Elden Ring Lore - Curse Of The Dung Eater 

When he's receiving the seedbed curses you can give him Seluvis' potion to curse him into a puppet for eternity and he starts whimpering in sheer terror... a fitting end.

Whoever voice acted the dung eater did a great job...it's spine chilling scary

Possibly the craziest power of the Dung Eater is to bring/summon a friggin chair for each corpse lol

The loathsome dungeater? Nah nah. You're talking about the Crazed CaCa consumer

Dungeater actually has unique face settings in his code. When used in the character creator you get this ugly, beady-eyed, pig nosed man which fits well with his personality and lore.

In a world where the Dung Eater exists, you have to wonder what Shabriri could have possibly done to be considered the “most reviled man ever.”

Dung Eater was the only character I wanted to kill in Elden Ring. There are lots of heinous characters in the game, but I always felt a sadness ending them. A cruel necessity to fixing the Lands Between. But when I freed Dung Eater in the sewer, and heard his ramblings of murder, defilement, and how he would kill again, I had a visceral reaction. In a game all about killing, I finally found someone I wanted dead. I fought him, barely surviving, and ended him there and then. It was the only time I felt the murder was just.

My favorite moment was when the Dung Eater said "Its Dungin' Time" and spread the Omen curse everywhere

I think the sunlight medallion on him ties him to solaire, but not by character, but rather by drive. Both dung eater and solaire are men obsessed with their goal, solaire to achieve his sun and the dung eater to his age of defilement. Solaire will go as far as to defile himself to achieve his sun (the sunlight maggots) where dung eater's obsession drives him to defile the entire world. Im sure from soft also wanted to toy with the idea of turning one of the most beloved character's symbol into a grotesque one

I have a false memory about this but I think it would be really cool and more fitting in the end after the narrator says “the fallen leaves tell a story” the dung eater is the one speaking

If you don’t buy prawn or crab from Boggart until AFTER you’ve finished Rya and the Dungeater’s questlines, you can save him since he doesn’t appear at the pond until after you do so!

The omen are said to be haunted by some entity in their dreams. I have often thought that entity might be the dung eater. He is probably not responsible for every omen but you could imagine that those reborn from his defilement are traumatised by what created them. I wouldnt be surprised if the memory of him haunts them.

The dung eater has an interesting quote "you are infact, me, and i am the dung eater" The dung eater isnt a name, its a title. Everyone is a dung eater to some extent. Whether it be for good or for evil, we're all dung eaters for something we believe in.

Saving Boggart is like saving Solaire in DS1. If you do the steps right, you can save him before Boggart is gutted.

Dung eater makes Shabriri sound like a reasonable guy. I'm glad I turned him into a puppet. That's for my Boi Boggart.

They knew what they were doing when they gave him such a silly name, it drops your guard for when he's actually encountered

This makes me hope for a time travel DLC that gives a new “Primordial Crucible” Ending. Where you can use a mending rune to regress the world to an era before the Erdtree

Something about him saying, “Along with their children, and their childrens children for all time to come.” Really reminded me of blood borne. Maybe Dung eater ending leads to Bloodborne and not age of stars like everyone thinks.

Vaatividya was the only psychopath to say, "y'know the dung eater kind of had point"

I wonder how many ppl will realize that the face shown here is D.Eater's actual face under his helm in-game..? Nice touch, happy spooky day!!

Most loathesome act is that Dungeater killed Boggart. How can he do that to best waifu shrimp bro?

the 2.5D image of Dung eater was actually such a cool effect dude

I found it hard to ignore Dung Eater's comically-sized Sunlight Covenant medallion. I'm not trying to make some tinfoil stretch to say he's Solaire reborn, but I do think Miyazaki and FS like to play with their own symbology. They've taken great pains to make the Dung Eater the most vile and revolting character in any of their games, but instead of a boss they made him an NPC which the player must take great pains to develop. To me, in a metatextual way the Seedbed Curse mirrors the way players interact with NPCs across these games: reviving them with each playthrough, toying with their fates over and over, summoning them for bosses or to obtain loot and then casting them aside. Feels like Solaire got sick of it and wants to turn off the cooling fan on your Playstation

