Elden Ring's Dung Eater Is Its Most Terrifying Character
Elden Ring takes place in a dark world, but Dung Eater stands out as terrifying even in such a setting. Despite his ridiculous name, the Dung Eater manages to be the most frightening figure that the player will find in the Lands Between. From his personality to his actions, there is nothing about him that isn't disturbing to some degree.
[Warning: some spoilers for Elden Ring follow.]
His full title is "The Loathsome Dung Eater", and he easily lives up to that nickname. As one of the cruelest and most evil characters in Elden Ring, he is rightfully hated by everyone that mentions him, and he hates them all just as much, if not more. In a game full of complex characters, he stands out by having no sympathetic or complex motives or affiliations, simply being an evil being who enjoys the atrocities that he commits. Elden Ring has some horrifying enemies, but none can match the sheer cruelty of the Dung Eater.
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The first encounter with the Dung Eater is instantly unsettling, considering his gross-looking armor and residence in a room full of corpses, but he gets worse the more Elden Ring discloses about his existence. Dung Eater is a serial killer who defiles the souls of his victims with his Seedbed Curses, ensuring that they will remain as tormented wandering souls forever, never able to find peace. His reason for doing so is because he enjoys inflicting such cruelty upon his victims, and his only goal is to spread his Seedbed Curses as far as possible. Even by FromSoft's standards, he is a frightening monster of a person, and it is no wonder how Dung Eater got his name in Elden Ring the way he did.
Even more disturbing is that Dung Eater is one of the
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