Custom Elden Ring Models Prove Its Bosses Look Adorable as Slugs

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Elden Ring

By Marc Joseph Hill

Published Dec 4, 2023

Highlights

Elden Ring, a fantasy action-RPG, has inspired artists and fans since its release with its compelling artistic direction and challenging boss fights.
An artist has crafted clay versions of several bosses from Elden Ring in the form of adorable slugs, showcasing excellent attention to detail.
While fans await the upcoming Elden Ring expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree, little information has been confirmed about its content or release date.

An Elden Ring fan who put their efforts toward turning a collection of bosses into slugs did so to adorable effect. Elden Ring has inspired artists since its first reveal in 2019, a phenomenon that has not faltered to this day, nearly two years after its release.

When fans think of Elden Ring, they will most likely conjure up a memory of a particularly pretty vista or a demanding boss fight that took immense concentration to conquer. Not many would first think of slugs, but they are indeed an enemy that can be found peppered throughout the Lands Between. Often amid a horde of their own, slugs rarely pose a threat, attacking the player with spit that hinders movement more so than survival. When Elden Ring fans praise its compelling artistic direction and the beauty that follows from it, slugs are no doubt far from their minds. But that has not stopped one artist from giving several Demigods an adorably slug-ish makeover.

Elden Ring Fan Notices Interesting Connection Between Miquella and Malenia

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Pictured by TomeyBathis, they credited their wife for crafting the slugs as a gift. Seven bosses, including Starscourge Radahn and Malenia, Blade of Miquella, have been spectacularly reimagined as "Slugscourge Slugdahn" and "Malenislug, Blade of Miquelslug" respectively. A few other Demigods, as well as Festering Fingerprint Vyke, round out the entourage of slugs. Entirely made of clay, the creations are all instantly recognizable to any that have faced their original forms in mortal combat. The armor pieces that give each slug a unique identity seem to have been painstakingly painted with excellent attention to color and detail.

Universal praise filled the comments, but one pointed out a missed opportunity to craft a rendition of the "spirit caller snake," which is actually known as the Spirit-Caller Snail. The Snail concludes two of Elden Ring's dungeons, summoning Crucible Knights or Godskin variants to fight the player on its behalf. With a luminescent appearance in-game, the Spirit-Caller Snail would have looked right at home among the ranks of "Slugrick the Slolden" and "Slugfrey, First Elden Slord."

It is unknown whether slugs will feature in the upcoming Elden Ring expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree, but very little has been confirmed since its announcement in February 2023. Producer Yasuhiro Kitao offered a brief development update earlier in December, stating that while the expansion is progressing well, fans should not expect it to be released in the immediate future. Kitao's words are unlikely to temper the hope that a trailer for Shadow of the Erdtree will be shown at The Game Awards, especially given that FromSoftware revealed Armored Core 6 during the 2022 show.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set in a world co-created by Hidetaka Miyazaki, the creator of the influential Dark Souls video game series, and George R.R. Martin, the author of the best-selling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. This collaboration between two renowned creators has resulted in FromSoftware's largest game to date, filled with danger and discovery at every turn. Hidetaka Miyazaki, president and game director of FromSoftware, has a history of directing highly acclaimed games in franchises such as Armored Core and Dark Souls.