#marbled gohma

[hyrulianphotography]

[twin-chains]

Based on any criteria: whoever was the most fun to fight, the coolest or most clever design, the hardest battle, general vibes, etc.

I just realized I can’t do one for BOTW cause all the bosses are Ganon-related except for Kohga. Oh well, TOTK has more unique and better bosses anyway and I’ll stand by that. Especially Colgera because holy hell that boss battle was exhilarating with the flying in a storm and the skydiving into its body and the portals and the epic music??? Superior

[otherworldy-insect]

i really liked a fanart @master-kohga-dating-sim made for my dark disciples/boss humanizations au so i drew it in my artstyle (mainly because i need practice drawing eyes also the fanart was pretty old and the designs were updated quite a bit so they’re different??)

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[bradsmindbrain]

Scourge Headcanons

● None of them except for the Queen Gibdo are naturally occurring creatures, being either directly created by The Gloom in the case of Colgera or being modified from other creatures in the case of Marbled Gohma and Mucktorok.

● Have the highest concentrations of Gloom out of any monster aside from Phantom Ganon (which is The Gloom) and Ganondorf himself.

● Have varying degrees of intelligence, though all of them are more intelligent than more animalistic monsters.

● None of them aside from the Queen Gibdo ever stray far from their Temples. In Colgera’s case, it’s because its abilities are strong enough that it doesn’t need to leave and can focus on protecting the Secret Stone (God I hate that name) that it’s guarding. In the case of Marbled Gohma and Mucktorok, it’s so they can be relatively safe while they’re causing destruction, as Marbled Gohma prefers to actively avoid conflict and Mucktorok is aware of how frail it is. The Queen Gibdo can’t cause much destruction while inside of the Temple, and as such needs to take a more active role in the havoc being created than the others.

● Phantom Ganon is their direct superior, having created Colgera, mutated Marbled Gohma and Mucktorok, and gained control over Queen Gibdo by using The Gloom. It tasked them with both protecting the Secret Stones and dividing the people of Hyrule so Ganondorf would have a far easier time taking it over. It made sure there were a few backups for each of them in The Depths, though those ones are tasked with simply ensuring Ganondorf’s chokehold on The Depths doesn’t falter.

● Unlike Marbled Gohma and Mucktorok who are creatures altered by The Gloom or the Queen Gibdo who’s a naturally occurring creature controlled by it, Colgera is a completely unnatural entity specially created by Phantom Ganon. It had to make Colgera from scratch as none of the monsters native to Hebra and Tabantha that could be altered in a way to cause a great amount of destruction. As such, it is completely inorganic, much like Marbled Gohma.

● Colgera is the most animalistic of the Scourges, but is also the most directly dangerous of them, and has magical abilities that far exceed even Mucktorok. Despite this, it prefers to use this magic to supplement its physical attacks with its bladed limbs, mandibles, and spikes. It does tend to use its wind powers to launch its spikes and its ice powers to regrow them, but it rarely uses them more than that unless it’s facing a particularly difficult opponent.

● Due to its massive magical power, it passively affects a massive area surrounding it. Due to this, it focuses a large amount of time guarding the Wind Temple’s Secret Stone.

● The crystalline cores where it stores a majority of The Gloom holding it together are very obvious weak spots. It can survive without them for a time, but needs to grow them back quickly, and it takes a while to gain enough energy to regrow more cores again, so destroying all of them twice in quick succession is all that is needed to kill it.

● Phantom Ganon gave it its ice and wind-related abilities to cause destruction and defend itself, but gave it the ability to teleport to help it more effectively move around and disorient attackers since it is a massive target. It prefers to use this ability more directly in fights than it does its other magical abilities, usually using it to catch any opponents facing it off-guard with its mandibles and forelimbs.

● Marbled Gohma is a heavily altered Talus transformed by Gloom, with the darker colored rocks being what once was its original body.

● The Gloom influencing it was heavily altered by Phantom Ganon during its creation, altering its life-sapping abilities into a far more subtle and insidious form.

