Image: Isometric Duel: Tarnished vs Radahn
Published: January 2, 2026 at 8:11:14 PM UTC
Last updated: January 2, 2026 at 8:12:09 PM UTC
Isometric Elden Ring fan art showing the Tarnished confronting Starscourge Radahn on a vast, burning battlefield under a meteor-filled sky.
An elevated, isometric anime-style composition looks down upon a vast, scorched battlefield as the Tarnished confronts the legendary Starscourge Radahn. The viewer’s vantage point is pulled back and slightly above, allowing the full scale of the terrain to unfold like a war map carved in fire and ash. In the lower left foreground stands the Tarnished, seen partially from behind in sleek Black Knife armor. The dark plates overlap in layered segments across their back and shoulders, catching glints of orange light from the flames below. A tattered cloak streams diagonally behind them, its torn edges fluttering in the heated wind. Their right hand extends forward with a short dagger glowing an icy, spectral blue, a cold shard of light amid the surrounding inferno.
Across the cracked expanse, occupying the upper right of the frame, towers Starscourge Radahn. From this raised perspective his sheer mass becomes unmistakable: a colossal figure wading through molten ground, each step hurling embers and shards of burning stone outward in rippling arcs. His armor appears fused to his monstrous body, jagged plates and warped metal bristling like natural growths. A mane of blazing red hair flares around his skull-like face, swept back by the violence of his charge. He raises two enormous, crescent-curved swords etched with glowing runes, their silhouettes carving bright arcs through the smoke-filled air.
The battlefield itself feels alive. Craters pockmark the terrain in widening rings, as though the land is buckling under Radahn’s gravitational might. Rivers of fire snake between broken ridges of blackened rock, and clouds of ash drift upward in slow spirals. From the isometric viewpoint, these details layer neatly into depth: the Tarnished anchored in the foreground, Radahn looming in the mid-ground, and the horizon stretching out behind him in jagged mountains and burning plains.
Above it all, the sky churns with cosmic fury. Meteors streak diagonally across a bruised purple and crimson firmament, leaving glowing trails that echo the slashing arcs of Radahn’s blades. The lighting unifies heaven and hell: fiery oranges and golds pour down from the sky and the ground alike, sculpting the giant in molten highlights, while the Tarnished is edged with cool blue reflections from their weapon, a lone spark of calm resolve. From this pulled-back, elevated angle, the scene reads as an epic tableau of scale and inevitability, a lone warrior braced against a godlike foe in a world on the brink of collapse.
The image is related to: Elden Ring: Starscourge Radahn (Wailing Dunes) Boss Fight

