u/Bloomfang

Just IMAGINE this scene in the movie:

In the heat of a grand battle Radahn gets bodied by Margit. He falls down, as the Omen jumps on him, trying to pierce his Lion armor with his fiery cursed sword.

Radahn is struggling to push it away, and his armor is starting to actually char... When one of his soldiers puts a sword to Margit's throat, threatening to kill him, unless he releases their Lord.

And Margit complies, leaving his mark on Radahn's chest piece side as a reminder of his defeat.

That would be so cool to see in cinema T_T

Quick remark: sometimes I see, how people call Miquella's curse "the eternal nascency", when in reality it is called "the eternal childhood":

>Miquella and Malenia are both the children of a single god. As such they are both Empyreans, but suffered afflictions from birth. One was cursed with eternal childhood, and the other harbored rot within.

*-Remembrance of the Rot Goddess*

Nascency refers to the birth, origin, or early beginning of something. It signifies the state of coming into existence or the very initial phase of development, so pushing from the Nascent Butterfly item description this means, that *these butterflies specifically signify his Haligtree rebirth, not his curse.*

We know for sure, that before Haligtree, Miquella was already a formed child, but constantly balancing on the verge of growing up. We can track that by looking at the Haligtree statues, where first we see Miquella being a bit smaller, than Malenia, and then she grows up into a towering woman, while Miquella still remained an itty Demigodling due to his *curse of eternal childhood*.

So, before the Haligtree supposed rebirth, he was leaving St Trina's lilies at his points of interest as his alter ego, then there were the Miquella's lilies, which symbolize the faith in Haligtree (that I speculate to be just the Trina's flowers, but blessed with his Empyrean blood, hence the green buds on those lilies), and then we got the Butterflies after Mohg... forcefully halted Miquella's full Haligtree rebirth, lets call it this way.

The opening cutscene of the base game shows us Miquella being taken out of his first cocoon, and being covered in little transparent wings. And some kind of a veil on his head, just like on St Trina in the SOTE trailer cutscene, so I speculate, that this could also symbolize shedding her influence by leaving these butterflies. That reminds me a bit of how Malenia didn't accept her Rotten butterflies as well, and only Romina took them as her own:

>The scarlet butterflies are as the Goddess of Rot's wings. Bereft of a master, they were soothed by Romina, who reached out to them.

This theory can be used in tracking of Miquella's timing in his travelling across the Lands Between, and who knows, may be we'll finally understand, how did those 2 Butterflies end up near the Chapel of Anticipation next to some gold like splatter (these can be found through out the whole Grafted Scion arena), where we start our own journey. Also, there are 3 of them in the Shadow Realm, of all of the places, nor far from the Temple Town Ruins.

Thank you for your attention, let me know what do you think:)