Astel (Elden Ring)

Overview

Astel combines translucent wings, a segmented body of coloured star-like orbs, human-like hands and a skull whose crack exposes a blue eye. Large mandibles frame that face, and the long body ends in a scorpion-like outline. Its remembrance identifies a malformed star from a distant, lightless void that destroyed an Eternal City and took its sky. The text establishes that deed without naming which city in the inspected passage or supplying a creator's real-animal design account.

The Naturalborn of the Void encounter lies beyond the Lake of Rot and Grand Cloister, reached through a coffin. Defeating it enables access toward Moonlight Altar when the Dark Moon Ring condition is met. Gravity attacks and warping across the arena make it more than a stationary apparition. Stars of Darkness in Yelough Anix Tunnel supplies another named Astel encounter, including a later multi-copy grasp, and remains grouped here without asserting that both encounters are the same surviving individual. Apparent parallels with Fallingstar Beasts are a useful comparison of cosmic imagery, but no inspected primary text establishes an egg-to-Astel life cycle or a documented parent-child line.

First appearances & development

The selected Astel encounters appear in Elden Ring in 2022. Their shared title and related appearance are covered together, with named encounter differences retained. Unused animation and version-1.00 development markers are not adopted as released creature biography or proof of an ordinary evolutionary sequence.

Canon & continuity

The specialist Astel body and actual Remembrance of the Naturalborn description were inspected. They supply the distant origin, city destruction and selected encounter routes. The remembrance does not resolve every Eternal City identification, and the source's unused-content discussion is explicitly kept outside this released-canon treatment.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

1. 01

   Elden Ring

   FromSoftware; Bandai Namco · 2022

   Naturalborn of the Void, Stars of Darkness and Naturalborn remembrance.

2. 02

   Elden Ring: Books of Knowledge, Volume II

   Future Press · 2023

   Publisher-confirmed bestiary; individual chapter uninspected.

Family & connections

A source-supported family tree or inspiration record has not yet been compiled for this profile. Related reading below indicates a connection in subject matter, not a proven lineage or creative influence.

References

Sources supporting this profile. Linked pages have their own scope and editorial standards.

1. ReferenceAstel — selected creature and encounter referenceResearch access: 2026-10-05
2. ReferenceRemembrance of the Naturalborn — game textResearch access: 2026-10-05
3. OfficialFuture Press: Volume II scopeResearch access: 2026-10-05

Image credits

A sourced illustration has not yet been added. This gap is included in the coverage record.