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| Voiced by | Jim Johnson |
Dung Eater is an NPC in Elden Ring. Dung Eater is a fellow Tarnished who occupies a corpse ridden room in the Roundtable Hold.
The spirit of Dung Eater can be summoned for aid in battle by using Dung Eater Puppet Ashes. The Dung Eater is also available as an NPC Summon when facing Mohg, the Omen and Morgott, the Omen King. Progress in his questline and release him to be able to unlock his summon sign. He may also be encountered as an NPC Invader.
I am the Dung Eater! A scourge upon the living!
Location
Dung Eater can be found at Roundtable Hold.
If you approach him with any Seedbed Curse in your inventory, he will give you the Sewer-Gaol Key and ask you to find his real body beneath Leyndell.
Dung Eater's real body can be found in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds. From the Underground Roadside Site of Grace, head out the door, turn left, slip past the Omens and fall into the gap in the sewer grate. Head straight to the end of the tunnel, fight past three Giant Miranda Sprouts, climb up the ladder and open the locked door on the opposite wall. You will need the Sewer-Gaol Key to open this door. [Map Link]
If killed in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds, he will drop the following:
He can also be found around the lake at the northeast of Leyndell Royal Capital an as an NPC Invader after releasing Dung Eater's corporeal body from his cell in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds and then reading his message at the Roundtable Hold. [Map Link]
Dung Eater Questline: How to complete Dung Eater's Quest
- [!] Please note; During the questline of Ranni the Witch, Giving Ranni the Fingerslayer Blade will cause Preceptor Seluvis to become a lifeless puppet, which effectively locks you out of further interaction in his questline (And possibly prevents you from giving Seluvis's Potion to Dung Eater).
- Can be first met at the roundtable hold. He is in the locked room past the twin maidens. You can only get to this room after you have gained access to the Altus Plateau.
- After showing the Dung Eater at least one Seedbed Curse, he will give you the Sewer-Gaol Key, which can be used to open his cell in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds, beneath Leyndell, Royal Capital.
- The Dung Eater can be found in his cell in the sewers and released from his prison by talking to him and telling him he's free to go.
- Spawn at the Underground Roadside grace
- Leave this room and take a left
- Now head down the corridor and jump down the open grate
- Run northwest and go past the giant poison plants and climb the ladder
- Be wary of the giant hand in this room, behind it is the Gaol door with Dung Eater inside
- The giant hand will respawn when you kill them before receiving the Sewer-Gaol Key.
- Do not kill Dung Eater here if you want to complete his questline (Dung Eater's summon sign will then appear in-front of the fog wall to assist with Mohg, The Omen. ***Do not kill him in the moat or he will not appear for Mohg any longer.***
- Dung Eater in his cell
- Spawn at the Underground Roadside grace
- Upon returning to Roundtable Hold, the Dung Eater will be missing, having left a message asking you to fight him at the outer moat. [Map Link]
- If doing Blackguard Big Boggart's questline, be sure to complete it before moving onto the next step, or else Big won't drop a Seedbed Curse.
- Travel to the outer moat (where Boggart moves). Boggart should be tied up. Exhaust Boggart's dialogue (talk to him twice), and kill the nearby giant crab that spawns. Walk towards the middle of the moat and Dung Eater will invade you. Defeat the Dung Eater in this invasion and he drops the Sword of Milos.
- Note: Boggart does not need to be alive for the invasion to happen. Instead of Big Boggart, there will be a cursed Commoner.
- Dung Eater in the Outer Moat
- Upon defeating the Dung Eater at the moat he will return to Roundtable Hold. Talk to him and he will ask you to bring his real body more Seedbed Curses. His body can be found tied up in a chair in the same cell that he was released from before.
- At this point, Dung Eater's summon sign for Mohg will disappear.
- You may interact with him to give Seedbed Curses to him.
