For me it was the whole link to Lovecraft's Old Ones. Took me some time to puzzle that together.
BB is one of my most loved games of all time and I both see it as complete as well as hoping there will be a follow-up - which is contradictory. If I allow myself to dream I wish that From continued on the old blood, blood sacrifice and the Old Ones, and put a potential sequel in an Aztec setting. Lovecraft created a lot of links between his crazed mythology and Aztec/Inka/Mayan culture. I know it would be a major deviation in graphical form for From but I think it would be so suitable for a BB follow-up without being a straight up sequal.
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Chalice Dungeons looked a lot like Aztec architecture IMO.
The whole dream or not a dream, you being a reborn or not, etc..
The lore and mystery of it all are insanely deep.
This write up is fantastic, best viewed on desktop or desktop browser mode.
The Paleblood Hunt A Bloodborne Analysis by “Redgrave” Dedicated to all those with a story to tell I didn’t really like Dark Souls. Objectively speaking, it’s a great game. The gameplay is solid; the world is compelling; the characters are interesting. Maybe i...
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I already know a lot about Redgrave, that's the best Bloodborne lore document in the entire Soulsborne fandom.
I always thought paleblood was the semen of the great ones. Even the the paleblood item icon looks like there are spermatozoa in it.
Miyazaki explained what it was in the official guide, there are actually two different kinds of paleblood: the paleblood sky as a result of killing Rom, and it describes the Moon Presence, who is the paleblood we've been looking for the entire game.
Past Moon-scented Hunters must have either simply thought that paleblood was referring to the sky and only got to German to choose the Yharnam Sunrise, but our player character is definitely special as we wrote the handwritten scrawl in Iosefka's Clinic.
Yes, I'm obsessed with this game and I'm glad.
There is that locked door little off from cathedral.
Through some digging, that was actually cut from the game, although that door doesn't actually lead to where it's supposed to be, AKA when you first arrive in Cathedral Ward past the first Church Giant and down the stairs from the Giant with the ball and chain. That was supposed to be the shortcut, but I guess From didn't want us to get to the Healing Church so close in the game.
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It's not connected to Demon's Souls, the only thing that was was Gascoigne saying "Umbasa" in the alpha but it was cut.
Formless Oedon may have been the dad of Mergo, since he's formless which is strange because the Wet Nurse is formless with the head of a snake. And before anyone says anything, we don't actually kill Mergo IMO.