#you also see how the Erdtree (or whoever's in power) push people into such desperate states

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Something that's got me really curious, ever since I got the Outer God Talisman, is how deep Mohg's connection to the Mother of Truth and the Bloodfiends found in the Land of Shadows go. The talisman description "The clan, who lost everything in the great fires, peered upon the corpse of their ancestor, normally an act of sanctity, and saw in its shadow a twisted deity. The clan had suffered such torment that the horrible thing was taken as an object of worship." and the visual on it looks like one of the enshrined Tutelary Deities of the Hornsent, as well as the great fires possibly referring to the acts of Messmer. But there's also the fact that the Bloodfiends don't look like Hornsent, they have the faces of mole rats and I don't see any horns on them, and the spirit ash description of Bloodfiend Hexer refers to them as a "subjugated tribe", so it might be possible that whatever the Bloodfiends were previously were subjugated by the Hornsent, which does fit with what Leda said about the Hornsent not being saints.

So you have Mohg, an Omen with horns, connected to the Mother of Truth, who is also connected to a species without horns, but that species is also found in the land of people with a lot of horns. You also have the fact that the magic used by sewer Omens (and Dung Eater) (and that comes bursting out of Morgott), that black and brown curse mixture, is completely different than the blood magic used by Mohg and the Bloodfiends. Said Omen "magic" also looks to be kinda different from the spells and such used by the Hornsent, but I haven't looked to closely at them yet.

So my main idea is that: the Omen in the Lands Between are not persecuted because of any direct blood connection they have to the Hornsent, but rather simply because they have a visual connection through horns that resemble the Hornsents, and they similarly lack Grace. And it was there, in the sewers and desperation, that Mohg came upon the Mother of Wounds, similar to how, in the wake of tragedy, the Bloodfiends too were touched by Her. And on a similar note, while it is a completely different Outer God, the story here also bears a resemblance to the Frenzied Flame and how it came to be connected with the Merchants tribe... whose set and Frenzied Flame Proscription are found right behind the sewer Mohg fight. HMMMMM.......