I was late to Bloodborne, bought it in December and just finished the DLC yesterday. I spent a big chunk of my day reading the "Pale Blood Hunt" and watching your videos. Just wanted to thank you for your incredible work!
Redgrave's videos on bloodborne were/are some of the most stream of conscious epiphanies ever verbalised. you listen to the ramblings and there are just subliminal concepts that actually give you eyes within.
i feel like this video has made me understand bloodborne and it's lore more intimately than any other "bloodborne lore" video i've watched to date. given the fact that this is an unscripted video about such a minor detail that so many simply gloss over is even more impressive. this man is clearly a great one in human form, sharing it's immense insight ^ -^
The eye collector women drop pebbles as loot, same as the crows do. Real-life crows, as pointed out elsewhere, often steal and eat the eyes of corpses left out in the open - eg. bodies left out for sky burial or executed in gibbets - and the pebble image in Bloodborne includes a little circular marking on the rock, like an iris on an eyeball. The eye collectors, like the crow monsters, pick up pebbles that remind them of eyes, either because they're too crazy to know the difference or because that's what just they like.
I’ve been playing and loving Bloodborne since release. It’s been my favorite game of all time and has my favorite lore of all time. Three days ago I discovered “The Paleblood Hunt” and I applaud you sir. I love the deep dive and I am so excited to watch these videos! Thank you for all of the research and sorry for being soooooo late to the party!
Amazing video, great attention to detail. The Executioners wearing the Yahar'gul garb was mindblowing to me, so many details you've mentioned that made me think "OF COURSE!!!", I just love this narrative style of hiding secrets in plain sight so much. But allow me to speculate for a bit about The One Reborn using the information you provided. I feel like The One Reborn wasn't made of these bodies, or at least of these bodies only. Pure speculation, of course, but perhaps they weren't getting the inteded results with those caskets, and thought they could get better results with living people? Obviously it wasn't that much better, but still. All the petrified bodies you see desperately trying to escape whatever the hell was going on, plus Hail the Nightmare no longer playing on your second visit to Yahar'gul, I feel like it's indicating the inhabitants of the Unseen Village were sacrificed to give birth to the boss. The composer of the boss theme said this, in a short Playstation Blog interview: "Nobuyoshi Suzuki: The design and back-story had a large effect on me. The One Reborn, whose music I was in charge of composing, is a ghastly figure of ritual mass-sacrifice, and so the feeling of horror and of something disgusting was the underlying premise, with greater themes of adornment and royalty. So I started with the simple image of using deep bass-instrument riffs to invoke a sense of royalty, and the choir to express adornment, and began composing from there." It pretty much confirms The One Reborn was made from mass sacrifice, which I don't think dead bodies would count for. Source for the interview: blog.us.playstation.com/2015/05/18/the-story-behind-bloodbornes-haunting-soundtrack/ Very Late to the Party, so sorry if you touch on this subject on later videos, I'll watch them next.
I feel like your theory on The One Reborn is spot on. The Playstation Blog interview is an excellent find! I think it's clear by now that the School of Mensis was experimenting with corpses and living bodies alike. The only thing I'm wondering right now is if the ritual for creating the Nightmare of Mensis and the ritual for creating The One Reborn are connected, or if they were both seperate rituals.
There are a few Executioners in the snake forest as well. Only two if I am remembering right. But this video was very impressive for someone who is just rambling on about lore. You kept it objective rambling, if that makes sense. I hope to see more from you!
One is right after you enter through the password door on your way to the lamp. He is on a side path to the right (facing the lamp coming from the password door) in a cave. The other one is actually in the snake forest on a path if you follow the right hand side wall after coming down the elevator from the lamp. You will have to roll or jump across a small gap to get to him.
saithvenomdrone Oh that's right, I remember that one you have to jump across to get to. The first time I played I must have run past him a dozen times doing the Shadows of Yharnam.
If you come up with a reason why they are there I'm sure more people than just I would like to hear about it. Maybe an update in the video description about them or a small side mention in your next video, if you make one? Seriously though, this video was very interesting and insightful to something I thought was just a atmospheric thing in the game. Keep up the good work, man.
+saithvenomdrone As an update to this, the DLC might give us an idea why there would be executioners in the forrest. The description of the Butchers Garb confirms that there was some forbidden experimentation being done by the villagers in the Woods, on dead bodies including the prey brought back by the Madaras Twins. Perhaps the School of Mensis were at odds with the parallel research being done by the villagers and the executioners' presence is evidence of their efforts to curb this activity.
A little Wikipedia goes a long way in this game. Hypogean Gaol translates to "underground jail" with a little help from Greek and Welsh. Similarly, a charnel house is a "vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored." So that's what's going on with Hemwick, and why the executioners are there.
And six years later, waiting for one wicked guy to dive deep into elden ring, or dead space or whatever the fuck he wants to. This videos had something really deep about them, good shit my friend, I like to revisit this place at times. And I’m totally fine waiting for six more years, it’s all good bro. Hope you are doing fine and life has been kind to you.
Glad you decided to start doing videos! I can't wait to hear more. You know how we hear a baby crying throughout the game? I was thinking how cool it would be if that crying was actually the sound that the Great Ones hear from humanity and that's why they seek us out as their children. I find Oedon and his formless baby to be such a boring story. One thing I don't understand and perhaps you could answer it in a quick few seconds but in the very beginning of the game during the first cutscene, the blood ministrator says: "Oh, yes... Paleblood..." It puzzles me why he says that as if the PC Hunter was inquiring about Paleblood. Another thing is how the place where you fight Gascoigne is called the Tomb of Oedon. Isn't the expression "Tomb of..." indicative of a deceased person or thing? As opposed to Oedon Tomb or something it's Tomb of Oedon.
Well, with the scourge going on, it's unlikely your gonna see anyone with their wits about them taking the time to say a detailed prayer at the tomb. (I'm guessing that gascoigne had only just arrived there before us and by the time we get to him, his wife's dead on a nearby rooftop, and you see the mob that likely hunted her down, being chopped to bits by a reasonably pissed hubby). Suffice it to say, the idea of odeon is dead. Yet their spiritual presence can still be felt. And the incorporeal beings we see, like ghosts and stuff, thrive on the ideas of those around them. For example. Talos, from skyrim. Or any daedra or aedra for that matter, are only as powerful as their influence. You take away talos worship, you weaken the ascended being.
