Elden Ring Players Think Godfrey Should've Taken Better Care Of His Axe
For those Elden Ring players who progress to a certain point, you'll become familiar with the glorious sight of Godfrey, First Elden Lord. Not that you might think him so glorious after succumbing to him for the Nth time, but since the boss is not an optional one players must defeat him in order to advance (and there are definitely harder bosses).
Godfrey also has charisma, it wouldn't be remiss to say, what with his kingly hauteur, lion's mane, and beefy axe, so it's no wonder that the Elden Ring fanbase have come together to discuss a curious aspect of his weapon. Namely, who or what broke his axe? It's a formidable weapon, as players will be well aware, but it's also got pieces missing. So what happened to it? Players have been discussing, debating, and joking about Godfrey's weapon.
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On the popular and lively Elden Ring subreddit, a thread titled "OK... who in the hell broke Godfrey's axe??" has attracted hundreds of comments and received nearly 16,000 upvotes. Attached to the thread is an image of the boss, showing the axe in question, and clearly the weapon has seen better days. And yes, there is a prosaic reason, as the most upvoted comment, detailed.
"There's a line on the axe description that mentions that it was damaged as part of his long campaign during the March of the tarnished", writes u/Due_Imagination3838, rather handily explaining it. "It's never specified who, exactly. It could be whoever crucified him".
It's probably useful at this point to cue in some of Godfrey's backstory. The lore around Godfrey was that he was once the first consort of Queen Marika and thus ruled the Lands Between as its first Elden Lord. Prior to this he was known as
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