- Or alternatively you could give him Seluvis's Potion. This will allow you to get the Dung Eater Puppet summon from Seluvis. But this will end the Dung Eater quest and prevent you from getting the Blessing of Despair ending.
- The exact requirements to give him the potion are somewhat unclear, you obviously have to have the potion in your inventory, but you may also have to give him one or more Seedbed Curses to change his dialogue options. It also seems that Preceptor Seluvis has to be alive and conscious (Delay giving Fingerslayer Blade to Ranni).
- Tip: You can give Dung Eater Seluvis's Potion and still get the Omen Set which is typically only obtainable if have given him 5 Seedbed Curses. Just give him Seluvis's Potion while he's tied in the chair and once he passes out completely wait a moment or two and kill him. The Omen set will drop and he will still be offered as a puppet for purchase from Seluvis. However, should you leave the area or quit and reload, his body would disappear, preventing you from getting his armor set. If you chose this option the Dung Eeater's body will not be found in Seluvis's laboratory.
- If you don't see him as a puppet for purchase at first, buy one puppet and some spells from Seluvis then go out and find another Starlight Shard. When you return to Seluvis he should now offer the Dung Eater Puppet for purchase along with progressing the Seluvis quest line. Actually summoning, or even just equipping the first puppet you chose to an available slot, and then coming back to Seluvis, may also trigger him to start selling other puppets.
- After giving the Dung Eater 5 Seedbed Curses, his quest line will be complete and you will be rewarded the Mending Rune of the Fell Curse.
- Reload the area to find the Omen Set where he gave you the rune.
Dialogue in Elden Ring: Dung Eater
First Interaction while at Roundtable Hold.
- "Have you ever felt the curse?
With your whole being, the pox upon life itself. Feared and despised by all. The Reviled blessing.
Apparently not.
You are but a lamb. A stranger to defilement. Ignorant to your own ignorance.
You no longer interest me.
I've been long without peace. Don't spoil my quietude." - "I asked you not to disturb me. Be thankful of the Hold's serenity.
It is all that keeps your death and defilement at bay."
Speaking to him at Roundtable Hold after collecting the first Seedbed.
- "No. Wait.
You have felt the curse.
I can smell it on you, the pox yet tender.
Apparently my Seedbed is ripe and waiting.
It twas a brief respite I must say.
Go and unshackle my corporeal flesh
Trapped in the sewer-gaol below the capital."
After Recieving the Sewer-Gaol Key
- "I can kill you and defile your corpse.
Then the pox will truly be your own."
Before interacting with him in the Sewer-Gaol
- "Let me out! Let me out of here!
Must eat more! Defile more!
Everything that matters to you!
For generations to come!
I am the Dung Eater!
A scourge upon the living!"
Interacting with him in the Sewer-Gaol
- "Who are you?"
- "Let me out. Let me out of here."
Saying nothing
- "I am the Dung Eater.
A scourge upon the living.
I must eat more. Defile more..."
Telling him to leave the Gaol
- "I've been here long enough.
I will kill again. And defile each corpse with care.
Just to be sure. That when they're reborn...
They'll be cursed. Along with their children, and their children's children, for all time to come..."
Message left at the Roundtable Hold
- "I'll defile you next. Come to the outer moat."
After his invasion
- "There you are. You warded off my blessing. Despite the curse stirring within you.
No one has succeeded in that before. How? I thought. Then it hit me.
That you are, in fact, me. And I...am the Dung Eater. It is my flesh that must receive the blessing." - "Give me your blessing. Defile my flesh with the seedbed curse.
Again and again. Until it is done. Until a cursed ring coalesces, that may one day defile the Order itself.
Countless, I have killed. And countless, I have defiled. And soon the fruits will be borne.
Hundreds will be reborn cursed, and they'll bear thousands of cursed children, who'll bear tens of thousands more.
A few of those will be born just like me, and they'll kill, and defile, and bless in my stead!
