When Mohg abducted Miquella's unborn body, Miquella did not resist. The cocoon was a vessel he no longer wanted: he had decided to ascend as a god, and to become a god he had to be reduced to nothing. He shed everything along his path through the Realm of Shadow: his golden flesh, his blinding strength, his Great Rune, his very fate, and even St. Trina, his adoring other self; each abandonment is marked by a cross the Tarnished may find. What remained was a will so distilled that it could enchant any being it touched.

Miquella's charm bends every demigod, knight, and saint who travels with him: Needle Knight Leda, Sir Ansbach, Freyja the Redmane, Hornsent the Avenger, the dragon priestess Florissax, Thiollier the poisonmaker. Each follows him for their own reason and each is, without knowing it, charmed beyond reason by a god who has stripped himself of doubt. To break the charm requires destroying the god he becomes; to refuse the charm requires being the one Tarnished he could not reach in time.

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Key ItemMiquella's Great Rune

A Great Rune relinquished by Miquella. Broken and bereft of its bounty, it retains naught but the power to resist charms. Miquella set off for the tower enshrouded by shadow, abandoning everything - his golden flesh, his blinding strength, even his fate. All in an effort to bury the original sin. To embrace the whole of it, and be reborn as a new god.

ArmorCirclet of Light

The circlet of light which adorned Miquella's head as he returned in divine aspect. It has begun to fade into nothingness. Slightly boosts intelligence, faith, and arcane, while also boosting the power of Miquella's light. This circle was to be the very foundation upon which Miquella's age of compassion would be built, should it have ever come to pass.