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I wonder if the hornsent were the ones responsible for this curse perhaps the dung eater was a hornsent desendant

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At the end of the day this ending is about deciding that the world discriminating against ugly people was a good excuse to break everyone's face with a baseball bat and claim that now everyone is ugly and should be equal.

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The Omen is only a curse in the eyes of the beholder. Think of it as a deformity at birth once called divine now reviled. Dung Eater is a reaction to this. His idea is that if we all had a deformity we all wouldn't look down on it. So I'll curse everyone so that it becomes a blessing once again. Revenge as a reaction to an action. Lastly, nobody in Elden Ring is innocent. His story is simply another reason to melt it all away.

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if it makes everyone as hot as mohg and morgott then why not

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Inb4 people start Dung Eater's is the right because of Hornsent worshipping horns as a divine aspect
The problem with everyone becoming "cursed" is that it doesn't fix the issue that Marika cursed(them having constant nightmares etc)anyone who was born with horns, despite Horns being a signature of being blessed by a divine element(crucible). Just like Gwyn in souls, she ****ed with a fundamental force of the world.
Thus making everyone omen, wouldn't solve anything in regards to that curse,it would only make everyone suffer, until someone can fix the order of the world in at its core
That's not even talking about Dung Eater being a mass murdering, torturing freak who even says that some of the children born will become like him and "bless" in his stead.

TL;DR:Ignoring Dung Eater, If Marika didn't mark having anyone who has horns an "Ill *Omen*". Then everyone becoming hornsent wouldn't be a bad thing. But alas the world's order is ****ed and thus everyone would be ****ed too.

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the dung eater is not an omen civil rights leader

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The Dung Eater’s ending in Elden Ring offers a grim and unsettling moral that delves into themes of corruption, nihilism, and the cyclical nature of violence. By choosing the "Blessing of Despair" ending, you align yourself with the Dung Eater’s philosophy, which involves spreading a curse that brings despair and defilement to all life, turning the world into a desolate, cursed landscape.Moral Interpretations:The Corruption of Power: The Dung Eater represents what happens when power is used solely for destruction and malevolence. His curse is a metaphor for how unchecked, corrupt power can spread and infect everything it touches, leading to a world of ruin.Nihilism and Despair: This ending reflects a nihilistic worldview where life is seen as meaningless, and the only certainty is suffering. By following the Dung Eater’s path, you embrace a philosophy that rejects all hope, highlighting the dangers of giving in to despair.The Cycle of Violence: The curse that the Dung Eater spreads can be seen as a cycle of violence and degradation that perpetuates itself. This ending suggests that once such a cycle begins, it is almost impossible to break, leading to an ever-worsening state of existence.Humanity’s Darkest Impulses: On a more psychological level, the Dung Eater’s ending can be seen as an exploration of humanity's capacity for cruelty and destruction. It serves as a warning of what can happen when these darker impulses are given free rein.Overall, the Dung Eater’s ending serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of nihilism, corruption, and the perpetuation of suffering. It’s a stark reminder of the consequences of giving in to despair and abandoning all hope and morality.

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The most misunderstood ending in the entire game. Not even Ranni comes close when it comes to the community misinterpreting the truth of the “fell curse”.

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“NOooOooO, that’s not how this ending works, that’s your OWN HEAD CANNON, REEEEEEE”
Before talking about their own head cannon. That’s basically this whole comment section.

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"I AM A MONUMENT TO ALL YOUR SINS!"

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>gestated by the Dung Eater
so you mpreg the dung eater and then he anal births a mending rune that you can then shove into the heart of a god. thank you Mitsubishi

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Maybe it turns everyone into Lamenter.

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This ending is fascinating because of how it can be interpreted. Yeah, Dung Eater is pure evil and deserves to be lobotomized and turned into a nameless attack dog, sure. And yeah, in the short term, his world of abject cruelty is objectively bad and awful. But what does the long term look like? Once the endgame of 'everyone is cursed and divorced from grace/the erdtree' is accomplished what happens next? Is it ever directly stated he's turning people into Omens? He only ever talks about cutting people off from the established cycle of rebirth by cucking the alien tree. To me it sounds like after an initial age or two of mass suffering, the following age is... just a normal one without the golden order's influence.

