Posted: 17 Nov 2005
>Ascends to the ghostly state through completing the first section of the rite.
Which, in order to do so, Walter must kill himself. Thus: suicide. And there very much is an innocent side to Walter: Read the newspaper, and what he shouts out as he's arrested.
Walter is taking the role as executioner for the Ritual of the Holy Assumption, and the first eleven victims are deserving of judgment. We know that Valtiel was placed within Walter's consciousness, so who better to take the role of an executioner than the executioner: Valtiel.
>Corpse is buried in the forest cemetary.
In order to perform the Ritual of the Holy Assumption, Walter required the necessary books & articles, as well as the Blood of the Ten Sinners. How, exactly, do you suppose he managed to sneak ten hearts, the Obsidian Goblet, the white chrism, & the cult's Bible into a prison cell?
Secondly: The Ritual of the Holy Assumption is performed in room 302, days after his Innocent's body is buried outside of Wish House. Walter needed his entire soul--both souls, if you will--for the ritual's success, so he deracinated the Innocent's corpse and took it to room 302. Frank Sunderland even saw Walter carrying "something heavy" and a "bag dripping with blood" into the then-vacant room 302: Walter is carrying his own body & the Ten Hearts.
Which, in order to do so, Walter must kill himself. Thus: suicide. And there very much is an innocent side to Walter: Read the newspaper, and what he shouts out as he's arrested.
Walter is taking the role as executioner for the Ritual of the Holy Assumption, and the first eleven victims are deserving of judgment. We know that Valtiel was placed within Walter's consciousness, so who better to take the role of an executioner than the executioner: Valtiel.
>Corpse is buried in the forest cemetary.
In order to perform the Ritual of the Holy Assumption, Walter required the necessary books & articles, as well as the Blood of the Ten Sinners. How, exactly, do you suppose he managed to sneak ten hearts, the Obsidian Goblet, the white chrism, & the cult's Bible into a prison cell?
Secondly: The Ritual of the Holy Assumption is performed in room 302, days after his Innocent's body is buried outside of Wish House. Walter needed his entire soul--both souls, if you will--for the ritual's success, so he deracinated the Innocent's corpse and took it to room 302. Frank Sunderland even saw Walter carrying "something heavy" and a "bag dripping with blood" into the then-vacant room 302: Walter is carrying his own body & the Ten Hearts.