Keep An Eye Out For These Dark Souls Bosses In Elden Ring Nightreign

For years, fans have speculated that all of FromSoftware's games — at ꦉleast, the Soulslikes — are connected. The bad ending from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Demon's Souls shrouds the world in fog, paving the way for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Souls, which diverges into both the Painted World of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bloodborne and the unrecognizable new cycle in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring. It's always been a fun little headcanon, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nightreign finally gives it some weight.

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Seemingly set after Elden Ring, with the Erdtree a distant memory, 168澳♋洲幸运5开奖网:it brings back several Dark Souls bosses with strict ties to Lordran, Drangleic, and Lothric. It's unclear if the new multiplayer spin-off is canon, but . So, maybe there's some narrative weight behind all the familiar faces. At any rate, if you're wondering about who exactly FromSoftware has brought back in its roguelite cornucopia of greatest hits, we've got you covered.

7 Duke's Dear Freja

The Two-Headed Spider Is A Long Way From Home

Dark Souls 2 screenshot of the Duke's Dear Freja, a giant spider, lurking in a cave.

We found out that the Duke's Dear Freja was returning way back when 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nightreign was first revealed, and they behave almost exactly the same as they did in Dark Souls 2. You can lop their heads off, they spawn little spiders, and occasionally they'll shoot a laser beam - y🍷'know, typical arachnid stuff. What's different here is that they can be stunned.

As for the implications of the🗹m being summoned to Limveld, they're still referred to as the Duke's Dear Freja. That's a direct reference to Tseldora, who founded the mining town in Drangleic of the same name. Does that mean Drangleic exists in the Lands Between's history? That's one for the lore hounds to figure out.

6 ܫ Centipede Demon 𒀰

A Fish Out Of Lava

Elden Ring protagonists fighting the Centipede Demon in Elden Ring Nightreign.

One of the more rogue choices for a returning boss, as if Duke🦄's Dear Freja wasn't rogue enough, is the Centipede Demon. In the first Dark Souls, you have to kill them to venture deeper into Lost Izalith, as they drop a ring that lets you walk on lava.

If you cut ▨off their tail, it still turns into an enemy in Nightreign.

However, since you fight them on small rock plateaus surrounded by lava, without the ring, they're a d♛eceptively tricky fight, especially if they refuse to set foot on dry land. But in Nightreign, there 🌳is no lava, so they're much easier to take down.

5 ℱ Gapin🦩g Dragon

The Longest-Living Archdragon

Elden Ring Nightreign Gaping Dragon fighting at night in a swamp.

Another🍸 returning classic Dark Souls boss is the Gaping Dragon.ꦗ They fight in two positions, one with their front half raised in the air, the other with it flat on the ground, exposing their weak point: a crocodile-like head.

You can even cut off their tail. However, it do🌊esn't seem guaranteed to drop a weapon. Most of the time, we found it did nothing but make the fight easier, but there were a couple of ins🍸tances where rare gear would sprout from its severed limb.

4 Smelter Demon 😼

Is That The Iron Keep I See Up There?

Smelter Demon from Dark Souls 2 engulfed in flames.

The second Dark Souls 2 boss to return is the Smelter Demon. It's based on the ൩original Iron Keep model, but it appears to use some oꩵf the moves from the blue DLC variant.

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As with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the original fight, if you get too close, you'll take gradual fire damage. Thankfully, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ranged is a lot ꦦmore viable in Nightreign, with bows having infinite ammo and locking onto enemies far more easily. That's not to mention the magic users, suchꩲ as the Revenant, who can summon spirits. So, you can keep your distance and watch its health whittle away, rather than throwing Lucatiel into the flames.

3 🍸 Nameless King

Gwyn's Firstborn Has A Spear To Grind

Elden Ring Nightreign player running around the Nameless King.

Perhaps the most lore-heavy inclusion of all the Dark Souls bosses in Elden Ring Nightreign is the Nameless King. He's Gwyn's firstborn son, stripped from the annals of history for allying with the dragons, and decreed as the God of War — father ওof the Warriors of Sunlight. His presence in Nightreign, if canon, implies that Gwyn's pantheon of gods once ruled before Marika and Radagon. Again, I'll leave that to the lore hounds.

At any rate, it's the same fight you died to over and over again in Dark Souls 3, but you sprint faster, have two other players to help out, and far more abilities. So, he's not nearly▨ as difficult. That being said, he is one of the few bosses to have a true second phase, stepping down from his defeated dragon with another healthbar to whittle away.

2 Bonus: Symbolꦰ Of Avarice

Mimics Finally Return In Elden Ring, Kind Of

Elden Ring Nightreign Ironeye wearing a phantom Symbol of Avarice.

Mimics didn't make an appearance in Elden Ring, as much as fans wa⛦nted to sಌee them in Shadow of the Erdtree, but they do crop up in Nightreign. Sort of. There's a chance that Libra, one of the Nightlords, will half your health while you're exploring Limvel♓d. You can remove the effect for 10,000 Runes, after which you get the choice of one free boon.

If you choose Runes, then you'll get the Symbol of Avarice as a Talisman, which places a phantom Mimic on your head. When equipped, it gives you 20 percent 🌌more Runes and plus 60 item discovery, but as you'd expect, it continuously drains HP. It's not a boss, but it's a fun little homage to a classic Dark Souls enemy and an iconic piece of gear.

1 ☂ The Dancer

Spin To Win

Dark Souls 3 screenshot of The Dancer strolling around their arena.

FromSoftware picked some of the easiest bosses from the first two Dark Souls games, so of course when it came to Dark Souls 3, it had to pick two ཧof the hardest. Not only do we have the Nameless King to contend with, but also the Dancer.

Thꦅey're technically one of the first bosses you can fight in Dark Souls 3 (and even featured as the focus of its closed network test), but they're challenging enough at higher levels. Than🤪kfully, in Nightreign, you can stun them easier, and your movement speed is much faster, making it less of a challenge to get out of the way of their infamous spin attack.