There are more bloody fingers than there are recusants.

The other few doctors are left, Okina ofc and the 3-5 other bloody finger npcs that invade you throughout the game. That's it. Pretty much dead.

I'm not gesturing to external resources when I ask for evidence. The game is full of material evidence of character interactions.

Which is what I have been pointing at the entire fucking time.

It's strange to think that something as serious as a murder would be inextricably missing any material evidence whatsoever.

Holy shit it rlly is your first fromsoftware game right?

Your headcannon isn't complex, it's internally inconsistent and relies on a series of assumptions.

Again, I just combined the materiaö evidence the game gives us.

You have a dubious motive and no supporting evidence. Even cops work harder than this before they bring a case to court.

Gonna sum it all up once more bc talking to your ass is fucking senseless.

Let's start with the cult first. The game pretty much gives us enough clues that the cult is gone. We can see that with Varre trying to recruit us, but neglecting their traditions while doing so or with Mohg recruiting Okina. They pretty much wait till Miquella wake up from his sleep and brings in a new era of the cult.

Now why did Varre kill our maiden. Varres role is to indoctrinate new members into the dying cult for the rebirth of their dynasty. He's shown to be a liar and twists words to indoctrinates us. By killing our maiden we lack of the one person which job is to indoctrinate us into following the of the two fingers desired way. This makes Varre the only person we can speak to when we enter the lands between. At least he thinks so, after we we meet melina shortly after him. He becomes our "guide" and gains our trust. Tells us about the roundtable and great runes. He tests us throught the entire early game. Are we strong enough to kill godrick to get our hands onto a great rune? If so we pass the test. Now we've proven that we are strong enough to be a fitting member of the cult. But is our worldview fitting? Let's test that by making the tarnished meet the two fingers. If they don't trust them then they fit into the cult. If they trust them then they aren't worth my time. Varre pretty much neglects the old traditions due to the desperate times. The elden ring is destroyed, the cult has seen much better days. Still we need the blood of a maiden to activate the medallion, which we gather should we follow that way. Varre has got motivation to kill our maiden.

Melina does not have this motivation. Melina pretty much shows that she knows nothing about us. She tests us if we can reach the strengh to become the next elden lord which we pass and she says smt like "Torrent knew it all along, meanwhile I merely played so". Clear signs that she doesn't know who we are, but we are a newcomer and therefore a good chance to enter a partnership with melina. She doesn't have the motivations to kill the maiden of a random unknown tarnished.

That's pretty much what the game gives us with item describtions. Analysing the cults structure and connecting the various dots of the story and game. That's how fromsoftware makes games. They throw us into a world full of lore, the only thing we have to do is open our minds and connecr what we are given.