Eligor

Eligor is a boss in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. He is a giant demon knight summoned to protect the castle.
==Origins==
Eligos (also known as Abigor or Eligor) is a demon from the Ars Goetia. He is a Duke of Hell. He discovers hidden things, knows the future of wars and how soldiers should meet, and attracts the favor of lords, knights and other important persons. He is often depicted as a knight on horseback wielding a lance, scepter, or a serpent, and sometimes as a ghostly rider on a skeletal steed.
==Description==
Eligor is a gigantic and heavily armored centaur-like demon knight. He carries a giant sword in his hand and is also equipped with rotating crossbows attached to his armor. Even his tail is a weapon, which consists on a detachable blade that can be aimed and launched at a target, and then pulled back in place via an attached chain. The crossbows and detachable blade form part of Eligor's lower horse-like body, while he holds his sword with one of his humanoid hands.
Eligor's humanoid torso resembles a menacing knight and –keeping in tone with the whole thematic of the monster– his helmet bears the design of a horse's head, although interestingly, it is actually facing backward, while its back consists of the knight helmet's closed visor. Even more unsettling is that the horse's head holds a sinister eye inside its muzzle, from which Eligor can unleash a powerful energy beam.
While his face remained concealed under helmet during his encounter in Order of Ecclesia, in Grimoire of Souls, it is revealed that he has an androgynous face with light green color similar to an oxidized copper statue encompassing in fleshy, corruption-like growth. His eyes are perpetually widened and blank, lacking irises and pupils.
The reason why Eligor possesses such heavy weaponry could be explained as he is the guardian of the castle's arms depot.
==Appearances==
===Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia===
Eligor appears in a section of Dracula's Castle known as the Arms Depot, and he is the game's 12th boss. He guards one of the three Custos glyphs. He is a gigantic demon of colossal proportions in the form of a centaur knight with a giant sword, bladed tail and crossbows on the horse body's sides. If the player underestimates his size, the battle might end quickly with them either underneath his hoof, impaled by his crossbow bolts, or even on the end of his blades.
This battle has four phases:
#Attacking his front legs and frontal crossbow.
#Carefully moving underneath him (and avoiding his bolts if the frontal crossbow wasn't destroyed).
#Attacking his hind legs and rear crossbow while avoiding his bladed tail.
#Attacking the eye on the back of his head.
While it's not mandatory to destroy the crossbows on his body, it is highly recommended, because when you are crossing over to his back side, and when you are trying to attack his head, they will relentlessly fire off arrows at you. His weak points are his eye and any ruby spheres you see along his body. He is weak to blunt and electric attacks, so glyphs such as Melio Macir, Lapiste or Globus are very useful against him. Using Globus takes a bit more time, but once the crossbows are destroyed, you can switch to a melee glyph to use on the legs to gain easy access to his back, should you fall. It should also be noted that the eye on the back of his head is not weak to blunt attacks, but instead slashing attacks. When fighting the eye, a slash glyph with the Wind Ring equipped will deal a decent amount of damage. When on Eligor's back, it's very important to read each of his attacks, as he will attempt to knock you off. To get back on, simply attack the gems on his legs again, which will take less damage to shatter than before. An alternate way to fight Eligor is to use Magnes and Redire to fling yourself onto his back after taking out his front knees, although this is difficult to learn at first.
After beating the game and unlocking the second Boss Rush Mode, you can use the Volaticus glyph to fly up and over Eligor's head at the beginning of the fight. The easiest way to get over his head is to wait until he attacks to fly over. An alternative method is to equip the Wind Ring and two Melio Ascia glyphs and attack the back of his head from there. While using Volaticus won't use up most of your MP, the Melio Ascia glyphs will, so if you run out, fly around to recharge your MP while avoiding all of Eligor's attacks at the same time. The battle will end quickly that way.
===Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls===
==Item Data==
==Gallery==
Eligor as seen in grimoire of souls.png|Eligor from Grimoire of Souls.
==Trivia==
*Eligor is probably one of the largest enemies encountered in a Castlevania game, along with Menace.
*Eligor returns in Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls as a Vital Soul boss. According to Shanoa, just before the battle against him, Eligor was one of the toughest enemies she encountered within Dracula's castle.
*In demonology, Eligor is a demon knight who supposedly makes a mockery of knightly honor while putting forth the veneer of an honorable foe. Rather fitting, considering he is a colossal centaur knight in Order of Ecclesia.
**The in-game files referring to Eligor are labeled as "cent", which is shorthand for "centaur", likely alluding to his appearance as a gigantic centaur.
*Eligor is the Latin word for "I am chosen" (first person singular present passive indicative of eligere "to choose").
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