I've been thinking about who the Prisoner from the Path of Exile 2 - Act 4's Solitary Confinement area might be and came up with a few interesting ideas.

The first thing to consider is the most direct information we have.

The Prisoner's Manacles

>Only once did Maligaro wonder if he'd gone too far.
His greatest success took three entire legions to capture.

I'd love your input on this, because I'm far from certain, but I personally think this places Maligaro's experimentation on the Prisoner after Chitus became the Emperor and Izaro was imprisoned.

My reasoning is that Maligaro was Malachai's apprentice.
Neither Malachai or Maligaro would have been the type of person Izaro would employ in his later years considering his return to Azmerian roots and their penchant for thaumaturgy.
Also, Maligaro's Chamber of Sins was made after Chitus became the Emperor.
Would Maligaro's greatest success really come before the Chamber of Sins?

That makes me wonder if the Prisoner was truly imprisoned by Izaro or if that was just one more lie from Chitus.

>By the order of Emperor Izaro, my honoured predecessor, None may enter this chamber. The prisoner within is beyond death, beyond force of arms. He must be left to rot for all time.
- Emperor Chitus Perandus

The way Chitus speaks of Izaro in this environmental lore is particularly suspicious considering his true feelings about Izaro and his legacy.

Though the Prisoner curses Izaro for betraying him, it's possible that it's not directly tied to his imprisonment and his current physical form.

I think the following points are very likely:

1. Izaro and the Prisoner had some interaction that left the Prisoner feeling betrayed prior to Chitus becoming the Emperor
2. The Prisoner was experimented on by Maligaro after Izaro was sealed in the Lord's Labyrinth and Chitus became the Emperor
3. The Prisoner was imprisoned after being captured by Chitus' legions following Maligaro's experiment
4. Chitus lied about Izaro requesting the imprisonment in order to hide the true story behind the Prisoner and make sure nobody enters his cell
5. The Prisoner wasn't imprisoned by Izaro

This leads me to question the link between the Prisoner, Izaro and Chitus.

The only thing that I can personally think of when it comes to Izaro betraying someone is related to the Labyrinth and the title of Emperor.

Izaro in his later years was one track minded, all he cared about was finding the perfect heir.

What if the Prisoner cleared the Labyrinth before anyone else but wasn't given the promised title?

That would explain Izaro's betrayal.

It would also explain the following line:

>Not even Izaro's best could kill me...

Though it'd be easy to interpret "Izaro's best" as simply being his pawns/soldiers, one could also interpret Izaro's best as being the Lord's Labyrinth itself.
His penultimate achievement and the tool to his singular goal, finding the perfect heir for the throne through the revival of ancient Azmerian traditions.

When the Prisoner mentions that not even Izaro's best could kill him, he might be saying that the Labyrinth's traps, monsters and Izaro himself (as someone you must fight to ascend the Labyrinth) couldn't stop him.

This would explain why Chitus didn't want anyone to enter the Prisoner's cell, what he'd gain from imprisoning him and why he'd use Izaro's name (and lie about his "honoured predecessor") in order to dissuade anyone from interacting with the Prisoner.
After all, who gains the most by having the rightful Emperor imprisoned and isolated but Chitus himself.

Though it could be a character we haven't heard of yet, I'm thinking it could also be Weylin, the Son of Ezomyr.

The Labyrinth Poems put a lot of emphasis on Weylin being the rightful heir by calling him a Warrior and Chitus merely being a guide.

This is a dynamic we see in the Trial of Sekhemas where Balbala mentions how aspiring Sekhemas are led through the Trial by a Djinn. In fact, the Trial can't begin without a Djinn Barya (Djinn Coin) which contains the bound soul of a Djinn.

Obviously, there are issues with this:

1. Weylin is supposedly dead or left for dead in the Labyrinth
2. It is Chitus that betrayed Weylin, not Izaro

I don't think Weylin's death is a particularly major obstacle, since experimenting on the dead is far from a foreign concept in Path of Exile.

