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The theory is that Count Ymir and Preceptor Miriam were once together, before sadly losing their child. This caused Miriam to become obsessed with her work/studies, and Ymir to become obsessed with motherhood and the Fingers.

• Both served the Carian Royal Family in teacher/advisor roles, and both likely once resided at the Carian Study Hall.
• Count Ymir looks a lot like the figure in the "Carian Inverted Statue" item, which is used to invert the Carian Study Hall. Some say that while similar, this looks more like a women. If so, I would say then that this is likely Miriam, in the outfit she wore before becoming a Preceptor.
• Count Ymir obsesses over a newborn Finger Creeper that he calls Yuri, likely the name of the child he and Miriam lost.
• The grave that Ymir visits for Yuri exists before the Finger Creeper dies, meaning that this grave is almost certainly for his human son named Yuri.
• Count Ymir teaches us "Miriam's Vanishing".

Highly speculative theory, so treat it as such. Additionally, some strings that one could pull at for fun:

• The Preceptors are adorned in serpent motifs.
• The English voice actor for Seluvis sounds "snakey".
• It's hinted at that Seluvis was a puppet and that Pidia, an Albinauric, was the puppet master. Count Ymir also appears to use puppetry.
• Miriam uses Loretta's Greatbow, and Loretta is also an Albinauric.
• Their are Serpent Snails found in Nokstella.

Madding Hand
"A glove stitched together from the flayed skin of the victims of a butcherous bloodbath. [...]
Forged of an unyielding, black impulse toward revenge fostered in those who were hunted down as heretics by their own brethren, these are the weapons of the utterly downtrodden."

Internal Names
Skinny Inquisitor: GodManPriestsCandle
Fat Inquisitor: GodManPriestsBig
...so inquisitors are priests to a "GodMan"?

• The corpses of Tutelary Deities (which are, at the very least, a form of God) are spread across the Realm of Shadow, most of which have their head chopped off, just like the statues of Marika, who is also a God.
• The Hornsent Inquisitors all have their faces bandaged and covered up oddly enough.
• The Shadow Keep appears to be where a certain Queen (Eternal, Black and Gloam Eyed perhaps?) and her Lord originally resided and operated out of. This fortress contains a "Specimen Storehouse" of all things Hornsent, along with a medical bay for treating jarred Shaman.
• "Abductor" Virgins and a Godskin Swaddling Cloth found in a "Spiritcaller" Cave? Doesn't Roderika, a young blonde girl from a faraway land with a gift for spirit tuning, who's people are "spirited away" for grafting purposes, remind Hewg of someone he once knew?
• Isn't there 4 named Demi-Human Queens, half of which have "gloam" coloured eyes? Margot, Maggie, Gi-li-Ka (Gloam-Eyed-Queen, wait what?) and... "Marigga", an isolated one found in the Realm of Shadow next to a lone Stone Coffin. Odd that a boss, which is internally named the "GloamEyedKnight", is found at the bottom of the Stone Coffin Fissure.
• The Godslayer Black Flame sigil looks an awful lot like Metyrs face. Who's that Empyrean that has a direct connection to Metyr (who could have granted said Empyrean access to Destined Death)? That same Empyrean who we know betrayed and committed genocide against the Hornsent?
• Wait, didn't Maliketh "defeat" the Gloam Eyed Queen?
  • Wait, didn't Marika WANT to seal Destined Death, and remove death from the Lands Between?
  • Wait, didn't Marika have the power to rewrite history and hide things away to maintain her image of "Marika the Eternal"?
  • Wait, aren't we given a perfect parallel story with Blaidd and Ranni regarding similar circumstances?

People: "I am so disappointed that FromSoftware didn't give us any more content for the Gloam Eyed Queen in the Shadow of the Erdtree".

Note: This post is not to be taking too seriously.

I've never seen it discussed and yet, I think it's one of the most important clues as to "how things work" within the game.

On the upper cliffs of Rauh, just before the Church of the Bud, there are three 8-sided, 8-pillared Gazebos:

1. Has a single pillar at it's center with a burning flame atop it.
2. Has a Tutelary Deity at it's center, sitting on an octagonal base and surrounded by 8 pillars with burning flame atop them (some are broken down and/or missing).
3. Has a single Rauh Burrow at it's center, surrounded by 8 pillars with an urn atop each of them.

Consider the importance of this location, the fact that the items and architecture of these gazebos are not random, the recurring theme of "8" (the eye of the Fell God, Godskin Noble Robe, Torch of St. Trina, etc.), and the idea of what exactly a Rauh Burrow is used for.

I have my own theories and ideas about all this, but what are yours? Do these Gazebos help us understand the nature of the Fell God and/or the Tutelary Deities? Maybe even Marika/Radagon, Miquella/St. Trina, the Jars, or the Divine Gate and what is required to ascend to Godhood? I'm curious if other people have thoughts on this.