Secret Boss Fight and "Alien" in Godrick's Castle - Elden Ring

[@emsax]

It's actually insane the levels of exploration in this game.

[@stefanolozardo9711]

Bro, I was like. So, a small secret that you can finnd by jumping on that small gap. Then a FUKING new area shows up if a UNIQUE BOOS??? wtf thats why it took so lonng to make this haha

[@arara7713]

@@stefanolozardo9711 Yeah the level design of this game is crazy good, its not a unique boss though, you can fight it on the first fog wall area of the game

[@BilliamTorpedo]

@@arara7713 and several other times throughout. They always give a golden seed tho so memorizing their attack patterns feels completely worth it

[@千利休の暇つぶし]

Exactly

[@AyoMousy]

I know I made the game they took my idea thanks

[@johndoe-eg7lg]

i actually slipped while exploring the castle and fell on that thing pure horror dude

[@chosenundead7869]

I can imagine falling with great speed, then outta nowhere, you fall on top of Jabba the Hutt

[@kratos6162]

yoo same thing here

[@pumblegrump]

Me too, I fell when I was jumping around the ramparts and saw that fucking thing at the bottom as I died. One of the coolest moments I’ve ever experienced in a game.

[@SwissyChief1265]

Same thing happened to me. I don't even remember where I fell from. I just remember being like... WTF

[@ripperoni9305]

Same! Literally exploring the tower keep area and fell, Saw that thing on my way down.

[@Ayundaru]

I'm playing this game blind, no spoilers. But from what I've put together, there are a LOT of giant skulls in the game. You can see many engrained into the mountains in Caelid. The problem is that the game occurs right after the war, right? My guess is some of these skulls belong to huge cosmic beings. As I explore underground, I find more and more lovecraftian-esque cosmic beings. Pretty hyped to uncover what all these remains mean.

[@mrpearson8166]

I've noticed (and I'm sure everyone else) there are small pillars almost everywhere. You can easily jump on them, and there's usually a message saying Try but hole. I don't know if they mean something or they're just used to mark locations

[@aldndlsj]

@@mrpearson8166 put the two last words of the message together and read it as one word

[@xXLegacy]

@@mrpearson8166 lmfao

[@maidenhaven1106]

@@aldndlsj I don't get it, can you elaborate further on the joke?

[@orrusfellin5150]

It's not right after, the intro describing war of the demigods says that all of this happened an "age" ago. Whether it means a literal 100 years, an era, or just "a very long time" is unclear.

[@crabhater9373]

There is a shrine of grace that is next to the lift which is even closer to the area. It's interesting to see all the people in the comments talk about how they missed this section when it was the first part of the area I explored. It goes to show how each person had a totally different adventure with how many routes are available.

[@zerk555]

The variety in routes is certainly interesting. Me and my friend both got to Volcano Manor through different paths. I looked up a guide afterwards out of curiosity and the video showed a path very similar to mine except the beginning of the route was different. I have no idea how my friend got there because what he described sounded very "all over the place"

[@ardour1587]

There is like 3 routes. And the amount of people plaing... Well "each person" cant have totaly different adventure :)

[@crabhater9373]

@@ardour1587 I think you are forgetting the fact that it's an open world game. I would be very surprised to see another player walk exactly where I did step for step throughout my now 50 hour playthrough.

[@ardour1587]

@@crabhater9373 Yeah, but so what? Whats the point if someone else took a path through the bushes and met a couple of wolfes while you made it though rough and met soldiers? It doesnt sound crazy to me :) Especially since it is a souls game and you have to vaccum every inch of the map to not miss any important stuff. Idk its may be Im plaing games for like 30 years already and Im literally dont get all that "different walkthough thing" :)) Its like: "we have two roads to the castle!". And Im like: "okay, so I all go both of'em to get all the items, or you just want me to miss some stuff"? Whats the point? :)

[@ravenousmask4159]

@@ardour1587 His point is "wow, there are many ways to explore this game" that's it. Why are you getting worked up?

[@sul141]

Coming back to videos like this gives me such joy. Now everyone knows the "alien" is here, it's Godwyn and the "secret boss" you fight is a repeat miniboss, but back in the day exploring this part of the map was so exciting. I remember finding Godwyn after falling down a hole and dying right in front of him; and later spending like 3 hours trying to find a safe way down there.

[@arthurerby2466]

Back in the day dude its been like six months

[@sul141]

@@arthurerby2466 And we found every god damn hidden detail in those six months. Like everything else in the game, this doesn't qualify as a "find" today, so warrants a "back in the day".

[@i2kdave]

@@sul141 you say "everyone" and "we" like there was some static group that played the game when it was released and nobody else has played since lol

[@ethanbaileylol2283]

@@i2kdavegod damn you know what he meant dude. we as in the people who played.

