>>529584895
>Why kill a random ass painter?
I'm inclined to agree with the other anon on his more esoteric reading of artists and artisans in ER just being able to provide insights into unsightly truths. No one said the chain of events happened day after day. The painter from the Land of Reeds could have spent years trolling the Golden Order or something. The Executor, in turn, may have been still Cruciblepilled enough to be more malleable in the early days of Marika's gestapo.
>>529586337
>someone had an interesting idea that the knight that commits suicide is actually the second one, feeling bad for what he's done, rather than the first knight
That is interesting, I've noticed pretty much every nightfarer story outside Duchess and Wylder follow the same formula of "I forgot my big personal tragedy and deluded myself into thinking I was someone else", so it could work