Or to prevent beasts from feasting on the corpses. I mean, those body parts are valuable to Mensis, after all. Can't have these blasted beasts stealing our goods now, can we? haha
@@Solaire_of_Astora13 What, you mean the beasts are going to approach it with a pair of bolt cutters or something? Lol The coffins are also metal. It seems to be to stop anything from getting in or out, but if you have a better idea, let’s hear it.
@@1SWINZ1 a beast could easily break the chains with his teeth if he put enough work into it. Opening the casket should serve no more difficulty either, or else the chain was unnecessary in the first place. Furthermore, why leave something so valuable at the exposure of beasts? Wouldn't it be better to store it? It makes sense for hunters however to momentarily close the coffins so that nothing inside may come out, but it only happens to some of the coffins, indicating a particular fear towards a certain kind of blood. The hunters would not know how to handle the crisis of the coffins well because their brains are getting fried by the minute.
@@1SWINZ1 come to think of it, we do know what is inside of the coffins. The beasts wouldn't have a need for them unless they become too desperate. Nope, it's for keeping something inside.
I just got back into Bloodborne for the first time since release and would like to thank you for this. Wandering the streets of the Cathedral Ward as you revealed the disturbing truths in the seemingly innocuous scenery of Yharnam was a great pleasure. Keep up the good work!
So I know you probably don't read these or if you still dabble in the lore, but I have a whole theory about the executioner enemies based on a little thing from the DLC - The Butcher Set (added in the dlc) actually looks a lot more like what they're wearing - it's got the collar and the chain link at the neck, that weird armor with the girls face on it obviously isn't in the set you get but otherwise it looks more like it than the ya'har gul hunter outfits. Then I realised another thing, there are yharnam resident beast enemies in the exact butcher's set - the set has this distinctive apron thing going on and the it's identical to what these enemies are wearing - asnd what does the butcher's set tell us? It appears to be an attire unique to hunters/denizens of the forbidden woods and since the woods have apparently been locked off for a while I think the enemies we meet there consitute a secret society living in relative squallor and partaking in crazy fucked up experiments of their own, I think with some influence from the pthumerian tombs/parasites from within because obvs the forbidden woods is the gateway to pthumerian tombs that byrgenwerth found - literally an ancient burial ground (Can I get a Rats in the Walls?) possibly older than the pthumerians, but also probably with some influence by the choir / what's left of byrgenwerth. So What does this have to do with anything? Well, the shortcut from forbidden woods to central yharnam - I don't see much speculation about who built this route or when probably because there's not much information, my theory is that, like the secret entrance hidden under a grave we find to old yharnam, this was an old route to the village in the wods that was sealed up - presumably by whoever forbade entrance into the woods and to byrgenwerth - and left shut for a while. I think that it was the society of the woods itself that dug open the entrance and made the ladder we use to get out and they are now essentially using the hunt to invade central - to what end I'm not sure, and there are things that don't add up but there are things that do - the first executioner enemy is literally right next to this shortcut, these enemies guard the monjolith that takes you to cainhurst, which you have to have used the shortcut in order to get the summons etc. you pick up the butcher set in the dlc right by that nightmare executioner) there are things that don't make sense in this theory but I'm considering many possibilities - maybe the choir opened up the route to subvert the password and get to byrgenwerth, which I say because the place looks pretty abandoned and the only human there is the single choir member who I don't think is guarding the door because they don't drop the key and also all the stuff that references Willem in a past tense and the lunarium key talking about his final years etc. I think he's been there alone for a while or maybe he's just an illusion like the lake and the moon. It's impossible not to get off track with this seemingly, I'm bursting at the seems with ideas about little details that seem to have not come up in the past but maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places...
Definitely a very well spoken video, I hadn't even thought much about the caskets. I do look forward to any more lore videos you do, your very well spoken and entertaining to say the very least. I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to reading your pale blood hunt, but I'll make a point to sit down and read it this weekend if not sooner!
In my never ending quest to truly understand Bloodborne I have been guided here. Although many years later this fills in so many gaps. Ive been listening to Sin & Sophie BB podcasts. Thanks!
Please do more of these. It's great to see something focusing on little details. Without them the game would be so much less, and they don't get much love from the rest of the community.
Hey Redgrave, read your Paleblood Moon months ago and loved it; just found out you had some videos. One point to note regarding children's caskets is that there are some on the path to Old Yharnam underneath the sarcophagus and indeed some in Old Yharnam where the Rifle Spear is.
I know I shouldn't but I almost see your theories as the official story/lore. Mostly because it is so well-made and detailed. Your "Pale Blood Hunt" text was really awesome and answered a lot of my questions. Of course in the end, there are actually few things we know, especially about The Great Ones. I love how in the game they are so superior that most mind can't even comprehend them, and here we are (maybe not so much in this video) trying to figure out what they are and what they want. I love your work man
Oh boy, this was good. I am definitely looking forward to more. You were so right the basic lore has been beaten to death already, but I really like where you are going with this. If you don't mind I have a small suggestion. How about instead of describing the monsters and the places you splice in some screenshots of those instead, nothing fancy, but just a refresher to people who forgot the names and places and what they look like. And as far as what I would like to hear more of, well, I find the monster designs intricate, perhaps you could dig a bit and find some stuff on why monsters look how they look, what caused it and such. The properties of magic, how was magic achieved and what caused this arcane knowledge to manifest itself the way it does, this might turn redundant to the days of Demon's Souls and Soul Arrow on how it it is concentrated soul energy or something similar but seeing how this is a totally different world maybe there is more stuff. Gravestones, surely not all of them are graves why are they used as sort of decoration. Statues, statues made out of bones, why some of them have chains wrapped aroun, why do they look like they are covering their face... Anyway, I am sure I could come up with other stuff if you will ask in the future, can't think of anything right now, I have been spending too much time in Chalice Dungeons, haven't seen Yarhnam for a very long time.
Well, this was a pleasant surprise! I hope you continue making videos, as you're very intelligent and well-spoken. I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on BB's lore as well as that of other Souls games.