[@VENENOSEASON]

Grass misses you.

[@anonymousnate678]

There's also a bloodstain there that shows someone dying in an extremely obscure way being lifted up in the air and seemingly impaled by something. I did my first playthrough offline and thought nothing of it at first but then realized "I'm offline there shouldn't be bloodstains". Not sure what the significance of it is yet but there has to be something to it if they were willing to put a hint like that there.

[@finn38983657]

That's the memory of Rogier's death.

[@milk_soap.]

@@finn38983657 ...he's dead?

[@fmspjanus]

@@milk_soap. No, no he only went to pick up some cigarettes. He will be back any moment now!

[@jakubbarczyk4310]

So the exact way the Alien kills in the movies

[@thecalamity7611]

That bloodstain is what happens when your death meter goes max

[@Kuonluw]

Little bit of lore: if you reach the alien face, return to Table Hold and speak to Rogier. He'll explain what it is. In short, this face is related to the downfall of the Elden Ring.

[@sirrealism7300]

Its literally godwyn

[@Kuonluw]

@@sirrealism7300 I didn't want to spoil but yes, that' what Rogier says.

[@henriquequeiroz1464]

@@Kuonluw how is the alien face godwyn?

[@Kuonluw]

@@henriquequeiroz1464 I don't know the specifics, just what Rogier told us: it is the rotting face of Godwyn. After the disappearance of Marika, the first demi-god Godwyn was murdered by a certain black knife. This led to the shattering of the Elden Ring. I suspect Godrick kept the face for multiple reasons: because he's a descendant of Godwyn and to remind everyone why the Elden Ring was shattered in the first place.

[@camouflagecamaro99]

Rogier is already dead in my game :(

[@ChuckPalomo]

Apparently that's supposed to be the deathroot corrupted head of Godwyn, the first dead demigod. The creature came from inside of it, that's why it looks all deflated. The rest of Godwyn's body is somewhere else though.

[@godlikejason]

The thing there's another of this head and also says is godwyn?

[@gelonvia8525]

It's not, Godwyn is elsewhere entirely and you meet him during an NPC's quests. Yes he has a head like that too, but his is significant different in appearance too with his hair and black skirt and etc. This is much more likely either one of his children of the Golden Bloodline, or a different Primordial Demi-god who was sacrificed to the tree in order to sustain it.

[@mukash1838]

Knowing From software's love for Time Travelling DLCs, we may meet or even battle Godwyn in future DLCs

[@VinsmokeCoco]

@@mukash1838 Almost certainly we'll fight Godwyn and Miquella returning as unholy beings. Gideon even says "It'd be better to destroy it" (the cocoon) but nope it just sits there. That's our in for the DLC.

[@armintor2826]

So what was the Godwyn we fought at the capital?

[@agamemnonofmycenae5258]

This is a reference to Berserk's Ganishka. After transforming into his Shiva form, that's how his face looked like. Also the Death of Ganishka gave rise to the World Tree, the Berserk's equivalent to the Erdtree.

[@TheUltimateMachineGod]

@@unimagin2ble Oh you have no idea.

[@clevert.]

@@unimagin2ble there's literally a GreatSword that resembles with the first Sword Guts have in his journey.

[@sgt.thundercok4704]

It's Jabba the Hutt...

[@huggarty5434]

Miura was a blessing on this world, berserk has inspired so many other works

[@doodlemcgee]

@goggles789 um how

[@nyanmaster99]

The path taken to the face that we see in this video is 10x more complicated (not in a bad way) than anything I've ever seen in any open world. Like how an actual fantasy castle would work. Insane how even this micro piece of the game is worlds better than anything else we've seen in this genre.

[@xNyyct]

there is a way shorter way to get there from the rampart grace

[@richardnipples7574]

Just you wait til you try and get the mimic tear

[@dylannance4772]

@@richardnipples7574 that was so fun. I need level 7 gloveworts now just gotta find em

[@TheCloudeGraves]

To be fair, he also took the most complicated way possible for no good reas9n

[@nyanmaster99]

@@TheCloudeGraves yeah but it's still all in the castle, the confusing complicated layout is crazy impressive when you think of all the other castle 'levels' in games. It's one of those things that elden ring went above and beyond with.

[@iKendles]

Every nook and cranny in stormveil castle is its own area it’s insane everytime I come back their, like how if you go jump off the ledge to the left of the exploding barrel eagles, you can find a small area with crucible knight in it

[@dragonofthesky9999]

that one threw me off, like there is always things tucked away but that one specifically annoys me with how just out of the way and weird and unneeded it is.

