Ill Omened Creature

My last post got put into “mature content review”. The sillouhete of a nipple (IM GUESSING)… how conniving of me 🙄

Where does one begin and the other end?

Positively vitruvian.

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In every in game image of Radagon he has no eyes in his sockets. Im being for real.

Exhibit a: his portrait

Very odd that he is literally angled towards the light source and there isn’t even a glimmer of an eye.

Exhibit b: Sorcerers talisman

This man does NOT have eye balls.

I have a theory.

Radagon is the ‘mask’ and Marika is the ‘wearer’. Radagon is for sure a persona with his own desires that are markedly different than Marika. For sure. The thing is he is Marika. Marika is He. I think that Marika took on his persona during the Carian wars. Marika is a goddess. She cannot do battle… but Marika with a mask…. Someone unknown, appeared from nothing….. I think she got carried away being Radagon.

This may be projection, but imagine being on a pedestal your whole life. A goddess of mercy. Only you can see how things should be, but you are bound by your image to sit far away and watch it happen. Wouldn’t you leap at the chance to be the mover and shaker? I think she as he reveled in being someone else for once. Being her polar opposite. That’s why so many things about Marika are true of Radagon. They both hate the fire giants. Hate the omen. Both move towards the same goal - a golden order. His words are hers, her words are his. Melina even recounts ‘her’ words at one point that are assuredly ‘his’

Radagon wasn’t around during the war with the giants. -> so how and why would he come to hate his hair color?

I think the most damning thing I could point to is Renalla.

He wasn’t around for the age of plenty. -> so how and why did he gift Renalla the Amber egg? A large stone of Amber that is said to be given by only ONE person to her Elden lord or a ‘chosen few’. Marika. Marika gave Renalla the best and most precious gift she had. There’s no record of Radagon pitching a fit or fighting to stay with Renalla. Almost like he was the one who made the decision. Because……

Marika is Radagon. They are one and the same.

Theory aside painting inspired by this artwork:

Adam and Eve at the foot of the Cross by Claude Mellon (1647) which I saw and immediately imagined them and Marika and Radagon. One entranced looking up at the erdtree’s gold, one looking at you the viewer, waiting for you to put together the pieces