Some ideas I have regarding this: In Hemwick some of the bodies are upside down which my lady pointed out was torturous in an effort to make blood rush to one’s head, hence why the eyes are bloodshot. I think Mensis and the Choir focused on Laurence’s beliefs in the bulk operations such as this, but practiced outside of that in secrecy. Another observation is that the path leading to Cainhurst from Hemwick is destroyed and is completely unable to be traversed until the mystical ponies pop up. Perhaps the nobles who were slain by the executioners were taken back to Hemwick to have the blasphemous Yharnam ritual done to them. This possibility could further explain the restless spirits in Cainhurst. Furthermore, if you sit in the Witch of Hemwick’s boss room you can hear those same cries. This particular detail is a bit of a stretch because that same sound bite appears in other areas of the game, but I felt it was worth mentioning anyways. I can’t help but notice how in practice the paths between beasthood and ascension differ greatly, but how materials such as cold blood flower buds grow out of blood, displaying a clear link between them. I don’t know if anyone of this checks out, but I wanted to put it forward anyways. I hope you are well and if ever you find yourself willing to chat, I’d be eager to do so.
Just found your videos after you posted the updated version of the Paleblood Hunt, when you first released the summarized version back half a year ago I read through it multiple times and loved it to death! Have yet to read the updated 108 page version but I'll sink my teeth into it later today, maybe as a lullaby story for myself haha. Also, you're quite handsome. No homo :P
I think it’s important to note that: despite her abhorrent appearance, the Witch of Hemwick might be one the only “successful” human evolutions in Bloodborne (besides Rom?) She can teleport, clone herself, and summon seemingly-otherworldly beings with ease, despite still being human. The other “eye collectors” seem to have not achieved her level of “intelligence” though, so perhaps this could be attributed to the Rune Workshop Tool found in her Abode?
Just recentish got into the lore of Bloodborne and I can't stop digging, I need more. "Paleblood Hunt" was so enjoyable and thorough to read. Hope you're doing well and enjoying Elden Ring.
I really like that you want to talk about some of the more easily overlooked details of Bloodborne's world, maybe you could try the Brainsuckers next? It looks like their skulls have been cut open and their brains operated on, perhaps by the Choir. Some of the statues in the chalice dungeons have similar scars on their foreheads as well.
Also, Marcus mentioned in his playthrough that he thought the Brainsuckers were infested with phantasms, and that this was the reason they had tentacles sprouting out of their faces.
Great video! Love the lore into the little details and would like to hear more connections. On my first play through I kept waiting for those dam caskets in central Yharna to burst open
Amazing video, sir. I just beat the game for the first time with the moon presence and an article by Rich Stanton led me to your Paleblood Hunt. Looking forward to any videos you make in the future if you decide to.
Rewatching your entire TLTIY video series now for the third?? (probably fourth) time. I really hope you make more - if there's still anything left to talk about (which I'm pretty sure there is). Your content sparked a whole new outlook on this game and the series as a whole. Your name seems to have gained traction and although it doesn't (yet) show in views and subscriber numbers, people seem to be aware of your work and other people reference it. That makes me happy, because the connections you make are on a much deeper level than traditional lore hunters (not that they do not have their place) and the game deserves to have someone like you looking into it and interpreting it.
Thank you for making this video, it raised my insight. Here's to many more great videos like it! I'll never look at all those coffins the same way again. You've added so much flavor to the world for me in just those fifteen minutes. I can't wait to hear about more of these little things I've overlooked. Also, a big thank you for The Paleblood Hunt. It was the easily one of the best gifts the fandom has ever received. (Sorry if I come off sounding like a weirdo, I am just such a big fan of your work.)
I love Bloodborne. I love Bloodborne so much it's why I bought a PS4. Thank you for putting out some great videos dealing with the lore and background of this fantastic game.
i wonder if the executioners are there to behead the corpses and prevent them from reanimating.would also make sense that some coffins are chained shut probably to prevent the corpses escaping during transit. i also wonder whether the yharnam townsfolk enemies you encounter are the undead reanimated corspes that escaped from the coffins. would make sense with them being partially decomposed and also the way they are dressed. in the lore it mentions that the church provided the townsfolk who participated in the hunt with armour that didnt provide much protection but they all seem to be wearing suits much like they would be if they had been dressed for a funeral or to be buried. i noticed aswel that there is a large metal gate we never go through in central yharnam, where we fight the cleric beast (it drops down in front of it) at the other end of that road is several coaches and a large pile of caskets, i think this was the road the caskets were being transported from, if you look at the world map, that road goes under cathedral ward and towards hemwick, it could possibly join up at the far side of hemwick where we have the collapsed road. this is also where we find the executioners in hemwick,maybe situated to behead any reanimating corpses from the incoming carriages. also the witch is very close to this location too would make sense for the eyballs to be removed here before the caskets were taken further into central hemwick to be cremated.theres also the possibility that the road cold fork on the other side of cathedral ward and go towards yahargul aswel. so imposter stagecoach drivers from the school of mensis could switch direction and change course to yahargul.
In times of plague, it was common to "bring out the dead" as in leaving the corpses of those who succumbed to the plague in a household for the undertaker to take away to bury or burn...since the blood disease is akin to the plague the citizens would leave the bodies outside trying to spare themselves of future contagion
Super late, but since I don't own a PS4 I will likely never be able to play the game, but these videos help satiate my curiosity. I'm a huge horror fan, so Bloodborne is just a(n) (old) god send. Your videos are awesome. Thank you so much. :)
The eye collectors drop rocks which LOOK like eyeballs. Maybe they're confused. Also I think the crows drop pebbles for the same reason. They love jumping at you face (and eyes.)
Great theory. Enjoyed the video and especially all of the connections in enemy placement with the Yarhar'gul Hunters. When I first played the game I assumed the caskets were chained up to keep whatever was in them locked inside but there doesn't seem to be many "undead" enemies in the game. Any thoughts on why the caskets are so heavily fortified? As far as future videos, I saw a theory on reddit about the sets of knight armor in the pthumerian dungeons being the early Cainhurst armor. Here's a link to the thread. www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/3cxg84/screenshotslore_the_old_armor_in_chalice_dungeons/ This got me thinking about the radiant sword hunter's badge and the callback to an "ancient line of heroes that date back to a very early age of honour and chivalry". I'd love to hear your speculation on Cainhurst's history.
