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Por cuando te vi enfermo con mentiras este ladrón cuenta se dio trampa mal hecho de trampas te lo juro que yo sí te mato y con cada día que se pase recuérdate quién era el más poderoso

Redo of a Malenia piece I did back in March that I really just was not happy with; previous version under the cut. In general I’m much more pleased with the current version and tbh it’s definitely my best Malenia piece as of now

A) if radagon is messmer's father, messmer must have been their firstborn prior to each marika's ascension as a god, her marriage to godfrey, and the creation of both the golden order and the erdtree. we know messmer is melina's older brother, but not by how many years/epochs, and neither seem to know of each other's existence

B) marika had notably become disillusioned with godhood after godwyn's death, which was the whole reason for shattering the elden ring in the first place. in which case, giving melina the purpose of serving as kindling would place her being born afterward, which would probably explain her hair being a sort of fusion of radagon's red and marika's gold, and why she inherited a vision of golden flame

i guess the way i see it, messmer inherited abyssal flame from radagon, a chaotic thing born before the golden order. marika's separation of gold and shadow into the erdtree and the scadutree was the first step toward distilling grace through order. the fire giants were defeated, and radagon dedicated himself to rectifying his inherent sin.

melina contrasts messmer in that she retains her eye, and thus her vision of fire, but hers is distinctly a golden flame. it makes me wonder if radagon's intense meditation and philosophical endeavors allowed him to temper the flame that followed him into something golden, and that when melina was born, she inherited both marika's will and radagon's then purified flame...

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