Elden Ring's Caelid Gets Reimagined in Doom's Key Art

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Out of all Elden Ring's locations, players seem to have come to a consensus that Caelid is the most grisly and fearsome. Perhaps this is due to how early players may stumble upon its scarlet rot swamps after they are sent there by one of Elden Ring's treasure chest teleporter traps, or perhaps because it features some of the game's most terrifying enemy designs.

Indeed, Caelid can prove to be a unique test of the player's will. Caelid's shardbearer boss is none other than Starscourge Radahn, for example, and scarlet rot is introduced in many areas. There are many ways players can approach or reach Caelid, and its striking red color palette clearly distinguishes it from other biomes. Recently, a fan known as Alhin Row has depicted Caelid's hellish landscape with an homage to another franchise's locale that bears a resemblance.

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Alhin Row's illustration of Caelid reimagines it as the promotional key art and optional box art for Doom (2016). Indeed, Caelid features a resemblance to Doom's Hell as both environments are starkly red and indicative of some of the more monstrous creatures that players encounter. Caelid does not feature the same demons or hellspawn featured in Doom, but what it lacks in demonic presences it makes up for in horrific canine and crow creatures, who are portrayed in Alhin Row's illustration.

Instead of Doom's title emblazoned at the top, the word «Caelid» appears in the same iconic, angular font. Alhin Row's illustration depicts a knight player-character grappling with one of the enormous crows in a stance that emulates Doomguy's pose from Doom's key art, where he wields a shotgun instead of a sword. Once players have leveled