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

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.”

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I read an interesting theory recently that the Dung Eater may have been a crusader who returned from the land of shadow, explaining that as his connection to the omen as well as the striking resemblance of his medallion to a furnace visage.

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.🤔🐱

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

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.

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

Oh-oh, here he comes Watch out, boy, he'll chew you up Oh-oh, here he comes he's a dung-eater!

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

Listen just because Halloween is over doesn’t mean you should stop making these - these are the best

The most evil being is named... "Dung Eater..." A masterpiece of a game

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

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

So basically if the Dung Eater eats your booty like groceries, you’re never returning to the erdtree after death?

Dung Eater voice actor needs an award

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.

great video as always 😃

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

The Dastardly Poo Poo Consumer

This video is definitely the best dung eater video I've seen. I've watched many videos and still didn't fully understand what the curse was, but this video explained it extremely well.

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

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

After playing the DLC, I wonder if he was an agent or sympathizer of the Hornsent, bringing a revenge against the Golden Order and Marika for the Genocide they endured.

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.

"..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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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."

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

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

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

"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.

I always thought his armor looked like poop with undigested corn kernels sticking out of it

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 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

He is just there in the sewer below the ash.

Dungeater's accent is the Birmingham accent. Great work from Fromsoft.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

HE EATS DA POO POO

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

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.

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

The Dung Eater reminds me of Kurumi Tokisaki. Both are cannibalistic rapists who are widely regarded as the most loathsome characters in their series. But despite their sadism and the macabre nature of their means, the ends they seek would be beneficial to humanity. They oppose the established system and take on the role of villain to return the world to its original state (before the Erdtree for the Dung Eater, and before the First Spirit for Kurumi). They are so invested in their plan that they are willing to die for it. Adding to that, all the victims of their heinous crimes will live again in that new world (With the Rune of the Fell Curse, the people of the Lands Between will be reborn as Omen; and with the Yud Bet bullet, the people of the Earth will live in a Spirit-less timeline).

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

The devious doodoo devourer

the soul is stored in the BALLS

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 🤭

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

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.

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.

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

the only ending that ends the greater wills influence above the world is the frenzy flame ending. Lets correct the mistake of the greater flame and burn everything that distinguishes!

In the Dung Eater ending, I love it when the sky turns to lesions. Praise the pox and let us gorge on delectable doo doo.

The Loansome Poo Poo Devouer

I personally found it amusing to do Dungeaters quest in order to curse the world. Too bad the ending wasn't as gruesome as I hoped.

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.

One thing i think you shouldve mentioned us that the dung eater also has a line that goes something like "the golden order will get what it deserves one day" after youve given him one or two seedbed curses. I think his lines change based on how much pain hes in. But he has some weird motivations.

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

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."

Square Dung Gaming

Can’t kill this dood quick enough in each playthru

The background music is perfect for the topic of this video

this was probably the only character I was really interested in their story.

Yeah, time to make him a puppet lol.

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

So all of these villains have HPV. I understand now.

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

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

Unrelated, but I listened to this before I fought Godfrey for the first time a few minutes ago. I beat him first try! My heart was beating so fast and hard after I was finished!