Image: At Arm’s Length from the Colossus

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This landscape-oriented anime-style fan art depicts an intense, claustrophobic moment just before battle within the flooded Finger Ruins of Miyr. The camera frames the scene at a medium-wide distance, close enough to emphasize danger while still revealing the vast, decayed architecture surrounding the confrontation. The entire stone floor is submerged beneath shallow, rippling water that stretches across the foreground and midground. The water reflects broken pillars, fractured walls, and shafts of cold blue light filtering down from above, its surface constantly disturbed by subtle movement and the sheer mass of the figures standing within it.

On the left side of the frame, the Tarnished is seen partially from behind, reinforcing the player’s perspective and heightening immersion. Clad in sleek Black Knife Assassin armor, the Tarnished’s dark, segmented plates glisten faintly where moisture and reflected light catch along their edges. A deep hood obscures their face completely, leaving only their tense posture to convey emotion. They stand knee-deep in the shallow water, legs bent and braced, with ripples spreading outward from their stance. In their right hand, held low but ready, is a dagger glowing with a restrained golden-orange light. This warm glow cuts sharply through the cold palette of the ruins, reflecting across the water in fractured streaks that draw the eye directly toward the looming threat ahead.

Dominating the right side of the composition—and now far closer to the Tarnished—looms Metyr, Mother of Fingers. The boss’s immense, grotesque form fills much of the frame, creating a sense of overwhelming proximity and imminent danger. Its pale, fleshy body rises heavily from the flooded floor, supported by multiple thick, finger-like limbs that spread outward beneath the water’s surface. These massive appendages displace large volumes of water, generating broad, overlapping ripples that collide with those caused by the Tarnished’s movements. From Metyr’s upper mass rises a colossal, elongated appendage resembling an enormous finger or twisted spine, curling upward into the blue-lit air. At the center of its torso, a dense knot of sinew, tendons, and malformed flesh forms a disturbing focal point, evoking the impression of a corrupted heart or unholy core. Moisture clings to its skin, accentuating veins, folds, and organic textures that suggest slow, unsettling motion even as the creature holds still.

The surrounding ruins press inward from all sides, with towering, broken pillars and layered stone walls receding into mist and shadow. Shafts of pale light pierce the gloom, illuminating drifting particles and casting shimmering reflections across the flooded floor. No strike has yet been made. Instead, the image captures a suffocating pause before violence, as the Tarnished faces an enormous, godlike abomination at dangerously close range, both figures locked in a silent moment that precedes inevitable bloodshed.

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