Are the eyes the window to the soul?

TLDR: Are eyes the window to the soul? We collect runes from skulls with glowing eyes, but we only collect one rune. Your rune is your mind’s eye.

I was watching u/NamelessSinger latest video connecting runes to stars, when she showed a very interesting detail, that the original primeval glintstone sorcerers have a moon talisman marking their third eye.

Both sorcerers are some of the many blind characters we see, yet this talisman is an indication that they considered their third eye open. Azur’s cranium has been replaced by glintstone from what he glimpsed in the primeval current.

But Master Lusat’s head has been replaced by a massive eye. The eye is seemingly alive, it follows you where you move, and it bears a striking resemblance to a bane of the Carians, Astel.

Astel only bears the resemblance of a skull, with two empty eye sockets sitting beneath a massive mind’s eye peering ominously at you through a crack in its skull. Through this crack we can maybe find the answer for why there are so many blind characters in the game.

We have two prophets, Brother Corhyn and Hyetta who act as finger readers, interpreting the movement of the fingers. Both are granted instant recognition of the movement of the fingers almost as if they were listening to your conversation. I used to think that was just it, that they were just listening to the movements. But what if they could perceive the movements with their mind’s eye fully open?

The player is encouraged to feed Hyetta eyeballs in order to grow her perception of the three fingers, adding to her runes in her mind’s eye. She describes this as a warmth behind her eyes. In fact when the player, and later Midra subcumb to frenzy, we see the source of this warmth, the bright flames erupting from the mind’s eye in the shape of a rune.

We also have roughly four, maybe five full god that we meet over the course of the game. Marika is regularly pictured with her eyes covered, and where they are not, even the earliest depictions show her eyes ruined or removed. In fact we find both of Marika’s and Radagon’s eyes throughout the game.

Malenia also reveals she has no eyes when she ascends to godhood, her eyes having been ruined by the scarlet rot. Miquella too has both eyes closed when we meet him as a god, having cast away his very eye, as Ansbach put it.

Yet despite not having eyes, both Radagon and Malenia have no trouble reading and reacting to the player’s movements. It’s like they can see what the player will do before they do it.

The demigods, however, all have one eye closed, a possible symbol of their half divinity. In fact when Messmer plucks out the eye sealing the abyssal serpent god, going from one sealed eye to no eyes open, the sound emitted sounds like a rune being crushed.

We know that the language of the greater will is the language of light. What if the eye’s act as the window to the soul? The light that enters the eye collects as an imprint on the back of the retina, resolved into one image in the minds eye.

Thanks again to the Nameless Singer for her research and discussion that prompted this theory, please watch her latest video here:

Runes are Stars - https://youtu.be/HNHZSa9KCzI