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The Candlelit Lady is Devara, or at least one of her servants.
- Not much solid evidence to support this one, but they do have a number of similarities. They are both female, associated with light and forgiveness, and the Candlelit Lady can cleanse players of the corruption caused by the items of the Order of the Betrayer covenant, who are enemies of Devara.
The Candlelit Lady is the one who drags you back to the sanctuaries.
Being a Being of Candlelight, she can easily sidestep the Nameless Gods power, she never fell for whatever trap Nameless used to kill the other Gods because she is used to it, if, like the above WMG said, she is Devara, her brother is literally the God of Betrayal, as for why she takes your gold? she doesn't, it's one of the NPCs, they just claim she did. Salt and Sacrifice will let you pick the world's backstory loosely based on the events of Salt and Sanctuary
Place theories here:- In one ending, the player character of Salt and Sacrifice becomes a warlord, a king, and eventually, an Emperor. They found the Order of the Alkali, an international guild dedicated to studying the interactions between Salt and Candlelit souls. Centuries later their work goes horribly wrong, and the mages are twisted into horrid monstrosities by the resulting abomination.
- In another ending, the player character seizes power and becomes a tyrant, effortlessly conquering the entire world. Upon realizing that the gods no longer protect them, mortals across the world frantically pray to an imaginary god to save them.Except this is the Salt Lord's plan all along, allowing them to create a Candlelit god with the memories and personality of the Salt Lord. Whether or not they succeed, the resulting abomination grants its powers to its corrupt followers, the Mages, beginning an endless war where both sides are forced to worship it.
- In another ending, an explorer of the island finds the powerful Candlelit souls of the gods, unprotected with the death of the final boss of Sanctuary, and attempts to consume them. This ends badly.
- in another ending, the death of the Final Boss of sanctuary inadvertently realigns the balance of power, as there is no longer a Nameless God to weed out any newborn gods who are more twisted than he is. The ensuing God War births an abomination that mutates the unfortunate mages who were busy casting at the time.
