Image: Tarnished Confronts Flying Lichdragon Fortissax

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This anime-style fan art captures a climactic moment in Elden Ring’s Deeproot Depths, where the Tarnished confronts the airborne Lichdragon Fortissax. Rendered in high-resolution landscape format, the image blends fantasy intensity with stylized elegance, emphasizing scale, motion, and atmosphere.

On the left side of the composition, the Tarnished is depicted in mid-leap, clad in the sleek and ominous Black Knife armor. The armor features a hooded cloak with silver embroidery resembling swirling vines and ancient runes. The cloak billows behind the warrior, accentuating their momentum. Their curved dagger is held in a reverse grip, gleaming faintly in the ambient light. The Tarnished’s posture is agile and aggressive, with one leg extended and the other bent, conveying a sense of imminent strike. Their face is partially obscured by the hood, but a focused gaze is visible, locked onto the dragon above.

Dominating the upper right quadrant of the image is Fortissax, reimagined as a colossal flying dragon. Its wings are fully extended, casting vast shadows across the terrain. The dragon’s body is covered in jagged, obsidian-like scales, fractured by glowing red fissures that pulse with ambient energy. Its eyes burn with crimson light, and its mouth is slightly open, revealing rows of sharp teeth. The dragon’s horns curve backward like molten spires, and embers drift from its body as it hovers in the stormy sky.

The background evokes the eerie beauty of Deeproot Depths—a subterranean forest filled with gnarled, leafless trees and bioluminescent roots. Mist coils around the rocky ground, and the terrain is uneven, scattered with stones and patches of dry grass. A jagged cliff face rises on the right, partially illuminated by the dragon’s glow. The sky above is a swirling vortex of deep blues, purples, and hints of green, suggesting magical turbulence and ancient power.

The composition is diagonal, with the Tarnished and Fortissax positioned in opposing corners, creating dynamic tension. The lighting is dramatic, with the dragon’s red glow casting warm highlights and deep shadows across the scene. The color palette contrasts fiery reds and oranges with cool blues and greens, enhancing the sense of conflict and scale.

Rendered in a crisp anime style, the image features bold linework, expressive shading, and intricate textures. The motion of the leap, the spread of the wings, and the drifting embers contribute to a sense of cinematic grandeur. This fan art pays homage to Elden Ring’s epic boss battles, reimagining Fortissax as a soaring elemental force and the Tarnished as a lone challenger in a realm of myth and shadow.

The image is related to: Elden Ring: Lichdragon Fortissax (Deeproot Depths) Boss Fight