#enia

I was expecting either two old men (or maybe two creepy little girls), but not actual literal fingers. This world constantly finds new ways to surprise and unnerve me.

On closer examination, they were not truly fingers, though the resemblance was uncanny. They didn't have fingernails, for one. They also seemed to be made out of wood. Wood that had become old and rotten. The crone beside them introduced herself as Enia, and offered to translate their movements.

Sure you will. I know a con when I see one. Of course, this one old biddy is the only person in the entire world who can interpret what this half-rotted abomination really meant when it twitched. I'll play the mark if it means getting some info out of her.

The things barely moved and she launched into a whole freaking speech, clearly rehearsed.

Great Elden Ring, root of the Golden Order. Anchor of all lands, giver of grace, wellspring of all joy. Until it was shattered. The tragic corruption of the Order has taken its toll. Across the realm, life lies in ruin. Fallen to pieces. Foul curses and misery spread, unabating. But the Greater Will has not abandoned the realm, nor the life that inhabits it. So it is that the Tarnished are guided by grace. Called to act. Brave Tarnished, your Great Rune is a handsome shard of the Elden Ring. Seek another of its kind. To become Elden Lord, and restore the Golden Order.

Nothing I haven't heard before or been able to figure out myself. So much for divine wisdom.

She also also offered to turn my Remembrance into something connected to Godrick.

Axe of Godrick Greataxe wielded by Godrick the Grafted. This golden battleaxe is emblazoned with the figure of a beast, representing the strength of Godfrey, First Elden Lord and patriarch of the golden lineage.

Again. Godfrey founded the golden lineage, but it never says anything about Marika. It's a glaring omission.

The voice didn't have anything interesting to say about the grafted dragon head, but I noticed that the vision Enia showed me was very different from the one on Godrick's arm. It had little legs, and was lacking the grotesque boils that appeared on the other one.

After she showed me the visions, and the Voice had said its piece, I decided I didn't really want either of them right now and simply consuming the runes would be the more pragmatic approach. Should I change my mind, I'll try the Wandering Mausoleum, now that I know what a Remembrance is.

She also explained Great Runes to me, but again, nothing I hadn't heard before. If the taint of runes drove the demigods mad, why would I even want one? Why does she assume I'd be any different? She siipped into talking for the fingers when she told me to kill the demigods without mercy. Guess she didn't want her own words to sounds so bloodthirsty.

All in all? I wasn't impressed by any of this. I had assumed the Fingers to be some sort of masterminds but no, it's just a decrepit monster that can't even speak for itself. A con artist fortune teller pretends to translate for it while really just telling me what she thinks I want to hear.

I'll have to talk to Gideon Ofnir about this. The others might buy into this, but for his faults, he's no mark.

Before I left, I took note of the throne behind the fingers. Identical to Godfrey's Throne in Stormveil. File that away for later.

Were the Two Fingers ever able to make themselves understood without a "translator"?

How long has this con been going on?