Smithing Master Hewg | Elden Ring Wiki

the "about the god slaying weapon" broke my heart first time i heard it in game :(

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"I'll smith- Now-" sounds like I'm enslaving him when I skipped the dialogue lol

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Man, Andre really let himself go.

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I really wished if hewg gives you a god slayer weapon he crafted at some point before the finale boss it would give more emotional meaning for his job as a blacksmith instead of just upgrading

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He said the "Now, look at you...." line, even though I had not defeated Godrick.
This was right after I defeated the Draconic Tree Sentinel, although I hadn't been in the roundtable for a while.

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Radagon is a good fight and all but part of me wishes it was Marika instead just so I can beat her to death with my +25 hammer for my guy Hewg

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Well- i took yo- no matte- lay out your ar-

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I just want to tell him that I used his weapon to slay a god!

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Could Hewg be the one who forged the Black Knife for Queen Merika?

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Anyone else want that colossal axe that looks at heavy as the guts greatsword. They're both right behind master hewg. Would be sick

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Is it possible to have a +25/10 weapon before speaking to Roderika about Hewg, and if so, is it then possible to persuade either to leave?

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bruh why does the page says he can upgrade your armour

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Both of my favorite games feature weaponsmiths with dementia

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Hewg is the new bearer seek seek lest.

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What happens when you release master blacksmith hewg?

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if you upgrade your weapon to +10 through iji does Hewg still get the dialogue?

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Is it possible to actually obtain his “god slaying weapon”

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I think it would have been a good twist if fromsoft forced the player to create a god-killing weapon (either +10 or +5) for Marika/Radagon and Malenia. It would give more meaning to master hewgs quest and the Ancient Dragon stones.

For example master having Master Hewg seeing an Ancient dragon stone and finally realizing he could create a god killing weapon and fulfill his promise would have been a more fitting ending

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You did it my g. You did it.

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I want to believe that we made his life better than he ever dreamed of. We helped him form a close bond with a kind girl who he considered her daughter later on. He watched over her as she opened up and fulfilled her destiny as a spirit tuner. He even saw her helping two small siblings reunite. And then, we gave him hope. He saw that we're not another Tarnished around the Roundtable, but someone who made it further than anyone else. He finally believed that he will see it through his duty and we will slay a god with the weapon he forged. He was proud of us, he grew fond of us. He met his Lord. Even if we cannot tell him that we did slay a god, I hope that in his final moments of consciousness he "knew" that we will do it. Just like he knew that we are worthy to become a Lord.

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Anybody know if there’s a sword that shares the model with the one Hewg is working on?

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Andre, what happened to you dude :(

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Well...(button press)...I took you for...(button press)...No matter...(button press)...Lay out your arms

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Like how he assumes you just went off and died everytime you leave even if you were only gone for a second, and i guess hes kinda right in a way sometimes.

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Is the god-slaying weapon meant to be whatever weapon you use because he upgraded it, or is it the Godslayer sword? Does it change somthing in NG+ if you kill the final boss using the Godslayer sword? Is it another specific weapon I missed because I'm dumb dumb?

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tbh I think all misbegotten/trolls can speak, or at least have the capability to. They aren't senseless creatures whose only goal is to kill you ofc, and they're probably way more intelligent than they're made out to be.

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Don't get yourself killed. Neither of us want to see you go hollow.

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Dad

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Roderika feels bad for this guy and wants me to free him but I don't think she realizes this had it made here making a killing smithing for me. 3900 for a +10 upgrade?? Really bro? I board you in my house, should be charging you rent for the accommodations. Squatting in my keep like it's an out of work smithing shelter. Go clean the basement while I'm gone. There's invaders in there. Or at least tidy up your work station. Swords strewn about like legos waiting for someone to step on and I'm supposed to expect you to take pride in you work and smith me a weapon to slay a God? How about you slay some of this dust.

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I ought to fetch a new ember

Flame, dear flame.....

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I hate having to click 4-5 times to access his services every time, until he finishes his "what back already no matter etc etc", shut up.

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Hewg best boy

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AFTER NEW GAME PLUS HE'S STILL IN HIS STATE AFTER DISCOVERING FARUM AZULA AND I CAN'T GET THE RODERIKA TO MOVE HELP

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Hewg has it ever occurred to you that anvils exist outside of the roundtable and that you don't have to stay here

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HEWG. LEAVE THE BURNING ROUND TABLE AND GO SMITH SOMEWHERE SAFE. PLEASE I BEG YOU

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I'll ask Master Hewg...if he can teach me his lore. I know he's only a humble smith but surely he must have some nostalgia.

