D, Beholder of Death

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Location Nokron, Eternal City
Role Quest NPC and Summon
Voiced by  ???

D, Beholder of Death (real name: Devin) is an NPC in Elden Ring. He can be found in Nokron, Eternal City, east of the Great Waterfall Basin grace. To interact with D, Beholder of Death, you need the Twinned Armor. If given the armor, he will be available as a summon against the Valiant Gargoyle pair. He is the twin brother of Darian, also known as D, Hunter of the Dead.

 

 Ah, aah... D-da...ri... Ngh...nnngh...

 

D, Beholder of Death Location and Questline in Elden Ring:

D, Beholder of Death can be found at Nokron, Eternal City, east of the Great Waterfall Basin grace, against the railing of the balcony just outside the Valiant Gargoyle boss arena in the Siofra Aqueduct. [Map Link]

Attempting to interact with him awards the player with the Inner Order gesture.

If given the unaltered Twinned Set, he can be summoned to assist with the Valiant Gargoyle and Valiant Gargoyle (Twinblade) in the Siofra Aqueduct, next to where he can initially be found.  Reloading the map or observing his summon sign will make him disappear from his initial location.
He can next be found at Fia's location in the Deeproot Depths, if the player has received the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince from her and given him the Twinned Set. After reloading the area he will be found gloating over her corpse, finding her dead. [Map Link]

However, the Twinned Set has one of the highest vitality stats in the game which is very important for surviving death blight. You can wear the helm, chest and gloves of the set and pair it with the knight boots for high vitality and 51 poise. It is not recommended to give the set to him early for this reason.

After interacting with him next to Fia, exhausting his dialogue, and reloading the area again, he will have vanished, leaving the Twinned Set and the Inseparable Sword behind.

If the player has acquired the Twinned Set from Darian, Hunter of the Dead by killing him at his first location and given Devin the Twinned set, he will instead turn hostile upon reloading the area and attack the player. He will drop the Twinned Set and Inseparable Sword if defeated.

Dialogue in Elden Ring: D, Beholder of Death

When spoken to before questline progression

  • <sleeping>

After giving Twinned Armor

  • "Ah, aah...
    D-da...ri...
    Ngh...nnngh..."

After giving Twinned Armor and reloading the area, if D was killed by the player at Limgrave

  • (Combat) "You will know vengeance for Darian.
    The wrath of D..."

Finding him at Fia's body

  • "Ha! Prince of Death, take a good long look!
    See the wrath of the Golden Order! The Order's justice, writ in blood!
    This is what's become of your precious witch! Naught but expired meat and bone!
    Look at this rotten w.h.o.r.e. No more children can be got from this useless flesh!
    Behold, your mother is dead!
    Heh heh heh heh...This is revenge, you witch! And you, you ghoul! This is the wrath of D!"

Talking to him afterwards

  • "Ah. Hello.
    The rotten witch is dead. The Golden Order, unsullied.
    Now I can look my brother Darian in the eye.
    Honeyed rays of gold, deliver my spirit."
  • "Darian, now I have no regrets.
    Honeyed rays of gold, deliver my spirit."

When attacked

  • (Warning)
    "Oof!"
    "What's the meaning of this? Has she bewitched you?"
  • (Combat)
    "Very well. Then you are a blight. A defiler of the Golden Order, and murderer of my brother. 
    Die! Die! Die!"
    "I'll grind your corpse into that vile wench's rotting remains. A witch's eternal embrace, just as you wished!"
  • (On player kill)
    "You defiled cretin. My brother is now avenged!"

When killed

  • "How could this...
    Forgive me, Darian... D-Darian..."

 

Elden Ring D's Twin Brother Notes & Trivia

  • A golden barrier is protecting him at his first location if rolling, jumping or attacking (near) him.
  • He is first mentioned (unless the player kills his brother in Limgrave) in Rogier's Letter.
  • His name is Devin; D mentions his name when apologizing whilst dying if the player kills him at Limgrave.
  • If provoked after giving him the armor, D's Brother wields the Inseparable Sword and a sacred seal, which he uses to cast Discus of Light.
  • Killing him for his gear is unnecessary: exhausting his dialogue after he kills Fia and reloading the area by resting at the nearby grace will result in him vanishing, with his gear left behind at the spot he was standing.

