>>722900110
Lord and Goddess are united in divinity and one
>Fia doesn't revive Godwyn, she tries to use his body as medium to basically weld the two cursemarks together and alter them to become a Mending Rune.
The Mending Rune is Godwyn's spirit + the grace Fia obtained
>Ranni does need to become a god
No she doesn't
>Ranni also never had a Finger Maiden, those are assigned to Tarnished, not demi-gods
Those are Kindling Maidens. The Fingers have Finger Maidens, and the Finger Maidens of Ranni Two Fingers tell you the assassination of Godwyn was meant to happen
>The Nox don't do soul transfers with puppets,
Yes they do. They specifically acquire better puppets to transfer their soul inside them or became puppets to serve.

"An old puppet crafted in the Eternal City. Use to summon the spirits of a nightmaiden and a swordstress.

These sisters, members of a cold-blooded race who wield flowing weapons, became puppets of their own volition."

>The vessel Ranni's inhabit is of her mentor, and Seluvis wants to puppeteer demigod bodies to acquire them. The practice is very much a Nox tradition, since Nox lack a strict dogmatic view of the cycle of life and practice openly transhumanism
>>722900881
Yes. Marika's ascension was comoletely illegitimate, an usurpation born from the cospiracy of a spirit sacredotess that betrayed her tribe and the hornsent that needed a fitting Numen to lift to Godhood.
The Deaths caused tainted the grace of Light into Gold and Shadow (Miquella's wish to make "Unalloyed Gold" rounds back to being Light.)

>By then why send Godfrey away instead of tricking him to become part of the Erdtree for greater strength? Backup plan like what most people say; insurance against Radagon?

The Tarnished are meant to die and kill the Demigods because blood fuels Trees. This is why every tree or object of power conveying spirals of souls is around bodies and mausoleums and why the GEQ made of sacrifices her imagery.
Like linking of the Fire fueled by humans