#sage gowry

[tarnussy]

it appears that I forgot to delete a mod

[swallowtail-ageha]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “The Scarlet Rot” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw some kindred of rot in the forest

My buddy Millicent pacing: sage gowry is lying to us

[kirkhammr]

How do they all keep getting her number

[xebsart]

it is complete!

hopefully some people can play a little wheres waldo game of trying to spot their favorite weirdo lol

[velvet-apricots]

Also about nsfw, sorry for extremely obscure stuff, but I've been (over)thinking the fact that the set Gowry wears is found in Stillwater Cave, a place full of Scarlet Rot and with a single Cleanrot Knight as a boss. Gowry is incorporeal and can always raise again using any Kindred of Rot as a new vessel, which is something sorcerers can do if they place their glintstone somewhere else. And his set IS that of sorcerers who were driven from their town for herecy (which in his case was worshipping Scarlet Rot I assume)

So, I think maybe that Cleanrot Knight helped him to accomplish that? But with how much he deifies Scarlet Rot, you don't think he'd absolutely admire a body profoundly corrupted with it? Especially if this Claleanrot Knight became friends with him? This is kinda silly how there is an old madman who absolutely melts at the sight of any rot on a body of a strong warrior lady two times taller than him and always wants to kiss it. He probably worships her so much it makes her shy- man, you know he'd have The Day of his whole life when she wants him to eat her out. There must be a LOT of pure Rot in there 🤔

YOU ARE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE

I imagine a lot of clean rot knights probably see the scarlet rot a lot like Malenia does. Its not a good thing to them, but an inevitable fate they all face in serving her. They live secluded lives to avoid spreading it to others. Their lives are dedicated to Malenia and Malenia alone.

So imagine Gowry saying to one that they are beautiful. Imagine him seeing them with out the armor on, in all their naked, rotting glory and saying they are the most beautiful creature he has ever seen. Him reverently worshiping them, rot and all.

I can not imagine the emotions they would feel, the relief at having human contact, of being wanted and desired when they believed they would never have such emotional connections ever again.

[bri-the-nautilus]

Malenia is milf 😳 do you know who her partner might have been? I’ve seen some say it’s the guy at the shade castle but I always thought it was Gowry. Hes the father of her kids so that would make sense

How about neither of them? First off, it seems pretty clear that her children were produced asexually. Gowry says he found them in the swamp, making him an adoptive parent. It's clearly a parthenogenesis type situation. Millicent and the others have exactly one biological parent.

Speaking of Gowry, he appears to be an entity possessing a Kindred of Rot (which also spawned from the Aeonian bloom), so I don't think he was really anyone pre-Aeonia. I have a few theories about him, one being he's a Sellian sorcerer who converted to Rot worship to stay alive in post-bioweapons Caelid, the other being that he's a Kindred using the body/spirit of a dead Sellian sorcerer as a front for his dealings with humans. At any rate, Gowry also implies that he's never met Malenia in person. If he is a Sellian, he probably saw the bloom happen at a distance, but that's it. If he's a shrimp, he popped out of the swamp after the fact.

Maleigh Marais is the most obviously parasocial guy ever. If he and Malenia were actually partners, would he need a whole ass waifu shrine with pictures of her and a bunch of her old arms and legs nailed to the wall? If they were a couple, would he keep one of her old arms in a box and talk about how cuddling it makes him feel like "the goddess" is holding him? All of the item descriptions (mask/robe, valkyrie's prot, antspur) pertaining to Maleigh make it pretty clear that he was madly in love with Malenia, but no mention is made of the demigod reciprocating.

I really think the closest thing we have to a canonical partner for Malenia is Finlay. Sure, it's pretty headcanony, but a lot of people seem to interpret her ashes that way. And nobody else has a spelled-out romantic relationship with Malenia either. It's all up to headcanon, and considering that Gowry didn't exist in her life (or at all) pre-Aeonia and the game is clearly portraying Maleigh as a parasocial loser, I think there's far more evidence to support a Malenia and Finlay headcanon than a Malenia and any other character headcanon.

And one more thing: I know exactly which post prompted this ask, and in the same tags where I called Malenia a milf, I also alluded to her and Finlay being romantically involved, so I know you saw that. Please stop with the heteronormative anon asks. It's silly.

[katyspersonal]

Shit, why I haven't thought of this sooner?

1) Gowry is sort of incorporeal and we can't really kill him as he resurrects though another Kindred of Rot as a host 2) He worships Scarlet Rot 3) Sage Set that he wears is picked in Stillwater Cave that already correlates with Fromsoft's infamous "water stagnation" concept that is connected with Rot too 4) As if that wasn't enough, the boss of this cave is a Cleanrot Knight 5) The Lake of Rot where God of Rot was sealed IS under Liurnia too

I think Gowry probably "died" in this exact place, and what we loot is his real body! He probably was looking for more information on Scarlet Rot, and either didn't endure the venom and was consumed, or willfully accepted a new role (who knows what kind of shit Cleanrot Knights can reveal?) ! Since Sage clothes do signify people that were driven from their places for "herecy", he died here already after being kicked out of Sellia (again, likely for worshiping Scarlet Rot)!

