u/Moonless_the_Fool

I have found three different instances where the game tieds Malenia to the Gloam Eyed Queen through items and circumstances. In any other scenario, I would ignore this because of how unrelated this character are, but the coincidences are intriguing:

1. The one that really bugs me because of the heavy implications is when Gideon gifts us the Black Flame Protection spell for finding the rot infested haligtree where Malenia is the main boss. It's shown by his other gifts that they are related to the info we share with him. He gives us the trina cook book where the recipe of the bewitching branch is described when we arrive to the blood palace of mohg because he already suspected about Miquella and Trina being the same and Mogh kidnaping him. And at the end, when we tell him about the cocoon where the corpse of miquella is found, he gives us the law of causality and part of Miquella's goal in the lands of shadow is to overcome causality. Then this points to the godskin having tieds to the haligtree, but my other findings make me think that it's actually related more specifically to malenia.

2. When Millicent is following Malenia's path back to the haligtree, for some reason, she takes a whole deviation to dominula village and climbs the hill to fights a godskin apostle with us.

3. Finally, the godskin swallowing cloth has the ability of restoring health throughout a succession of attacks, like Malenia's healing attacks. Also, the cloth skill pairs together with the whole set of prosthesis talismans like millicent prosthesis and the wings insignia that increases the damage of successive attacks. (If you have played dark souls 3, you will know that there is a pair of rings that had the ability of healing and increasing damage from successive attacks, the pontiff's eyes rings, who are spiritual successors to the godskin cloth and Winged insignia talismans in elden ring)

(Also, if you want to nitpick a little, you could point out that Millicent shares Melina's traveling set, who is a carrier of Destined Death like the gloam ayed queen once was.)

I really don't know how to interpret all these connections. To me, they are clear clues of the game pointing towards malenia and the godskin inquisition sharing something. But I don't know what.

I'm not the greatest fan of seeing certain characters as parallels of others, but I'm not against it if it's holds itself with evidence.

If the game already clearly puts miquella as equal to Marika in how he recreated her path to godhood in the lands of shadows, then maybe Malenia is a parallel to some aspects of the gloam ayed queen. Maybe things like the GEQ being a twin of marika, like how Malenia is miquella's. Or being a vessel of an outer god (the outer god of death that the twinbirds and deathrite serve) exactly how malenia is it for the outer god of rot.

Still, they feel like not that solid ideas. But who knows.

What do you think the connections between malenia and the godslsaying inquisition could be pointing at?

u/Sebaxxxian

As you already know, the skeletons resting at farum azulla are those of horses. Their skull and ribs clearly are those of a herbivore. Nothing like the Beastmen that live today nor the ancient Beasts that are embedded in the walls.

And many wonder why, well, my best answer to this question is that these horses were once the horses that the Banished Knights used to ride. Is not a strong theory, but its weird to me that the Banished knight armor is one of the only armors with spurs for riding, and yet they are never seen on horseback ever in the game. And since they seem to be originally the equivalent to the leyndell knights of the ancient royal capital of farum, where a bunch of death horses are found, that at the end kinda puzzles itself to me.

The only problem is that the horses are highly adorned as if they were once Lords, I would assume that they let the knights ride them and use them as weapons instead of going to the battlefield without hands to hold swords and shield. Like an inversion where the ridding beast is the one cutting the cheese while the rider is more of a pet, not too far from the relationship between Torrent and the tarnished and how it was actually they who chooses us and tells Melina what to do.