Elden Ring Fans Think Dung Eater Eats Souls... Located In Butts
The Dung Eater is an NPC that you’ll almost certainly meet at some point in your Elden Ring playthrough. He appears at the Roundtable Hold in a room amongst a pile of defiled corpses. He’ll even threaten (and later attempt) to do the same to you just for speaking to him.
But the Dung Eater’s name is a bit misleading. Unlike a certain new indie release, Dung Eater doesn’t really say much about eating poop. He talks a lot about "curses," "defilement," and being "a pox upon life itself," but none of it really tracks with his name.
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It also leads to the obvious question of just what the heck Dung Eater is even talking about. What is his curse, and what does he do to his victims?
Like so much of Elden Ring’s story, FromSoftware left out the specifics for players to fill in themselves. A recent thead on the Elden Ring subreddit speculates on what exactly the Dung Eater does to his victims, and the leading theory is that he’s actually eating their souls.
The top two answers refer to a strange bit of Japanese folklore that defines a person’s soul as a specific organ called the "shirikodama" that’s located inside your anus. A Japanese spirit creature (yokai) called a "kappa" is said to assault swimmers and steal their shirikodama, leaving them an emotionless husk of themselves. The Dung Eater is suspected of doing something similar, with the name stemming from the perceived direction of his defilement through his victim’s backends.
FromSoftware has been known to toy with this legend in their other games. In Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the Headless minibosses will actually pull out your shirikodama if they grab you. Which is pretty gross.
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