A Look Back At The Story of Bloodborne

Bloodborne may have one of the best stories of all time. From its worldbuilding to its overall narrative there is not one part of this story that ruins the experience.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:29 What is Bloodborne?
1:19 Prologue
9:11 The Hunt
17:17 The Real Story of Bloodborne
25:03 Nightmare Realms
32:06 DLC
38:46 Endings
48:27 Outro
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Music in Order Courtesy of Bloodborne's OST

0;00 The Hunter's Dream
9;11 Moonlit Melody
17;17 Of the Pthumerian Line
25;03 Hail to the Nightmare
32;06 Laurence, The First Vicar
38;46 The First Hunter
48;27 The Hunters Dream
Outro: Orca Vibes - Gypsy
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[ZotharReborn]

Quick note: Eileen does, in fact, remember the Hunter's dream. If you make an enemy of her before the Grand Cathedral, when she kills you she has a line that says "Do you still dream? Tell the little Doll I said hello."

[spencerfoote]

This game is the one that got me into the soulsborne series. The weapons that can change into one form or another, the pure chaos of trying to be faster than the enemy rather than using a shield, and the jaw dropping atmosphere was so fun.

[louorion]

Is it me or Bloodborne is getting more and more attention recently? So happy to see more people are interested in this wonderful piece of art.

[Duskets]

In a way, I think Bloodborne’s unanswered (or even unanswerable) questions help to elevate it as a game about cosmic horror. We have to contend with the fact that there are aspects at play within Bloodborne’s world that entirely defy explanation or even human comprehension.

[adrianalexanderveidt]

"Lovecraftian" is a word that tends to be overused, but Bloodborne truly earns that label.

[RommelStorm]

Trick weapons are one of the coolest things FromSoft ever spawned. And they're all viable transformations, too. Not just magically changing weapons but there's actually a level of mechanical stuff involved. Hell, Man at Arms even made a Saw Cleaver.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I'm glad Elden Ring reignited everybody's passion more and more for the SoulsBorne games

[BigBadBalrog]

My personal understanding of the Wet Nurse fight is that Mergo's crying is being used to beckon the Great Ones, and the Wet Nurse's job is to keep Mergo crying. Meaning that when you kill the Nurse, Mergo's nightmare is over and the poor child can dream peacefully.

[diandrea]

I agree that Bloodborne is one of the greatest story’s never told. Over the years I’ve inched closer to understanding and putting the puzzle together. I highly recommend a video series by Charred Thermos, An Agony of Effort. I looks at bb thru a Victorian Era Medical viewpoint and is truly insightful. Praise!

[mikedangerdoes]

I find it very cool that the Great Ones might be as alien to each other, as they are humanity. With that in mind, I was under the impression that whilst it's motivations were unclear, the Moon Presence's purpose was reasonably obvious; it wanted to kill Mergo (and perhaps other Great Ones). That's why it's happy to release the Hunter after Mergo is dead. Presumably whatever taks it had for Djura and Eileen, they also completed. It keeps Gehrman to maintain the Dream and keep luring in pawns for its schemes. I also thought that Mergo was Oedon's child which it, like all Great Ones, has been trying to conceive.

[honeytlbadger]

What I love about Bloodborne is that even though lore-wise the world is filled with monsters and abominations roaming the streets, you play as the scariest thing out there. The Hunter.

[martian_turtle]

Got into Bloodborne August last year during a lockdown. My God did I fall down the rabbithole. 9 characters, 500 hours, and platinum. Safe to say, I love this game. It's incredible. The story, the combat, the world design, the characters. It's all great and sticks in your mind. Even though I've only played it for a comparatively short period of time (not in terms of time spent playing but over how many months/years), I can happily say it is in my top 3 games of all time alongside Half Life 2 and Fallout:New Vegas.
It certainly has its flaws, but Bloodborne is a timeless masterpiece. I'd be very keen to see a sequel, but only if From Software is driven to do so, and can really create something extraordinary again.

[joshuareesor]

29:29 Interesting detail about the Awakening Headstones in the Hunter's Dream; whenever you select any of them, the top of the list always includes the text "Awaken Above Ground, " implying that the Hunter's Dream is actually the lowest point of all the realms.
Also, in the Nightmare Frontier, you can see the masts from Fishing Hamlet below and the Nightmare of Mensis above, so those three are stacked on top of each other, with the Hunter's Nightmare being below the Fishing Hamlet due to the Snail Woman dropping there from the "sky."