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I was a little disappointed that there was no option to return to him and tell him that you slayed a god with one of his weapons. I know his mind is mostly gone by the time you've achieved the goal, but I would've liked to let him know.

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"i don't doubt you"
*doubts you*

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Ok so I’m not an emotional person, but those last few lines of dialogue at the end of the game got me. My dad recently passed away and didn’t get to see me graduate the week after. Hewg calling the Tarnished “lord” even though he wouldn’t live to see their ascension to the throne gave me the same feeling. Kinda bittersweet.

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what a disappointment when he promised us a weapon for committing deicide but forget it after reaching the endgame, literally goddammit.

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i don't have the sanctified whetblade yet, but i just got back from clearing out deeproot depths (+finishing fia's questline) and he said the dialogue for the sanctified whetblade

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When you fast forward through his basic dialogue after he becomes depressed it sounds like he says "oh snap" lol.

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To get the "About god-slaying weapon" dialogue, I'm pretty sure another criteria is to progress through Crumbling Farum Azula. At the start of CFA I didn't have the dialogue, but when I went back just before fighting Maliketh the dialogue option appeared (This was on NG+4 FWIW).

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I wish you could free him because he is too kind to be not be free

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"I took you for dead."

I was literally just talking to spirit girl for 20 seconds. You could see me the whole time. Have you been using that hammer on your brain?

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All the comments about God slaying weapons are people who don't read flavor text on ancient dragon smithing stones lol

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Hewg is directly inspired by godot the blacksmith in berserk! Godot is described this way on the berserk wiki: "Godot was gruff, standoffish and rather rude. However, he was kindhearted, despite his grumpy exterior, taking in an orphaned Erica on a whim and raising her as his own daughter."

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wish you could get a helm that looks like the top of his head to do a proper cosplay.

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The trigger for the "After picking up the Sanctified Whetblade from Fortified Manor" conversation seems to be wrong, because I haven't picked it up, and I just got this dialogue. I have, however, reached the West Capital Rampart.

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"Well, where've you... I took you... Lay out your..." *menu pops up*

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I somehow didn't realise he was a misbegotten until now, aint that something

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he started talking about the god killer weapon after i came back with dark moonlight greatsword, so idk what the trigger is supposed to be for that or what the dialogue means

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You the real MVP

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Everyone has there opinions, but mine is the best.... Master Hewg is the best character in this game.

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At a point in my playthrough, I saw him on al fours behind the anvil, and when I interacted with him, he said "Don't worry, it's nothing." He wasn't smithing and made some pig-like noises. Neither he, nor Roderika had an option to talk about this phenomenon, neither during the event, nor after resting. It never repeated. Anyone know what may have caused this?

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The dialogue about him forging YOU a god killing weapon has nothing to do tih azula as I haven't been there yet and he already said this to me.

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Is he a misbegotten? He looks a lot like one

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Beware of the ninjas when you last talk to Hewg. Damn onions flying everywhere. sob.....

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Hewg says his last quotes (the ones under "???") after completing Farum Azula. I noticed he said his "My lord, for that is what you are" quote after Godskin Duo, as a selectable dialogue in his menu.
The quote that's under "after completing farum azula" happens way earlier, and if you complete Farum, he completely forgets who you and Roderika are (Enia also dies).

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Man, with a skull that thick, you don't need a hammer to forge weapons. Come on, listen to Roderika, get outta here

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Has anyone else noticed the Hammer used by Hewg "Hammer" is the same Hammer Radagon is using? Is it possible that Hewg is Radagon. After reviewing the facts and that he looks like a Misbegotten...who used to be man turned by his regret. I think he's Radagon and Miriaka was like Roderika or reminded him of her?

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Does anybody know what sword he is constantly hammering in the game?
I like its appearance

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the only time a game has made me cry over a blacksmith is the giant blacksmiths corpse in ds3, and hewg.

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After I killed Godfrey at the Elden Throne, Hewg seems to have lost his memory.
“Who are you? Oh, I must be a blacksmith”
Then a new dialogue option appear asking him about himself, he asks why the roundtable is burning and why there’s a girl (Roderika) weeping for him.

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he's resemble misbegotten ......coincidence?

