If you have wandered through the Land of Shadow in Fire ring‘s recently released expansion, there is a good chance you have met the biggest hater of all time. No, Kendrick Lamar is not suddenly in Shadow of the Earth Treehe is too busy in Compton Manufacturing Drake’s life is hell. Instead, you would have met Igon, who is both one of the most powerfully voiced characters ever in a From Software game and the pettiest guy in the world. We have no choice but to adore this Ahab insert in this storyline that is straight out of the pages of Moby-Dick.
Spoilers for Igon’s quest line in Shadow of the Earth Tree consequences.
Igon can be first encountered west of the Place of Mercy at the Pillar Path Waypoint, but he is recognized not so much by his appearance as by his voice. Here is the Content Creator DansGaming He comes across an “NPC making some very strange noises,” who turns out to be none other than Igon, a dragon warrior on his final mission.
When you happen to meet Igon, he is beaten down and scarred. He can’t really use his arms, and it seems his legs have given up as well. Basically, Igon is trudging through the Land of Shadow to kill Bayle the Terrible, a traitorous dragon who wounded Placidusax – a name you may know as the mad dragon boss you fought in Farum Azula in Fire ring– and filled Igon with a paralyzing fear that prevented him from participating in the Dragon Communion that gave meaning to his life.
Talking to him in this state brings a lot of screams of pain and repeated calls for the “vile Bayle” and begins a series of adventures that follow Igon’s journey. When he’s not growling every other sentence he utters, he is deeply hurt and afraid of Bayle, who inflicted a horror on Igon that literally still haunts him, and the way voice actor Richard Lintern switches between these extremes is simply impressive. He comes across as two different characters rather than dimensions of the same man, and people are already praising Lintern’s full-bodied portrayal of Igon.
As we continue to follow Igon, we have plenty of opportunity to hear his whining and moaning, but soon he realizes that his body is failing him and he will not physically make it to Bayle. At this point, he does the craziest thing yet and gives you use his finger to summon his spirit to finish off Bayle when you finally get to the boss fight. And then the boss fight happens and Igon reaches hater levels previously thought unattainable.
As soon as you summon him, Igon immediately screams: “Cursed be you, Bayle” and throws himself into the Mother of all tirades. He even gives you gas and says: “Look, a true dragon warrior! And me, Igon!” you are the He’s talking about a true Dragon Warrior! My favorite line, however, is when he yells at Bayle that he’s going to “riddle your rotten skin with holes,” and immediately follows that up by excitedly uttering the phrase “With a hail of harpoons!” The guy wants Bayle dead So It doesn’t look like he’ll ever shut up, but eventually he will. And so Igon takes his dragon bone bow and the harpoons he made specifically to penetrate Bayle’s “rotten skin” and does exactly what he was sent to Earth to do: He kills the dragon.
Igon’s storyline is so stupid and Lintern’s interpretation of every line is so insane that the character immediately became a standout. extensionand FromSoft’s growing gallery of strange little guys. Many players have Memes about the guy and his obviously obsessive anger. Others are simply show their respect to a performance that absolutely thrilled them. One person has sworn loyalty to the guy for the insane comeback he makes in the end, despite everything that torments him, and which ultimately makes him a “Gigachad”.
Interestingly few experienced people have found that both Bayle and Igon are connected to another literary work, except Moby-Dick. Remember that A song of ice and fireThe author George RR Martin worked on the tradition of Fire ringit should come as no surprise that both names are inspired by his main work. Bayle is a reference to a literally terrible dragon named Balerion in ASOIAFwho is ridden by the phonetically similar Aegon Targaryen. And so the circle is complete.
