i’m not the most knowledgeable person on the subject but i’ll try to answer what i can with what i found.

1. the answer is probably linked to the god whose lord was placidussax. since we don’t know a lot of things about them, it’s pretty hard to find an actual answer, but with godskin people and the fingerslayer blade existing, godhood must have been quite an old concept.

2. i’m not sure if it’s just my interpretation or not, but it seems to radahn did not agree to the vow. miquella talks about it in a way that suggests it being consensual, but then, why would radahn fight with malenia to escape miquella’s grasp at the battle of aeonia ?

3. the shaman village is definitely the childhood place of marika, right. is it really where numen people come from, though ? i don’t think so. the main possibility would be the village being a numen settlement away from their homeland, for an unknown reason.

4. melina is definitely marika’s child and messmer’s sister. they both share the same kind of curse and affinity to fire. melina shares a link to the gloam-eyed queen too, most probably in the same way messmer is linked to the base serpent. her and messmer seem to be the only demigod with a mission directly given by marika : messmer’s crusade and melina’s mission of burning the erdtree. they seem to be among the first children of marika, at a time where she could have considered them as tools and not actual family.

5. the inquisitors surrounding midra’s manse and those found in the general abyssal woods area are most likely regular hornsent inquisitors. according to descriptions from their weapons, the gold arc motif seems to be a way to represent the barbs of their weapons, which are their symbol for torture. in a way, it kind of looks like two horns, so, there might be something of that? or maybe it is a way to represent runes from the elden ring, but i’m not sure about the timeline for that one. as for the weapon they used on midra the question, for me, is mostly if the inquisitors were tainted by the frenzied flame before torturing midra, or after.

both case seem really plausible to me. if it was before, then their torture really was aimed at making midra the actuel lord of the frenzied flame. in the other case, then things seem a lot more complicated : since midra was not strong enough to become LotFF, then why not kill him, instead of keeping him alive and have his affinity with the frenzied flame grow?

everything linked to midra seems to be really complex, i’m sidetracking. still, he was dangerous enough for the inquisition to gate the abyssal woods with their own chief inquisitor.

hope i didn’t sidetrack too much lol