The rotten fools. My fate was the grandest, most brilliant of them all!" - "My corporeal flesh lies in the sewer gaol beneath the Capital.
Give it your blessing. Defile my flesh with the seedbed curse.
Until a cursed ring coalesces, that may one day defile the Order itself."
After collecting Seedbed Curses
- "Uur...urgh... A curse... A curse upon them all.
They'll be born cursed, all of them. Along with their children, and their children's children, heh, for all time to come..." - (If Seedbed Curse is used) "Uur...urgh... Curse you, Golden Order. One day, you'll get what's coming."
- (If 5 Seedbed Curses are used) "Unleash it upon them! A cursed blessing to all!"
- (If Seluvis's Potion is used) "No... I am... the Dung Eater... I am..."
Elden Ring Dung Eater Notes & Trivia
- In combat, Dung Eater wields the Sword of Milos.
- Roderika will comment on Dung Eater when he arrives at Roundtable Hold. This happens when the player reaches the Altus Plateau for the first time.
- "I can hear it from across the wing, past the roundtable ...The howling and wailing of spirits in fear of the curse. I can ever hear the repulsive, twisted malison itself. You should keep your distance, I know you're strong, but please."
- Dung Eater's face underneath the mask. Taken in the Gaol.
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He spawned in and immediately died by deathblight from the crab, lmao.
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I love what devs did with the character. You hear his name and go heh, poop eater. They you actually meet the madman and he's one of the most depraved and disgusting characters in the series.10/10 would rather eat poop than be in the same cell as this guy
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Strategy March 18 2024 works. Aggroed Dung Eater with a hit then a duel hand L1 AOE. Baited him out of the cell. Jumped to the Miranda’s & the poison almost killed him. Easy enough to finish the fight for his Loot. Nice cheese and crackers.
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Decided to knock off this nasty bit of work in his cell and he snotted me with one hit when my vigor was at 1100.
I went back to see if I could grab my runes without disturbing the miserable turd but he was aggro as soon as he knew I was there. I'd tanked up though and ran away back through the Mirandas.
At this point Mr Dung followed me down the ladder and lost 1/2 his health to the Miranda poison.
I re-entered the Mirandas alcove momentarily and they gassed the place again. Mr Dung was stood at the base of the ladder and died peacefully, bequeathing his Sword of Milos and the Omen Set with no further risk taking on my part.
The cheese was great.
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### Disable your blue ring / do not have summoning waiting.
As soon as I gave him Seluvis's potion, i got summoned as a hunter (summon happened as the last text happened). When i got back his body was gone and I've lost the set for this play through. Really bad design that being summoned refreshes the world.
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His dialogue at the end was right...I want him to sit on my face so I can eat his farts
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is he screaming "bless you" when you fight him at the moat?
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WARNING the tip about killing him after giving him Seluvis' potion does NOT work anymore!!
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Looks like a finnish death metal artist. Personality fits too.
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when i fought him he got killed by death blight from giant crab
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Someone told me there is a way to get him to lick your butt hole? How do I do it?
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I will always, always give him Seluvis’ Potion. Every playthrough.
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I spilled baked dung all over myself watching the shattering in Leyndell & a perfumer teenager shouted "this tarnished eating sh*t" & everyone laughed.
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You, sir, are by far, the worst soldier i have ever... smelled...
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Ah yes, the Sekiro's refference of a headless ogre that shove his hand in ass of a person, to take off the suspicious rock and shove in himself, but now he is eating them.
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Ah yes, the Sekiro's refference of a headless ogre that shove his hand in ass of a person, to take off the suspicious rock and shove in himself, but now he is eating them.
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George R. R. Martin's self insert character as a younger handsomer version of himself
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Didn't know he was ""important"" to the story until reading this, I had already Waterfowl Dance'd the mother****er as soon as he was talking bullshit in the Gaol
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I wonder if he might have any possible connection to the teardrop scarabs, since they're based on actual dung eating beetles, maybe a thematic connection
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Often felt he was written by a 15 year old edgelord. I mean he wants to kill everybody, wants to defile their corpses, feels the pressing need to tell everybody.
