Carthus Sandworm | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Demon's soul enjoyers be like
Oh ****! Here we go again."

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Dude just fell into izalith itslef and asserted himself over demons and the super ballista.

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"Would you still love me if I was a worm?" - Solaire of Astora

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If you wear Ragged Mask, Vilhem's Armor, Brigand Gauntlets, and the Antiquated Skirt, and kill him with a Broken Straight Sword with at least 2 siegbrau equipped, then a hidden cutscene happens where Solaire pops out from the mouth of the worm and hugs you and drinks the siegbrau, before vanishing with the rest of the worm.

It seems like an oddly specific set of requirements to get this secret. Why did fromsoft even bother making it this hard? Its making a lot of the community even doubt the existence of the easteregg in the first place because of how ridiculously hard the fight is.

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Carthus Sandworm. C is pronounced as K. You know what name consists of two words who start with sounds K and S? Riiight, Knight Solaire. It was confirmed on so many layers that it's really foolish to pretend that Solaire didn't turn into the worm

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If the worm is Solaire then Blaidd is Sif's child and the weird painting kid is Ranni, oh also Gael turns into Maliketh and Gwyn is reborn as Loux, also also Nameless King escaped and became Radahn, oh right Malenia is the Butterfly lady from Sekiro, and oh right the Fire Giant is clearly the bow giant from DS1, to add to this Artorias became a femboy, and the White Serpent from Sekiro is actually the ring, and the Dung Eater was born in Blighttown, and each Hollow is actually a single person who found out how to shadow clone jitsu, and each player character is actually a manifestation of Mr. Miyazaki himself. Did I miss anything.

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NOTsolaire is one of my favorite mini bosses

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my poor Solaire :(((((((((

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Ironically enough, Dune sandworts were said to cause so much friction that the static electricity of the sand and the worm causes constant lightning surrounding it.

Nice that this wormy boy has access to lightning

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Hang in the my man Solaire, i'm gonna save you from this curse

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This thing looks horrifying.

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The ballista is disgusting.

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Idk wtf does solaire have to do with this worm. First: if you associate solaire with it because of the lightning attack or miracle, it's an automatic "no" since solaire could only use the basic lightning spear, and lost faith on the sun/got hollow with a glowing living hat in lost izalith. And if we were not to save him from going mad, there is no way a crazed solaire would climb all the way up through blighttown, let alone beat the titanite demon who had superior lightning power.
2. In the case we sa ed him from going hollow and summon him for gwyn, he would have realized that even gods are vulnerable to hollowing. Why would he EVER use lightning or other miracles after such revelation? He would probably go searching for the next best thing than the sun, wich would' ve the god of war he prayed to in his own covenant. Wether he found the nameless king or not is unknown, but it's unlikely for him to beat the legion of man-serpents and dragonoids.

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I SAW IT
IT WAS BIG, IT WAS ALL WIGGLY, AND IT ATE EVERYTHING

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May his passing cleanse the world!

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i hate the lore theory that the worm is solaire

why?

because if it is true then that means that I didn't save solaire in DS1 and I also didn't put him out of his misery

which makes me very sad

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bruh this guy could have been a challenging boss to fight. but they ruined it with an easy cheese

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the amount of humus this thing could create

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[T]/

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this guy scared the **** out of me the first time i met it

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the olgoi-khorkhoi is a mythical creature in mongolian folklore, a giant worm that feeds on humans, vomits acid and... can electrocute its prey

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wow

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Praise the worm

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WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THIS THING IS SOLAIRE?

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If you get directly hit by it when it bursts out of the ground it launches you high in the air and I don’t just mean the standard launch like being hit by a fire witch pillar or lorian’s uppercut attack it’s at least 2-3 times higher than that and luckily the game puts you into a wake up animation before you hit the ground so there’s no fall damage.

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Dune alert.

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Where's Burt Gummer when you need him?

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I accidentally found a complete safe spot where the Avelyn and the worm can't hurt you, right in front of the Demon King boss room at the tree. The worm would move around me but be constantly attacking the same spot, which was nowhere close to me. I didn't kill it there since the damn Avelyn loved shooting me down every second if I wasn't behind cover.

