ToxicSoul03: the most tedious and “meh” enemy to fight, but an incredible design and aesthetic.
dormammu629: The fire spirals they shoot out are disgustingly menacing. They go so far.
Qlaid_: runebears? dragons. wickermen? dragons. first elden lord? dragon. who isnt a dragon at this point
alfalldoot6715: I'm so glad Elden Ring finally has its own "boss literally just made out of corpses" to add to the great soulsborne pantheon, including Nito, the Rotten, The One Reborn, and more
g4m3rk1done9: The last clip you used, of the furnace golem shooting a giant stream of fire. I can’t help but feel the fact that it’s shot in a spiral pattern is at least a little bit important, considering how much spirals matter in Hornsent culture. Could be nothing, could be another layer of mockery and humiliation from Marika and her order
PierceArner: It definitely seems like the dragons' body may be a key component in animating the golems, especially since the Guardian Golem's emit a disembodied draconic roar sound from inside their own burning cores as they're standing around idle, too.

Even the idea of Spirit Ashes being summonable from the remains of their ashes explicitly seems to reinforce that core concept. The Furnace Golems also make the detail in the Surging Frenzied Flame especially noteworthy, “Spirits are eternal, and yet the frenzied flame melts them away regardless. No wonder the hornsent forbid the flame's use.”
MajorSmurf: I'm just imagining a dragon flying over the head of a furnace golem smirking in smugness, unleashing some breath attack only for the golem to jump and go "GOTCHA BITCH!" before than turning it into some nice spicy crispy wings.

Just me?
Frank-kq4te: Some trivia, these golems also have striking similarity with chaos eater from dark souls 1, they even shares a similar grab, where they put you inside the top of their head and the player begins to swirl around in a windwirl animation.
VictorIV0310: The design of the furnace golems seems to be a sort of twisted karmic retribution towards the Hornsent approved by Messmer and Marika.

The shamans were mutilated, then stuffed into jars to become saints by the Hornsent so in response, Marika orders her son Messmer to wage a brutal, genocidal war against the Land of Shadow with his most prominent war machine being the massive furnace golems where the Hornsent themselves are rounded up in droves, dead or alive (but most likely still alive for extra cruelty), to be stuffed in the golems and lit aflame to bring it to life.

Imagine the screams and howls of terror and agony and the smell of burning flesh as the golem surges to life; An instrument of death’s first gasps of “life” brought forth by the deaths of so many within its frame to serve as fuel for the golem as it marches over the land as an instrument of terror, destruction and mockery as it wears the horned mask of the fell god of fire the Hornsent so feared.
-k-b-: Of all the masks we're able to wear in this game, I can't believe they don't drop that Fire Giant mask! Would've loved to make a fire samurai build
OverpoweredDucks: Seeing the fire spiral laser they shoot out from a distance is menacing. Can you imagine, being one of the hornsent who's existence thrives upon worshipping a holy spiral that's trying to reach the heavens, seeing a column of flame, something they so vehemently despise, spiral and reaching higher than any incantation the hornsent have been able to conjure themselves? I wouldn't be surprised if that was specifically designed that way to strike a form of fear not just toward the hornsent, but the very heavenly gods they worship
BabyLuna-l1g: Talking about their size reminded me about the MASSIVE Armoured Core enemies and players and EVERYTHING!
hanstingel__1112: Holy shit this has to be the perfect choice of Music! What a banger track and 100% fitting for a video talking about the Furnace Golems.
FrumpDump: There's a dragon inside what?
BigPapaMitchell: With regards to loading the golems, they also did this in the Lands Between with Walking Mausoleums, you can see them from miles away. Great example is going to Castle Sol and seeing the turtle in the Consecrated Snowfields. I imagine the Golems were also loaded in a similar way.
VictorIV0310: I wonder if that specific Hornsent who said these cruel words to the shamans lived long enough to be subject to similar cruelties by Messmer’s crusaders when they invaded.

I don’t know how long Hornsent lived but assuming he lived to see the crusade take place, I can only imagine it shifting from him whipping shamans with tooth whips and shoving them in jars like it's an ordinary day to him being captured by the crusaders before enduring days of being beaten and branded by serpent flails while being yelled at with slurs and obscenities by them such as being “Graceless scum” who’s only purpose is to be hunted, dehorned, impaled and burned before being forced to march alongside fellow Hornsent who’ve been rounded up, beaten, branded and dehorned to a furnace golem that has yet to come to life.

As the Hornsent are being pushed and crammed inside the golem to the point where’s it’s getting hard to breathe, they are given a speech by a Black Knight captain who says that though they are graceless vermin with no place in the order, their lives will at least serve one purpose: as kindling for their holy crusade.

The Hornsent suddenly reminisces on those shamans back in Bonny Village and realizes that he has become a victim to the same cruelties he inflicted on them.

However, he has no time to think of his current predicament as the crusaders set the golem aflame and the screams of countless Hornsent and the stench of their burning flesh fill the air as the golem comes to life.

So ends the life of one Hornsent among thousands, now used to fuel a lifeless machine of death and murder as it marches onto the battlefield. And so, the crusade continues.
Zekrollax: You should cover that GIANT dragon that is literally on the map, I’m curious about that Goliath.
grymgungus3933: The furnace visage also reminds me of Dung Eaters' sun medallion.
Neil.02: These golems seem like walking war crimes honestly, which is saying something in the Elden ring setting.
doctorreed_: when elden ring dlc turns a whole ass remembrance boss into a field enemy
osheroth: I couldn't think of a better song than Twilight Princess' Goron temple to go along the subject of giant flaming fuckers
wye3702: These guys are also seemingly a twisted version of the jars that the hornsent shoved the shamans into.

I wouldn't be surprised if Marika herself thought of these things.
hiroshima19: i like how they brought back winter lanterns for the dlc
mr.toothytheshadowman5652: I was confused when I read the furnace visage description and it said the Golems faces were meant to represent the Fell God. I didn’t realize it meant the entire face was supposed to be the eye, that’s cool.
Pandemoniuss: Two thing we can also notice:
-The fire proyectiles follows you because they are the soul of those who are inside him.
-Golem face expression changes when you break their posture and falls.
scentofcheese8030: love the lore in this game
damilkman2900: Finally! More Zullie content!.
Arkios64: I 100% was expecting something along the lines of "for some of the golem's attacks an invisible dragon is spawned to create them"...
square-table-gaming: I wonder if the corpse of the dragon feeds the flame in some way. Like an igniter. That would explain how we can bring the dead one back with the hefty fire pot. We reignite the dragon inside and boom, living flame.
themengsk176: Furnace golems are such amazing tools of environmental storytelling that I love them. This DLC is goty tier
Synteczek: The Fell God's medalion actually show that the face in the center is that the Fell Gods, and that they had two eyes.
chrysalissaturniidae7731: specimen storage being filled to the brim with horns could imply that victims to be used for kindling are de-horned prior to
justinhowe3878: these guys really give the sense of being out of a job and not sure what to do with themselves

Jul 07 2024

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