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femmchantress · 5 months ago
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We get confirmed via the equipment and spells associated with Commander Gaius that he is a first generation albinauric, that he’s acquainted with Radahn, that he is undeniably a male-identified figure (referred to as an older brother figure to Radahn, like Messmer), and that someone named Gaea (who has no other mention in-game) learned gravity magic under the tutelage of an alabaster lord alongside Radahn. From his fight we experience his competency in gravity magic - an obvious homage to radahn’s use of gravity magic to continue riding his horse Leonard, especially after the scarlet rot robbed him of his ability to walk.
We know that the first generation of Albinaurics are born paraplegic. And that Albinauric women of that generation have a prominent tradition of martial wolf riding (to the point where the wolves are often conceived as extensions of the self or their other halves).
I feel like all the contextual evidence given in game really does offer us little other interpretation of Gaius than that of a trans man albinauric warrior whose pre-transition identity was that of “Gaea”.
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velvet-apricots · 5 months ago
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what if Ansbach had an Albinauric lady love?
Her name is Adamah and her wolf is named Lupus. Sometimes he pretends to have a hurt paw so Ansbach has to carry her.
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omnybus · 2 years ago
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So, in Elden Ring, the second-generation Albinaurics dress in drab and ragged clothes, are born without the Grace of the Erdtree, and have big, dumpy, frog-like heads.
In other words:
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He has no style
He has no grace
This this frog has a funny face
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antiphotogenicfilmographer · 2 months ago
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i wonder, if got/asoiaf was made after elden ring, would bran have ridden around on summer like the female albinaurics do with their wolves or can he not do that bc he's a guy?
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catcas22 · 1 year ago
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I want to ask you about THE ALBINAURIC WOMAN! She hides in a cave to the west of the Laskyar Ruins which jut from the mist-shrouded lake of Liurnia. She knows the location of the medallion's counterpart, I am sure.
(sorry)
In all seriousness, I want your thoughts on something. A post crossed my dash today that was speculating about if Albinaurics, being originally artificial entities, are at all capable of reproducing independently. The OP concluded (and I agree) that they probably can. Despite the fact that Albinaurics are hunted for their blood and frequently tortured/imprisoned/killed for being "impure", and the fact that both generations were deemed failures in the eyes of the Academy (g1 had the bad legs, g2 came out all froggy and was too stupid to use magic) and therefore probably aren't being produced there anymore, they exist in large numbers and many appear outwardly young.
I was doing some more looking when I came across Latenna's dialogue when you take her to the Apostate Derelict.
Oh young yet towering sister of ours. Let the birthing droplet in. And create life. For us. For all the Albinaurics.
Thank you. I've finally fulfilled my purpose. Our young yet towering sister will give us hope. Now that nothing is left unfinished, I will join you in battle to the bitter end. And when the fighting is done, then you may lay me to rest.
As well as if you kill her in the Liurnia cave instead of talking to her there:
Ohh... Phillia. Take...the birthing...droplet...
So the obvious question that I've been pondering is, what in God's name is a birthing droplet??? Why does it need to be "let in?" Why does it need to be Phillia specifically? Why won't Latenna or Albus or any of the dozens of other g1 Albinaurics milling about in the Consecrated Snowfield suffice?
I'm trying to muddle through my own thoughts on the matter, but while I do that I'm curious to see if you have any ideas.
Hi Bri! Sorry this took so long, it had me stumped for awhile. The more I dug into it, the more questions I raised. Long rambling theory below the cut.
So I'll start by saying I agree with OP. Albinaurics have to be able to reproduce somehow, otherwise they would have long since died out.
Going into this, I had the vague idea that Latenna was from Liurnia, probably from Albus's village. Makes sense, right? She's looking for a path to the Haligtree, chasing tales of a safe haven in the hopes of saving her people.
A quick look at her dialogue disproves that. So there's my first assumption dead in the water.
We have reached the land of Miquella's Haligtree, where Lobo and I began our travels. It's entirely thanks to you that I'm so close to home. These great snow-laden lands stretch far to the north. And beyond the ancient bowers, and the liturgical town of Ordina, lies the place to which I must return.
So Latenna is from the Haligtree, specifically the Ordina subdivision. The Apostate's Derelict is located just a bit north of Ordina.
