>>715810715
>But how am I wrong?
Because you are.
The game is very specific about the Deep being a spring used to baptize water and existing well before the coreuption of the Cathedral of the Deep.
So the Deep is le abyss is a retarded lorelet headcanon by people that didn't know anything about DS3 lore.
>>715810935
No, the Godskins have a tail because they are birthed, by Eiglay, the actual Gloam Eyed Queen, the same process with which the God devouring serpent is creating man-serpents

On a thematic ground, as much as Velka is the Gloam Eyes Queens, Corvians are in Elden Ring the Godskins. The very term Eiglay comes from the IRL mythos of Eglè, a shapeshifting serpentine Queen associated with fertility
>>715811232
None of this is relevant to the fact that Gideon is simply right and Marika does not want an Elden Lord, but her plan was quite clear way before when she outright states to Radagon that she will shatters both him and herself for the express purpose of merging.
That's the reveal all along and why Marika's roots are mired in madness. She was a usurper and not even an Empyrean