I actually was curious about what the Pureblood Knights actually had done in the past. The presentation they (the faction as a whole) are given with Vare and such seems almost like they really are full of love. What terrible things have they actually done? Because they seem to have the same stigma as the Omens, the pre-Erdtree creations, and Those Who Live in Death in that nothing specific is mentioned about wrongdoings they committed, they’re just weird, different and gross so everyone hates them.
Not sure if the game goes into a lot of detail about them. The only items off the top of my head that are even related to them are Ansbach’s armor, weapons, and the Pureblood Medal Vare gives you. Mogh “kidnapped” Miquella and that seems pretty bad; until you read the description of the Charm consumable thing even before the DLC came out confirming it suggests that maybe Mogh was brainwashed by Miquella to do that so that’s not exactly evil or even on Mogh!
Since just joining up normally requires you to murder your own finger maiden I would say that they’re off to a bad start. We also know that Mohg’s followers are a persistent enough problem for everyone else that Yura made it his career to defend people against their random murder attempts (although he does have personal investment with Eleonora too), and that Varre and the other white masks were “abducted” to enable the invasions. Being a murder & pain cult that seems to attack random people just because the boss says god likes when people get stabbed doesn’t exactly stand out as exceptionally evil in the Lands Between, but we definitely know they’ve done at least some stuff to warrant opposition unlike the omens
My personal belief is that the sanguine nobles just straight up are the pureblood knights. The language used to describe them is very similar, both they and Ansbach have dextrous duellist-like fighting styles, the pureblood knight medal takes you right to the place with the highest concentration of sanguine nobles in the game, and if Ansbach dies before the Enir Ilim showdown then you get a random sanguine noble as a substitute summon.
In a meager defense of the cult of the Formless Mother, the finger maidens are literally working for the Greater Will (although they are low ranking), they can’t stick around if you change faith and it seems they are bound to their Tarnished spiritually.
It’s still a murder cult though, so I don’t claim that they are good at all.
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I actually was curious about what the Pureblood Knights actually had done in the past. The presentation they (the faction as a whole) are given with Vare and such seems almost like they really are full of love. What terrible things have they actually done? Because they seem to have the same stigma as the Omens, the pre-Erdtree creations, and Those Who Live in Death in that nothing specific is mentioned about wrongdoings they committed, they’re just weird, different and gross so everyone hates them.
Not sure if the game goes into a lot of detail about them. The only items off the top of my head that are even related to them are Ansbach’s armor, weapons, and the Pureblood Medal Vare gives you. Mogh “kidnapped” Miquella and that seems pretty bad; until you read the description of the Charm consumable thing even before the DLC came out confirming it suggests that maybe Mogh was brainwashed by Miquella to do that so that’s not exactly evil or even on Mogh!
Since just joining up normally requires you to murder your own finger maiden I would say that they’re off to a bad start. We also know that Mohg’s followers are a persistent enough problem for everyone else that Yura made it his career to defend people against their random murder attempts (although he does have personal investment with Eleonora too), and that Varre and the other white masks were “abducted” to enable the invasions. Being a murder & pain cult that seems to attack random people just because the boss says god likes when people get stabbed doesn’t exactly stand out as exceptionally evil in the Lands Between, but we definitely know they’ve done at least some stuff to warrant opposition unlike the omens
My personal belief is that the sanguine nobles just straight up are the pureblood knights. The language used to describe them is very similar, both they and Ansbach have dextrous duellist-like fighting styles, the pureblood knight medal takes you right to the place with the highest concentration of sanguine nobles in the game, and if Ansbach dies before the Enir Ilim showdown then you get a random sanguine noble as a substitute summon.
In a meager defense of the cult of the Formless Mother, the finger maidens are literally working for the Greater Will (although they are low ranking), they can’t stick around if you change faith and it seems they are bound to their Tarnished spiritually.
It’s still a murder cult though, so I don’t claim that they are good at all.