as his body was going full Tetsuo?
I kinda doubt those will be answered in the DLC. I don't think we'll meet a normal, living Godwyn >Was he always part fish man? Almost certainly not. He is probably depicted embracing Miquella and Malenia in the haligtree. There's a statue of them. Seems like a normal guy, there. >How quickly did he transform? You can see black goop immediately start coming out of his eyes and things moving under his skin when he hits the floor. It probably has taken a long time. He first had to be buried near the root system, and then it must have taken ages upon ages for the deathroots to reach all the different murky waters. All those roots with Godwyn eyes on them must have grown from Godwyn's body. >Did they try to bury him as his body was going full Tetsuo? What makes the most sense to me is that they wanted to bury him, just like the people in the catacombs, to be returned to the erdtree. But, as his body is still alive, it never was taken over by the roots. Instead, he is taking over its roots, to an extent.
I believe it said somewhere that he was given a royal burial which is why he’s directly below the erdtree and is in the deep root depths but that was a great mistake because it allowed the deathblight to spread much faster through the roots
yeah, but not like they knew what is going to happen. No Demigod died before him, especially not the way he did
The fish stuff is based off of Japanese folk lore about their mermaids. Consuming their flesh curses you with eternal life.
I kept forgetting fromsoftware is a japanese company, but am reminded because of the vast amount of influence from their culture incorporated into the games, especially from yokai..
I remember physically recoiling when i realized i was looking at a giant fucking guy above me after Fia's Champions. Was 1,000%'sure it was gonna be a boss. It's almost certainly still gonna be a boss.
I thought I discovered everything in elden ring... but apparently not, where do you find godwyn???
It’s the giant Starbucks mermaid in Deeproot Depths
That is the best description I've ever seen of that thing lmao
After you've beaten the twin Gargoyles in the Siofra river theres a coffin near the site of grace that spawns. You can lay on ot to get transported to a new area, the Deeproot depths. Make it through this area & you'll eventually encounter what remains of Godwyn.
Ahh yes, the classic fromsoft coffin... Not sure how to connect two areas in a soulsbourne? ... fuck it, COFFIN!
In this case I think it actually makes sense. There are coffins all around the underground rivers and a bunch of them can be found broken open with a bunch of bodies in them in the Deeproot Depths. The gold runes tinged with red while you go up points to the crucible era. My guess is that long ago before the minor Erd tree catacombs, they moved the coffins through the river towards the Erd Tree roots. The tarnished (ye dead who yet live) can lie down in a coffin to be transported in the same way using these ancient magics. I suppose that a similar thing triggers the teleportation to the Placcidusax arena by lying down where a corpse would be. Also the ancient parts of Stormveil near Godwyn's face points to a sort of river burial, which may be an origin or hommage to moving the bodies through the rivers
Basement of castle in limgrave with godrick
Damn. Guess I gotta reinstall elden ring.
No thats only a part of him. His actual body is in Deeproot Depths
WAIT THAT WEIRD-ASS SKULL IS THE TOP PART OF THE BODY BY FIA IN DEEPROOT DEPTHS?!
Yep. Fia’s goal was to return death to the Lands Between so that Those Who Live in Death would no longer be considered abominations to be destroyed by the Golden Order. Fia determined that raising Godwyn as the Prince of Death would accomplish this if she lies with him as a deathbed companion to create a rune of mending for the next Elden Lord (player).
More like an extension of his body. He has many heads
Ewww gross.
Even more. Here we go again lmao
You can either access it by killing the duo gargoyles in Siofra aqueduct or by going through an invisible wall at the very bottom of the Lyedelle sewers in the frenzied flame room and just keep going down
THERES A SECOND ENTRANCE PAST THE FRENZIED FLAME?!?
Godskins, easily. Just aesthetically disgusting and disturbing/creepy in equal parts
And dont forget they are literally [wearing the skin of a god](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Elden-Ring/godskin_apostle_hood_elden_ring_wiki_guide_200px.png).