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I originally thought the "birthing droplet" might be something similar to a sacred tear produced by the Haligtree. But if the Droplet had its origin with the Haligtree, Latenna never would have had to leave the snowfields. I think we can safely assume that whatever the Droplet is, Latenna journeyed to Liurnia to find it.
It could have had its origin in Raya Lucaria, or in Nokstella. Both would fit, geographically speaking.
Then I realized that Albus's village is located directly beneath the Moonlight Altar.
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I'm not sure exactly what to make of this, but it feels important. It feels intentional.
The Altar, specifically the Cathedral of Manus Celes, was at some point bombarded with a shower of these bad boys.
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An ephemeral sliver that gives off a pale blue glow. What remains of a passing flash of starlight.
A prized item that was once used in the Eternal City as an ingredient in intoxicating draughts.
Put aside, for a moment, my theory that the g1 albinaurics originate from the Eternal Cities, with the g2's being modern glintstone scholars' clumsy attempt at replication.
Instead, direct your attention to the Amber Starlight Shard.
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An ephemeral sliver that gives off a pale amber glow. What remains of a passing flash of starlight.
If the stars command our fates, then amber-hued stars must command the fates of the gods.
This item is found in the alcove just outside the walls of Leyndell, at the foot of a statue of Malenia and Miquella, surrounded by land octopi (who consume human blood) and sacremental buds (believed to originate long ago from a strain of buds cultivated with youthful, sacramental blood).
I believe that this hidden alcove was the spot in which Miquella initially nurtured his stolen Erdtree sapling, hiding away from prying eyes and watering it with his own blood. I also believe that this is the spot where he and Malenia formally severed their fates from the Golden Order, with the Amber Starlight Shard being a byproduct of this act.
Via Albus's dialogue, we know that albinaurics fade away, starting with their legs, due to some imposed fate.
My legs will soon fade, and with them, my life. Alas, this is the immovable fate of all Albinaurics...
If killed by the player, he adds:
You merciless brutes. Let the curse take everything.
Assuming he's talking about the same thing, does that mean that the albinaurics' affliction is the result of a curse? He also refers to Gideon's men as "cursemongers." Not entirely sure what to do with that.
Back to the Birthing Droplet. The name itself immediately brought two things to mind: dew, and tears. We know that the Erdtree used to produce dew, and that said drops could impart blessings and good health. There's also the Celestial Dew -- another connection to the Eternal Cities.
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A hidden Tear found in the Eternal City. Also known as a Night Tear.
Allows one to carry out an Absolution at the Church of Vows, reversing all antagonizations.
Once upon a time, the stars of the night sky guided fate, and this is a recollection of those times.
"Tear?" That jogged my memory. Down a fresh rabbit trail.
The Erdtree used to produce sacred tears and crystal tears, but I'm more concerned with chasing the Eternal Cities connection. Thus, we have larval tears and silver tears.
Silver Tear Husk
A hardened husk shed by a formless life form known as the Silver Tear, found in and around the Eternal City. The Silver Tear makes mockery of life, reborn again and again into imitation. Perhaps, one day, it will be reborn a lord...
Larval Tear
Core of a creature of mimicry known as a silver tear. As much as a substance as it is a living organism.
Material required by the amber egg cradled by Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, to birth people anew.
This is where inspiration (madness?) hit me. Doesn't "Birthing Droplet" basically function as a synonym for "Larval Tear?" Sort of like how Fia refers to what everyone else calls a "Cursemark" as a "Hallowbrand," because she's seeing it in a different context?
I will now attempt to draw a definitive link between g1 albinaurics and the Eternal Cities.
Albinauric Staff
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The albinaurics harbor a secret; they cast sorcery with their innate arcaneness.
Silver Tear Mask
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Mask fashioned from the corpse of a formless Silver Tear, supported by its hardened, shed husk. Greatly increases arcane to the detriment of physical attack power.
Albinaurics and silver/mimic tears both run off of arcane energy, both bleed silver, both are considered a mockery of life, both are made by hands. If albinaurics were not developed in the Eternal Cities, surely they were developed by someone building off of the technology of the Eternal Cities. Albinaurics fit the EC brand in basically every way.
We also have a few oblique references to the origin story of the g1 albinaurics.
Silver Mirrorshield
Shield of radiant silver, festooned with amber and carried by Loretta, Knight of the Haligtree.
