#second generation albinauric

[funkylittlebaldcharapoll]

FUNKY LITTLE BALD CHARACTER POLL ROUND 2, GROUP 4: A MINIBOSS APPEARS!

both of this group's winners from last round were created artificially-- made to fulfill a purpose as an advanced lifeform, imbued with special abilities to do what their creators could not. but do those abilities include SICK FLIPS?????

SPECIAL ABILITY ACTIVATED! the iterators' SUPERSTRUCTURES are still ready to force a tie upon losing if this poll gets higher than the average amount of votes... but as the numbers get bigger, their systems are starting to chug a little! the poll will now need at least 50 votes above the round's average for the ability to work!

[thewisecheerio]

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:

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:

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

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

[marawhydontyoudraw]

Commander Gaius appreciation post

Commander Gaius is so underrated as a character in the fandom that it almost physically hurts me. It is for this reason that you will now read a bunch of my headcanons about the man, let's go.

He's one of the first gen albinaurics created in Liurnia by local sorcerers who used them as servants/slaves.

Gaius himself was a servant of Carian royal family and accompanied Radahn to Sellia; since the Carians generally treated their servants better than the Raya Lucaria sorcerers, and Gaius and Radahn were roughly the same age, Radahn saw his servant more as a friend/family member and didn't mind when he decided to leave and study gravity magic on his own.

Gaius is actually a better gravity sorcerer than Radahn when it comes to skill level, though Radahn, as a demigod, is far ahead on the scale of raw magic power.

yeah, Gaea is his boar, and she does know gravity magic!

Gaius met Gaea in Liurnia when he was a young albinauric servant and she was just a piglet - her herd had been killed by poachers, and his masters had sent him to kick said poachers away from the royal grounds.

Gaius' legs began to fade even before the crusade, but Messmer still invited him to join and appointed him his second-in-command, despite the significant resistance from his other officers and troops; Gaius didn't fail Messmer in the slightest.

Speaking of the crusade, of all its commanders, Gaius is the least ideologically motivated - as an albinauric and a sorcerer trained in Sellia, he doesn't give a lot of shit about the Golden Order, Marika and their definitions of (im)purity. However, he takes his responsibility as a commander - and the trust that Messmer puts in him - extremely seriously, so for the hornsent his cold and pragmatic approach was even more devastating than the fury of the zealots.

Although he prefers to ride Gaea whenever possible, Gaius still uses his gravity magic to move (or more accurately, fly) freely in places where she cannot fit.

The albinauric lady on a wolf isn't his gf, she's his wife.

Gaius has the most luxurious moustache in all of the Land of Shadow and the Lands Between.

[velvet-apricots]

What if the formless mother made Adamah change like the second generation albinaurics?

Lil something spooky for halloween. Suggested by @katyspersonal

[modeus-the-misanthrope]

Let me start off this post with a bold statment. Godfrey is the single biggest political statement in Elden Ring.

Yes, this guy. The big buff wrestler man with grey hair and lion Stand (jojo!)

Because his name isn't Godfrey, it's Hoarah Loux. But to along with his culture, he had to seperate himself from his own name. Hoarah Loux was the chieftain of a group of people whose home is only reffered to as "The Badlands" before encountering Marika. Now we don't have much on specific details of how their meeting went, but considering Marika and the Golden Order in game are responsible for either the subjugation or genocide of multiple groups, (Misbegotten, Zamor, Trolls, Fire Giants, Omen, and Albinauric.) Its not unreasonable to assume her meeting with Hoarah Loux and his people was not treated as a meeting of equals. But mutliple mentions of this group he led mention respecting power and strength, so even an unfair agreement between them could have been fostered due to Marika's power as a goddess. Hence why Hoarah Loux had to shed his "savage" name and culture to become a "proper" lord for Marika as Godfrey. Similar acts were commited by the United States to indigenous tribes of the America's and to slaves brought here from Africa. They were forced to go by "good christian names" in order to seperate them from their own cultures.

