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The Mother received signs from the Greater Will from the beyond of the microcosm. Despite being broken and abandoned, she kept waiting for another message to come.
- Staff of the Great Beyond
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The Mother received signs from the Greater Will from the beyond of the microcosm. Despite being broken and abandoned, she kept waiting for another message to come.
Metyr, brilliant daughter of the Greater Will, was the first of all stars to fall upon the Lands Between.[1] She possessed a microcosm which allowed her to receive messages from the Greater Will.[2] Metyr gave birth to the Two Fingers that guide the empyreans and the Tarnished.[1]
High treason[]
Metyr was damaged and her Ringed Finger was removed.[3] She would never again receive a signal from the Greater Will.[2] The wisdom received by the Two Fingers was severed, and Metyr began birthing the aberrant Fingercreepers.[1] Although Metyr was broken, her Two Fingers continued guiding the empyreans without a word from the Greater Will.[4] It is said they presided over the birth of Marika’s Erdtree as she created it from the primordial matter of the Crucible.[5][6][7]
A New Mother[]
Count Ymir was a glintstone sorcerer who became a finger-weaver and uncovered the secrets of Metyr herself.[8] He found Metyr concealed within the Finger Ruins of Miyr, below the Cathedral of Manus Metyr, still waiting in vain for a signal from her lord.[2] Ymir uncovered that Metyr's true power, and the guidance of the Two Fingers, had been broken long ago.[4][6] After Ymir's young child Yuri died, his grief drove him to find a way to bring him back.[9] He decided he would succeed Metyr as the next mother of Fingers.[6]
Ymir shares the wisdom of the cosmos and a Hole-Laden Necklace with the Tarnished champion. He directs them to sound the ominous hanging bells at the Finger Ruins of Dheo and Rhea. Once both bells are rung, Ymir reveals the location of the Ruins of Miyr. Ringing the third and final bell will leave one's fate guided by the stars—and face-to-face with Metyr. If the Mother of Fingers is defeated, Ymir's hope is rekindled but the prospect of achieving his dream drives him mad.[10] He achieves a partial transformation and fails to birth Yuri anew, instead creating more Fingercreepers.[11]
Appearance[]
Metyr is a monstrous being made from fingers. Her head resembles an elongated thumb, and her face a pronounced thumbprint. At its center is a small, wart-like eye from which she blasts pink energy beams.[12] Ridge-like wrinkles, forming fingerprint-like patterns, cover Metyr's head and neck. She moves about on four sets of four-fingered hands, 16 coordinated finger legs in total. Metyr has two long-reaching arms that terminate in four-fingered hands tipped with sharp nails painted red. She may use these to pry open her abdominal cavity when birthing new Fingercreepers. Her tail forks into two tail fingers which wrap each other like a spiral. Between them rests an orb containing a microcosm.[2][13]
Metyr's body festers with unhealed wounds. Upon her right chest is a deep laceration, and her belly has been split wide open, revealing gore and the stillborn remains of malformed fingers. Several more protrude from large lesions on her neck and tail fingers, and her microcosm appears clouded like an eye with cataracts. The iris of her bloodshot eye is quartered into an X.[13]
Boss Fight[]
Metyr is an optional boss fight that can be fought by the end of Count Ymir's questline; after blowing the two finger bells at the other finger ruins, and returning to the cathedral and examining Ymir's throne, she is found in the Finger Ruins of Miyr, just beneath the Cathedral of Manus Metyr.
Phase One[]
Metyr crawls around and can fire a laser beam from her eye. Try fighting her head-on. She punishes flanking during this phase.
Phase Two[]
Metyr summons her damaged microcosm and uses it to channel gravity magic. Be wary that she can fly during this stage, which can be troubling for some melee players.
Notes[]
Metyr's hands each look like a pair of Two Fingers put together.
The finger protrusions in Metyr's wounds resemble Festering Bloody Fingers. There are several different models, but they typically only have one or two fingers.
Metyr is the only boss that does not fade away upon defeat, but instead disappears into the microcosm once held by her tail-fingers.
Metyr is one of the few bosses to survive having their health depleted by the player, with the first being Rennala.
However, it should also be noted that the Gazing Finger weapon is referred to as her head.