The caskets are chained because of the typical undead and vampire plagues during the Victorian era. This procedure was called "Mortsafe", and it also prevented the stealing of a corpse and resurrect it with galvanic experiments and strange alchemistic fluids injected into the bodies bloodsystem. 3.bp.blogspot.com/--s--DUJy7Jk/UaUww65s0xI/AAAAAAAAmyQ/bwKADU2jXuI/s640/mortsafe+9.jpg www.hoax-slayer.com/images/zombie-grave-cage.jpg Ressurected bodies were common back in the victorian era. lateralscience.blogspot.co.at/2012/09/galvanic-experiments-on-dead-body-of.html This case unfortunately failed, but many other zombies could be created this way. Caskets and graves were locked up and chained to prevent uncontrollable outbreaks of a no longer defeatable army of zombies and vampires at night. Some single zombies (and the few vampires that were evil, the majority of them are cool) could easily be killed, like this picture shows: 2.bp.blogspot.com/_RNrl2Gr0VwI/TP8JNnG2prI/AAAAAAAADfA/WkTK0a45HVo/s1600/vampire%2Bheart%2Band%2Bstake.jpg 2.bp.blogspot.com/_RNrl2Gr0VwI/TQBow8qA6WI/AAAAAAAADfs/vkifU3xmrYQ/s1600/mummified%2Bvampire%2Bheart%2B4.jpg 3.bp.blogspot.com/_RNrl2Gr0VwI/TQBy6rVGLjI/AAAAAAAADf8/qQ2DWmp391E/s1600/mummified%2Bvampire%2Bheart%2B3.jpg But without adequate firepower - the Gatling was not widely used back then - a whole cemetary rising during a Bloodmoon night would have been severe trouble.
Oh nice ramble. I wonder though, about the citizens of Yahar'gul. Many seemed to have been fused into the architecture as they clambered into the doors and windows and up the walls of the town. What ever disaster befell it, came very quickly. What could it have been?
I'm loving the style of this video and I love that you're covering the less "sexy" topic of this minor environment detail. More discussion of little things like this would be awesome! Did you have any thoughts on why the caskets are all chained up?
I want you to go over everything bloodborne, every damn detail if you don't mind. I'm gonna read your work - the paleblood hunt. I've been a massive fan of bloodborne since it released, and I can't believe I've been missing out on your content.. Noticed you haven't uploaded in a year or so, but I hope to see you do more like this someday. Thank you so much for making this series. Best regards from Norway.
I always thought the coffins would be taken to Hemwick Charnel Lanen for the corpses to be disposed of, seeing as how in Hemwick you can see stacks of opened coffins next to the big pyres, in addition to hand carts filled with coffins littered throughout the area. However, it is very possible that Hemwick is in fact run by or at least affiliated with the School of Mensis, and is likely where the school disposes of the, ahem, "by-products" of it's experiments.
Dunno if you check your comments on these videos anymore, but just wanted to reach out and contact you in some way for some quick correspondence. Great videos by the way. I go down the same rabbit holes with this game lol.
just wanna say, that miyazaki said in the futurepress interview, that the great ones really can't have children. Kinda like people who have a really high position at their job, can't afford to have children, but also want them. So my thoughts on the child-sized koffins @ the upper cathedral ward is, that the choir is trying to communicate with Ebriatas, by giving her children, even if they're dead. Maybe the Choir's version of the cramped cascet, are the celestial larvae. Giving Ebriatas dead children, so she can make the celestial larvae out of them. But the larvae do not satisfy the Ebriatas needs. She wants a real child. And the closest one she's got is the Rom-like Spider on the altar. Just my theory
Loved your commentary and ideas on the caskets! Would love to know what you think about the child of blood, or the various great ones and their possible motivations, or perhaps what you think insight really represents. I cant recall if you go into detail on any of those topics in the PBH, but either way i'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for taking the time to make this!
I've recently gotten into bloodborne and have spent hours upon hours on bloodborne lore and I loved the part about the executioners and found it awesome thag the other place you find executioners is in cainhurst where stagecoaches also go to.
I'm wondering what one has to do to become a Darkbeast. There's apparently more than just Paarl and the one in Loran- based on Tiny Tonitrus description. They bear a passing resemblance to the Moon Presence, but they don't share the constant electrical(?) discharges. Does Abhorrent Beast figure into this at all? Archibald managed to replicate the effect using quicksilver bullets and/or hunters blood, but I don't know how to interpret that when it comes to the origin of the creatures.
On the topic of Caskets. I've noticed that during the Chalice Dungeon runs, there can be seen Larger Caskets (not sure which Chalice type or layer), are there any moments where we see larger caskets "above ground"? Also, the fact that most of the Caskets that we break during our play of the game are "empty" except for the metal ones that are all chained up and locked, do you think this has any meaning?
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4 or 5 years later and I still want more. Hope you're doing well Redgrave.
Yeah, I keep getting back to those videos. Loved them so much. Great content.
he's just so handsome
You are a fricken legend.
I was late to Bloodborne, bought it in December and just finished the DLC yesterday. I spent a big chunk of my day reading the "Pale Blood Hunt" and watching your videos. Just wanted to thank you for your incredible work!
Man, I just started 2 weeks ago! I'm kinda surprised that there is a still active player base. Shows how popular FromSoftware games were/still are.
@@redtukeguy8968 There will be active players for as long as ps4 stays running lol
@@redtukeguy8968 4 years later, there's still active players
Legendary game
Redgrave's videos on bloodborne were/are some of the most stream of conscious epiphanies ever verbalised. you listen to the ramblings and there are just subliminal concepts that actually give you eyes within.
i feel like this video has made me understand bloodborne and it's lore more intimately than any other "bloodborne lore" video i've watched to date. given the fact that this is an unscripted video about such a minor detail that so many simply gloss over is even more impressive. this man is clearly a great one in human form, sharing it's immense insight ^ -^
The eye collector women drop pebbles as loot, same as the crows do. Real-life crows, as pointed out elsewhere, often steal and eat the eyes of corpses left out in the open - eg. bodies left out for sky burial or executed in gibbets - and the pebble image in Bloodborne includes a little circular marking on the rock, like an iris on an eyeball.
The eye collectors, like the crow monsters, pick up pebbles that remind them of eyes, either because they're too crazy to know the difference or because that's what just they like.
Back here again to binge this playlist
TheLegendaryTashy once every couple months lol
Agreed
Holy crap, this deserves more views.
