Elden Ring - A horrible nightmare

There is also the possibility that Fortissax was always golden, making him a good counterpart to Godwyn, but it's never stated anywhere.

Funny I finished the game without even acknowledging these side quests

It's the same sky as in Dungeater's ending

It's worse than I thought, he's truly the most tragic character in ER😢

I’d just love to see what you could do if you decided to make your own game with everything you’ve learned.

The skybox also looks like omen sores/anuses (dung eater); regardless, it's terribly grotesque.

The spines growing out of Fortissax seem to resemble to spears that disperse from the silver tears in Nokstella/Nokron, and are also similar to other beds of chaos from the Dark Souls series and the Phalanx from Demon Souls. I tend to think of it as "human flesh returning partially to an earthen form, and is malleable like clay; the power of divinity is contained within, and occasionally it outbursts, creating spears." Same thing seems to occur with the deathblight fog that causes us to spawn deathroots. Gurranq, who we know contains Destined Death, also consumed the deathroot, likely to contain it within.

Just here to remind everyone I predicted Godwyn will turn into a dragon in the DLC or the DLC after that. I figured its getting close to the DLC launch so.....for posterity.

bro ranni really was a terrible person just because she wanted to be different

So how does the Duskborn ending affect Godwyn? Is he freed from his nightmare, or does he stay deathblighted?

The skybox of Godwyn's nightmare somewhat resembles Blessing of Despair ending sky.

This is the nightmare of Godwyn. How terrible it must be to sharpen your teeth in the Lands Between... 😂

First Godwyn then Radahn, all the good characters can't take a break

Gods, this makes me hate Ranni so much. Why did this useless bastard woman did all this to her brother, best of the best, to leave his body suffer eternally.

Godwyn definitely is one of the most disturbing elements they've created out of all their games. It seemed so unfair and brutal how he was murdered, but the fact that his body continues on in such a horrific state is horror fuel.

Our body is often considered the vessel of our souls, and part of me wonders if all this grotesque business with Godwyn's corpse comes from perhaps one of the developer's feelings of death. I thought about this when I saw the mounds of mulched up looking dead bodies in the underground tunnels with the ants.

Each corpse rotting among the heap was a person; a newborn at one point that was loved and held, and had complex feelings, desires and ambitions. How awful it would be if one knew a person they loved so much in this world died in such a horrific way; their physical remains rotting and being feasted upon so indignantly by such disgusting creatures. No comfort of a proper burial or cremation. It's a tragedy all too real that Godwyn represents at least to me.

Isnt Lanseax Fortisax sister?

Would have been interesting if fortissax form could be partially astral like a half corpse trapped in those who live in death with part of it's body resting in another plane of existence but visible and coming out in attacks

Is it just me or does it feel like ensha's armor look quite similar to fortissax is there a connection in that

Does no one else notice that the dungeater's ending has a similar sky?

Dreams... nightmares... death... decay... blood...
It all comes back to Bloodborne

I wouldn't mind if dreams had been a major theme in Elden Ring. The player could get a glimpse at the psychology of various NPCs, including perhaps even that of a demi-god. Many NPCs strike fear into the Tarnished, but what are the NPCs afraid of? And what are their hopes and wishes? Within their dreams we could find some answers.

One must imagine fortissax happy

Its very likely Dlc will be inside Miquella's dream. We will probably wake him up for an ending or kill him for a great rune. Either way its gonna be cool.

I think Godwyn's corpse created with his Death Blight = The Shadow of the Erdtree.

The dreamscape always reminded me of that one MGMT video clip for the song "When You Die". It's so unnerving seeing death literally corrupt that being's mind.

It's got that dark feeling of being somewhere you recognize but you actually don't, while the very landscape around you rots and dies, knowing that this landscape is probably your own mind being corrupted by death. Where there once was a beautiful or vivid remembrance of your life, now it's just death climbing it's way into your memories, distorting your very being like a digital archive being corrupted and deformed.

It's like dementia on steroids, what a terrible state that must be for Godwyn.

splendid

I love how the horrific skybox of the nightmare pulls back even more of the Berserk inspiration this series is known for, as it along with the Dregs from DS3 heavily remind me of the Eclipse

Fortissax kind of reminds me of Velstadt. A holy being who became corrupted by Dark/Death while trying to protect the King/friend he was devoted to.