In game, a starting class for the player is Hero. They are specified as having descended from the badlands chieftain. Now whether that's literal like the image of Nepheli in it's example art, or metaphorical in that they come from his tribe/cultural group isn't clear....because I can't read the original Japanese. But what I can read are context clues.

All of the Hero classes equipment contain a line about how they shun excessive adornments. But in all his depictions as Godfrey, he looks very adorned, with his massive cape and fine clothing intermixed with his armor. Something he removes when entering his second phase.

When you bring him down to 50% health, Godfrey tears away his spirit bound companion Serosh, his oppulent armor and clothing, and even his axe. He offers to and I quote, "fight you as Hoarah Loux, Warrior!" And his new boss title above his healthbar reflects that, no longer reading Godfrey, First Elden Lord. This means even he knows that Godfrey is not him, he is Hoarah Loux a man whose people outside of Nepheli and possibly the player...aren't shown in game. There is no location in game where they are, or historically were.

And considering prior to the games start, Hoarah Loux and a large group of people who "Lost the grace of gold" were banished from the lands between to wage war eternally outside of it...I think most of those people were the people of Hoarah Loux's culture. We learn that Marika made Hoarah Loux the Elden Lord in order for him to act as her general, and it would only make sense for his troops to be comprised of the people who came from the same warrior culture he did. That's why I think they are called the "Hero" class. Hoarah Loux's people fought at the front lines of the Golden Order's conquests, became hero's to the common folk and once their use was over, they were banished alongside their leader. This is similar to how in the United States, we call our soldiers "Hero's" but then a disproportionate number of it's soldiers come from it's territories and not it's actual states. Locations that lack government representation and aren't considered US citizens. Such as the people from the American territory of Samoa, Guam, and Peurto Rico.

Because Badlands isn't a location inside of the map we play, and it doesn't fit the way other locations are named. It's a title for a specific type of biome, like Taiga or Bayou. Hoarah Loux is the leader of a people who were subjucated, used as soldiers, seen as too savage to be allowed to keep their names and culture (in Hoarah Loux's case), and then sent away as soon as they were inconvenient to keep around. They don't even get the dignity of having the land qthey hailed from remebered as anything more than a geographical feature.

So to reiterate. The old man who power bombs your character while shirtless is the most political statement in the whole game. If you know what your looking at.

[catcas22]

OC Series - Sir Cassius, Cuckoo Knight

The captain of the mercenary knights employed by the scholars of Raya Lucaria. Cassius is the third son of Lord Laskyar, one of the more prominent noble Liurnian families to endure beyond the second war. Despite his standing, Cassius saw that his chances of inheriting were slim and chose to make his own way as a free lance. He eventually entered the employ of the Glintstone Scholars, rising quickly through the ranks of their mercenary knights.

Cassius is a born opportunist, the sort to thrive on chaos and to rise to the top during a crisis. He is far too canny and far too practical to buy into the beliefs of his more fanatical employers -- but he'll enforce their edicts all the same.

He harbors no special prejudice against albinaurics, as he's really more of the "hates everyone equally" type. Even that characterization isn't fully accurate -- Cassius is far more likely to kill for business than he is out of personal animus. With him, it truly isn't personal. Despite his general callousness toward human life, Cassius is an animal lover. He used to raise hunting hounds and falcons during his youth.

[omnybus]

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:

He has no style

He has no grace

This this frog has a funny face

[serpent-sister-made-of-yore]

Inktober 2023, day 8. Toad

"Second-generation Albinaurics, with dumpy heads that resemble those of frogs."

[feartheoldblog]

OI

OPEN UP! I GOT ASKS!

