Elden Ring - A dead god growing

Thanks to Lokey_DS for translating the Japanese term used here. "Cadaver surrogate" is an evocative name, but isn't quite as direct as the original, it seems. In the comments of a previous video, I said I hoped the DLC added a new Godwyn, and it looks like I got just what I asked for. Previously, there'd been some uncertainty about which of the Stormveil corpse or Deeproot corpse was Godwyn's actual body and which was the copy, but the fact these new additional copies all resembled the Stormveil corpse makes it seem likely Deeproot is the original. Your prize for expanding this comment is more water-logged Godwyn footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-PrYLxGxYg

"Zullie, this is the seventh time you've presented Godwyn to this class this year"

That last shot of Godwyns face beneath the ocean is terrifying and so fitting, a soulless and deformed body growing from the depths, and there's nothing that can stop it.

This King Fields song fits so well whenever talking about Godwyn that at this point I just consider it his theme

Godwyn's corpse is the single most horrifying thing fromsoft has ever conceived. absolutely nightmarish

My first exposure to Godwyn's corpse was when I was exploring Stormveil Castle on my first playthrough. One of the enemies killed me and my body fell off the side of a ledge. Then I just kept falling. And falling. My body landed in view of a weird, giant face, and then the Ulcerated Tree Spirit erupted from the floor. THEN the "You Died" message appeared. I thought "HOW BIG IS THIS CASTLE HOLY SHIT. AND WHAT THE HELL WAS *THAT*???"

Miquella just gave up on bro

Dude just wanted to hang out with his siblings and dragon bros. Now he's a literal cancer.

"All forms of Death drift into the shadow realm." Godwyn: "It's free real estate."

Godwyn in his current state is more like a plant, maybe even a fungus, and an invasive one. He spreads, releasing his spores of death, just multiplying

Okay, hear me out Entire location made of Godwyns Godwynland, kinda like Disneyland but with people in basilisk costumes

took me until now to realize gurranq/maliketh wants us to feed him deathroot so he can use Destined Death within himself to "delete" it from reality, his futile attempt to fix the glitch of godwyn's state of existence

Another cool thing is that the imps in the catacombs have the heads of lions and dragons, symbols commonly associated with Godwyn.

Godwyn's lore continues to grow Melina lore: I sleep

So I haven't seen anyone talk about this, but down near the corpse in stormvile is the only NPC bloodstain fromsoft had ever placed.

The physical aspect of Godwyn spreading throughout the Lands Between I think proves that the Shadow Lands are just veiled by Marikas power rather than being a pocket dimension or separate sphere of existence like Midgard and Jotunheim are in mythology. Godwyn has hijacked the rootsystem of the Erdtree, the same root system that the its Great Tree predecessor grew which even though veiled, still connect physically with the Shadow Lands.

Godwyn is so disgusting I love him

Oh That's a dead god THERE IS A dead god forgotten by the Golden Order lying motionless at the bottom of the Erdtree, Stormveil Castle, and two separate catacombs in the Land of Shadow

that shot of him under the water goes crazy

Godwin is the perfect way to continue elden ring story, he can make a completely new world of lore in the passage of time, and be the basis of a completely new game