 

 

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    • Anonymous

      I'm confused in this comment section (I am going under the guise that majority of people here are not women hating incels), but Fia's ending effectively brings actual Death to Lands Between so that there is no such thing as immortality and proper cycle of life and death can occur, correct?

      So why are people trying to skew that into saying that it's the bad ending? (Same with Ranni, funny that isn't it how the two endings that have to do with female characters are consistently being painted as the worst endings while the selfsame people parade the Frenzied Flame ending as something good, but I digress).

      On the topic of D., while it sucks that Fia had to kill him do people forget the fact that he is a fanatical, zealous mass murderer himself who would spare no thoughts for anything that goes against his cult? He would have most definitely killed Fia in her sleep the moment he learned of who she was so, while once again it sucks he had to be killed, it had to be done.

      • I let him kill Fia (as in, I gave him the armor and didn't murder him preemptively) because she killed his brother, but then I killed him because he was excessively rude about it in my presence. Revenge is one thing, but she's the only person empathetic enough to give you a hug when you need one (I choose to believe the hugs were wholesome), and I won't stand for this sort of insult to my hug provider.

        I tried to kill him with Elden Stars because of that line "Honeyed rays of gold, deliver my spirit" but when I cast it I remembered that Elden Stars is not good.

        • Anonymous

          I really wanted to fight him after he killed Fia to "deliver his spirit", (and to see how tough he was,) but i also really didn't want to kill him cause he helped me kill the gargoyle pair. So after punching him twice i cowarded out and reloaded the area for the loot. Too bad his stats aren't on the page (yet), so i'll actually have to fight him to get a rough estimate of his toughness in the final spot.

          • Anonymous

            Virgin Fia fan(she's too busy doing it with corpses) vs Chad Golden Order enjoyer (they murdered 5 minorities on the way to work)

            • I mean, I would do the same for the person who killed my twin brother. Question is, why is he unarmored and sitting there in the middle of nowhere (remember noone can acess nokron before we kill Radahn!) while his bro is chilling at the Roundtable

              • Anonymous

                You can watch him blink out of existence after giving him the armor if you turn your camera while going up the stairs. Bro is literally batman

                • Anonymous

                  Him: Look at this rotten w.h.o.r.e. No more children can be got from this useless flesh!
                  Me: Jesus christ man shes already dead!

                  • Anonymous

                    The people that are angry at this guy taking revenge on Fia who literally murdered his brother and consider her innocent and this guy the devil for it are coping big time

                    • Anonymous

                      Those who live in death is like the other side of the coin for Scarlet Rot. Where as one has the afflicted endlessly rotting yet never dying, the other has them fully dead yet somehow living. There's 0 reason to pick this ending, poor Godwyn, you're basically making his rotting fish state official, forever removing any chance of him being saved.

                      • Anonymous

                        Wonder if there will be a secret DLC quest if you killed D in Limgrave and then killed his twin brother in the Aqueduct? Since Fia would still be alive maybe we'd be able to meet Godwyn after she resurrects him.

                        • Anonymous

                          I picked Fia's ending in my first playthrough, it felt like the best course for the people/creatures perpetually living & dying in the ruins of the lands between. Devin killing her didn't really bother me - she murdered his brother, accomplished what she wanted with the rune, he gets revenge. Fair enough lol.

                          • Anonymous

                            What people don't seem to realize is that neither fia nor D are doing the right thing. While those who live in death are indeed innocent, they're most likely in constant mental torture(if they can think), since their current state goes completely against the erdtree's intended cycle of life, which is what they were taught to be the only true way of life. Forcing everyone to live in death via fia's ending just means forcing everyone to suffer from constant mental torment.

                            • Anonymous

                              I first saw him near fia, and I wasn’t gonna kill him, because I knew her quest line was over anyways, but I saw she died, and she wasn’t even able to defend herself. hearing him gloat and all, I brutally put him to death. No matter what fia did, he had no honor in that fight.

                              • Anonymous

                                I’m glad everyone cares more about politics than they do about the game. Cause thats what these threads look like, a bunch of politicians who failed in reality so they come on here telling you which side to choose in this game as if they are running for governor of the lands between.