[@user-xu1ru1nu3y]

its literally just a worse bolataria castle with bad navigation and useless/confusing shortcuts

[@exister4959]

@@user-xu1ru1nu3y it really isn't though it's entirely different from boleteria in every way. unless you just mean the fact that it's a castle then you might as well say every castle after demon souls is like boleteria. I'm sure you didn't find the thing in this video or the crucible knight.

[@EverthingByE]

What grace is near the crucible knight I just found the giant face

[@user-xu1ru1nu3y]

@@exister4959 multiple parts of the castle have a similar layout to boleteria, like the walkout onthe outside of the castle, with the same gimmick of baiting you to fall off attacking the enemy, and i did find the hidden stuff (albeit chasing someone i invaded). I just think the layout sucks, has less meaningful shortcuts, and is too similar to boletaria

[@WilliamScotch]

"the allien" is part of a quest of Rogier, and according to him, that is the face of Godwin.

[@skkoradboy]

Godwyn must have been a model

[@ClonserHalphalive]

And to think something like that is in the Atlus Plateau as well... Wonder if that is also the face of Godwin, or if it is something else...

[@MarkitzTR]

@@ClonserHalphalive in which part exactly do you mean?

[@ClonserHalphalive]

@@MarkitzTR just downhill from the minor Erdtree church that lands in a fort with a carriage containing the Giant-Crusher

[@MarkitzTR]

@@ClonserHalphalive thanks, I'll check it out, that would be the third Godwyn face as far as I know

[@ThanhNguyen-kt4zs]

I found this area because when I was jumping on Stormveil's rooftops, I fell to this place and was like "WTF is this squid thing???? There's even an underground area beneath Stormveil??"

[@MrBurgerphone1014]

Same

[@brandonvalentine2555]

Same thing happened too me

[@MrParkinthedark]

Ya same, I was like oh what the fuck is that!

[@Ultimate0Phantasm]

Same

[@imbatman13lats44]

I also took the parkour route. Got lucky and killed it first try though, my friend wasn’t so lucky

[@MrNaxman]

This game is absolutely incredible, I just keep finding stuff on top of stuff on top of even more stuff. you can go dozens of different ways in stormveil castle alone and not have the same adventure twice. The size, scale and sheer variety of different paths to go across the "Lands Between" is incredible. I have no doubt I will be playing this game over the next ten years and still be finding new stuff and adventures every playthrough. This game is a masterpiece plain and simple!

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Incredibly garbage you mean

[@MrNaxman]

@@wallacesousuke1433 What’s wrong? you still jelly who won Game of the Year last year? LOL 😂

[@wallacesousuke1433]

@@MrNaxman or no, overhyped, overrated ass game won an arbitrarily chosen award (same award given to Overwatch and It Takes Two BTW) 🤡🤣

[@TcorpDon]

The fact you’re almost literally not supposed to find everything in one playthrough is simply superb game design

[@ArnhemPictures]

I was hours beyond Stormveil and I felt like I explored every inch of that place before I realized I never unlocked that damn door next to the lift. When I realized how much I missed when I found this area, I realized just how damn big and crazy this game is. Loving every minute of it.

[@hopebringer2348]

Dude I also never unlocked it

[@humpalumpakri]

I was at the locations in the video and still haven't found a way to unlock this door xD

[@cyco7229]

same, just beat Godrick, went to the divine tower and back to exploring, competely forgot about that door

[@huggarty5434]

Yeah I sometimes find teleporters that I think might just take me further into an area. Only to be teleported to a completely different landscape and miles away from the area I've explored lol.

[@yittmashups]

If only I had a key...

[@Gobslotch]

I believe its a "Ulcerated Tree Spirit", you fight one in the first Stonesword fog door at the start of the game.

[@nathanielward7241]

Nah the alien is the fossilized thing he's standing on at the very end, the head looks like a necromorph

[@kushwallace691]

@@nathanielward7241 he was talking about the monster appearing before you reach the ''alien''

[@spacetaco048]

Funny how I literally just fought this thing a little bit ago and now I'm already shown an exact replica...

[@bard1847]

There's also another one in the capital.

[@JMarcus52]

@@spacetaco048 no joke i just killed the ulcerated tree spirit boss a couple minutes ago and hopped on youtube to eat only to find this video first.

[@Blacksmith__]

According to Rogier, the "alien" is the body of the Prince of Death. His soul was destroyed, but his body is still alive. It bleeds if you cut it.

