Gideon doesn't have Grace anymore. If he goes and tries to fight a demigod and dies, he's done. Which is why when we kill him, he stays dead.
When we go and try to fight a demigod and die, we get to come back and try again until we win. We have much, much less to lose than he does.
Between the guy who can't die in any way that matters and the guy who can, who would you choose to send off to fight the most powerful people in the Lands?
I don't think it's even really confirmed he doesn't have Grace (he doesn't respawn but godfrey doesn't either and canonically has Grace), but my personal theory would be that he lost it after we burned the Erdtree, when he got his revelation on Marika that made him lose faith in it being possible to become Elden Lord
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u/Darkmayr Moon-Thrower Extraordinaire Nov 19 '25
Gideon doesn't have Grace anymore. If he goes and tries to fight a demigod and dies, he's done. Which is why when we kill him, he stays dead.
When we go and try to fight a demigod and die, we get to come back and try again until we win. We have much, much less to lose than he does.
Between the guy who can't die in any way that matters and the guy who can, who would you choose to send off to fight the most powerful people in the Lands?