How the stilkin gathered soul for Groal the Great
we saw groal use soul, and we saw the snail shaman drained dry
however, the snail shaman isn't the stilkin's sole source of soul
"they are not the first who tried to hoard it"
I dont think you can "hoard" from a single guy whose reserves are already running thin
there's corpses wrapped in what I can't really define if it's meant to be cloth or vegetation (although I'll lean towards the latter) (like fucked up tamales) in some areas of their territory, with this secret bench room being full of them
You can open these up to confirm for yourself how they all contain a husk each
these aren't burials, they dont seem worried about proper burial of threspassers
and in that same secret tamales room, there's this tablet
"Their shells are ours. Their souls are ours"
you can find these bags in both the soul hut and this room
now, let's take a good look at those soul bottles, lil marvels as they are
their form suggest they're bottles, the soul within meant to be drank like a flea brew (yum)
but that cloth tightly wrapped around these bottles...isnt that the exact same as the tamale'd corpses? and as the snail shaman?
while this specific snail might be trying to blend in, snail shamans are known to adorn their shells with sources/stores of soul
what I think is going on here is that they wrap the corpses on a cloth made out of lichen or some other absorbent material so it soaks on their soul, then later bind that material to these bottles to get the soul inside
perhaps these bottles arent glass but some other maybe porous material, like eggs or treated glands, allowing the soul to filter through
I imagine the seeker taught this method to the stilkin, only to be betrayed and drained
for fun here's some tidbits from the chapel recipes that sound similar to this method
going back to Groal the Great, it's fun how they have a focusing crest (like soul scholars) made out of a bone mask (like snail shamans)
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