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The funniest, most trollish ending in my opinion. Oh what's that, you wanna make the Undead accepted as a part of the Golden Order? You want to fix the main flaw of the Golden Order? Or you even decided that the suffering, the injustice is too great to bear, that life itself is a mistake and the world should be irrevocably destroyed? Nah, I'm gonna go and make it all E V E N W O R S E, enjoy permanent incurable curses you frenzied freaks! Kek

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this is the future the hornsent want!! join up with messmer today!

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Heresy is not native to this world, it is but a contrivance. All things can be conjoined.

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I don't think this ending is as bad as you're led to believe. The curse likely causes you and your offspring to be (re)born as Omens, and as such, rejected by the Erdtree.

However - aside from the nightmares Omens have every night, there isn't anything to suggest that they suffer physically. Lower class Omen *do* have their horns excised, but Regal Omen keep their horns - and there's nothing in lore that suggests that they're in any physical pain otherwise.

I think the narrator in the ending is heavily biased - to a Golden Order fanatic, there is no greater "suffering", or shame, than not being eligible for Erdtree burial. To one who rejects the Order, like Those Who Live In Death, this wouldn't be an issue.

For this reason, I think Dung Eater may also a Golden Order Fundamentalist - he also believes that being condemned to Omenhood is the worst fate imaginable. His goal is to spread suffering, sure - and the ritual of planting the seedbed curse *is* horrific. However, he believes that the offspring of the defiled will suffer too, if not more. If being an Omen isn't bad in and of itself, then why would you think you're causing people to suffer by spreading the "curse", if you don't earnestly believe in the Golden Orders teachings about Omens?

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I think this is a negative ending because becoming an Omen creates at the very least two issues that are not actually the result of persecution:
a. The horns on your body would be constantly growing and are inconvenient in the best case scenario, and at worst, actively harmful such as with Mohg having his eye pierced like he's a ram or a soya goat
b. You're constantly tormented by spirits for the rest of your new life.

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coolest looking great rune, change my mind

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I came here to check if having this rune changes your character’s appearance at all, I don’t know if it is this item or something else but my character’s eyes are red. Btw I haven’t done any endings.

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"The heavy, sun-shaped medallion represents both the guidance he once saw, and the ring to which it will one day lead."

The Mending Rune of the Fell Curse kinda look like the sun no?

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Don't get me wrong, the Dung Eater is a bastard, but I don't feel like this ending is as purely negative as it seems. Souls descriptions are notorious for sometimes having biases that act like propaganda for existing factions, so I don't think you can take any of the descriptions calling the curse evil at face value. Plenty of descriptions imply the Omen Curse was once seen as a blessing- it isn't anything inherently negative, people live in fear of it purely because of the horrific persecution of omens by the Golden Order.

Further, after you kill Dung Eater, Roderika says the spirits that were "howling in fear of the curse" have "escaped their confinement" and found some peace. I see this as a return to the age of the Crucible, where misbegotten/omen were celebrated and Erdtree reincarnation is removed.

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how do I get the prawn rune to unlock the age of boiling?

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laughs in Nurgle

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There is no real upside to this ending. Anyone who thinks this is somehow about ending discrimination for Omens is missing the point. The Dung Eater is a wholly malicious person, he has no want to do anything but make people suffer. He exists to kill and torture people and defile their corpses, he feels no other purpose. This rune is designed to inflict the maximum amount of suffering possible, ensuring people still live while making their lives agonizing. This makes it hands-down the worst ending. Even the Flame of Frenzy seeks to end suffering, albeit through the end of all life. The Dung Eater is by all appearances not an Omen and he likely does not care about Omens or their treatment. The Dung Eater takes on the image of the Omen because the Omens are beings whose existence is suffering. Using this rune is enabling the Dung Eater to enact a permanent cycle of endless suffering on all humanity.

