Mending Rune of Carcinisation: Rune discovered by your partner, Big Boggart. Used to restore the fractured Elden Ring when brandished by the Elden Lord. When it all comes down to it, fixing the world is pretty intuitive: Treat others well, and they will treat others well in turn. Give gold to the poor, give the outcasts a place to call home, cure scoundrels of their rudeness with kindness, and feed the hungry.
This makes me think of an ending I’d like to hide in a game like this. It’d require a difficult path, one where you need to resist your own instinct for the sake of kindness. Aiding and showing kindness to such a seemingly insignificant figure, one who initially would draw you to react with derision and disgust, only to prove there is a person worth caring about, even in a broken, battle worn world like this. Mend the rune and make a world that brings out the good in all.
I won't lie, Boggart having the mending rune of crab order would be so wholesome: all of the creatures from lands between, big and small, tarnished and merchants, humans and omens, albinaurics and sorcerers, those who live in death and everlasting dragons - sharing a nice meal of boiled crabs and leaving behind past conflicts edit: grammar
Boggart feels like an inverse Patches. Both shady businessmen, one hiding a gentle heart behind a rough exterior, the other hiding his cruelty behind a smile.
Honestly I feel like they're inverses in other ways as well, Boggart is straightforward, honest for the most part, and is very emotionally driven. When he's angry, you know he's angry, when he's friendly, you know he's really being friendly. Patches masks his deceit with layers of lies, always making plans and tricks, he's hard to read on every level, even to the point of actual motivation, in the end you have no idea if he truly has a hidden small bit of empathy left or if he's completely empty, he can be interpreted in multiple ways and no matter how many more Dark Souls 3 monologues he gets, it's likely we'll never get the full picture, and that's exactly what he'd want.
And now Head Chef Marika is nowhere to be found and in the Night of the Black Kitchen Knives, Godwyn the Golden-Brown was the first to get cooked Soon Marika's kitchen staff, demigods all, claims the shards of the Elden Onion Ring The mad taint of their newfound flavoring triggered the Shattering A cookoff from which no chef rose A cookoff leading to the abandonment by the Greater Will
@@iboofer Hoarah Loux, Chieftain of the Pancakes! The ever broiling, Gold Mask! Fia, the Breadbed companion! The Loathsome Bun Eater! And sir Gideon Ofnir, the all Kneading
You can keep big boggart alive if you don't interact with him after getting the necklace back, going to free dung eater, killing him in the invasion and then going back to talk to boggart. Sadly there's no alternate ending other than him remaining alive
You can also punch him and aggro him in leyndell, then go release dung eater and use celestial dew to get boggart friendly again, I heard. But tbh just kill the dung eater, or let him rot for eternity.
If only From took the time to give a multiple choice to that like how they did with Solaire in Dark Souls 1. I'm guessing if they did think that through they didn't have the time due to just how big a project Elden Ring was for them by comparison. It'd be nice if in a future DLC or patch update they could flesh him out as well as some of the other questlines that they had to give up. It still bugs me, for example, that a supposedly wandering people of tradesmen just stick to one site of grace and don't move. I get it with the ones stuck underground but you'd think Kale at least would pick his butt up and go to, say, a different shack in Limgrave every now and then.
@@kerianhalcyon2769 they chose not to do branching quests on purpose. But letting Boggart live isn’t just ‘not finishing his quest,’ you can just kill Dung-Eater.
I wish if you killed the dung eater prior you could see just where life takes Blackguard. Like he could've been a dirty and rude Solaire. Imagine if could've been summoned to help us fight Radagon much like Solaire if you save him. It'd be fitting for a guy with big ideas.
You can actually keep him alive even when he's in lyndale by basically getting the key from the dung eaters spirit at the roundtable and killing his physical form in the sewers when you meet him. You won't get the altered ending for his quest but You'll get his armor and weopeon as well as keeping your boiled crab selling friend alive which to me is a way better reward then that alternate ending.
@@lathyrusloon Foreal tho seems like a chill guy. He's the only person that you can keep alive threw out the whole entire game and actually serves a purpose of selling you boiled crabs, but most of all his famous line "marikas titts you must be hungry" 🤣
@@etinarcadiaego7424 well then be prepared for cause and affect. The truth that completionists must except even if it's not the most favorable outcome.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 Make an evil character, then! If you don't kill everyone, drag it out and do the worst to them along the way, and make that your most evil playthrough!
Interesting to note but as an Irish elden ring player, i always likened the name Boggart to the Irish world "Bagairt", which means a threat. Cool video as always, Big Boggart my favourite NPC and its a delight to have some light shed upon him :D
Big Boggart has the best lines and some of the best voice acting in the game. It's a shame the voice actor, Dean Fagan, doesn't get enough credit for it by FromSoft.
@@lucamckenn5932 i think what he means is that Dean Fagan is a "normal" actor in real life too, and a fairly well-known one at that. I live in England and Dean Fagan was on Coronation Street for a few years, one of the most famous TV shows in Britain that's been running since the '60s. Like if Doctor Who was a crappy "friendly English neighborhood" soap opera. There's 1000s of episodes and they routinely embarrass us - millions more Brits tuned in to watch a fictional marriage on the show instead of watching the Royal Wedding of the now-King Charles III that same day lmfao Right confusing, putting the name of a Corrie actor to the face of Boggart!
@@AdamOwenBrowning I don’t see why that’s embarrassing, i would also rather watch a fictional marriage between two characters I like than a real wedding for two people whose place in society should have been abolished 200 years ago
I don't know where any of this "Boggart gets cursed" business comes from, but I assume it's an elaborate joke. Anyone whose played the game knows that Boggart happily sells crab the rest of the game, after the Dung Eater is slain before he can resume his defilement spree.
when I first heard is opening line at the edge of Leyndell, hearing him drop the aggression when he realises it's us, my heart just melted a little for the big softy
His healing presence doesn't end when his life does. Thanks to his bell bearing, more limitless crab may be purchased by all who visit the Roundtable Hold. Even in death, his services only get better.
