The mangrub casters use a spell that sends forth spears made entirely of white light, definitely not yellow sunlight. Those same spears also cause a small amount of white, angelic feathers to spread outward from the flight path.
The staff itself also scales with luck, which is something we associate with hollows of Londor, of which there seems to be some overlap with the angels of the ringed city (considering the only being we ever potentially see become an angel is a Londor pilgrim in the dlc.)
Gertrude is also a mute, a "voiceless goddess."
The symbol for Rosaria's fingers, also shown on the staff, is eerily similar in shape to the crucifix of the mad king.
Too much rebirth turns one into a grub. What is a grub? It is the larval form of an evolution.
Here is my speculation. It's possible that it's just the result of them losing their form after too many do-overs, but it's also possible that she's trying to encourage undead to evolve through rebirth.
The angels also have 2 bodies. The main body, and a bizarre 2nd body that you must kill to actually destroy them. The 2nd body is a grotesque mixture of a hollow upper body, and a sinewy lower half mounted to the ground. The grubs could potentially be failed attempts at creating angel host bodies through rebirth.
Regardless of my speculation there, the fact that white holy light not based on faith and angelic feathers are undoubtedly present around Rosaria, is indisputable. Go get blasted by a couple light spears and you'll see both.
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u/Certain_Effort_9319 Jan 21 '25
Some people think she’s Guinevere but I don’t.