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The lands between has fallen, billions must die

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Just because everyone's an omen, doesn't mean there can't be any discrimination. Humans are all biologically pretty similar but there's still discrimination. For example, an omen society would still have dividing classes of wealth and royalty, and there are probably female omens (w-omen) who could be oppressed

Disregarding the terrible horns and nightmares that plague omens, poopifiying everyone wouldn't even "fix society". The fecal ending is funny but it doesn't lead to much more than suffering

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ngl it would be funny asf and really cool if this ending corrupted the save file

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Behold. What the political opponent wants.

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The frenzied flame ending is better than "eternal poop-stained suffering".

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age of minimum wage employment

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Ah yes, the best and canon ending.

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Everything was poop, and everything will be poop

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Ah yes, the everyone has cancer ending

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[quote="thelateoctober"]So Trumps presidency. Nailed it. [/quote]

rent free in your head

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according to Roderika, not even The Grafting of Godrick, not even the Devouring Serpent and not even The War of The Shattering itself was able to inflict such suffering as to cause the "howling" and "wailing" and "lament" and "unceasing cacophony" of the countless spirits in the Dung Eater's filthy chamber, stained to the ceiling with sh!tty blood, hundreds of corpses in stenchy piles surrounded by flies like you wont see even in the sewers themselves. The "Ending of the Blessing of Despair" is what i would imagine is basically "the Dung Eater's defilement but stretched thousands of times beyond what he alone would be capable to do", and for that undeniable evil suffering beyond measure, is why i would rather just burn the entire world with Frenzied Flame right away, and i did all other endings including the Three Fingers one, some of them multiple times, it has been 9 entire different runs now, 3 NG+ concluded as well, a total of 12 Elden Beasts slain, and yet i never considered doing this ending, who knows, i might as well never do, i bet the world would become so deeply wretched, so riddled with suffering everywhere, that someone else would end up burning the world afterwards anyways, even if it took centuries for them to do so, centuries of (literally) shitty suffering.

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How can people look at the omens and believe they are crucible-related is beyond me. Their mending rune is made of Trypophobia and gnarly horns.They vomit vengeful spirits, terrible demons prowl in their dreams. Their blood is factualy "cursed" and sought after by powerful forces beyond understanding... they suffer something like a fantasy mixture of leprosy and schizophrenia.

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age of communism

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I wish there was an ending where you just shove all three mending runes in the Elden Ring and see what happens.

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Wonder if the visual design is influenced by beazors, that's what it reminds me of and would make sense as that's something that forms in the stomach

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"Hey what if one of the endings is just the world going to sh*t"
"What, like, figuratively?"
"No, literally and also the rune looks like a pooping butthole"

I refuse to believe George RR Martin wasn't behind this.

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Does this item carries on new game+?

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Makes it to where people's souls cannot return to the Erdtree, thus everyone becomes an Omen (this is related to why the Seedbed Curse grows Omen horns, despite being attached to a dead soulless body.) However, Omen isn't a separate species or anything, it's a human whose grown horns due to not having a soul, and thus becomes a catalyst for wraiths, with the horns acting as an amplifier. This has roots going back to the Crucible, which was the primeval form of the Erdtree, where all life was undergoing aggressive metamorphosis due to an overwhelming abundance of life energy. And in this ending, since souls cannot return to the Erdtree for rebirth, the only way for more children to be born would be to, you know, have sex. Which isn't done in the current Order because that's seen as animalistic, why do that when the magic tree can absorb people's souls and make new people? I'd imagine at some point the Erdtree would die (as seen in the Blessing of Despair ending, it's lost all it's leaves and lost the golden sheen) and a new Crucible would rise from it, thus there would be a place for these "cursed souls" to return to, as they did in the time of the old Crucible. Whether or not this is an improvement is up for debate, but's it's certainly a very interesting ending. Thank you SmoughTown for the new insight.

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Tbh this ending isn’t as wholly bad as it may seem. There’s nothing inherently wrong with Omen-they’re just separate from the Erdtree, from grace. Born from contact with the crucible. It’s even mentioned in item descriptions how it was once seen as a blessing. But the golden order persecuted them. Enslaving the misbegotten, and sentencing the omen children below ground. Imagine living your entire life, with no family or things of comfort, wallowing in the sewers. What an accursed fate

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Crucible ending?

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ahhh cursed waning gem, i've missed you so

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Sh*t just got real

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What a sh!tty ending...

