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The Loathsome Dung Eater, a scourge on the living, is one ofElden Ring’s, and FromSoftware’s, most reviled characters. He is a Tarnished whose favorite pastimes are threatening the player, murdering NPCs, and defiling corpses to such a disgusting extent that their ancestry is cursed for generations to come.
RELATED:Elden Ring: What To Do After Inheriting The Frenzied FlameCompleting the Dung Eater’s questline unlocks a new ending, one that some theorize hints at connections between theDark SoulsandElden Ringuniverses. Players will have to do horrific things for (and to) the Dung Eater, but the reward is a Mending Rune that plunges the world into writhing, cursed defilement so deep-rooted that the Golden Order itself can’t escape it.
Talk To The Dung Eater’s Shade After Reaching Altus Plateau
The Dung Eater is one of the NPCs named in the game’s introductory cutscene, but he can only be encountered for the first timeafter some requirements are met. To spawn the Dung Eater in Roundtable Hold, you need to somehow get to the Altus Plateau, either by using the Dectus Lift or by taking the dangerous ravine side path.
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The Dung Eater can be met next to the room containing the Twin Maiden Husks. The door is normally closed, but once Altus has been unlocked it will open to a festering room with the Dung Eater’s shade comfortably resting in the center. He refuses to talk to the player until they have found a Seedbed Curse.
Find A Seedbed Curse And Free His Physical Body Under Leyndell
Seedbed Curses are what the Dung Eater uses to defile corpses and prevent their bodies from returning to the Erdtree. There are sixtotal inElden Ring, and the first most players come across is found in Leyndell. Head to the Fortified Manor (the Roundtable Hold clone) at the base level of the Capital City to find a Seedbed Curse in the same spot the Dung Eater normally sits.
Head back to Roundtable Hold proper and talk to the Dung Eater once more. He asks you to free his body from imprisonment beneath Leyndell in a place called the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds. To get here, look around the ruined lower levels of the Capitalto find a well surrounded by Albinaurics. Drop down the well and follow the path to eventually find a Site of Lost Grace surrounded by Ogres.
Defeat The Dung Eater When He Invades In The Outer Moat
Talk to the Dung Eater’s physical body by dropping down a hole in the grating down the hallway to the left of the Site of Lost Grace, then continue around the corner, past a Miranda Bloom, and up a ladder. Choose the option to free him after opening his door, then teleport back to Roundtable Hold to find a message where the Dung Eater’s shade was sitting.
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The message tells the player that he will defile them next, and to meet him at the Outer Moat of Leyndell. Head to the Outer Wall Phantom Tree Site of Lost Grace and head until you reach the main entrance to the city. Just beyond this is the Outer Moat - carefully navigate down, and wait for theDung Eater to invade your world. Don’t worry about his threats - you can try this as many times as you need to.
Give Him Four More Seedbed Curses To Unlock A New Ending
After defeating the Dung Eater in the outer moat you can talk to his shade in Roundtable Hold once more. Without spoiling too much, he comes to a strange and twisted realization, and implores the player to place Seedbed Curses within his own flesh to create a curse so foul it coulddefile the Golden Order itself. This leads to one of the game’s endings - the Age of the Curse.
There are five moreSeedbed Curses inElden Ring, but only a total of five (so four more) are necessary for completing the Dung Eater’s questline. If you mess up Blackguard’s questline and he never moves to the Outer Moat, you’re able to still get enough Seedbed Curses to satisfy the Dung Eater’s requirements. After giving him all five, he will bequeath theMending Rune of the Fell Curse, finishing his questline and allowing players to usher in an age of defilement at the end of the game.
Elden Ringis available now for PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One and Series X|S.
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