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Since it mentions Roderika's dialog at the end, it should mention all of it. When he first appears she talks about the spirits, and when he leaves for the first time she comments again. But when he returns again she has new lines saying the spirits are worse than ever, but again after he's gone for the last time she says the spirits are put to rest. Small but fun dialog showing that somebody besides yourself knows when he's around.
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I took:
"Go and unshackle my corporeal flesh"
As
"Please kill me"
I figured he was already a spirit, basically, and he needed his flesh body to die, or something. I'm just now realizing that stinky bastard was incredibly important to the story and I *was* supposed to kill him, but just not at that time... now I'm locked out of that ending. No idea if I would have wanted that ending to begin with, but seriously FromSoft, I have no earthly idea why they made such a revolting character have any bearing on the story. This guy looks like the biggest meme / throwaway character in the entire game.
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To get both rewards: After you get the Fingerslayer Blade from Nokron, do not speak to Ranni until you can get into Leyndell. Get him to the point where he's tied up in the sewers, then give him Seluvis's Potion, he will monologue for a few seconds then you can kill him in that chair for the Omen Set, then visit Seluvis dungeon in the ruins NE of Ranni's Rise if you haven't yet and ask him about it, then purchase either puppet for free, then reload the game and speak to him for zero new dialogue, then reload the game AGAIN and speak to him to FINALLY purchase the Dung Eater Puppet while also in the possession of the Omen Set! I find it insane that there is not a simple, up-to-date explanation of this online considering how simple it is to do and how easy it is to mess up.
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seluvis' death prevents you from giving the potion to him. Oh well, just gonna kill him instead
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Who else does this guy’s quest line just to kite him into the crab’s death blight cloud and watch him get killed by roots?
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can you kill him without killing big boggart? i don't want shrimp bro to die
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This guy is vulnerable to Deathblight for some reason. I would anticipate that a guy wielding a bleed weapon would invest a little more into Arcane... No matter though, it just makes his quest easier when using Fia's Mist, or even that Eclipse Shotel from Castle Sol.
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i swear he screams "BLESS YOU" while using the omen bairn, i like this guy's style
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Therapist: Evil Siegward isn’t real, and it can’t hurt you.
Evil Siegward:
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Ofnir: "I am the All-Knowing for I seek to accumulate all the knowledge this world has to offer."
Tarnished: "That's cool man, good luck with that."
Fia: "I am the Deathbed Companion for I lay with the dead to give them another chance in life."
Tarnished: "Freaky, but to each of their own."
Dung Eater: "I'm the Dung Eater."
Tarnished: "..."
Dung Eater: "..."
Tarnished: "Care to elaborate?"
Dung Eater: "Nope."
Tarnished: "Good."
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Who knew a guy named **** lover could be this damn disturbing
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potty humor is the lowest form of comedy, fromsoft you should be ashamed
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So a theory based on item descriptions and dialogue. Okina Mask I feel hints that Sekiro was the prequel to Elden Ring, taking place in the “Land of Reeds”. The huge match up of Dung Eater saying to “curse their children and there children’s children…” is a direct quote from Bloodborne. Plus it seems cheeky that Dung Eater also says the curse will be “borne”. Seems like all the different endings could lead to different FromSoft games. Additionally, when Rennala uses the egg in that cutscene and creates a little micro-cosmos, it seems very similar to the cut scene of the One Reborn fight in Bloodborne. Has me thinking if you take up the reigns from Dung Eater, you might go on to defile Rennala and set the whole chain of events in motion. Deathrite bird item descriptions also lead me to believe that there’s a correlation with them and Margo’s Wet Nurse. Almost wonder if Tanith gets reincarnated as Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods or correlates to her some how. Lastly, the Dancer fight in DS3 kicks off with her coming through that micro-cosmos and Aldrich possibly being a reincarnation of Praetor Rykard and the Devouring Serpent. Wouldn’t put it past Miyazaki to do something like all of this.