I just want to say, I sincerely love your content, Hawkshaw. Been watching it for years now, and not only are your interpretations of the lore incredible, your storytelling and writing is. You frame narratives so exceptionally, and really bring out a lot of heart in these characters, and these games. Thank you so much for everything you do.
My personal theory is that the dung eater left Boggart alive on purpose so he would be terrified and spread the horrifying tale of the dung eater wherever he goes
I know you don't know me but this video changed how I view myself and the ways I have affected the world from my unfortunate upbringing. May we be good men like Boggart, so that we may see the result of our Grace, even if we were molded by a world which only asked us to give in to the horrors it perpetuates.
This is genuinely my favourite Elden Ring Lore video I've ever watched. Seriously amazing work, you opened my eyes, that Boggart isn't just a joke character, but actually has some surprising depth. I'll definitely go out of my way to save him on my future playthroughs after this. I was half expecting an April Fools joke out of this, but it genuinely made me tear up a little, realizing how relatable he is. After all, I've never met someone with a taste for M̶a̶r̶i̶k̶a̶'s̶ t̶i̶t̶s̶ prawns I couldn't trust.
While miquella is using fancy unalloyed gold to heal and remove the Outer Gods influences Big Boggart can do the same with crabs, the small ones are immune to madness and deathblight.I suppose it's true that crabs in this world have purifiers properties, you can also find them on catacombs, so a link might be there.
There is something so damn cathartic about letting that giant crab kill Dung Eater, if you set it up properly. I imagine the tarnished standing over the crushed, dying body of the Dung Eater, looking down and saying, "Boggart sends his regards, asshole."
I loved Boggart. Seeing him in Layndell, "I got crab!" and I knew I found my friend again. The completionist in me made me do the dungeater's quest, but I definitely regret the outcome, especially since I never used his rune in the end. I miss you Prawn brother
I love this dude. His demeanor goes from mean and antagonistic to tame and friendly once you talk to him some. He's a convicted criminal, yet he's one of the nicest people to you in all the lands between.
if fia can dream a mending rune, dung eater cursing one up and goldmask, calculate another. then surely... boggart can boil me a nice mending rune of the shellfish.
Best Friend in elden ring, I always felt that at his second location, because we are his friend we get a discount on his new product. But I like the idea from this video more, he is just that great of a guy 🤩
Interestingly the word “bog” means God in many Cyrillic languages (“бог”). Of course we can interpret this word by it’s English definition, which means swamp (makes sense, as we find him in Liurnia) but as a Slavic person it’s hard not to associate the name with something godly, or heroic. I know it’s a reach, but I find it interesting that this character who is made out to be a thug has a name that in some languages gives him a closer connection to God than most other characters in the lands between, especially given his story. FromSoft has a pretty strong reputation of pulling obscure details from different cultures in order to season their worlds, this especially shines in their very intentional nomenclature, so who knows. Food for thought 🦐
I've still not found his face-data for character creation. There's videos of face-data of all NPCs but not this guy?! And theres like one image of him without his helmet on google. Its really odd. I want his data for my own character creation! He's handsome! haha But I can't find it! If anyone knows a video please suggest it with timestamps or something.
@@hyliadreamer according to Urban dictionary, the most trustworthy of sources, "My boi - A great friend but you want to sound cool or you don't want to say his name"
Does he die if you off Dung Eater as soon as you open the cell? I though that the Dung Eater would start killing NPCs like in the older games, so I opened the cell and annihilated the bastard, and I though Boggard was left alive after all. I didn't visit him constantly, but I remember bying a ton of crab for him for later bosses
Honestly who even wants the Dung Eater ending? I say either leave him in his cell or kill him. I’d rather be eating crab with my friend than cursing the world.
All of the seed bed curses are found on corpses defiled by the dung eater, wich would imply that bogart was not cursed upon his death since a seedbed wasnt droped. I like to think he went to a better place lol i usually kill dung eater or turn him into a puppet either way tho bogarts awesome
I hope that the dlc introduces some reward for being smart enough to just kill the Dung Eater on sight. If only just having Boggart show up as a summon again.
--or having the foresight to run Dung Eater's quest to the point where he's been defeated before running Boggart's quest along to the point for him to relocate to Leyendel.
Bogart has no right being that attractive under his helm lol. I really love that each character, no matter how minor, have backstorys, and the quest lines attached to them are interesting and teach us lore of the world. It's too bad most meet tragic ends.
@@satyasyasatyasya5746 there’s a youtuber named Zarria or something like that the witch and she shows what npcs looks like without their mask and I’m sure this guys seen it I’m not sure why he made boggart some white dude because he’s black.
@@jayloncollins9681 Its Zullie the Witch, and I already mentioned that there's videos of face-data in my original comment, but they're all missing Prawn Bro.
there's something almost romantic about comparing patches' antics with boggarts. boggarts beautiful interior is hidden by the mask so he can avoiding violence altogether with empty threats - while patches' trustworthy voice and facade let him get close so he can steal/cheat. it makes him almost like a polar opposite to boggart
Then again, given that Elden Ring Patches appears to have a thing for Tanith, it could be that he's looking out for Rya for Tanith's sake: He sees that Tanith cares about Rya, so he cares about her as well... He's grown a bit as a character...
@@soggybubble Well, yes, we can obviously never truly know for certain where we've got Patches... Still, he has people he cares about both in DS3 and Elden Ring...