Melina doesn't like it when you come in contact with Three Fingers, but she doesn't care when you use the Dung Eater rune that will curse all lives to come, or the Fia rune that will warp life itself, I hope it was intentional on the developers' part, so they can better clarify things in possible future DLCs. Also want a Marika, Melina, Ranni boss fight

You know, some have suggested the Dung Eater is akin to Kappa, ripping out the souls from the lower regions of the victim

Honestly I think the dung eater does care but due to over the years of defiling people most likely abandoned his original goal and focus more satisfying himself then bring a new age to the land between.🤔🐱

Fun fact: if you don't buy any shrimp with Boggart in Liurmia, it won't go to the Altus Plateau, and Dungeeater won't kill it

He is no friend to the omen, his armour purposefully has all the horns cut off and is caked in blood and rust. My guess is that the omen are the 'blessed cursed' and the majority of his curse is something far more vile and twisted.

We kinda know that the omen affliction can spread as we see omen horns on red albinaurics and Sanguine Nobles. The current dominant theory is that those enemies were infected because they drank or otherwise ingested Mohg blood. If that is the case it kinda shines a new light on why Dung Eater can be summon for Mohg, the Omen and Morgott boss fight. Dung Eater hunts down the omens because he needs their blood to defile the corpses of his victims. Interestingly enough the horned omens in the Leyndell Catacombs are capable of attacking the player with cursed spirits similarly to one of the Dunk Eaters attacks. It kinda implies that the omens themselves also eat souls of their victims.

I honestly think though the defilement part is certainly abhorrent, his goal is kind of a noble one. Discrimination towards the omens is awful in the game's world. The perfumers would try to cut off baby's horns to prevent the curse from affecting them but most babies die from the procedure. And the ones that survive still get affected by the curse anyway. So some perfumers gave up and decided the only way to ease their pain is to just kill them. So they drink potions that take away their emotions and became "omen killers". All that because marika took away death from the elden ring and the omens blessed by the crusible now are haunted by the restless souls that want to be reborn through the erdtree rather than just die and move on like old times. Now they're not just haunted but also hunted and reviled by all those who follow the golden order. If the rebirths stopped and everyone became an omen they'd stop being haunted and having nightmares and the discrimination would stop because everyone is an omen now.

2 things. 1, Poor Blackguard Big Boggart, (one of my favorite npcs) him talking about being frozen with fear as his friend was mutilated and cannibalized was honestly just quite sad, he’s such an endearing character and honestly doesn’t deserve fucked up shit like that. 2. The organ he mentioned in the video is (presumably) the liver. Here in America, the heart is claimed to hold the soul, whereas in Japan, the liver contains the soul

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The Dastardly Poo Poo Consumer

This is one character I have no qualms at all giving the puppet potion to.

Dung Eater voice actor needs an award

"Are you...the next monarch? Or... Merely a pawn of fate?"

"..who is the most evil character we encounter in Elden Ring, there is only one true answer." Yes. And it is Shabriri. Dung Eater is a VERY close second though.

He’s a puppet servant to my Elden Lord. Hurting nobody unless I command it. Forever trapped in a body he can’t control.

great video as always 😃

I think he just does the curse as his trademark. I never really thought he had a reason to do what he did except for fun. He really is a creepy character but has such a badass voice.

what if seedbed is actually testicles. Seed is a synonym for sperm. Seed/sperm is stored in the balls. The sitting position of the corpses, their legs bound to the chair, blood stained cloth position and the seedbed curse model (vaguely looks like conjoined balls) suggests that way too. Probably after defilement he eats the shirikodama to house the defiled soul in his own body. So when the souls are reborn after using his mending rune, they will have cursed balls and the curse will be passed down from generation to generation

The dung eater and his ending make my blood boil to the highest point but the means it is unlocked even his screams cannot sooth my anger and hatred for this character

I think people keep misunderstanding one thing: none of the endings, except maybe the frenzy one, have you break the Greater Wills holds on the Lands Between. The Erdtree is not what binds the lands to the Greater Will, the Elden Rings itself is and all the ending have you repair the ring in one way or another. All you do is establish a new order that still serves under the Greater Will, even in the Ranni ending you just have Ranni replace Marika as the vassal god. Again all ending except maybe the Frenzy one, that one I'm not sure of.

