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[yournextflame]

What’s wrong with Ranni’s Two Fingers?

Let’s start with the obligatory - they are alive. Two Fingers of every other demigod are long dead, Two Fingers at the Roundtable Hold are broken and every other character questions them and how trustworthy they are, but Ranni goes on the special quest to kill hers.

And as I kept looking, I found more and more odd things about them.

Appearances: hairless, smooth, a few times bigger than regular Two Fingers , no dip on the palm, different color. They don’t look like the same creatures at all.

Champions would gather at the Roundtable Hold in days long past, when the Two Fingers were masters of oration, their flesh yet full of vigor ( Coded Sword)

Two Fingers at the Roundtable are old, they are dry and crispy, same goes for Two Fingers at Divine Towers, but Ranni’s Fingers are bleeding.

(Ranni’s Two Fingers are showing more similarities with Fingercreepers, the color and the texture are almost the same, but still not identical.)

Placement: Cathedral of Manus Celes (Hidden Hand from latin or... Celestial Hand). Ranni’s Divine Tower is empty. Can Fingers walk? Teleport? Why would they change their location?

Behavioral pattern of Empyrean Shadows:

War Counselor Iji explained that he locked Blaidd because he was an instrument of Two Fingers, a living time bomb that can turn against their Empyrean if Empyrean turns against the Two Fingers.

But if Lady Ranni, as an Empyrean, reists being an instrument of the Two Fingers, the shadow will go mad, transforming from a follower into a horrid curse.

But Maliketh never betrayed Marika or went inherently mad despite her treachery or the Shattering, in either his prime form in Farum Azula or his hidden identity Gurranq. He died, trying to keep his promise to guard the Destined Death.

Tarnished, why wouldst thou... Why... Tis no matter. I hereby vow, that Destined Death shall not be stolen again.

Forgive me, Marika... The Golden Order... cannot be restored.

(wouldst thou...gull me? Why...shatter...)

Blaidd, “a colossal failure on the part of Two Fingers” as Ranni called him, attacks us while there are Black Knives on the ground around him. He says that  he doesn’t want to betray Ranni, but clearly mentally unstable and hostile to Tarnished. I’m still unsure what happened to him, was he driven mad by Two Fingers or our wrong assumptions about his loyalty.

And, of course, it is suspicious that Blaidd, a walking kill switch, was approved by Rennala, who was actively pushing Ranni *to weave night at being* as she says at the end of her bossfight.

Blaidd is Lady Ranni's stepbrother. Ranni's mother, Queen Rennala, approved of him, and they played like siblings from childhood.

This moon was encountered by a young Ranni, led by the hand of her mother, Rennala. What she beheld was cold, dark, and veiled in occult mystery.

Why would Rennala, a descendant of Nox, who were punished by the Greater Will, accept an Empyrean Shadow from the Greater Will’s vassals?

Assassins:  In Ainsel River Tarnished encounters Baleful Shadow, who resembles Blaidd the Half-Wolf. They even share the same moveset. However, the Baleful Shadow's sword is imbued with Destined Death, not the Frost enchantment that Blaidd's sword is enchanted with.

My thanks. Twas more of a challenge than I envisioned. Now I can finally stand before them.

if by “them” Ranni means Two Fingers it raises a lot of questions about nature of the Baleful Shadow.

We know that Roundtable Two Fingers have their own clan of assassins, Confessors. But...

The assassins were charged with eliminating Tarnished who had strayed from guidance (Assassin's Approach incantation)

Roundtable assassins are hunting Tarnished, nowhere is it said that they are used against Empyreans or have any connection to the Destined Death. While nothing in the game says that Two Fingers can’t use assassins to pursue Empyreans, I have no idea where they can get an access to the Destined Death, considering that it was stolen once and then Maliketh imbued it to his body.

Conclusion: in everything but name Ranni’s Two Fingers are different from the rest of their crew. Their design, how they are controlling their Shadows, location, they are alive.

This returns back to the initial question - why Ranni’s Two Fingers aren’t dead and what killed Two Fingers of other demigods?

Two Fingers can’t die because demigods are dead, some of them are serving two demigods at once, more over, from brother Corhyn we can learn that Two Fingers are ancient, he calls their incantation book heresy because it predates existance of the Golden Order.

That... is a work of heresy. Its incantations bear no lineage from the Erdtree.

My main theory is that Two Fingers are linked to the grace, and Marika switched it off from them, leaving only Two Fingers at the Roundtable Hold, who were tasked (or more like Enia was tasked) to deceive Tarnished. If Two Fingers were dependant on the Greater will, they all would be dead after the Shattering.

Anyways, Ranni’s Two Fingers aren’t dead.

Here comes my wild speculation:

Ranni’s Two Fingers aren’t vassals of the Greater Will. They are vassals of the Dark Moon.

As I mentioned in one my previous posts, the Greater Will and Dark, Black and Full Moons are mysterious, celestial themed godlike entities that are never named outer gods. if Frienzed Flame can have Three Fingers, is it possible that Moons have their own servants? I think yes.