● It can spread its Gloom to rocks, not only allowing it to turn them into bombs or the mind altering marbled rocks, but also turn them into various things such as legs to carry its heavily modified body. It also was able to create Moragia this way. As versatile as its use of rocks is though, The Gloom’s influence has partially eroded them, making them more brittle than they should be.

● While it could control Moragia fully due to it being a direct creation of it, its control over the Gorons was far more limited. While its Gloom couldn’t directly control them, it could alter their minds to make them lethargic and crave more of its marbled rocks.

● Phantom Ganon created it to be far more tactical and less direct than the other Scourges, as the Gorons would probably take most more direct disasters in stride. As such, it created Marbled Gohma with the express purpose of removing them from the fray in a way that would be nearly impossible for them to react to. For this reason, it is a very intelligent being.

● Mucktorok was created by Phantom Ganon by using Gloom to heavily mutate an Octorok, heavily altering its physiology and abilities.

● The sludge it creates is made from its own rocky projectiles liquified by Gloom. While it can’t sap life like most Gloom can, it’s incredibly difficult to move through and Mucktorok can shape it into a variety of more directly dangerous forms.

● While it can use the sludge to make armor for itself in any shape it wishes, it prefers making it shark-like, possibly due to it formerly being an aquatic creature. When in its shells, it also tends to launch out beams of superheated sludge so hot they appear pink.

● The most intelligent of the Scourges by a large margin, Octorok are already fairly intelligent creatures, and the Gloom only made it smarter. It is well-aware of how frail its body is, and as such compensates by using its intelligence to use its sludge powers in ways that allow it to debilitate, attack, and protect itself from harm. It’s also intelligent enough to apply its sludge to other monsters, the sludge-like being a notable example.

● Phantom Ganon created it for the express purpose of keeping the Zora confined to the Lanaryu region by blocking streams. This was done not only aa a means to keep the Zora preoccupied, but also to cut off highly skilled Zora healers from other regions. Its sludge, while easily washed away by high pressure or fast moving water, can easily clog standing water and calmer rivers.

● The Queen Gibdo is the only Scourge The Gloom had no hand in making, instead being controlled by it due to how dangerous a Queen Gibdo already is.

● She is an incredibly old monster, believed to have been around since The Calamity at least.

● Due to The Gloom simply controlling her rather than having a hand in her creation or transformation, she’s at least slightly more self-aware than the other Scourges.

● Due to her age, she’s actually fairly intelligent. She’s intelligent enough to retreat when she’s in danger and use her subjects as distractions while she attacks from afar.

● Phantom Ganon chose to control her because of the Gibdos’ physical resilience, which would be highly effective against the Gerudo who rely mostly on physical combat. Not to mention the sand storms she could easily kick up would help isolate the Gerudo, preventing them from sending their highly skilled warriors to assist other regions. She could be doing a lot more damage, but Ganondorf merely wanted the Gerudo to be uninvolved, and didn’t like the idea of causing too much destruction to his people all that well. As such Phantom Ganon has made her hold back with the havoc her sand shroud and subjects are causing.

[master-kohga-dating-sim]

Back to back, birds of a feather

@bugger-loz the moment you've been waiting for,, the whole family photo after they stole the purah pad :3 smile for the camera, Sakiru!

[blacktycoon]

totk boss squad

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[telemna-hyelle]

Me sitting at the table during dinner, slightly zoned out of the discussion:

one half of my brain: You know it was the wise choice to not fuse the giant explosive chunks of gloom rock during the Marbled gohma fight to your torch and use it to deal the final blow of the fight cause it would have exploded and killed you

other half of my brain: but it would have been Glorious

[werewolfsister]

Marbled Gohma

The Eye of Sauron is the marbled rock roast!!??

