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masacrescent · 1 year
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secteel · 2 months
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Our Pthumerian Paladin from my bf’s Bloodborne homebrew campaign, because he’s gmhmgmg
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fantomette22 · 8 months
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Ok so I was trying to look for the origin/ inspiration behind Simon's bowblade (who is probably Persian/indian so he's probably a neighbor to Eileen country help XD) and I realized something, maybe.
You see there is other blades that are in the form of wave/ zigzag. Logarius sword, the pthumerians daggers, queen Yharnam dagger, even a bit of the cainhurst widows so I thought of something
WHAT IF! What if, actually ALL the pthumerians came from Loran (who's next to a desert so Middle East/near east type of country), and a part escape/ went away from the scourge and create Pthumeru/Isz along the way more in the west?
But if Pthumeru is the tomb of the gods that mean they took them along the way 🤔 or maybe the "old lords" died because of what happened in Loran and they just did grave for them and that's why they crown themselves some leader in Pthumeru hm...
ok the undulated swords are called a kriss! it's Indonesian apparently
see next post!
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divebynihgt-blog · 1 year
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nishihii · 2 years
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another thing i found strange! cainhurst folk did not inherit the motifs of pthumeru's statues-- the ladder having had statues of completely covered up figures, sometimes only showing their hands and not even a hint of a face at all
meanwhile cainhurst has noticeably uncovered, naked figures (usually women, as cainhurst has a matriarchy) and when theyre not uncovered, the faces are not hidden and the figures have proud, open postures.
and yharnam...resembles the pthumerian statues a lot more? makes sense, i guess- the town being named after THE yharnam, pthumerian queen.
except...hell, how was this place founded? by whom? pthumerians clearly settled into what would later be cainhurst, as they are their descendants. yharnamites, however, arent.
alfred has dialgoue which suggest only HUNTERS know of the chalice dungeons, he, as well as gehrman, refer to them as the "tombs of the old gods"... so- hear me out - was yharnam actually the place where pthumerians lived, and the dungeons were simply, well, tombs. the dungeons do not seem to be very liveable places i wouldnt think, the place has many guards as well as some bosses by the name of "watchers", "keeper of the old lords", "watchdog of the old lords". of course, we DO find pthumerians (in the form of both regular enemies and bosses) but they usually look decrepit as fuck. there's also the bell ladies, whom i assume were pthumerians themselves (and the kidnappers! both would affiliate with the school of mensis as we do find them in yahargul/working for it) and their primary task is summoning to keep us out and you know..kill us <3
it is a very guarded place, not chill at all, has levers and many doors and no structures that would resemble houses in a traditional sense
plus we find church servants and giants in cathedral ward, who look very pthumerian indeed (messengers kind of do as well but who knows also their lore is like one sentence) so...what do you all think? was yharnam once the propee home to pthumerians? and the reason most of them reside in the dungeons is due to communing with the gods, as they too were blood-crazed like all of the other nations/countries we hear of... except wherever yamamura and the hunters of hunters came from
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So my ppl I present to you the last pthumerian( the oc I posted earlier) above is her dialogue and where to fine her (yes she is a horse girl) anyway it’s hard to know what age she might actually be and if she’s actually a pthumerian but she’s kind to the hunter and offers them a place to sit. And if you come back enough she’ll give you gifts! Anyway I think that’s about all I have on her for now.
(Also the dialogue is backwards sorry)
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armoyse · 1 year
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~ Bhyyskhotober 2021 ~ octobre 2021
Série d'illustrations inspirées par le Lore de Bloodborne, autour de 7 thèmes : Reine, Créature, Exsangue, Contact, Cyclopéen, Regard, Oublié
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katyahina · 1 year
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Knight’s ribbons meaning idea
So I woke up at 2 AM thinking about this:
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To think of it, it is a bit strange dispersion for gendered outfit, considering that both male and female Cainhurst Knights have enough of red, gold and black in their sets? But it thrown me back towards something I speculated on in this ( x ) post previously, about how Vileblood women might be way more in favour of using blood magic AND genetically more predisposed towards it; whereas their men had to rely on skills and strength!
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^^^ @heraldofcrow​​ shared that screenshot back then and... Yeah, the idea was triggered by the fact that only male Knights have riding spurs! So maybe  male knights were generally riding horses using Reiterpallasch, but female knights used Evelyn and Chikage - weapons waaaaaay more reliant on quality of the blood! I am paraphrasing that post but basically, Bloodborne has hefty themes of femininity, but with Cainhurst it is especially curious as they appear to descend from Pthumeru Ihyll with their matriarchal traditions and bloody wrath of Queen Yharnam.
