#was also thinking like so melina as Death takes up messmer's prophetic reins as Flame

[eldintower]

melina messmer resurrection & the frenzied flame brief post

death mask helm - "Helm of Wego, elder among the Fire Knights. Two warped death masks stacked one atop the other. (...) Gnawed at by loneliness, the old man turned his attention to the spirituality of Messmer's flame, using it in a rite of resurrection."

ember of messmer - "Serpentine, cord-like ember, (...) A remnant of Messmer's flame, the symbol of the crusade, it continues to smolder as if crawling across the ground."

Messmer and Melina as the cosmic causality of Flame -> Death / Death following Flame

theory: melina as Death (ash) is sealed by Resurrection (ember). The association of the three fingers and flame and the sigil of messmer's flame resembling the outline of the frenzied flame. Pic related

notice how the spiral or rather the space it silhouettes within the frenzied flame is absent from messmer's. i think that's melina

now onto the meat of this, so idk why i made this one post but whatever. no yes I remember cause I wanted to reiterate that connection between messmer and frenzy. i've been thinking about how the frenzied flame is much more present throughout (key word here) the lands between as opposed to the concentration of it within the abyssal woods, cause like of all the places to run into frenzy you'd think it'd be the land subject to messmer's crusade, but then i realized that's it. i think in a sense the frenzied flame's niche is already occupied. the realm of shadow has already been subjected to flame. it's already burnt. it's still smoking. messmer's flame burns body and soul alike. it scorched everything. the lifeless land of the lord of frenzy