If you execute this correctly the sphere will smash into The Guardian and topple him over and place his left arm on the ground. When this occurs, run between The Guardians legs and the ball will go flying at you. Shoot from Despair's back at the ball and it will begin to spin in mid-air. Use Despair to outride the spheres, using his stamina is recommended, as the spheres are fast. In this phase he will launch explosive spheres out of the cannon on his left arm. When his arm falls off and he drops his hammer, phase 2 will begin. You will not need to use Despair at all if this procedure is followed. The strike will miss and you will be able to run slightly to the side and shoot the bombs.

When he does, simply dodge backwards or to one side at the instant his hammer is about to hit you. It makes dodging the hammer strikes much easier, and it puts Death in range of the bombs on the hammer arm once the Guardian strikes.Īnother, simpler way to deal with this phase is simply to stand in one place and wait for the Guardian to strike. Due to these two facts, it is useful to stay relatively close to the Guardian during this phase. The Guardian's hammer strikes send out waves of stone spikes across the ground as very high speeds, and once he strikes, he pulls his arm out of firing range fairly quickly. Ride back in range to damage the heart stone on his shoulder by using Death Grip to reach it, his arm will eventually fall off and you can damage the heart stone further, continue this until phase 2. Once his arm has reached the ground, shoot on the bombs attached to his arm with Redemption and his arm will fall off for a short time. Use Despair to ride out of his reach when slams his hammer to the ground. However, with its last strength, the construct slammed its head into the Corruption, destroying both the Corruption and the guardian permanently, leaving only its enormous hammer behind.Įven though he is big, he is slow.

The Guardian then attacked the gigantic, living Corruption growth blocking access to the Tree, but the growth counter-attacked and attempted to Corrupt the Guardian once again. Drained of even his life-force, the elder Maker passed on and the Guardian, now purified, briefly mourned his loss. Unable to stand against the Guardian, Eideard beseeches Death to put the construct down.ĭeath succeeded in doing so after a short battle, but, as no other tool exists to destroy the Corruption blocking access to the Tree, Eideard was forced to use every ounce of power at his disposal to reconstruct the colossus. Elder Eideard quickly engaged the beast and attempted to purify the Corrupted Stones, but the Guardian was too Corrupted to be purified, and too powerful for Eideard to overcome. He chose poorly, the corruption quickly spread and consumed the entire construct and sent it on a bloody rampage through the forge lands with the makers trying and failing spectacularly to stop it when it invaded Tri-Stone.

Death saw no other choice, the Guardian was the only way to gain access to the tree, and to that end Death gambled that the first two stones would purify the third. It wasn't easy, just gaining access to the Foundry required that Death restart the Makers entire industrial process again and reawaken one of their Wardens.īut gain access Death did, together with a comparatively young Maker known as Karn Death traveled through the Foundry collecting the Heartstones of ancient and powerful Makers to power the construct, but unfortunately the final Heartstone was corrupted. Trapped there just as everyone else in the realm was, Death began a quest to complete the Guardian and clear the way to the Tree of Life. Some untold time later, the Horseman Death accidentally traveled to the Maker's realm after a confrontation with the Crowfather. However, an earthquake destroyed the only way to access The Foundry where the construct was being built, and the Guardian remained unfinished as Corruption devoured the Maker's realm. The Guardian was built by the Makers as the biggest and most powerful construct they had ever conceived for the singular purpose of countering the Corruption when the substance began to consume the Forge Lands, blocking access to the Tree of Life.

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