Elden Ring mod to include Bloodborne-inspired boss
Modding community The Garden of Eyes has revealed the first original boss it will add to Elden Ring in a forthcoming mod.
The Garden of Eyes Overhaul Mod is still in development, but will add unique weapons, armours, spells, and new mechanics in what is dubbed a «fan-made DLC».
The group's latest video is a showcase of new boss Oedon the Primeval Current, which combines the best of Elden Ring with Bloodborne.
It looks similar to final boss the Elden Beast with its cosmic aesthetic, but there's a reason for that: Oedon the Primeval Current is one of the «outer gods», mysterious beings responsible for many of the events before and during the game, but never manifesting as a physical form.
Until now. According to the Elden Ring wiki, The Primeval Current is an «esoteric and mysterious force» with a «connection to magic, glintstone, and stars».
The Garden of Eyes team saw this as an opportunity to elaborate on the game's lore. And so, this outer god is — in their vision — Oedon, one of the Great Ones from Bloodborne.
«The idea in our mod is that Oedon is actually The Primeval Current, and it is an outer god from the Elden Ring universe who was able to get into contact with the Bloodborne universe,» explains the video showcase. «However, he could only communicate there by voice. However, he was able to beckon some of the creatures and some of the scholars from the Bloodborne universe in order to initiate a forbidden ritual to give him supreme power.»
The modders gave Kotaku some further background: «As a way to gain ultimate power, [Oedon] tricked some of the scholars in Byrgenwerth to study the power of the Old Blood, and that its combination with the power of Glintstone magic is the key to true Insight, and beckoned them to
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