#say people mention popular lore vids rn and wanted to throw on my cents

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I'm sorry but I hate the popular "the bodies Marika was standing between might be the Crucible/Primordial tree" because it's just too bloody

"oh well the crucible is meant to be like a hodgepodge so the bodies make sense"

The Formless Mother exists first of all

But also that imagery reminded me a lot of Rykard's current body. Not the snake part but how the bodies he has eaten are still alive and completely bloodied. Their arms wringle around his sword and through his body.

I am not saying Rykard has anything to do with what Marika did lol but that what Marika is surrounded by looks very gorey.

And I don't think those bodies are of former gods either, they look like regular human sized corpses.

If that is meant to be the Erdtree then I think it's just to show how disgusting the tree actually is.

What Marika did to gain power might be revolting. And it's not like FromSoft has not done this before like in Sekiro with all of the dead children and in Bloodborne with the Fishing Hamlet.