Aazealh said:I'm not sure it's an infant from what we can see of it, just some weird tentacled monster. Anyway that doesn't affect the personality and motives of other characters (referring to Rochine).
Forest Wraith said:the way it was born from Gaston's head.
Yeah I don't really think it was born from his head either, rather just errupted out of him. My question is, though, how did it enter his body?
IsolatioN said:That would be interesting if Guts were to come across that apostle.
IsolatioN said:Which makes me wonder, do apostles mature/grow? Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but I'm just curious to if an apostle could be so large, then grow larger and stronger as it ages?
IsolatioN said:My question is, though, how did it enter his body?
Forest Wraith said:I would further hypothesize that they gain strength from the souls that they consume.
Forest Wraith said:Sorry, let me rephrase that as being the impression that I got from Wyald's death. It appeared as though multiple souls were trying to escape his body, so I am assuming that Apostles are somehow linked to the souls of humans that they have eaten.
Forest Wraith said:Ahh, see I haven't gotten the opportunity to read all of the current manga volumes so my understanding of details like that is sometimes based on guess-work.
Sparnage said:Even if Apostles can do what they want, it's still probably an obligation for them to attend such ceremony's.
Aazealh said:What? They're not consuming souls... Some of them eat people but nothing indicates that their souls are consumed, they just go to the Vortex for all we know.
egg of the king said:It's rather that they are sated/derive sustenance, power from the sacrifice of humans, and are naturally drawn.
egg of the king said:As far as the physical manifestation of the apostles before the nexus between astral realms was complete
egg of the king said:We know that the apostles have corporeal (human-like) forms, and that they walk the earth amongst humans. Were they drawn to the lake? Or did they simply materialize there as the astral realm became more salient? It's really hard to say.
egg of the king said:I've wondered about this. Does everyone who dies go to the vortex then? Or just those "caught up with demonkind"?
Aazealh said:Don't assume too much, nothing in the manga says that somebody else sacrificing someone in their presence would bring them anything, including during an Eclipse. I think they just hold it as sacred, seeing the God Hand and all, plus there's a special buffet. That and like you said, they're probably naturally drawn to it.
There's just one astral realm for all we know, I assume that was a simple mistake.
I don't think it's really hard to say, and you proved it yourself in your post. But I'd like to point out the fact that we're not sure of what the place the Occultation ceremony took place in is. It's reductive to simply call it the astral realm, and it seems to be rather unique.
That has already been discussed and answered in the past, please search for it. Basically and from what Griffith says in volume 23, everybody seems to be going there. Vargas sure did, and he wasn't branded, nor an apostle. There are a few hints indicating that some people might not join it, like what Flora tells Schierke in volume 27, or to a much lesser extent what Guts tells Theresia in volume 3 (as his knowledge of such things is supposed to be rather limited).
egg of the king said:You're right about the sacrifice issue, but I wouldn't hesitate to amend that the manga does say that the sacrifice of a loved one, which is generally coalescent with the shedding of one's humanity, is the main catalyst to becoming a demon.
egg of the king said:There is something about eating/raping humans that is derivative for apostles--oh, maybe I;m delving too deep? It's just what demons do?--I think they derive something out of it, perhaps it's just the satisfaction of desire or compulsion.