Loved the videos bro, of course we still care about Bloodborne!

Haha Imagine ever not caring about Bloodborne

You are the second coming of hawkshaw and we all respect the hardwork

i agree with pretty much everything in this video but after multiple play through's ive started thinking about something. i believe that bergenworth and willem had been so desperate to transcend humanity that once they heard about the fishing hamlet they decided to investigate and they found a village that worshipped kos as a god of bounty bringing fish and the insight of the gods at the cost of their own humanity. so they sent in the hunters to get whatever information out of the villagers they could. through some turn of events gherman and maria were given audience with kos and one way or another became pregnant with gherman's half human baby, since the great ones cant impregnate one another and always lose their child, need a human surrogate but in the case of kos she is the one female great one we encounter besides amygdala ( rom and abrietas not included since they are not truly great ones ) so maybe a female great one has to have sperm donor of sorts which sounds complicated but its a game about cosmic alien gods living in dreams and nightmares. so what if gherman some how impregnated kos as a desperate act to build a bridge between humans and great ones or if it was kos's idea so she could finally have a child as alot of mothers do considering how much god-human birth there is in this game. gherman and the orphan of kos look alot alike ( hes the only great one that looks human at all ) and they share a similar voice. could it be that maria found out about this and was in love with ghermam and in a fit of rage killed mother kos while pregnant? Once this hypothetically happened, kos cursed the hunters and their kin for killing her and making her lose out on her chance to give birth finally. once the villagers would have found out about the death of their god dont you think they would all become hostile towards any outsiders from then on. lady maria being a caring person would have cast out the weapon that killed a friendly great one and spent her time stuck in the nightmare caring for its sickly inhabitants trying to repent for what she had done. gherman on the other hand being punished by the gods and the church by eternally being the moons slave and helping train hunters to take over for him once he dies perpetuation the hunt/nightmare/dream. idk just a theory

Metaphorically, this is not about the story of an imaginary digital world, but rather the original world that allowed this digital creation. The world you thought you were in, never truly existed. Only our limited perception continues giving it reality.

It could be that the horror from this world was their own manifestation. It was a corruption of their own perception or lack thereof that damned them in twisted horror when meddling with knowledge and beings hundreds and millions of years beyond their advancement.

@@NoxLegend1 the horror of the world is humans own manifestation. Greed and curiosity. I like that it still feels realistic in comparison; If the world really was built upon Great Ones enacting a will beyond our understanding, if we were to discover or be granted audience with the understanding of such truths would we not end up the same way? Those who would wish to abuse it for power and godhood, those who would seek to understand it through alternate means, those who would seek to destroy it, and those who would seek to hide it permanently.

This game has one of the best plot twist ever. And yet as you said it s all our fault

Sometimes, the real monsters are the ones we made along the way.

​@MephiticMiasma the ones we became

Hell yeah we still care about Bloodborne! Thank you mate, we appreciate the support!

@@Thebrotherscode Apart from maybe ds1 Bloodborne easily best gameplay and story great job mate top notch stuff.

I have only ever played Bloodborne at a friend's house and i'm still obsessed with the lore.

I still want to replay this game

We will always care

personally, it reminds me of Alucard near the end of Hellsing, in tears begging Anderson to stop. Please don't choose to become like me. The fact all that emotion shared doesn't stop either story ending in a fight to the death adds to that

"I've been begging for a way out for decades, and you, that actually has the chance, rejects it?"

If only he knew. That we weren't lost to the blood. We are no beast. We are just a man. Just like Gherman. Trying desperately to free the other from an unending torment. This is not a battle. It is an act of kindness. A dance of death to the song of clashing blades. To the victor goes the honor of sacrifice. To the vanquished, the sweet release from pain. Gherman fights to protect us from the horrors he's enslaved by. And we fight to grant him rest, because he has suffered enough, knowing full well what lies at the end of that road. Bloodborne is truly a viscerally beautiful game.

@@inquisitionagent9052 well said

That's funny, I've interpreted his words the complete opposite. The words, along with how he says them, to me sounds like he's going "Oh, you've found out that the paleblood you've searched for all along is the great old one sustaining this hunter's dream. What was it that gave it away? The hunt being a farce? The blood being nowhere to be found? The fact that this dream also needs a great one to sustain it, just like the other dreams you've been in? Regardless, now that you know the truth, it's up to me to clean up this mess." Much less about him regretting your insanity, and much more him admitting the truth behind your insight, and stating his determination to keep you away from facing the Moon Presence.