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So a theory based on item descriptions and dialogue. Okina Mask I feel hints that Sekiro was the prequel to Elden Ring, taking place in the “Land of Reeds”. The huge match up of Dung Eater saying to “curse their children and there children’s children…” is a direct quote from Bloodborne. Plus it seems cheeky that Dung Eater also says the curse will be “borne”. Seems like all the different endings could lead to different FromSoft games. Additionally, when Rennala uses the egg in that cutscene and creates a little micro-cosmos, it seems very similar to the cut scene of the One Reborn fight in Bloodborne. Has me thinking if you take up the reigns from Dung Eater, you might go on to defile Rennala and set the whole chain of events in motion. Deathrite bird item descriptions also lead me to believe that there’s a correlation with them and Margo’s Wet Nurse. Almost wonder if Tanith gets reincarnated as Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods or correlates to her some how. Lastly, the Dancer fight in DS3 kicks off with her coming through that micro-cosmos and Aldrich possibly being a reincarnation of Praetor Rykard and the Devouring Serpent. Wouldn’t put it past Miyazaki to do something like all of this.
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Alright, coming from someone who has never done his quest before but was trying to shoot for his armor and his puppet in one play through, this is where I messed up understanding the wiki
If trying to achieve both armor and puppet, as soon as you get him tied to a chair in the shunning ground & BEFORE giving him 5 seedbed curses, give him seluvis potion then wait quite a few moments then kill him. He'll still be able to be bought as a puppet too.
I messed up by thinking I had to give him the five seedbed curses and then give him the potion.
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Look, I'm calling it now and proclaiming it for anyone who'll listen: Dung Eater is Godwyn the Golden.
Guarantee a future dlc will reveal this, at which point i apologize for the spoilers.
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big crab killed dung eater for me. it was pretty funny to watch
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You need to update the page to include the mythical fade to black, bang dung eater cutscene. Its cannon, its in the lore!
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Is it possible to obtain both his puppet and his ending in the same playthrough?
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I know I had 4 seedbed curses but when I used it once on him, it didn't ask to do it four times and they're all gone. So just making sure, did he consume all 4 of my seedbed curses and I just need one more?
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On NG+2 he can one shot you with his omen bairin attack, and Transient moonlight R2 does not stagger him. Just fyi.
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Is he one of the only known tarnished to have visited the Haligtree? I'm speculating as there are two seedbed curses. But it's not elaborated on anywhere.
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I love how you get no achievement for doing his ending, Fromsoft even judges you for going through with his ending.
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Accidentally hit attack while trying to give him a seed bed curse, and it instantly killed him. Still baffles me why they made a such an important character so easy to kill. They gave Seluvis atleast some sort of protection, and he's a way more despicable character
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"The exact requirements to give him the potion are somewhat unclear, you obviously have to have the potion in your inventory, but you may also have to give him one or more Seedbed Curses to change his dialogue options. It also seems that Preceptor Seluvis has to be alive and conscious (Delay giving Fingerslayer Blade to Ranni)."
I started Ranni's quest and got the potion from Selivus. I immediately got one seedbed curse and gave it to DE and proceeded to free him and kill him. I returned to him at the round table and then in his cell and had the option to give him the potion. Straightforward.
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I mean, if you were chained up in the shunning grounds, you'd go mad too.
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I killed him because hes a gross pile of turd and scares Roderika but she still is afraid oh well :(
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If you Free Dung Eater, he can be summoned for the minor Mohg fight in the Forsaken Depths.
Player after hearing dung eater in the intro: Lmao his name is dung eater lol
Player then they actually meet ding eater: OMG this guy is massive crazy psycho and not in the funny way.
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