Originally Posted by Milkfred
Also, maybe I'm missing something obvious, but how does Priestess Gut's interaction with the player work when she's all "The Absolute wants to know about the weird tadpole in your brain" when you're in her jail cell because, uh, wouldn't the Absolute know all about it?
Almost no one outside your party with their own tadpole knows they have it, on purpose. You can glean a little context that under "normal" circumstances True Souls get it as part of their initiation, and just don't know it happened.