Elden Ring - Godwyn’s Corpse Details

#eldenring #godwyn

[Stoneblazer]

To me, the creepiest thing about Godwyn's corpse is the reality that it isn't a corpse at all. Since only his soul perished, his body lived on and mutated into a grotesque abomination. It's not a corpse, it's a cancer.

[meowijuana]

Fia be like:
"He has an amazing personality tho"

[NoOne-ggmc]

Godwyn's corpse never fails to creep me out. Most living but dead beings in fiction usually have this halfway decay look, but in Godwyn's case, he was morphed into something unnatural you just can't quite describe. Worse, even if he's a corpse and remain still as one, it feels like he knows you're there when you enter his domain.

[harryst]

He suffered the worst fate of them all...
He became a fish.

[spookysioux]

godwyn was like baldur to the capitol, everyone loved him. and he died in this terribly brutal way, with his body turning into this eldritch looking horror

[jellyfish]

He still has that same blue cloth on his hips he had on the night of his assassination.

[DeceptionOfReality]

If anyone recalls the initial cutscene, Godwyn is stabbed in the back of the neck by the Black Knife assassins while two others hold up his arms, and from the positioning of the Camera and the way they all seem to be looking down towards Godwyn, it's safe to assume he's pretty much kept the half kneeling, slumped pose of the moment the Black Knife killed him. (Which looks oddly reminiscent of Marika's pose, the pose she takes that's in the shape of the Rune of Death.)

[sharinganespada]

oh Godwyn... look how they massacred my boy

[BSJINTHEHOUSE]

“Reject Godhood, return to fish.” - Godwyn, probably

[HiddenSunny]

I forget if anyone’s mentioned this, but I find it interesting that the Prince of Death is a mermaid. Considering From’s recurring themes of “immortality corrupts” and the Japanese folklore of anyone consuming ningyo flesh being granted a cursed immortal life, this could be one of the reasons why Godwyn’s design became fish-like in his deathly state.

[XrockinamadeusX]

When I finally discovered the roots I was amazed at this wonderfully hidden location.
When I first saw his corpse I just sorta stared wondering wtf happened here... the impact of his death is incredibly far reaching.

such a great design, truly grotesque

[victorjun]

I hate deathblight and every enemy who carries it but i gotta admit, the reason why it all happened is pretty interesting. To think Godwyn got reduced from a beloved demigod to a worldwide plague is saddening.

[luukeksifrozenhillbillyeur]

There's something about the Prince of Death that makes it a particularly unsettling take on undeath to me. Maybe it's the subtlety of the concept of it. Normally undead are done in this straightforward "ha, scared you!" kinda way where the more or less physical remains of a dead person are given a melancholy/creepy/hostile disposition. And then they go BLARRGH.

Let's look at what happens when we die. Our vitals cease, our brains no longer can function. Our thoughts, memories and identity cease to exist in their own right. What remains are other peoples' memories, and a body that looks like us, but will be going bad shortly so it's better to put it in a box or burn it, and be done with it. Otherwise it will stink up the place before it can be arsed to turn back into dirt.. Well, that's how it went for Godwyn. Except for the fact his body doesn't rot away. It remains, out of sight, and it will slowly creep its way back. But not as an angry zombie, or a vengeful spirit. It'll return as an inexplicable, corrupting entity that doesn't care about you or anything. The design is particularly cruel too. Imagine being a loved one of Godwyn, remembering all his dignity and pride, and then running into this giant clam headed grotesque staring at nothing.

[baroncrow]

"There are fates worse than death"
-godwin probably

[endermage]

Whatever this... thing... is. It's even creepier when you consider how Godwyn's soul, his self, is dead. This is a living creature with no mind at the helm to control it.

*The lights are on, but no one's home anymore.*

[venomark]

Damn, I feel bad for Godwyn

He was a strong noble who is respected by the people, loves by the fellow demigods and now he turned into an amalgamation of horror that his body that was once so pure and golden, now decaying and putrid...

I hope we see an ending where we find a cure for the Destined Death and restore his body and soul, he could reward us with something for finally allowing his soul and body to disappear from the Lands Between and finally let him rest in peace

[AS-qimb]

I really wish we got to see more of what Godwyn looked like before the shard of Destined Death turned him into this thing. We only get a couple of brief glimpses of the back of him when the Numen assassins were killing him and a close-up of his eye as death poured out of it, but we never see much of the only demigod to not have any physical abnormalities, and from what we can tell and what we are told, he was very beautiful. A sharp contrast to what he became as the Prince of Death.

[ricanraikage]

Its even creepier realizing that, that thing is fully alive and conscious, its just not godwyn because his soul died.

[agopessimist]

It’s incredibly creepy how even though his corpse is buried under the Erdtree, his influence continues to spread throughout the Lands Between, potentially via the Erdtree’s roots.

Throughout the game you can see his Deathroot in various locations, even up in Faram Azula, and those roots even have his eyes open and looking around.

Not to mention how even crabs and Basilisks have his eyes on their bodies. Godwyn has become an almost Eldritch abomination. And to think he, one of the kindest Demigods, was assassinated solely to fulfill Ranni’s and Marika’s plans. This guy could have been a really good Elden Lord

[makmotv]

"Why is this necrophiliac lady entering my mind and bothering my boy Fortissax?" - Godwyn, when he met Fia, probably