So let me get this into order with the last chapter’s revelations...
My take-aways (some are simply assumptions, don’t take them as proved):
There’s Naenia, also known as Faustina, the queen of vampires.
She has been “killed” - or rather, Ruthven and the beastias (Veronica & Loki) made her vanish by smashing up her corpse.
An intentional or unintentional consequence of that was her turning into the shapeless Naenia, with her memories of her real identity as Faustina lost.
Although Naenia was clearly revealed as her majesty, the queen of vampires, it doesn’t clear up her true identity, since there are three bodies she could have originally assumed, namely:
A person with long, wavy hair and a young, female body was seen in the tub Ruthven is often observing.
A very aged person with dark skin was laying presumely motionless in the bed Luca worryingly sat by.
A female with long, wavy hair and dark skin was shown to be the appearance of the vampire of the blue moon.
All three of those have been at different stages of growth, so it might as well be all the same person, reborn and reborn again. Or maybe she has two bodies? Maybe the vampire of the blue moon is Faustina’s malnomen?
I can’t fathom what the mystery of Faustina/Naenia and the vampire of the blue moon’s connection is, but I’m sure that’s the last missing piece to solve the riddle since everything else fits:
Vanitas has been shown to have let someone die because of him, Misha pleading for him to give back that precious person.
Vanitas has sworn revenge against the vampire of the blue moon by healing cursebearers, whose name has been corrupted by Naenia, whose true identity he knows is someone powerful, frightening.
Vanitas is assuming that the queen of vampires might be the source of the cursebearers.
It all spirals back to Naenia/Faustina/the queen of vampires/the vampire of the blue moon. Aggh, I’m almost there! But one significant part is missing to explain this mess... maybe I’ll come back to this later.