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It's stupidly easy to cheese this guy. Just hang out behind one of the rock alcoves on the left side of the spot behind him, facing the boss fog. If you do it right and haven't aggroed him the ballista will just endlessly shoot him to death trying to hit you.

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I think they stole from dune.

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fighting this thing is the same as fighting a flying bullet train

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ok fromsoft i get adding his armor but did you really have to add solaire himself into the game?

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Looks intimidating at first but its nothing to fear.
Run past it, stay behind it and let the ballista shoot it.
If the ballista is deactivated can still be easily killed by attacking it from behind since it ignores you.

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try finger but hole

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The worm is obviously the sunlight maggot and i will die on this hill

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Solaire is not the sandworm because it's canon that he linked the fire. I do think, however, when he linked the fire he turned into what is now known as 'estus soup' and that he appears throughout the game to give the player a little soothing boost and hint of motivation to keep you going. ESTUS SOUP BRO.

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It's not Solaire though?

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Petition to protect our SunBro in his final form as the Carthus sand worm

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So, I was just doing my normal Lake run as I would with any character, and the gd worm TURNED AROUND. I don't know if they updated the thing, but it might no longer be safe to just sit behind the rock behind it anymore and bait the ballista shots.

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I think the carthus sandworm is based on the Mongolian death worm, which is a cryptid that people claim exists in the gobi desert. There hasn't been any proof of it's existence, but it's said to be able to kill from a distance by spitting poison or using lightning.

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Poor Solaire

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Shai-Hulud!

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It seems it is possible, either through a bug or the right circumstances, for the worm to turn around and hit anyone on the rock behind it with its lightning attack. This happened to me recently as well as a blue that was with me.

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It was BIG, s c a r y, and pink!

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Solaire isn't the Carthus Sandworm. The Onion Knight cooked Solaire and made estus soup.

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I saw it! It was big, it was all wiggly... and it ate everything! It was an ALASKAN BULL WORM!

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I laughed my ass off when I used a Seed of a Giant Tree just as an invader came into my world and ran past the Sandworm to get me. The Worm did its writhing-digging animation and one-hit KO'd the invader, even knocking them up into the air, if I recall. It was hilarious. I then proceeded to beat the Sandworm. It's easy enough if you stick near the widest part of its body. It can't hit you with its lightning and once it starts digging again, just take a couple steps back so you don't get hit by the animation and then it will pop back up just a bit farther back and you can continue wailing on it. Obviously I had already deactivated the massive crossbow mechanism or it would have been so much worse for me. You can't catch your breath with that thing firing on you, but the worm is easy to run past so you can deal with the Giants' device first... if you can survive the freaking Demon Ruins. With no help, assuming you beat the Old Demon King first. o_e

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If you are one to thread the storylines of the Soulsborne games together, I'm convinced that this is one of the rock worms from Demon's Souls. It lived past the Fog/Grey and grew up to be the Carthus Sandworm.

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rip Sun Bro :(((((((((

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It's implied it could be Solaire but a Sunlight Maggot wouldn't transform him into what is seemingly a Chaos Demon/Centipede. Not to mention Canon doesn't have Solaire dying, his gear was well taken care of. Probably left over assets. Probably a poor attempt to tie in the Miracle, the unused asset and remove the Arch Peak Boss ties to Solaire.

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how much HP does it have?

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Solaire is carthus sandworm!

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Tremors.

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I was cheezing the sandworm today, but this time he turned around and started shooting lightning everywhere

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it's an Alaskan Bull Worm

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Roughly the size of my ****

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A bit of trivia: This creature is possibly based on the Mongolian Death Worm, a cryptid that is said to be a large, worm-like creature which bursts from the sand to attack prey with bolts of lightning.

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the spice must flow

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It's actually Solaire

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A way to kill the sandworm if you don't want to risk being hit by the ballista/giant avelyn is to stand on a cliff that is right next to the Demon Ruins bonfire and use a bow. Here, the ballista cannot detect you. Even if it could, it would simply hit a tree.

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I assumed that since the sandworm is guarding the Shield of Want, its description of a mad king that became a "soul eater" was referring to the sandworm itself.

