#lhutel the headless

[aidosaur]

PERCY’S ELDEN RING JOURNALS PART 12: THE END!!

(part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 | part 8 | part 9 | part 10 | part 11 | part 12 )

Part 12 of the Elden Ring Journals of my playthrough with @ananthhirsh! Here’s my non-canon epilogue. :)

It’s now been ONE YEAR since I started these journals!!! It was such a delight to do these, thank you for following along!

(Also if you’d like to read about Percy’s actual adventures, you can read BARBAROUS for free over here.)

[potatocrisp]

Lhutel carrying me through most of the game

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

Lhutel used to be a personal guard to Godwyn and they were good friends to each other, but different from the Death Knights, when she couldn't protect him in the Night of the Black Knives, she decided to follow him in death so she could aways take care of her beloved prince.

[ghostofashina]

All I wanted was Godwyn to have a knight, a loyal blade, like Malenia has Finlay, Miquella has Leda, Ranni has Blaidd, Mohg has Ansbach and Varre, Messmer has Rellana...

Part of me still believes it could be Lhutel. I just wanted any sort of confirmation. :(

[flameclipseth]

Got tagged by @arnaerr to use a random headcanon generator to see what will show me for Lhutel, the Headless.

I bet it's fanfiction about Godwyn getting backshots.

No pressure tagging @whyyouacknsocraycray @cherries-of-wrath @blackcatofsky <3

[redacted-metallum]

God i need her. Who said that

[catcas22]

Prince of Death ch199

Prince of Death - Chapter 199 - catcas22 - Elden Ring (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

[shadowsheik14]

and my second entry for the elden ring chain games!

I'm not used to doing lineless, so this was a fun experience. learned a lot and really pushed my limits

[tulsiipop]

[bri-the-nautilus]

Context: me simping for Dolores the Sleeping Arrow again

Being an ash that uses the player model, Dolores causes my penchant for summoning hot girls and my penchant for making my character look like hot girls to collide in unpleasant ways.

live Lhutel reaction

[blasphemousclaw]

Hello ! I’ve seen a post mentioning the demigods of the Mausoleum as well as the ones killed by Vyke, and while as the person say that this does have potential for oc writers, I can’t help but wonder who they might be related to. (Like seriously I can’t stop wondering the relation between 9 dead demigods and the demigods we know about as well as the Elden Lords and Marika). So I became so desperate that I finally dare to ask other people their thoughts about it (my family doesn’t even know a little bit of Elden Ring Lore or just forget about it).

Hello! OK this topic has actually stumped me for so long, so I finally got around to looking into the wandering mausoleums and wow is it weird and complicated. 

Lets get the basic facts out of the way… Basically, the wandering mausoleums house the bodies of “the soulless demigods:” 

“The mausoleum prowls. Cradling the soulless demigod. O Marika, Queen Eternal. He is your unwanted child.” (Spirit NPC)

“The sun in eclipse is said to be the symbol of the Wandering Mausoleum where the soulless demigods slumber.” (Eclipse Crest Heater Shield)

The mausoleums’ bells are said to ring "in constant mourning for the soulless demigods.” (Mausoleum Surcoat)

The mausoleums (well, most of them... stay tuned) are defended by Mausoleum Knights, undead warriors who “willingly beheaded themselves so that they may serve their masters in death.” (Mausoleum Knight enemy description) The mausoleum knight Lhutel the Headless earned herself the honor of Erdtree burial for this sacrifice. These knights carry shields bearing the symbol of the Eclipse:

“The eclipsed sun, drained of color, is the protective star of soulless demigods. It aids the mausoleum knights by keeping Destined Death at bay.” (Eclipse Crest Greatshield)

We also know that Castle Sol and Miquella are connected to all of this, because the inhabitants of Castle Sol seem to worship the eclipse… there are two spirit NPCs in the area who say these things:

“Ohh, great sun! Frigid sun of Sol! Surrender yourself to the eclipse! Grant life to the soulless bones!”

“Lord Miquella, forgive me. The sun has not been swallowed. Our prayers were lacking. Your comrade remains soulless... I will never set my eyes upon it now... Your divine Haligtree…”

There is some kind of operation to “give life” back to the soulless demigods of the walking mausoleums centered at Castle Sol. 

So who are these dead guys??? It does seem that they were killed on the Night of the Black Knives… Godwyn the Golden’s murder was said to be “the first recorded Death of a demigod in all history” (via Rogier), so we can assume that these guys were also killed by Destined Death, wielded by the Black Knife assassins. I think they are considered “soulless” because, since they were killed by Destined Death, they died in both body and soul… Ranni set up her ritual splitting the cursemark of death so that she would die only in body and keep her soul, and Godwyn would die only in soul and his body stayed alive, to everyone’s horror… so a killing with no special ritual would just kill both aspects of a person, and prevent them from experiencing the ��proper” death of returning to the Erdtree: 

“A proper death means returning to the Erdtree. Have patience. Until the time comes...and the roots call to you.” (Spirit NPC)

So I guess the goal of the eclipse ritual is to retrieve these demigods’ lost souls, including Godwyn’s. 

As for the soulless demigods’ identities, a spirit NPC does explicitly state that a demigod within a mausoleum is Marika’s child. There is indeed plenty of room within the Golden Lineage family tree for there to be a bunch of currently unknown family members, because Godrick is said to be the last of the Golden Lineage and a distant relation of Queen Marika… so that’s potentially a ton of previous generations of demigods that are just not named! These demigods could easily have been killed in order to hurt Marika and the Golden Order in Ranni’s dire plot, with Godwyn being the most devastating loss and the target of her specific ritual. 

I should also mention that there are two unique wandering mausoleums in Liurnia, around the Uhl Palace Ruins, that do not have a bell, are not protected by mausoleum knights, and can only duplicate remembrances of NON-shardbearing bosses. @katyahina pointed this out in this fantastic post, and I wouldn’t have even thought about these mausoleums if I hadn’t read it!! I’m currently unsure if these two soulless demigods had unique identities; however, really interestingly, unlike every other demigod corpse, the corpses in these two bell-less mausoleums are charred black:

(Normal mausoleum)

(Bell-less mausoleum)

So I’m inclined to think that something weird happened TO these two demigods that didn’t happen to anyone else that caused them to behave as less powerful versions, rather than them having unique identities from the other demigods to begin with… but that's just my take. What could have happened to them??? And why are they confined to this one “Mausoleum Compound” area, that’s among the Uhl Palace Ruins, where there are also Ancestor followers??? Literally I thought about this so hard I gave myself a headache. Anyway give katyahina's post a read for some fun ideas about their identities. Whoever they are, I think whatever happened to them means that they’re beyond saving; even the eclipse ritual can’t help them.

Also I could not ever begin to guess what’s going on with the demigods supposedly killed by Vyke in order for him to have gotten great runes and it honestly makes absolutely no sense to me. sorry but if I try to think about this anymore I fear my head will explode

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

Lhutel and Tiche were in a relationship.

[ghostofashina]

there's any chance lhutel was close to godwyn when alive? i know we find her spirit ashes far away from where his corpse is, but her description mentions a singular soulless demigod (it could be one of the unknown others, but it really bothers me we have no info on their existence) and godwyn really fits in the role.

nonetheless, whatever is the scenario, i think they'd be a really nice duo and very good friends. i guess this might become a new headcanon for me.

[flameclipseth]

these were her colors before she died. these are now her clothes idc.

[lumsel]

do you guys think Lhutel the Headless likes me back or does she think of this as a strictly professional relationship

[catcas22]

Prince of Death ch194

Prince of Death - Chapter 194 - catcas22 - Elden Ring (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]