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I might be wrong but you can only trigger his Godslaying weapon dialogue only once and that being the first time you upgrade to +10/+25. Subsequent playthroughs won't allow you to trigger that dialogue as I've upgraded weapons to +10 in NG+ and yet had no option to do so.

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After you've told Roderika that you failed to convince him to leave, you can go back to him and have one more set of dialogue about Roderika that isn't listed here on the wiki.

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Theory: I think Hewg was some sort of royal blacksmith serving for Leyndell (through Castle Morne its shown that the Misbegotten were used as servants in times past hence his "employment" as a blacksmith) and Marika tasked him to create a weapon powerful enough to slay a god during her final moments as she knew that she would be unable to kill it herself however able to slow it through shattering the elden ring. However when the shattering occurred Hewgs body perished either immediately or soon afterwards as indicated by his 'real' hammer being present in the real Roundtable and his lack thereof. Building off this I think Hewgs spirit was binded to the roundtable when he died due to his promise to Queen Marika ('imprisoning' him to the roundtable) to create the god slaying weapon to which the purpose was to slay the greater will that Marika had turned upon in the event of Godfrey the Goldens death. I think the reasoning behind his persistence was that Hewg knew that he was the only one capable of creating the weapon due to his years of experience and lack of ties to any opportunistic sort of faction seeking the throne for themselves like Iji serving Ranni and through the persistence of his soul Hewg honed his craft to god-slaying proportion. He knew that he was incapable of killing a god himself and so he smithed and smithed waiting for a suitable wielder to present themselves and when we showed up and made our way through the shardbearers he became increasingly optimistic of our potential ability to slay the greater will, he felt this even though that he was aware that through us burning the erdtree it would sever the link of his binding to the Roundtable (which would give him the ability to pass on freely) decaying his soul through no longer being sustained by the Roundtables power (note that he refuses to leave roundtable due to its 'uselessness' hinting that both if he leaves his soul will pass on and that his efforts will have been for nothing and he has the means to just leave and is not required to fulfill the promise), never the less he is persistent in refining us the weapon that we will use to slay the greater will he was tasked with killing and through all of this Hewg fulfills his promise to Queen Marika and happily passes on once the greater will is slain by us and by the weapon that he forged. This theory probably has a bunch of holes but I like to think that Hewg was at peace and was happy towards the end and that we were able to fulfill his lifelong promise, rest well old friend.

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"Allow me to call you this, just once, before it ends.
My lord, f-for that is what you are" - Master Hewg

I'm not crying you're crying.

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Did he eat too many hearts and became a half dragon? In my head canon there isnt enough dragon incantations available to turn player into a reptilian.. dragonkin?

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I would literally take the loss of not being able to upgrade any more weapons for that ng cycle if it meant we could set this poor man free.

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There are missing some lines, In my playthrough he said ''How are you?'' ''Oh, I must be a blacksmith'' ''Now, let's get smithing'' After Azula, It seems he lost his memory somehow

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Im pretty sure i heard him say ''Im sorry grandma'' when standing next to him and listen to his muffled sounds

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I think that Hewg was the Misbegotten that made contact with the crucible, since he has horns and why he’s been imprisoned eternally

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Hewg is a clear reference to Godo in Berserk. He has the same bandana and overall look. Like Godo, he refuses to give up smithing even if it kills him. Like Godo, he grows attached to a young girl and worries about her. In Berserk her name is Erica, and in Elden Ring her name is Roderica

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When I finished the first NG, I came back to Roundtable Hold, rushed to him to see if there's any choice to tell him that I did it... I used his god-slaying weapon to kill the god, and I became the Elden Lord, but there was nothing. It's so sad that he will never know my success, not this NG and so on.

All I can do is writing the message "I did it!" near him and Roderika, and start NG+ :'(

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I'm not seeing the voice lines here, and I don't remember exactly what they were to add them myself, but Hewg says something to the effect of, "Oh, I must be a blacksmith..." after he's fully lost his memory.

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This quote right here:

"No, no, no, no...
I need to do better than this! This'll never kill a god.
I can do better than this! It needs to slay a bloody god!
Oh, it's you.
Don't pay me any mind. It's not important.
Just lay out your arms."

Happened to me after i defeated Morgott The Omen King, someone agree?

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I think his lifeforce is tied to the Erdtree, as well as his captivity. So when we burn it, we pass a death sentence. Just going on what we are currently given.