The shape is said to imitate that of a sacred drop of dew, which inspired the absurd rumor that Loretta herself was an Albinauric.
So albinaurics are associated with sacred dew in some way? But aren't they supposed to be anathema to the Erdtree?
Albinauric Shield
Tall oval shield made of metal carried by young Albinaurics.
The ornamentation represents the primordial drop of dew from which they are said to have been created.
Blue Silver Mail Hood
Worn by the wolf-riding Albinauric archers.
Blue silver is a metal born from the same mother as the archers themselves, and provides protection from magic and frost.
Put a pin in the "mother" thing. Here we have multiple sources saying that albinaurics originated from a sacred, primordial drop of dew. But that's the Erdtree. That's the Golden Order. The albinaurics shouldn't even be compatible.
I now have to thank two people. One, shoutout to @caelaan75 for suggesting to me that albinaurics might not be subject to the Erdtree's cycle of reincarnation -- their souls may be subject to an entirely different cycle.
Second, thank you @thistoowillpasss for asking...
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Prompting me to realize...
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Now, let me just get into character...
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Okay I'm ready.
I think I was accidentally right about Helphen and the Lampwood Tree.
At first I thought we were looking at an "as above so below" situation, with Helphen being a sort of afterlife mirror to the Erdtree. But then I recalled that albinaurics originate from a drop of "primordial" dew. Primordial. The same adjective used to refer to the Crucible, the previous form of the World Tree.
From the Crucible Tree Set:
Holds the power of the crucible of life, the primordial form of the Erdtree.
And I may be cloudspotting here, but does the primordial Erdtree carving we see in Farum Azula resemble the etching on the Albinauric shield? The shield whose description references primordial dew?
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Guys... guys I think I was accidentally right. There may have been an actual Helphen Tree, predating the Crucible just as the Crucible predated the Erdtree. And I think the Nox used the sacred dew of that tree in their development of their various brands of homunculi.
The albinauric curse may have been a deliberate handicap imposed by their creators, or it could simply be a result of the fact that the tree that gave them life no longer exists. Or it does exist, but in a form that fundamentally rejects them.
Whether it originates from the Moonlight Altar, Nokstella, or the stars themselves, I believe that the Birthing Droplet is similar in function to a mending rune, a patch inserted into the albinauric cycle of reincarnation in order to cleanse their curse.
I'm not precisely sure how Young Yet Towering Sister Phillia accomplishes this. Her name is two letters off from filia -- Latin for "daughter."
Wait, didn't the Silver Blue Mail description say something about a mother?
There's only one divine force in Elden Ring that can claim such a title.
Bloodboon
Sacred incantation of Mohg, Lord of Blood.
Thrust arm into the body of the Formless Mother, then scatter the bloodflame to set the area ablaze.
The mother of truth craves wounds.
Briars of Punishment
The guilty, their eyes gouged by thorns, lived in eternal darkness. There, they discovered the blood star.
The Formless Mother's incantations all scale with the arcane stat. Just like albinaurics with their innate arcane energy...
Both the Nox and their Raya Lucarian successors were a highly astrologically oriented society. Could they have venerated the Formless Mother in the form of the Blood Star? Could they have petitioned her aid in the creation of the albinaurics?
Mohg seems to recruit heavily from amongst the ranks of g2 albinaurics. Could he be luring them in with a bastardized version of their own creation myth, with Miquella as their promised savior?
Which brings me back to Phillia. Given her unusual size and rather significant-seeming name, I think it's likely that she was created with the express purpose of using the Birthing Droplet to repair the albinauric "code." Obviously Miquella would be the obvious candidate for her creator. He sought to aid all those cast out by the Golden Order, and he's in the business of thwarting curses and rebuking the meddling of outer gods.
Now, I'm not a fan of the theory that Miquella was in on his own kidnapping. But I think that he and Mohg may have collaborated for a time before his half-brother's true nature became apparent -- likely in the interval between Godwyn's death and the later wars of the Shattering. Like Miquella, Mohg styles himself as the champion of those abandoned by the Order. And if Miquella had traced the albinaurics' creation back to the Blood Star, it would have seemed highly beneficial to work with someone who had a direct line to the Formless Mother.