I of course come from intuition but I’d expect this line of nobles to develop dispersion with women being associated with the cursed blood magic and using it more. So the ribbons? Well, red is color of blood, you know! So it feels natural that female Knights have red ribbon to announce it! Meanwhile, maybe dark grey ribbon of male Knights is supposed to be ‘silver’, but darkened kind of? Within Bloodborne people do have superstition that certain metals can help, and silver means a lot for the Vilebloods it seems!
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I also think this is a good idea because it works with Maria’s preferences:
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Like!!! It is up to interpretation whether she became the first to adopt new hunting practices (and lighter drip) from Gehrman and the rest of Cainhurst followed, or Knights adopted tactics (and lighter drip) and she just separated, but would not that be cool if she favoured silver ribbon rather than red AS the mark of fighting with skill and direct power rather than blood qualities!
Maybe likewise, male Knights that showed high capacity for using blood (or simply more interest in it) would wear red ribbons instead? I also think the idea of ribbons serving as sort of ‘charm’ besides simply supporting hair particularly works with Cainhurst:
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But yyyyyeah, ribbon color as indication of your RPG class ahahahah. Thumbs up, thumbs down...?
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yharnam-art · 5 months
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Calice de Pthumeru
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beesmygod · 3 months
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"YOU HUNTED" IS A TERRIFYINGLY IN DEPTH WORK-IN-PROGRESS BLOODBORNE LORE EXPLAINER/CRITICAL ANALYSIS
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INTENDED TO BE READ AND ENJOYED BY BOTH HARDCORE FANS AND THOSE WHO ARE JUST CURIOUS! DEEPLY RESEARCHED, ENTERTAINING, AND NOT EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO BEING DONE!
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pthumeru, cainhurst, and the foundation of byrgenwerth
the old hunters, the fishing hamlet, and caryll's runes
martyr logarius, forsaken castle cainhurst, and pthumerian saints
laurence, the healing church, and great isz
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va-va-vamp · 5 months
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I think one of the most important concepts in Bloodborne is the idea that every Great One loses its child and then yearns for a surrogate.
There are so many surrogate characters, the Doll is a surrogate for Maria, Vicar Amelia is a surrogate for Laurence, Alfred is a surrogate for the Executioners, and so on and so forth.
The old will always haunts the new, just as Yharnam is built on the Ruins of Pthumeru.
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katyspersonal · 6 days
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who do you think fucked up worse…gehrman or maria?
This is an interesting question, and I kind of didn't think of it before! Time to take a closer look at their crimes I guess. Some of these will be held on the possibilities and 'safe assumptions' though and addressed for the full picture!
1) Both were involved in Fishing Hamlet massacre!
With Maria, we can conclude as much because she discarded her weapons in the well at the place specifically. Her version in the Nightmare realm, a Hunter again, is supposed to be what punishes her, and she is focused on keeping Kos/OoK away from rummaging through. Considering the nature of the Nightmare, as well as the Doll who has spiritual connection with her, it should come from her guilt and regrets rather than.. I dunno, discarding the hunt over natural 'character development' and just picking a cool place to forsaken her past!
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Gehrman sleeps better according to the dialogue Doll has after you kill OoK and free it's soul, so if it tortured him so, I think it is safe to say he had to be personally involved too rather than stay back while his students did the job:
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They both were involved with Byrgenwerth, following their quest for obtaining the eyes of the dwellers from their skulls, and I suppose cord of OoK?
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The thing about this point is that the description is written as though it was Gehrman's curiosity which ruined Maria's "idealisation" of him, or WOULD ruin it had she learned of it! This makes me wonder whether she was really involved in Byrgenwerth all that much, or whether she was aware of the real purpose of Fishing Hamlet massacre beforehand? Her goal, within the Nightmare, is stated to mercy-kill us so we don't allow that curiousity corrupt us to the point of "rummaging through corpse" and similar things, further supported by her visceral attack being an embrace if it is lethal!
I am just saying that here the balance might slightly shift towards making Gehrman 'worse' than her. Maybe she was not aware that it all was not just killing "monsters" but also a pregnant mother with her divine baby, but "well you didn't ask :/". Maybe Gehrman deceived her to use her aid. Maybe he didn't think it would be a big deal for her seeing that Maria was also interested in evolution through talking with Great Ones, and assumed she'd be just as callous about which means to accomplish the goals with?