In fact, Static Electricity might imply Maligaro made such experiments.

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And considering virtue gems are known to absorb souls, what stops them from giving them back?
The Baleful Gem and Maligaro's Spike combo could have been initially used for such purpose.
For example, it would be fitting that spiking the heart with a "virtue gem" could be used to revive someone, corrupting them in the process and potentially making them pseudo-immortal or just very hard to kill...

This means Weylin could have been brought back to life by Maligaro's experiment and his body changed in the process. Unable to terminate him, Chitus had to imprison him to make sure he couldn't speak of his betrayal and weaken his claim to the throne.

Chitus' wording is also very interesting.

>The prisoner within is beyond death

Those words would be particularly fitting for someone who was dead, brought back to life and then became seemingly unkillable.

Now when it comes to the Prisoner mentioning Izaro as a traitor.
It would likely make more sense to be mad at Chitus, but in the end, it is Izaro that gave Chitus the title, even though it was Weylin that beat the Labyrinth.
This is more than a good enough reason to consider Izaro a traitor, but also a good way for GGG to obfuscate the Prisoner's identity and keep things mysterious, because had he called Chitus a traitor, it would have likely made his identity way more obvious and the whole plotline less interesting overall.

Anyway, this is where I'm at.
I'm far from convinced about the Weylin bit since there's a lot of speculation involved but I think that the Prisoner being the rightful Emperor makes a lot of sense when it comes to Izaro's betrayal and Chitus incentive to keep him imprisoned and isolated (the area literally being called solitary confinement) and play along with Izaro's legacy and name.

I'm curious what other ideas y'all might have when it comes to his identity.
This was a bit of random thought that just crossed my mind this morning so I haven't researched it nearly as much as I usually do so if you have any supporting or contradicting lore/evidence I'd love if you could share it 👀

The flavour text is laid out on the wiki, so I'm not gonna copy it to this post.

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Cursed Ducats

Ducat of Tsoatha's Gift (drops from Velka)

>Saresh (possibly not in game)
I know what lurks in the heart of man... the seed of darkness within us all.

The only Cursed Ducat that can drop without already having one active.

Might this "dark truth" be the same one that Saresh claims to see in humanity? Does the same force relate both to undeath and to siren transformation?

Ducat of the Undead Sea (drops from Offering of the Drowned)

>Captain Fairgraves: Banish any thoughts of using [the Allflame] for yourself. It would burn you alive.

It seems the Allflame attracts the living, but burns their flesh, and then chases them away when they turn undead. But does the Allflame itself cause undeath, or is that just the ambient effect of the Well of Souls in Wraeclast?

Despite wielding the Horns of Kulemak, Catarina wields spring🦚 green Allflame-coloured magic - only the Abyssals themselves use lime🍋‍🟩 green magic. Perhaps the Allflame has the power to cause true resurrection, but needs to be wielded carefully to not just take the life force from whomever it touches.

Ducat of the Grasping Deep (drops from octopus Filthscrabble)

>Lilly Roth
No sooner had the others turned in fear from the great, white Leviathan, did Weylam load the ballista with his final harpoon. And right then he vowed, to sea and sky, that he and he alone would be the one to finally kill this bastard son of the Brine King.

This "Leviathan" was apparently a cephalopod, so the one that was "wed" by Brinehook probably was too.

The Leviathan that Weylam fought was white like Filthscrabble, so these leviathans are probably also Wriggling Horror monsters.

Ducat of the Fallen Stars (drops from starfish monsters)

>Medved
They built a temple... around the mirror...
Under the earth... to hide from the night sky...

The name, image and drop source all involve stars or starfish. Do POE starfish (Hungry Maws) originate from the stars?

• Starfish are especially prevalent in the "Sea Pillars" destination, which holds Primeval architecture. The Primevals supposedly built a shrine around Uhtred's mirror (in POE1, anyway) to hide it from the stars...
• Pop facts: Starfish are neither vertebrates🐟🐕, arthropods🦀🕷️, nor molluscs🦪🐙, but belong to a separate taxon called the echinoderms. Echinoderms have discarded bilateral symmetry, and none of them have heads or brains.