[@amatesamaru]

why do you have a pedo profile pic? shit wasnt even funny before he was a dead meme

[@mikeloning]

@@amatesamaru you made him so dirty, so mf change her pfp lmao

[@astarothkrueger4412]

@@amatesamaru Wtf? That's Jc denton from deus ex

[@edwincaraballo2414]

@@amatesamaru you havent played deus ex have you ? *facepalm*

[@aske2401]

@@edwincaraballo2414 People are not using this profile pic cause they are fans of deus ex. People are using it because a once big KZbinr made all his fans use this and spread it around. Luckily the meme has gone down quite a bit since the guy is a pedophile and sociopath, but a year or so ago you would see someone with this profile pic on pretty much every video.

[@patrickselent4697]

You can walk right coming out from the Liftside Grace and end up there a lot faster. It's not a secret or an alien, it's a key step in Rogier's questline and he explains that it's Godwyn's corpse.

[@mrunknown164]

As is 80% of the people playing actually looking at the lore

[@IanEast001]

Yeah definitely doesn't qualify as secret or alien. I literally just kept finding ways to go down until I ended up in that arena, and then I noped the heck out of there. I'd say haligtree is a way bigger secret and way harder to achieve.

[@stabblooder6148]

I was just about to comment that. Its WAY easier and quicker to pop off the side and go. Too bad the critter is such a bitch

[@ReptilianLaserbeam]

I gotta do Rogier's quest on NG+ found him on the castle but spoke with him only a couple times, I advanced too much in other quests, the moment I know he was crippled and not talking, then dead.

[@IanEast001]

@@ReptilianLaserbeam That's supposed to happen

[@officialhoonyt]

Fun fact: “Alien” is actually Godwyn from the opening scene!

[@huy7402]

If you travel back to the dungeon at the very first of the game and use keystone to unlock it, it right beside the grace, you can officially see the "boss" health bar and it's official name instead of just a health bar on the top of itself.

[@aderbalnevescalmetojunior2985]

And which is its official name ?

[@mateusnunes3012]

@@aderbalnevescalmetojunior2985 Ulcerated Tree Spirit

[@RedFade]

They are not the same enemy

[@marcvazquez4913]

@@RedFade they are, there are like 10 or 15 ulcerated tree spirits in the game and all have the same name

[@stefanolozardo9711]

@@marcvazquez4913 Its just like those mini boss tree guardians with a hammer that guard some trees.

[@mcdonnelldouglasfa-18c49]

Watching these videos makes me realize just how little I have actually explored theses places. For sure I’ve missed a few dozen secrets I’d never find without vids like these

[@RomGomLP]

theres a whole main questline + huge hidden areas + npcs and endings attached to this secret alone lmao We will be finding stuff in this game for years to come

[@joshtompkins1538]

You know, considering the tiny bit of lore we have about Astel, I wouldn’t be surprised if this thing was an actual alien.

[@d-mike243]

I’m stuck on him right now I actually hate him 😭

[@canada0118]

It's a tree spirit I fought one in the cave of knowledge

[@zackie8172]

It's an alien, you see another of these faces in the deep roots area

[@fourohsevenfishing]

@@canada0118 hes not talking about the boss, wait til the end

[@Murasane]

@@zackie8172 well its not an alien if you talk to Rogier in roundtable hold he tells you that it is the corpse of a specfic npc mentioned in the opening of the game no spoilers though

[@doodleboop3742]

Thats godwyn regrowing from the tree he’s In the deep root depths too

[@remkuu9721]

wtf no way, even after beating the game multiple times, there's still more stuff I have never explored

[@corruptedsester7361]

I discovered this by accident while roof hopping above stormveil

[@corruptedsester7361]

And yes, I died. Pretty worth though.

[@ThanhNguyen-kt4zs]

me too LOL

[@YukitoOnline]

Looks like I wasn't the only one who failed at parkour

[@nathansoares6788]

Same

[@erikhendrickson59]

When exploring Limgrave, I thought that surely Stormveil Castle was just an illusion -- just window dressing, like a skybox. That FromSoft was playing with perspective to make it looks larger. No. Stormveil is fucking GIANT.

[@kitsunekimchi118]

I know this game has been out for nearly over a month now, but that running jump he does at 0:19 is just _sooo_ satisfying. So much has changed since planning how not to scew up a vault underneath the bridge that holds up the waterway entrance so that we could buy Artorias' armour from Domhnall.

[@jazsebastian]

wow just beat the game, well over 100 hours in and super high level, had no idea about this, still so many hidden secrets in old areas to go back to, great find!!

[@LiangHuBBB]

I love all the secret stuff in this game

[@felatioable]

I swear, FOMO is real in this game. Things like this that I missed lol. Every time I'm in a new territory or castle I know I'm gonna miss something. I'm already at Altus Plains and now I need to go back for this.

[@LoLbeautifulsorrowx]

Its gonna happen. :D I hate it too but oh well.

