LORE QUESTION ( SPOILER )

[DELAMAIN]

I am bit lost.
Why Miquela is evil and we dont help him?
Who is Midra?
Why Messmer burned those ppl?
And what finqly thise scene from trailer with Marika and bodies around mean?

[palacentes]

Publicado originalmente por 5chneemensch:

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whats interesting is that the hornsent corpse in the final area, are in death positions reaching towards the gate. Its as if they wanted/ anticipated some event related to it. While all the non hornsent corpses are afraid and seem to hide from it.

Perhaps Marika is the only successful Jar saint, and candidate to be a new god for the hornsent. ( all the jar people are women and look like marika, they even have a forehead rune that resembles marika's ....) Marika would turn on the hornsent, since she hates them.

It could also be why Marika continued the jar practice during her rule, ( think alexander the warrior jar, one full of dead heroes instead of unwilling shaman ). Perhaps despite the trauma, she's come to respect that this jar practice works.

Galaxybrain moment. Marika was the first and only successor, but felt only hatred towards her "benefactors" as being the only one left alive. You could extend that thought and consider that the death of all shamans was the prerequisite for her to ascend. As in the top dogs power is shared equally between every living entity (see demon lore in Souls).

That said, I doubt that Marika believes the Jar practice works considering she was the only successful person to ascend. It's probably more likely that she's poacing them considering what Jar Bairn says, we see smashed jars at various tree locations and we find a Numen's Rune in the village after the attack. She's probably using them as a cheap way to funnel people to these trees as fertilizer and to funnel souls to the Erdtree (as no one dies due to the removal of the ROD).

Living Jar Shard says the jars are full of "magic" and I don't think that's shamans.

Well, she continued the jars, but of course, she isnt using them the same way. All warrior corpses, no shamans. Ive been thinking either as soldiers like alexander or she would feed them to the trees, as you say( ive seen them near a minor erd tree, but I dont think jars are ever inside catacombs). As for poaching... those poachers were bandits and non golden order guys... though we never see them. The numen rune part is quite interesting, but it might be the content of a slain jar.... no bodies after all.... I never considered that it was from the attackers. It could be, huh....