The flavour text seems rather unrelated and mentions a "siren's song", probably from another Tsoagoth siren. But unlike Merveil and Diamora, this siren is picky... Is it possible that Kishara was actually this siren? She could in theory have killed her suitors or prevented them from seeing any inhuman body parts she might've had.

• On the other hand, we have seen Atziri naked, and she seems to have a fully human body.

Ducat of the Eucarid Isle (drops from crab Captainsbane)

Eucharida is a taxon of crustaceans; not to be confused with the Eucharist.

• But to Tsoagoth-worshippers, they could be the same thing.

Ducat of the Foul Kin (drops from general monsters)

Probably just more Tsoagoth procreation.

Might the Kinfolk of the Isle of Kin also be descendants of Tsoagoth? They don't seem to have any traits from sea creatures, though.

Theorizing

>Brinehook's Ducat
Brinehook Vex inspired the Brinerot name. He fought the sea. Sailed with gods. Drank with heroes. Wed a dozen wives, and the Leviathan, too.

>Sin on "Tsoagoth"
When I first met Tsoagoth, he was a seafaring chieftain, the beloved leader of a prosperous and sprawling fisher tribe. It was the curse of legacy that made him into the blasphemous Brine King. An endless madness of propagation and disappointment. All in the vain hope of recreating himself.
Fishwife after fishwife he took, and every one of them spawned a monster. A truly noble king would have surrendered his kingdom to cleaner blood. Alas, although Tsoagoth had many fine qualities, generosity was not one of them.

>The Teardrop
"T'gnagn iia y r'ngusla ph'tu Tsoatha nga mekghul'an."
- Indecipherable verse

Might Brinehook Vex have become Tsoagoth? They were both ancient sailors who took a lot of wives.

I haven't seen the place myself, but the wiki claims that the "Eldritch Depths" destination has Eater of Worlds influence. Was Tsoagoth empowered by The Tangle? That would explain why is he counted as a Major Pantheon God despite seeming to have few worshippers. And The Teardrop already tied him to cosmic horror.

• Brinehook's Ducat has a descry on it, a symbol that Innocence seemingly stole from the Searing Exarch. If Brinehook is Tsoagoth, then he may have realized this and gone looking for a different eldritch entity to empower him.

Think about it: Zana feels like she failed her father, and the best way she can do that is by giving him a better chance at life, free from the Templars.

What if she used the Atlas' abilities to make a copy of him when he was young, and moved that memory into reality. She sponsored the family raising him and made boundaries to make sure he doesn't know of his Caeserius lineage. Even the maids lines "Valdo's favorites" could mean "Eagon's favorites" and her babbling caused her to disappear. To keep him away from the Atlas.

Even the environmental lore fits: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Aberration

Zana feels foolish about underestimating him, that she knows he could take up this path, and would do so without her blocking him.

Eagon himself feels like he's at least as good as his father, he feels attracted to the Atlas, and his potential. He doesn't feel an attachment to his father, just jealously? envy? competition? Meanwhile he loves Zana deeply, for no explicable reason. Why the difference if both are family? (Although it might stem from just the abandonment part)

It explains why Eagon is so out of place, why he has such a strong grip on memories & the atlas despite being disconnected from it for so long, and why he cares so much for Zana and saving her. Valdo himself never once mentions Eagon, just Zana & his wife, because he never knew Eagon, he is Eagon.

With rumours that we will get 3.30 this year (which means it's early November unless they delayed Path of Exile 2 release).

And with confirmation that 3.30 will be big revamp of endgame.

It seems that Atlas indeed will be destroyed, but what will it mean in gameplay? There would be a new system as devs confirmed that PoE1 will still be developed after PoE2 release.