[@XxBanDonxX]

I'm trying to play as I want first go and see what I can find for myself probably collect items I've missed at end of run and have a second playthrough where I know what I'm doing so to say 😂

[@Luchamasterfit]

just wait until you get to the end of the game and you realize all the stuff you missed in a particular city

[@jjjaegerist0433]

Whats fomo? Or who is it?

[@LoLbeautifulsorrowx]

@@jjjaegerist0433 fear of missing out

[@cooltjh4]

2 things i noticed, part way through the run u find a short cut back to another grace u can unlock so u dont have to run here again, also kill the tree spirit thing and it drops a golden seed.

[@earlnoli]

there is a short cut to this from a checkpoint passed the wall of opponents with the fat guy and dog... from the checkpoint go right and jump... you get hurt a bit but you can go down quickly to the rat area and from there move to the boss. Boss is hard though never got to beat it 😅. Alternatively you can pay a stone key and there would be a ladder going down straight to the boss.

[@StrikeNoir105E]

All the Ulcerated Tree Spirits drop Golden Seeds, pretty much a requirement if you want to max out your flask counts.

[@Cybertron1256]

I found it by falling off a ledge

[@vide0gameCaster]

The only games that used to reward you with such in depth explorations, are mostly cRPG like Baldgur's Gate, Divinity Original Sins, Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder, etc. Elden Ring (and truly, almost every FromSoft games) are also part of those rewarding games on the market that really congrats the Players for adventuring in zones without any form of visual indicators. But what I really like about FromSoft games, are the Ghost Marks, Bloodstain and Messages from other players. I remember seeing a ghost mark of another player jumping out of a cliff from what seemed to be an impossible jump. I check under that cliff, analyzed it and saw a very small platform where I could land. And the cryptic messages that players can give to other players make the World seem alive and organic. Like if you are in a Dungeon and Dragon pen and paper experience where you work alone but with some help here and there from a Game Master. Thank god that some studios like that exist and don't follow the boring Open World formulas of Ubisoft games.

[@oscarriveraabal9390]

I always liked that feature in souls games. You are alone in the middle of hell, then see encouraging messages or a ghost resting in a bonfire with you. Feels epic.

[@vide0gameCaster]

@@oscarriveraabal9390 Epic indeed and even a sense of calmness at times

[@wallacesousuke1433]

LOL they literally copied this level design style from Castlevania and Metroid, From is nothing special and they only shine these days cuz gaming in general has gone to shit in terms of quality, attention to details and not holding the player's hand.

[@wallacesousuke1433]

And speaking of Ubisoft, why is ok for From to recycle their decade old formula non-stop, but Ubisoft gets flamed for doing the same? Also, sweet mother of recycled enemies lol the "secret" boss in this area can be found in at least FOUR other places..

[@mikewazowski1816]

there's so many places to go in this game, i didn't even realize this was a secret boss. i thought this was part of the path to find Godrick

[@Cavscout5096]

Was told there is over 90bosses in game... And there will be more...

[@xenodude4718]

There's almost 200 in this game alone.

[@crunchu2361]

@@xenodude4718 I’ve heard something closer to 83-90

[@skeletorgames8641]

secret miniboss, maybe. this root thing is all over the place. Seen two other ones at least.

[@protocolsummit103]

So here's how I found out about this place. Some NPC kicked me off some ledge and I fell from god knows how long. Iwas surely dead. I was falling for more than 5 seconds I think, and the odds were so high that I fell right on top of the big-head thing and died, essentially making it all the way down to the depths of Stormveil Castle. When I saw that thing after a fall that felt like ages I was flabergasted. I went "what the fuck? Where did Ifall? What is this place? What?" and then I went down there. It was really strange falling down for some time only to end up in this place, such a sudden change.

[@Crimson_Sun2486]

Did this npc's name happen to be any form of the word "Patch"?

[@uselessthrowaway2222]

@@Crimson_Sun2486 you are aware patches is in this game too?

[@Crimson_Sun2486]

@@uselessthrowaway2222 i am now that I looked it up after making that first reply

[@callmesoul1468]

There are two other locations of these. They are tree spirits. One is guarding the burned Tree under Volcano Manor and the other one I found is in the Golden City. Sadly these aren’t aliens

[@dimitrihenry5183]

so four one is the hidden boss of the starting area behin the fog door.

[@vinny5682]

The alien he mentioned is that giant head he steps on the end of the video.

[@Dastsabre]

There’s also one in the radahn catacombs and one in the depths of the rot lake

[@zhade3967]

in short, there's a lot of em

[@terricon4]

Ya, several more of them, I'll avoid spoiling it though since some of them come out as a bit of a surpise in areas, but suffice it to say there's a lot of places to explore and end up fighting the same enemies.

[@mikeyswift2010]

I feel like everyone found this.