                                • Anonymous

                                  While D is a cool guy, his gloating twin deserved zero respect, my friends and I all gave him destined death, not to mention he’s weak AF and not even given a boss fight. Loved how the narrative puts into perspective how religious cults like the Golden Order can embolden their fanatic followers to the point of blind hatred against a persecuted group of undead that are the way they are because of the order’s meddling of reality. In Fia’s ending, reality is restored with death introduced, allowing everyone to pass on to the afterlife and no longer become living zombies like the hollowed out wandering nobles. Interestingly, only the tarnished seem sane at this point, while everyone are undead or becoming zombies

                                  • Anonymous

                                    is there a differnce between killing the brother after Fia's death after hearing him gloat or just sitting at the grace where the gear is left behind?

                                    • Anonymous

                                      Is that one guy who botted/alted downvotes and spammed every single anti fia comment with angry replies finally gone?

                                      • Anonymous

                                        Even though neither of them were really doing the right thing, I can respect both D and Fia for at least having the convictions to fight, kill and die for their cause and what they believed was right. On the other hand this dude sleeps in Nokron while his brother is killed, then once he gets his brothers armor he kills a sleeping woman and gloats over her corpse... Idk man I cant really respect that. Which is why I killed him after that.

                                        Basically D is cool, but Ds brother... kind of a crazy loser.

                                        • Anonymous

                                          Based character. I killed fia in my first playthrough before fortisax for stabbing my boy D, found out I missed a boss fight, and then in my next play through the chad does it for me.

                                          • Anonymous

                                            Regardless of the sins of Darian and Devin, Fia is a genocidal maniac. She hides behind a pitiable guise when the truth is that she wants to force undeath on the entire world. She is not nearly as helpless and she pretends to be. Devin is a creep but killing her was justified.

                                            • Anonymous

                                              Couple of things I've noticed:

                                              Firstly:
                                              - If you never talk to D but do the rest of Fia's questline she dies where she was sleeping and you can loot here clothes. There's no blood pooled around her though.

                                              - Giving D his dead brother's drip and then fast traveling to Prince of Death's throne will still have D standing over Fia's corpse with a blood pool.

                                              This adds some validity to the theory that Fia dies birthing the rune and D is just so eager for revenge that he doesn't notice she's already dead when he stabs her.

                                              Secondly:
                                              - If D dies in Limgrave (either by your hand or collateral from the nearby skeletons) D still hunts down and kills Fia over it. Even though it's not her fault he died.

                                              Guy is so mad at a heretic that he'll kill her for something she hasn't done. Peak zealot moment.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                wait, fia is already dead at the end of her questline. so did this guy just stab her corpse and pretend he killed her? lol

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  not a fia simp but i always kill him at the end of the quest. that's what i did with alfred's quest, which this one is very reminiscent. both clearly lost it and are too far gone, it just makes sense to put them down. it also just feels a little anticlimactic to have him disappear and leave his stuff behind. what they should've done is have him turn on you after his dialogue since you were helping her in the first place

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    Prince of death destroyed the guy. Fia killed his other half/twin brother. Both sides were extremist. He was probably driven mad in his little slumber, didn't sound fun.. Dang straight he wanted to kill her and stop Godwyn from coming back, you killed my brother. Then he was okay with joining him.. no right side here though. Everyone dying was justified.. Living in death destroyed rogie Fia served a monster of a master. She's no better and also an extremists. Great little storyline

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      Bro, not people siding with this literal theocratic fundamentalist fascist over a woman who wanted her people liberated. Folks talking about Fia killing Rogier forget that he himself identifies the fact that living within death isn't a sin but a glitch in the system caused by Ranni slaying Godwyn's soul. He even comes back to defend Fia when we reach deeproot depths because he is devoted to seeing the Mending Rune of Death installed in the Elden Ring from before he even dies evidenced by his own musings on the cursemark. D got what was coming to him for being a fantasy nazi and y'all who're siding with his psycho brother in here need therapy. No wonder people **** on our community for being toxic and stupid.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        Thank you for bringing that witch to justice she didn't just enthrall the dead but she has enthralled the living you will be called a fanatic the masses may hate you but you did the right thing I will look to you and your brother's teachings and teach them to others

