O Greater Will, hear my voice. I am the recusant chicky, and you will fall to my blade.We refuse to become your pawns. Consider this fair warning.
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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some repetition of imagery, lots of gorgoneions from the old era
textures from radahn armor, belurat, coliseums, halig tree, selia/ordina, churches, etc, tombs in throne rooms, volcano manor
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lion head divine invocation - siofra river
volcano manor wall design
braided people elder shrouded woman picking up or placing a round object - enir ilim
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i think of the shamans as marrying/becoming their beast gods but also like this:
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Roderika:
Everyone's...been grafted. Everyone who came with me. They crossed the sea for me. They fought, for me. Heh... Only to have their arms taken. Their legs taken. Even their heads...taken. Taken and stuck to the spider. Did you know? If you're grafted by the spider, you become a chrysalid. It's quite the lark, when you think about it.
Oh, can you pass on a message for me, if you see the little chrysalids in Stormveil Castle? Tell them I love them. And that despite my craven heart, I'm sure I'll be joining their club soon enough. I'm finally getting the hang of this whole "pain" thing, you know. Heh heh...
What's this? A keepsake? From my men? Oh, goodness me… I can't… ...
They all...believed in me. They all thought I'd make something of myself. Me! Who can't do anything... I think I'll head to the Roundtable Hold. Perhaps I'll find my purpose there.
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your personal resistance to burning melina is part of the metanarrative of sacrificing the many for your own consolidated power and how that is the entire purpose of the game.
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ranni knowingly sacrificed herself and everyone she loved to eliminate the existential threat of having gods in your backyard. ranni will yeet herself thru space and never think again before she can hurt another person in her charge after this.
the story is so fundamentally about self sacrifice and how eager and willing people are to sacrifice themselves for something greater, even for nothing. in resisting this system of sacrifice we have to sacrifice ourselves.
this paired with the horror of being the leader requiring your charges be sacrificed and what that does to a person.
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you wouldn't need to ward off evil while engaged in ritual performance if you weren't doing anything wrong.
(people put grotesqueries around their houses to protect them commonly)
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this is what the grandmas are celebrating, the divine towers and suppression tower make this shape.

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gorgons have death characteristics, the most famous gorgon story involves a beheading and gorgon faces are used in apotropaic magic to ward off evil, the way that unalloyed gold blocks outer gods.
grotesque things "scare away" evil
the caterpillar mask is grotesque to ward off evil
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