The soundtrack for the second phase of Metyr's fight is reminiscent of the first-ever recorded sound of a Black Hole.[14][13]
Metyr is referred to as "FingerNursery" within the game files.[15]
↑ 1.01.11.2The mother of all Two Fingers and Fingercreepers was in turn a magnificently gleaming daughter of the Greater Will, and the first shooting star to fall upon the Lands Between. (Remembrance of the Mother of Fingers)
↑ 2.02.12.22.32.4Staff fashioned from the tail-fingers of Metyr, the Mother of Fingers, and the microcosm raised aloft over the crux they form. Catalyst for casting both sorceries and incantations. The Mother received signs from the Greater Will from the beyond of the microcosm. Despite being broken and abandoned, she kept waiting for another message to come. (Staff of the Great Beyond)
↑Bludgeon made of an enormous finger sheathed in several heavy rings. Thought to have been cut from an ancestor of the Fingercreeper. Some life yet remains in this legacy of an ancient act of blasphemy, as evidenced by the barely perceptible warmth it still exudes. (Ringed Finger)
↑ 4.04.1Count Ymir: "I fear that you have borne witness to the whole of it. The conceits—the hypocrisy—of the world built upon the Erdtree. The follies of men. Their bitter suffering. Is there no hope for redemption? The answer, sadly, is clear. There never was any hope. They were each of them defective. Unhinged, from the start. Marika herself. And the fingers that guided her. And this is what troubles me. No matter our efforts, if the roots are rotten, ...then we have little recourse."
↑A crimson-colored talisman patterned after an Erdtree seed. [...] The Erdtree seed of this talisman was presumed to be an object of myth. This age-old artifact also depicts the Two Fingers, perhaps harking back to the birth of the Erdtree. (Crimson Seed Talisman +1)
↑ 6.06.16.2Count Ymir: "Do you recall what I said? That Marika, and the fingers that guided her, were unsound from the start. Well, the truth lies deeper still. It is their mother who is damaged and unhinged. The fingers are but unripe children. Victims in their own right. We all need a mother, do we not? A new mother, a true mother, who will not give birth to further malady."
↑Blackguard Big Boggart: "Maybe something went tits up with it. Maybe... it's been broke for a good long time. The Erdtree, I'm sayin'."
↑Count Ymir: "The map I gave you charts the site of a hallowed ruin. It is said that after sounding the hanging bell there… One's fate will be guided by the stars."
↑Count Ymir: "Forgive me, Yuri. Truly, I desired...to be your mother…"
↑Count Ymir: "My shining star. Grant me a mother's strength. Look here. At my fingers. I will be the true mother. And I will be the only mother!"
↑Count Ymir: "Forgive me. I failed you. Failed to birth you whole. I was not ready to be your mother. But I can still stay here, nice and close. For now, my dear, sleep soundly…"
↑The head of Metyr, the finger-mother, wielded as a weapon without modification. From within the center of the fingerprint that wrinkles the creature's foremost protrusion, a tiny wart-like eye gazes vacantly into the beyond. (Gazing Finger)
↑Helm fashioned from a crystal looking-glass. One among the Eternal City's ritual implements. [...] Worn by those committed to high treason, it wards off the intervention of the Greater Will and its vassal Fingers. (Nox Mirrorhelm)
↑Helm fashioned from a crystal looking-glass, said to have never left War Counselor Iji's head. [...] Worn by those committed to high treason, it wards off the intervention of the Greater Will and its vassal Fingers. Iji was afraid. Terrified of his own treachery. (Iji's Mirrorhelm)
↑The hidden treasure of the Eternal City of Nokron; a blade said to have been born of a corpse. This blood-drenched fetish is proof of the high treason committed by the Eternal City and symbolizes its downfall. Cannot be wielded by those without a fate, but is said to be able to harm the Greater Will and its vassals. (Fingerslayer Blade)
↑Ymir speaks favorably of the night and stars. His bodyguards, both Swordhands of Night, were born deep underground. Their black armor bears a thumbprint design that resembles Metyr's face. If the player rings the bells, their fate is guided by the stars. The player can become the Lord of Night by retrieving Nokron's Fingerslayer Blade for Ranni so she may walk the dark path of the Empyrean to usher in her Age of the Stars. Her war counselor, Iji, helps her to achieve the Nox dream of ridding the Lands Between of the Greater Will's influence.