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He kept going on about forging a weapon to kill a God....

Its saddening to say, but he never forges a single weapon. He only refines ones you own, and "imprints" known Ashes of War onto blank slates.

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What enables the "About the god-slaying weapon" dialogue option?

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The saddest part is that you cannot tell him you did it. You can't tell him you killed a god with a weapon he strengthened. By the end, it's like your grandpa doesn't remember you. That's the only thing I cared about by the end; telling him that he was free, that we did it together.

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Just a theory, since there isn't anything to back it up that I'm aware of, but I imagine that since the Hold that the Tarnished use as a homebase of sorts is separate from the one within the capital, and seems to exist to itself possibly outside of time like some other FromSoft locations( Time distortion does seem to be somewhat possible as seen when triggering the hidden dragon boss in Crumbling Farum Azul) , so when we commit the sin, and everything starts to burn that link is severed. It seems that our hold is maintained by some form of energy from the Erdtree itself, with Hewg being bound directly to the Hold whatever force was binding him, and sustaining him, is now severed. His age begins to catch up with him, resulting in his drastic memory loss, and most likely eventual death.

Like I said just a theory feel free to agree or disagree or flesh it out if you feel that it is missing some information.

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Why does it sound like he's dying at the end of his quest but then suddenly he's just better again and that's that? Cut content?

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I don't care about your life's goal Hewg. I'm a selfish bastard so Gramps, you and Roderika are coming with me and we're gonna go live somewhere in a farm in Limburg as a happy little family.

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There was another line of dialog that i accidentally cut off that started with him saying "no, no, no..."

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There's a whole thing after you do the point of no return where he has lots more dialogue. Same with Roderika.

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Wasn’t a big fan of him until I heard those gut wrenching final lines of dialogue from him.

Man… that voice acting was some of the most convincing stuff I’ve heard in a FromSoft game. Amazing stuff.

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there was a line of dialog that he started like "well well well" or something along those lines. he was talking to himself. unfortunately, i pressed A to talk to spirit tuner girl right as the dialog triggered from proximity. so i don't know what he said. when i talked to him, he didn't offer any new dialogue choices.

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What if Marika took the rune of death from the Elden Ring not to prevent herself or her own kin of dying but because she knew there is currently no one around who could take on the elden beast? but she found (created?) a smith capable of creating a weapon that could one day slay a god.. so she commanded him to do so and bound him to the roundhold table and prevents his death by manipulating the ring and at the same time let the journey begin about the one tarnished that one day will weild that weapon?

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For some reason, it took me some time to realize Hewg is a misbegotten like the former servants of Castle Morne. There are so many abused and downtrodden races/groups in this game, far more than any other souls game.

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After defeating Maliketh if I remember correctly he says "Who are you? Oh, I must be a blacksmith. Now, let's get smithing"
You can talk to Roderika about it and she says some stuff that I don't remember

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When I reached mountaintops of the giants, I refused to commit a cardinal sin and went to do side quests and all, after some time when I came to him he had a dialogue where he asked if I was having second thoughts and motivated me into killing a god, dont know what exactly triggered it but its not in the quotes here

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Thanks Master Hewg, you were a true friend till the end

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While smithing he remarked, "It has to kill a god"

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Hewg is radagon, we already know the radagon we find in the elden tree is marika, but then where did radagon go? Hewg seems to be a lesser form of something akin to margitt/margot, hewg has omen horns that have been clipped but is still alive, something is up. so why is hewg radagon?

Hewg says about roderika, he knows she will be a good spirit tuner because he can see it in her eyes, eyes like someone he use to know.

Who is the only other person who has mastery of spirits? Ranni, daughter of rennalla and radagon. Why not seluvis? well seluvis is a vassal of the carians and probably learned it from ranni.

im purposefully writing this as making a strong point to spark discussion, i also think hewgs lines need to be carefully looked at.

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Dunno the trigger for this dialogue, but:


"No, no, no, no...
I need to do better than this! This'll never kill a god.
I can do better than this! It needs to slay a bloody god!"

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So what is he? A misbegotten? An Omen? Does he just look like that cause FromSoftware/George R.R. Martin wanted him to?

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So what is he? A misbegotten? An Omen? Does he just look like that cause FromSoftware/George R.R. Martin wanted him to?

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So what is he? A misbegotten? An Omen? Does he just look like that cause FromSoftware/George R.R. Martin wanted him to?

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