Will they port PoE2 Atlas? Will they just remove Atlas and get back to pre-3.4 times where you can run maps without any global map? Will maps still exists?

Will Atlas tree fracture and we will get Atlas trees for every mechanic (like PoE2 did before)?

Very curious about the bodach. Really hope we get more lore on its ancient origins.

The Brinerot Warband

>Kalandra on Warbands content
Intro: They have struggled for generations, but have forgotten why.
Outro: Vengeance is a closed loop.

The Brinerot Pirates were introduced way back in Warbands league along with the volcano-worshipping Redblades, mountain racists Mutewind, and poison maniac Renegades.

Brinehook Vex was a badass adventuring sailor who lived during the Age of the Gods. He was not of the Brinerots, but became an inspiration to them and their name.

• The word "brine" just means "salt water" - a fitting name for a sailor - but I wonder if he could be the mortal identity of Brine King Tsoagoth. His ducat also drops in the "Brine King's Domain" chart destination.
• His ducat has a descry on it - which could just be a souvenir - but I also see a chance that he could be another identity of Maxarius-Innocence.

Kishara was a Vaal sailor who got in trouble with Atziri after returning from a journey to Middengard. She searched the seas for a worthy husband, but doesn't seem to ever find one. She did however have seventeen children with the men she rejected. These children formed the Brinerot Warband.

The POE2 Sorceress believes that Kishara was Maraketh, so she may have joined those after the Fall of the Vaal.

>Doryani on "The Eztli Pilli" (extract)
Ranger: [Alva]'s not going to change just because you wish it.
Doryani: I would never demean a lady of the Vaal by asking her to diminish herself. [...]

• Atziri, Kishara, Alva Valai... Judging from Doryani's words, it seems the Vaal were hoping to one day find a new Goddess (of Lust) to replace their god-queen Arakaali. The Maraketh and Azmeri were lucky to have Garukhan and Viridi be their final chief gods.

Lussi "Rotmother" Roth is the current leader of the Brinerot pirates. She took the post from her brother Weylam (an NPC in poe1act6) and left him on an island. She has made the Brinerot a lot more ruthless than they used to be.

Velka, the Tide Witch is a powerful Brinerot pirate who has crab limbs growing out of her back, and intends to use the Allflame to resurrect Kishara to lead the Brinerots instead of Lussi. She apparently sabotaged Captain Fairgraves in hopes of obtaining his piece of Allflame.

Tsoatha

>Coursing Current Support
Velka reached out her hand. One touch and she
folded, screaming, clawing desperately at her back
as the crustaceous gift burst itself from her spine.

>Pearl of Tsoatha
"Velka was a mere pirate when she ventured to Tsoatha,
a reverence for the Brine King burning in her heart.
She returned as something different. Something more.
So the legend of the Tide Witch is told."

Tsoatha is the mythic palace of god Tsoagoth, the Brine King, creator of the Sirens. It sounds as if Velka was hypnotised and transformed by him, possibly as an overreaction from touching one of those Altars of the Deep ("Offer Tsoatha's Fodder", etc.). I don't know if this is supposed to fit in with Tsoagoth rising in the POE1 campaign, or if he was able to "bless" her while asleep.

Undeath and Allflame

>Vesper on "The Allflame"
You see some of the light of that shite, but you don't see all of it. There's a... pit... or a... big ol' hole... I don't know what to call it. It's down, further than you can fathom. It's filled with all sorts of terrors, shadowed so I can't see 'em, a sea-vortex of deathly light... and it doesn't belong to us. But the Allflame... it does. It's ours. And it's growing. They're not the same colour... the light of that pit and the light of the Allflame... close, but not the same. I have no idea what that means, but it's not scary. It's... hungry... it's... grinning...

>Allflame (poe1act1 quest item)
Distilled from naked ambition and unfettered obsession,
the Allflame emanates a silvern warmth like no other,
and engulfs those moths fool enough to embrace it.

