#spectral steed

[mentalsymphonyy]

When you invited me to a social event.

[octahedral-chaos]

Okay incredibly random question for the Elden Ring fans

But does anyone have any Spectral Steeds/ horned horse ocs? I kind of want to make one for the sillies, plus a bunch more as a little idea on what different "breeds" could look like?

[eldintower]

when you walk you make an echo where they used to be

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torrent is the last in the same manner that every dragon in dark souls is the last. there may be hundreds but there were thousands once and more. And the silence shall lost long & long

[cute-sweet-corgo]

Wha da dawg doin

[kirango-rouge]

I can't express enough how happy i am that i get now to ride my best friend in the elden beast fight!

he was with me from the very beggining in my worst and best moments and beating the final boss with him made me feel very emotional.

just for this moment becoming elden lord was worth it!

i love you Torrent, my best boy who deserves the world!

[lokirulzart]

I couldn’t find any pictures of the best boy Torrent as a baby, so I fixed it. Anyway, enjoy silly foal Torrent and his cute baby butt for your spiritual health.

I debated for a while making him darker colored, cuz I think grey horses and dappled horses are born a different color… but I settled for immediate recognizability in hopes that it would inspire more drawings of baby Torrent.

[witchblade]

i refuse to bnelieve there are multiple yonkeys so yes i suppose it must be

[ancient-names-pt-i]

[old-hunter-henryk]

pony,,,

look vvv

[lttleghost]

FUCKING WINTER LANTERNS AGAIN?

okay I can't be mad at this concept being re-used the lead-up to them was neat and eerie and they work a lil different but like oooh my god

[oathswornmaliketh]

[Image description: A gold ring lays on its side on a black background. The ring is decorated with six ridges, each on either side of a narrower part. Outside of the last ridges there are a few decorative holes. Away from the ridges the ring narrows gradually. On the narrow end opposite the ridges is a gap where the ring does not form a full circle.]

Spectral Steed Whistle

A delicate goldwork ring. Can be used as a finger whistle.

Sound the whistle to summon and ride Torrent, the spectral steed. (Dismounts steed when used while on horseback.)

Upon his death, the spectral steed can be summoned again, but doing so drains the Flask of Crimson Tears.

[ligawolfcosplayandarts]

New drawing.

Something new. Torrent The Spectral Steed from Elden Ring to celebrate DLC announcment as well as late Elden Ring anniversary art.

[rubyhellneon]

⋆⁺‧₊☽ Ranni the Witch ☾₊‧⁺⋆

„ A pleausre to meet thee, Tarnished. I am witch Renna. I'd heard tell of a Tarnished hurtling about atop a spectral steed. And upon looking into the matter, the talk, I surmise, is of thee. Thou'rt possessed of the power, no? To call forth the spectral steed named Torrent…“

[kirango-rouge]

entering abyssal woods after deafeating jory and his horde of simps was definitely one of the aspects of the dlc i enjoyed the most!

i unfortunately didn't experience torrent's throwing me off because the area was after a long catacombs and i thought i was still in a no riding zone (i also went too far and saw that i couldn't use the whistle too late and just assumed it was a post catacombs area).

indeed this place goes against all of your instincts of running and fighting you learned so far and i instantly tried to fight back that winter lantern the moment it saw me even though i had read one minut prior that combat was not an option xD (and yet you may learn in a quite unintuitive way afterwards that you're supposed to parry these guys to touch them argh).

the atmosphere was so cool i was expecting threats everywhere and at any moment, to the point that once i reached midra's mense i felt like an idiot who let fear overwhelm them because in retrospect, Abyssal Woods is a pretty empty area, save for four winter lanterns, a few sheep and rats, a bunch of inquisitors and a homeless man.

i kinda wish we could have summoned torrent back once we clapped midra's cheeks and run arround abyssal woods at full speed just for the joy of it and show him the danger is gone now and that he's safe, while in insight we're still the bigger frenzied threat still brewing in this world here.

Turn back. While you are yet able.

I think whether Elden Ring's Abyssal Woods scared you probably says something about your relationship to the fear of the unknown. They certainly scared me.

At least for me, a lot of the fear came from reading the mischievously placed devnotes and seeing that Torrent was too scared to come out, and wondering what the correct interpretation was before I had even really entered the level. After all, with all the horrific ways we've died in this game, what could they possibly be signaling was scarier?

Don't let it see you.

Shockingly, there's nothing actually that scary awaiting you in any objective sense. The worst thing that happens is a loud noise followed by immediate death. But we die about 5000 times in the game before we get there; death isn't really that scary.

Once you are seen, there is no escape.

Maybe the 1HKO guaranteed death evokes a sense of helplessness that other deaths might not. But the first thing the game meets you with is an enemy you're *not* supposed to beat (the Grafted Scion) in order to learn that feelings of helplessness will be a normal part of the gameplay. This isn't really that scary, either.

It cannot even be touched.

So what so scary about it?

Hide yourself. Make not a sound.

The answer for me was, simply, nothing. The fear was entirely made up in my head in imagining all of the horrific ways to interpret those devnotes.

Crouch in the undergrowth.

In a way, the Abyssal Woods drove me mad with my own imaginings, similar to how I speculate being possessed by the Frenzied Flame feels.

Quietly await your chance.

I enjoy that the game gave me a taste of what it might be like to truly *feel* what the Frenzy-afflicted might feel. The Frenzied Flame god wants nothing more than to wipe away all souls from existence. To do that, it simply relies on you ruminating on the horrors you've already experienced in the game. Doing so might make you become profoundly afraid of what life in the Lands Between can offer, to the point where you come to agree that wiping it all away would be preferable. I think the experience may also give you a taste of why the Hornsent were so deeply afraid of the Frenzied Flame.

Combat is not an option.

I do also enjoy the tiny lore nugget that Torrent is probably scared because the Frenzied Flame melts away all spirits, including spirits like him. The Surging Frenzied Flame reads:

Spiritgrave stone burned by frenzied flame. Craftable item. Uses FP to place a stone on the ground, where it spews frenzied flames. Spirits are eternal, and yet frenzied flame melts them away regardless. No wonder the hornsent forbid the flame's use.

But we can only learn this *after* we get to the Manse from an item we can pick up there. So your entire trek through the woods, you're left wondering what scares him so much until you're long past the danger.

[rumwik]

A spectral steed is spooky indeed!

[kirango-rouge]

Guys!!! this is a victory day! Our boy Torrent is no longer shadowbanned by tumblr!

I filed a complaint with the staff and they actually answered and listened!

now we can post about our boy to our heart's content and people searching about him will actually find us!

AND NOW I CAN FIND YOU ALL!!!! >:)