by NamelessSinger It has been well discussed thus far by the community that Malenia’s mentor was a blind swordsman with a flowing blade who sealed away the God of Rot, and also taught her the Waterfowl Dance. He apparently had a mentor as well that gave him his sword, mentioned in the Blue Dancer Charm. So who was she? Let’s talk about water. The blind swordsman’s blade was the Flowing Curved Sword, which was “patterned after flowing water.” The blind swordsman is mentioned again in the Curved Sword Talisman, where we get a picture of a warrior wearing a Blue Cloth Cowl, likely his depiction. The description of the Blue Cloth Cowl says “The blue color of its fabric symbolizes brisk waters, as fluid and flowing as the sword in the hand of its wearer. Just as still waters turn foul, stagnation leads to decay. Warriors must remain ever drifting.” One, the key to fighting Rot is to keep moving like flowing waters. Still water stagnates, flowing water doesn’t. Two, the blue color of the fabric symbolizes brisk waters. Blue == flowing water. Blue Dancer Charm says the “dancer in blue represents a fairy” and it was she who bestowed the flowing water sword upon the blind swordsman. The Blue Dancer is a fairy. Rewording this: the blind swordsman was bestowed his sword by a fairy. And this sword is patterned after flowing water. “Siofra” (pronounced SHEE-fra) means “fairy” in Old Irish. Blue Dancer Fairy == Flowing Siofra River. Siofra, whoever she may be, gave the blind swordsman his flowing blade. Perhaps she is the spirit of the river, or some outer god from long ago, or maybe this is just a legend and he literally found the sword in the Siofra River. Many Nox swords are curved & flowing blades. We know the blind swordsman hung out underground because he sealed away the God of Rot down there. Now that I’m thinking about it, there are a lot of waterfalls down there. And the Lake of Rot is _really_ big. Maybe he just flooded the whole damn place. Maybe that's why flowing waters are so good at getting rid of Rot. Edit 1: More evidence for the connection of "river" to "fairy": this [etymology post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/ty2oci/etymology_and_meanings_of_place_names_in_elden/) points out that Ainsel (_ain sel_) is Scottish for "(my) own self". There is also a [fairytale](https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type1137fairy.html#richardson) wherein a fairy calls herself "Ainsel" ([wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Own_Self)). So maybe we have twin fairies? #reddit