Elden Ring Fan Creates Tarot Card of Godrick the Grafted

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FromSoftware has never been lacking in original designs for the bosses and monsters found exploring the game world. The company is so synonymous with these visually imaginative and often grisly monsters that a "Dark Souls boss" is now internet shorthand for describing any creature design from any medium that is distinctly horrifying.Elden Ring is no exception to this, with its numerous and difficult bosses, and so it's no surprise that artists will find inspiration while playing the game.

What is impressive about Elden Ring’s art direction is that every style of enemy fits in the area of the map that it is found in, and often will have some connection to the lore of that area, with enemy designs getting stranger and more unnatural the further the player goes into unexplored territory.

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One of the earliest examples inElden Ring of boss and enemy designs intersecting with the lore of the area is found in the suprisingly skippable Stormveil Castle, the first linear area of the game. The castle's grafted enemies have multiple limbs attached to their bodies, alluding to the final boss of this area, Godrick the Grafted. Godrick, as the first Shardbearer boss most players will come across, is a huge dynamic boss design that was used heavily in the game's promotional material. This design, like so many FromSoftware bosses before it, has now inspired some stunning artwork by fans online.

Reddit user u/stevendraw has created a tarot card style piece of art featuring Elden Ring's disdained Godrick the Grafted. The vintage line art of the piece suits the medieval era Elden Ring takes place in and even calls to mind the styling of the in-game map screen. The white border and Godrick's name