I love the 4 souls games but I can't get into bloodborne... I just downloaded again today but still can't seem to get into it. It seems a lot harder than any of the souls games which is cool but no one is playing online so can't get help when needed so maybe I just need to git good? Who knows... Wish I could get past old yarnham.

@@nointro the three tap rule is perfect for getting past the boss in old yharnam. She's beast type, so I recommend using fire.

Could u explain to me wht its about?I'm a beginner but I hv no idea lol

@@nointro i still get jerks invading my game and killing me..only started playing this month...amazing game

@@harimakenji7608 I got invaded too I just suck and need help killing bosses

Couldn’t agree more. I loved the isshin sword saint fight and the bloodborne storytelling. I hope elden ring will have the best of bloodborne sekiro and dark souls

Imagine an idealistic young Ghermann who trusted Laurence so much he's willing to sacrifice his normal life to hunt the beasts in secret. Only to be shunned aside and probably treated like pariah when the secret is out and the people praised Ludwig instead. And yet he still believe in Laurence.

Don't get me wrong I love isshin and maybe it's because Bloodborne was my first fromsoft's game but I personally prefer Gherman, he is a flawed character with good intentions to heart that's why his weapon the burial blade was made to wish "Farewell" to the beast he was hunting. Still maybe my nostalgia who knows.

@@faizalf119 He still endured the hunters dream for years and stayed in order to set the new hunter free instead of following his steps.

What are you talking about? Gherman got help, I ended his suffering.

Thank you very much, this is very high praise and means a lot to us, glad the video achieved its goal of providing a more complete timeline and context to everything in the world of Bloodborne.

Absolutely! And thank you for the amazing story telling!

This is definately Hawkshaw level right here.

Vaati honestly barely covered Bloodborne - and he said the reason why was because he really didn't know the story that well. Sinclair Lore has a ton of excellent videos, Mitch L, Redgrave, and Last Protagonist all have awesome videos.

Vaati stole from redgrave

It should say that when a player/NPC is summoned for co-op, or maybe invaders too

I always imagine smash bros intro

@@Saixah😂😂😂

Thanks for pointing that out. I'd love to think it that way and it may now be my headcannon. :)

This and also it’s the only ending where the cycle actually ends because you kill the moon presence

@@lute6904 does it end the cycle tho. Maybe you'll just have the same purpose as the Moon Presence and seek to repeat the cycle

The doll is not human to begin with, and i don't think she will oppose whatever nature the new great one will come to develop. imo the best ending is the one where you accept to return to the waking world Event tho the cycle may repeat, but it is the one that is closer to the human nature we are doomed to repeat history and the cycle of life is a never ending one. The ending that we may one day accept ourselves and our weaknesses and that we don't have to be more than what we are.

That's the thing tho what if the hunter doesn't lose his memorys of being a human so he could very become a much better great one

Wait, who actually said that?? Was it Simon?

…Im pretty sure almost every human acknowledges they are inferior to the great ones. Most aren’t whining that it isnt fair either, most are trying to elevate themselves to great ones in various gruesome ways.

@@midshipman8654the attempt in itself to elevate themselves is the characters trying to get what they already know they can't have. yes they acknowledge it but all the events of the game were in a attempt to contact a great one so they could use/abuse the old blood and to obtain the knowledge of the great ones. Everything was brought about by ignorance (gherman, the citizens of Yharnam), and self-righteous entitlement (Laurence, Micolash, the church, and to a lesser extent Willam)

You've got a point, but you used the worst dialogue. Simon says that when talking about how all hunters are forever condemned to death and eternal torture, just because the original hunters committed atrocities. It isn't fair to punish those who had no choice, or aren't even connected to the original crime

@@evilajax5657 ah I see, you're definitely correct then

You've just put into words why we love this game so much, beautifully articulated. Thank you for watching Emily, we appreicate your time! 🤍

+1000000

I ain’t reading allat

@@jinxmajinme he said video is bussin

​@@jinxmajinmeyea you have a few on here trying to be unnecessarily intellectual.

@@gelena31 cheers pal

@@deadcell4837 how is “i aint reading allat” intellectual 💀💀

Dat way!!

Milkweed rune

grant us eyes, GRANT US EYES!

It took 48 madmans knowledge and 85 great ones wisdoms before i had the insight for this video.