Surprised you didn't cover the alternate option of turning the dung eater into your loathsome puppet. That's my preference and while it's a hassle to sidetrack Ranni's quest, it's worth it to enslave this rotten character. Doesn't hurt he's a bad ass summon to have on your side.

The devious doodoo devourer

The voice actor deserves a medal

“I didn’t just curse ‘em, I rectum!” -D.E.

He’s one of my favorite characters, and I think has one of the best endings, everyone will be cursed. No discrimination on who is “tarnished” and “noble” no more golden order sticking the omen into sewers which are absolutely terrifying. No more discrimination, between misbegotten, just cursed.

haha I had no idea there was more to this guy's story. I met him in the keep, found him in the sewers, spoke with him and was like, bro this guy's gotta go. Took him out and read the item descriptions. But it's pretty chilling now knowing the rest of the story!

In the current patch (1.08.1), there is a bug with the Dung Eater. It let you get double loot when killing Dung Eater by performinng certain steps: Kill him in the sewer gaol upon first interaction - dont pick up the loot - teleport back to the nearest site of grace - go back to the gaol - pick up the double loot.

What an amazing month for this channel IMO I appreciate this spook fest for your deep dive into the lore of Elden Ring and I look forward to more.

was just thinking to myself the other day i didn’t really understand the dung eater or his ending at all so great timing for the vid! also great vid!

I rather let the Frenzied Flame to obliterate all than ever do the Dung Eater ending.

Correction, marika is pretty flipping evil too... How many of her children became souless demigods, how many destines destroyed, How many people has that one numen thrown under the bus to ultimately create an age of stagnation and eternal suffering. Marika is literally the most evil character in the series and i cant wait to find out what broke her.

The Loansome Poo Poo Devouer

I don't think the Dung Eater should be considered the most evil character in Elden Ring, his goal was at least somewhat noble, since he believes being an omen is a blessing and wants to give it to everybody, even if his methods are cruel. There is Godrick, who is a selfish man who does not care about killing and dismembering people only to become stronger, there is Mogh, whose only motivation is pure hatred and does not care about his followers, only about his dinasty coming to power, as some kind of revenge against those who imprisoned him, but I think the worst would be Shabriri, since his goal is to literally burn down and kill everything, and making the world suffer while everything dies, since the people afflicted by madness do not seem to be having a lot of fun. Although Shabriri also has a justification for what he does, he literally wants to bring the apocalypse purposefully

The fact he wears a sun on his chest pisses me off, also great video!

I was waiting for this one, thanks for the great content my guy

I always thought that the Primordial Crucible is something sentient, maybe even an Outer God. Dung Eater is to it what Shabriri is for the Flame of Chaos.

That hideous brown sky and the withered Erdtree don't look to me like a world worth living in.

"Our most precious stone, cast forth upon the dunghill, being most dear, is made the vilest of vile." - An Alchemical Poem. Take it for what you wish when it comes to the lore.

The duskborn ending to me is putting things back to their natural cycle, even the frenzied flame is at least putting an end to everything so it can hopefully start anew. Dung eater wants everyone to suffer forever. I’m afraid to condone that even in a video game

The scourge upon the living is here 😁.. was looking forward to this video

The background music is perfect for the topic of this video

During the intro I laughed my ass off when they mentioned "The loathsome Dung Eater". Such a great twist to have him be the absolute most evil person in the game, dude was a fucking menace.

TLDR; Shabriri is more evil than the Dung Eater. The twin themes of Elden Ring are the futility of the quest for immortality, and the inevitable consequences when advanced power meddle in the development of less advanced peoples. Whoever gathered together the motley assembly in the Roundtable Hold (be it Ranni or even Queen Marika herself) wanted no stone unturned, no options off the table. The aim was either to fix the mess that the Great Will (and its vassals) had made of the Lands Between, or sever the connection. The goals of Ranni, Fia and the Dung Eater are to leave the Greater Will’s machinery powerless over the world's inhabitants. Ranni’s methods are heroic, the Dung Eater’s vile, and Fia’s somewhere in between. Goldmask’s arrogance is that he can achieve the Greater Will’s aims better than the Greater Will himself, and the default non-quest ending is even less impressive, perpetuating the current, shoddy state. But I would argue that Shabriri’s is by far the greatest evil of all, since his goal is the unmaking all of creation, permanently killing all who have ever been born, and preventing any more souls from being born.

