Talk:Aldrich, Devourer of Gods/@comment-24460960-20170412075957/@comment-24460960-20170805093339

"He has either not fully consumed them and is using their corpse to attack you."

That is exactly what is happening. Looking at Aldrich's attacks in the Cheat Engine, it's pretty clear that it's Gwyndolin's body being flailed around clumsily. My guess is that because Aldrich doesn't just simply drop Gwyndolin and devour you is that if he does he looses the gods power. That's speculation of course, but's it's very obvious that Aldrich is using Gwyndolin like a sock puppet at this point.

"Has recreated their body to use as a weapon."

Leaving aside the question of how he was able to create wood, fabric and gold out of nothing, why would he create something that weakens him? Aldrich was just a mass of living flesh before and could easily devour anyone who comes near him. Yet when we step into the boss room, the floor is clearly part of Aldrich himself, yet he doesn't immedaitely devour us as soon as we step on it. That can only mean having a body weakens him. I don't think he'd purposely put himself at a disadvantage.

"If he has the ability to copy Pricilla's weapon by having a vision of her, then it would be probable that he could recreate the body of the Dark Sun Gwyndolin."

Actually it would not be probable at all. His copy of Pricillas weapon is a miracle. A mere imitation of the real thing. Making miracles of weapons and recreating physical bodies are two very different things. If it were possible that he could recreate things entirely from scratch then why does he merely only have miracles of the Gravelord Sword and the Lifehunt Scythe, when he has Gwyndolin's physical staff and bow? It doesn't make any sense. He can only copy things in the form of miracles. Furthermore the lore does not hint towards him being able to create bodies for himself.

Also, why would he go to the trouble of making clothes and a crown for a body? Where does he get the gold from and why are the clothes ripped? It just does not make any logical sense to think that Aldrich has recreated a body, given it clothes, a physical staff and bow, but only creates miracles of some other weapons.

The timeline also doesn't add up either. Since the Unkindled are awoken by the fire as soon as the Lords of Cinder abandone their thrones and since Anri of Astora assumes that Aldrich is still in his Cathedral of the Deep, that means Aldrich only got to Irithyll very recently. It's also noted that he likes to devour his victims slowly. So we do actually arrive only a little after he does, while he's only halfway through disgesting Gwyndolin.