#deathblight

Some Godwyn sketches that were living in my head rent free after reading a lore theory on reddit. It theorized that Godwyn was ascending to godhood by becoming a true dragon, in alignment with the myth of the koi fish swimming up stream until it became a dragon.

So I played around with that design as if it were a phase shift in his boss fight, with his weird oyster face opening up and revealing his true form, a rancid deathblight dragon.

so my crack theory is this, what if godwyn had already been infected with the death blight long before his 'death' (in quote because he dies in soul but not body) at the hands of the black knifes? one thing to note is that we never really see any shot of him from the waist down (correct me if i'm wrong). the only shots i've seen of godwyn are these two-

me pointing out the obvious but see how we can't really make our his legs etc. we see this again after rogier is infected with the death blight, he's covered from the waist down and is dying (a slow death)-

rogier states that due to his affliction he is unable to fight i.e his fighting days are behind him. piggybacking off this, i think it can be used as argument as to why godwyn didn't bother fighting against his assassins -

you've got a legendary figure his defeating and befriending of the ancient dragons is one that is well known, not only that but being the son of godfrey i guess it is to be expected that he's a skilled enough fighter. alas, he still falls to the black knife assassins.

the issue with this though is that it seems death blight is a thing that spawned from godwyn's corpse after his incomplete death so....yeah.

Godwyn’s body simply grows. It grows to the point that he has two of his disfigured faces in the Lands Between - one in Leyndell and the other all the way over in Stormveil castle. It doesn’t function, it doesn’t do anything, it just grows. Just like a cancer cell.