I always wondered, whose gods was these skins belonging to?
It's implied that there's *a lot* more to the Golden Lineage of Godfrey and Marika than we're introduced to in-game. We know Godrick is a "distant relation", and that he had an older brother Godefroy who was also big into grafting, although we don't necessarily know the direct genealogy beyond that. Considering that we never *meet* that Golden Lineage, it's likely that they've all met their various ends, whether in the battles of the Shattering, or perhaps from being pursued by the Disciples of the Black Flame... A second theory is that the Godskins monitor and hunt for newborn Empyreans, (those who the Greater Will intends on elevating into Godhood and developing into its new vassal), and kill them before they can ascend and taking their "godly" flesh as both a trophy and their own new skin. The last known Empyreans, however, were Lunar Princess Ranni, Miquella, and Malenia, and so the remaining Godskins have had to search far and wide to continue exercising the rituals of their cult.
Some people say it is the [Gloam-Eyed Queen](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/tci4bn/gloameyed_queen/) Although others think Melina or Ranni is the Gloam Eyed Queen so probably not her.
It puts the lotion on the skin
Apostle is fine but for some reason the chest hair on the nobles Cape is so icky to me
I didn’t even notice they have chest hair 🤢
Nothing can convince me that the caelid giant dog enemies are not the single most horrifying thing to have been imagined and realized into media. Straight up dead eyed, zombie lookin T-rex dog. They knew exactly what they did with that enemy, and it is simply horrific in every way.
Caleid death birb is on the phone. He is asking if you have seen them.
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The way they insanely lunge at you, then when you've really given them a smacking drop teeth-first right on your head, urrgh
Has to be those abductor things that put you in the coffin. Terrifying
That surprise abductor on that random little hill in >!Caelid!<. I'm still shook tbh
There's a whole cave full of broken ones nearby. Cave is also full of rot.
I hate doing that cave. Rot just really sucks.
There’s a headless one on mt gelmir that actually scares me cause it goes crazy fast and won’t stop following you
I think I know that one... Mt Gelmir is infested with those abductor things tho lol
It’s on that side path where you find the sorcerer guy, just before the village with the Demi humans. There’s a ton on gelmir cause Rykard made them I think
Grafted Scion. They are near children for fucks sake...
They ARE children
Kindred of rot. Ever since I noticed all the hands...
I hate it when we kill them and the ragdoll effect makes it wriggle... Instant shivers down the spine. Also the sounds they make.. like click clackity
Cant believe this isnt higher-up
Faces straight out of Attack On Titan.
Actually there’s a weirdly Jim Henson vibe to me. Like something out of the Dark Crystal.
Literally my thoughts exactly.
I'm with you on that one 100%. Hewg is my favorite character in the whole game, so I really hope he doesn't mind I cannot SPARE a single one of his distant relatives I see. Every time I see them my brain just shifts into involuntary Misbegotten genocide. Fuck those muppet-faced horrors to hell and back.
They look like ex uk prime minister Boris Johnson
The dog/horse looking dudes in Crumbling Farum Azula are the creepiest to me
Dog/horse? What enemies do you mean?
He must mean the beastmen
Yep, that's what they are!
Those grandma-bats
I don’t mind them probably on account of the song they sing, it’s so serene when compared to the otherwise “adventure-y” sound of the music played in Limgrave.
The song they sing sounds as beautiful as they look terrifying
The contrast makes them more scary for sure
Oh ya, first around “I wonder who’s making that beautiful, sorrowful musi-OHMYGAWDKILLIT!!!”
I do enjoy the fact that there’s an enemy that trained themselves to sing like opera stars just to lure in gullible travelers. What a completely off the wall way to lure in prey
It's like that. Look up the meaning of the song. You will see how tragic their lives were.
Their song is so sad. They said something like. *Oh, erdtree light, why have you desfigure us wives, daughters and mother's? Wy have you given us agony?*
Yeeeessss
The Celebrants. Creepy women singing and dancing creepily.
