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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.

See Dung Eater Lore

I am the Dung Eater! A scourge upon the living!

Dung Eater 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:

• Omen Helm
• Omen Armor
• Omen Gauntlets
• Omen Greaves
• Sword of Milos

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 the Dung Eater's Quest

• NOTE: During Ranni the Witch’s questline, giving her the Fingerslayer Blade will cause Preceptor Seluvis to become a lifeless puppet, effectively locking you out of his questline and potentially preventing you from giving Seluvis's Potion to Dung Eater.
• Dung Eater is first encountered at the Roundtable Hold in a locked room past the Twin Maiden Husks. Access to this room is granted only after reaching Altus Plateau.
• After showing Dung Eater at least one Seedbed Curse, he will give you the Sewer-Gaol Key, which unlocks his cell in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds beneath Leyndell, Royal Capital.
• To find Dung Eater in the sewers, start at the Underground Roadside Site of Grace [[[Subterranean Shunning-Grounds|Map Link]]]. From there, exit the room and turn left. Follow the corridor and jump down the open grate. Head northwest, pass the giant poison plants, and climb the ladder. Be cautious of the giant hand in the room — which respawns when you kill them before receiving the Sewer-Gaol Key. Behind this hand is the Gaol door where Dung Eater is located. Talk to him to release him from his prison.
  
  • • • Dung Eater in his cell
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• Once released, Dung Eater becomes available as a cooperator for the fight against Mohg, the Omen. However, his summon sign will disappear if you advance his questline further or kill him.
• After this encounter, returning to the Roundtable Hold will reveal that Dung Eater is missing. He leaves 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), then 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.
    • This lake also hosts a giant crab that spews Deathblight clouds. You can leverage this to make this invasion fight easier to complete.
    • 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
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• 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.
    
    • 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 Eater'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 a few more Starlight Shards. 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 make various comments on Dung Eater when he arrives at Roundtable Hold. This first happens when the player reaches the Altus Plateau for the first time.

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