12:45 No, I don't see Rya pulling a con like that on Boggart. She's too simple and kind for plotting a scheme like this. Remember, Rya is a girl who doesn't even know what's going on in her own home. A schemer would be curious or intuitive enough to guess what's happening behind the scene, but Rya is heartbroken after discovering what an awful place her home truly is. Rya is so innocent, it isn't even safe for her to venture out of the mannor alone... which in a sense she doesn't, because at least in Liurnia, Patches is close enough to keep an eye on her, especially around a scary character like Boggart. Sure, Boggart may have ruffled a few of her feathers, but Patches would not have allowed true harm to come to her. I'd say first idea for searching champions was Tanith's, but the test it self was probably something Patches came up with, and Ray and Boggart were there just along for the ride. Rya probably had no idea she was meant to be looking for people capable of committing murder, but rather heroes who didn't shy when a maiden like her was in trouble. At least, that's what I think transpired.
No, Rya knows what the Volcano Manor is all about and its mission. To kill Tarnished serving the Golden Order in the name of Rykard. But that's as far as her need to know goes. Patches is not guaranteed to be close by, he only shows up if you've defeated him and then spared him. He could either be in the cave still or dead depending on your choices. Rya still shows up, she is a SCOUT aka a recruiter She's unaware of the greater area of the manor because Tanith restricts her knowledge of it via locked doors and illusions, since Tanith feels knowledge of her origins would hurt her. Rya's quest is ultimately about her realising who she is and accepting it, leaving on a journey after, to become more grown up. But she never relents on Tanith's doctrines, she wants to come back someday so she can better serve Tanith's vision.
I really never knew much about Prawnbro but the second he offered to sell me some after I had completed a mini-quest that had me thinking he was a messed up guy he was basically the 'bro character' for me the whole playthrough, which works considering the sort of character I had in mind for my build.
There are suckers that didnt kill the dungeater on sight? What is wrong with yall? it isnt like a Lautrec case of "well he just has a creepy laugh" the man makes it clear on repeated ocassions that he wants to defile you and everyone else in sight.
Maybe a silly idea, but Boggart drops his bell bearing. We don't really know what these are but we give them to the Twinmaiden Husks and they're holding a staff full of - what looks like - sleigh bells. Maybe we give them these bell bearing so they slot them inside these? And what we know about bells in Elden ring? That's right, they summon spirits. So... We can buy things and learn ashes of war because Twinmaiden actually summon a spirits for us? This mean that Boggart's soul might be actually safe inside this bell bearing. Died before Dungeater could complete his corruption (his bell looks like any other normal bella , not horned or corrupted in any way) Just a fan-fic after ending: Maybe when it's all over we could return his soul to the Erdtree and allow him the rebirth? Who really knows. All souls games were open for interpretation after all
I honestly open up the cell just so I can merc that loathsome dung eater. Prawn brother is too valuable to lose to him and I'd rather see him live than get the achievement for the dung eater ending.
There are no achievements for the mending rune endings; all of those and the default one will give you the "Elden Lord" achievement. Ranni and the Frenzied Flame are the only ones that get their own achievements. It would be insane to have to beat the game six times to get all achievements lol
15:50 ohh the memoryes , the nostalgia . It is so good to hear music from my favourite game of all time . Those games basicly created the from software/witcher formulas combined into one .
Wow... You really gave this NPC life, character and a personality. Amazingly written. Really fell in love with Boggart. Thank you for taking the time to share and post this beautifully narrated story. Looking forward to more of your content.
I've only ever seen Boggart drop a seedbed curse when he dies in the chair, have I missed something? I've checked wikis and walkthroughs and haven't found anything, but boy it'd be nice to have a playthrough where I complete his questline and he doesn't end up cursed haha.
I can’t believe I always killed him because he stole Rya’s necklace. I was such an idiot for not doing his quest. He is the literally the character I relate to the most, this video brought me to tears. I am such a bad person. Next time I will make sure to kill the shit eater in his cell. I won’t let Boggart die.
He didn't even steal it lmao. Just tricked the silly lil snake lass. Didn't even touch her or he would have known she was a snake. RIP boggart, died to the simp instinct hahahaha.
Mending Rune of Carcinisation: Rune discovered by your partner, Big Boggart. Used to restore the fractured Elden Ring when brandished by the Elden Lord. When it all comes down to it, fixing the world is pretty intuitive: Treat others well, and they will treat others well in turn. Give gold to the poor, give the outcasts a place to call home, cure scoundrels of their rudeness with kindness, and feed the hungry.
I always liked Big Boggart. Man just wants to grill. I hadn't realized the implications of crabs purifying the sickness and death blight. That's a fantastic observation. All hail the mending rune of the crab! Also love the use of age of mythology music 9:20
Let's hope the dlc will bring us a new ending, cuz i can't wait for it. xd... ''The fallen leaves tell a story Of how a Tarnished became Elden Lord. In our home, across the fog, the Lands Between. Our seed will look back upon us, and recall. The Age of the Boiled Crab''
One of the best voice performances in the game, and that is saying something. ER has outstanding voicing! It really compelled investment in the characters. I almost break down in the end of his quest, a scared and reformed man, just asking to be allowed to die with some dignity. RIP BB 😥
Pro-tip for anyone who wants to Fight/Work With the Dung Eater but save Boggart for his Services/Friendship, before going to Altus, attack Boggart enough to make him Hostile, and then follow the steps to defeat the Dung Eater in the moat before using Absolution in the Church of Vows. The Dung Eater sits in his spot in the Gaol and his quest can be completed as there are a total of 6 Seedbed Curses Available, including the one found on Boggart, and only 5 are needed for the Mending Rune. Meanwhile, Boggart sells his crab for as long as you want.
Boggart was? I kill dung eater every time I see that hippie in the sewers just to keep crab bro alive. Just make sure you kill him before starting his dialogue boggart'll be fine and you get a cool sword.
it would be a cool mechanic if the more you purchased from npcs, the more they use those runes to level up. imagine buying a lot of crab from bogart and then he actually kills dungeater
I like how you used the same title as in the Dormhall Video Both sell useful stuff and are proud of it, and they both seem pretty simple character at first but where Dormhall appear to be welcoming on the outside he's probably extremely greedy in the inside (selling armor at crazy prices) whereas Boggart is rude on the outside, he's a true friend in the inside
I like to think that Boggart and the Dung Eater got out of jail the same way - we see the Dung Eater receive his tarnished Grace while he's surrounded by a crowd, hung from a noose in the midst of execution. It's likely Boggart had also been executed, but either earlier or in a different way than the Dung Eater, and simply left his grave to go to the Land's Between while following Grace.