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Can you imagine, some people will do this on their very first playthrough

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and if everyone is cursed... no one will be.

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Gonna DEFILE THE GOLDEN ORDER?

Gonna GESTATE A LOATHSOME RUNE maybe?

Maybe CURSE and SHID?

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theres not actually anything wrong with being an omen. the golden order hates them because their souls exist outside the influence of the erdtree. this ending, which curses everyone to become omen, is the definitive way of ending the golden order without destroying the world. and all my homies hate the golden order

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Gestated ay?

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This ending shows communism and the path to one as literal sh!t. Bravo FromSoft, *grabbing popcorn*

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the poop rune

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from a thematic standpoint this is my favorite ending. if you just want a good cutscene, go frenzy

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All that fetching just to get something i can find in any public restroom

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reminds me of nurgle stuff from warhammer 40k.

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Doing too much cursing and ****inh will Gestates a rune.

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Nothing about this ending feels logical. Cold sores skies and doodoo ether. The Land Between Cheeks.

Wouldn't everybody just become Omen at some point? Just comes off like a zombie apocalypse more than some infinite curse.

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“EVERYTHING WENT TO ****!”

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The Seedbed Curse description states that what it does is prevent the souls of the cursed from returning to the Erdtree when they die. Much like Those Who Live in Death, it's an affront to Golden Order. As we delve deeper, we come to realize that Golden Order is maybe not a status quo worth upholding and the Erdtree is not some pillar of benevolence. The tree was not always in the Lands Between, but life was there before it. So it has basically subsumed all life there since arriving; the dead are absorbed by its roots and reborn in a neverending cycle. Samsara. This "curse" breaks that cycle.

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I dunno what most of these comments are on about, talking about this ending as "not bad". Eternal suffering is literally the definition of Hell. The curse isn't some neutral thing, it's pain and suffering incarnate. Unless you're a Hellraiser Cenobite, there's no way to spin endless suffering as a good thing.

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Melina gets all angry if we choose the Frenzied Flame, but I bet she'd be even angrier if she knew she sacrificed herself just so we could curse everyone alive and yet to be born lol

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Zullie the witch made an interesting connection regarding his behavior and exactly what it is that he does to "defile" his victims.

Japanese lore contains a creature known as a "Kappa". It typically dwells in the water. It's a monster that is reputed to steal your Shirikodama (almost literally means "butt orb"), which is--in essence--your soul. If you're not situationally aware, he'll sneak up on you, reach inside your rectum and snatch it. Sekiro had an enemy that would use this attack on Wolf; he'd take the shirikodama while you're stun locked and then transfer it to his own anus. If you look at the corpse of his victim, you'll see bloodstains in the pelvic region, which visually supports the hypothesis.

It sounds like Dung Eater actually CONSUMES it instead (lets be real, it's probably covered in ****). That would explain why his victims don't truly "die". He takes their essence and traps them in the phantom zone of his own flesh.

My only speculation as to exactly WHY this produces the seedbed curse in the corpses he leaves behind is that the body wasn't given the go ahead to rot properly via the typical departure of the spirit in synchronicity with the shutdown of one's physical form. The soul is still on the body's plain of existence, but its divorced state initiates a unique process of putrefying malignancy in the flesh that can only be described as "defilement".

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THE CRAZY CACA CONSUMER

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THE PESKY POOPOO PLUNDERER

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THE DASTARDLY DOODOO DEVOURER

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Lets take a vote.
If this guy another Fia or did he defile by pisses and shitting on corpses?

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Oops, controller dropped right after i gave him the first seedbed curse and finished his dialog, dropped his set.
Oh well, no one gets everything correct the first time through.

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As far as I can tell, this curses everyone to become Omens. Dung Eater was a weird guy who for some reason idolized Omens. Omens are those horn-covered guys (EG Margit). They are shunned and reviled but I don't know if they actually have anything wrong with them besides being outside of the grace of the Greater Will (who is possibly evil). So it seems that Dung Eater's master plan is to free Omens from oppression by making everyone an Omen. This is probably the best ending (if you believe in equality for Omens).

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And when everyone's super, no one is.

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POV the lands between are put through the Hollywood Mexico camera filter.

