Elden Ring: Monstrosity!

[Part of my Elden Ring journal]

There's a strange side quest for all these giant hands in this DLC. At a Cathedral near the Shadow Keep I found Count Ymir and his female bodyguard Jolan (who looks like fem-Sauron) and the guy is looking for help in ringing the great finger bells in the region and gives maps to them one by one. Without fail they are in remote places with giant finger type stones poking out of the ground and guarded by those damned giant hands that crawl around. I can handle the small to medium ones now but the huge ones with magic rings always cause me trouble.

Anyway, these bells are also finger shaped and are rung by blowing into it (yes thank you Elden Ring for making players blow fingers), and each time the Ymir rejoices at the accomplishment while he getting even creepier by playing nursemaid to a smaller hand creature. The third and final map he gives is in a location of the Cathedral itself and you need to wait for him to get off his throne to access the underground chamber below. There, after fighting more hands and Invader Anna (who I assume is Jolan's sister given the same armor) and ringing the bell is the horrible boss: Metyr, Mother of Fingers.

It has enough fingers to perform hand seals like a Narutard!

Seriously. WTF. Still took it down in my first attempt by staying on its front or back since the side "hands" are very dangerous, but upon returning upstairs both Ymir and Jolan are upset at this turn of events and attack!? Dude, you gave me a map to the damn place! Anyway, Jolan is the more dangerous of the pair but is weak to the great dragon hunting katana's special move while Ymir is just another pew pew caster with a short range teleport and the occasional summoned hand. So the reward for doing his job is killing everyone. Nice.