Still the best in the game. Please return
I’ve been playing and loving Bloodborne since release. It’s been my favorite game of all time and has my favorite lore of all time. Three days ago I discovered “The Paleblood Hunt” and I applaud you sir. I love the deep dive and I am so excited to watch these videos! Thank you for all of the research and sorry for being soooooo late to the party!
Amazing video, great attention to detail. The Executioners wearing the Yahar'gul garb was mindblowing to me, so many details you've mentioned that made me think "OF COURSE!!!", I just love this narrative style of hiding secrets in plain sight so much.
But allow me to speculate for a bit about The One Reborn using the information you provided. I feel like The One Reborn wasn't made of these bodies, or at least of these bodies only. Pure speculation, of course, but perhaps they weren't getting the inteded results with those caskets, and thought they could get better results with living people? Obviously it wasn't that much better, but still.
All the petrified bodies you see desperately trying to escape whatever the hell was going on, plus Hail the Nightmare no longer playing on your second visit to Yahar'gul, I feel like it's indicating the inhabitants of the Unseen Village were sacrificed to give birth to the boss.
The composer of the boss theme said this, in a short Playstation Blog interview:
"Nobuyoshi Suzuki: The design and back-story had a large effect on me. The One Reborn, whose music I was in charge of composing, is a ghastly figure of ritual mass-sacrifice, and so the feeling of horror and of something disgusting was the underlying premise, with greater themes of adornment and royalty. So I started with the simple image of using deep bass-instrument riffs to invoke a sense of royalty, and the choir to express adornment, and began composing from there."
It pretty much confirms The One Reborn was made from mass sacrifice, which I don't think dead bodies would count for.
Source for the interview: blog.us.playstation.com/2015/05/18/the-story-behind-bloodbornes-haunting-soundtrack/
Very Late to the Party, so sorry if you touch on this subject on later videos, I'll watch them next.
I feel like your theory on The One Reborn is spot on. The Playstation Blog interview is an excellent find! I think it's clear by now that the School of Mensis was experimenting with corpses and living bodies alike. The only thing I'm wondering right now is if the ritual for creating the Nightmare of Mensis and the ritual for creating The One Reborn are connected, or if they were both seperate rituals.
They were probably trying to make a great one.
I heard a theory (I think it was on Aegon of Astora's channel, not 100% sure though) that they were trying to resurrect the Orphan of Kos.
I'm super late, but I'm glad you made a bunch of videos and I am indeed enjoying them! : D
There are a few Executioners in the snake forest as well. Only two if I am remembering right. But this video was very impressive for someone who is just rambling on about lore. You kept it objective rambling, if that makes sense. I hope to see more from you!
saithvenomdrone Are there really? That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that. I would be interested in going back and looking at their positioning.
One is right after you enter through the password door on your way to the lamp. He is on a side path to the right (facing the lamp coming from the password door) in a cave. The other one is actually in the snake forest on a path if you follow the right hand side wall after coming down the elevator from the lamp. You will have to roll or jump across a small gap to get to him.
saithvenomdrone Oh that's right, I remember that one you have to jump across to get to. The first time I played I must have run past him a dozen times doing the Shadows of Yharnam.
If you come up with a reason why they are there I'm sure more people than just I would like to hear about it. Maybe an update in the video description about them or a small side mention in your next video, if you make one? Seriously though, this video was very interesting and insightful to something I thought was just a atmospheric thing in the game. Keep up the good work, man.
+saithvenomdrone As an update to this, the DLC might give us an idea why there would be executioners in the forrest. The description of the Butchers Garb confirms that there was some forbidden experimentation being done by the villagers in the Woods, on dead bodies including the prey brought back by the Madaras Twins. Perhaps the School of Mensis were at odds with the parallel research being done by the villagers and the executioners' presence is evidence of their efforts to curb this activity.
As a giant bloodborne fan ive watched all your vids. You really have made my days better man.
Really sucks that youtube only rewards frequent uploads cause you should be more popular
A little Wikipedia goes a long way in this game.
Hypogean Gaol translates to "underground jail" with a little help from Greek and Welsh.
Similarly, a charnel house is a "vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored." So that's what's going on with Hemwick, and why the executioners are there.
And six years later, waiting for one wicked guy to dive deep into elden ring, or dead space or whatever the fuck he wants to. This videos had something really deep about them, good shit my friend, I like to revisit this place at times. And I’m totally fine waiting for six more years, it’s all good bro. Hope you are doing fine and life has been kind to you.
Glad you decided to start doing videos! I can't wait to hear more.
You know how we hear a baby crying throughout the game? I was thinking how cool it would be if that crying was actually the sound that the Great Ones hear from humanity and that's why they seek us out as their children. I find Oedon and his formless baby to be such a boring story.
One thing I don't understand and perhaps you could answer it in a quick few seconds but in the very beginning of the game during the first cutscene, the blood ministrator says: "Oh, yes... Paleblood..." It puzzles me why he says that as if the PC Hunter was inquiring about Paleblood.
Another thing is how the place where you fight Gascoigne is called the Tomb of Oedon. Isn't the expression "Tomb of..." indicative of a deceased person or thing? As opposed to Oedon Tomb or something it's Tomb of Oedon.
Well, with the scourge going on, it's unlikely your gonna see anyone with their wits about them taking the time to say a detailed prayer at the tomb. (I'm guessing that gascoigne had only just arrived there before us and by the time we get to him, his wife's dead on a nearby rooftop, and you see the mob that likely hunted her down, being chopped to bits by a reasonably pissed hubby).
Suffice it to say, the idea of odeon is dead. Yet their spiritual presence can still be felt. And the incorporeal beings we see, like ghosts and stuff, thrive on the ideas of those around them.
For example. Talos, from skyrim. Or any daedra or aedra for that matter, are only as powerful as their influence. You take away talos worship, you weaken the ascended being.
I wonder why are some of the coffins in Yharnam chained, as if to prevent those within from escaping.
Or to prevent beasts from feasting on the corpses. I mean, those body parts are valuable to Mensis, after all. Can't have these blasted beasts stealing our goods now, can we? haha
@@1SWINZ1 I mean, how would that work? The chains are not going to stop something from breaking the coffins.
@@Solaire_of_Astora13 What, you mean the beasts are going to approach it with a pair of bolt cutters or something? Lol The coffins are also metal. It seems to be to stop anything from getting in or out, but if you have a better idea, let’s hear it.
