Elden Ring Player Imagines What Malenia Would Have Looked Like Without Scarlet Rot

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Elden Ring’s lore is a complex web of characters affiliated with different gods and groups, and what makes the story even harder to understand is that the game will never outright explain any of this to the player. Gamers are left to compile information from dialogues and item descriptions in order to put together a timeline of events and the many characters involved. Something players have figured out is that the most powerful beings in Elden Ring’s lore are known as Outer Gods, which are formless, and often elemental, entities with unclear objectives in The Lands Between.

One of the most mysterious of these Outer Gods in Elden Ring is the Outer God of Scarlet Rot, which is responsible for the flowering rot that infests many characters in Elden Ring and the entire area of Caelid. The Outer God itself is said to be sealed away below the Lake of Rot and so the player will never encounter it directly. Scarlet Rot, therefore, has become much more synonymous with another character who players can encounter, Malenia, Blade of Miquella.

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Aside from Malenia being the most difficult boss fight in Elden Ring, the character is also incredibly important to the game’s story, as she is one of the shardbearing demigod children of Queen Marika. Specifically, Malenia is one of two cursed twins born to Marika and Radagon, and has been afflicted with Scarlet Rot since birth. A Reddit user named legatii has used Elden Ring's character creator to create what they believe Malenia would have looked like without this Scarlet Rot curse.

Scarlet Rot can be seen corrupting Malenia’s entire body, and she has already lost an entire arm and leg to the affliction, along with her other leg below