Shadow of the Erdtree’s trailers and promo photographs have been filled with distinctive characters: holy knights and flaming impalers, an ungodly hippopotamus and a masked man snoozing in a purple swamp. However a shock favourite wound up being a foolish little noodle man with a stunned face and wee arms.
“Who is that this good-looking stranger,” all of us puzzled. “What deeply tragic backstory is he hiding?” Maybe most vital of all: “Will we be compelled to deliver the wormy man to some method of tragic finish by finishing his questline?” After hours and hours of Shadow of the Erdtree play in a full-court press from PC Gamer’s Souls-likers, Shadow of the Erdtree’s wormy man stays as mysterious as ever. Spoilers, resembling they’re, for the wormy man to comply with.
There actually does not appear to be any story or lore behind the wormy guys—as a result of there are a lot of of them—no less than so far as we have discovered. They’re mainly a brand new type of wildlife in The Land of Shadow, just like the beloved turtles or Spirit Jellyfish of the bottom sport, with their coloration having loads in widespread with these latter critters.
A few of them are placid and pleasant, whereas there are additionally ones that glow purple and assault you as you move—in predictably goofy style too, their purple little faces swell up and so they vomit glowing strands of one thing on you for a ton of harm. However they’re so goddamn cute, so charming and endearing, that I’ll by no means increase my hand in opposition to one in anger.
Pricey god, possibly that is why we on the PCG workforce do not know the wormy guys’ lore. What in the event that they drop some type of crafting element that explains the whole lot, their names and deeply tragic backstory? The turtles of the bottom sport relinquish their necks on being slain, a foul trophy for the cruelest of Elden Ring gamers. What if a cryptic lore-carrying Wormy Man Spleen is however an R1 assault away?
Maybe some mysteries should stay unsolved, if that is what it requires. I’m a sworn good friend to all worms, even ones that glow purple and assault me as I move by. I will wait for somebody like Elden Loremaster VaatiVidya to get their arms soiled and produce a 50-minute YouTube video titled one thing like “The Primeval Tragedy of Shadow of the Erdtree’s Goofy Glowing Wormy Guys.”
