Elden Ring: Royal Revenant (Kingsrealm Ruins) Boss Fight

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.

Royal Revenant is in the lowest tier, Field Bosses, and is found in a hidden underground area underneath the Kingsrealm Ruins in Worth-Western Liurnia of the Lakes. Like most lesser bosses in the game, this one is optional in the sense that you do not need to kill it in order to advance the main story.

As you explore Kingsrealm Ruins, there is a very real chance that you will not find the entrance to the underground area as the staircase is underneath a piece of illusionary floor that you will need to either attack or roll over to open. If you know that you’re looking for it, it does look a bit obvious, but you can easily miss it if you don’t know it’s there.

Down in the darkness below lurks a Royal Revenant. You have probably encountered the non-boss version out in the lakes of the continent before, but this is the boss. For some reason, I found the boss easier than the non-boss version, probably because the non-boss version tends to be accompanied by several other hostile swamp dwellers, while the boss is all high and mighty alone in his dungeon.

This boss looks like a grotesque grafted creature with limbs sticking out of its body in odd angles. You shouldn’t be fooled by its appearance though, as it’s highly agile and very fast, and also has a rather nasty poison cloud area of effect attack that it will happily use to try to ruin your day.

The boss will sometimes dig down, disappear and then reappear somewhere else in the room to ambush you, often with the poison cloud attack mentioned before. This move makes a lot more sense out in the lakes, but this guy pulls it off on a stone floor as well. I guess that’s why he’s the boss and the others are not.

The boss’s most dangerous attack is when he charges you and then quickly flails at you with more arms than I could manage to count in the heat of battle. This move can deplete your health extremely fast, so you really don’t want to be at the receiving end of that particular beating for longer than absolutely necessary. Roll out of the way and try to avoid it altogether, if possible.

Due to how aggressive the boss is, it can take a little while to get a rhythm and find the good openings to get some hits in, but he fortunately doesn’t have a lot of health, so once you get the hang of it, you should be able to put him to rest and claim the loot that is rightfully yours before too long ;-)