Successor of The Ribcage Boss Fight
1Successor of the Ribcage
In phase 2, her resists go up: Blood 20% Fire 20% Ice 20% Lightning 50%
weak to Venom both phases
The Successor of the Ribcage, also known by her original name Aurora Valentino, is a Successor: an extremely powerful Revenant that is fused to a massive Vestige called a Relic, which used to be part of the Queen, in order to prevent the Queen's resurrection. However, the Queen's desire to live slowly corrupts every Successor, causing their bodies and minds to twist and become an extremely powerful Lost, requiring the original Successor to be killed and the Relic to be put in another Successor. This happens periodically.
Aurora Valentino holds the Queen's Ribcage, making her the Successor of the Ribcage: using its power, she created the Cathedral of the Sacred Blood from the Thorns of Judgment in order to protect the Source as well as to keep the other Successors separated and safe.
Even as she frenzied, she refused to forget one thing: she was there to protect the Source, and so became its guardian.
As the Successor of the Ribcage, Aurora takes the form of a massive female body laying on its back, with six arms, gold jewelry and skin that appears to be made from black stone. From the front of the torso forwards, she has the head and torso of a white-furred wolf, facing forwards where the rest of her body faces upwards. Should the player choose to restore her memories using the collected Isis Vestiges, Aurora will remain in this form and continue to protect the Cathedral of the Sacred Blood, since the player was able to calm the Queen's Ribcage and restore the Successor's sense of self, thus making her able to control it. Aurora grants the player her Blood Code, Isis, in return. However, if the player either has not collected all of the Isis Vestiges or simply chooses not to restore Aurora's memories, the player will absorb the Relic themselves, granting them the Queen's Ribcage Blood Code, and Aurora will turn to ash.
Phase 1 of this fight you need to sprint in and use the columns on the left or right as cover as you make your way quickly to the boss. Hammer it a few times, and when it does its AoE, run immediately to the opposite end of the room and repeat. If you are slow, use the pillars for cover, but you want to stay on top of the boss as much as you can, avoiding it's AoE attacks that spawn under you.
In phase 2 things get more difficult, but the strategy is roughly the same. Sprint down the right or left side using the columns for cover, never stopping until you are on the boss. Keep striking the boss over and over until it teleports and then get back to it asap, avoiding the AoE. It'll have a damage shield after it ports, so you'll need to smash your way through it via repeated attacks.
While sticking to it like glue, try to stay behind it to avoid strikes from its arms, and keep moving when lightning appears under you. If you strafe left or right without stopping you can avoid it without dodging. Additionally, avoid the blood AoE that gets cast under you periodically by dodging, and keep swinging.
The key is recognizing when she is about to teleport and heading to the opposite end immediately. If you can stay on top of her the whole time, the fight becomes drastically easier.
Trivia:
The Successor of the Ribcage's Japanese voice actor, and, by extension, Aurora Valentino's Japanese voice actor, is Arisa Sakuraba, best known for voicing Riju in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. No information can be found on their English voice actor.
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