The sad thing is, the real reason is almost certainly that there’s an over saturation of blood borne lore videos. Once you hear it a dozen times you stop being excited at a new one. Which is tragic because this one is without a doubt the best one IMO.

Ahem hp lovecraft. You do know a lot of it is almost copy paste like eldrich beings right?

@@quattro4468 I mean yeah they have eldritch beings in bloodborne but the story is what’s good. There are many lovecraftian story that aren’t good because they aren’t well written

@@quattro4468 ahem, you do realize everything inspires everything else and nothing is unique or original, right?

@@quattro4468 I don't think he made Bloodborne so although he was an inspiration it's not his story bud

@@quattro4468 that doesn't change anything.

Lmfao 🤣

*Flashes back to little girl*....Mistakes were made, and I now live in regret.

If you freed Gehrmann and Maria, at least you saved 2 souls from misery. If you lie to Ludwig at least he die happy. If you kill the infant of Kos and Mergo Kos will return to the depth and removed the curse and Arianna soul will finally at rest.

@@faizalf119 Good point. The hunter can't save anyone from the consequences of the choices they made. All he can do is end their suffering.

@@JR-hw7bk Beautiful. I haven’t seen any other game write a player insert main character and their roles in the overall story as well as Bloodborne.

1 insight gained when you like the video Congratulations, you've become a great one

Damn bro where'd you find 49 insight from

I think one of the main side effects of the Old Blood was potentially longer life? Similar to the One Ring more or less prolonging/stretching ones life. everything in this story that comes from something Greater only brings about ruin when humans pursue it. our mortal frames aren't equipped to see, touch, taste, feel, or be in the presence of higher beings. as a Christian, I absolutely LOVE this game because it feels like a bizarro take on Christianity. tons of absolute comparisons and similarities. the consuming of body and blood to gain further access to health and eternal life. the prayer to be given eyes to see. but all for naught. the object of their faiths are brutal and mostly merciless creatures. that's exactly how history plays out in our world, and how the Bible speaks of every civilization that seeks greatness. Greatness and dominion over the world is sought, acquired, and through insatiability ruin and destruction comes, and the cycle repeats. our only Hope, though, is for the actual God of gods to break into the cycle, destroy it from within, and bring us out of the cycle through His own self sacrifice, death, burial, resurrection, and Ascension back to His throne. All under the guise of being murdered by his own creations and enemies. anyway. love it love it love it. playing through it again now. have never beaten the DLC. I've always wanted to play with the Churchpick but didn't get far enough into the DLC. anyway, it shall be acquired.

Thank you for telling me 😭🤯 I almost thought this video was about to be a 25 minute video. A Hour Long video is definitely a good Audio book

@@ridjauhnryan6882 U are welc ✨✨

Have Insight incel

Lady Maria was telling people to go and touch grass a century before the Internet.

plip plop splish splash

Same

It really is a perfect story. I don’t know how Myazaki can create lore like he did for Bloodborne and Dark Souls. It’s just unbelievable perfection. And as for the tears, I find the Old Hunters DLC quite emotional as well. Ludwig, Maria, Laurence, OoK. Tragic figures, tragic and sickening story. Gehrman as well, Gehrman really makes me sad. Your fight with him isn’t something about power, it isn’t anger, you’ve served your purpose and he doesn’t want you to be trapped for eternity like he is. He wants you to move on and live life, so badly that he is willing to give his all to stop you from taking his place. The best ending for everyone though (at the very least you and Gehrman is the transcendence ending, Gehrman is free finally, the Moon Presence is gone, and you have begun to bring Humanity to a higher level of being)

Lol ok diva

Average Bloodborne fan

The scariest thing about tue story is how believable it is. I mean magic and stuff aside, you can easily see a similar story playing out in reality.

Beat him today. And I can Say only one. Farewell, good Hunter. May you find peace...

good to know that obsessed people like you and me are still hanging around. there is something that brings me back to the world of bloodborne and its lore.

@@shyy2103 don't be surprised. Great games like all great pieces of art are studied years after their release.

I felt this comment and the replies deep in my core. Something about Micolash made me look into the lore of Mensis and I’ve been obsessed with the overall lore of BB ever since. Still have a special place in my heart for the school of Mensis tho.

lore playthroughs you say??

@@_Umbrael_ how? Just how?

@@_Umbrael_ Did you do your first playthrough with the HUD turned off? You are *required* to beat AT LEAST Gascoigne and Shadows of Yharnam before Rom; so you *had* to have seen AT LEAST 4 giant, boss health bars before Rom if the HUD was on. I don’t buy your story, friend-o.

