Castle Stormveil
A castle high on the cliffs overlooking Limgrave.
Here you will encounter Gostec, Rogier, The Grafted Scion, Godrick the Grafted , Nepheli Loux .
Roderika also says her men become a chrysalid when this happens -- there are no insecty chrysalids around Stormveil but there are so many cocoons (which serve a similar function) in The Deeproot Depths and Haligtree-- and of course Miquella! The pile of bodies where we get the Chrysalid Memento does have them wrapped up and slightly crysalid shape, so it's very probable metaphor, as in 'the spider'. I counted over 80 visible body bags plus the troll missing his arm in that small courtyard, with more in with the scion.)
In the room containing the grafted scion, we mostly see disembodied limbs handing from the ceiling and more piles of 'chrysalid corpses'/body bags unique the area. There is one crispy corpse under the painting, with glowing/burnt limbs match that of the crucifed people we see mostly around Limgrave. It wields an axe.
let us know that this thing is likely responsible for the thorned branches all over the castle, and the other decay-- basically having given the whole castle Deathblight.
There is a corpse clasping the Prince of Death's Pustle
nearby.
This, plus the remarkable similarity in face to the corpse of Godwyn the Golden suggests this is at a minimum related to Godwyn somehow-- a duplicate? A predecessor Prince of Death?? Certainly, Rogier believes this to be Godwyn, though his research ends after contracting Death Blight down here. Notably, the player can't get deathblight in this location. The Ulcerated Tree Spirit does not do death damage at all, but a 'death hex' rediscovered by Necromancer Garris is contained in a tear scarab nearby. Is it possible he was also searching-- a necromancer would of course be very interested in the Prince of Death. Garris IS found hiding in the same cave as a black knife assassin later, but neither his drop or his garb really provide any further evidence of his presence under the castle. Plus, the pustle is left behind, and one would assume anyone battling Rogier would have taken the prize or also fallen to the ulcerated tree spirit, but it's just old corpses. It has two upper arms visible but the eye sockets are empty (unlike the 'true corpse' or whatever we have to consider the corpse in the Deeproot Depths to be). It's possible the pustle was carried here from the true corpse to compare the flesh? It's sort of hard to tell if anything has been 'extracted' from either. The direction the thing would have come from is the very pocked side of the castle. Initially, I thought it was overgrown holes from very large cannons or dragons but now I'm thinking... tunnels? [to be moved]The Beast Eye, while stove 'quivers' and looks a like Godwyn's eye when it open in the story trailer. Deathroot is said to stem from Godwyn's corpse under the Erdtree. Is it possible it was removed from the Stormveil corpse? Then where is the other one.
Information and Speculation
In the room containing the grafted scion, we mostly see disembodied limbs handing from the ceiling and more piles of 'chrysalid corpses'/body bags unique the area. There is one crispy corpse under the painting, with glowing/burnt limbs match that of the crucifed people we see mostly around Limgrave. It wields an axe.
Under the Castle Information and Speculation
Of course the "thing under the castle" needs its own section. It is a great big head with tentacle/branches coming out of it, having BURST though the wall. The Marred Wooden and Leather Shields]Much like the castle, it is marred by mottling and thorns.
Some say it is the curse of grafting which causes such affliction, while others talk of its root being something altogether more sinister hidden deep within the castle.
Some say it is the curse of grafting which causes such affliction, while others talk of its root being something altogether more sinister hidden deep within the castle.
It is said that this pustule came from the visage of the Prince of Death, he who used to be called Godwyn. As First Dead of the demigods, it's said he's buried deep under the capital, at the Erdtree's roots.
This, plus the remarkable similarity in face to the corpse of Godwyn the Golden suggests this is at a minimum related to Godwyn somehow-- a duplicate? A predecessor Prince of Death?? Certainly, Rogier believes this to be Godwyn, though his research ends after contracting Death Blight down here. Notably, the player can't get deathblight in this location. The Ulcerated Tree Spirit does not do death damage at all, but a 'death hex' rediscovered by Necromancer Garris is contained in a tear scarab nearby. Is it possible he was also searching-- a necromancer would of course be very interested in the Prince of Death. Garris IS found hiding in the same cave as a black knife assassin later, but neither his drop or his garb really provide any further evidence of his presence under the castle. Plus, the pustle is left behind, and one would assume anyone battling Rogier would have taken the prize or also fallen to the ulcerated tree spirit, but it's just old corpses. It has two upper arms visible but the eye sockets are empty (unlike the 'true corpse' or whatever we have to consider the corpse in the Deeproot Depths to be). It's possible the pustle was carried here from the true corpse to compare the flesh? It's sort of hard to tell if anything has been 'extracted' from either. The direction the thing would have come from is the very pocked side of the castle. Initially, I thought it was overgrown holes from very large cannons or dragons but now I'm thinking... tunnels? [to be moved]The Beast Eye, while stove 'quivers' and looks a like Godwyn's eye when it open in the story trailer. Deathroot is said to stem from Godwyn's corpse under the Erdtree. Is it possible it was removed from the Stormveil corpse? Then where is the other one.
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