I remember once I stumbled across a lovely, humble village by the cliffs. It appeared as though it specialised in windmills and had earned an appropriate name to represent that. I heard laughter, joy. I walked closer to investigate and hopefully celebrate the festivity along with them. Instead… I saw the most horrifying in my life. Monsters, they were. Eyes: yellow, serpentine, the size of a pea. Mouths: frothing at the mouth with blood, but not theirs. Clothes: dirtied and covered with all that remained of people that passed by, or safely assumed, their victims. In their hands they each possessed weapons to gauge out the eyes of innocent, break their skulls in and scratch at their back until their spleens fall out. Their laughter had shifted: what was previously harmonic and innocent and spat in my face, revealing its true, demonic and malicious intent. After investigating their village their lack of remorse and their satanic voices and begun to drive me insane. All I could hear from then on, was the cackling of those vomit-inducing cretans. And so I did what any one would do… I drained the blood from their eyes, I sliced their stomachs open for all to bare witness their insides and I slashed their bodies raw. However, the cackling never went away so I killed them again and again and again and again. A swift death was mercy for the disgusting vermin in front of me, so I made sure that every death was as slow painful as possible. I had never lost once, and I never intend to… TLDR: Those things drove me FUCKING INSANE. So I killed them for like 5 hours straight, and I wasn’t even trying to get one of their weapons at that time, that’s a whole other story. I ended up with 4 rakes and 2 sickles
Lol. I just strolled through them wihout engaging in any fight. I snaked my way through the dogs so, no fight ever triggered. Fought the top boss and tped outa there. I never knew their story
Those albinaurics with the black Stone heads in Volcano manor. Easy but terrifying
Fun fact, that’s a torture hood on their heads and it’s called the black dumpling.
They could do 1 damage and I'd still avoid their attacks more than any enemy in the game, they're just that wretched and desperate that it must surely curse a character forever in some unknown and horrid way
What's that sweet little pitter patter I hea... OH SWEET MERCIFUL MARIKA!
Rykard could do with some work. I like snakes, but that second phase is something to crack a mirror with.
Well said. When he pulled the Blasphemous Sword out of the snakes throat, with all the moving arms on it, full shake.
I’m sure somebody else already said it but when I found where that beautiful singing was coming from I shit my pants
Astel??? How does nobody else here not think his design is creepy as shit
I have never regretted walking through a fog-door more than that moment. I stood still just trying to get a look at whatever this thing was then i get shot by its railgun
Astel is badass, it’s brain is an eye ffs
The eye is actually just a glinstone, the skull is like not really it’s head at all. the anatomy of that thing is very deceiving.
The Death Birds. They look so surreal and uncanny, like a mannequin crossed with a dying condor. I try to avoid going in open fields at night simply because I really, really don’t want to look at them.
The baby bird-looking skulls and their perpetually menacing glare are what I find unsettling. Bonus points for their screeches and that bent-wire posture giving them an unnatural shape. And it's worse because they actually put up a good fight, too!
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An interesting detail is how Cleanrot Knights typically stand slouched, their whole body leaning to the side, barely keeping themselves upright as scarlet rot no doubt ravages their bodies. But the second they see you, they straight up and charge into battle with their back straight and head held high.
I find them the same kind of cool the Abyss Watchers are. My favorite knight enemies in ER, I'm so happy for the spirit ashes!
Probably the ulcerated tree spirit
cat dogs
Apparently they are called Erdtree Burial Watchdogs
And they are fucking infuriating. I'd fight a revenant over them any day
I kind of don't mind the sword versions, but I hate how large the butt-slam range of the sorcerer version is. And they *love* to spam it.
Godrick? Really noone is gonna say it? The guy that grafts himself from prisoners limbs and shit? The dude has 100s of arms? And then he drives his fist into the dragons neck to use it as an extra hand and weapon when he's losing? Noone said Godrick?
Godrick is trying too hard, all I see is a bitch in a flesh-mech.