[catcas22]

Millicent's Sisters Theory(?)

Obligatory "this is 10% theory and 90% headcanon."

This started as a discussion with @thatboreddrake about the Egyptian concept of the soul. By my surface-level understanding, there are five parts: Ren is your name, your true name which encapsulates your identity, Ka is your living essence, your life force, Ib is the heart or the seat of the soul, the part of you that is judged upon death, Ba is the thing that makes you "you," your personality and reputation, and Sheut is your shadow, or the mark that you leave on the world.

Drake suggested that Millicent carries Malenia's Ba, her pride, her sense of self, the thing that made her herself. Meanwhile Malenia has been left with only her Ren, her name. Hence why she repeats her "I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella" mantra with every battle. It's the last part of herself she has left.

However, that presents a problem -- only the Ka, the Ib, and the Sheut remain, but there are four sisters to account for.

Although we don't know much about the sisters, I'm going to take my best guess based on their only real differentiating characteristics -- their weapons.

Amy bears the same blade as Malenia's teacher, the blind swordsman. I think the Sheut would fit her best. Just as the shadow the swordsman cast upon the world lives on in Malenia, Malenia's shadow lives on in Amy. I was also thinking about their names. While three out of five have "M" names like Malenia, Amy and Polyanna stick out. Then I realized that "Amy" might be a reference to "Aeonia," as in the Aeonian Bloom, the most obvious and ever-present shadow that Malenia cast upon the world.

Although there's less of a solid connection here, I'd link Mary (wields a Cleanrot Commander's Halo Scythe) with the Ka (living essence), as her weapon represents Malenia's life's work as the defender of the Haligtree. And I'd associate Maureen (wields a Golden Order Treespear) with the Ib (the heart which carries the weight of one's sins and is judged upon death).

By just about every metric, Polyanna is the odd man out. Her name doesn't fit with the others at all. She is the only one we can interact with as an ally. And she's specifically referred to as an "adopted daughter."

At first I just assumed this to mean that she's Gowry's adopted daughter, drawn from the swamp and raised like the rest. But when the sisters all show up together, they're labeled by birth order. And given that Gowry is a representative of the pest hivemind, a race born entirely from the Scarlet Rot, it could be argued that he's the closest thing the sisters will ever have to a biological father.

So here's where I abandon all pretense of evidence and dip into pure headcanon.

What if Polyanna is not Millicent's (or the others') biological sister? Sure, they all look similar, but could she be a different relation?

Is it just me, or does Malenia look a lot like her dad? Not just the hair, but her lips, her cheekbones, and her nose.

So the sisters (including Polyanna) take after Malenia. But it's fair to say they also take after Radagon a bit. Maybe Polyanna isn't their biological sister. Maybe she's their cousin, via another of Radagon's children.

Put yourself in Radahn's shoes for a moment. You go soft no-contact with your toxic family. You move to the furthest reaches of the Caelid Wilds to start your own fiefdom. As the family feud seems to be getting ready for another round, you meet someone and get married. Would you maybe be reluctant to tell your scheming siblings, your genocidal stepmother, your backstabbing father, and your dubiously trustworthy half-siblings that you now have a wife and a baby on the way?

It would add so much context to Radahn's impossible defense of Sellia and his oath of honorable death with Jerran if the big guy had a family of his own in Caelid. It would explain his half of the Aeonia clusterfrick -- Malenia refused to hold back because her twin senses told her Miquella was imprisoned in Caelid. Radahn refused to hold back because he was protecting his new family. As much as both may have hated to assume the worst of the other, neither felt that they could afford to take chances.

When the population of Caelid becomes afflicted with Scarlet Rot, Sellia becomes a ghost town, and Polyanna becomes one of many orphans left behind, Gowry takes her in because hey, you never know when a half-demigod might be useful.

It would explain why he sends her to help the Tarnished against O'Neill. While the other three sisters are potential vectors for a Bloom if Millicent fails, Polyanna would be essentially expendable to him.

[wellington-yueh]

look at this cool bug i found :0

[thatboreddrake]

That... really shouldn't have been as hard as it was. At any rate, it's here now. Bit of a short one, but I got it done!

[theofaluvsviolet]

Elden Ring | Moments of Enira (Tarnished Oc) with characters p.4

[minespatchart]

Inspired by a convo with my buddy bloodraven about how Gael and Gowry have the same voice actor. Took me a while to hear it from Gowry after finally playing ds3.

[thistoowillpasss]

[krakenguard]

Damn, bro! Which is it!?

[luminaryofblood]

Man, gotta love how Sage Gowry says how there's no cure for the Scarlet Rot. And then Shadow of the Erdtree introduces Freyja who was, inexplicably, cured of Scarlet Rot.

... And, again, all the while Finlay dragged Malenia from Caelid back to the Haligtree -- where I'm ASSUMING she eventually succumbed to Scarlet Rot.

[maletofujoshi]

on one hand i am a feminist. on the other i am SAGE GOWRY OF SELLIA, CULTIVATOR AND FATHER TO THE BUDS OF AEONIA. and this creates an internal conflict