In Three Days - living deliciously

 I didn't think I had much to say about caligo and I went and figured out both drakes and revengers. I thought I'd have acres written shit libra by now but here I am. 

It thinks it's people. There done. I wish I could get a good long look at his various sigils. He seems to cast spells via the eyeballs in his hands rather than his staff, which he uses as a club. When he's calm his spells come across as very academic and refined, whereas his animalistic spells are much more primal, like he's rendering the environment around himself down into something like magma out of sheer mindless anger. 

Going out on a limb here. 

Libra is omen, and one of his aspects is eyeballs.  He got a couple really cool looking horns, sure, but his real gift is being able to seemingly produce infinity eyeballs, which he is able to Frenzy, although he himself is nearly immune to Frenzy and thereby engage with his art relatively safely. 

However: things around Libra, including the ground and air, are NOT immune to Frenzy. In other words,  I think the grapes he's constantly either shedding or weaponizing are acting as shabriri/nanaya with the equivalent of an endless army of very very very weak vykes/midras. To such a degree that I think it's conceivable libra could bring about the frenzied flame ending entirely by accident during a rampage.

Something that didn't make sense to me in the base game expansion was the abyssal woods. It's so frenzied torrent runs away, but there's wildlife. Like normal wildlife, behaving normally while frenzied. Frenzied rats attack you, it makes sense rats really are people, frenzied bats and demihumans i could understand but the common bullgoatsheep? They don't even act different than normal, no vomiting liquid fire from their eye sockets, no apocalyptic machinationing, no grim and dreadful tale of bottomless woe,

Just goats, hanging out. There of all places, where even the water is apparently omnicidal with despair.

Part of me is wondering if Libra came from there,  maybe libra was something like midra's pet goat or a mad science experiment gone horribly right or a forgotten ritual component that wondered into a library after eating a jar of frenzied grapes or something.

He has human hands but cloven feet, so i don't think he's necessarily a beast or demihuman, and libra being a misbegotten just doesn't /feel/ right, scientifically speaking. But when you get right down to it, 

He's a goat that thinks he's people. 

Right, I'm going to talk about what I think libra is or could be, and since this is a Dark Souls (2) blog is need to analyze possible connections to that. 

Libra having a mix of human and goat feet could mean that he's one of the Gen 1 Beasts that were granted intelligence directly by the god of placidusax (presumably), making him as old as maliketh or gurrang (THEYRE DIFFERENT PEOPLE)

Alternately, Libra is constantly referenced as being "a demon", and I'll be interested to learn if it's the same word they use in dark souls to reference post-chaos children of izalith.

With libras mix of human and goat features it could be we're looking at something like a capra demon or ghru. In fact, now that I've pulled up some ghru screenshots I'm becoming convinced this was a cut ds3 demon ruins boss. Imagine the ghru during high farron, before the Old Woods turned poisonous and the ghru feral: libra would have fit right in.