Shadow of the Erdtree’s trailers and promo pictures 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 questioned. “What deeply tragic backstory is he hiding?” Maybe most vital of all: “Will we be compelled to carry 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, reminiscent of they’re, for the wormy man to observe.
There actually does not appear to be any story or lore behind the wormy guys—as a result of there are numerous 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 so much in widespread with these latter critters.
A few of them are placid and pleasant, whereas there are additionally ones that glow pink and assault you as you go—in predictably goofy vogue too, their pink 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 towards one in anger.
Expensive god, possibly that is why we on the PCG staff do not know the wormy guys’ lore. What in the event that they drop some form of crafting element that explains all the things, 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 pal to all worms, even ones that glow pink and assault me as I go by. I am going to wait for somebody like Elden Loremaster VaatiVidya to get their palms 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.”