I think that Phillia was a joint project, a clone of sorts created by Mohg and Miquella. Either Miquella overlooked a whole forest of red flags in order to keep Mohg cooperating, or he decided that the risk was worth it. Maybe he took terrible chances with his own safety in favor of just a little more research -- he was so close to breaking the albinauric curse, after all. Maybe he even made a deal, only to find himself in over his head when, by sheer dumb luck, Mohg imprisoned him directly beneath the territory of the one person who could fight Malenia to a stalemate. But I'm just speculating now. I've already far overstepped my evidence.
Thanks for the ask! This was an experience.
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knightofleo · 5 months ago
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The male albinaurics can get pregnant as opposed to the (perceived) female albinaurics.
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paparoach · 1 month ago
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jean in the twilight saga. thats it send ask
HE SUFFERS ENEOUGH
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roachymochi · 11 months ago
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Feet, the Crucible, and alchemical symbolism of the Erdtree
I made a post a while back pointing out the dramatic lack of working feet in Marika's extended family, with Mogh and Morgott being the only two demigods with unaltered legs. Looking into Old alchemical text I found a good cypher to understand the situation.
In alchemical text, the Gold Chain is a concept the mean of union between opposites : Water/Night/Spirit/Sky and Fire/Day/Flesh/Earth. This concept is heavily linked to the World's Spirit, vaguely described as :
A Divine Circle holding the whole of creation in its center.
A Silvery Tree of incredible size, covering the Land under its branches
A lifebringing force, bringing many animals and abundant crops
A link between the Celestial pure and the terrestrial corruption (sometimes called putrefaction)
That's a pretty acurate description of the Erdtree influence in the Land's between. But it add the Idea of gold being the essence that bring together soul and body. Considering the Idea of imperfect gold present in the game and all the way peoples can be fucked in the Lands Between, it gives a good metric to understand what's going on.
Albinaurics : made of gold and silver, their soul is intact but they lost their connection to earth. Their body is crumbling and losing their feet is symbolic of that Lost connection.
Omen : made of gold and copper, their body is large and strong, but the corrupted gold make them loose their unity, hence the manifestation of the Crucible growing out of control. Now that the golden order is lead by Radagon, the focus on intellect mean the Omen are seen as behind mentally and therefore inadequate.
Misbegotten : similar to the Omen, but their gold and silver is much weaker, due to being lower on the social scale (akin to wondering nobles). Life of servitude brang them Closer to earth, tainting their gold with animalistic aspects of the Crucible. With the Crucible influence, they gained hunger and competition instinct for survival, hence the bloody rebellion in castle Morne.
Carian nobles and Royal spectre : None of them have legs. Carian nobles are obviously aligned with the stars, and are therefore more mind than flesh. The many arms seems to be a manifestation of gold, giving the ability to shape the world by uniting or separating materials (+the Fingers situation). This is put to the extreme with royal revenant, who are all gold and nothing else, a structure with many arms but no flesh nor soul inside of it. They throw themselves in a rampage in an attempt to devour things to fill their emptiness
Godwyn : All gold nothing else. I probably used to have silver, but it was severed from him during the Night of the Black Knives. Empty Husk maintained in shaped by the influence of gold. Spread across all the land to feed on Gold, to get back some substance. Interesting to point out that the Deathblight animation shows a Deathroot sprooting from the ground to Pierce the player in their stomach : the stomach being the organ most linked to the Crucible, thematically.
Mudmen : remnant of being barely hold together by specs of gold. When you kill them and take their (gold) runes, they lose all cohesion and revert back to mere mud.
This is getting really long so I'll stop there, probably will do all the demigods once i've got a better hold on the concept.
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wanderrealms · 2 months ago
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I got into Prison Town Church and found albinaurics there.
About 15 years ago I was on a trip in London with family and we visited the Tower of London. There was an exhibit about historical torture devices. One that stuck to my mind was called the scavenger's daughter.
There are albinaurics in a scavenger's daughter. I read lore about Volcano Manor and knew what was going there, but seeing it was worse.
Illustration and link to article beneath cut. I didn't want to jumpscare people.
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source: https://medievalbritain.com/type/medieval-life/torture-devices/the-scavengers-daughter/
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velvet-apricots · 1 month ago
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So why are the two gen one albinaurics so different looking? The men are very old looking, while the women are young looking.
Are all albinauric women we see in game young? Their legs are all solid while the male albinaurics all have fading legs.
Or is it artificially created sexual dimorphism and the men were made to look frail and old and the women young and pretty?
