Image: Stillness Before the Flooded Battle

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This landscape-oriented anime-style fan art captures a haunting moment of stillness just before battle within the flooded Finger Ruins of Miyr. The entire stone floor is submerged beneath a layer of shallow, dark water that stretches across the scene, gently rippling with every subtle movement. Reflections shimmer across the surface, mirroring broken pillars, drifting debris, and the two opposing figures, while distorting them enough to give the environment an uncanny, dreamlike quality. Cold blue light filters down from above, scattering through the murky air and illuminating suspended particles, reinforcing the sense that this ruin exists somewhere between temple, tomb, and abyss.

On the left side of the image stands the Tarnished, clad in Black Knife Assassin armor. The armor is sleek, dark, and segmented, its matte surfaces catching faint highlights from the watery reflections below. A deep hood conceals the Tarnished’s face completely, leaving no visible expression—only posture conveys intent. They stand knee-deep in the shallow water, legs braced and body angled forward, clearly wary yet resolute. In their right hand, they hold a dagger that emits a restrained golden-orange glow. This warm light cuts sharply through the cool palette of the scene, reflecting in broken streaks across the water’s surface and subtly illuminating the Tarnished’s gauntlet and thigh armor.

Opposite them, dominating the right side of the composition, looms Metyr, Mother of Fingers. The monstrous boss rises from the flooded floor like a living relic, its pale, fleshy mass supported by multiple thick, finger-like limbs that press into the submerged stone. Each limb displaces water outward, creating concentric ripples that spread across the reflective surface. From Metyr’s upper body rises a massive, elongated appendage resembling a colossal finger or twisted spine, curling upward into the dim blue light. At the center of its torso, tangled cords of sinew and malformed flesh knot together in a disturbing focal point, evoking both a corrupted heart and an unholy nexus of control. Moisture clings to its skin, emphasizing veins, folds, and organic textures that suggest slow, unsettling movement even in stillness.

The surrounding ruins emerge from the shallow water as fractured pillars and crumbling walls, their edges worn smooth by time and submersion. The waterline glints against stone, and faint reflections of the towering architecture ripple with each disturbance. No attack has yet been made. Instead, the image preserves the fragile pause before violence, as Tarnished and godlike abomination approach one another through the shallow flood, fully aware that the next step will shatter the silence and begin the fight for survival.

The image is related to: Elden Ring: Metyr, Mother of Fingers (Finger Ruins of Miyr) Boss Fight (SOTE)