"wilt thou be taken in jaws...of the abyssal serpent, shorn of light"
My favorite line, it goes hard asf😭🙏

I feel bad for Messmer, even in his boss intro he sounds tired, and is flat out confused as to why we're here. Only for us to push him to a mental breakdown at the prospecr of failing his mother, the goddess that crowned him as the monstrosity to haunt the lands of shadow before abandoning him, forever wiping his name from history.

That he spends his last breath cursing Marika is heartbreaking, he never had a chance to begin with. This was his fate from the beggining, to forever live as a tool of the golden order, their monster.

O lightless creature… Embrace thine oblivion, as shall I

“I will not suffer, a lord.. devoid of light!”

I adore the terror, horror parts of his second phase music

How fromsoft felt making it look like Messmer was the most evil dude ever in all the trailers only for them to drop the most tragic character in the game on us: 🤣🫵🏾

At 1:40 the volume at maximum is not sufficient, I LOVE that part sm

I don’t know music terms, but at 1:40 the “BWOM BWOM BWOM” that goes alongside the vocals is my favorite part. It just sounds spectacular.

I love how the music just sounds tragic. It’s heavy and powerful, but the melody sounds more like a elegy than anything divine or triumphant. The music really gives you a sense that all of Messmer’s suffering has finally reached its peak in this moment - a creature devoid of light given Marika’s blessing to become Lord, whilst her own son remains cast away and forgotten. I really think our presence alone broke him

Messmer's OST has grown on me so much since I first heard it. From being meh to one of the best in the DLC for me personally.

I love the detail of putting a ball of writhing snakes in the middle of his eye socket.

"Soon, Tarnished...wilt thou be taken in the jaws...of the abyssal serpent, shorn of light."

The change to the soundtrack makes it clear things have just hit a new level of 'oh crap'.

You can hear Radagon’s theme in here at times.

1:41 😱😱😱

Messmer gave up everything to destroy a random tarnished who showed up at his door, because his mission by Marika was to kill those without Grace.
He didn't do it because he was oh so loyal to Marika. No. Deep inside, or maybe not even very deep, he already knew he was abandoned, set aside and forgotten by the Lands Between, even if he still told himself and his men Marika would one day return. "Embrace thine oblivion, as shall I".
But this crusade... It gave Messmer meaning. It was all he had left from his past, all he had fighted for, for who knows how much. He HAD to believe in it. Stopping, just for once, to question it, would be enough to break him, under the weight of all the time wasted and all the lives lost under its cause.
It couldn't be false. He had to keep going. Even if he gave it all he had.

It was a curse from Marika, not unlike Nanaya's words to Midra. Messmer gave up all he had, and so much more that wasn't his to give or take, for the whims of an absent mother. And so, facing death by those same absurd whims, all he could do was to curse Marika back.

The vocalist hitting that note at 2:20 is so PEAK

Thank you Miyazaki, as a snake lover thank you for making the best boss in the game revolve his whole being around serpents. It's almost like it was made for me.

This isn't a boss theme, it's a theme of anguish.

best boss of the dlc