#lephantis

[tenebris-metallum]

Im never drawing this guy again ive decided

Anyway, number 2 of my pocket-sized Infested bosses is a lot less cute than the last one because it’s Lephantis and he sucks.

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[mutalistaladv]

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okay so. serious mutalist alad v story, this is the product of me thinking about alad and lephantis’s dynamic for long enough. here you go. heed the tags

[nek-ros]

fulfilling my magical girl dreams

[orokinarchives]

Lephantis Dialogue

(Lephantis Cephalon fragment)

Target background

Lotus: "It was difficult to locate the source vector of this sector's infestation, but you are finally here."

Lotus: "Deep within this millennia-old Orokin-turned-Infested ship lurks a creature created to fight in the Old War. Make your way to its location and dispatch this monster."

Lotus: "Be wary. The creature has grown unfathomably strong through centuries of absorbing matter and self-replication."

Mission taunts

Like other Infested entities such as Phorid and Helminth, Lephantis communicates with low rumbles and groans whose meaning is telepathically conferred to the Tenno.

(Unburden yourself from this mortal coil, [name]. Join us.)

(Why do you destroy us? We are your flesh.)

(We were countless. Consume us. Be reborn.)

(We embrace you. Why do you defile us?)

The Hemocyte that spawns during Operation: Plague Star is a differently coloured version of Lephantis.

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[endless-bestiary]

LEPHANTIS

Man, what is even going ON with this guy? These guys? Things? There's a lot. A tripodal, three-headed creature with an uncertain number of arms and not even the slightest semblance to a real life animal or plant is so much to take in that it kind of all gets lost in the visual noise. Thus, I'm going to review each of the heads individually, because they were pretty clearly designed that way. 

THE GRINEER HEAD: Oh, yeah, did I mention each head is themed after one of the enemy factions in the game? Neat detail. Everything about this head just goes towards the purpose of flailing a giant scythe around, which is basically my life's goal. Its "face" is appropriately monstrous with its vaguely sangheili-like jaws, which are actually located above its proper face, which is locked in an eternal scream. Neat!

THE CORPUS HEAD: Like the original Corpus footsoldiers, this head is boxy and awkward next to the organic shapes of the Infested and Grineer heads. That could be intentional; the Corpus are a sort of tonal outlier in the setup of the world, and with such a disparate part, it calls attention to the way the Infested will absorb any and all that stand in their way. My favorite part of it is the little manta-ray face tentacles that open up when it shoots.

THE INFESTED HEAD: The Ultimate Snoot. The Shoot Snoot. I can really respect the way that this head's entire length is basically a rifle barrel for its awful spit attacks. You can even see "arms" fused into its sides for greater stability. There is a decent amount of thematic detailing here; the use of the Ancients' weird rib crown (which looks like a white Darkest Dungeon stress crown to me) mirrors the other elite Infested units to drive home the "one from each faction" theme. Overall, Lephantis is hard to look at due to the blunt way all of the heads just kind of stick out of a generic chicken body. If they were arranged as some sort of hydra or on a directionless plant body, I think they would fit together better. However, I can't really ding the intelligence behind the design of each head, so despite the low ratings, I can't help but appreciate it.

SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF: 3/10 DESIGN COHESION: 5/10 TAKE A LOOK AT THAT SNOUT: 10/10 PERSONAL RATING: 6/10

PS: On the topic of bosses, I won't be reviewing Phorid because it's *literally* a big red Charger. Maybe once it gets its redesign Soon(TM).

[sauteeneurode]

Ya’ll all have the hots for Tyl Gaygor and and Alad Bih but you don’t know where the REALL hot bosses are

[cephalon-jordas]

Lephantis just said that I am, AND I QUOTE, "a slut for Pherliac Pods"

[cephalon-crow]

Hemocyte - Mini green Lephantis