[@puffpuffpass3225]

That’s godwyn the prince of death my friend.

[@iDARKOGAMER]

This was exactly what I was looking for, thanks!!!!

[@whichDude]

There is definitely more of these. I missed a jump around a cliff and plummeted to my death. Landed right in front of it.

[@einholzstuhl252]

It is the same exact spot, happened to me as well.

[@Agendo.]

Dam, so this is where Jabba the Hutt was dumped at after he died

[@ihavespoken5450]

Dude took the long way to get there

[@lilgoat4054]

Looks like godwyn but his body is in a different location

[@iaminsanity2238]

Fun fact: it's heavily implied that this is what's left of Godwyn

[@roguebogey]

It's not his real body though, just a manifestation. There's over a dozen other locations where you can find a face like that in-game.

[@MagicSpeakingWaffle]

The first time I came across this place was when I entered the area where mostly all the exiles are sleeping and one of those horn exile's on a stage to the left of me. I then saw a bunch of bags stacked on top of each other in front of me so I decided to climb them and do some random parkour, I managed to miscalculate the jump fell all the why down this giant hole and died where that Lovecraftian looking creature is, I then pan the camera left to see what's making the ground shake and saw that thing popped out of the ground and said I "well, now I know where I'm not going"

[@namnamkuragundoshke]

You can get to the same location from the liftside chamber site of grace, go out the room, turn right and fall down, you will survive the fall.

[@5k0p]

I actually fell in a hole and died by fall damage and i just saw the octopus and soldiers and told myself: yep, exploration!

[@585totodamgood]

Dude thank you so very freaking much! I fell down this whole and landed down there and was like WTF!! Did not know how to get down there. 👍🏼

[@ph43draaa]

I found this spot with a completely different route which is crazy to me

[@suryavegeta12]

The blood stain on the floor is of the sorcerrer you see in the castle at the after Rampart Tower checkpoint. There is some deep dark secret behind it

[@atroe143]

The bloodstain animation of Rogier looks like the animation for when you die of death-blight (or whatever this games version of curse/petrification is) so I think its implied Rogier got death-blighted and lost use of his legs

[@azazel166]

That's nothing, wait till you get to the capital, you're in for an even bigger shock.

[@redduskironsky1058]

omg whaaat??? really???? oh fuck! now Im sad. I really went apeshit and freaked out cause I saw a bloodstain while offline. Turns out it was the poor dude? Aww man :( But what killed him??? It couldnt have been the Tree Spirit monster thing, maybe I saw it wrong because I sprinted away as it happened scared that the face was gonna be a hidden boss or something, but it looked like he got lifted in the air as he died. I mean, if it was as the comment below you and I saw the animation wrong, it still doesnt explain what killed him since the spirit doesnt have an attack like that.

[@hopebringer2348]

@@redduskironsky1058 well that’s a bit of a spoiler but if you go to Roundtable Hold after he’ll be there and explain

[@HMPRODIGY]

You know its been a long time where a game on launch lived up to the hype and is ACTUALLY finished and not adding basic game content later on Btw that thing looks like squidward lol

[@ARandomDude59]

He’s actually called an Ulcerated Tree Spirit if anyone is wondering

[@AshuraG5]

Funny that now everyone knows that the "alien" is Godwyn's corpse.... mfs keep spawning everywhere

[@darkdraco02]

To those who went down there on accident and want to keep your runes (like me) just jump your way on top of the giant face. Wormy will get bored and go to the other side of the area. Once he is about to hit the wall and turn back run for the ladder and climb like hell

[@thisguy5289]

**SIDE QUEST SPOILER** I believe it’s a god of nightmares, there’s another one near a boss fought inside of Fia’s nightmare and that weird droopy face is in the area but when you fight the boss it’s not, but it’s not the boss.

[@jacobyakunt4675]

There is another secret boss if you climb out the the west side and drop down you'll break a ledge and fall down too a knight with red armour who can fly and use fire like a pheonix, will be going back to try kill him here shortly.

[@palmitodebananak]

everything is a boss in elden ring

[@fghfdgfdg6022]

Crucible knight. There are a few of them in the game

[@Kuonluw]

Go past him, there is an elevator that leads to a previous site of grace. Step on it but don't ride in it. Bait the crucible knight in the hole where the elevator was. Easy win.

[@jacobyakunt4675]

@@Kuonluw I just stabbed him in the back once he was staring at the wall in the crevasse to the left of where you approached him, lost his agro by running back to where you land in the bushes and waited for him to keep staring at the wall, rinsed and repeated few times till he was done. Easy as cheese lol

[@TheMrCHELL]

@@Kuonluw Did that. It was amazing LOL

[@Jstrife9]

wow who would of thought the crime lord jaba the hutt was hiding out down here

[@whitesnake3822]

That is Godwyn, prince of death he infects the land by roots

[@astral2151]

I would've never known about this area if it wasn't for the community. Fromsoft games and their communities are some of the best.

