In Three Days - hazards ineffable

 So I beat the final boss with cheat mods for suck gamers who are bad (fun is allowed mod + offline launcher) and am...halfway? through the remembrances.

Ii have Thoughts but they're mostly still being Thunk, and that's a road with a lot of detours, pit stops, and dead ends for me.

But I watched my first nightreign lore video, Nameless Singer's Strange Sky. Lore videos all sound like pre-science science texts. Sinclair's Bloodborne Iceberg, Aegon's Dissections, Jack's Controversial Mimickry...

Anyway,  Strange Sky details how the, well, sky above the gate leading from the Spirit Sanctuary looks like an embryo, with an umbilical that looks like Destined Death, whoch looks like a jagged, thorny S rune. And that got me thinking how the helphens steeple inscribes a smooth S shape, and that got me thinking that Destined Death, after the death of the goddess that became the Mother of Blood, is smooth-S Death but infected with thorns. So that got me thinking this is Her womb we're looking at.

But that got me thinking "where's the blood?" The recluse has innate cursed blood magic that manifests as thorns. Margit is much more bloodflame friendly. Probably there's more.

I think what happened is the recluse tried to help some champion or champions stand against the night early on, specifically by making their bindings, and inadvertently created heolstor. She then tried to create a "child" that could stand against the night, adel the gnawling, but it was corrupted by the nursemaid witch and fell victim to the Night. 

We, as Those Who Live In Death, represent another faction of Death that stands in opposition, but I haven't worked all of that out, not that I imagine I'll work it out correctly any time soon, but I still think the ranni/miquella war/stalemate/arrangement is in play, just with these...let's call them Greater Lesser Gods of Death attached, and with Recluse trying to, in some sense, set right the wrongs of maliketh and Marika. Which has seemingly given rise to entire new categories of Wrong, but she means well.