One of my favorite things about Souls games is that sometimes the best method for dealing with tragic, corrupted knights and primordial horrors is simply hitting them very hard with a large object. It's an ideal embodied by the Raider, the subject of Bandai Namco's latest Elden Ring: Nightreign character reveal trailer, who seems just as comfortable using himself as a bludgeoning implement as anything else.
At first blush, the Raider looks a bit like someone's Skyrim character wandered out of Nord country and into Limgrave. For all you Elden Ring buffs, he's Godfrey-coded—or maybe Hoarah Loux-coded is more accurate: He's a burly, bearded, viking-looking gent, who starts the trailer cracking his knuckles as though he's not particularly interested in the massive axe he's got strapped to his back.
