Dragonlord Placidusax

## Introduction

In the age before the Erdtree, the mighty dragons ruled the world. An unnamed god of the dragons held sway over the land, with the fearsome **Dragonlord Placidusax** as its Elden Lord.

The god of the dragons fled, leaving Placidusax a lord without a deity. The tattered and injured Placidusax would await the return of its god within the heart of the storm beyond time, deep within Crumbling Farum Azula. Here, Placidusax seemingly existed outside of time, eternally awaiting the return of the deity he had served.

### Character Details

A dragon with seemingly 3 missing heads, Dragonlord Placidusax is a mysterious boss in Elden Ring with little lore.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier**: **High 5-B** likely **Far Higher**

**Name**: Dragonlord Placidusax

**Series**: Elden Ring

**Age**: Unknown

**Classification**: Dragon, Dragon King, Elden Lord

**Powers and Abilities**: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Dominant Physical Characteristics, Daunting Physical Characteristics, Large Size (Type 2; Massive dragon with heads appearing to be 5x the size of a human alone.) Electricity Manipulation (Due to his lightning effects he can manipulate electricity in the area.) Fire Manipulation (as a dragon can also breath fire and deal fire damage.) Weather Manipulation (Seemingly Changes the weather to bring in lightning clouds.) Immortality (Type 1; has been around since before the Erdtree and is the oldest known Elden Lord.) Shockwave Creation (can create shockwaves while slamming into the ground.) Wind Manipulation (Can create large gusts of wind with his body generating so much force.) Flight (Has wings but doesn't need to use them to fly and levitate.) Teleportation (In Phase Two and Three he can turn into the mist and vanish, showing up somewhere else.) Energy Projection (When using Placidusax's Ruin can shoot golden Lasers at tarnished.)

**Attack Potency**: **Large Planet Level** (The former Elden Lord, Placiddusax is a later game boss that is depicted to be much stronger than what we see him as during the fight, his former status of Elden Lord also speaks volume to his strength giving us the notion he should be above characters like General Radahn) **Far Higher** (We do not get to see him at full power as he is missing 2 or 3 of his heads giving us the indication he is severely injured as he awaits the new lord.)

**Speed**: **Massively Hypersonic** (easily can summon and catch lightning on multiple occasions, some being closer to him than others.)

**Durability**: **Large Planet Level** (The former Elden Lord, Placiddusax is a later game boss that is depicted to be much stronger than what we see him as during the fight, his former status of Elden Lord also speaks volume to his strength giving us the notion he should be above characters like General Radahn) **Far Higher** (We do not get to see him at full power as he is missing 2 or 3 of his heads giving us the indication he is severely injured as he awaits the new lord.)

**Stamina**: **Superhuman**

**Intelligence**: Likely **Animalistic** (The Dragonlord does not show much outside of his animal like form)

**Weakness**: *none notable*

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike**: Placidusax will roar, summoning lightning strikes across the arena. Red sparks will appear before the lightning lands. Three of them will target the player sequentially, while others are randomized.

* **Overbalancing Swipe**: Placidusax raises his right arm and summons claws of red lightning. He then lunges forwards to slash at the player, falling partially onto his side as he does.

* **Claw** **Swipe**: Placidusax raises his left or right arm and summons claws of red lightning. He then sweeps them from his left to his right (if attacking with his left hand) or from his right to his left (if attacking with his right hand).

* **Claw Smash**: Placidusax raises either his right or left arm up high and summons claws of red lightning. He then slams them down in front of his chest, creating a large burst of electrical energy.

* **Claw** **Scrape**: After a Claw Smash or Swipe, Placiudsax keeps his electrical claws active and pulls them back along his body.

* **Double** **Claw** **Slam**: Placidusax raises both of his hands and summons claws of red lightning. He then slams them down in front of himself, causing a large electrical explosion. This attack is only used as a followup to his Overbalancing Swipe.

* **Rearing Claw-Firebreath Combo**: Placidusax raises his left arm and summons claws of red lightning. He delays for an extended period and then swipes from his left to his right, rising onto his hind legs as he does. He then spews golden fire in wide arcs in front of himself.

