puts on my tin hat...Hereâs the essay i drunkenly sent to my friend who asked why I think Mollyâs body may walk back into CR2
Spoilers for the most recent episodes lmao here we go:
essentially, as a character without any memories, Mollyâs backstory was free to be woven throughout the lore of the campaign, and it seems it was: eye tattoos, the number nine, back of the neck power areas, themes of rebirth and iterations/continuations of the self, etc are pretty prominent this campaign. Nonagon/Lucien/Mollymauk REALLY reads to me as the natural momentum of a pact with something powerful, and đ ąď¸erhaps also evil. Canât die, forced to keep climbing out of graves without any memories, etc. Iâm just thinking: if I need to do something that requires immense secrecy, deception and obfuscation, (Tharizdunâs whole deal, Yasha adjacencies, etc.) I need to make it so that not even I can ruin it. I need to assure the loss of the autonomous self.
so, whether Iâm a big powerful god or a weird-ass tiefling with a plan, Iâm gonna do this shit in stages. And once each stage is done, I have to make sure the parts stay unconnected, at least to the casual observer or adventurer on the lookout for evil or whatever. No one should be able to come looking for whoever carries out the plan. So theyâve gotta die. Not in any meaningful way (contractâs not done đ ąď¸erhaps?) but the people theyâve hired should bury them, and not hear from them once they inevitably crawl out of the grave. So they shouldnât be able to remember anything about their past, and maybe should even develop a drastically different personality for this iteration. But, dammit, even with all this, they still remembered that they crawled out of a grave. That could ring the alarm bell for the old crew if theyâre still in the area. How bout a grace period of sorts: for a week after, they canât really talk or develop clear new memories.
AND hereâs a mysterious magic user woman from Rexxentrum with whom heâs working on this ritual who disappeared after (and thereâs a mysterious magic user woman from Rexxentrum who healed Calebâs madness and disappeared after, and thereâs a mysterious magic user woman who told Beauâs dad what would make him successful and disappeared after, etc.) ANYWAY. Re:Yasha adjacencies, if the ritual is in a specific area, and Obann/the Chained Oblivion pseudo-own Yasha and track her, it can guarantee the bodyâs left in her path. No fuckin clue what that could mean but itâs true and it could be related.
we also have barely scratched the SURFACE of the Molly Lore. As @mollyglock once posted, âmollyâs death is so funny to me. all his lore was in shady creek run. lucien was buried by shady creek run. gustav is from shady creek run. according to cree one of lucienâs pals is in shady creek run. and he died RIGHT before they reached it! and by funny i mean infuriating.â And Shady Creek Run is being mentioned time and time AGAINâŚ.as they sayâŚthe lorecuckery IS real. What in fuck was Gustav up to? He ended up with TWO AMNESIACS with POWER AREAS ON THE BACK OF THEIR NECKS and then TRIED TO GO TOâand FOUGHT TO STAY INâJAIL. And then the Jagentoths are tied in with ALL THE FUCK SHIT HAPPENINGâŚtheyâre rivals of the Marduns/the Gentleman (who work with Cree and the Tomb Takers) and they employee The Iron Shepards AND Avantica, and then Reani said theyâre fucking with UTHODURNâŚImagine me gesturing wildly at my Pepe Silvia board.
final thing that has rung some bells in my head was those 3 bigass murals they found in the temple during the piracy arc. One of them had a giant purple and red bird, with multiple eyes on it, and its feathers were burning and reforming like a phoenix. (Tal also signs stuff with âA bird thought to be extinct, but isnât. -Molly.â I donât really factor that into my consideration at all, but it IS interesting.)
i could be super wrong and Iâm open to that, but even before his death, I figured that, what with bloodhuntersâ whole purpose being to sacrifice their own vitality to destroy enemies, Mollyâs arc is so closely tied to death that dying doesnât really end his momentum with regards to story. (Not to mention Bloodhunters, especially older orders, like Ghostslayer, have direct ties to the Raven Queen. Not saying Molly is part of the Claret Order or anything but itâs something to keep in mind, and also I just love some delicious bloodhunter lore.) I donât know if Mollymauk as we know him is alive, but his body probably is, and whoever made him probably isnât done with him yet. Re:Nonagon, the nines of the tarot mean a completion and fulfillment of the suitâs meaning, and Molly got cut off early. Doubt thatâll just end it all.
thatâs basically it. Ik itâs very much a conspiracyâFellow Molly Truthers Rise Upâbut Mattâs storytelling has ways of weaving back around on itself, and, as heâs said, just because Molly died doesnât mean his story is over.
my brain is so fucking huge.













