Elden Ring Meets Bloodborne In the Latest Overhaul Mod from xhy082801's blog

Mod team Garden of Eyes indicates the final boss of their early-access overhaul mod, and it is suitably terrifying

While we watch for Elden Ring Runes Shadow from the Erdtree DLC, a troupe of modders referred to as Garden of Eyes is focusing on an overhaul mod to FromSoftware’s latest “You Died” open-world RPG, that will introduce new weapons, additional skins for Torrent, and Bloodborne-style gun parries to The Lands Between. As it continues focusing on the mod pack, they have unveiled the very first custom boss fight that's equal parts mesmerizing and terrifying.

Garden of Eyes is really a growing mod group that has already made some custom Elden Ring stuff, including flying broomsticks along with a boss spectator-type mod. My favorite of the creations, though, maybe the jet and tank mods, which allow you to hop into armored vehicles to commit military crimes throughout The Lands Between. It’s pretty sick if your bit unhinged.

As mentioned they are now again, having an initial look at the very first boss from the upcoming overhaul mod for Elden Ring. (The mod happens to be in early access release for that group’s Patreon subscribers, and can transition to some free, public version once development completes.) And y’all…this boss sent shivers down my spine, a haunting amalgam of Bloodborne aesthetics and Elden Ring scale.

Meet Oedon, an ‘outer god’ that appears like Elden Beast

For the lore nerds available, Elden Ring includes a handful of “outer gods,” mysterious beings referenced through the game but never actually shown. Despite never creating a physical appearance, these gods are seemingly responsible for the events before, during, and following the game. Lore guy SmoughTown comes with an excellent video wearing down just what the outer gods are, exploring their cosmic nature, and a possible link with Bloodborne. At any rate, if you’ve played Elden Ring, you’ve definitely heard about an outer god or two, as some, like The Frenzied Flame, are directly related to certain incantations you are able to wield. There’s another, lesser-known outer god that Garden of Eyes sought to grow upon in the new mod: the mysterious force referred to as The Primeval Current.

According to the Elden Ring wiki, The Primeval Current is definitely an esoteric souped-up that permeates The Lands Between. Aside from the connection to magic, flintstones, and also the stars, very little else is known relating to this force of cosmic nature. Garden of Eyes saw this being an opportunity to complete some of the lore gaps, leading towards the creation of this two-phase boss fight: Oedon, the Primeval Current, and Oedon, Lord of Cosmic Blood. In a May 1 YouTube video demonstrating the encounter, Oedon looks very similar to the Elden Beast, the sport’s final enemy prior to the credits roll. You’ve got the gelatinous body, the starry background, the intimidating scale. It’s like fighting that jerk once again but by having an entirely different moveset. Yikes.

“The idea within our mod is the fact that Oedon is really The Primeval Current, and it is definitely an outer god in the Elden Ring universe who had been able to obtain into connection with the Bloodborne universe,” Garden of Eyes explained within the YouTube showcase. “However, he could only communicate thereby by voice. [Still], he could beckon some from the creatures and some from the scholars in the Bloodborne universe to be able to initiate a forbidden ritual to provide him supreme power.”

Oedon ‘links’ the Bloodborne and Elden Ring worlds together

There’s lots of mention of Bloodborne in Garden of Eyes’ YouTube video and for good reason. As the modders said, Oedon could connect to Bloodborne, becoming a link between your two games. Garden of Eyes told Kotaku that they wanted an enemy that may invoke the vibes of Bloodborne and Elden Ring boss design with one phase centered on flintstone magic and the other dedicated to “blood” and melee attacks. Garden of Eyes elaborated:

In the Bloodborne universe, there is definitely an unseen Great One called Formless Oedon, and basically, his and the followers’ MO is choosing the power from the Old Blood. In our version of the story, Oedon is really an Outer God in the Elden Ring universe, specifically the Primeval Current, that is where the strength of flintstone sorceries originates from. We envisioned the reason why the people within the Bloodborne universe address him as ‘formless’ happens because he cannot physically connect to other universes, and just communicates by voice. As a way to gain ultimate power, he tricked some of the scholars in Byrgenwerth to review the power from the Old Blood, which its combination with the strength of Glintstone magic may be the key to true Insight and beckoned these phones The Lands Between to initiate a forbidden ritual, allowing him to achieve his ultimate goal of becoming the Lord of Cosmic Blood, gaining the power from the Old Blood mixed with the strength of Glintstone magic.

Garden of Eyes said these were partially inspired by a Lovecraftian god named Yog-Sothoth, a cosmic entity and outer god a part of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. While the Lovecraftian influence is apparent, Garden of Eyes also noted that Oedon is made around some of the Elden Beast’s animations. Most of anything else, though, is totally new: the model, the different graphical assets, in addition to a number of animations for such things as attacks and it is a second-phase transformation. Garden of Eyes noted it was a tough encounter, one slated to happen very late in the game.

“Oedon is planning to become an end-game boss, so I would place it in a similar difficulty as Malenia,” I was told. “However, you need to take into consideration that it is really a completely different experience as Malenia is much more of a humanoid close-combat-focused boss, although this one is really a large monstrosity with two different styles in the two different phases.”

Oedon’s boss design was inspired by an available trick weapon

Considering the similarities Oedon shares using the Elden Beast, you may assume you’d encounter it within the Elden Throne, a place that becomes available in Leyndell, Ashen Capital after burning the giant golden Erdtree. The Oedon fight location looks almost identical to the Elden Beast’s. However, Garden of Eyes explained that Oedon is located somewhere else.

“It’s the realm where The Primeval Current resides,” Garden of Eyes said. “You can see in the design from the boss it's this ‘crystal,’ which may be the core of their being. In the second phase, in which the power from the Old Blood corrupts it, it completely changes to red, the flintstone also becomes red, and also the Red Moon related to the Old Blood shows. You can also observe how the capsule all around the crystal breaks and gets corrupted with teeth. This was completed to convey the idea of the Old Blood’s corruption.”

Garden of Eyes said they have been focusing on Oedon for around five months now, using the idea coming in the motivation to produce a unique Whispering Terror weapon. This Bloodborne-style trick blade is really a big curved greatsword that shifts between blood- and flintstone-based attacks as well as appears to become insanely OP, murking enemies in a few hits. Once this weapon was finished, they thought of creating a boss that revolved around it, which ended up becoming Oedon, the Primeval Current.

“The most difficult was getting [Oedon’s] model to look good, as we’re restricted to Elden Ring’s existing materials system, therefore it took many years to make sure that it's looking as close to the vision as you possibly can,” Garden of Eyes said. “We needed to create custom cloth physics for that tentacle to really make it look more realistic and fitting within the game. The other equally hard aspect was the gameplay as our teammate GPOL was the main one handling that aspect. Getting everything to link up together, picking out ideas to result in the boss fun and engaging, whilst also being balanced would be a very big challenge and took lots of trial-and-error and bug hunting to ensure everything works properly.”

All in most, Oedon appears like a cool, horrifying boss that taps into the daunting nature of buy elden ring runes and also the spine-shivering aspects of Bloodborne. As far as I know, there’s no direct connection between your two FromSoft games. Still, it’s fascinating seeing the fanfiction folks create and also the dedication modders like Garden of Eyes need to bring their suggestions to life. However, if Oedon is really as difficult as Malenia, then there’s no way I’m surviving—unless I’ve got Tarnished like Let Me Solo Her or RS_Lionheart backing me up.