@@1SWINZ1 a beast could easily break the chains with his teeth if he put enough work into it. Opening the casket should serve no more difficulty either, or else the chain was unnecessary in the first place. Furthermore, why leave something so valuable at the exposure of beasts? Wouldn't it be better to store it? It makes sense for hunters however to momentarily close the coffins so that nothing inside may come out, but it only happens to some of the coffins, indicating a particular fear towards a certain kind of blood. The hunters would not know how to handle the crisis of the coffins well because their brains are getting fried by the minute.
@@1SWINZ1 come to think of it, we do know what is inside of the coffins. The beasts wouldn't have a need for them unless they become too desperate. Nope, it's for keeping something inside.
I just got back into Bloodborne for the first time since release and would like to thank you for this. Wandering the streets of the Cathedral Ward as you revealed the disturbing truths in the seemingly innocuous scenery of Yharnam was a great pleasure. Keep up the good work!
So I know you probably don't read these or if you still dabble in the lore, but I have a whole theory about the executioner enemies based on a little thing from the DLC - The Butcher Set (added in the dlc) actually looks a lot more like what they're wearing - it's got the collar and the chain link at the neck, that weird armor with the girls face on it obviously isn't in the set you get but otherwise it looks more like it than the ya'har gul hunter outfits. Then I realised another thing, there are yharnam resident beast enemies in the exact butcher's set - the set has this distinctive apron thing going on and the it's identical to what these enemies are wearing - asnd what does the butcher's set tell us? It appears to be an attire unique to hunters/denizens of the forbidden woods and since the woods have apparently been locked off for a while I think the enemies we meet there consitute a secret society living in relative squallor and partaking in crazy fucked up experiments of their own, I think with some influence from the pthumerian tombs/parasites from within because obvs the forbidden woods is the gateway to pthumerian tombs that byrgenwerth found - literally an ancient burial ground (Can I get a Rats in the Walls?) possibly older than the pthumerians, but also probably with some influence by the choir / what's left of byrgenwerth. So What does this have to do with anything? Well, the shortcut from forbidden woods to central yharnam - I don't see much speculation about who built this route or when probably because there's not much information, my theory is that, like the secret entrance hidden under a grave we find to old yharnam, this was an old route to the village in the wods that was sealed up - presumably by whoever forbade entrance into the woods and to byrgenwerth - and left shut for a while. I think that it was the society of the woods itself that dug open the entrance and made the ladder we use to get out and they are now essentially using the hunt to invade central - to what end I'm not sure, and there are things that don't add up but there are things that do - the first executioner enemy is literally right next to this shortcut, these enemies guard the monjolith that takes you to cainhurst, which you have to have used the shortcut in order to get the summons etc. you pick up the butcher set in the dlc right by that nightmare executioner) there are things that don't make sense in this theory but I'm considering many possibilities - maybe the choir opened up the route to subvert the password and get to byrgenwerth, which I say because the place looks pretty abandoned and the only human there is the single choir member who I don't think is guarding the door because they don't drop the key and also all the stuff that references Willem in a past tense and the lunarium key talking about his final years etc. I think he's been there alone for a while or maybe he's just an illusion like the lake and the moon. It's impossible not to get off track with this seemingly, I'm bursting at the seems with ideas about little details that seem to have not come up in the past but maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places...
Wow this video blew my mind away I was needing help piecing the lore together thank you love the videos
Definitely a very well spoken video, I hadn't even thought much about the caskets. I do look forward to any more lore videos you do, your very well spoken and entertaining to say the very least. I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to reading your pale blood hunt, but I'll make a point to sit down and read it this weekend if not sooner!
In my never ending quest to truly understand Bloodborne I have been guided here. Although many years later this fills in so many gaps. Ive been listening to Sin & Sophie BB podcasts. Thanks!
Its a shame you didnt do more. I mustve seen every video on this channel 10 times or more. And it is captivating every. Single. Time.
i miss these videos
You articulate your ideas very well and would love to see you do even more videos like this on the whole SoulsBorne series.
Please do more of these. It's great to see something focusing on little details. Without them the game would be so much less, and they don't get much love from the rest of the community.
Hey Redgrave, read your Paleblood Moon months ago and loved it; just found out you had some videos. One point to note regarding children's caskets is that there are some on the path to Old Yharnam underneath the sarcophagus and indeed some in Old Yharnam where the Rifle Spear is.
I know I shouldn't but I almost see your theories as the official story/lore. Mostly because it is so well-made and detailed. Your "Pale Blood Hunt" text was really awesome and answered a lot of my questions. Of course in the end, there are actually few things we know, especially about The Great Ones. I love how in the game they are so superior that most mind can't even comprehend them, and here we are (maybe not so much in this video) trying to figure out what they are and what they want.
I love your work man
Oh boy, this was good. I am definitely looking forward to more. You were so right the basic lore has been beaten to death already, but I really like where you are going with this.
If you don't mind I have a small suggestion. How about instead of describing the monsters and the places you splice in some screenshots of those instead, nothing fancy, but just a refresher to people who forgot the names and places and what they look like.
And as far as what I would like to hear more of, well, I find the monster designs intricate, perhaps you could dig a bit and find some stuff on why monsters look how they look, what caused it and such. The properties of magic, how was magic achieved and what caused this arcane knowledge to manifest itself the way it does, this might turn redundant to the days of Demon's Souls and Soul Arrow on how it it is concentrated soul energy or something similar but seeing how this is a totally different world maybe there is more stuff. Gravestones, surely not all of them are graves why are they used as sort of decoration. Statues, statues made out of bones, why some of them have chains wrapped aroun, why do they look like they are covering their face...
Anyway, I am sure I could come up with other stuff if you will ask in the future, can't think of anything right now, I have been spending too much time in Chalice Dungeons, haven't seen Yarhnam for a very long time.
Well, this was a pleasant surprise! I hope you continue making videos, as you're very intelligent and well-spoken. I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on BB's lore as well as that of other Souls games.
