

One can only wonder that it must be the one thing to grant peace and respite to the miserable and malformed existence of this creature. It is unclear why killing the Orphan breaks the curse. Engaged in an endless hunt, it is something that no hunter can escape, and it was implied that certain individuals would fade into the Nightmare at random, implying their life deeds to be especially punishable. Those like the ones that desecrated her and the villagers, seeking to relish blood and eyes, would be cast into the Hunter's Nightmare. Others that have been theorized to play a part in that hunt include Laurence, Gehrman, Ludwig, and perhaps even Willem himself.Īs referenced by Micolash, Kos granted Rom "eyes on the inside" which led to her ascension, becoming a Great One.īut while the body of Kos rotted on the shore, the mind of the Great One is unending, and from the vantage of the cosmic planes, she laid a curse upon the hunters. Only one hunter, Lady Maria, was bluntly confirmed to have been part of this excursion, which troubled her morality to the point that she forsook her weapon, the Rakuyo, casting it into a well. Whether or not they had a hand in the death of Kos is unknown, but most agree that the hunters did some blasphemous violation of her body, likely by dissecting her to get her eldritch blood. In their search for eyes, Willem sent scholars from Byrgenwerth to hunt the villagers and investigate the nature of their transformations, brutally cutting open skulls and probing them with large gaping holes. Others believe she lurked off the shore and sent the villagers innumerable squids and fish in return for their worship of her. Some theories say that she was washed ashore after dying by unknown means, and the villagers began cultivating the parasites within her corpse, altered by their cosmic nature. The being named Kos, sometimes referred to as Kosm, was apparently revered by the Fishing Hamlet's inhabitants, who were also mutated by her cosmic power. The body of Kos is presumably infected by a number of kos parasites, a type of mollusk that resembles a Portuguese man o'war, seeing as the Orphan drops one upon its defeat. Its dimensions are almost the size of a small ship, and one cannot avert their eyes at this mysterious and sublime creature.Īlthough now a corpse, in the throes of death it births the Orphan of Kos, who battles the Hunter in a frenzied fit of anger and confusion.
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The shape of Kos resembles a large blend of a fish, a mollusk, and even a human woman, all with bright white skin and blue scales.