>Subsume the Source
A lich may lust for vengeance, power,
darkness, or dominion, but it is their
nature. They can never be satisfied.

Vesper also compares the Allflame to undeath, but notes that it is different from the energies of the Abyssals - Its colour is different (spring green rather than lime green) and it is more human in nature.

• One could probably do some analysis of the green colours used in various places, but I wonder how reliable it is, especially in POE1.

The Abyssal light is apparently desecrated somehow. Perhaps it contains animal souls or corruption, or perhaps it lacks positive emotions; Vesper describes the Allflame as "grinning" whereas the Abyssals seem to only possess desire and never any associated joy or satisfaction.

There's not much elaboration on how the Allflame actually works.

• Where does it come from?
• Is it fueled by Dead Man's Sulphur, or does it merely manipulate it?
• Why is it associated with the sea? Does the Spirit or other entity take the energies of those who die on land?
• Is it human soul stuff that hasn't been desecrated by the Abyssals, or is it Abyssal energy that has regained its human aspects?
• Why can it replace water with air and manipulate currency items?

On the seafloor, there are altars to the Goddess of Justice, patron god of Izaro Phrecia. In the Izaro fight her green spirit summons skeletons and she may also be responsible for animating Izaro to begin with. Representing justice, she may be tasked with judging the dead and thus hold some power over them?

The Goddess of Justice is depicted differently from how Viridi is in Caer Tarth, but she does share her colour with the "Mhacha" spirit that represents Viridi. Instead of Viridi, she could also be Thruldana, a god/goddess who represented tormented spirits in Necropolis league.

Both ducat and barya are types of coin that in POE are associated with undeath. This is probably a reference to paying Charon to ferry people to the world of the dead.

Allflame-crafting could be related to djinn wish-granting (as seen in poe2interlude2 and Mirage league), given that both rely on the spirits of the dead. In Mirage, Zarokh was supposedly trying to use djinns to fuse his timeline with one where he was already free, and Allflame-crafting also involves picking the desired result rather than actively altering anything. The Gravecrafting of Necropolis could also be related to djinn wish-granting.

>Undying Hate (POE2 Timeless Jewel)
They believed themselves driven by necessity,
but that desperation made them monstrous.
Destructive Aspiration (Amanamu)
He lusts for a crown and a scepter,
but he destroys all he touches.
Extinguishing Grasp (Ulaman)
He lusts for the Fall of Night,
but it will cost him everything.
Baleful Dominion (Kurgal)
He lusts for power over his former
slavers, but he will never be free.
Festering Vengeance (Tecrod)
He lusts for retribution, but his
captors are long since dust.
Reclaimed Malevolence (Zaroth)
He who was made has but one desire: inflict his
malady upon the Boundless Cavern above.

Whereas the Timeless Jewels have flavour text starting with "They believed themselves", the Historic eye jewels all deal with desire and future. The first five Timeless Jewels come from Legion which has the opposite colour to the Abyssals and is an "archive" of past warriors. There seems to be some theme going on with the circle of colours and the cycle of time.

Notes for specific jewels:

• So the Fall of Night will apparently be the end of the liches... I suspect it will replace the Abyssals with the Scourge given how scourged worlds also have fissures and pits, but ones covered by grating.
• Tecrod is maligned by the other Abyssals, but the Precursors are apparently his true enemies. I wonder if his title of "Hated Slave" is how the Abyssals or Precursors saw him. (See Tecrod's Gaze of POE1 and of POE2.)
• Zaroth combines the powers of the other liches as evidenced by his eye jewel and by how he's covered in their individual symbols. But his jewel is called Reclaimed Malevolence, so perhaps he is actually the origin of the power of Tecrod and the three Lich Lords.

>Spinesnatch
"Not all the Abyssals serve the Lich Lords.
Some serve themselves, living off stolen
flesh and bone from those they... eat."

Have we seen an example of a rogue Abyssal lich? (Apart from the Witch subclass.)