[professorgrimm]

Bloodborne's story seems to take a lot of inspiration from Lovecraft obviously, but specifically from the story "From Beyond". In From Beyond, a scientist discovers how to transcend human senses and discovers that the universe is way bigger than we know and that all around us, creatures live that are wholly different to our world and experiences. We normally can't interact with them, and they can't interact with us. This seems very similar to the whole nightmare / dream realm and the great ones. I think this is the best explanation for the story.

[greatwhitnorth]

There are so many lore videos about Bloodborne but honestly this video is the one that pieced together some of the more convoluted pieces of the story for me. Excellent job!

[jamienorthup]

“It only took four hours to beat.” Me thinking about the orphan of Kos and Lawerence. And the stress dreams I had about them trying to learn how to kill them solo for the first time.

[DisastrousElfGuy]

The Nightmares/dreams are literally pocket dimensions created by the Great Ones for specific reasons. For example, the Hunter's Dream was created by the Moon Presence to trap Gehrman and use him to influence hunters in the real world, Kos created the Hunter's Nightmare to torment the hunters, etc... They create those dimensions because they can't physically interact with our reality (Ebrietas is not considered full on Great One, like Rom she is similar to "Kin"). Yharnam is indeed our world, the "Waking world" that the Doll refers is implying that we will no longer "Dream". Because the great ones ascended so much, they can only truly exist in their respective dimensions.

Edit: to clarify, in my interpretation, not every Great One ascended to the same level. You have the big boys like Oedon, Kos and the Moon Presence, and you have the "lesser ones" like the Brain of Mensis and the Amygdalas. Some of them clearly cannot exist in our reality. Oedon ascended so much that he became formless, and the Moon Presence had to use Gehrman and the Hunter to do his biddings.

[Fiyahzz]

Here's my theory on the Moon Presence, the Hunter's Dream and Mensis;
- The Moon presence is the cause of the beast scourge, the moon presence is very beastly in appearance whereas other great ones are kin like. Its chest is open too, leaving blood behind which is why people were able to find old blood, since this is the blood they were using to administer, they have the beastly blood within them. (Whereas Ebrietas blood used in the research hall turns people into celestials. And the people around the Fishing Hamlet have become fish people as they lived off Kos' body.)

- Now I believe Micolash wrote the four notes in the Lecture Hall as it is part of the Mensis Nightmare. These are;
"Master Willem was right. Evolution without courage will be the ruin of our race."
"Hunt the Great Ones, Hunt the Great Ones."
"The nameless moon presence beckoned by Laurence and his associates. Paleblood."
"Three third cords."
- So Micolash learnt you must consume three third cords to transcend, Mensis currently have 1 from Queen Yarnham
- To find more cords they will have to hunt great ones to have them create children.
- They found out about the moon presence so would use a special child, Mergo to lure the Moon Presence closer as it would then create its own children
"When the red moon hangs low, the line between man and beast is blurred. And when the Great Ones descend, a womb will be blessed with child."
The moon presence will later on have a child with Arianne and imposter Iosefka after Rom is killed.
- To use Mergo they would have to commune with it by creating the Mensis Nightmare, allowing them to bring the Moon presence down.
This is evolution using courage as he sees it, willing give anything include your own life. Unlike the Healing Churches ways which will bring ruin to their race.
-When the moon descended the Moon Prescence's effect on everything with its blood inside them grew and they began transforming into beasts.
- Rom puts a lock on the ritual but the beast scourge has already been activated.

- A while later after the hunters have been established, they raid the Fishing Hamlet and get cursed with the Hunter's Nightmare.
- Maria then has a celestial child as the cord from the workshop is said to have come from the child of the vilebloods.
- Laurence and his associates use this cord to commune with the moon presence to create the Hunter's Dream as a counter to the Hunter's Nightmare, so hunters can come there to die instead of being sent to the nightmare, which is why there are lots of gravestones. But then they also start making contracts with hunters to lock them into the dream until they can find a way to stop the beast scourge.
"To escape this dreadful Hunter's Dream, halt the source of the spreading scourge of beasts, lest the night carry on forever."
- Gehrman's job is to stay on watch over the dream, whereas Laurence's job was to go to the Nightmare to find a way to stop it, however he became a beast. Gehrman is still waiting for the Nightmare to end before he can end the Hunter's Dream.
- The player character however ended up being the one to end the Nightmare and consume 3 cords to transcend, if that's the ending you chose.

[kronos]

I desperately need another bloodborne game in my life

[genmediainc.]

“Soulsborne” is like, 7 parts souls and ONE part borne, and borne still gets to be in the name for the whole genre. Must mean something