Image: Before the Colossus Stirs

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This landscape-oriented anime-style fan art portrays a powerful moment of looming confrontation within the flooded Finger Ruins of Miyr, capturing the scale and dread of an encounter just before battle begins. The entire stone floor is submerged beneath shallow, dark water that stretches uninterrupted across the scene. Gentle ripples spread outward from every solid form, reflecting the towering ruins, the combatants, and the cold blue light filtering down from above. The water’s surface mirrors the environment imperfectly, warping reflections into wavering shapes that enhance the sense of unease and instability.

On the left side of the frame stands the Tarnished, viewed partially from behind. Their figure is framed in the foreground, emphasizing vulnerability against the enormity of what lies ahead. Clad in sleek Black Knife Assassin armor, the Tarnished’s dark, segmented plates catch faint highlights from the water and ambient light. A deep hood obscures their face completely, leaving only posture and movement to convey emotion. The Tarnished stands knee-deep in the shallow water, legs braced and slightly bent, with one foot disturbing the surface and sending ripples outward. In their right hand, held low and ready, is a dagger glowing with a muted golden-orange light. This warm glow contrasts sharply with the cold blue environment, reflecting across the water in broken streaks that trail toward the looming boss.

Dominating the right side of the composition is Metyr, Mother of Fingers, now rendered at a vastly larger scale. The boss’s massive, grotesque form rises from the flooded floor like a living monument. Its pale, fleshy body is supported by multiple thick, finger-like limbs that spread outward and press into the submerged stone, displacing large volumes of water and creating overlapping rings of ripples. Above its bulk rises a colossal, elongated appendage resembling an immense finger or twisted spine, curling upward into the dim, light-filled air. At the center of Metyr’s torso lies a dense knot of sinew, tendons, and malformed flesh, forming a disturbing focal point that suggests both a corrupted heart and an unholy nexus of control. Moisture clings to its skin, highlighting veins, folds, and organic textures that give the impression of slow, unsettling movement even in stillness.

The surrounding ruins loom in the background as fractured pillars and collapsed walls, their stone surfaces worn smooth by time and long submersion. Shafts of pale light descend through the waterlogged air, illuminating drifting particles and casting soft reflections across the flooded floor. No blow has yet been struck. The image preserves the fragile pause before violence, where the Tarnished, small but resolute, faces an overwhelming godlike entity across the shallow water, fully aware that the next step will shatter the silence and begin the battle.

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