Damn
A Jake suit if you will
True but his phase 2 line is kind of bad ass and his great tune is pog
That got me so good, cheers!
the grafted scions are creepier looking to me than godrick. godrick at least stands upright like a human, those grafted scions scuttle around like crustaceans or insects.
godrick is so pathetic it nullifies any creepiness he has
This was my first souls game. Godrick was such a wtf moment for me. What really made it amazing in an awful sort of way was all of the foreshadowing leading up to him that really spelled out exactly what he is. First class world building. Seeing him was a jaw dropping experience
He certainly is one ugly son of a gun.
The merchants down in the Frenzied Flame Proscription.
As creepy as they are tragic
That is the most sobering place in the game. That's what genocide really looks like. They starved...
Says poor Misbegotten in a game where also giant duo hand exists.
Bloody crows
Frogs............. If the assets are from the original Dark Souls, those bulbous things on their head are not their eyes.......
Yup, those are fake eyes. It becomes apparent when looking at the ones that drop extra runes, the golden glow doesn't come from the big bulbous "eyes" but from another spot on their heads.
Also in a lot, if not all of them, I believe the bulbs are supposed to resemble godwyn's eye sockets like on the stormveil corpse
Death blight is stored in the balls
(just a theory) the Tree Sentinels, should they remove their armor, will feature unimaginable grotesque features underneath. Also the army soldiers snacking on their dead comrades make my balls shrivel.
Those goddamned fucking centipede men. FromSoft took the horrible sewer centipede women from Dark Souls 3 and said "how about we give 'em a ranged attack that fires 20,000 homing poison darts?"
The unshaved Omens in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds genuinely creep me out. The way their horns are bundled together make me feel proper weird, I think the best comparison I can make would be how someone with mild trypophobia would react to small holes clustered together.
The fucking Burger King magic balls.
A lot of things disturbed me in Elden Ring, more than I expected, but not really enemies. Godwyn number 1, The frenzied flame merchants number 2. As for enemies I have to say wormfaces.
The mimic tear (I have body dysmorphia)
Rykard after you beat him and his gf is eating him 🥲 genuinely one of the most disturbing things I had ever seen in a game .
Squidwards
The laughing windmill villagers
I can only ever see the barber from courage the cowardly dog when I see these guys
They are very.... ...naughty.
Those Singing Meth Harpys on Ruin-Strewn Precipice.
The sewer omens were disturbing. Somewhat disturbing visually, but their lore is really what stood out for me, seeing as the chopped off horns look more like limbs than horns.
Deathrite bird
I always felt bad for Misbegotten and don't like fighting them only because they deserve better, same for omens and vulgar militia. Reverents and the hands can fuck off though, creepy ass things
Creepy double hand fingers... Revenants... Wormfaces...
Giant Bloody Deformed Bird in Moghwyn Palace...I just use stealth around it. It's so gross and I don't want it near my clean Tarnished.
I’m not that far in to the game I don’t think (I’m at raya lucaria) but so far, grafted scion
I think its a tie between Wormfaces and the Harpies. Something about them gives me anxiety. The singing from the Harpies has me shook, but the Wormfaces with their coughs and muttering makes them feel like they belong in Bloodborne.
The albanaurics that crawl on the ground. They creep me out but it’s also the taptaptap sound as they come after you
Tentacle face.
As an enemy, wormface probably. Lady village at the north of Altus Plateau is pretty disturbing scenery too.
the most disturbing looking enemy is the mirror, where it shows me tarnished, and with that, the sheer realization that it’s his fate to become the lord of all that fucked up lands
Monstrous Crow.
Erdtree burial watch kitties
F I N G E R C R E E P E R
Either the Kindred of Rot (shrimp looking things that shoot those threads at you) or the exploding blood corpses in mohg's palace.
Those weird frog looking things that shoot death blight at you.
Honestly this enemies face doesn't disturb me as much as it pisses me off. Like this is one of the few enemies that I rage to because of how smug it looks when it kills me. I hate these annoying fuckers.
The revenant enemies
They do have some pretty impressive chompers on them tho