Elden Ring - A dead god growing

Godwyn continues to be one of the most passively horrifying elements of Elden Ring's worldbuilding, creeping his way into even the hidden world of the Land of Shadow.

Song used: Dark Reality - King's Field IV OST

[ZullietheWitch]

Thanks to Lokey_DS for translating the Japanese term used here. "Cadaver surrogate" is an evocative name, but isn't quite as direct as the original, it seems.

In the comments of a previous video, I said I hoped the DLC added a new Godwyn, and it looks like I got just what I asked for. Previously, there'd been some uncertainty about which of the Stormveil corpse or Deeproot corpse was Godwyn's actual body and which was the copy, but the fact these new additional copies all resembled the Stormveil corpse makes it seem likely Deeproot is the original.

Your prize for expanding this comment is more water-logged Godwyn footage:

[alfalldoot]

"Zullie, this is the seventh time you've presented Godwyn to this class this year"

[ave]

Dude just wanted to hang out with his siblings and dragon bros. Now he's a literal cancer.

[JJJADDS]

"All forms of Death drift into the shadow realm."

Godwyn: "It's free real estate."

[xamadfp]

Oh
That's a dead god

THERE IS A dead god forgotten by the Golden Order lying motionless at the bottom of the Erdtree, Stormveil Castle, and two separate catacombs in the Land of Shadow

[wiremesh]

Elden Ring 2: the entire landscape is a mass of Godwyn faces, growing on top of each other.

[Johnny-msir]

That last shot of Godwyns face beneath the ocean is terrifying and so fitting, a soulless and deformed body growing from the depths, and there's nothing that can stop it.

[weirdcoincollection]

My first exposure to Godwyn's corpse was when I was exploring Stormveil Castle on my first playthrough. One of the enemies killed me and my body fell off the side of a ledge.

Then I just kept falling. And falling.

My body landed in view of a weird, giant face, and then the Ulcerated Tree Spirit erupted from the floor. THEN the "You Died" message appeared.

I thought "HOW BIG IS THIS CASTLE HOLY SHIT. AND WHAT THE HELL WAS *THAT*???"

[IggysEden]

This King Fields song fits so well whenever talking about Godwyn that at this point I just consider it his theme

[randomguy]

People wanted a Godwyn boss fight in the main game and the DLC, but in my opinion, the absolute inanimity of the corpse makes it absolutely more terrifying.

It just exists, it grows and corrupts relentlessly like a cancer, and the corpse is just there... existing. There is no evil in it, it doesn't spread the deathblight because it wants to, the corpse is just this, Death.

[KuraSourTakanHour]

Godwyn in his current state is more like a plant, maybe even a fungus, and an invasive one. He spreads, releasing his spores of death, just multiplying

[regulareric]

bro, Godwyn's messed up state deserves a dlc of its own.

[Mongrelntruder]

Godwyn's corpse is the single most horrifying thing fromsoft has ever conceived. absolutely nightmarish

[cannonfodder]

The last shot of the godwyn's face beneath the sea is so haunting and amazing

[hammerth]

The ability to self-replicate is possibly the most basic definition of life, but in a really "soulless" kind of way that fits well with Godwyn's undead state.

[KamilMalach]

Okay, hear me out
Entire location made of Godwyns
Godwynland, kinda like Disneyland but with people in basilisk costumes

[Double]

took me until now to realize gurranq/maliketh wants us to feed him deathroot so he can use Destined Death within himself to "delete" it from reality, his futile attempt to fix the glitch of godwyn's state of existence

[Etherwinter]

Godwyn's lore continues to grow

Melina lore: I sleep

[oliversearles]

Godwyn doesn't loose he just keeps godwynning

[ManuelKoegler]

Seeing Godwyn’s face again yesterday in the catacomb guarded by the death knight had me profoundly saddened.

We’ll never truly know what a loss he’s been and this state of an undeath pariah is something you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy.