Today in my first playthrough i killed her and Garl haven't said anything during the entire fight. Kinda off-putting, i have to say

My daughter born in September named her Astraea. Didn't know there's a boss fight with her name. Check Astraea in Mythology sometime..

She's a great example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Initially a pure soul that wants to help the downtrodden people of the Valley, she ended up overtaken by the Deep Fog, and her ties to worship turning her into an ArchDemon, and a subject of the Old One, constantly feeding it souls from whoever tries to penetrate deeper in the Valley.
So your mission is still necessary, you're not the "rEaL bAd gUy", regardless of how the ArchDemon came to be, ultimately you have to end them and lull the Old One back to sleep, because the Saints sure as hell won't do it by themselves.

The remake OST hit me pretty hard tbh

After you kill her, the defiled in the boss arena start worshipping you. It's like they can sense her soul on you.

I died about 10 times after the boss fight just trying to get all the items around the plague pool. I used the plague ring (useless) and used the lotus anti plague stuff but the babies ganked me every time. Was there a better way?

Still think her story is fairly sad. The world went to **** and there wasn’t really any choice for her. Should she just have prayed to the unanswering God till she and everything around her got slaughtered by the demons? I’m not really a fan of Saint Urbain’s who essentially does nothing and preaches for others to do the same. At least it looks like she tried to help and ease the suffering of the Valley’s inhabitants, even if the results are questionable. Then again, we really don’t know how it was in the Valley before. Can we really trust the old hag when she says it went to **** after Astrea arrived? The Archstone image for the Valley is literally a plague doctor. I don’t think it were all sun and rainbows before.

Too bad I couldn't see her saint feet...

She’s supposed be a saint but is out there banging her bodyguard. More of a hoe if you ask me. No wonder God left her.

I found Astraea (and thus all Soulslikes) through a certain unofficial game containing Astraea that shall not be mentioned for the betterment of everyone's mental health. I have been stricken with its hex and now I enjoy it unironically. I wonder how many other people here know what it is?