[@techisaut8900]

people not being able to solve puzzles like this will struggle or eventually just die if set out in the wilderness xD

[@accelerator8558]

Welcome to Yharnam

[@jung1e]

That was an insanely long path to get there. There is a ledge between a site of grace and that statue that has to be broken by a giant you can just drop straight down with some cotton... I accidentally ended up there in my first exploration of the castle. I immediately ran and came back like 15 levels later lol.

[@johnnyboy3410]

i forgot which grace but it overlooks the courtyard coming from the main gate, get out of that grace and go right and jump down the wooden beams and that’s it

[@Nozerone]

I like how in some places you can bypass what are essentially locks. I got to this same boss, but with out all the parkouring around, though I did have to use a stonesword key.

[@maCcoy6]

If you follow Fia's questline you will found her beside a giant mermaid(?) with a similar head to this one.

[@GHOSTTASK141-w2v]

This is actually a half of Godwin

[@Lari_A]

by the way definitely kill that mini boss/monster down there, it drops a golden seed, for those who don't know.

[@gelonvia8525]

So i see people in the comments saying this is Godwyn, its not Godwyn, you meet him in an NPC's questline under the tree, the entire quest of the NPC revolves around him and his existence under the tree. This head isn't Godwyn, its someone else, and more then likely involved with the stories constant cycle of life, death, and sacrifice to sustain the tree. Meaning its like a child of Godwyn's which is known as the Golden Pantheon based on the location of this head. More can be found throughout the world. Each of the Demigods had children, and you determine their lineage based on their Great Rune's picture, the Golden Pantheon being 3 rings, Radahns father who I think is called Radagon, and etc. You can learn this by reading the Greater Runes after you recover their power.

[@AllbonesNojones]

Rogier directly tells you it's Godwyn. Whether or not its true is unverified, but as it stands, it's quite literally the only definitive proof of anything stating what it is. So.

[@The1of1000]

I believe there’s two different godwyns from the same lineage?

[@Remembering0never]

@@The1of1000 i mean, as little spoilers as possible but isn't there 2 marika's? (sort of)

[@mrfreeman1763]

This area is part of the Sorcerer Rogier quest line, just in front of the skull a little to the right you will see a blood stain that will show him being lifted up into the air. Even if you're playing blind, I'd always recommend looking at the NPC questlines as they are almost always vague as hell and most people would never figure them out on their own.

[@seanstacks3436]

I literally just found this thing by accident exploring the castle again, and I am so glad that I came back late in my playthrough

[@agatemoth11]

thats just henry the fly

[@strider_093]

Finally someone posted about this, I found it day 1 but I don’t stream and I couldn’t find anyone else that had found it. That thing kicked my butt so I was hoping to see someone else kill it.

[@agidyne9676]

At first, I thought this was the main boss to get the great rune everyone's talking about. Killed it, then thought, 'Oh, the boss was optional. lol' Then went back up and killed the actual boss of the castle.

[@seekinpeekin]

That boss was easily harder than godrick for me. Took me like 2 hours to beat it while godrick took 3 tries

[@idofx8722]

Right side seems the safest. Stay on it

[@idofx8722]

Right side if you are facing it. The beast’s left side.

[@Tumbie]

For me he just fell asleep midfight and didn't do anything xD (Clip on my channel)

[@KaminariRaiden]

i beat him easy , by the root skull face thing; i was under him while he was stuck. Ezz

[@intothemindofaidan]

You can find a Giant Version of this at Fias end spot for her quest

[@Stan3I3]

Oh this was secret? I found it pretty easily this dude took the longest route possible lmao

[@Destroy3612]

i didnt find this entire secret area until like 15 hours in after I back tracked to the castle so I could put my coop sign for the boss fights. Insane how much in hidden away in this game

[@BuyRawrXD]

roachdoggjr

[@t0uchme343]

It's interesting to note that It wasn't Godwyn's body that died but his soul, that's what you learn from a quest. So, seeing him in two places may have something to do about it (his "resting place" is part of a different quest. Idk, I'm not Vaati.

