#also if anyone is curious why i think the portrait is of rykard i talked about it in my ‘unhinged elden ring fashion deep dive’ post

[slavonicrhapsody]

Here's a theory I pulled out of my ass- if the portrait in the volcano manor has the official's attire rather than the noble attire Rykard wears in his own portrait...assuming that in the other portrait, the individual is wearing a mask...you think it's Ghiza- Rykard's inquisitor? He does wear just about the same thing when invading you. The only real difference is the bandages covering the face and hands.

Hi!! As you said in your other ask, I did already cover this topic, but I’m answering this anyway as an excuse to talk about it more lmao

Ultimately I still favor the idea that the portrait is an earlier depiction of Rykard, BUT I think the idea that it’s one of his inquisitors (like Ghiza) is equally likely. Someone pointed out to me a while ago that Maleigh Marais, who also wears the Official’s robe, wears bandages under his mask, so it’s possible that’s the case for this portrait too?

Anyway I love this idea because whoever this painting is of, it’s significant that the only other portraits in Volcano Manor are of Radahn and Tanith, two people extremely important to Rykard… so it makes sense that this person would also be important to him… and we know in a previous version of the canon that an inquisitor was “one of Rykard’s paramours.” All I’m saying is that there is actually a very plausible chance that they had some kind of dark, twisted romance. Do what you will with this information. I made fanart

#asks #ghiza #inquisitor ghiza #rykard #rykard lord of blasphemy #my art #diversity win! the inquisitors torturing you to death are in love! #also if anyone is curious why i think the portrait is of rykard i talked about it in my ‘unhinged elden ring fashion deep dive’ post