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2) Both were grave-robbing, or at least okay with that!
This one is a little less obvious, but Tomb Prospectors were not the first to go to the Chalice Dungeons! ...It were actually Willem, Dores and Gatekeeper lol:
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BUT ALSO it were Old Hunters! We can see the remnants of it by Old Hunter Vitus being one the summons in Chalice Dungeons, hear Gehrman encourage us to go into the Chalice Dungeons to become stronger as via "tradition" of the Old Hunters,
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and the fact that one of the things that torture Maria (again, remember that Nightmare Realm is Hell that punishes) is a Chalice:
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(A video ( x ) for a better look at the Chalice from a figure)
I'd say that it is not very nice to disturb the undead Pthumerians just struggling in remains of their civilisation! Interesting thing: we can conclude they are even staying there to protect the Great Ones or their remains!
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There has been some sort of civil war between ancient great-ones-respecting Pthumerians and who late became Cainhurst nobles! Maria, ironically, fell onto the side of "entitled guys" descendants! But yes, I could see why bullying zombie guys to get more history and archeology relics from them might not seem like much for her at start. Experience in the Fishing Hamlet likely retroactively ruined this period of her life for her: delving into Chalice Dungeons was likewise 'not leaving the corpse alone'. The remaining Pthumerians were right having some honour and dignity. So, that came to haunt her in the form of Pthumeru Chalice. Gehrman is.. well he's here too I guess dfshfdhs
3) Both knew a little too much about Laurence's shady business and did nothing?
Old Hunters used to be friends with Healing Church's Hunters and even had their workshops located close to one another! Gehrman was friends with Laurence and Ludwig, who are both quite strongly involved with Moon Presence (Ludwig's sword and guidance, Laurence's affiliation being known since Byrgenwerth times), as well as the key figure in creation of Hunter's Dream:
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This was most likely a bait-and-switch, seeing how the cord itself is still in the real Workshop, and not in the grasp of Moon Presence (unlike, say, Wet Nurse taking Mergo's cord)! I think the purpose of creation of the Hunter's Dream was to "buy time" for the research conceived by the scientists! Remember: Gehrman was known to have "madness of curiosity" that Maria resented, or at least would resent had she known! He might have been fully aware of what Laurence wanted to do and support it! My point here, that with such proximity, he must have known of all Laurence's crimes and agreed with them!
Maria was at least overseer of the Clocktower's Research Hall, which, again, was just beta!Choir.
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This last line IS a bit confusing, because it makes it sound as though the nerds looking for the Eyes Inside and the Blood Ministers got split. Laurence and Ludwig make it weird, as Moon Presence is also an Eldrich creature and Ludwig is for sure full of eyes! What also makes it strange is that Choir, and then School of Mensis, are both upper echelons of the Healing Church, but Laurence is supposed to be above both of them.
I think this can be worked with! Let's say what if Choir formed after Laurence's death, which also happened after Maria's death, and Vicars after him were somewhat "powerless" and walked over by Choir and Mensis, only leaders in the name! But that still leaves the bit that the mentioned "division" happened after Choir was formed! Maria and Adeline, however, are locked to the existence of the Research Hall, so, the timeframe when doctors and blood ministers were 100% working together! We find the Eye Pendant that opens the access to the Research Hall in Laurence's hand, and human Skull of Laurence on the platform that hides the secret elevator to that Research Hall. Again, by the Nightmare Logic, they must be connected with Laurence's sins: he started this research, or sponsored it, or was overseeing it, and so on.
This point is not an absolute thing though, because one or both of them might be freed from guilt here. Maybe Gehrman was not as informed and agreeable as we could assume and Laurence did lead him around? Maybe Maria wanted but could not do anything being caught in the web of complicated connections, blackmail and risks for the people she cared about?
4) Both are willingly involved in questionable practices (Maria with research, Gehrman with the cycle of Dream and Hunt)
This point I feel like transcends the morality a little bit, as it touches the matter of 'it is bad if you do it, but it is also bad if you DON'T do it'. I really love Soulsborne universes for having guts to say "you can't win, just pick your poison", but I think it is still worth addressing!
