Elden Ring: Player discovers truly disturbing cannibal scene

Elden Ring is one of the biggest and best game releases of recent times, but it regularly embraces horror more than anything else.

The Lands Between boasts a variety of truly grotesque monsters roaming the lands, and some really odd curiosities that can be found simply by roaming the world.

There are enemies of the ilk of giant spiders, skeletons, and rabid, undead, dogs, and the lot of them can do real damage, causing your health bar to dwindle.

However, a new discovery by a player on Reddit has perhaps proven that the biggest monster is man himself.

The player, by the name of Raging Roids, posted a video of what he thought was a soldier grieving their fallen comrade.

The animation shows the soldier knelt by the side of his friend’s corpse and putting his hands from his face to the fallen man.

It could easily be mistaken for crying, with the soldier potentially holding his head in his hands.

But the truth is far more sinister.

As Gamerant reports, the player has missed the sound of what can only be described as chewing.

The player isn’t witnessing one soldier grieving another: he’s seeing one soldier eating another. The hands going up and down aren’t a case of grieving, instead a case of the soldier picking up pieces of flesh to eat.

There isn’t much lore about potential cannibalism in Elden Ring and it also isn’t exactly clear why the soldier would be eating their mate.

There is the potential of the NPC being guided by the demi-god Rykard, who gained his power by being devoured, or they could also have been driven mad by the Flame of Frenzy.

There is another answer, and one which is far more unsettling: Perhaps the soldier is simply doing what he needs to do to stay alive.

He’s a soldier in the Lands Between, dealing