Sylvian

The Old God of Love and Fertility. She has an important role and influence upon the world of Fear and Hunger.

In the latest patch, Version 1.3.0, Sylvian, or her traces, makes an appearance.

Lore
The Goddess of fertility, love, lust, and creation. She is one of the old deities worshipped by man, before man decided that they had enough of the old world order and wanted to supplant the Old Gods. Like Gro-Goroth, the god of human sacrifices, she comes from the green hue, the place where the Lady of Moon, possibly the Maneba, possibly the Pocketcat, the Trickster Moon God, and maybe even the God of the Depths come from.

She created men and women at the dawn of time, the creation of the world. Because of this, she could be seen as a Mother Goddess, the one that brought life to everyone in many ways, while Gro-Goroth, her opposite, brought death to everyone in many ways. A beautiful balance and duality one can say from reading about the two.

Sylvian wishes for men and women to make love in her name. But what kind of love she wants, is interpreted differently by everyone. Some take it literally and show love to each other in a form of marriage. But not just any marriage. A beautiful marriage of flesh or for three. A holy bond and 'beautiful unison for two souls' or three souls. Some form sex cults like the Bunnymasks in their hidden courtyard, having an orgy of sex with each other, to honor and to do it in the name of their Old Goddess, Sylvian.

The twisted realities of these different kinds of love is because Sylvian realized that the men and women she created would not be able to return the same amount of affection towards her as she does to them. Her love is a more twisted form... as shown by the example of the Marriage and the Abominable Marriage.

It is unknown when she has left the world, but it is known that she is the first of the Old Gods to have disappeared from the world, most likely followed by Gro-Goroth afterwards.

The Traces of Gro-Goroth reveal, after defeating it in battle, that the Old Gods the humans knew have left the world because of humanity's selfishness and ambition towards usurping their position, and that they understand nothing about the purity of the ideas the Old Gods have. But even if humans did have a glimpse at such an idea, they would not be able to comprehend it, as seen in Ending B...

Her symbol is the shape of an opened eye. In Fear and Hunger: Termina, her symbol has been changed and is now represented as a vertical slit. Could be interpreted as an eye, or a vagina.



Location
She is found in the Void, after exploring the area northwest of the starting location one starts in when entering the Void. Avoid the Blights. She is found guarding a bridge that leads to Le'garde. This only happens if you take too long to find Le'garde in the Void, around 10 minutes wandering northwest of the Void. Some indications of the fight being imminent are these text pop ups that indicate things are changing:

"Are you going in circles?"

"The landscape is merging..."

Strategy
Her tentacles can grab and stun party members, making it hard to solo. Best to find a few of your mates in the Void before going off to face this ancient creature. If you have failed to found them, or playing Hard-mode, make sure you learned Blood Golem and Demon Seed. The Demon Kid can be raised from corpse of Blight or even baby-Blight in this area. Stack some Empty Scrolls or spell-scrolls for Demon Kid. The 1-2 Soul of White Angel will be usefull too.

She has varied attacks, which can damage you or your Mind, making one lose mana quickly and nearly go insane from the fear. The Tumor randomly become the flesh-copy of any playable character, with it's personal attack.

There is also Coin-flip attack when copy is fully-grown.

She is vulnurable to poison and fire effects, but after inflicted, it is strongly reccomended to chop her primal tentacles.

Has high HP.