ᴄᴀʀʀʏɪɴɢ ᴀ sᴡᴏʀᴅ ʙᴜᴛ ɴᴏᴛ ᴀ ɴᴀᴍᴇ, ᴀ Fɪɢᴜʀᴇ ʀᴜɴs ᴀᴄʀᴏss ᴛʜᴇ ʙʀɪᴅɢᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴs ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ.

Oh, ᴀ ᴍᴇssᴇɴɢᴇʀ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇɪᴛʏ ʜᴀs ᴄᴏᴍᴇ!

Thursday, 9 April 2026

Former Spirit Stone Maiden.

A look at the former Yoshiro in a video!

Monday, 6 April 2026

Spirit Stone 3.0





It's (a)Yoshiro.

This means Maidens all look the same and are likely named Yoshiro, after the term 'yorishiro'.

Yoshiro's Japanese biography says she comes from a lineage of Maidens with the same power. 

Is she praying to the Goddess within the stone or is she praying to her ancestor, the former Maiden?
Or both, and this directly contributed to the mixing of the Maiden and Goddess?

This spirit stone body is very different to our Yoshiro, who is covered in cherry blossom motifs(from pieces breaking off). In general, she looks like normal stone more than 'spirit stone'.

Forgotten God has both this bland stone and spirit stone, so perhaps this spirit stone is devoid of Goddess power? And the shiny appearance of spirit stone is what marks it as containing the power of the goddess.

If Nanamagari pulled the Goddess power out of the spirit stone, then it would just become plain stone?

For comparison, our Yoshiro:



Why's some of her foot not crystallized? 


More images of the spirit stone below the cut.

Saturday, 4 April 2026

Flowers for the Maiden!


A video just to provide flowers for Yoshiro. :)

Friday, 27 March 2026

Forgotten God is a former Maiden.





The rock fragments and underneath her are spirit stone.



The gold 'tears trail' is similar to the gold lining on Yoshiro.



The colors inside her are the colors of the barrier we fight Cursed Soh.





So, is it safe to stay we fight the battle against Cursed Soh inside the spirit stone body?
And that the 'spirit stone' is meant to contain the defilement, like a barrier?

There's also the Japanese name:祇去. Kamusari. ( かむさり)
(can be translated as 'divine departure'? Google translated it as 'kami gone')

祇: Kunitsukami. Read as かむ. Kamu.
'去' can be read as the ashes of a Buddha, and we have seen that the Maiden is alike to a Buddha.

Soh's mazo talismans are also titled in reference to Buddhism: Deva, Bodhisattva, Nyorai.






They resemble Nanamagari and those figures on the sides of the Torii Gates:


The stories of the Seethe mention monks a few times so Buddhism is likely existing alongside Shinto? We are in the Heian period after all.

During the Heian period (794-1185), a form of Buddhism usually called Tantric Buddhism in India, but Esoteric Buddhism in Japan became widely popular. The Shingon (True Word or Mantra) sect, founded by Kukai (774-835), was one of two Esoteric sects to spread at this time.

Shingon was associated with a unique style of meditation that involved mandalas (artistic representations of various Buddhas and bodhisattvas or of the world as seen by those enlightened beings), mudras (symbolic hand positions associated with each Buddha and bodhisattva in the mandalas), and mantras (sacred Sanskrit verses associated with these figures). (source)
mandala on the maiden's belly in artwork. we can see them in Cursed Soh's arena too

Mudra. She also performs a set of mudras in the beginning + the talisman 'Cursed Mudra' 

かむ can also be read as 'chew', and when combined with 'bones', does it imply the Seethe chewed on this Spirit Stone?
(the rice might be relevant too since Inari is a kami associated with rice)

In the fight with Nanamagari, I called Shadow Soh the liquidated Spirit Stone, but when she goes to the shrine, the spirit stone is already there. 



But it's not there when we fight Nanamagari and look into the shrine.


So I don't really know if the stone appears because Cursed Soh wants it to and it was originally absorbed by Nanamagari, or if only the power of the Goddess was absorbed from the stone and the stone was left.

Forgotten God has both spirit stone and bland stone that resembles the stone of Cursed Soh, which has no 'spirit stone' appearance like we see in Yoshiro and this talisman.

So the reason it's a talisman is likely the spirit stone in it!


Monday, 23 March 2026

Torii Core.

There's a texture for the 'Torri Core'  in the files.

It's probably the Defilement Core.











A reoccurring pattern.

In the artbook, there's a drawing of the spirit orbs and the tamagushi?

It's significant then.

Thursday, 19 March 2026

Yoshiro's Red Markings/Tattoo.(入れ墨))









In files, it's called 'irezumi'(入れ墨) in files. Tattoo.

The full design can't be seen. It gets cut off where she has no body and where her chest area is blacked out.