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          A lot of people here don’t understand that fia murdered D for no reason other than getting the half of the curse mark he was guarding, he had no clue she was affiliated with death until she taunted him with his brothers dagger; Because the tarnished are not undead, and neither is fia, she’s a freak that’s condoning and forcing living in death upon others. Look at rogier for example, he gazes upon a fragment of Godwyn once and loses the ability to walk, and then the ability to even think for himself when he is forced to fight in defense of fia; You really think he just suddenly gained the ability to walk and decided to betray us, a person he considered a friend, without so much as a word? Additionally, D knows rogier is afflicted with death blight, but he only offers pity and his own form of remorse, because the hunters of death don’t hunt tarnished, they hunt those affected by death root; meaning UNTHINKING CREATURES, such as tibia mariners and cemetery shades; which is the fate fia is attempting to force upon the world. And notice that no one BUT fia actually wants this; the undead can’t think, godwyn is a soulless husk of his former self, yeah, the golden order isnt full of saints either, but before the shattering it was a certainly better thing, and with gold mask’s help the order could be greater than it ever was. This is all not even mention that what devin does has nothing to even do with the order; It’s simple revenge on the woman that murdered his brother, aside from the fact that he faced godwyn, we know literally nothing about him, he could’ve been a saintly hero or a demonic hunter, but that has nothing to do with his actions now. But no; “Muh evil order!2!1!1!1!”

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            If you give him the armor after completing Fia's questline but before fighting the gargoyles (by using the alternate entrance to Deeproot), his summon sign never appears. He just skips straight to his final location in Deeproot.

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              I came to peace with Fias philosophy, then this guy shows up and gloats over her corpse like wheel guy from bloodborne
                                                              I killed him right after that. don't forget to downvote me.

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                Guys, I'm on my first playthrough and don't see the big picture yet. Can anyone please explain what is going on in this comment section? The amount of dislikes is terrific.

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  It is worth noting that it is just a video game. I mean there is nothing wrong with playing and enjoying it but I feel like some of you are having trouble separating the game from reality.

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    I like to kill him with the Eclipse Shotel, then do the goldmask ending anyways (I only did Fia's questline to fight the cool dragon)

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      I call D and D giga-twins.
                                                                      This one helps you with the shitty gargoyle duo.
                                                                      D helps you with the black knife assasin in the catacombs.
                                                                      Both of them are based as well.
                                                                      10/10 NPC

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        What is this comment section? I've seen many comments here saying things like "D is murder. I wish I could kill him the Moment I saw him and torture him in the most painful way possible!" And other saying things like "Fia is Murderer and an undead apologist who is an objectively bad person. Everyone who defends her is a simp!" I think we should all take a step back to remember that we are speaking about a VIDEO GAME. It is a fictional story with fictional characters who interact with each other in order to progress an optional questline. It's as if everyone in this comment section has engrossed themselves into a fictional world too much and get so attached to either the D brothers or Fia. The result is that everyone in the comments is warring over whether Fia or D are morally correct in their actions and yelling at each other because whenever an NPC they like gets attacked they feel personally offended and obligated to argue back.

                                                                        I'm not saying it's wrong to discuss lore or even the morality of these characters' actions. What I am saying is that if we are to discuss these things we need to remember we are talking about fiction here and speak about them like rational and mature, sane human-beings. So please, for the sake of your own health, Ya'll should go touch some grass.

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          I don't know why anyone would choose to simp for Fia after killing D. Her useless baldichins are nothing to the help he gives. The golden order are right in not wanting a bunch of skeletons walking around the world. If you want the best future, you should kill Fia yourself instead of helping her.

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            Most based character in elden ring, I really wish his quest was longer. D is too cool to have such a short quest line.

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              Challenge: write something positive about Devin without getting downvoted to oblivion (difficulty: impossible)

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                I killed Fia at the prince of deaths throne after she murdered D, I gave D's brother the armor set after that and when I reloaded the area, he had disappeared, where did he go? I can't find him at Fia's location

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  I feel like D brothers questline should've been a bit longer, because I still don't understand how tf Devin gotten into a Nokron of all places, a city that is closed off to everyone. even PC can get there after a frickin meteorite falls somewhere close to it. so was Devin a part of expedition ? then why he doesn't look like those skinny white dudes ? was he trapped there ? is this why he needs his brother armor ? so he can remember who is he because he was trapped there for so long ? and how tf he has a sword identical to his twin brother ?

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    Damn I wish their was an option to say sorry but your brother had cool looking armor so I needed to kill him.

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