[oktaviaslabyrinth]

Marbled Gohma // The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)

[galladegamer]

TOTK SPOILERS

[therandomray-artz]

[otherworldy-insect]

been reading faces of eons and gently now lately… i lobe baby temple bosses

also bonus pre and present-totk gohrra doodles

[snapsofhyrule]

📸 Marbled Gonna | Uasnoj Lightroot

// Tears of the Kingdom

[master-kohga-dating-sim]

Gently Now

surprise fanfic for @bugger-loz!!! i came up with this idea literally like an hour ago loll but i didn't want to tell you because i wanted a blind reaction,,, anyways here's some eepy snrrrkkk mimimimimimi dad sakiru and baby temple bosses :3

Word count: 611 Characters: Sakiru, Kohga, Colgheri, Gohrra, Moruka, Gyba Warnings: none

Crickets.

Crickets, all around, singing to the deep blue sky. It was funny- Sakiru thought they couldn’t survive in the snow. Had they changed in the ten thousand years he had been gone? Were they in the napping spot instead of the highlands? Probably not, Kohga couldn’t lay eyes on a bug without squealing for Sooga to come step on it.

His thoughts were interrupted by Gohrru stirring in their blankets. He moved a segment of his arm to make sure she wouldn’t fall before sinking his head against the head of his lounge chair again.

Kohga rose up from his cushions, rubbing his eyes through his mask before stretching out his arms and yawning. He looked up to see Sakiru, still stargazing even after all the kids had fallen asleep. “Ah, hey Sakiru. It’s getting pretty late, you know. I’m gonna head to bed, I’m exhausted.”

“Mmh, yes. It’s been a very active day for you, I’m sure.”

“Hey! I do a lot of work around here, you know! It’s not easy being top banana!” He carried his voice with him as he picked up his plushies to go inside, but went quiet when he passed by Sakiru and the kids. He stopped in his tracks, just looking at them. “...They really are sound asleep, aren’t they? Didn’t think that all that…” He gestured vaguely over Sakiru’s body. “...Stuff could be that comfortable.”

Sakiru gently brushed his hand over Colgheri’s feathers. His little body felt so small and delicate compared to Sakiru’s solid form. “The blankets cushion it.”

Despite his organs not being in their original places, they still worked constantly in their jars. He could hear them if he was quiet enough; bubbles, rumbles, squeaks, a slow and steady thump. Without the flesh to muffle it anymore, it was easier to hear his organs than others. “...I wonder if they can feel my heart beating.”

“There’s a… heart? In… there..? Actually, you know what, not gonna question it anymore. Yeah, there’s a heart in there. Sure.” He started to walk again.

“Good night, Kohga.”

“Night.” As he left, Sakiru could’ve sworn he heard him whisper good nights to his plushies, too.

Once Kohga was gone, the night went quiet. The crickets had settled to the back of Sakiru’s mind and let him more clearly hear the soft snoring of the heirs.

Colgheri was curled up in his left arm like a baby sparrow in a nest. Gohrru was laying over his chest, supported by Sakiru’s right arm and his little sister Gyba. Moruka had used its lack of bones to squish itself between Sakiru’s head and shoulders. All of them were wrapped up in the Yiga Clan’s finest wool and linen blankets.

Sakiru’s body didn’t long for the vulnerability of sleep anymore. He was a machine, and machines didn’t need to rest. But the peace of this moment… it was something different. It reminded him of all those peaceful moments eons ago. It made him think of the smell of night air and the softness of cushions and the taste of dessert still on his breath. And when all of those things happened at once, he had only ever done one thing. And what a lovely, relaxing feeling it gave him.

Moruka nuzzled the underside of Sakiru’s jar. His skull slowly settled next to them as the lull of sleep pulled him in.

Although he couldn’t feel temperature anymore, he knew that the heirs could. He could only imagine how cozy and safe it was to sleep like this. For once, he wasn’t trapped upright in that stone temple as his vision faded out. He was warm.

Yes. Warm.

[radiosummons]

I spent 20 minutes fighting the Marbled Gohma in the special fucking circle of hell that is the Depths.

I was running in a constant circle, I lost all my weapons, I had to resort to using nearly all of my bows and arrows, I only had one meal left, and at the very last second with only two hearts and a fucking tree branch I finally killed that bitch.

I haven't felt that intense rush of victory with a video game in fucking years. Any small wrong move and my ass would have been toast.

But I motherfucking pulled it off!!! I'm going to be riding this high for weeks!!!!