Talk:Darkeater Midir/@comment-31664784-20170404191753/@comment-142.204.27.60-20170407164605

He's not being eaten, he's being corrupted by the Abyss. From what we've seen, corruption makes a being stronger. Manus was once an ordinary human, but when he gained the power of the Abyss, he became an incredibly powerful entity, that was even more demonic than demons. When Gael, a slave knight (read: cannon fodder) was possessed by the Dark Soul, the origin of the Abyss, he became what you see in his boss fight. The Abyss doesn't diminish how powerful something is. It massively increases is at the cost of the being's sanity.