@@_Umbrael_ you saying that proves his point.

@@_Umbrael_ Let me just unpack this... 1) You bought and booted up a game you knew nothing about. 2) You made the conscious decision to fiddle with the options after immediately gaining control of your character. 3) You found the option to hide the HUD, knew what that meant, and made the conscious decision to turn it off... all because you magically assumed that was the ‘hardest difficulty.’ 4) You played the game up to Rom without EVER seeing your health, blood bullets, item selection, message prompts, speech prompts, interaction prompts, and any boss’ health... on a *blind* playthrough. 5) You fought a giant, deformed spider that has its own background music, battle arena, summons minions, meteors, and is *required* to progress the game further. ...and you still assumed... that it *wasn’t* a boss? You are a terrible liar, but a really good internet troll. Well done. I hope I was a sufficient replacement for your much needed human interaction this week. You may breathe easy now, knowing you fooled a total stranger; your galaxy-brain could really use the oxygen.

@@_Umbrael_ Oh, good. You played a Souls game before. *Then you should already be somewhat familiar with and should able to recognize the patterns of what a Fromsoft BOSS looks like.* Theme music. Arena. Big enemy. Big EFF-off attacks. Summons minions. Pick a few. It’s not hard. You are so *full of it.*

Thank you very much, that means a lot coming from you

agreed

Bloodborne to sleep to? 👀

Jake The Lord of Sleep approves, definitely gonna check out what they got.

I’m the 666th like on this comment

then i have to assume you havent seen any other actual bloodborne lore videos from channels like sinclair lore, redgrave (who wrote a 107 page essay too), last protagonist or aesir aesthetics because this video not only not mention many, many things, but just basically flat out lies about some things, while not proving the more "wild" theories with actual facts. Not to mention if we would look at it just from a production standpoint, the fact that they overused music in places they shouldnt have and didnt even use any music from the game itself makes it so much worse. In conclusion, it is incomplete and as i said just wrong in some places. Honestly i do like that people make lore videos about bloodborne in 2021, i just dont like that this video got so popular while being how it is.

@@4blasphemy dam

@@wilhelmlvseth321 thx

@@4blasphemy it’s just supposed to be a timeline video, and lore is interpretive, so it’s not some big “sin” to get something wrong. Also the production is great compared to other lore videos as some of them don’t have the best mics or editing, I like Redgrave and Sinclair but this video is really good and very clear for people who may not need a super focused look on different subjects in the Bloodborne world

@@dylanmayhue4605 lets be honest, im 20 mins in and there are points already where the music is so loud i can barelly hear the voice, why im already in the comments. It would have been better without it

How when you had to go to video to piece a story . Nimble minded

played DLC??

Thank you Marlon, happy to know that you enjoyed watching the video = D

Well it will be on HBO so who knows.

It's gonna be bad.

@@xirxirsday6583 this is gonna be a thing?

The entirety of dark souls 1 would make for a great bedtime story book too

I've wanted for a long time to make a Dungeons and Dragons campaign out of Bloodborne.

Well, it's hard to separate Bloodborne from the work of Lovecraft and one of the central theme of Lovecraft was fear of the unknown, fear of the insignificance of human beings in a universe that ultimatly doesn't care about their existence. The amygdala is the part of the brain responsible for fear response, same for the hippocampus. And all around the story of Bloodborne, you see (just like in Lovecraft novels) how humans, in their fear of the unknown, tries to makes sense of what is beyond, to ascend and to obtain the knowledge to makes sense of the fear they have but ultimatly perish because the human mind isn't made for this kind of knowledge. So I'd say your theory is right and it is a great metaphor. I didn't saw it that way. Now I want to play Bloodborne again!

Hippocampus doesn't mean horse monster dude

@@AC-hj9tv It does, but not exactly. "Hippo" meaning "horse" and "campus" from "kampos" meaning "sea monster." The hippocampus' shape was compared to a seahorse, and that was how it was named.

@@pol1756 I agree there is a lot of brain imagery. One thing: the hippocampus is primarily responsible for memory. Is the hippocampus ever mentioned in Bloodborne? Or is this because Ludwig is melded with his horse?

@@austinluther5825 Greek guy here, you're 100% right on the etymology of the word

Beautiful

What killed your npcs in the Chapel?

