Astel, Naturalborn of the Void Site of Grace

Astel, Naturalborn of the Void is a main boss located in an optional underground region in Elden Ring. You can face him at the end of the Lake of Rot, located in Nokstella Eternal City, at the end of the Ainsel River - which can be accessed by progressing through Ranni the Witch's questline, or via a coffin in the Deeproot Depths.

To reach Astel, you'll need to find a set of coffins at the edge of a waterfall of rot in the Grand Cloister at the end of the Lake of Rot.

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Astel, Naturalborn of the Void Boss Fight Tips and Strategies

A hyper aggressive Malformed Star, Astel will likely take a number of attempts due to the sheer ferocity of its attacks, and the variety of moves it can perform.

Entering the arena through the mist wall, Astel will likely open the fight with a giant beam that it summons between its mandibles. This attack, like many others that Astel uses, requires slightly delayed reactions to avoid. For example, this beam is built up as Astel rears its head backwards, then angles it down to target you, and you'll need to wait a second or so with Astel in that state to dodge it as it fires.

Astel uses its tail like a scorpion, swiping from over its head, performing two slam attacks. Astel slightly raises into the air as it prepares for the slams, and like the beam, you'll need to dodge later than you'd expect, once Astel has landed again to sync up with the tail coming down.

The majority of Astels attacks revolve around the use of Gravitational energy; summoning purple spheres with cosmic-looking trails to it. These are either in the form of swipes with its hands, leaving a vapour trail behind it that explodes after a short delay. If caught in this vapour trail, you'll have enough time to escape if you roll in the appropriate direction out of the path of the trail.

Because, particularly if you're a melee character, you'll be spending most of your time underneath Astel's abdomen, it has a number of punishing attacks if you get too greedy. These play out as either Astel summoning these purple spheres in its hands and slamming them into the ground, sending out pulsing waves of energy that will knock you down should they hit you. You can roll through each of these waves, but that requires pinpoint timing to try not to panic if you're beneath Astel and you see it preparing an attack. Another is Astel creating a gravity well in a circle around itself, which you'll notice by small rocks beginning to float in that vicinity. After a few seconds, everything in that circle will begin levitating before Astel slams it back down to the ground. This can be an insta-kill move, so sprint from the radius and begin running back in the second the slam hits the ground.

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Astel also has some mandible attacks that occur if you linger in front of it; one regular two-move bite, and a super-charged variant that is signalled by blue energy lining its mandibles. If caught by this, Astel will raise you into the air, and almost always acts as an insta-kill as it slams you back into the floor.

If Astel hunches over and a sphere begins appearing and pulsing above its body, it is about to teleport away to a different section of the arena. As it does so however, the sphere will explode outwards, so sprint away as it begins to do this. You will also want to keep your head on a swivel for where it spawns, because if you don't immediately see a new sphere signalling Astel's arrival, it's about to perform an arena-wide lunge attack from above that, if caught in its mandibles, results in an instant kill. Roll at the last moment towards Astel if it does this to avoid the move connecting.

At around 50% health, Astel can rear its head back as cosmic portals appear behind it. As the portals begin pulsing, they will repeatedly fire comets at you, raining down for a few seconds. No amount of range will protect you from these comets targeting you, so you'll need to roll for your life as the comets begin emerging from the portals.

Upon defeating Astel, Naturalborn of the Void, you'll earn the Remembrance of the Naturalborn.