It is up to interpretation in which quantity Maria is involved with the Research Hall! Nothing states whether she founded it, joined in the research later, stepped in and turned the tides (ba dum tss) of the research, or simply was a caretaker/nurse/etc of the broken mess while Research Hall was getting ready for a bit of rebranding. She can be very guilty, or she can be barely guilty but in either case if that was her "redemption arc" that was a pretty bad way to go about it. ...or was it?
Fauxsefka turns people into Celestial Emissaries so they physically can't become beasts instead, and is even stated to be a hero / heroic researcher by Miyazaki:
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First, I don't do Death of the Author (in terms of interpreting media I mean, not in terms of a style of writing)! Like, nope. Never. It is just not for me. Creator's word is the final for me; Fauxsefka is the good guy in the story, apparently, and it makes sense considering the fundamentally broken place characters are in! Maria has similarities with Fauxsefka: not only both of them have Cainhurst roots, but also both of them seem to favour 'Stars' line of evolution for humans!
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Whereas other patients are afraid of the horrors of the Deep Sea, a concept Miyazaki could not get over well into DS3, Adeline desires them! Other patients seems to have gotten it right, and you can see one of them also clings to Maria mentally to "not drown"; Adeline "didn't understand"! The balcony that Maria wants Adeline to go to so she can forsaken the Deep Sea and seek something "happier" holds unique kind of patients who can shoot cosmic arcane spells:
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Herself, Maria is associated with these lumenflowers: their petals are all over her boss arena, and the way to her lays through a much bigger batch of flowers, where Living Failures, other 'Stars' Kin are, whose song lyrics also feature lines 'ave stellar' and 'ave Maria'!
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So, how this is different from what Fauxsefka is doing, who is stated to be as much of a good person as possible within this context and with the burden of her knowledge? Fauxsefka was doing more or less rinse-and-repeat practice, with maybe a few patients not surviving the procedure but we don't know what happened: maybe that person was already at the brink of death and she tried to make them live like this.
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^ This guy I mean. Maria, on the other hand, is in the time period where the doctors and scientists were only testing the waters (BA DUM TSSS) (ok I will stop) and it was not SO certain what was at the stake, what were the alternatives, what was awaiting the humanity. It is even possible that the beasts problem was not yet bad to the point of "you'll either become a beast, be eaten by a beast or become a Kin, humanity is DONE for!" ! This was an unethical research at the cost of real people! The weight of Maria's sin here really depends on the interpretation, though
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As for the cycle of Dream and Hunt, this is complicated and lingers on one's interpretation of what the purpose of the Dream even IS! Its existence provides two things: 1) a hunter who is immortal for the night, thus can sustain the beasts with efficiency like no other, but also effect the continuity of the night ( x ) and 2) supposed sustenance to the Great One Flora of the Moon, who holds the hunt as a concept!
I used to be a bit more set on the idea that if beasts are not sustained and hunted, they will simply overpower those who are yet humans and eat them! It is a self-feeding cycle of people needing to self-defend from beasts, thus having to consume the blood as urgent means of healing and power-up since beasts are too strong, thus risking to become beasts themselves because the blood they consumed during that hunt corrupts them. So, the Hunter's Dream would be a good thing, as it'd help to 'buy time' during nights of the hunt in which not only beasts are more active but Great Ones too! While the Dreaming Hunter holds everything together, the greatest minds of the Healing Church can efficiently study the ways to end beasthood, or ANY problem of humanity, once and for all! It is just better to throw the hunting resources on the Dream, so the scientists don't worry about the beasts and can focus on research. However, I almost forgot that:
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This implies that had there not been Mensis Ritual ongoing, people WOULD have the chance to simply 'wait away' the beasthood problem. That, since Rom is not stopping Mensis Ritual but just conceals it, what really makes the inner beast within everyone who consumed the blood inevitably come out is Mergo's cry that draws the Bloodmoon close!
So yeah, the point about Hunter's Dream being helpful for the research of evolution still stands, especially under assumption that the deal with Moon Presence helped to bring more Eldrich Arcane close for "feeding" her. The point about how if the beasts are not hunted they'll simply eat everyone, though, is vague. It is safer to assume that the Hunter's Dream and Research Hall both are both example of hubris of man even if approached differently. Attempts to draw in something dangerous and horrifying, but it is "justified risk" because if you manage to 'tame' arcane/blood, sure, humanity will prosper!
Like... yeah, sure, there IS dangerous and undesireable nature of man that ruins everything and might or might not still linger in humanoids' genes after Loran. But did humanity ASK any of you guys to keep trying to fix it with so many victims and sacrifices? Like, was it WORTH it?