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the people who dis this ending would rather stay subservient and pawns to the greater will and the spoiled brat demi gods.

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chad quest

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"let's remove discrimination against the disabled by making everyone disabled" incomprehensibly based

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This turns the tree, and all life, into POO!

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I did this ending to spite all of the bs enemies in the game, enjoy being cursed eternally

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so basically in this ending everyone becomes omens?

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Everything is s***. This is the most honest ending.

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The central idea is that if everyone is screwed up, than no one is really screwed up, that's just the new norm.

Which isn't a morally bad idea in retrospect, but if the guy touting the idea has to eat corpses and engage in necrophilia to get to that end, it's probably not a good choice after all.

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I think the goal in the Blessing of Despair ending is similar to the Age of the Stars, in that they're both trying to sever the influence of the Greater Will in the lands between. The difference being while the Age of the Stars ending severs its connection directly, the Blessing of Despair is indirectly by making everyone an Omen. Its established that the Omen cannot see the guidance of grace, and are deaf to the Greater Will (I don't know if this is because the Omen are "blessed" by a different outer god or for some other reason).

I think the Omen themselves aren't necessarily bad or cursed, but because they're immune to the Greater Will, and anything or anyone that defies the Greater Will or the Golden Order is considered less than, to never be able to see its grace would be reviled and literally shunned. I don't think the Dung Eater's intentions are entirely evil with this in mind, because he only talks about curses and defilement through the lens of the Golden Order. For your soul never to be absorbed into the alien tree on your death would be considered a horrible fate. I think the Dung Eater, in a roundabout way, thinks hes saving people by defiling them making it so they can't be influenced by the Greater Will.

key difference being, Ranni's ending severs the connection without anyone having to turn into monsters lol

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This really doesnt seem to be a good or a bad thing, Just a different way of being.
The dungeater is evil, without any doubt, but nobody says you have to be.

There's no rule that says the status quo is good and a new way has to be evil.

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Only accetpable for the 6th playthrough

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and people say the Lord of Frenzy ending is bad...

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You did the Blessing of Despair ending because you want to be edgy, I did the Blessing of Despair ending for the memes. We are not the same.

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Literally Nurgle from 40k

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Dung is an abomination and I couldn't allow him to live knowing he would continue to murder and torture. So I killed him in his cell.

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Does this disappear when you go NG+ without using it in the previous game?

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My man dungeater gave everyone aids

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considering the crucible talismans implying that being an omen is blessing of the crucible, it could be argued that this ending is somewhat good, ending the hatred of the omens and putting humanity on course to go back to worshipping the crucible

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can you get this item AND the dung eater spirit ashes in the same playthrough?

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Anything for papa Nurgle

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“Loathsome rune gestated by the Dung Eater.” That line accompanying the sounds when you give him curses along with his final screams really makes it seem like Dung Eater either gave birth or took a massive dookie to provide the rune.

Goldmask and Fia are either death or unresponsive when you get their runes but this guy here….

I’d curse the world too if I, as a man, had to give birth. Which hole do you think the rune came out of? Peepee, poopoo, or did he puke that thingy up?

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Best ending without a doubt

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There is a weird way to view this endings that makes it... less evil-ish... even if the method of getting to it was vile.

We have actually seen the results of the curse in-game already. It makes people into Omen. Omen, in the Lands Between, have horns like Morgott/Margit. Commoners who grow horns have it cut off and likely die. Nobility are allowed to grow their horns but are shunned.

But if everyone is an Omen, no one can be shunned.

Downside: we don't know the consequences of being an Omen... Morgott's Remembrance implies that they are not blessed by Grace. This can be viewed as bad but we also see that it ties people to the Erdtree, and we have other groups trying to break free from that in the first place... so may also not be good. Also possible being a Omen is tied to a different Outer God, so could just be swapping master's... so to speak.

But from a societal stand point, yeah it would eliminate some discrimination by making everyone the object of it.

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…and when everyone is THE LOATHSOME DUNG EATER….no one will be.

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Poo Poo Man - 10/10

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A good ending for speedrunners who got defunded after fighting tree sentinel for 5 hours.

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Ending where everything turns to ****...

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