#pidia

[carsmg]

pidia comic

[sir-virtem]

Pidia, the minion albinauric that lives in Ranni's Attic taking care of puppets, that one.

Like, I don't remember anyone speaking about them, ever. So I wonder if someone else in their playthrough try to stop the puppets or in their OC's timeline/AU/Fanfic/delirium try/success to save them.

Question, Did you bother to try save Pidia?

Yes, I tried

No, I didn't bother

No, I helped the puppets

👊👊👊 Albinauric I see, Albinauric I beat

Voting ended onApr 15

[lies-of-fox]

ELDEN RING PLAYTHROUGH

part2

Looking good in the cutscenes~

my plastic surgery mom <3

I wasn't so sure where to go, so I was just running around like an idiot (tho my Caelid visit was very short, that place is really not for me :')

opened this, and went through the gates without noticing Rya, she stood there for months (like literally open this last June, went on a hiatus and returned to the game this January, whoops)

Friends?...

this happens way too often

(see?) also ohhh hey hi hellooo

he's just standing there, menacingly

Well hello good sir, would you tell me the way to the festival? Oh, it's through Caelid, hahah...

I got the Moonveil btw :)

gulp

Oh hey, it wasn't so bad, took me about 4 tries with summons

Nokron my beloved <3

Well ofc he's evil

Hey fellas what we looking a- aou Pidia :')

[blueberry-bastard-boy]

First fic I've made

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64240024/chapters/164879524

[blaiddfailcam]

I don't know how I forgot to check the astrolabe at the Royal Moongazing Grounds after starting this weird scavenger hunt, but it looks as though this one points to Rykard's site of grace, and to... Pidia? ...in the opposite direction. It may be the most accurate alignment I've seen yet.

I don't see how these two characters are exactly relevant, besides their connections to Caria, so maybe it's only meant to point to one, or it's an "either works" type of deal, lol. (Or, as ever, it could be nothing but a weird coincidence.)

[primelight]

Concerning Seluvis (and Pidia)

Ok, I completely understand where the ‘Pidia is the puppet master’ theory came from (Vaati, alternate interpretations of lore etc.). However, all the evidence in favor of that is circumstantial, AND can be countered.

1. We already know that puppets can be given (or loaned) to someone who isn’t the original creator. After all, the player can get a few.

2. The Raya Lucaria soldier puppets are being used to guard the rooftops of Caria Manor. Pidia is a servant of Caria Manor, and looks to be the only sane Albinauric sorcerer left. It makes sense for him to tasked to use the puppets to protect the Manor.

3. This also explains why he says ‘You!’ when you first come down the ladder; he saw you on the rooftops.

4. There’s no law that there can’t be two perverted dolly-botherers. And Pidia is absolutely a perverted dolly-botherer.

5. You can hear the soldier puppets kill him after you find Seluvis’ body. If we’re talking ‘real’ puppet master, that’s an interesting coincidence.

6. Yes, he has the map to the amber starlight shard. However, he runs a storeroom. It makes sense that there’d be old, forgotten things in there.

7. From a meta perspective, you, the player, are just browsing the shelves when you buy stuff from Pidia.

8. Gideon has beef with Seluvis. It’s clearly mutual. Seluvis chose Nepheli, Gideon’s adopted daughter, as his target for the puppetizing potion. Why would Pidia, an Albinauric sorcerer with no apparent connection to the Roundtable Hold, order something like that?

9. Puppetry is specifically called out as a Night Sorcery/Nox thing. Carians in general are connected to the night, and the stars. Seluvis was one of Ranni’s father’s Preceptors, and a master sorceror. Seluvis’ bell bearing indicates a clear visual connection to Carian and/or Night sorcery....and that’s an entirely different post, stay tuned.

11. We’ve seen a non-summoned remote-controlled puppet in action: Finger Maiden Therolina. She shows up at the Radahn festival, and is utterly silent. She bows and...that’s it. You can buy her from Seluvis, too, or get her as a free puppet. And you see her in his chambers, so, yeah, she’s a puppet. And Seluvis himself has an awful lot of personality for a remote-controlled doll, doesn’t he? So...I speculate that he isn’t.

12. The biggest one IMHO is that Ranni knows that Seluvis puts you up to giving her the amber starlight draught. Either she is...spectacularly stupid, or Seluvis is the puppetmaster. And she knows it.

And, finally...Seluvis’ puppet body...This is a stretch, sure, but there are a few explanations:

13. We already know that sorcerers can body-surf. Sellen does it, using a body that Seluvis made. Jerren himself says, when he finds her ‘dead,’ that she’s doubtlessly got another body stashed somewhere. We help her upload her consciousness with that primal glintstone.

14. The merchant note on ‘the Preceptor’s Secret’ claims that Sellen visits (of visited) him quite frequently. Circumstantial, but it is not out of the question that they were both in on her backup plan. Why wouldn’t he have a backup plan?

15. ...He was totally being a pervy dolly-botherer with her new, empty body though.

16. So one explanation is that he somehow ditched his body for another. Or shut it down for future use. But we’ll never get that proven one way or another.

17. Another explanation is that Ranni made him drink one of his potions. He gets puppetized after you give her the fingerslayer blade....so he’s outlived his usefulness to her. And since she absolutely did know what he was up to, maybe she thought it was time for some justice?

Anyway...This is also all circumstantial. We’ll likely never get a confirmation of any of this. I think you can run with either theory...Fanfic fuel either way!

(Image credit to Fextralife for Sellen)

[mistleaneous-chaos]

Hey so quick question

Pidia was a certified piece of shit and made Seluvis and Dolores into puppets, right?

Like think about it, Pidia was the person who “took care” of the puppets, and made sure they were kept to standard. Meanwhile Seluvis Gideon and Dolores used to be friends, and apparently Dolores was the reason Seluvis and Gideon stopped being friends

Well what if Pidia somehow turned Seluvis into a puppet, and then used him as a vessel to then trick Dolores into becoming one as well, and since Gideon thinks Seluvis did it, Pidia gets away scott free, and is a piece of shit.

Along with that, Seluvis dies in the puppet position and Pidia dies when he does, implying their fate is connected.

Along with that, Pidia has the map to the Amber Starlight, but Seluvis knows of it somehow, but can’t get to it. Why? Because Pidia can’t physically get there, and it’s possible he can’t control Seluvis over such a distance

Like Pidia is such a piece of shit and the fact that he literally got away with it for so long is horrible because it is so easy to miss him, like I didn’t even know he existed in my first playthrough until I got close enough to the hill to hear him fucking die after finishing Ranni’s quest.

And to add to his fucked up-ness, he has a fucking type. Dolores is a tomboy and is described as such in her Ash, and the first person he asks you to give a potion to is NEPHELI. Fucking “bliss” my ass rot in hell, bozo

Like idk if it’s considered theory or headcanon, but if it’s true FUCK PIDIA(and if it’s not then fuck Seluvis, but still fuck Pidia just in case)

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

Seluvis built Pidia as his lab assistant, treated him like shit, and started threatening to throw him out when his legs went… at this point Pidia, who’d picked up a lot of sorcery working as a lab assistant, put an experimental potion in his tea.

Ranni and Blaidd eventually figured out why Selivus had become more competent and less of an asshole. Since it was *only* Selivus at that stage, and Pidia hadn’t turned doll-making into a hobby yet, they were impressed.