Eredrim

Life is suffering.

> "*The Ovate made promises of an end to war and human suffering. Promises all were desperate to hear. Myself not least, for I'd seen my share of tragedy. I scratched my name in their book, swearing myself to the deathless doctrine. My armor clattered on the ice as I knelt before them and asked myself if I would ever be worthy.*"
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## Description

* A heavy Shell with high Durability, but with very low Stamina and low Resolve.
* While playing as Eredrím, focus on your offense while your high HP and Abilities handle your defense. Eredrím benefits on long killing sprees, and will become stronger the more enemies you kill without being thrown away from the shell.
* The Hammer and Chisel is the best weapon choice, as it spends the least stamina per swing, and it pairs very well with Eredrím's additional poise damage which will often stagger enemies since it hits so often. The Smoldering Mace is a good second choice, as it allows you to deal with groups, though be careful about depleting your stamina. However, your high defense allows you tank through hits, mitigating its low mobility. As you might imagine, the Martyr's Blade is nearly useless on Eredrím, as even a single combo will fully deplete your stamina and not allow you to roll away.
* Defensive Abilities
	+ Eredrím's Max HP is increased by 15%. This allows you to endure more damage increasing your survivability.
	+ Eredrím's attacks deal additional poise damage, causing enemies to stagger more frequently. This is both a defensive and offensive ability, allowing you to stagger your enemies more frequently denying their chance to fight back.
	+ Eredrím is occasionally able to resist being knocked down, allowing you to tank through most enemy attacks with less chance of becoming staggered.
	+ On kill, Eredrím gains a buff which reduces damage taken by 5% for 10 seconds, allowing you to fight multiple enemies while taking redcuced damage.
* Offensive Abilities
	+ Eredrím gains an execution stack upon killing an enemy, each stack increases base attack damage. Stacks are lost when separating from Eredrím. This is the most important offensive ability, allowing you to increase your damage proportionally to the amount of enemies killed. This stack caps at 100.
	+ Eredrím deals extra damage against enemies who are alone, allowing you to defeat Bosses and Elite enemies more quickly.
	+ Upon reclaiming Eredrím your next attack will deal massive damage, sometimes exploding your enemies into a bloody mist. This can compensate being knocked out of a shell while in a tight spot and can deal massive damage to bosses.
	+ Harden in the air to create a devastating area of impact upon landing. Eredrím's hulking size causes a blast with a larger radius and more force, allowing you to defeat multiple enemies at once.

## Location

Eredrim can be found on the path just outside the Seat of Infinity.

## Biography

"*Eredrim waited as the Ovate prostrated herself before the altar. Something shifted, a shadow moved just at the edge of my vision. He turned his head, but only found another corner of the empty cavern. The wind picked up and the Ovate raised her head. The Martyrs are here, she promised."*

In life Eredrim was a warrior and something of a mercenary, where he hailed from or how old he was by the time of his death are a mystery yet in his recollections he spoke of travelling: fighting for the magistrate, in wars between kingdoms, swearing allegiance to the Deathless Doctrine in the icy realms, and finally dying in that duty. Eredrim was known for his ability to endure and suffer, believing that to be the purpose of life, when he joined the doctrine he often praised their martyrs, saw himself as amongst the 'privileged' who had seen a world outside of the ice, and wondered if he was worthy of attaining the same honor in line with the beliefs of this covenant, especially listening to them as they spoke of salvation and alleviating that suffering.

While not entirely clear when, Eredrim came to Fallgrim with ambiguous intentions, he is recognized by figures in Eternal Narthex and his armor bears a similar pattern with his body found just outside the Seat of Infinity(complicated by which weapon is associated with him, see Trivia), whatever the case he is found by Foundling and finds a second life in helping defeat the Revered

## Gallery

Artist renderingMortal Shell - Gameplay Trailer - PS4Gameplay trailer featuring Eredrim.
## Trivia

* Eredrim is often pictured with the Martyr's Blade in promotional material, has a history with the deathless doctrine, and he often complains of his hands aching in memories, a known effect of the blade due to it's frost attributes, yet ingame he performs the worst with it compared to Hammer and Chisel that shares his color scheme, however, this tool is associated with Crucix's folk and, besides Berther Corvis, nobody there seems to know Eredrim nor is he ever described as following the path of historical Berthers and Sesters yet he is found dead just outside their region of the game making Eredrim's apparent background somewhat contradictory compared to his memories portraying him as a through and through warrior