Some ideas I have regarding this: In Hemwick some of the bodies are upside down which my lady pointed out was torturous in an effort to make blood rush to one’s head, hence why the eyes are bloodshot. I think Mensis and the Choir focused on Laurence’s beliefs in the bulk operations such as this, but practiced outside of that in secrecy. Another observation is that the path leading to Cainhurst from Hemwick is destroyed and is completely unable to be traversed until the mystical ponies pop up. Perhaps the nobles who were slain by the executioners were taken back to Hemwick to have the blasphemous Yharnam ritual done to them. This possibility could further explain the restless spirits in Cainhurst. Furthermore, if you sit in the Witch of Hemwick’s boss room you can hear those same cries. This particular detail is a bit of a stretch because that same sound bite appears in other areas of the game, but I felt it was worth mentioning anyways.
I can’t help but notice how in practice the paths between beasthood and ascension differ greatly, but how materials such as cold blood flower buds grow out of blood, displaying a clear link between them.
I don’t know if anyone of this checks out, but I wanted to put it forward anyways. I hope you are well and if ever you find yourself willing to chat, I’d be eager to do so.
Just found your videos after you posted the updated version of the Paleblood Hunt, when you first released the summarized version back half a year ago I read through it multiple times and loved it to death! Have yet to read the updated 108 page version but I'll sink my teeth into it later today, maybe as a lullaby story for myself haha. Also, you're quite handsome. No homo :P
I think it’s important to note that: despite her abhorrent appearance, the Witch of Hemwick might be one the only “successful” human evolutions in Bloodborne (besides Rom?)
She can teleport, clone herself, and summon seemingly-otherworldly beings with ease, despite still being human.
The other “eye collectors” seem to have not achieved her level of “intelligence” though, so perhaps this could be attributed to the Rune Workshop Tool found in her Abode?
Just recentish got into the lore of Bloodborne and I can't stop digging, I need more. "Paleblood Hunt" was so enjoyable and thorough to read. Hope you're doing well and enjoying Elden Ring.
I really like that you want to talk about some of the more easily overlooked details of Bloodborne's world, maybe you could try the Brainsuckers next? It looks like their skulls have been cut open and their brains operated on, perhaps by the Choir. Some of the statues in the chalice dungeons have similar scars on their foreheads as well.
Also, Marcus mentioned in his playthrough that he thought the Brainsuckers were infested with phantasms, and that this was the reason they had tentacles sprouting out of their faces.
Great video! Love the lore into the little details and would like to hear more connections. On my first play through I kept waiting for those dam caskets in central Yharna to burst open
id love to watch you stream pls hop on!!
Amazing video, sir. I just beat the game for the first time with the moon presence and an article by Rich Stanton led me to your Paleblood Hunt. Looking forward to any videos you make in the future if you decide to.
Rewatching your entire TLTIY video series now for the third?? (probably fourth) time.
I really hope you make more - if there's still anything left to talk about (which I'm pretty sure there is). Your content sparked a whole new outlook on this game and the series as a whole. Your name seems to have gained traction and although it doesn't (yet) show in views and subscriber numbers, people seem to be aware of your work and other people reference it. That makes me happy, because the connections you make are on a much deeper level than traditional lore hunters (not that they do not have their place) and the game deserves to have someone like you looking into it and interpreting it.
Thank you for making this video, it raised my insight.
Here's to many more great videos like it!
I'll never look at all those coffins the same way again. You've added so much flavor to the world for me in just those fifteen minutes. I can't wait to hear about more of these little things I've overlooked.
Also, a big thank you for The Paleblood Hunt. It was the easily one of the best gifts the fandom has ever received.
(Sorry if I come off sounding like a weirdo, I am just such a big fan of your work.)
To finally hear more from the author (and cat) of pale blood hunt. Love your work. Thanks for your contributions
I wish you still did these lol
I love Bloodborne. I love Bloodborne so much it's why I bought a PS4. Thank you for putting out some great videos dealing with the lore and background of this fantastic game.
Excellent analysis/speculation. It's good to hear from someone who has done a lot of research and can provide some real insight into the lore.
Ahh! Thank you! I have been wanting to see a video or have a discussion about the coffins littering Yharnam. I'm looking forward to this video.
i wonder if the executioners are there to behead the corpses and prevent them from reanimating.would also make sense that some coffins are chained shut probably to prevent the corpses escaping during transit. i also wonder whether the yharnam townsfolk enemies you encounter are the undead reanimated corspes that escaped from the coffins. would make sense with them being partially decomposed and also the way they are dressed. in the lore it mentions that the church provided the townsfolk who participated in the hunt with armour that didnt provide much protection but they all seem to be wearing suits much like they would be if they had been dressed for a funeral or to be buried.
i noticed aswel that there is a large metal gate we never go through in central yharnam, where we fight the cleric beast (it drops down in front of it) at the other end of that road is several coaches and a large pile of caskets, i think this was the road the caskets were being transported from, if you look at the world map, that road goes under cathedral ward and towards hemwick, it could possibly join up at the far side of hemwick where we have the collapsed road. this is also where we find the executioners in hemwick,maybe situated to behead any reanimating corpses from the incoming carriages. also the witch is very close to this location too would make sense for the eyballs to be removed here before the caskets were taken further into central hemwick to be cremated.theres also the possibility that the road cold fork on the other side of cathedral ward and go towards yahargul aswel. so imposter stagecoach drivers from the school of mensis could switch direction and change course to yahargul.
In times of plague, it was common to "bring out the dead" as in leaving the corpses of those who succumbed to the plague in a household for the undertaker to take away to bury or burn...since the blood disease is akin to the plague the citizens would leave the bodies outside trying to spare themselves of future contagion
Super late, but since I don't own a PS4 I will likely never be able to play the game, but these videos help satiate my curiosity. I'm a huge horror fan, so Bloodborne is just a(n) (old) god send.
Your videos are awesome. Thank you so much. :)
The eye collectors drop rocks which LOOK like eyeballs. Maybe they're confused. Also I think the crows drop pebbles for the same reason. They love jumping at you face (and eyes.)
Great theory. Enjoyed the video and especially all of the connections in enemy placement with the Yarhar'gul Hunters. When I first played the game I assumed the caskets were chained up to keep whatever was in them locked inside but there doesn't seem to be many "undead" enemies in the game. Any thoughts on why the caskets are so heavily fortified?