@@NeverExistedShadow13 there's a man you can meet, kind of out of the way, and he's looking for shelter like everyone else, but he gives off kind of... "off" vibes? But everyone in Yharnam is weird so I sent him to Oeden Chapel. As the game progresses, you'll start seeing people disappearing one at a time, and you can find their bodies nearby. Once they're all dead, the man transforms into a massive beast and it's a mini boss fight similar to Dark beast Paarl, except not as strong. Also, if you attack him at any point more than once, he transforms and has one of the absolute COOLEST dialogues ever. Look up the beast villager on UKposts. It's fucking awesome.

It just proves the level of faith and denial they had. When even their Blood Saints turned into monsters, they still drained them of their filthy beastly blood and surely went on to minister it to more people, only spreading the scourge more.

@@MetalNick No.

@@MetalNick Always at least one fedora tipper in every discussion.

@@MetalNick Just because nazis invented the jet engine doesn't mean we should have burned and never used jet engines. Regardless of the quality of a person's character, if their work has value then you should not discount their work. It's just annoying when people talk about the literary narrative themes that are extremely poignant and useful to an alternate setting, or to writing in general, and some person kicks down the door and goes "BuT DiD yOu KnOw ThAt He WaS aLsO bAd MeAn MaN". Just because Lovecraft was a xenophobe of the highest order does not mean we should discredit the entire writing genre that he basically pioneered and invented, and *since* he basically pioneered and invented it, we should analyze his work to see how that even happened. Plus, nobody in this comment thread was talking about Lovecraft until you showed up, you literally just came here to derail the conversation because you wanted to feel morally superior by bringing up some dead guy and then calling him racist. Nobody asked. I see you've done this to several other comment threads as well. Good luck living a happy life with that level of toxicity.

@@CorwinTheOneAndOnly you worship a jew?

Vaati's video was WAY too rushed and incomplete.

AGREED

This is too underrated

@@ceral1871 YT's artificial "great one" are blocking the old lore.

Thanks man means a lot

You are so right and maybe this will come to be the video to come to for newcomers

I think Ludwig and Gael from dark souls are kinda similar, they've all fallen, uncrowned heroes. One who's feared because of his beasthood, and the other sacrificed himself and all living beings to save and create a new world. Stories like these really stand for how tragic the world is and how determined humans are.

Agreed

Who was the toughest boss for you? Mines the blood starved beast

@@jonathanburger7777 Nowadays I don't really struggle with any of the bosses, but the Shadows of Yharnam tend to give me the most trouble

It’s so good to know that new people are figuring out about this magical story

​@@jonathanburger7777 how... Get the plunged blood cocktails throw them around and smack the boss around

I still prefer The Paleblood Hunt by Redgrave since it allows for more subjective interpretation. For example in this vid it just states that Papa Guacamole is already turned into beast and murdered his wife in cold blood, when there is possibility that perhaps witnessing his wife's death at the beasts' hand itself was the straw that broke the camel's back, or how the eldest daughter is killed by the brick troll when it could be just as likely to be suicide. Still an amazing video though.

ALT 236 version is over the top.

@@shira_yone Mmm, in hindsight there are a few incorrect details. But looking at this from the surface, it makes total sense.

it would be great, but i feel that most directors would ruin it by just making it like another of the many zombie type shows

I can imagine it, but i can imagine even clearer how they'd mess it up. It wouldnt be subtle and mysterious at all, and because its based off of a video game they would just fill it with mindless action. I hope something similar pops up though, anyone inspired by bloodborne who happens to have the resources to get a show made.

it would be a massacre. Especially if netflix took it on. Let them butcher the other universes, and leave Bloodborne alone.

Id like to see a bloodborne anime

Actually it would start with some cops trying to find a killer only to realize it was a beast..

Welcome to Bloodborne Geralt! Up for a game of Gwent?

@@Thebrotherscode up ui

Or ever.

Something tells me you'd tear through them all, hunter or beast regardless....

Sounds like a true Yharnamites.

Thank you for the kind words, it's very much appreicated!

@@Thebrotherscode no prob, THANK YOU!! Im really impressed with your presentation

Bloodborne 2 is hopefully next now that they have perfected the Dark Souls formula it’s now time to perfect the Bloodborne formula!

You’re alright boy

WE HAVE A PLAN ARTHUR

Yes, yes he would

thank you hunter, i searched so long for it

It's by no means an exact match but you might want to check out an anime series called Claymore. It's got a similar feel and theme.

Too complex for the average person, they get confused by GITS, imagine this

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