Interesting fictional characters that I have used/I am using as profile pictures here, part 2:
Messmer the Impaler (Elden Ring)
Messmer the Impaler is the character I've chosen for my profile picture for now.
His story is tragic, but it's a bit out of topic as there are not great parallels to Spiritual Satanist knowledge in it.
The reason why I chose him (other than he looks badass) is that his character design and themes are actually based on something we know very well: the Kundalini Serpent.
You can see 2 striking characteristic when looking at Sir Messmer: his 2 Winged Serpents and the fact that he can wield Fire. Obvious relation, fire and serpents → Kundalini, but there's more.
Let's not kid ourselves: of course there is some inspiration from the "christanity devil" in his design, this is not the first instance where Elden Ring does that, but I still think that the Kundalini references are very interesting since they're so obvious and direct. Also, Messmer is not an evil character, he did evil things and is presented as a villain in the trailer, but when you get to know the lore behind him he's just as morally grey and fucked up as literally any other character in a Souls game. These games typically don't have good/bad characters, except some very rare cases.
But this is not what I wanted to talk about anyway, even if I like this aspect of the games, so let's continue.
Messmer is a "boss" enemy, and as many other bosses do, he has a "phase transition" when you get him to half health.
In Souls games, once a boss changes phase (there's typically just 2), it almost always changes name in the UI.
In the first phase, Messmer is called "Messmer the Impaler", because he impaled his enemies, so a very shallow title, based only on outside evidence and public actions.
When you reach second phase, a cutscene plays out, and he says some lines, and some of them are very interesting:
Soon, Tarnished. ["Tarnished" is the title of the player character]
Wilt thou be taken in the jaws...
Of the Abyssal Serpent, shorn of light.
In the cutscene, before this lines, Messmer removes the fake golden eye (which was put there by his mother, out of topic) and we can see that inside him there's yet ANOTHER Serpent, coiled in his eye socket. This is what he looks like after this painful process:
I also forgot to mention: as he (and many other characters in Elden Ring) has one eye completely shut, and the other was fake, and now he has even removed it, we can assume he's basically blind.
Except one thing, when you enter his boss room, he looks at you through one of his Winged Serpents:
(I don't know if this might have some further parallels, I just thought it was cool to point out. Also, the snake is cute. I guess you could make a parallel between this and Odin removing His eye to gain Knowledge, Messmer removes his eye and frees the Kundalini, so raising the Kundalini is similar to gaining Knowledge, it is positive.)
Anyway, back to his second phase.
In this phase, Messmer in the UI is called in a most direct reference to the Kundalini: "Base Serpent Messmer".
Surely I don't need to explain it, "Base Serpent" is one word away from "Base Chakra Serpent", the Kundalini as in the current fallen state of Humanity.
So Messmer has actually 3 Serpents: 2 Winged Serpents and 1 Abyssal Serpent.
The main difference in the lore is that the 2 Winged Serpents are his loyal and benign companions, that help him to keep in check the malignant Abyssal Serpent.
Why "malignant" though? We already said that there is no good/bad in these games, right?
It's called malignant because it is considered so by the society in that universe, which is somewhat based off a christian society (monotheistic cult etc) and they really, really hate snakes.
So the game isn't really telling us that the Abyssal Snake is malignant, it's just telling us that society in that universe saw it as malignant and something to be hidden.
Further, I think that the 2 Winged Serpents might be a reference to Ida and Pingala.
So we have Ida, Pingala and the Kundalini all represented in this character.
In this phase, Messmer can do some attacks in "serpent form", truly displaying that the Abyssal Serpent is free and risen. He also summons a Fire Orb, further solidifying the relation between the Abyssal Serpent, the Serpent which stays in the Abyss, the lowest part, with Fire, the Base Chakra, which is also the lowest chakra.
While there may be nothing in Messmer's character that's as subsersive to the enemy control as the elements of Rudol von Stroheim, the previous character I've talked about, I still find him very interesting and cool, because the spiritual references are very much blunt and you can be sure this was at least partly intentional.
It feels good to see bits of spiritual knowledge surviving in one of the most significant and influential games of these last years, and the highest rated DLC of all time.
Even if most of our knowledge has been suppressed, it can't be forever and it will surface in the minds and souls of good creators, as we are working towards the full awakening of the Soul of Egypt, the Soul of Mankind.
Base Serpent Messmer is just one badass instance of this.