Elden ring is full of monstrous entities. There are war machines like the Virgin Abductor, the many-toed Fingercreepers, giant birds with sharp prostheses, clumsy Trolls rotting from the inside out, and much worse. What FromSoftware is especially talented at is creating creatures that only get worse the more you learn about them. That’s why it digs deep into these enemies, like Zullie the Witch’s latest video about Elden ringgargoyles, are especially intriguing.

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Zullie the Witch is a YouTube content creator and dataminer at FromSoftware who loves taking a closer look at game assets and analyzing them with knowledge in mind. Her new video does just that, zooming in on the models to Elden ringthe various gargoyle enemies. What might look like statues from a distance are actually complex monstrosities, constructions that combine humanoid corpses with more unsettling elements. And there’s a connection with Elden ringdark themes of duality and stolen identity.

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The first detail worth pointing out when zooming in on any Elden ring gargoyle is that a significant portion of them is meat. Of course, these gargoyles were, at some point, human or humanoid. They are not entirely meat, however. Its wings, like other parts of its body, are made of a different substance, white or black. Gargoyles even have two faces, one made of flesh and the other made of this strange substance, with a shared eye.


The substance is revealed in an item description for Gargoyle’s Greatsword, which reads, “Just like the wielder, the missing parts have been fixed with corpse wax; a patchwork quilt of champions.” Zullie the Witch explains that corpse wax is a substance taken from human bodies that only forms under special conditions. In other words, the white/black substance the gargoyles are made of is not marble or even stone. It’s hardened, waxy human fat.

Zullie the Witch theorizes that this wax can be collected from the many stone coffins found in Elden ring‘s The Lands Between. Alternatively, it can be created and grown inside Living Jars, as they are stuffed with dead flesh for no other clear intention.


That’s where the answers end and the questions begin, though. Fans still don’t know who made the gargoyles or who they serve. like almost everything in Elden ring and Of Software’s games, only the developers are likely to understand the whole story. It’s just another example of Elden ring having surprising depth to much of its content.

Elden ring is now available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

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