Congrats on the final spooky vid! I'll admit this video's Myuu song, "Cursed Stories" was one that took a moment to recall. Good choice, per usual, since Dung Eaters story is all about Seedbed Curses. I'm guessing the usual bgm will be returning next month? The thing that I found interesting is how his final words are very similar in wording to the Hamlet's curse upon the Hunters of Bloodborne. They both curse "...Their children. And their children's children too." "Curse the fiends, their children too. And their children forever true."

But omen are really cursed... All those nightmares, horns hurting their own bodies... How can this be a blessing??

nice lore coverage

the dung eater has to be one of the best characters in Elden ring.

I cannot bring myself to do his Quest to get His ending because He is so purely Evil. There might have been a more noble thought behind His Plan but for me he is just a Psycho enjoying the Kills and suffering He brings. I kill him with Passion everytime i get to him 🤭

We literally have a serial Ass Eater on the loose in the Lands Between!! 😳😳

The splinter cell of manure heads begs to intercede!!

Dung Eater gives me shivers man

I like this style of video better. It reminds me of the old vaati, while his newer video is more cinematic but less straight to the point.

Thanks for this lore i searched !

If everyone is ugly then no body is ugly 🗿

1:49 so the reason behind the omen curse is the primordail Crucble 😮 That is why the omens were seen as blessing before the age of the Eardtree

Good job my man

Dung eater creates the dark soul, in essence. Once the order is broken at the end of time, and the dark soul has all of humanity within it, it becomes a God in its own right. As the cold returns and time starts over again, the world is left in a state of rock, and dragon. Deep within the roots of the world, the lingering heat of lords keeps a tiny flame burning. This tiny flame is found by the few wretched entities remaining, and they become lords of the new world. And all the humanity of the lands between has now become the dark soul, waiting for the pygmy to take it up, and bring humanity back to the cosmos. And that too, at the end of time, will be sopped up by Gael, and vomited into a new, black and cold world with a hint of flame at its very bottom. And all the while, the living cosmos tries to escape the universe it has been trapped within, now unable to bear children, by dreaming a new one. A new dream of hunters, blood, and the infinite curse of beasts and humanity. Ironically, the only soul to ever escape this, is the one name named "the bearer of the curse."

Knowing the lore and looking back at 1:00 is VERY unsettling......

Turning the Dung Eater into a puppet is the finest form of foiling his plans.

Can’t kill this dood quick enough in each playthru

Among all the people who have been resurrected by the Supreme Will, all of them have the potential to repair the elder ring. If the Supreme Will is really so omnipotent, then the potential meaning is that the Supreme Will also accepts such a desperate blessing ending. If there is heaven, then There is hell

the dung eater is one of the best fromsoft charakter he is on my second place from my favorite npcs

This is an amazingly put together video I thank you good sir😁😁

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Very nice vid! Hmm yea if the majority consists of Omens the condition may truly be seen as a blessing rather than a curse. But like you mention, my problem is his sadistic nature (he seem to take more joy in pain than saving the Omen)

This game is the deepest rabbit hole of a game ever made.

So in theory, does that mean that the only way to save the souls trapped in the dung-eater would be to do his ending? Because, since he's a tarnished, if you don't do his ending and kill him he'll just be reborn with the souls still inside of him.

Atonement for the wretches

This is a fantastic video but one thing I wish that the game implemented is that you get the fight more of the people that the dung has infected well tarnished great video though bro keep up the Fantastic work

When people ask "What is Elden Ring about?" I'll show them this video.

With a name like dung eater no wonder he wants to curse everything

When I think a bit more about it, the Dung Eater ending is better than any other. When the order gets reversed, the curse becomes a noble and desirable state, and the fact that it can spread to other beings by defilement makes it a win-win situation for everyone, despite dung eater horrible personality and harm that happened before.

I sbolutely love the dung eater lore. There is something really poetic to his character if you think about it.

The scariest ending for me, even more so than the frenzied ending

Great video. Dopeness!

I followed his quest, hoping some divine intervention would stop the madness, but I never did. It never did…

The dung eater and his wife had a child that was omen. When the golden order came to power they killed his wife and child, then killed him. When grace was extended to the tarnished he was revived with his memories in tact. That's why he hates the golden order so much.