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Currently Playing: Do we have the Identity of the Worm faces? Elden ring lore

#eldenring #loretosleepto There are creatures in the Lands Between that don't simply unsettle the eye, they burrow straight into the mind long after you set the controller down. The Wormfaces are one such haunting. They drift through ruins and shadowed forests like wounds given legs, their silhouettes elongated, hunched, and hollowed out where a human face ought to be. But when you step past the initial visceral horror and really examine what they are doing, you realize they represent one of the most profoundly tragic, philosophically loaded enemies FromSoftware has ever created. Unlike Basilisks, which spew Deathblight as an ambient environmental mist, Wormfaces act as mobile, living transportation systems. They are second-hand carriers, vomiting up masses of Deathblight-infused worms that constitute the squirming curtain where their faces used to be. For a long time, I wondered what kind of people underwent this grotesque transformation. When you study their proportions, their long, thin necks and peasant robes, it becomes clear they weren't always monsters. They were ordinary citizens, villagers, and common folk who slept under the same sky as anyone else. But the true gut-punch comes when you observe them quietly at the Woodfolk Ruins. When alone, they wail and cry in agony, but when gathered in groups, they chatter back and forth like old friends catching up after work. Even in Farum Azula, where the infection is so advanced that they cough up worms mid-sentence, their intelligence and social communication persist through the physical ruin. So, what turned them into this living memorial of rot? I keep returning to two compelling theories. First, look at their hoods, they bear a striking resemblance in color and drape to the garb worn by Erdtree Guardians. They could be the tragic result of an Erdtree Guardian whose sacred internal branch became infected with Deathroot, rotting outward until their face collapsed entirely into a colony of worms. But the theory I find most heartbreakingly beautiful is that they are the final form of non-Tarnished Deathbed Companions. Women who lay with the dying to absorb spiritual energy, slowly accumulating Deathblight over lifetimes until their bodies mutated, while Fia, protected by her Tarnished status, was spared. Whether they are fallen guardians or corrupted companions, they are not mindless beasts. They are a monument carved in living flesh to a world that began with devotion and ended with rot, still wearing the hoods of their former faith over faces they can no longer bear to look at. Watch my other videos: https://www.youtube.com/@zune-bug https://youtu.be/WXGCHp9P9Ck https://youtu.be/IdMIQhxcvpE https://youtu.be/W-rKXsuH5n0 https://youtu.be/COSa6IPvIvQ Timeline: 00:00 Wounds Given Legs: Unsettling Silhouettes in the Lands Between 02:48 Ordinary Peasants: Frenzied Proportions, Giants, and Onyx Lord Speculations 05:22 Wailing Solitude vs. Complex Social Communication: Retaining Intelligence 07:16 Erdtree Guardian Garb: Color Schemes, Sacred Branches, and Severed Allegiances 08:34 The Deathbed Companion Theory: Fia’s Hood, Spiritual Energy, and Transmitted Blight 11:46 Head-Slamming Despair: A Memorial Carved in Living Flesh