Elden Ring: Godskin Duo (Dragon Temple) Boss Fight

Published: November 6, 2025 at 1:05:09 PM UTC

Godskin Duo is in the middle tier of bosses in Elden Ring, Greater Enemy Bosses, and is found inside the Dragon Temple area in Crumbling Farum Azula. There is initially no fog gate, but they will spawn out of nowhere when you approach the altar. This is a mandatory boss fight, so they must be defeated in order to progress the main story of the game.

As you probably know, bosses in Elden Ring are divided into three tiers. From lowest to highest: Field Bosses, Greater Enemy Bosses and finally Demigods and Legends.

Godskin Duo is in the middle tier, Greater Enemy Bosses, and is found inside the Dragon Temple area in Crumbling Farum Azula. There is initially no fog gate, but they will spawn out of nowhere when you approach the altar. This is a mandatory boss fight, so they must be defeated in order to progress the main story of the game.

I was sneaking around the Dragon Temple and had dispatched several Banished Knights while trying to figure out where to go next. I had even walked through the main room where the boss fight takes place a few times before, but apparently never gotten close enough to the altar to actually spawn the bosses. Imagine my surprise when these two suddenly popped out of nowhere. A lot of foul language not befitting a temple was uttered then.

I had read about the Godskin Duo fight beforehand and I was fully expecting something akin to the Ornstein and Smough fight back from the first Dark Souls game that I played way back on PlayStation 3 many years ago. That one still stands in my memory as one of the most annoyingly difficult boss fights in Souls games, but perhaps that’s just due to my infamous inability to handle multiple enemies and tendency to go into full-on headless chicken mode if too much is going on at the same time.

Anyway, when this duo appeared, I immediately decided to call in back-up in the form of Redmane Knight Ogha, who happened to be the spirit ash I had on speed dial at the time. I’ve always found Godskin Apostles pretty fun to fight whereas Godskin Nobles are just annoying, so I somehow managed to get Ogha to tank the Noble while I took care of the Apostle.

The two bosses have a shared health bar, so it doesn’t really matter which of them you focus on, but if one dies, it will resurrect shortly after. I actually managed to get them both killed at some point, but they would soon re-appear, so they seem to resurrect independently of each other. They also managed to kill Ogha, but I fortunately didn’t have to fight both of them by myself for long.

And now for the usual boring details about my character. I play as a mostly Dexterity build. My melee weapons are the Nagakiba with Keen affinity and Thunderbolt Ash of War, and the Uchigatana also with Keen affinity. I was level 168 when this video was recorded, which I think is a bit high for this content, but it was still a fun and reasonably challenging fight. I’m always looking for the sweet spot where it’s not mind-numbing easy mode, but also not so difficult that I will be stuck on the same boss for hours ;-)

Fanart inspired by this boss fight

A cloaked warrior with a glowing sword faces the Godskin Duo in the ruined Dragon Temple of Crumbling Farum Azula, under stormy skies filled with lightning and decay. More information

A hooded warrior in Black Knife armor hides behind a pillar, sword glowing gold, as the Godskin Duo—one tall and thin, the other short and bloated—approach amid the golden ruins of the Dragon Temple. More information

A hooded warrior in Black Knife armor faces the towering Godskin Duo in a golden-lit ruined temple, as the tall Apostle swings his curved blade and the massive Noble flanks with twin daggers. More information

Fanart inspired by this boss fight

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