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alma-amentet · 1 year ago
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A sudden question (while thinking abt my own headcanons)... Do albinaurics have periods? 🙄 Like, menstruate. In silver 😏
And if so, do they reproduce at all? We know albinaurics are artificial beings, but after some pondering I decided they might reproduce somehow. We don't know exactly abt the timeline, but there are plenty of albinaurics out there, assuming they are frail (short-lived?) and hunted, oppressed both by Golden Order and its enemies (Rykard), they have a way to support their population.
Or maybe their creators left them some other reproducing tools?
Also I think not all 1st gen albinauric men are old, there are young ones, too. It's just they don't have models in game... Maybe they are just more short lived and frail than women, so they age sooner.
What if young albinauric men are valuable, treasured for reproduction causes, so they hide well? 😏
Then, that giant Filia could have just given birth to a new, stronger generation, that might not have their legs degrade so soon...
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loxosceleslolo · 8 months ago
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Rogier isn't responding, guess I'll go to the Albinauric village before I talk to that prick Seluvis again
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This is depressing, I'm going to go talk to Seluvis and check back in with Rogier.
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Oh.
Oh no.
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Royal Knight Set
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Silver armor of Loretta, a knight who served Miquella's Haligtree.
Her lapis-lazuli blue cape is the emblem of the knightly pride that continues to guide her.
Loretta, once a royal Carian knight, went on a journey in search of a haven for Albinaurics, and determined that the Haligtree was their best chance for eventual salvation.
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lo-batteryy · 9 months ago
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Idk if albinaurics can be tarnished but that’s not going to stop me. Her name is Eidel :)
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thewisecheerio · 5 months ago
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Elden Ring and Disability
Elden Ring is filled with disabled characters. What I love about the specific way that Elden Ring uses disability, though, is that there is almost always a lore-compliant accommodation provided to the disabled character. This world filled with magic doesn't erase disability, but rather finds magical and lore-compliant ways of accommodating it, much like Star Trek:
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Here is some of the disability representation within Elden Ring.
First Generation Albinaurics
First generation albinaurics are synthetic humanoids. Their legs do not function normally, so they are unable to locomote by walking. In the worst cases where no accommodations are provided, we see them crawling to move. But we get two really cool examples of ways to accommodate this disability:
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First, we have Latenna the Albinauric. Normally when you summon her as a spirit ash, she functions as a static archer due to the state of her legs. However, if you summon her near a wolf, she will climb onto the wolf and ride it around to avoid enemy attacks and even gains a new attack (freezing mist) with the help of her ride. This puts the onus on you, the player, to make sure that you summon her under accommodating circumstances if you want her to be able to move. And of course, you could also choose not to, accepting her disabled self as-is as a perfectly great battle companion.
You can see a video of the wolf companion in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st6vGIpsHLs
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Second, we have Commander Gaius. Gaius is also a first generation albinauric with non-functional legs. But you'd almost never know without reading his lore or looking closely at his model, because is accommodated. He rides his Battle Tank Boar into your fight and has absolutely no problem wiping the floor with your sorry ass.
In both cases, a support animal functioning as a mobility aid allows the first generation albinaurics to locomote.
Malenia, Blade of Miquella
Malenia is missing some limbs due to the Scarlet Rot infection she was cursed with at birth rotting. She is also blind due to the sickness taking her sight. However, Malenia is still able to fight you (and win and win and win and win and...). There are two accommodations at play, the first of which is canon and the second of which is a canon-compliant fanon.
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The first is the prosthetics made by the Shaded Castle. Malenia's iconic blade is physically attached to her arm prosthetic, allowing her to wield it in battle regardless of the lack of (natural) limb.
Fun fact: this is based on a real, historical practice with armor where old armor was recycled into prosthetics! There was even a mercenary famed for using a prosthetic limb to hold his sword after an accident that damaged his arm. You can learn more here (timestamp 16:58): https://youtu.be/PJwNjOvn-Ow?t=1018
The second accommodation that allows Malenia to be battle-functional is the water in her battleground. Because she is blind, she can listen for the player character's movement in the water, responding in a Daredevil-esque way. This is probably helped by the fact that her blade instructor--the blind swordsman named in the Blue Dancer Charm--was also blind and likely taught her how to accommodate that disability.
