Lord of Blood

Pairing: Mohg/Ansbach

Chapter 1 summary:

“Do you know for whom your hands grasp, Ansbach? For whom your voice calls?” If he could, Ansbach would stand, or sit up at least, so far has caution slipped from him. He doesn’t think of the gaoler, of the cell, of his slow dance with death, of being caught. This encounter commands every last ounce of his faculties. It is everything he’s dreamt of during years of finding and parsing old tomes, of following every thread of forbidden lore…If he did expire, right here, right now, he would be satisfied. He would go with a smile. And he does smile, feverish and reverent. “I do not know your face or your name…only that you are an immortal being far exceeding human understanding.” ~~ Ansbach deals with a devil. Demon!Mohg AU.

"Render up you offerings of blood to your Lord."

Redraw of an old fanart "The Omen" made in august.

I was thinking about the SOTE story trailer and this moment from it and how Leda's voiceover speaks of Miquella abandoning his fate and then showing the shot of St. Trina falling into the Stone Coffin Fissure, and now I'm wondering... is the real reason that Miquella abandoned St. Trina because as part of his rise to godhood as an Empyrean chosen by the Two Fingers, Miquella himself was meant to be succeeded by St. Trina?

It's an interesting difference here. In the story trailer, Leda says the above about Miquella abandoning his fate, meanwhile in the game, the cross left at the Fissure reads, "I abandon here my love." She was the physical embodiment of his love, yes, but it also seems to be implied that St. Trina may have actually had a future, while Miquella was surrounded by nascent imagery and an inability to grow past what he already was, until he stripped himself of everything first, including but not limited to St. Trina.

The dichotomy between the "two halves of a whole" itself sometimes working together and sometimes not has also always interested me, and the biggest one we know of in Marika and Radagon seems to have a similar issue.

One of the things Melina repeats that Marika once said is a direct quote from Marika to Radagon in which she says, "O' Radagon, leal hound of the Golden Order. Thou'rt yet to become me. Thou'rt yet to become a god. Let us be shattered, both. Mine other self." She's telling him this before shattering the Elden Ring where he fails to stop her and repair it - basically calling him the Golden Order's lapdog, but in a not so gentle way remarking that "you have yet to turn out like I did, and if we shatter ourselves now, it'll save you from the same fate and release me, too." It left Radagon little choice or autonomy in saving the Elden Ring as the weaker self - he was not the god Marika was and was left rather to watch or fail miserably in putting the shattered Elden Ring back together. Her imprisonment seemed to be the only thing that allowed him to come into full control without Marika's say so when we fight him inside the Erdtree.

My beloved Trina...

The omen lord's breath hitched at the question, his single eye darting back and forth -- as if he'd find the right answer hidden amongst the trees of his palace grounds.