Aztechnology
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The night cycle seems standard. Dusk, Night, Dawn.
The hunt could theoretically be based on the birth of an Elder One.
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Bloodborne Story and Lore Discussion Thread [Unmarked Spoilers]
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The night cycle seems standard. Dusk, Night, Dawn.
The hunt could theoretically be based on the birth of an Elder One.
Aztechnology
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When you watch the cut scene after killing Vicar Amelia, Laurance is talking to Willhelm. He seems to be a protege of Willhelms.
so that's what happens to her. i didn't know who that was. i killed her before fighting the Wet Nurse, lol
no drops tho
The Xtortionist
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Found it on a Youtube playthrough. After killing Rom and spawning at Yahar'gul, the player receives a text prompt that says "Ritual secret broken. Seek the nightmare newborn." Not much to go on, but I have a feeling that won't stop you...heh heh heh
It seemed to me that the hunt was something that Yharnam dealt with all the time since they started. A lot of items read that they had a sickness or disease they couldn't figure out (Probably why there's so many goddamn coffins and headstones all over the goddamn place) that made them become beasts. This one seemed different, I think, because the Great Ones were heavily involved.
What it seemed to me was Bergenwerth, the Church and the Choir all found out about the Great Ones and in an attempt to contact them and use them to escape this disease. They began to obsessively try to communicate and emulate them that they instead of succumbing to the Beast they went the other way around and became something else entirely inhuman. Thus this night became about both Beasts and about the Great Ones.
The day and night Cycle seems not to be different, I think it's different this hunt because of the Great Ones and their affinity for the Moon.
piccio_ssl
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I assumed it was a horrific visual to suggest a miscarriage/stillborn great one (there is something about every great ones child being stillborn so they seek a replacement, though I cant remember where in the game you read it) . Though (and perhaps it was because my character was female), thats roughly the spot the moon presence kisses, maybe she didnt have enough cosmic umbilical cord to "connect" and that was the result?
The Xtortionist
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Yharnam doesn't seem to be a great one, so I'd say she was used as a surrogate mother for an infant great one (Mergo) who was taken from her and placed in the care of the Wet Nurse (an actual great one, according to its trophy).
It makes sense as well when you consider that Rom, for a Great One, really didn't have all that much it could do to defend itself and seemed actually scared of you as a hunter.
Darryl M R
Member
When people hear the baby crying in the world, has anyone tried playing the Tiny Music Box?
Aztechnology
Member
Yeah, didnt mean to imply that Yharnam was a Great One, just that she may have been, as you say, a surrogate for one.
basically. that Contact gesture was all i needed to know that this was about aliens.
So did anyone else think those Mensis cages on the background corpses were torture devices up until millions of them started appearing?
To be honest, when I first saw them in the Forbidden Woods I thought they were Mushroom men or Fungi People or something
Aztechnology
Member
In Yar'hgoul/upper church did anyone figure out what happened to those people who are emanating light and turned into statues of sort? Ashen statues.
Those little guys totally looked like aliens (as in classic grays) but I shrugged it off
Clearly, Bloodborne is just viral marketing for the return of the x-files
the Great One boss is called the Celestial Emissary. i was like, holy shit, aliens lol
Aztechnology
Member
They potentially could of been used by for both a form of torture or forced communion for no followers, and as something for the most devout as well.
Aztechnology
Member
The whole Cthulhu mythos inspired setting would almost dictate aliens considering the vast majority of the gods and monsters in it are of extra-terrestrial origin. But the game has plenty of evidence that theres "something out there" (and its trying to impregnate our women/us/reality)
I love this game.
he was too easy tho. but i loved how he suddenly appeared when the lifebar reached 50%. i was like "holy shit"
the axe R2 charge attack was MVP against this whole fight.
You guys think they have a Spaceship?
haha, that was an awful ambush considering how freakin' tiring the Woods was to explore. i was freaking out when they were shooting magic. didn't wanna die before i got to the next shortcut.
Is Demon's Souls the only Souls game where the NPCs don't suffer a horrible fate? I think Ostrava is the only one who dies. In Dark Souls everyone eventually goes Hollow and you're forced to kill them all and here they all completely lose their minds and/or die. Dark Souls 2 NPCs didn't suffer any horrible fates I guess but it's hard to give a shit about most of them imo.
i used a tree to block the shots and then ran in and just went crazy.
yea, my only gripe with BB is that not many NPCs are that interesting. i didn't care about most of them.
Are there basically two Major Hunt events in the game we know of ?
Our Hunt and the Old Yharnam Hunt ?
Beelzebufo
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Do you guys think it's a coincidence that the blue men always show up near plant life? Those orphanage flowers are freaky.
I sort of got the impression that the blue dudes were independent from the spiders. There's like three camps of great ones:
Spiders
Slugs (Upper Cathy Ward mobs, Ebreitas, Moon)
Aliens
First two share tentacles in common, maybe spiders are all former humans?
I sort of got the impression that the blue dudes were independent from the spiders. There's like three camps of great ones:
Spiders
Slugs (Upper Cathy Ward mobs, Ebreitas, Moon)
Aliens
First two share tentacles in common, maybe spiders are all former humans?
I think I cared about all of them except for that clever guy and the old lady, though the old lady's death is pretty fucked up. Arianna and Adella gave me their blood so I'm cool with them. Watching Adella go insane and Arianna do nothing but sob after giving birth to that thing was depressing to me. And of course there's the little girl and her sister. Darkest shit in this game.
wait, who's Adella. i missed this didn't i? lol
I think they're all aliens. Just the blue ones seem to be the most human-like so I have to wonder if they're naturally like that.
Beelzebufo
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Hmmm that makes sense. What's Oedon then? He's connected to blood right? Is he connected with the beast plague as well?
Most will have missed them the first time through. Give people some time to discover ,it took years for people to understand the npcs in Dark souls.
Odeon I think is maybe just a dead Great One like Amygdala maybe? At least since the the statues kinda look like that. My best guess anyway.
In terms of the Plague I think it's independent of the Old Ones. At least an items mentions that beastly aspects seem to come from a more human place.