Elden Ring - Boss Fight - Royal Knight Loretta at Carrion Manor

Royal Knight Loretta's ghost casting a glinstone-phalanx sorcery from atop her horse

In the western region of the Lands Between in ELDEN RING, there are is an area called Liurnia

Lakes. It's main structure is the Raya Lucaria Academy, a school for sorcery run by Queen Rennala a member of the Carrion Royal Family to the north east that had a manor.

After the war of the Shattering, a struggle between the demigod children of Marika and Radagon in which they quarreled over pieces of their missing mother and father's magic ring -- the Carrion Family Manor was left in ruins due to multiple assaults by the Erdtree/Two-Finger's Golden Order and Dragon-Cult. Now it is full of ghosts of lowly Carrion Soldiers, small and large Fingercreepers, trolls, pages, dragons, and the ghost of Royal Knight Loretta.

Here's a larger Fingercreeper, one of my least favorite monsters in the game.

Since Carrion Manor was an area that I missed early on, returning meant I didn't experience the usual difficulty I had when first entering other areas. It bothered me a little that there are so few Carrion Knights in the game, especially since there's so much in the lore that praises them -- warriors skilled in swordsmanship and sorcery. I imagine Royal Knight Loretta is tough for Tarnished characters with no magic defense. Another surprise was how slow she was despite being on a horse. She was very weak to most of my incantation spells. Perhaps the battle would've been more difficult without my Spirit Summon. Lovely boss-fight stage though, a roundtable of chairs around an open lake.

Here's the full video below.