Great video dude, just made me love this guy even more. Also really appreciate the fact that you censor with a soft bell ring instead of a abnoxious beep or something. Just wish i could like twice or more
In my first playthrough when I found him killed in the most gruesome way possible, I was genuinely shocked and deeply saddened. That was probably among the worst feelings I've had in a Souls game.
Secret lore: If Boggart survived and keeps on expanding his business, he'll become the great chef known throughout the Lands Between, and will eventually start a new cooking show, which involves him calling the contestants "idiot prawn-sandwich".
It's disappointing that there's only one outcome for Boggart, his path should have been similar to Solaire's journey in that he can get cursed, or as a character go beyond selling crab meat. There's still time Fromsoft.
Fear not, fellow Tarnished. For our friend, Big Boggart WILL be reborn far more BLESSED than before...! Blessed with despair... by the Crucible... as his children too shall be, and his children's children, until it is no longer a curse... but the blessed norm. 💩🪲
Great video! As one of the most involved lore-hunters on the platform, I hope you will be the first to tackle the question of who, "Elleh" is. My friends and I use her church as a go-to for item transfers, and every time we have to wonder just who this mysterious woman is, and why Miyazaki put her church in such a prominent location.
I gotta say, your choice of music in this video is really spot on and widespread. I'm well aware of the stuff people normally like to use like the Legend of Zelda stuff or Hollow Knight, but I definitely heard Age of Mythology and Gothic 2 tracks somewhere in there.
![FendiDa Rappa - Clock Dat ft. Shamar Marco [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3NBU8KHdxYY/mqdefault.jpg)
Rest in peace Prawnbrother you were too beautiful for this cruel world
PRAWNBROTHER. A new phrase to add to my lexicon
Just don’t let him die.
just kill dung eater in the sewers you get all his items and Prawnbrother survives
don't, you'll make me cry
Broggart
This is the DLC ending we actually need. Forget the mending rune of rot or abundance we need the mending rune of crustaceans
Mending Rune of Carcinisation:
Rune discovered by your partner, Big Boggart.
Used to restore the fractured Elden Ring when brandished by the Elden Lord.
When it all comes down to it, fixing the world is pretty intuitive: Treat others well, and they will treat others well in turn. Give gold to the poor, give the outcasts a place to call home, cure scoundrels of their rudeness with kindness, and feed the hungry.
Do you feel it now mr crabs
Ah, Carcinization, the process by which all things evolve to Crab. The true end of the Crab Cycle
This makes me think of an ending I’d like to hide in a game like this. It’d require a difficult path, one where you need to resist your own instinct for the sake of kindness. Aiding and showing kindness to such a seemingly insignificant figure, one who initially would draw you to react with derision and disgust, only to prove there is a person worth caring about, even in a broken, battle worn world like this. Mend the rune and make a world that brings out the good in all.
@@GrahamChapman This is the true ending 😢
I won't lie, Boggart having the mending rune of crab order would be so wholesome: all of the creatures from lands between, big and small, tarnished and merchants, humans and omens, albinaurics and sorcerers, those who live in death and everlasting dragons - sharing a nice meal of boiled crabs and leaving behind past conflicts
edit: grammar
Maybe they all turn into crabs and live in peace forever
@@user-ns4zm8qe9p after all, everything evolves into crabs for a reason. the deepest lore...
Also known as crab hell
It wasn't the bosses we killed but the friends that we made along the way that brought peace to the lands between
Mending Rune of Carcination
I lucked out not meeting boggart till after I had killed dung eater. Dung eater's my puppet and my boy's still cooking prawn. Feels good.
Boggart deserves to live.
Boggart feels like an inverse Patches. Both shady businessmen, one hiding a gentle heart behind a rough exterior, the other hiding his cruelty behind a smile.
Honestly I feel like they're inverses in other ways as well, Boggart is straightforward, honest for the most part, and is very emotionally driven. When he's angry, you know he's angry, when he's friendly, you know he's really being friendly.
Patches masks his deceit with layers of lies, always making plans and tricks, he's hard to read on every level, even to the point of actual motivation, in the end you have no idea if he truly has a hidden small bit of empathy left or if he's completely empty, he can be interpreted in multiple ways and no matter how many more Dark Souls 3 monologues he gets, it's likely we'll never get the full picture, and that's exactly what he'd want.
But seriously boggorts quest line ending up with him strapped to a chair being tortured almost ruined the game for me💀
Can’t be playing these games expecting happy endings. That’s why I turned dung eater into a puppet and he lives in my pocket now
@@user-ns4zm8qe9p me too, and holy shit does he carry at + 10 😂
This is why the only time I free Dung Eater is when I'm doing his ending.
Fair. The chronic tragedy of souls games is a little boring at times, imo.
he got violated in the doodoo hole by dungeater lmao
The boiled prawns tell a story.
The Elden Ring was shattered.
In our home across the fog, the Lands Between.
The boiled prawns tell a story.
That the Dung Eater had perished.
In our shack across the fog, Liurnia of the Lakes.
And now Head Chef Marika is nowhere to be found
and in the Night of the Black Kitchen Knives, Godwyn the Golden-Brown was the first to get cooked
Soon Marika's kitchen staff, demigods all, claims the shards of the Elden Onion Ring
The mad taint of their newfound flavoring triggered the Shattering
A cookoff from which no chef rose
A cookoff leading to the abandonment by the Greater Will
@@joshuakim5240 Oooh, feast now, ye Famished! Ye fed, who yet eat! The call of long lost Clam Bake speaks to us *ALL!*
@@iboofer this is so good
@@iboofer Hoarah Loux, Chieftain of the Pancakes!
