Did anybody else notice this about the "Milkweed" rune?

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I'm pretty sure most of you have heard somebody point out, at one point or another, that Rom doesn't really look like a spider. She looks, as a few other people have pointed out, more like a caterpillar. Additionally, if you think about it, Ebrietas could be considered to, vague, resemble a butterfly (really, it's just the wings, but go with me on this).

There's these subtle nods to metamorphosis all throughout the game, the gradual morphing from one form to another, more powerful form. Why is this relevant to the Milkweed rune?

Well, milkweed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias) is the main source of food for Monarch Butterfly caterpillars. And the Milkweed rune morphs us into a lumenwood, a kind of ascended human (a kin of the cosmos).

I just thought about that today at work, and it was a really cool little detail.

EDIT: HOLY CRAP, 105 UPVOTES?! You guys are super awesome!

Posted Dec 3, 2015, 12:05 AM UTC · edited

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