The PC Gamer team has collectively spent hundreds of hours playing Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, and we still have no idea what the deal is with the glowing blue wormy guy

Shadow of the Erdtree's trailers and promo images were full of distinctive characters: holy knights and flaming impalers, an ungodly hippopotamus and a masked man snoozing in a purple swamp. But a surprise favorite wound up being a silly little noodle man with a surprised face and wee arms.

"Who is this handsome stranger," we all wondered. "What deeply tragic backstory is he hiding?" Perhaps most important of all: "Will we be forced to bring the wormy man to some manner of tragic end by...