The ever broiling, Gold Mask!
Fia, the Breadbed companion!
The Loathsome Bun Eater!
And sir Gideon Ofnir, the all Kneading
Me: starved for obscure lore
Hawkshaw: "Marika's tits you must be hungry"
You can keep big boggart alive if you don't interact with him after getting the necklace back, going to free dung eater, killing him in the invasion and then going back to talk to boggart. Sadly there's no alternate ending other than him remaining alive
You can just leave dung eater locked up can't you?
You can also punch him and aggro him in leyndell, then go release dung eater and use celestial dew to get boggart friendly again, I heard.
But tbh just kill the dung eater, or let him rot for eternity.
If only From took the time to give a multiple choice to that like how they did with Solaire in Dark Souls 1. I'm guessing if they did think that through they didn't have the time due to just how big a project Elden Ring was for them by comparison.
It'd be nice if in a future DLC or patch update they could flesh him out as well as some of the other questlines that they had to give up. It still bugs me, for example, that a supposedly wandering people of tradesmen just stick to one site of grace and don't move. I get it with the ones stuck underground but you'd think Kale at least would pick his butt up and go to, say, a different shack in Limgrave every now and then.
@@kerianhalcyon2769 they chose not to do branching quests on purpose. But letting Boggart live isn’t just ‘not finishing his quest,’ you can just kill Dung-Eater.
or you could go and perform some amateur surgery on the bloody bastard in his cell, serves that monster right.
The man could safely cook deathblight riddled crab. I bet he could stop the blight from spreading if he cooked Godwyn
Godwyn is like a big fish.
The secret Cajun ending.
I wish if you killed the dung eater prior you could see just where life takes Blackguard. Like he could've been a dirty and rude Solaire. Imagine if could've been summoned to help us fight Radagon much like Solaire if you save him. It'd be fitting for a guy with big ideas.
But Dung Eater is the Solaire of Elden Ring. He even has his Sun around his Neck, over his Belly, where Solaires Armor had his painted on Sun.
@@backpug1228 Praise the Dung
@@otto_jk he found his Sun, did not like what he saw, did a 180 and now praises the Moon(ing)
If you kill Dung Eater, Bogart happily makes crab for all eternity
Riding into battle on a giant crab pulled by majestic prawns
Boggart WAS tricked. Someone told him crawfish were prawns and he believed it all his life.
The Mending Rune of Crab: the true ending.
No magic, no faith, and no strenght
All pure cooking skill from a Prawn Conoisseur
@@bruschetta7711 Boggart would've put all of his points into Vigor and Endurance.
Finally, the True Crab Cycle.
based and crab-pilled
You can actually keep him alive even when he's in lyndale by basically getting the key from the dung eaters spirit at the roundtable and killing his physical form in the sewers when you meet him. You won't get the altered ending for his quest but You'll get his armor and weopeon as well as keeping your boiled crab selling friend alive which to me is a way better reward then that alternate ending.
I vow if I ever play ER I'll do this. I'm already too attached to Bogart, from all these lore videos my friend sends me.
@@lathyrusloon Foreal tho seems like a chill guy. He's the only person that you can keep alive threw out the whole entire game and actually serves a purpose of selling you boiled crabs, but most of all his famous line "marikas titts you must be hungry" 🤣
But some of us are completionists and need EVERY GODDAMN ENDING!
@@etinarcadiaego7424 well then be prepared for cause and affect. The truth that completionists must except even if it's not the most favorable outcome.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 Make an evil character, then! If you don't kill everyone, drag it out and do the worst to them along the way, and make that your most evil playthrough!
Finally, REAL lore
ONLY LORE THAT MATTERS
Interesting to note but as an Irish elden ring player, i always likened the name Boggart to the Irish world "Bagairt", which means a threat. Cool video as always, Big Boggart my favourite NPC and its a delight to have some light shed upon him :D
Marika's tits, a fellow Irishman.
Marika's tits, you must be 'ungry.
Aye I always thought the same good eye
Big Boggart has the best lines and some of the best voice acting in the game. It's a shame the voice actor, Dean Fagan, doesn't get enough credit for it by FromSoft.
Wdym?
Yeah I don't know what you mean. All from soft voice actors are goated. Patches voice actor is an irl actor and has the perfect chops to be patches.
@@lucamckenn5932it's so eerie watching him act cuz he's just as evil and mischievous sounding just being...well, himself 😂
@@lucamckenn5932 i think what he means is that Dean Fagan is a "normal" actor in real life too, and a fairly well-known one at that.
I live in England and Dean Fagan was on Coronation Street for a few years, one of the most famous TV shows in Britain that's been running since the '60s. Like if Doctor Who was a crappy "friendly English neighborhood" soap opera.
There's 1000s of episodes and they routinely embarrass us - millions more Brits tuned in to watch a fictional marriage on the show instead of watching the Royal Wedding of the now-King Charles III that same day lmfao
Right confusing, putting the name of a Corrie actor to the face of Boggart!
@@AdamOwenBrowning
I don’t see why that’s embarrassing, i would also rather watch a fictional marriage between two characters I like than a real wedding for two people whose place in society should have been abolished 200 years ago
I don't know where any of this "Boggart gets cursed" business comes from, but I assume it's an elaborate joke. Anyone whose played the game knows that Boggart happily sells crab the rest of the game, after the Dung Eater is slain before he can resume his defilement spree.
when I first heard is opening line at the edge of Leyndell, hearing him drop the aggression when he realises it's us, my heart just melted a little for the big softy
His healing presence doesn't end when his life does. Thanks to his bell bearing, more limitless crab may be purchased by all who visit the Roundtable Hold. Even in death, his services only get better.
Twin Maiden husks upon being offered the bell bearing: "What do you mean we have to learn how to cook this??"
I just want to say, I sincerely love your content, Hawkshaw. Been watching it for years now, and not only are your interpretations of the lore incredible, your storytelling and writing is. You frame narratives so exceptionally, and really bring out a lot of heart in these characters, and these games. Thank you so much for everything you do.