Predicting the questions about the Age of Stars and why Ranni wants to kill vasssals of the Dark Moon: Three Fingers are burning the body and implanting Flame of Frenzy inside the future Lord of Chaos, Two Fingers are probably responsible for the creation of offshoots (Radagon/Marika, Miquella/St.Trina, Malenia/her “daughters”, after all Hyetta described the Greater Will as something that fractures the one and gives a soul).

Maybe, it’s the Dark Moon vassals, who actually controlling their Empyreans and gods? 99% of mind-altering or fate-changing magic in Elden Ring comes from Nox or Carians. Puppets, Celestial Dew, Starlight Shards (it was once used in the Eternal City as an ingredient in intoxicating draughts), bewitching Moon, the whole concept of fate being bound to the stars so tight that members of Carian family can’t die without their stars moving again.

The only exception I can think about is Miquella’s bewitching branch, and it’s almost funny how everyone is freaking out over this item, while ignoring the rest.

The snowy crone taught the young Ranni to fear the dark moon as she imparted her cold sorcery.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

(volume warning)

this was surprisingly fun to make so i'll probably do another

[brown-spider]

You’re doing amazing sweetie 🫶🏽

[r-aindr0p]

Ye olden French

It was at that moment that Frederic started to question the age and sanity of Lilia

Used a french medieval literature text from 1530~ (Pantagruel ) as a quotation for Lilia and I believe the exact sentence is about a character complaining to Death about the passing of his wife after she gave birth to their son. I just took something randomly in the text that didn’t sound too weird either because that book is rather stange…

Alright little bonus here because medieval Lilia popped up in my mind

[faunamafu]

deerly beloved— a mizuena au comic

[sincerelymarner]

“It’s always been me versus Quinn, making each other better. Over the years, it’s been unbelievable.”

"I was 4 and he was 6 and I was chasing him around and wanting to do whatever he did," Jack said "I always wanted to be able to compete with Quinn and play with him but didn't want to slow him down. He kind of pushed me, gave me that work ethic to work with him because he's such a hard worker himself. Catching up with Quinn was always the thing I wanted to do as the younger brother."

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[kheprriverse]

First Hero, Soldier of Hylia.

Masterpost | Ko-fi

[thebramblewood]

When you're resurrected from the dead only to bring new meaning to the phrase "walk of shame."

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Helena: [sudden gasping breath] Oh, god, my head is killing me. What the fuck happened last night?

[starflungwaddledee]

I have a feeling Starstruck Dee (and perhaps you lol) are gonna go all out in February, pinks and reds, decorating and covering Dreamland with hearts

absolutely!

perhaps in all honestly more likely me than her, but if valentine's day exists she would be SUPER into it for sure, whether she understood it or not. i think she and kirby could be team Friend Hearts Everywhere and every year everybody else just wakes up February 1 to find that even their locked rooms were decorated in the night.

fwiw, i decided that i'll be celebrating this month by posting answers to various starstruck 'ship' prompts i've received! there'll be some comics, some single images, and so on!

i by no means have enough to fill the entire month yet, so i'm still taking suggestions, and i'll attempt to do as many as i can! i'm not sure if i can feasibly maintain One A Day but i'll do my best!

[notwordsspoken]

South Park Season 26 Predictions

They finally start doing more stuff with Kyle and Kenny

I think since there was a Saint Patrick's Day ep last season there's a good chance for a Valentine's Day ep

At least a reference to the Royal family drama

Cartman's homeless arc continues with him trying to come up with ways to earn money probably a Butters and Cartman ep

An episode about Sharon and some of the other moms

Revising Casa Bonita (It would be such a missed opportunity if they didn't)

At least 2 Tegrity farm focused eps with Tolkien's dad

Since Trey's daughter will be voice acting I feel like there might be more Kid centered eps

Mr Garrison subplot

The only Creek related thing we get is them looking at each other for 3 seconds

Hint to what the new video game could be about

[be-queer-do-arson]

[peacereturnedtothevalley]

once again I am making charts for nefarious purposes

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

a surprise reboot of the show!

que the puppets fleeing while a heavy working crew fuckin snatches everyone up in nets to clean the place us

"should we muzzle sally?"

"she fuckin bit me!"

"doesnt answer the question"

"wally stole my wallet!"

"hes legally allowed to, travis."

yk what i'd really wanna see is how they wrangle the massive dog & the equally tall four-armed caterpillar. Wally would get netted and Barnaby would appear behind the person, about to ruin their entire career

[project-sekai-facts]

Hello! I had a question about Rui's parents. I believe it's mentioned somewhere that one of them is a theater performer and the other is a roboticist, but is it confirmed anywhere which one is which? Like is his mother the roboticist or is the roboticist his father?

His mother is a biologist and his father is a robotics engineer. It’s mentioned in a flashback during Revival my dream.

(Ps I made a post about the parents who don’t have proper Live2D appearances here)

[lilliryth]

pet peeve: when the fic has albert refer to chris as “christopher” or even “redfield” to hammer in the fact that he’s strictly anti-colloquial when there exist literal compilations of him barking “chris Chris chris.Chris cHris CHRIS chrisssssCHRRRIISSS” across each installation of the resident evil franchise

[gauchogf]