Chart destinations

Each of the Chart base types has one normal destination and four or more unique ones. The wiki shows them here, but there seems to be some inaccuracies, and a lack of lore details.

(I'm not playing, and haven't found footage of many of these, so please tell me your observations.)

base	name	contents
Sandy Seabed	Abyssal Plain	(normal)
Sandy Seabed	Anchorfield	Anchors and Sunken Loot
Sandy Seabed	Hazardous Depths	(?)
Sandy Seabed	Infested Bathyspheres	(?)
Sandy Seabed	Kishara's Rest	Velka boss fight
Sandy Seabed	Unremarkable Seabed	(?)
Coral Forest	Undersea Groves	(normal)
Coral Forest	Eldritch Depths	(?)
Coral Forest	Lost Ruins	Vaal Vessels and other bits of Vaal ruins
Coral Forest	Pelagic Abyss	Water-filled Abyss pit
Coral Forest	Sea Pillars	Many starfish, and hexagonal pillars of Primeval design
Coral Reef	Seafloor Ridges	(normal)
Coral Reef	Brine King's Domain	(?)
Coral Reef	Clam-infested Shelf	Many Treasure Clams
Coral Reef	Diving Shoals	Trarthan presence: Cyaxan coin and Azadin divers
Coral Reef	Sunken Totems	(?)

Notes:

• Abyssal plain is a scientific term and "abyss" simply means "bottomless". Outside of the Pelagic Abyss destination, the Abyssals are not present.
• The Primeval and Vaal areas may have been submerged by Tsoagoth, whether in ages past or during POE1.

The Unblinking Eye

>The Unblinking Eye
The High Templar sought sight beyond the mortal plane.
He feared no pain but that of touching greatness,
only to let it slip through his grasp.

The Unblinking Eye is an organisation that sent a force to fight the Arbiter of Ash, and their champion is described by the armour pieces dropped by the Arbiter. This new item implies that they were a Templar faction, as also suggested by the descry on Morior Invictus and the Latin names of the armour pieces.

• (In POE, Latin originates from descry-fearing refugees who became part of the cult of Innocence.)

The item's flavour text suggest that the Eye being Unblinking refers to the curiosity and ambition of the High Templar that founded it.

• See this comment thread for an analysis of all their uniques, and another idea of why the Eye is Unblinking.

>Winged Breach Scarab (retired)
The Master Researcher's final commandment has failed. The High Templar has seen the truth of our situation, and the world will be undone by his fear.

The High Templar in question may be the same one who discovered the Breach world despite the efforts of the Order of the Djinn.

In POE2 versions 0.1-0.2, the endgame took place in the distant past, suggesting that an early High Templar sent the Unblinking Eye to fight the Arbiter, but now it takes place in modern times, making any High Templar a valid possibility as its founder.

Being a Shaper unique suggests that it was Cavas Venarius, and we know that Venarius knew of the horrors of the cosmos, but not if he discovered them or simply inherited the knowledge from his predecessor. I think that even the first High Templar Maxarius could conceivably have founded the Unblinking Eye.

Miscellaneous

>Valerie on "The Sovereign"
There was this... place. Underground, they had this maze. Clankers, gears, tubes all over. Big buckets o' green, the size of a house. I crept about, saw bodies piled, prisoners in cages. It wasn't the Templars, but they did work for the bastards. They were trying things... on people. Building things with pain and misery. Treatin' it all like learnin'. I've slit a few throats in my time, but always for a reason. This was just... to find out what would happen.
The Sovereign wasn't the only ship they were buildin' in that rotten pit, and Vesper wasn't the only poor soul they ripped apart and crammed in their tubes. But I burned the others – may they sail with Brinehook for all time – and escaped with this one, because I couldn't let Vesper go out like that...
That'd be too easy. He still owes me.