As far as future videos, I saw a theory on reddit about the sets of knight armor in the pthumerian dungeons being the early Cainhurst armor. Here's a link to the thread. www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/3cxg84/screenshotslore_the_old_armor_in_chalice_dungeons/
This got me thinking about the radiant sword hunter's badge and the callback to an "ancient line of heroes that date back to a very early age of honour and chivalry". I'd love to hear your speculation on Cainhurst's history.
The caskets are chained because of the typical undead and vampire plagues during the Victorian era.
This procedure was called "Mortsafe", and it also prevented the stealing of a corpse and resurrect it with galvanic experiments and strange alchemistic fluids injected into the bodies bloodsystem.
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Ressurected bodies were common back in the victorian era.
lateralscience.blogspot.co.at/2012/09/galvanic-experiments-on-dead-body-of.html
This case unfortunately failed, but many other zombies could be created this way.
Caskets and graves were locked up and chained to prevent uncontrollable outbreaks of a no longer defeatable army of zombies and vampires at night. Some single zombies (and the few vampires that were evil, the majority of them are cool) could easily be killed, like this picture shows:
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But without adequate firepower - the Gatling was not widely used back then - a whole cemetary rising during a Bloodmoon night would have been severe trouble.
Amazing content bro, you needa come back!
Oh nice ramble. I wonder though, about the citizens of Yahar'gul. Many seemed to have been fused into the architecture as they clambered into the doors and windows and up the walls of the town. What ever disaster befell it, came very quickly. What could it have been?
7 years later ,,, still an awesome series of bloodborne.
We need more videos from you dude!
Very rich and enlightening. Enjoyed watching it. I would like to hear more on cainhurst and its background.
I'm loving the style of this video and I love that you're covering the less "sexy" topic of this minor environment detail. More discussion of little things like this would be awesome! Did you have any thoughts on why the caskets are all chained up?
Still haven't read your book but you definitely earned my sub here, good sir.
Just saying I liked this and would enjoy more of your talks on Bloodborne.
I want you to go over everything bloodborne, every damn detail if you don't mind. I'm gonna read your work - the paleblood hunt. I've been a massive fan of bloodborne since it released, and I can't believe I've been missing out on your content.. Noticed you haven't uploaded in a year or so, but I hope to see you do more like this someday. Thank you so much for making this series. Best regards from Norway.
Great video, gonna watch the rest now. Hope you will continue with some more in the future including the dlc and dark souls 3!
Really cool! Thank you
Wow! Awesome realization! Never thought about any of this but all the evidence is at the start of the game like you mentioned.
Great vid learned a lot
Miss you bro!
Does anyone know how to find his earlier videos before this? It seems like he has a bunch of deleted or unlisted videos.
I always thought the coffins would be taken to Hemwick Charnel Lanen for the corpses to be disposed of, seeing as how in Hemwick you can see stacks of opened coffins next to the big pyres, in addition to hand carts filled with coffins littered throughout the area. However, it is very possible that Hemwick is in fact run by or at least affiliated with the School of Mensis, and is likely where the school disposes of the, ahem, "by-products" of it's experiments.
Somebody PLEASE...get this man a PS5...with Demons and Elden
Great stuff man. More lore about about Cainhurst would be great. Thank you for granting us eyes ;c)
Dunno if you check your comments on these videos anymore, but just wanted to reach out and contact you in some way for some quick correspondence. Great videos by the way. I go down the same rabbit holes with this game lol.
Great video Redgrave! Would be nice to see video reference to know which areas you are talking about each time, but still a nice watch/listen :-)
Amazing video
just wanna say, that miyazaki said in the futurepress interview, that the great ones really can't have children. Kinda like people who have a really high position at their job, can't afford to have children, but also want them. So my thoughts on the child-sized koffins @ the upper cathedral ward is, that the choir is trying to communicate with Ebriatas, by giving her children, even if they're dead. Maybe the Choir's version of the cramped cascet, are the celestial larvae. Giving Ebriatas dead children, so she can make the celestial larvae out of them. But the larvae do not satisfy the Ebriatas needs. She wants a real child. And the closest one she's got is the Rom-like Spider on the altar. Just my theory
This video was really cool. I'm going to take this as headcanon
Loved your commentary and ideas on the caskets! Would love to know what you think about the child of blood, or the various great ones and their possible motivations, or perhaps what you think insight really represents. I cant recall if you go into detail on any of those topics in the PBH, but either way i'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for taking the time to make this!
Please keep doing what you do
you are so smart! i love this explanation!
One thing that really sticks out for me is the bodies/skeletons in the walls in Yahar'gul, I''d appreciate hearing your thoughts on that.
oh god i loved this video so much
This was great! I also loved the essay, very interesting! Also... I totally didn't consider the caskets besides the spooky part...
this was really awesome you should do more small things videos
damn i really enjoy your videos
Do The Paleblood Hunt Vol. 2, The first was amazing! Would probably make an amazing video series as well.
I've recently gotten into bloodborne and have spent hours upon hours on bloodborne lore and I loved the part about the executioners and found it awesome thag the other place you find executioners is in cainhurst where stagecoaches also go to.
This is awesome! Please make so many more :D
given the scale, horse drawn omnibuses would've been epic to see
AMAZING
Maybe talk about the Brick Troll that blames you for the little girl who dies?
I was watching this while eating sushi. At 12:10 I had a new perspective on sush.
Redgrave: your favorite loremaster's favorite loremaster
nice observation, you are really good!! :D.
Did anyone notice all the child coffins below the church of the good chalice?
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I'm wondering what one has to do to become a Darkbeast.
There's apparently more than just Paarl and the one in Loran- based on Tiny Tonitrus description. They bear a passing resemblance to the Moon Presence, but they don't share the constant electrical(?) discharges.
Does Abhorrent Beast figure into this at all?
Archibald managed to replicate the effect using quicksilver bullets and/or hunters blood, but I don't know how to interpret that when it comes to the origin of the creatures.
On the topic of Caskets. I've noticed that during the Chalice Dungeon runs, there can be seen Larger Caskets (not sure which Chalice type or layer), are there any moments where we see larger caskets "above ground"?
Also, the fact that most of the Caskets that we break during our play of the game are "empty" except for the metal ones that are all chained up and locked, do you think this has any meaning?
Awesome lore deductions.
I enjoyed it this is a cool series
dood. mind. blown. yes.
Loved this video. Hope you're still interested in Bloodborne. Would love to hear your take on the barrels in Yharnam.