GIven the cut content of St Trina and Miquella, I wouldn't be surprised if St trina/miquella put godwyn in a dream to avoid the brutality of death. Also with this tie and the teaser photo for the DLC I'm expecting a lot of dream stuff

the nightmare sky in godwyn's dream looks so cool, looks like something out of Uzumaki

It is also terrifying because you are given a glimpse of what the very world will look like once fully infested.

I have a theory of my own regarding Fortissax, he's a Haligdrake like the one's portrayed on the haligdrake talisman family. He wields golden lightning after all, unlike the primevil red of the other we see.

People with trypophobia are probably not huge fans of that sky =)

The thing i dont understand is hes dead but dreaming, his body is "growing" practically still life left like is he dead? Is he multidimensional being now? Zombie? Idk just odd also was he even good or bad?

Hear me out : Fortissax is Sif el doggo

Fortissax: A once magnificent dragon trying desperately to stem the tide of darkness, yet failing and corrupted.
Darkeater Midir: First time?

It'd be neat if you locked in your ending before the final fight, and got to see the Lands Between with a different skybox/atmosphere depending on the one chosen. Seeing the sky like this would be freaky

Time to obtain a dream nail.

The sky kinda looks like hyaline cartilage.

Honestly, Godwyn is an absolute enigma to me. I understand enough of his lore to understand his connection to death and how he ended up this way. Well mostly, I don't know exactly how he ended up so far underground. But there's still something that's an absolute mystery to me. Is he still sentient? I know his soul was killed but his body remains. Is everything to do with him currently just a after effect of his soul being killed. Is he more like a plant, blindly and indiscriminately growing? Or a sentient being vengefully spreading throughout the lands between, plaguing the lands with undead? I understand how he got to where he's at, but I don't know why he's doing what he's doing.

fucking hell, seeing the lands between shrouded in death like that is so deeply disturbing but so cool at the same time

"That is not dead, which can eternal lie
And in strange aeons, even skies grow eyes.
And you are still maidenless" - Godwyn, probably

I'm reposting this comment on a more recent video in the hopes that Zullie will see it, as I am interested in her opinion.

This is just a shot in the dark, but with the aquatic motif I wonder if there's any connection between what's happening to Godwyn and the "The Deep" that was lightly touched on in Dark Souls 3. Part of the aesthetic the cathedral of the deep had was that it eventually became a place of insects and filth; particularly the lake wherein blood and "human impurities" were cast after being cleaned out of the cleansing chapel. These remnants of life settled at the bottom of the lake and rotted into a monstrous abyss.

It's described in DS3 that Aldrich foresaw a different form of the Age of Dark -- a world flooded by an abyss like a deep and stagnant sea. And Aldrich himself became a rotting mass of decomposing flesh after consuming a huge number of people.
There's an argument to be made that Godwyn is paralleling this. His soul was slain and (presumably) passed into the afterlife. While his body (the "dregs" so to speak) have settled at the 'bottom' of the world as 'deep' as it could go, the roots of the Erdtree.

Not a sky,its world inside mega space living giant....😊

The entire concept of a living body with no soul is terrifying to me. Can it still think? If it can, are its thoughts those of an intelligent yet sub-lucid being, or merely abstract and instinctual like that of an animal? It seems to possess no recollection or care for its previous life as Godwyn the Golden, no longer capable of doing anything but spread and corrupt its surroundings like a tumorous growth. Discovering Godwyn's current state was what ultimately turned me away from Ranni as a force for "good;" no matter how lofty her ambitions, how benevolent of a goddess can she be when she was capable of inflicting such an unimaginably cruel fate, and what's to stop her from such callous acts in the future?

Wait. That song is from King's quest? Wow it sounds great!

Ya know, clicking on this video I never thought I’d learn about devs and how they can reuse assets and locations in such a creative way that at 1st glance they don’t look like regular assets, I also love the parallel between the dream sky and the erdtree it looks like it completely replaces it and they world that we know and love would be 100% opposite. Truly remarkable bravo Myazaki

I’m actually really glad the sky can’t appear that way in the lands between that s*** looks crazy

So I think with little to no basis that this is Placidusax’s missing head, possibly alluding to something akin to Seath, cause wouldn’t it be interesting if titanite was just Fortissax’s scales.

the top of the skybox looks a lot like the stumps of the omen horns

Hmmm... a DEADMIGOD