* **Crawling Claw-Firebreath Combo**: Placidusax raises his left arm and summons claws of red lightning. After delaying for a moderate period, he swipes from his left to his right, then begins breathing golden fire in wide arcs in front of himself.

* **Rearwards** **Firebreath**: This attack is commonly used when the player is at Placidusax’s hindlegs or sides. Placidusax looks back over his shoulder, then begins breathing gouts of golden fire along that side of his body and in front of himself.

* **Repositioning** **Firebreath**: Placidusax leaps backwards and to his left or right, spewing a gout of golden fire at the ground between himself and the player as he lands.

* **Leaping** **Claws**: Placidusax rises slightly and begins to glow with tendrils of red lightning. He then leaps forwards at the player, summoning claws of red lightning on his right hand and swiping as he hits the ground at their location. As he lands, Placidusax spins himself around to face the direction he jumped from.

* **Boulder Throw Combo**: This attack is occasionally used when Placidusax wants to adjust his positioning and face the player more closely. The dragonlord raises his left arm and summons claws of red lightning. He then scrapes them across the ground in front of him and along his left side, turning slightly to face the player as he does. Then, Placidusax digs his right hand into the ground and flings a spread of rocks at the player.

* **Wing Slam-Swing Combo**: This attack is only used when the player is at Placidusax’s left side. The dragon raises his left wing, then slams the edge of it into the ground at his side. After a moment of hesitation, he whips his wing outwards and up.

* **Bite**: A rarely used attack employed when the player stands to the side of Placidusax near his front end. Placidusax will look to the side that the player is on and then bite once with each head, one after the other

* **Tailslam** **Turnaround**: Placidusax commonly uses this attack to turn around when the player is standing behind him. The dragon curls to his left or right side, raising his tail and slamming it down onto the ground as he turns around.

* **Tailsweep** **Turnaround**: Placidusax commonly uses this attack to turn around when the player is standing behind him. The dragon curls to his left or right side, sweeping his tail across the ground as he turns around

* **Bolt** **of** **Placidusax**: Placidusax raises his left hand and summons a massive bolt of red lightning. He then slams it into the ground in front of himself, dealing heavy damage to anything caught under the attack and embedding the bolt in the floor of the arena. At this point, waves of red lightning begin to emanate outwards from the bolt along the ground while Placidusax raises his hand above it. The Dragonlord then slams his right hand down on the bolt, detonating it in an enormous explosion of red lightning.

* **Stationary** **Thundercloud** **Form**: This attack is always used to initiate phase 2. Placidusax turns to mist and vanishes. A few moments later, a stationary stormcloud with red lightning appears in the sky. The dragonlord appears within it, then swoops down to strike at the player with claws of red lightning on his left hand. As he lands, he will spin to face the direction he flew down from.

* **Traveling** **Thundercloud** **Form**: Placidusax leaps forwards into the air, turning to mist as he rises higher. Moments later, a stormcloud with red lightning will appear and beging to move to the player’s left in the sky. The dragonlord then emerges from the cloud, diving downwards and striking with claws of red lightning on his right hand. He slams into the ground and drags them as he slides, creating a massive burst of red lightning in his wake, but unlike the Stationary Thundercloud Form, Placidusax will not turn around to face the player as he completes this attack.

* **Teleportation**: Placidusax turns to mist and vanishes, reappearing shortly afterwards in another location. He will often reappear with an attack already beginning, and if he was performing a combo when he vanished, he will often continue that combo when he reappears.

* **Placidusax’s** **Ruin**: Placidusax will use Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike, but will instead turn to mist and disappear early in the animation. A single bolt of red lightning will be summoned on the player’s location. Moments later Placidusax will execute his Stationary Thundercloud Form, appearing in the sky and swooping down to strike them. As he turns around following this move, Placidusax will breathe gouts of golden fire across the ground in front of himself. These gouts of fire then turn to devastating golden lasers, and Placidusax sweeps them sequentially across the arena before firing them into the sky.