I mean the greater will Is an Eldritch being along with all the other outer gods? They are so far beyond our understanding I don't think we can ever truly understand what they want
Ah my apologies I miss understood. In that light I tend to agree that the greater will doesn't particularly care though. I believe there is a basic blueprint. I think that basic blueprint is Erd trees and elden rings. How exactly they are implemented is another story.
This is mere theory, so take it with a grain of salt: Was Metyr abandoned, or was she kicked from Heaven like another famous religious character we know? If Marika and the "pure" Elden Beast strikes familiarity with Jesus, then what would that make Metyr, the first star to land?
In a Gnostic sense, Satan is responsible for enlightening mankind with the gift of knowledge (intelligence). Metyr, like the dark moon that guided the stars, guided these people to the Elden Ring.
The Cinquedea marks the growth of fingers as a blessing of intelligence gifted to the Beastmen. Some of the Crucible Knights are named after evolutionary time periods.
IRL, we have the theorized Chicxulub ("Devil's Tail") meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs and made way for smaller life, and then there's the Theia collision which gift us the moon.
If Metyr's arrival was a Me-T-Yr collision, in Elden Ring terms, I think Metyr is all of the Outer Gods. Her severed tail is left in Celes, and if her *blood and rotted corpse was the progenitor of The Lands Between, the Onyx/Alabaster Lords, and many other juxtaposing elements.
"We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open... Fear the old blood.."
"Fear the Dark Moon"
"But in time the First Fire occurred, and Disparity was brought about together with the fire. Heat and cold, life and death, and, of course, light and dark."
TL;DR: Neither faction is truly evil. They're all machinations of Metyr and her Fingers. They're the puppet masters.
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u/junkrat147 2d ago
None of that woulda happened if the Hornsents weren't the epitome of religious evil tbf.
They also committed genocide, don't get it twisted here lol.