8. What are your 3 favourite areas and why?

16. Who is the most underrated NPC in your opinion?

29. What are your 3 favourite non-boss enemies? (behave)

35. What ingame faction would you belong to?

HELLO BIM I HOPE YOU ARE BLESSED WITH TESCO BAGUETTES ON THIS FINE DAY

8. What are your 3 favourite areas and why?

Okay so in no particular order:

Castle Cainhurst (Bloodborne): I don’t even know if I have to explain tbh it’s a super cool dilapidated vampire castle covered in snow. The lore surrounding it is really interesting as well, as are the enemy types. Also ice pop grandpa is pretty cool 👍

Irithyll of the Boreal Valley (DS3): It has this really uneasy feeling attached to it. The Sulyvahn’s Beast that attacks you on the bridge is ofc the first sign that something isn’t right but the emptiness of it is so unsettling. Until you bump into the knights and get murdered (rite of passage). The lore, once again, is impeccable, and the architecture is magnificent. Furthermore, the little ghosts of the Irithyll people are super eerie but also tragic :’)

Prison Town (Elden Ring): This was a difficult choice because I love the Haligtree aesthetics (hate it’s enemies) but I had to choose PT because I enjoy mostly everything about it. The Godskin Noble is a bit annoying as a boss but they’re easy dealt with with a bit of patience! The view of a literal town semi-submerged in lava is amazing. Rykard, you are a genius. A terrifying one, though.

16. Who is the most underrated NPC in your opinion?

I think everyone in BB gets a decent amount of attention bc there’s like 10 NPCs so I’m gonna have to say Irina from DS3. Her and Eygon’s dynamic is really interesting and I really want to know what she did to get sent there. Of course there’s the firekeeper thing but Eygon seems really perturbed about coming here and insults her specifically. Also she’s just super nice. I can never bring myself to learn the dark incants from her bc it upsets her </3 Also the braille makes her happy.

29. What are your 3 favourite non-boss enemies? (behave)

Life is so unfair when I have to behave 💔💔💔

Okay:

1) Corvian Knights (DS3)

2) Ringed City Knights (DS3)

3) Second Generation Albinaurics (Elden Ring) - my silly little guys

DS3 had the best enemy selection honestly

Do I enjoy fighting most of these? No, because they are evil and destroy me. Are they cool? Absolutely.

35. What ingame faction would you belong to?

Bloodborne: I’d love to be an Workshop Hunter. I feel like you have a great selection of weapons to choose from, the armour is stylish and you’ve got some of the strongest hunters to support you. Realistically though probably the Choir (I am too asthmatic).

Dark Souls: The DS world absolutely terrifies me so I’d hate to be in any of the covenants but if I had to choose I’d probably say the Watchdogs of Farron. I wanna make the dead dog happy :( (also they’re basically DS1 forest hunters. kinda sucks that we don’t get the flip ring though)

[dragon-communion]

Man I've been refreshing my brain by playing some BG3 inbetween Elden Ring binges and now my brain is trying to combine them somehow. Particularly since I am obsessed with dragons, and Dragonborn and Draconians are VERY interesting to compare.

I mean. I'm still convinced the Dragon Communion stuff was Fromsoft flexing over the rotting corpse of Skyrim. Florissax's regalia looks A LOT like the Dragon Priest robes in Skyrim, flowy cloth paired with unnecessarily angular not-quite-pauldrons and a dragon mask. I digress.

Dragonborn in the world of BG3 were essentially created wholesale by dragons, because dragons are too cool and pretty for menial labor and they needed some slaves/worshippers to praise them as gods.

The Ancient Dragons in Elden Ring presumably did the same thing, at least with the beastmen. I don't actually have much to confirm the origins of the Draconian people, but the most reasonable theories are that they're either half-blooded and descended from the truce with Leyndell, OR the Ancient Dragons literally just created some stone humans at some point. Kind of like the second generation of albinaurics being intended to improve on the first, perhaps, except humans were the shiny improvement on beastmen. Who can say for sure?

Either way, now I'm thinking about attempting to translate one of my BG3 characters over to Elden Ring and it's. A challenge. But I do enjoy build challenges.