[@AbsoluteKingofanime]

For anyone wondering how to cheese the boss, you'll need a buddy, summon him there have him jump the ruins in the middle (you'll see a crease you can jump up on, then you can have him jump to this empty cubby to the left that has a whole view of the arena, you jump down and he can bombard him with spells and arrows with reletive ease with being hit by any attacks except the aoe explosion he uses at half health (your buddy can just roll backwards to the back of the cubby to avoid it)

[@antzielioXD]

Git gud

[@pieterlindeque7798]

@@antzielioXD solo first try, touch grass

[@antzielioXD]

@@pieterlindeque7798 Its a joke. Eat grass

[@luffyandgokuskits]

And when you go that place there’s actually a bloodstain on the right and it’s not just some player it was actually rogier dying because he got death blighted by something and we don’t know

[@imlovinit1020]

The “alien” is the remains of Godwyn, basically the first demigod killed, there is 1 under stormveil and in the subterranian shunning grounds. Godwyn was killed by the black knife assassins

[@ChuckPalomo]

More importantly, is there a way to get that armor without killing Patches?

[@ZoeBateman]

Haven't seen it anywhere, so... kzbin.info/www/bejne/epmsf6V_rrh8p7s

[@Cheep5]

right? his armor is too good

[@gdoubleu8045]

I'm playing blind, but couldn't resist a video that had 'alien' in the title. But I agree with everyone else in the comments. The secrets and exploration are insane. I went in to a Catacomb, thinking there would be the standard one boss after you open the door... But I hit a wall and it disappeared to reveal a 2nd boss, an assassin that I luckily beat first time. When I realised some walls can disappeared, I thought to myself that I've probably missed even more secrets (this is my first souls game).

[@verified_tinker1818]

The Black Knife Assassin that drops the FP talisman, right? I've been hitting pretty much every fucking wall I see after that. Most are, obviously, duds, but I found a few invisible walls inside Caria Manor.

[@TheN9nth]

There is also invisible floors!

[@12fishcake]

Oh man, I looked at that ledge at 0:18 last night as I played through the castle and turned back then forgot about it until seeing this. Never expected so much of the area I missed because of that, although that tree spirit thing may have curb stomped me so not all bad I guess 😅

[@JaykuhbYT]

Will never forget seeing a message next to the left eyehole that said "offer seed, then instant regret"

[@BobyChanMan]

thats the ulcerated tree spirit model that you can also fight at the bottom of the first gargoyle dungeon

[@jonathans.955]

I actually "found" this boss. I fell of and landed in the hole dying, but while I died the boss got out of the ground and I could see him for a brief moment. But I thought it would be a normal boss to be fair

[@consulbr123]

mt foda mano , tava tentando achar esse lugar a uns 100 anos kkk

[@oishicurrypuffus]

what armor is that? looks simple and neat

[@jetpilledmyron2056]

I think is the one you get from a certain old fellow in Murkwater's Cave.

[@oishicurrypuffus]

@@jetpilledmyron2056 the bald guy? Thanks!

[@jetpilledmyron2056]

@@oishicurrypuffus ayy, np

[@QuarthDoesThings]

Looks like Craig from Halo Infinite

[@jayybrodiemusic]

I was hyped to find out another boss I can fight until I seen it was one of those Ancient Tree Beasts. Naaah, I’m alright lmfao. I hate them!

[@flukalucas5732]

Tu é br!?

[@Agonxxx]

Sim

[@cristianosantos2509]

@@Agonxxx agora responde pq nao matou o bixo pra ver se dropava alguma coisa mano kkkk powwwww

[@Lex_6]

"Secret boss" Oh damn, seems cool, what could it be? *sees ulcerated tree spirit* Oh... Oh.

[@psychedoutcasts]

Liftside Bonfire, Take the doorway to the right that takes you outside when you spawn in, Take a right when you get outside there should be a body sitting that may have had an item you picked up, Jump down to the ledge below, jump to walkway, jump on wood platforms until you hit bottom and you're there in the same area. Sorry OP, you took the long way.

[@crashfistfight]

That was a lot faster. Thanks

[@gamezone2470]

Thats the Long way, the shorter way is right by the fire resting place and just jump down. There is also a trick to easily beat that monstrosity. Hide behind the alien face by the left side. You can still get hit but rarely due to the arching terrain the enemy ends up throwing his hits upward and missing you.

[@Zak_Bone]

I actually find this by accident after i finish stormveill castle. And man I praise this game exploration so much. Worthy of GOTY

[@HaltsuPS3]

I thought it was a Kraken

[@gvpgameplays8945]

The speed level running skill the person has. Gosh dang!

[@JMrealgamer]

The world is a character full of many other characters waiting to be seen. Miyazaki and his team outdid themselves with this one on so many levels!

[@yer6900]

this game has so much content its insane, it feels like everyday i see a new video of someone finding something

[@MetalMike87]

If you go for the ladder and do the full circle around the area, you can come back at the top of the area, and "easily" snipe the boss :)

[@thomasjefferson2676]

I found this accidentally and in a complexity different route. This game is amazing.