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This point is closely tied to 'knowing Laurence's bad antics and doing nothing', yeah. Maria didn't seem to like blood ministration very much, as she disapproved of Adeline becoming a Blood Saint, but she also didn't even approve of blood antics of her own clan! I am not sure what would be her opinion on the Hunter's Dream had she lived to the point when it was created, just that she herself is not willing to ever hunt, so I am leaving this point aside. Is this just blood ministration that she opposes but proximity with a Great One Moon Presence would be something she can see the potential of? Or would she and Gehrman have a pointless cat fight about whose methods are better when they are both hubris of man? In both versions they are 'guilty'! Besides:
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In the end none of THIS matters either and everyone was fooled ( x ). The blood offering is a blood offering in any way; whether it is through spilling blood violently during the hunt, or offering the blood's 'red' with how celestial Kin all bleed red. Moon doesn't care what paints it red, in the end.
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My conclusion is: both of these characters fucked up almost equally! I think the balance shifts just a little bit and Maria is slightly better than Gehrman since she had some limitations set on how far she was willing to go. Her motivation was not in "curiosity" but strictly in helping humanity, even if in unfair ways, which is apparently not the case for Gehrman?
I'll say this though, NOW I am hooked on the idea of Maria and Gehrman being petty "rivals" ideologically (for as long as they could before Maria's own demons caught up with her). Especially since neither approach is better than the other and they are both cringe loosers! Again, lost comedy gold over Fromsoft making Gehrman's tender and warm feelings for her before and after her death plain. What is not lost, however, is the fact that the two should just kick Laurence and go home :pensive:
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yharnamesque · 10 months
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Bloodborne Observation Notes
Back in 2018 I had a very stupid idea: what if I went through my favourite game, Bloodborne (2015) by Fromsoft, and noted down every single thing I could see? Well that’s what I started doing. Did the main game, took a several year break, came back and did the chalices. I mean it when I say this is my favourite game, it is so stupidly important to me, and I wouldn’t have done this if it wasn’t
So I present to you, broken down into territories, all of my notes looking into every single detail I could come across in every single area of the game. I made these to be shared, for everyone to see and to use how they want. The only thing I ask for in return is you share them about, and give credit plus a link back if they end up influencing your own work. This is my contribution, my gift, to the community, and I hope it serves you well
The links below will go straight to the folders themselves rather than all the individual documents, but they’ll still be listed out here for easy reference as to what is where
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Progression + Foreword
Yharnam
Iosefka’s Clinic
Central Yharnam
Old Yharnam
The Hunter’s Dreams
The Hunter’s Dream
The Hunter’s Nightmare
The Cathedral Ward
The Tomb of Oedon / Oedon Chapel
The Cathedral Ward / The Grand Cathedral
The Upper Cathedral Ward
Healing Church Workshop
The Abandoned Workshop
The Altar of Despair
The Forbidden Woods
Forbidden Woods
Byrgenwerth
Cainhurst
Hemwick Forest
Hemwick Charnel Lane
Castle Cainhurst
The Unseen Village
Hypogean Gaol
Yahar’Gul
The Graveyard of the Darkbeast
The Nightmares of Yharnam
The Lecture Hall
The Nightmare Frontier
The Nightmare of Mensis / Mergo’s Loft
Pthumeru
Pthumeru
Central Pthumeru
Lower Pthumeru
Cursed and Defiled
Great Pthumeru Ihyll
Hintertomb
Hintertomb
Lower Hintertomb
Loran
Ailing Loran
Lower Loran
Isz
Great Isz
Cut Chalices
Great One Beast
Alternate Moon Presence
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fantomette22 · 2 years
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Gehrman : There's enough old armor into the tombs. No need to add to new ones... And that counts for you too Laurence !
Laurence : Hm ?
Gehrman : I don't want you to go down there with only your uniform this time ! Please go wear something a bit more efficient.
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So I've made this a while ago too. It's probably the funniest thing I draw so far XD I'm sorry but after seeing the famous meme I had a big inspiration.
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divebynihgt-blog · 1 year
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amygdalae · 2 months
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Oh btw the song of the day today was Bloodlines by Ministry
because I put it on to encourage my friend who was playing Bloodborne fighting Rom in the lower pthumeru chalice dungeon. And the boss fight ended exactly when the song did which was very satisfying
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