[gmailminte]

second generation albinauric has been here

how can you tell

self depiction in art

[funkylittlebaldcharapoll]

FUNKY LITTLE BALD CHARACTER POLL: BOSS BRACKET, ROUND 2

who's funkier, littler and balder?

[elden-ring-item-descriptions]

Albinauric Ashes

Ashen remains in which spirits yet dwell. Use to summon the spirits of two Albinaurics.

A strapping duo of cartwheeling spirits who wield ripple swords and spew freezing breath. Both are second-generation Albinaurics, with dumpy heads that resemble those of frogs.

[callsignbaphomet]

Y'all mind if I go off a little about this? Blame C, he let me indulge my weird conspiracy theories and now you all have to pay for it.

Several months back I was looking at my inventory and I put away some items and one of the items I put away were the Bewitching Branches I had because I personally don't feel like they're useful and I read the item description again and kinda had a weird thought.

Flavor text says: "

Tree branch blessed with an incantation of unalloyed gold. Craftable item.

Pierce a foe, using FP to turn them into a temporary ally.

The Empyrean Miquella is loved by many people. Indeed, he has learned very well how to compel such affection.

Okay, cool, typical Miquella sort of lore but look at the last part. "Indeed, he has learned very well how to compel such affection."

Of course, now that Zullie made a video on it everyone's talking about it and those arguments I got into with some people are SILENT but you know.

He learned how to force others to love him. I'm not trying to be edgy or be negative or anything of that nature. In fact, I hope I'm proven wrong when the DLC drops and I was reading too much into this. I really hope so. But to me it feels like Miquella has amassed this sort of following (in game and among players) where people look to him for love and acceptance and he feeds off it.

If I've said it once I've said it a million times, I do not trust any offspring from Marika and/or Radagon. Every single one of those motherfuckers is out for their own goals and have/will fuck most people over to meet their goals. Every demigod is fundamentally a piece of shit.

Miquella is no different. In fact, I'm gonna say some shit people may not agree with at all or might get mad at.

Miquella and Mohg are so alike that their goals kind of intertwin. In fact, I don't think Mohg kidnapped Miquella, I think Miquella went willingly with Mohg.

"But Miquella was taken when he was embedded into the Haligtree."

Uh-huh. I know. They most likely spoke about it before he did that and set the plan in motion. Are you really gonna sit there and tell me that Mohg ever so carefully and stealthily made his way to the Haligtree, James Bond'd his way through a tree guarded by some of the most apt and deadliest soldiers in the Lands Between, snuck past Crotch Rot herself and took Miquella and successfully brought him back to Mohgwyn Palace? Please. Like...please. Also there's a portal to Mohgwyn Palace in the Concecrated Snowfield.

Why?

Both Miquella and Mohg are all about love and acceptance in their own twisted ways. Mohg's entire thing is about it. When you speak to Varre he talks about Mohg's endless love and acceptance under his new dynasty. Sure, Varre drank the Kool-Aid and he's so deep in it that he can't see how twisted the whole thing is what with the Formless Mother and possibly the Blood Star but it's there plain as day. When we get to Palace Approach Ledge-Road we see a trail of red colored Albinaurics.

If you don't already know the thing with Albinaurics is that, like Omens, they are hated by virtually everyone in the Lands Between. See, these people are like the second biggest victims of the Golden Order and everything else.

Mohg's dynasty promises a place of love and acceptance regardless of who you are or where you came from. Come to his land and he will accept you. Sound familiar? The Albinaurics from the Albinauric Village say the exact same thing but of Miquella and his Haligtree. Come to the land of Miquella's Haligtree, the "promised land" for all who have been shunned by the Erdtree and the Golden Order. When we get to the Haligtree you find all manner of "undesirables" but the most stand out are Misbegotten who, guess what, are also hated. You don't find any Albinaurics (neither first nor second generation) in the Haligtree though. Yeah, some people suspect Loretta may be a first generation Albinauric but I digress.

