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Mind, the specifics of what Marika lost don't really matter - only that she lost something, resulting in the Golden Order we see in game.
I'm slow with updates, but still updating - I'll get the story to 150k if it kills me.
I don't see it so much as her losing her kindness as losing her humanity, conscience, etc. I mean, in Messmer's case we can track it - we start with her giving him blessings and soothing his curse, and end with her turning him into a civilizational scapegoat and banishing him to the genocide...
"Here I abandon my love." From early Marika, you see a girl who wants justice for her people, and for the deserving to live happily under a golden tree - real flower child shit. But she lost that when she ascended, and all that remained was the harshness, the Order. That's what makes Miquella's...
About what I expected -- cycles of violence are a pretty common trope with Miyazaki and GRRM. The specifics, of course, hit right in the feels, but godhood as a method of revenge fits pretty neatly with my existing theories.