Elden Ring: How The Loathsome Dung-Eater Got His Name
Elden Ring has no shortage of unusual NP's for the player to encounter, often with equally unusual names, but the story behind the Loathsome Dung-Eater's name is actually pretty straightforward. The Lands Between are filled with other Tarnished characters for the player to meet, who are supposed to follow the guidance of grace to their destinies, whatever that may be. The one thing that all of these Tarnished characters share in common is that they have all died once already, but through the power of grace are reborn to fulfill their purposes across The Lands Between, which in the player's case is collecting Elden Ring's Great Runes and becoming Elden Lord.
The game's opening cutscene gives players a look at several of the more high-profile Tarnished characters that can be met across the Lands Between, with most of them actually being tied to specific endings too, potentially a clue about their significance. Another clue seems to be that the images shown of each character seem to represent their original deaths, such as Gideon being shown in a stone coffin, or Horah Loux, impaled, bloodied, and strung up to a tree. All of these characters can be encountered by the player throughout the course of the game, although it will likely take a while to encounter them all, given how long Elden Ring takes to complete.
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The Loathsome Dung-Eater, as he is referred to by the opening cutscene's narrator, is one of these notable Tarnished, although for very different reasons than the rest. The Dung-Eater was reviled because of his obsession with the Omen race, his armor was styled in such a way as to represent an Omen without its horns, similar to what was done
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