Talk:Maiden Astraea/@comment-76.111.128.190-20181112104654/@comment-31222592-20200612155714

The Archstone's description alone says

"In a swamp infested by poisonous and vile creatures lies a filth-encrusted valley. The poor journey to this rotten place to offer their souls so that they might be freed from their suffering."

So we can at least confirm there's still soul gathering going on in the valley. She's still feeding the Old One.

There's more suspicousness in the Valley. Why's all the Valley's people besides the old woman infected? The Valley was said to be made up of discarded people. If they were truly a dumping ground for the unwanted, why's there so few uninfected? Do people exclusively dump people with coincidentally the same disease, is everyone wanted now or do they become infected miliseconds in? The Filthy Woman being uninfected implies it's possible to live there uninfected (probably difficult but possible) so why's everyone there mostly infected? Did she cohere them to accept the infection (given the 5-3 ones worshiping her it might be this) or do the uninfected die quickly? Neither sounds good. Again, the Filthy Woman is evidence it's possible to survive uninfected before Astraea arrived. I think there's more to Maiden Astraea's story than she's saying.