Both Miquella and Mohg are out here promising the exact same thing. You even have to make the journey yourself and getting to both of those places is no easy task and very dangerous. You're beaten down, hunted down by everyone, no one wants to help you and your people, you've been displaced and in some cases enslaved and experimented on (Volcano Manor) and now here are these two demigods promising an escape from a land that hates you so much they wouldn't think twice about killing you and these two motherfuckers promise a shelter from it all but you gotta fuck yourself over to make it to this holy shelter where you will be able to live your life as freely as you can and in peace.

Mohg is compelled by the Formless Mother and I'd even go so far as to say being born an Omen made it easier for the Formless Mother to manipulate him. What about Miquella? Not entirely sure yet but I just know it ain't for selfless reasons. He is this game's Griffith. In fact, Miquella is Griffith while Mohg is Fento (yeah, same person but not at the same time). Miquella just wants an adoring audience, he thrives off that, he lives off that. He's probably gonna make you a million different promises and not keep a single one. He has the ability to make you feel loved and you return that love, hence the branch description. You can even find clues of it in Crotch Rot's dialogue. The way she talks about her brother doesn't even feel genuine, it's like fake. Let's be honest, as much as I hate Malenia, out of the two she's the more powerful one, the most fearsome one yet here she is talking about Miquella like he's some goddamn force equal to or greater than even Elden Beast itself. Smarter than her? Yes. But powerful and fearsome? Not in the conventional way. That's why I strongly believe he and Mohg are "working together". They want the same thing for different reasons.

Also C mentioned to me that Messmer reminds him of the word mesmerize which goes back to what I said in the original post. I strongly believe Messmer is what Miquella looks like after having been in the cocoon inside Mohgwyn Palace for so long. He's been known to take on different identities since we all know he's also Saint Trina so him being Messmer as well just would not be a surprise to me. At all. Either that's his true form, another form he took, or what he looks like now that he was "corrupted" by the the blood from Mohg which was altered by the Formless Mother.

When the Haligtree was still young Miquella was nurturing it with his own blood but the tree eventually died. Maybe his blood wasn't as potent as he thought it was or maybe it is but needed something extra to make it thrive so Mohg's blood held some type of key for that? Maybe. At the end of the day he did want to cure him and his sister of their afflictions, he also turned away from the Golden Order as soon as he found out that the Golden Order was not the key to cure him and Malenia. Maybe he wanted to put on this show about being accepting to get subjects to willingly come over to experiment on them for said cure. We just hear the Albinaurics talk about the tree and Miquella and how it's like the promised land for them but we don't hear much after that. Like, what about those that maybe made it to the tree? Where are they? Like I said, you don't find any neither in the Haligtree nor Elphael. You can find some Misbegotten but no Albinaurics anywhere. In fact, no other "hated" groups can be found in the Haligtree, just some Misbegotten that sorta act like guard dogs.

You find Albinaurics in Mohgwyn's place and while their fate isn't the fabled reprieve from the Lands Between's cruelty that you would imagine was waiting for them you still see them. They're alive.

Ultimately I just strongly feel like Miquella is the biggest con artist of all the demigods and a master manipulator at that and honestly while I hope against hope I'm super wrong and he does turn out to be a beacon of hope in the shit storm that is the Lands Between I highly doubt it. I think Shadow of the Edtree is gonna show us a very messed up and grim side to Miquella that he's tried so hard to hide but we as the Tarnished/Elden Lord will be able to uncover.

I dunno, just some thoughts on this subject.

Calling it here and now.

Messmer is actually Miquella, his true form, the pretty angelic form we see is an illusion to lure others in.

He's probably the most corrupt motherfucker in the entire setting.

[kirkhammr]

I know Miquella probably didn't literally lead the albinaurics to the haligtree but I just love the thought of them all following behind him like a parade or smth

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

Sometimes, first-generation Albinaurics will adopt second-generation Albinaurics, since neither can reproduce and they were created artificially. However, this adoption creates a strong bond.