◇ CONCEPT / FORCEThe Frenzied Flame and the Three Fingers
Primal Chaos · Antithesis of Order

The Frenzied Flame and the Three Fingers
The Frenzied Flame is a cosmic concept antithetical to the Golden Order: the primal yellow chaos that preceded all differentiation. Shabriri (the spirit of the Bloody Finger who inhabited Yura's body) articulates its ideology: "All that exists came from One Great. Then came fractures, births, souls. But the Greater Will erred. Torment, despair, affliction, every sin, every curse, born from the error. What was borrowed must be returned. Melt all with the yellow flame of chaos. Until all is One again." The Three Fingers, burned and misshapen analogs of the Two Fingers, reside in the depths below the Capital (Forsaken Depths, behind the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds) and transmit the flame to those who strip themselves of everything before their door, literally naked. Hyetta, the blind Finger Maiden who guides toward them, eats Shabriri Grapes (eyeballs from the Flame's victims) to "feel the distant light" and orient herself. Melina firmly rejects the Flame: "It is chaos, devouring life and thought without end. As ruined as this world has become, life endures, births continue, there is a beauty in that." The Lord of Frenzied Flame ending: the Tarnished becomes the torch, burning all, and Melina vows vengeance with her left eye open. Fingerprint Stones armor and the Frenzied Flame Seal are its relics.
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Preceptor Seluvis (Dialogue)
Shabriri (Dialogue)Then where is he? Our true Lord, our Lord of Frenzied Flame. We beg of you, incinerate all that divides and distinguishes. Ahh, may chaos take the world! ... Ahh, the puppets... The puppets besiege us... ... Ahh, the poor fellow...gone perfectly mad. Love...revenge...the frenzied flame melts it all away... ... ... It's there, somewhere. Another path, leading back to the foot of the Erdtree.
Merchant Kalé (Dialogue)

