Sometimes I wonder what real Seluvis was like. Not Seluvis controlled by Pidia.
My theory is that he was still an asshole, but nothing more. Just a jerk that Pidia figured no one would miss and no one would think anything of when he started doing things that were even worse. Maybe when we’re talking to Seluvis normally and he’s just rude, that’s actual Seluvis talking; but Pidia comes in when all the ‘puppet’ talk begins. Or maybe Pidia is just pretending.
Okay, I know that the going Elden Ring theory is that the woman that you find dead at the one church is the tarnished’s maiden that Varré killed to rope them into the Mohg cult. But, I was looking up something else and ran into the character Therolina. She was a finger maiden that was captured by Seluvis before she could meet her tarnished. What if she was the main tarnished’s maiden?
It would make sense as the girl in the church that Varré supposedly killed would either have most likely found the tarnished before she was killed, or her body would not be so fresh as there’s most likely, weeks, if not months before the tarnished finds her. Where as, if Therolina were the tarnished’s maiden then it may be why you can summon her at the Radahn fight. Also is makes it even more messed up that you have to buy her from Seluvis if you want her help elsewhere.
That being said there’s obviously no concrete evidence for either and was probably left vague on purpose. That also leads to a sad theory that one of the reasons people want to be maidens to the tarnished is for a level of protection to keep them from meet fates such as these two poor ladies.