Millicent
Like her mother Malenia, Millicent is also afflicted by the Scarlet Rot. We find her alone and largely non-functional in the Church of the Plague at the beginning of her questline, writhing in pain. We then bring her the Unalloyed Needle, which keeps the Scarlet Rot at bay, relieving pain and allowing her to travel once more. Toward the end of her questline, Millicent removes the needle, which brings the Rot back in full force and ends her life.
In this way, the Unalloyed Needle functions as a treatment regimen for a chronic illness. It does not cure her, but it keeps the illness in check well enough for her to function.
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The fact that Millicent chooses to remove the needle at the end of her quest is Important! Disabled people aren't under any obligation to "meet their potential" or continue treatment because it is convenient for others; if they wish to stop their treatment—even to accept palliative care—that is their right. Anything less disrespects their bodily autonomy and choice to make their own decisions. The fact that we get this representation in Millicent, who actively chooses against continuing her treatment after a certain point, is Good and Important.
And of course, we also provide Millicent with a prosthetic from the Shaded Castle, same as her mother. Once properly accommodated in this way, she can fight by your side as an NPC summon.
Messmer the Impaler
A lot of people speculate that Messmer is blind. This is because his left eye is (as far as we know) permanently shut, while his right eye appears to be a grace-filled synthetic seal rather than an eyeball. It's entirely possible that the grace seal does allow vision, but there are a couple of reasons to consider why it might not:
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1) When we first arrive, Messmer is sitting in the dark. You could interpret this as being a Sad, Broody, Wet Blanket (which he is), or you could interpret this as evidence that things like light and dark are of less consequence to him than to a sighted person. Or, you know, both. A Sad, Broody, Blind, Wet Blanket.
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2) Shortly after he lights candles--probably for your benefit--he sends one of his snakes into your face. He is able to tell from what the snake sees that you are Tarnished and comments on it. We can tell this means he can see what the snake sees, because he would have to figure this out from looking at your eyes and only the snake is close enough to do so.
This suggests that the snakes function as a remote viewing aid, providing a sight accommodation. And yes, again you could choose to interpret the snakes as existing in addition to a sighted right eye, but it is still interesting to consider what they mean if they are simply Support Noodles.
Ranni and Melina
There is a syndrome in our world called Locked-In Syndrome, in which paralysis prevents the entire body from moving with (usually) the sole exception of the eyes. As a consequence, the disabled person is unable to affect the physical world without help due to an inability to physically interact with the world around them.
Ranni and Melina have a similar situation going on, but with different ways of dealing with it. They are both disembodied spirits, having lost their physical bodies.
Ranni chooses to deal with the problem by incarnating herself into a doll's body at least twice: once as the doll's body we spend most of her quest interacting with, and later as a tiny actual-doll-sized doll that the player can interact with. Essentially, she has given herself a prosthetic that allows her to interact with the physical world once more.
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Meanwhile, Melina goes a different route. Rather than incarnate physically, Melina requests that the player character help her reach her goal--the foot of the Erdtree, and then the Forge. In this case, we provide the physical support necessary for Melina to interact with the world, much as support workers do for those unable to care for themselves.
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Goldmask
Goldmask never speaks to us in words. Rather, he communicates largely via physical movements. Brother Corhyn, a pupil of Goldmask, refers to his master's communication as "the movement of his finger". When Goldmask stops his movements, Corhyn reacts with distress, "I'm a little shaken since the master ceased his movements." He then proceeds to translate what the movements meant up to that point for us.
The fact that Corhyn is distressed at the master's lack of further communication after his movements cease suggests that this is his *only* mode of communication with him.
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This is entirely a canon-compliant headcanon, but I like to believe that this means Goldmask uses sign language that Corhyn is learning to interpret in order to communicate with him. Additionally, the fact that we cannot necessarily interpret it ourselves and must rely on Corhyn to translate means that Corhyn is also acting as a support worker by being Goldmask's translator.
And yes, I think this is largely to poke fun at the Gesture system in the game, but it's also fun disability representation!
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This list isn't exhaustive. There are yet other characters that either are disabled or could be easily argued to be so, like Roderika (grief and/or PTSD, given a space to heal and process), Rennala (depression and/or grief, NOT accommodated AFAICT), and Hyetta (blind, accommodated with...uh..."treatments"). But the fact that this post is already over 1400 words and has yet to touch upon all of the disability representation in the game just shows you how much there is.
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