Location from Elden Ring by FromSoftware
Messmer's towering fortress in the Land of Shadow. The Specimen Storehouse within holds the horrors of Marika's purge — preserved bodies, failed experiments, evidence of genocide disguised as holy work.
Messmer's towering fortress in the Land of Shadow. The Specimen Storehouse within holds the horrors of Marika's purge — preserved bodies, failed experiments, evidence of genocide disguised as holy work. The keep rises like a blade from the landscape, its fires burning perpetually at the summit. Messmer's soldiers patrol corridors decorated with the trappings of righteous conquest — banners, trophies, the organized architecture of an occupation force that believes itself justified. The Specimen Storehouse is the keep's dark heart — floor after floor of jars, cages, and preservation tanks containing the remains of the Hornsent people. Not merely killed but catalogued, studied, their bodies kept as proof that Marika's war was scientific rather than genocidal. Messmer himself waits at the top, impaled by his own serpentine curse, burning with a fire he cannot extinguish — his mother's loyal executioner, abandoned by her when the killing was done.
Also known as: Specimen Storehouse, Messmer's Keep