What Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Monsters Have Scared You?

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree pits players against dark, mythic Great Runedragons towering above crumbling ancient castles worldwide. Each one is an immersive action role-playing game packed full of sprawling exploration and intense combat.

Shortly after the release of The Old Hunters, FromSoftware released their latest DLC content, which we examined in detail. Hence, during our excursion, we came face to face with more than several horrifying monsters! It was definitely a nerve-racking experience. Have you seen any of these beasts?

Top Terrifying Monsters: Part 1

Gluttonous Leech is a monster in Head-Sucking Leech With Arms. The creature above is found in the Finger Ruins of Miyr. The Gluttonous Leech has a thin, coiled body with enigmatic markings along its entire length. It harbors an enormous mouth lined by razor-sharp barbs.

It acts slitheringly and performs most of its attacks with raged refractive hits, catching players off guard.

Once in a while, it snatches the player's head with its sucker mouth and throws them off. Both trigger primeval instincts concerning parasites and that nameless dread of otherworldly alien beings.

The Gorging Leech has been called "creepy" by players, even stating that they were scared and repulsed upon seeing it.

Then there is its weighty, squelchy, wet slide as it moves and the loud sucking sound when it attacks that serves to enhance just how creepy a feeling this thing gives off.

The stories shared by the players within the community about the terrifying encounters with this monster are plentiful. It is closely connected to the swamp environment and can blend into the terrain seamlessly, often only becoming recognizable when it's too late.

SHADOW LURKER The Shadow Lurker: Another formidable enemy in Hellraid is the SHADOW LURKER. This spectral being resides in the Shadowed Ruins, a den full of mist that keeps things foggy and visibility low as you stomp around with your lights off.

Girls look shadowy, shade-lurker kids. Some lengthy-jawed girl with the eerie mention has eyes that glow throughout the new evening hours. Because it can turn visible and invisible, fighting Cortical will be as tense as all hell.

Shadow Lurker invasions are about creating an agitated atmosphere - when you know one is in your location, things get real damn fast. With its unpredictable movements and spooky whisper sounds, the interaction is quite frightening.

This has included ramping up the tension through low visibility in its environment, giving players a more incredible feeling of dread with every step they take within the ruins.

The method of attack the Iron Maiden uses is something players find especially scary. It tries to lock the player in its cavern of spikes, deals colossal damage, and inflicts a fear akin to claustrophilia.

Its moving sound is metallic, and the moan of trapped souls only makes things worse. In accounts from players, they panic when retelling their desperate attempts to avoid death by the hands (branches?) of this monster.

Top Scariest Monsters: Part 2

Golden Hippopotamus: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree teems with terrifying inhabitants, but while these nightmarish beasts earn their dread for sheer size and power alone, a creature that many would recognize from our reality embodies hostility in a way few do.

The Hippopotamus and its Golden variant are some of the most challenging bosses in-game. They lie instead at Shadow Keep, waiting to humble players should they seek this fight out.

Thematically, the Hippopotamus in Elden Ring is a colossal creature with golden skin that gives it an air of rarity and mysticism unlike any other. The flames within the eyes of this being resplendent a scan allude to its alien divinity and its arcane mastery.

Renowned for their majestic tusks, the armored Hide of Hippopotami have evolved to withstand the deadliest onslaughts and defensive strikes from would-be assailants.

True to its territorial nature, the Hippopotamus is aggressive and attacks players who get too close to a hippo's lair. It uses several different types of attacks and can surprise players by using them.

One of its most punishing attacks is a high-speed charge that turns it into an arctic bowling ball, striking the player for many hurt points and frequently sending you sprawling head over heels.

It can also deliver shockwaves by crashing down on the floor with its massive bulk, which requires good reflexes and solid placement from the player.

The Metyr, Mother of Fingers: This time, it looks like the focus has shifted to another formidable foe in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, with a look at an entity known as The Mother of Fingers. This is more evidence that we are edging closer toward an imminent balance between narrative discovery and gameplay horror.

Despite the similar-looking Metyrs, this boss features a series of notably different abilities, mechanics, and profound lore that evoke the dark gothic atmosphere from the previous title.

The Mother of Fingers is a giant spider-like entity with long, bony fingers in place of legs. Its fingers constantly move and curl, causing unbearable distress and screams.

The still-at-the-core body is more of a decayed human torso, which only adds to the horrors this terror wields. Its head is a splitting aberration of three faceless maws, its eyes sunken to pits, and it appears as if in eternal anguish, wordlessly screaming.

The face isn't for nothing. It perfectly highlights Silent Hill's design ethos, which unsettles you before you even set foot in a fight.

The in-depth lore of the Mother of Fingers is entrenched deep within the narrative tapestry Elden Ring. An offspring of the Erdtree Catacombs (where twisted experiments and dark rituals run rampant), the Mother of Fingers is created from an Abuah, a priestess who once strived to unveil blueprints for eternal life.

The chilling display shows the horrible state players find her in afterward, illustrating the price of pursuing knowledge that should have remained untouched, as all Dark Souls lore demonstrates the consequences of the hunger for power.

This backstory not only adds to the horror of their character but also adds depth to where they intersected with that world and now represent a crucial part of the storytelling puzzle.

The Scadutree Avatar. From the depths of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, we plumb further into this living tombstone in search of a heart consumed by darkness with an embodiment born from Terror seamlessly interwoven within its desolate and foreboding world landscape Bosses like the Ulcerated Tree Spirit, a towering figure that would make most hardcore players tremble but then tell you to throw your TV in an oven if it phased them even vaguely during its twitch-like motions and sure-to-be-slipshod state of execution which logic tells us is just reading "troubleshooting" off cue cards behind the camera anyway.

Scadutree Avatar: Its architecture is the biggest. This creature stands as a corrupted form of Earthtree Avatar.

It appears as an imposing, arboreal monstrosity with tree-like limbs of twisted gnarl and a body covered in decaying bark and fungal clusters that glow unsettlingly before every tendrilled "lance" CEDANCORE can be seen sprouting from its shell.

It is shaped like a warped sunflower and has an ominous, hypnotic, grotesque beauty. It seems that this architecture not only has the effect of disturbing players but also serves a higher purpose: It fits our setting and theme as returning from nature transformed to worse.

The lore implications around the Scadutree Avatar in Elden Ring are huge. Instead, it is not the guardian of only a specific piece of land but an expression done by Scadutree to fight back against evil stems from Erdtree.

Players enter land in disarray with diagnoses made by environment and narrative as they make their way through the expanding climate change of Shadow Of The Erdtree expansion. The Scadutree Avatar embodies this, capping off a significant point in their narrative for players to have tangible interactions with this level of corruption.

This means it will scare players on-site at the Scadutree Base, already a site of mystery and decay that casts an eerie, gloomy shadow over everything.