Elden Ring video explores where the disgusting Wormface enemies come from

What exactly are the nasty maggot or worm faces in Elden Ring? Dataminer Zullie the Witch has some ideas.

If you’ve played Elden Ring, you’re probably familiar with them: the crooked-backed enemies whose faces appear to be made of giant maggots or worms and who will happily spit the death plague at you. Did you notice that there are different versions of them? Dataminer Zullie the Witch shows us in detail, with and without a cloak, analyzes her name and offers theories about her origin.

A close look with and without the cape

It’s all about this: Not much is revealed about the Wormfaces in the game. It’s all the more exciting that Zullie the Witch takes a closer look at her in a new video. First of all, there are different variants: the male, slightly smaller enemies that we often encounter in groups, the female, much rarer form that wears a lace robe, and a third type in farum azula that is wrapped in fine cloth.

Eaten by maggots: Zullie unceremoniously snatches the cloaks away from the opponents and shows her pockmarked skin. Now you can also clearly see that the faces of the enemies are not directly made of maggots or worms, but that they have eaten their way into the skin. You can see for yourself here:

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A human-looking ear could indicate that they are cursed and mutated humans. Arms, legs and the torso are also suspiciously reminiscent of humans.

Worms squirm persistently: Another interesting fact is that the female form’s wide open mouth has little squirming maggots in it – and Zullie reports that these twitch even in the paused free cam, which shouldn’t be the case.

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Uprooted or Cursed?

The name of the enemy in the game files gives cause for further speculation. This is Déraciné (a reference to FromSoftware’s VR title of the same name, Zullie thinks unlikely) and this French word means “uprooted”. This could indicate the visual resemblance to an uprooted tree, but as Zullie explains, it also means that this creature has been torn from its place of origin.

By spitting on us, the nasty enemies can make short work of us.

Cursed during rebirth? Zullie speculates that the creature originally made its home in Farum Azula and that those elsewhere in the Between Lands have been “uprooted”. Another theory voiced in the video is that the word could refer to a problem with burial in the Earth Tree. Anyone who dies in the intermediate land “wanders” through the earth tree.

Thus, the Wormfaces could have been early humans who were reincarnated as cursed beings because the normal life cycle in the Between Lands didn’t work for them. Zullie can’t prove these theories, but they’re still exciting.

What do you think: How did these creatures get their appearance and what do you think their name Déraciné means?