Elden Ring Nightreign Unleashes New Terrors: Every Forsaken Hollows Boss Revealed
Elden Ring Nightreign’s The Forsaken Hollows lands December 4, 2025, bringing brutal new locales, challenges, and a stacked boss lineup—two Expedition end bosses and fresh Night Lords—ready to steal the spotlight from the much-hyped Nightfarers.
Forsaken Hollows is finally out, and while everyone is busy debating the new Nightfarers, the boss lineup deserves a proper tour. FromSoftware stuffed this Elden Ring: Nightreign DLC with a mix of fresh nightmares, crossovers from past games, and a couple of capstone fights that were only teased pre-release. Here is what you are walking into.
What this DLC actually adds (beyond new places to die)
The Forsaken Hollows drops new areas, new challenges, and, yes, a lot of bosses tailored to Nightreign's day-cycle structure. There are two new Expedition final bosses (kept vague in the marketing), new Night Lords, and open-world troublemakers scattered across Limveld. On top of that, several old favorites from Soulsborne history show up, remixed to fit this game's rhythms. Some of these were clear in the lead-up, others are still not fully confirmed, but here is everything that is locked in now.
Who you fight and where
- Dreglord Expedition — Day 1: Mausoleum Knights and Basilisks roll in as pre-boss fights, and they now lead into newly added Death Knights.
- Dreglord Expedition — Day 2: Divine Beast Dancing Lion, making the jump from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree to Nightreign.
- Dreglord Expedition — Night 2 end-of-day: Knight Artorias returns as the late-night closer, only appearing after the final circle shuts and the Night's Tide is almost spent.
- Balancers Expedition — Day 1: Demon in Pain and Demon from Below, adapted to Nightreign's combat pacing.
- Balancers Expedition — Night 2: Demon Prince, straight out of Dark Souls III: The Ringed City.
- Field bosses in Limveld: Ancestral Follower Warriors, Cuckoo Knights, and Nomads patrolling the open world.
- New Night Lords: Weapon-Bequeathed Harmonia and the Traitorous Straghess step in as major threats.
- Other big new names: Lord of Blood and Sundered Tricephalos are in the mix.
- Expedition finales: Two brand-new final bosses cap the Expeditions; these were only briefly teased in the reveal trailer.
The returning legends, remade for Nightreign
Yes, that is Knight Artorias closing out a Dreglord night. And yes, the Dancing Lion and the Demon trio are here too. This is not just fan service; the movesets and pacing have been reworked to match Nightreign's day-night structure and its roguelike flow, so expect familiar names to play a little differently under the new rules.
How to unlock the Balancers side of things
If you are wondering how to even get at the Balancers Expedition, this circulated just before launch:
"To unlock Balancers in The Forsaken Hollows, defeat at least two main-game bosses in Elden Ring: Nightreign — Tricephalos plus one more — and make both new Nightfarers, Scholar and Undertaker, playable." — Elden Alerts, December 2, 2025
Translation: clear two base-game bosses (Tricephalos is mandatory, plus any other), and unlock both Scholar and Undertaker as playable Nightfarers. Do that, and Balancers should open up.
Where this leaves us
The Forsaken Hollows adds a thick roster: two new Expedition end-bosses, multiple Night Lords, roaming field bosses, and a handful of deep-cut returns that have been tuned for Nightreign's loop. That is everything confirmed so far; some elements were shown plainly, others are still a bit coy, because of course they are.
Which fight are you itching to tackle first? Artorias under the Night's Tide sounds like a scene, but I am not mad about throwing down with the Demon Prince again either. Tell me what you are going for.