Polygon Draws our favorite Spirit Ash summons from Elden Ring

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Everyone loves a good summon in a FromSoftware game. Maybe it’s a real-life friend popping in to give you a hand, or a hand-crafted NPC designed to help you dance all over a boss. In Elden Ring, everyone can summon a variety of spirits thanks to Spirit Ashes. Just a ding of the bell and bam, you’ve got a pack of wolves at your back, ready to do your bidding.

In the latest edition of Polygon Draws, the crew decided to come together and draw our favorite Spirit Ash summons from Elden Ring, with each author including a statement so you can see inside the process. Some other video game familiars may also make an appearance here, as not every participant has jumped into The Lands Between — and these drawings are proof that no matter how good Elden Ring is, it could always be improved with a little Kirby.

Please, treasure these drawings and think on them as you summon their in-game equivalents to help you decimate FromSoftware’s biggest threats.

“Love my crystal boy, who protects my very puny mage from being ground to a pulp.”

“I always forget to summon in Elden Ring, so I haven’t invested much into any particular friend. However, the wolves really saved my bacon when fighting the Valiant Gargoyles, who I hate very much. My wolves are small, and hard to hit, and even if they don’t bite too good, they do distract the boss enough to let me panic-roll away. Yay wolves. Fuck those gargoyles.”

“I love the Albinaurics because there are two of them and they have big baby heads and stupid little Winnie the Pooh bodies and they cartwheel around. They are very good at splitting aggro, and they are my friends.”

“My rotten stray is a very good boy — faithful, strong, and always ready to leap to my defense against a variety of foes. He’s