Agree wholeheartedly. Every video is special.
My personal theory is that the dung eater left Boggart alive on purpose so he would be terrified and spread the horrifying tale of the dung eater wherever he goes
why does he kill him later then
@@mohitonon-alco4287 well isn't it obvious ? to clean up loose ends
@@VionysusSmilesthen why leave a loose end
to make a point duh@@marcogreedo4963
@@marcogreedo4963 it builds his reputation and doesn’t leave a witness later on
I know you don't know me but this video changed how I view myself and the ways I have affected the world from my unfortunate upbringing. May we be good men like Boggart, so that we may see the result of our Grace, even if we were molded by a world which only asked us to give in to the horrors it perpetuates.
This is genuinely my favourite Elden Ring Lore video I've ever watched. Seriously amazing work, you opened my eyes, that Boggart isn't just a joke character, but actually has some surprising depth. I'll definitely go out of my way to save him on my future playthroughs after this. I was half expecting an April Fools joke out of this, but it genuinely made me tear up a little, realizing how relatable he is. After all, I've never met someone with a taste for M̶a̶r̶i̶k̶a̶'s̶ t̶i̶t̶s̶ prawns I couldn't trust.
While miquella is using fancy unalloyed gold to heal and remove the Outer Gods influences Big Boggart can do the same with crabs, the small ones are immune to madness and deathblight.I suppose it's true that crabs in this world have purifiers properties, you can also find them on catacombs, so a link might be there.
Now Im imagining an alternative timeline where miquella and Boggart team up
@@mckinneym.2743 Miquella would make boggart watch 💀
This comment... Have we finally found the missing clue to the puzzle of the crab in the skeleton ball...?
Smoughtown just put out a hammer now hawkshaw is back! What a time to be a souls lore fan ❤
Smoughtown just put out a hammer now hawkshaw is back! What a time to be a souls lore fan❤
The age of plenty is upon us 🙏🙏
Have you found Tarnished Archeologist? Freaking mindblowing
There is something so damn cathartic about letting that giant crab kill Dung Eater, if you set it up properly. I imagine the tarnished standing over the crushed, dying body of the Dung Eater, looking down and saying, "Boggart sends his regards, asshole."
Or better yet, turning his soul into your puppet with Seluvis' potion.
That part at 17:25 when dung eater blended in with the background is actually awesome 👏 great directing 👍
Wow! I didn't even see that.
I loved Boggart. Seeing him in Layndell, "I got crab!" and I knew I found my friend again. The completionist in me made me do the dungeater's quest, but I definitely regret the outcome, especially since I never used his rune in the end. I miss you Prawn brother
I love this dude. His demeanor goes from mean and antagonistic to tame and friendly once you talk to him some. He's a convicted criminal, yet he's one of the nicest people to you in all the lands between.
These words coming from a Primal Aspid, usually the incarnations of hair-tearing madness and evil, is oddly sweet.
if fia can dream a mending rune, dung eater cursing one up and goldmask, calculate another. then surely... boggart can boil me a nice mending rune of the shellfish.
Best Friend in elden ring, I always felt that at his second location, because we are his friend we get a discount on his new product. But I like the idea from this video more, he is just that great of a guy 🤩
Interestingly the word “bog” means God in many Cyrillic languages (“бог”). Of course we can interpret this word by it’s English definition, which means swamp (makes sense, as we find him in Liurnia) but as a Slavic person it’s hard not to associate the name with something godly, or heroic. I know it’s a reach, but I find it interesting that this character who is made out to be a thug has a name that in some languages gives him a closer connection to God than most other characters in the lands between, especially given his story. FromSoft has a pretty strong reputation of pulling obscure details from different cultures in order to season their worlds, this especially shines in their very intentional nomenclature, so who knows.
Food for thought 🦐
I've still not found his face-data for character creation. There's videos of face-data of all NPCs but not this guy?! And theres like one image of him without his helmet on google. Its really odd. I want his data for my own character creation! He's handsome! haha But I can't find it! If anyone knows a video please suggest it with timestamps or something.
"Elden ring npc slinders"
Finally, our boi Boggart gets the love he deserves!
What the everloving heck is a "boi"?
@@hyliadreamer according to Urban dictionary, the most trustworthy of sources, "My boi - A great friend but you want to sound cool or you don't want to say his name"
@hyliadreamer
A male or masculine person you respect or are friends with. Its an alternate spelling of "boy".
Does he die if you off Dung Eater as soon as you open the cell? I though that the Dung Eater would start killing NPCs like in the older games, so I opened the cell and annihilated the bastard, and I though Boggard was left alive after all. I didn't visit him constantly, but I remember bying a ton of crab for him for later bosses
yeah if Dung never makes it of that cell then he never kills crabman
Damn, Boggart is a hottie! Thanks for the great video 🙂
IKRRRR but I want the face-data!!! xD
Honestly who even wants the Dung Eater ending? I say either leave him in his cell or kill him. I’d rather be eating crab with my friend than cursing the world.
The boiling prawns tell a story.
All of the seed bed curses are found on corpses defiled by the dung eater, wich would imply that bogart was not cursed upon his death since a seedbed wasnt droped. I like to think he went to a better place lol i usually kill dung eater or turn him into a puppet either way tho bogarts awesome
Seedbed is dropped sadly
Never expected a Hawkshaw Elden Ring lore video to end with such a wholesome idea, really great stuff
"The fallen Prawns.. Tell a story.."
"Of how a Prawnseller.. Became a Prawn Lord."
"In the age.. Of The Prawn."
I love the implication that there are prawns falling like leaves from a giant prawn-tree.
@@Daniel_Lancelin "Prawnfrey, The First, Prawndn Prawn."
@@Nightskyunceasing THE SHELLDEN LOBSTER
I hope that the dlc introduces some reward for being smart enough to just kill the Dung Eater on sight.