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I didn't even know about the hole in the middle of the lake leading to the Demon Ruins when I first played, I just charged right past the worm and somehow survived, lol. I also didn't bother killing it in NG+ because it's just cool to look at and it doesn't really cause any problems unless you get too close.

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I just stand behind it after the Avelyn is down and spam heavy soul arrow into its back, takes a while but it can't damage you

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Extremely weak to Sorcery, go onto of the hill where the entrance to the Bonfire is so the big ass arrows don't hit you, and blow him away.

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It actually IS possible for the sandworm to turn around, ofcourse this was a glitch, me and a friend of mine got to witness this firsthand. Unfortunently I have no living proof...so I guess I hope you take my word for it?

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The sandworm is Alois trancy from black Butler

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Was the Ballista put there on purpose to kill intruders and specifically the worm?

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Why do some people out there believe that this random ass sand worm in the smoldering lake is everyone's favorite sun bro Solarie. Is it because its shoots lightning from its "mouth" and that it drops lightning stake when you kill it or let the giant cross bow kill it.

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Weak to Dark. Can bleed. Can also be poisoned and intoxicated. Melee is the worst option; just use a bow and poison arrows. Pyromancers and miracle casters with Gnaw will have an easy time with this fight. Not sure about sorcery, haven't tried it.

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The worm is Solaire

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This worm is really straight out of the Dune novels, including lightning.Not that this makes it any less fun.

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The worm is weak to fire!

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Because you would need inspiration from elsewhere, to create a giant worm... Jfc, not everything in this game is taken from elsewhere. If I read one more comment about nameless King being goku, I'm done.

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Just run left where the fog door is. The snake won't be able to reach you but the ballista will keep firing. The arrows will pierce the snake on the way, but they will still reach the ground so dodge rolling is needed. But i found a small elevation in the ground, so staying behind it will prvent any arrows from reaching you.A few arrows more, and the snake will die

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chartus sandworm description almost same as Lovecraft creatures :Dholes, also called bholes, are fictitious creatures described in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. Below him the ground was festering with gigantic Dholes, and even as he looked, one reared up several hundred feet and leveled a bleached, viscous end at himDholes are huge, slimy worm-like creatures, at least several hundred feet long. Because they avoid daylight and are covered in viscous goo, their features are nearly impossible to discern. Similar creatures called bholes exist in the Vale of Pnath in the Dreamlands. Now Carter knew from a certain source that he was in the vale of Pnath, where crawl and burrow the enormous dholes; but he did not know what to expect, because no one has ever seen a dhole, or even guessed what such a thing may be like. Dholes are known only by dim rumour from the rustling they make amongst mountains of bones and the slimy touch they have when they wriggle past one. They cannot be seen because they creep only in the dark. —H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

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So how in the hell did someone infer that the carthus worm is a dragonslayer from the description on the lightning stake spell?

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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It looks nearly Identical to the Rock Worms in world 2-2

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I don't understand how its hard to kill this thing with melee... takes like 30 seconds, just wait for it to do its lightning attack and run up and hit it twice and repeat. Also, don't listen to the dumbass who says don't take out the ballista. It only puts a hinderance on killing it.

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Ther is a safe spot for easy ranged kill.When you first enter the area stay close to the left,get to the point where the worm spawn and stay back to the rocks before a sligtly sticking out rocks and simply keep shuting with whatever you got.

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I postposed the worm kill till I was done with this area, so I came back after clearing the area and shutting down the giant ballista. I am _almost_ sure I also defeated Old Demon King before attempting to actually kill the worm, so, when I wanted to, the worm was not there anymore. I haven't found any info about the worm leaving the place, I assume killing the boss makes the creature go away?

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Felt like more of an obstacle than an actual enemy. I just sat slightly behind him and shot him to death with arrows and fireballs while it did nothing of interest.

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From soft Has To Double His HPAnd Make His Resistant To Lightning and Fire He Is So Easy To Bait, But Youu Should Avoid Him At Low Levels

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He Looks Awesome, Impressive, But Too Bad I Baited The Evelyn Giant To Shoot Him, That's a Big Flow It Has To Be Fixed!.....

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