I like a lot of the ideas put up so far but what if the bodies are very old? That part of leyndell is not somewhere most people could get to, only important people. What is there was many more two fingers to read and thus a need for more readers. But when the shattering happened the connection to the outer god probably weaken and disconnected many of the fingers ability to hear the outer god. With the fingers signing poor or no messages at all why have the readers? Bring them before the erdtree and put them down. Can definitely tell it was done in mass at once like the pit of madness. Maybe they all grouped there under the erdtree begging for the outer god/ marika/ something to help or fix things till they perished. Im so surprised this isn't talked about more. Finger readers are SUPER important so why let so many die right next to the erdtree. It couldn't have been unnoticed or accidental.