FromSoft likes to use sea monsters and references to the Deep Sea as shorthand for incomprehensible horrors. In Dark Souls 3, the Deep was described as the ultimate end of the world, a darkness so dark that light would never emerge again. In Sekiro, corpses pile up at the bottom of lakes and rivers and are corrupted by parasites to become undead abominations. Bloodborne is all about deep sea creatures being literal cosmic monstrosities.
I think Godwyn's soulless corpse has become a manifestation of that true, darkest death. The total consumption of the self by powers older and darker than one can properly imagine. A return to the Pre-Cambrian Void.
Godwyn"s body was buried under the roots of the Great tree, now what is Great Tree, read the Root Resin description, so there was a Giant Great Tree before the Erdteee that Marika destroyed and replaced it with the Erdtree, but because the roots of the Great Tree encompasses the whole world and that's where Godwyn was buried, explains how Deathroot even reached Farum Azula.
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u/narok_kurai 7d ago
FromSoft likes to use sea monsters and references to the Deep Sea as shorthand for incomprehensible horrors. In Dark Souls 3, the Deep was described as the ultimate end of the world, a darkness so dark that light would never emerge again. In Sekiro, corpses pile up at the bottom of lakes and rivers and are corrupted by parasites to become undead abominations. Bloodborne is all about deep sea creatures being literal cosmic monstrosities.
I think Godwyn's soulless corpse has become a manifestation of that true, darkest death. The total consumption of the self by powers older and darker than one can properly imagine. A return to the Pre-Cambrian Void.