Elden Ring - Giant Problems

As a recurring field boss, the Furnace Golems distinguish themselves for their tremendous size and unmistakable presence. You can look at an area halfway across the map and still see them burning on the far horizons.

Song used: Goron Mines - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess OST

[ZullietheWitch]

Much like Tree Sentinel, the first Furnace Golem you find is likely meant to be a lesson that not everything needs to be fought the instant you see it, and it's fine to leave and come back later. Introducing the new Scadutree Blessings system probably needed a bit of a speedbump like this to get players to realize how important they'd be for the rest of their journey in the Land of Shadow.

[Qlaid_]

runebears? dragons. wickermen? dragons. first elden lord? dragon. who isnt a dragon at this point

[dormammu]

The fire spirals they shoot out are disgustingly menacing. They go so far.

[Neil.]

These golems seem like walking war crimes honestly, which is saying something in the Elden ring setting.

[gmrkdone]

The last clip you used, of the furnace golem shooting a giant stream of fire. I can’t help but feel the fact that it’s shot in a spiral pattern is at least a little bit important, considering how much spirals matter in Hornsent culture. Could be nothing, could be another layer of mockery and humiliation from Marika and her order

[alfalldoot]

I'm so glad Elden Ring finally has its own "boss literally just made out of corpses" to add to the great soulsborne pantheon, including Nito, the Rotten, The One Reborn, and more

[PierceArner]

It definitely seems like the dragons' body may be a key component in animating the golems, especially since the Guardian Golem's emit a disembodied draconic roar sound from inside their own burning cores as they're standing around idle, too.

Even the idea of Spirit Ashes being summonable from the remains of their ashes explicitly seems to reinforce that core concept. The Furnace Golems also make the detail in the Surging Frenzied Flame especially noteworthy, _“Spirits are eternal, and yet the frenzied flame melts them away regardless. No wonder the hornsent forbid the flame's use.”_

[OverpoweredDucks]

Seeing the fire spiral laser they shoot out from a distance is menacing. Can you imagine, being one of the hornsent who's existence thrives upon worshipping a holy spiral that's trying to reach the heavens, seeing a column of flame, something they so vehemently despise, spiral and reaching higher than any incantation the hornsent have been able to conjure themselves? I wouldn't be surprised if that was specifically designed that way to strike a form of fear not just toward the hornsent, but the very heavenly gods they worship

[Frank-kqte]

Some trivia, these golems also have striking similarity with chaos eater from dark souls 1, they even shares a similar grab, where they put you inside the top of their head and the player begins to swirl around in a windwirl animation.

[justinhowe]

these guys really give the sense of being out of a job and not sure what to do with themselves

[Arkios]

I 100% was expecting something along the lines of "for some of the golem's attacks an invisible dragon is spawned to create them"...

[georgehouliaras]

Dragons? Did you just say dragons? Dragons! Dragons!
CURSE YOU

[ToxicSoul]

the most tedious and “meh” enemy to fight, but an incredible design and aesthetic.

[BigPapaMitchell]

With regards to loading the golems, they also did this in the Lands Between with Walking Mausoleums, you can see them from miles away. Great example is going to Castle Sol and seeing the turtle in the Consecrated Snowfields. I imagine the Golems were also loaded in a similar way.

[grymgungus]

The furnace visage also reminds me of Dung Eaters' sun medallion.

[osheroth]

I couldn't think of a better song than Twilight Princess' Goron temple to go along the subject of giant flaming fuckers

[CrematedCube]

I love how they have the "toilet flush attack" straight from Izalith, but colossal-sized

[KyleLyre]

1:50 Something to note: when you fight Morgott, if you look at his body after, despite him still being "alive", his Omen horns are entirely absent. Every single one. The same thing happens to Godrick and his grafts, and Godfrey with Serosh. Its possible that in all cases, including with the hornsent, these are all spiritual in nature in spite of their physicality. So, if the Furnace Golems burn both body and soul, then its entirely plausible they are hornsent, just with their horns burnt away.

[hanstingel__]

Holy shit this has to be the perfect choice of Music! What a banger track and 100% fitting for a video talking about the Furnace Golems.

[KyokujiFGC]

Horses being inside make a lot of sense. These were used as engines of war, and a lot of people would've been fighting on horseback. It probably picked up a shit ton of riders and just tossed them in.