>Valerie on "The Sovereign's Builders"
I couldn't tell ya who they were. Grim sorts. Masks, usually. To make my escape with the Sovereign, I tied one up and beat him bloody for hours, 'til he told me what I needed to know. Little shite actually cried, can you believe that? Torturing countless lost souls, has the nerve to cry when it's his turn. Mighta soiled himself, too... he was wearing a long black coat, with this weird gold thing on the front, like four... tusks, but curled inwards, toward a little gold contraption. Damned strangest thing I've ever seen. Think it kept him alive, when he shoulda died... I certainly tried.

This Templar project was probably related to either the Heist Templars (who made Replica uniques and Experimented bases) or to Octavius' experiments (Metamorph and the Foundry Map).

The coat with the gold contraption may be some version of The Covenant unique body armour.

Highlighted Message in a Bottle messages:

• Broken Mirror of Kalandra - Had enough bad luck for one lifetime.
  • Sounds like a sailor broke this, but perhaps it's actually a hint that Kalandra is already trying to fracture her Lake at this point in time.
• Reflecting Mist - Remember this well: the mist reflects all. But reflection is not truth.
• Random unique ring - I wanted his ring. He wouldn't yield it... so I took his finger too.
  • Perhaps a reference to Thief's Torment.
• Replica Dragonfang's Flight - Gave this to my beloved. She claimed it was a fake.
• Ryslatha's Coil - To whosoever receives this: you are now another of Ryslatha's children.

The Genteel's Ducat and some three-attribute UI elements

>The Genteel's Ducat
A noble Eternal who gave up his name to join the Brinerots. He climbed
the ranks with calculated savagery like Pondium had never seen.

I have no idea who this noble was, but being an Eternal, he would have lived at least a hundred years before Fairgraves.

The image on his ducat is used elsewhere to represent the three Attributes. Did the Eternals have some philosophy regarding these, or did this image represent something else to them, like the Three Sister goddesses?

>The Changeling's Ducat
To appease Tsoatha, they tossed it to sea, but the storm grew ever madder.
None returned to shore. Yet the vessel sails on, and its captain is merry.

The Warden of Eaves mentions Nameless changelings who replace unnamed children. I don't know if this changeling of Tsoatha works the same, but it apparently summoned a storm to kill a crew and took over their ship.

>Telesia's Ducat
Telesia carved the earth with her oars, and filled the seas with her tears.
The waters, still as stone, began to dance and flow to cheer her.

This sounds too grand to have been performed by any god of Wraeclast. Perhaps this was just a being of myth? The name "Telesia" looks a bit like "Tasalio", but Tasalio is considered male.

See Prismatic Eclipse for another example of tears filling out bodies of water.

>Ukatoa's Ducat
Mirthful Ukatoa travelled the world to teach it the Way. He ventured south,
and came back changed, a sombre husk filled with unearthly arcana.

This Karui man apparently encountered some eldritch truth. The item effect implies that he learned of the Tangle and the Cleansing Fire, but that might be a gameplay contrivance.

We still don't know much about how the eldritch entities work, nor exactly when the Elder appeared on Wraeclast.

>The Draugur's Lantern
"This infernal imp wasn't willing to part with its piece of the Allflame.
It's taught me ways to stoke the flame. To burn unnaturally fierce.
The imp may have the Allflame, but I have the Imp."
- Velka, the Tide Witch

A draugr is some sort of undead creature of Norse myth, and probably describes the "imp" of the flavour text. But in POE, Norse language usually relates to the Kalguur - Is Velka a Kalguurite or did she find this imp in Kalguur? I think verisium is the only supernatural phenomenon we have heard about on Middengard.

In fantasy works, "imp" usually just means a small demon, so if it is also undead, it is probably a small Abyssal.

>The Crustacean's Call
The experienced sailor knows the true mystery of the sea:
why, on every continent, in every lagoon, does there skitter
a crab of new size and colour? Not related, not lost spawn,
but a clawed snapper all of its own make and temperament...

This could be a carcinisation joke, or it could be an implication that there's something designing crab monsters, whether that something be Tsoagoth, Craiceann, the Tangle, or something else.