If only just having Boggart show up as a summon again.
--or having the foresight to run Dung Eater's quest to the point where he's been defeated before running Boggart's quest along to the point for him to relocate to Leyendel.
Im so glad my man Boggart is getting the recognition he deserves... best homie out there
Bogart has no right being that attractive under his helm lol.
I really love that each character, no matter how minor, have backstorys, and the quest lines attached to them are interesting and teach us lore of the world. It's too bad most meet tragic ends.
IKR! And I want that face data!!! hahaha But I can't find it anywhere >.
@@satyasyasatyasya5746 there’s a youtuber named Zarria or something like that the witch and she shows what npcs looks like without their mask and I’m sure this guys seen it I’m not sure why he made boggart some white dude because he’s black.
@@jayloncollins9681 Its Zullie the Witch, and I already mentioned that there's videos of face-data in my original comment, but they're all missing Prawn Bro.
there's something almost romantic about comparing patches' antics with boggarts. boggarts beautiful interior is hidden by the mask so he can avoiding violence altogether with empty threats - while patches' trustworthy voice and facade let him get close so he can steal/cheat. it makes him almost like a polar opposite to boggart
Then again, given that Elden Ring Patches appears to have a thing for Tanith, it could be that he's looking out for Rya for Tanith's sake: He sees that Tanith cares about Rya, so he cares about her as well... He's grown a bit as a character...
@@GrahamChapmanmaybe
@@soggybubble Well, yes, we can obviously never truly know for certain where we've got Patches... Still, he has people he cares about both in DS3 and Elden Ring...
He will always like... CHESTS and bIrD wAtChInG.
12:45 No, I don't see Rya pulling a con like that on Boggart. She's too simple and kind for plotting a scheme like this.
Remember, Rya is a girl who doesn't even know what's going on in her own home. A schemer would be curious or intuitive enough to guess what's happening behind the scene, but Rya is heartbroken after discovering what an awful place her home truly is.
Rya is so innocent, it isn't even safe for her to venture out of the mannor alone... which in a sense she doesn't, because at least in Liurnia, Patches is close enough to keep an eye on her, especially around a scary character like Boggart. Sure, Boggart may have ruffled a few of her feathers, but Patches would not have allowed true harm to come to her.
I'd say first idea for searching champions was Tanith's, but the test it self was probably something Patches came up with, and Ray and Boggart were there just along for the ride. Rya probably had no idea she was meant to be looking for people capable of committing murder, but rather heroes who didn't shy when a maiden like her was in trouble.
At least, that's what I think transpired.
No, Rya knows what the Volcano Manor is all about and its mission. To kill Tarnished serving the Golden Order in the name of Rykard. But that's as far as her need to know goes.
Patches is not guaranteed to be close by, he only shows up if you've defeated him and then spared him. He could either be in the cave still or dead depending on your choices. Rya still shows up, she is a SCOUT aka a recruiter
She's unaware of the greater area of the manor because Tanith restricts her knowledge of it via locked doors and illusions, since Tanith feels knowledge of her origins would hurt her.
Rya's quest is ultimately about her realising who she is and accepting it, leaving on a journey after, to become more grown up. But she never relents on Tanith's doctrines, she wants to come back someday so she can better serve Tanith's vision.
@@1CJMac1 Thanks for correcting me, I wasn't actually aware that Patches doesn't always appear in Liurnia with Rya. My knowledge must be rusty. (X
Now I want a mending rune of the boiled crab. And a crab helmet in addition to the octopus one.
I really never knew much about Prawnbro but the second he offered to sell me some after I had completed a mini-quest that had me thinking he was a messed up guy he was basically the 'bro character' for me the whole playthrough, which works considering the sort of character I had in mind for my build.
absolutely love that you decided to make a boggart video
i cried, 🦐
AHA I knew it! HES A PRAWN.
There are suckers that didnt kill the dungeater on sight?
What is wrong with yall? it isnt like a Lautrec case of "well he just has a creepy laugh" the man makes it clear on repeated ocassions that he wants to defile you and everyone else in sight.
Bruh, I WRECKED dungie poo head after he killed my mate.
Maybe a silly idea, but Boggart drops his bell bearing.
We don't really know what these are but we give them to the Twinmaiden Husks and they're holding a staff full of - what looks like - sleigh bells.
Maybe we give them these bell bearing so they slot them inside these?
And what we know about bells in Elden ring? That's right, they summon spirits.
So... We can buy things and learn ashes of war because Twinmaiden actually summon a spirits for us?
This mean that Boggart's soul might be actually safe inside this bell bearing. Died before Dungeater could complete his corruption (his bell looks like any other normal bella , not horned or corrupted in any way)
Just a fan-fic after ending:
Maybe when it's all over we could return his soul to the Erdtree and allow him the rebirth? Who really knows. All souls games were open for interpretation after all
Long live Boggart! Maybe he could have even been Elden Lord. He just needed a heftier push from a friend. Great video, as per usual!
I kill dung eater every time because boggart is worth it.
"In the credits for the game, he's listed only as 'thug'" has the same energy as "nameless, accursed undead, unfit even to be cinder"
8 mins late, sorry hawkshaw
I honestly open up the cell just so I can merc that loathsome dung eater. Prawn brother is too valuable to lose to him and I'd rather see him live than get the achievement for the dung eater ending.
There are no achievements for the mending rune endings; all of those and the default one will give you the "Elden Lord" achievement. Ranni and the Frenzied Flame are the only ones that get their own achievements. It would be insane to have to beat the game six times to get all achievements lol
15:50 ohh the memoryes , the nostalgia . It is so good to hear music from my favourite game of all time .
Those games basicly created the from software/witcher formulas combined into one .
Wow... You really gave this NPC life, character and a personality. Amazingly written. Really fell in love with Boggart. Thank you for taking the time to share and post this beautifully narrated story. Looking forward to more of your content.
