

Another way of looking at it possibly is: Godwyn was strong enough to avoid dying in body, so the Rune if Death targeted her weaker more vulnerable body instead - after already claiming his Soul.
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The Rune of Death was more than she could handle, but she managed to avoid its full effect, probably in the last moment, cheating death. iirc some item descriptions explain exactly that! My point is, I always saw the Double-Death that happened there as a Brutal Backfire, Double Edge Curse of the Destined Death : She used it on Godwyn, but the Rune of Death was too powerful and also "infected" or "bitten" her in the process - which caused her bodily death: "2 demigods died that night, while Ranni was the first to die in body, Godwyn died in Soul alone" or something like that.
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I don't think Ranni really, fully expected dying like that, but when it was starting she quickly abandoned her body - by shedding her old skin like a snake. However, I don't believe it was her "splitting" the "target" of the Rune of Death and tricking it. I know Godwyn died in Soul only and Ranni (or Renna) died in Body alone. He certainly thinks D would kill him, at least, if he knew Rogier's goal.Ībout Ranni and Godwyn: I heard some people think Ranni tricked the Rune of Death but that wasn't the case imo: Yes, both Ranni and Godwyn died by the Rune of Death that day. I wonder if he knows that it would cost D's life to get to that point. I’ve had a few different people asking for more graph based sigil making techniques, and this is a fairly well known one that fits that category. Especially so because his goal and fixation on the cursemark is to ease the suffering of those who live in death, which I suppose would be Fia's ending. I rarely use this method myself, but I know people are always looking for tutorials on different methods of sigil making and not finding any. It seems like he mostly exists to lead you into Ranni's questline for her ending and, potentially, to dabble into Fia's ending as well (since you have to speak to Fia and will likely see the dialogue for the dagger, as well as getting an item she needs for her questline in the process).

It's a shame you go through all this effort to help him and it's all for nothing. Then I noticed him slunched over like my first playthrough. His head was always in a normal position. I held off on his dialogue after meeting with Ranni so that he wouldn't go into this state and would check in on him every time I made some progress and had to return to the sanctuary. I expected as much, but wanted to test it out for myself. It seems picking this up forces Rogier to go into his coma, eventually dying when you return to the Roundtable Hold.