I've only ever seen Boggart drop a seedbed curse when he dies in the chair, have I missed something? I've checked wikis and walkthroughs and haven't found anything, but boy it'd be nice to have a playthrough where I complete his questline and he doesn't end up cursed haha.
I killed the donkey there when an opened his cell and killed him For the Boiled crab
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Throughout this video I was tearing up, but seeing the crab shaped mending rune at the end had me busting in laughter.
Damn, poor Bogart. He deserved better.
All I heard was more evidence towards why everything eventually evolves into crabs
I can’t believe I always killed him because he stole Rya’s necklace. I was such an idiot for not doing his quest. He is the literally the character I relate to the most, this video brought me to tears. I am such a bad person. Next time I will make sure to kill the shit eater in his cell. I won’t let Boggart die.
wowww
Make dungy into a puppet, AND save boggart.
He didn't even steal it lmao. Just tricked the silly lil snake lass. Didn't even touch her or he would have known she was a snake.
RIP boggart, died to the simp instinct hahahaha.
Mending Rune of Carcinisation:
Rune discovered by your partner, Big Boggart.
Used to restore the fractured Elden Ring when brandished by the Elden Lord.
When it all comes down to it, fixing the world is pretty intuitive: Treat others well, and they will treat others well in turn. Give gold to the poor, give the outcasts a place to call home, cure scoundrels of their rudeness with kindness, and feed the hungry.
I've always liked characters like these in the souls games... Let all things flourish, whether graceful or maligned.
Cringe Ranni lore VS Based Boggart lore
I always liked Big Boggart. Man just wants to grill. I hadn't realized the implications of crabs purifying the sickness and death blight. That's a fantastic observation. All hail the mending rune of the crab!
Also love the use of age of mythology music 9:20
Eventually everything will evolve to be crab. Crab is truth.
Let's hope the dlc will bring us a new ending, cuz i can't wait for it. xd...
''The fallen leaves tell a story
Of how a Tarnished became Elden Lord.
In our home, across the fog, the Lands Between.
Our seed will look back upon us, and recall.
The Age of the Boiled Crab''
One of the best voice performances in the game, and that is saying something. ER has outstanding voicing! It really compelled investment in the characters.
I almost break down in the end of his quest, a scared and reformed man, just asking to be allowed to die with some dignity. RIP BB 😥
YES!!
Pro-tip for anyone who wants to Fight/Work With the Dung Eater but save Boggart for his Services/Friendship, before going to Altus, attack Boggart enough to make him Hostile, and then follow the steps to defeat the Dung Eater in the moat before using Absolution in the Church of Vows.
The Dung Eater sits in his spot in the Gaol and his quest can be completed as there are a total of 6 Seedbed Curses Available, including the one found on Boggart, and only 5 are needed for the Mending Rune.
Meanwhile, Boggart sells his crab for as long as you want.
1:16 BRUH
We NEED a Boggart Prawn Shop store sim DLC.
You can just aggro him, then kill the poo eater in his invasion, and then use the church of vows to be friends again.
Boggart was? I kill dung eater every time I see that hippie in the sewers just to keep crab bro alive. Just make sure you kill him before starting his dialogue boggart'll be fine and you get a cool sword.
it would be a cool mechanic if the more you purchased from npcs, the more they use those runes to level up. imagine buying a lot of crab from bogart and then he actually kills dungeater
I like how you used the same title as in the Dormhall Video
Both sell useful stuff and are proud of it, and they both seem pretty simple character at first but where Dormhall appear to be welcoming on the outside he's probably extremely greedy in the inside (selling armor at crazy prices) whereas Boggart is rude on the outside, he's a true friend in the inside
I like to think that Boggart and the Dung Eater got out of jail the same way - we see the Dung Eater receive his tarnished Grace while he's surrounded by a crowd, hung from a noose in the midst of execution. It's likely Boggart had also been executed, but either earlier or in a different way than the Dung Eater, and simply left his grave to go to the Land's Between while following Grace.
Great video dude, just made me love this guy even more.
Also really appreciate the fact that you censor with a soft bell ring instead of a abnoxious beep or something.
Just wish i could like twice or more
In my first playthrough when I found him killed in the most gruesome way possible, I was genuinely shocked and deeply saddened. That was probably among the worst feelings I've had in a Souls game.
Secret lore: If Boggart survived and keeps on expanding his business, he'll become the great chef known throughout the Lands Between, and will eventually start a new cooking show, which involves him calling the contestants "idiot prawn-sandwich".
Ramsy really is a big softie... lol
I really like all the topic you chose for the Lore! The story about Boggart is very insightful!!!♥️
Music from J.O.U.R.N.E.Y makes it so much more dramatic. Fuck yea. "New leaf". Music choice, theme, i love it. Subbed!
Mending Rune of Crab Acquired
prawn bro noooooo :'^(
It's disappointing that there's only one outcome for Boggart, his path should have been similar to Solaire's journey in that he can get cursed, or as a character go beyond selling crab meat. There's still time Fromsoft.
Had no clue in my 500 hours I missed out on the most wholesome Souls adventurer since Solaire.
Fear not, fellow Tarnished. For our friend, Big Boggart WILL be reborn far more BLESSED than before...! Blessed with despair... by the Crucible... as his children too shall be, and his children's children, until it is no longer a curse... but the blessed norm. 💩🪲
I love your videos!
Great video!
As one of the most involved lore-hunters on the platform, I hope you will be the first to tackle the question of who, "Elleh" is. My friends and I use her church as a go-to for item transfers, and every time we have to wonder just who this mysterious woman is, and why Miyazaki put her church in such a prominent location.
This is lore I dearly wish to be canon. Mending rune of good crabby patties.
I gotta say, your choice of music in this video is really spot on and widespread. I'm well aware of the stuff people normally like to use like the Legend of Zelda stuff or Hollow Knight, but I definitely heard Age of Mythology and Gothic 2 tracks somewhere in there.