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Just as frequently as they are praised for the combat of their works, they are just as acclaimed for the worlds they create. Typically dark, they offer up worlds that unravel themselves as much as you want, with a story as interactive as you want it to be. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bloodborne is a spec𒈔ial case though, with the world evolving whether you understand it 𒅌or not.
In the years since its release, the city of Yharnam in which most oඣf Bloodborne takes place has become one of the most beloved settings in gaming. Inspired heavily by Gothic architecture, its narrow streets are filled with history. Yharnam is also a religious city, one with a very complex history to understand.
Brief History Of Pthumerians
An initial assumption when starting Bloodborne is rather simple: there are beasts running amok in the city, and you are a Hunter hired to exterminate them. As you go on, you'll start to realise there's a bit more going on here than expected, and that absolutely everything in Bloodborne ties back to the Pthumerians. But who were they, exactly?
In a time long before the city of Yharnam and its surrounding settlements existed the Pthumerians. They were tall people, pale of skin, and with a sacred duty. They found thems🐎elves in communion with Great Ones, and their civilisation was built around protecting and praising them. By the time the game is set, Pth𒊎umerians are long extinct, though their influence is everywhere.
After a ti൲me, they chose to be ruled by a Queen to oversee their civilisation and one who would presumably be their foremost communicator with the Great Ones. Much of this was achieved through the imbibement of blood, and Queen Yharnam was seen as having particularly potent blood. So potent was it that fellow Pthumerians would see it as an honour to be granted it. After a time, the Pthumerians were simply lost to history, though already many of the inklings 🤪of their society can be seen in the most recent times of Bloodborne.
Discovery By Byrgenwerth
Closer to modern times, the university of Byrgenwerth was established. A place of learning, it also doubled as a place of research. Carved out by the Pthumerians were massive labyrinths beneath the surface that housed countless lost histories, both of their own civilisation and of others. Byrgenwerth rediscovered these tombs and with them the Great Ones. As such, they dubbed them 'Tombs of the Gods'.
With all these discoveries, the scholars were inspired and hired prospectors to dig ever deeper into these tombs. Amongst the Great Ones and the ruins of lost civilisations, they discovered what came to be known as 'The Old Blood'. This was the blood of the Great Ones and that of the Pthumerians that drank of it to commune with them. Convinced this was the way forward for humanity, the scholars of Byrgenwerth sought greater knowledge and would dedicate themselves to this cause, eventually causing a great rift in their society.
Establishment Of Blood Ministry, And The City Of Yharnam
Though it didn't become a greater process until the formation of the Healing Church, the process of Blood Ministration had begun under certain sects of Byrgenwerth. It was seen as a means to achieve enlightenment and commune with the eternal Great Ones in a way older peoples had achieved. As such, they began transfusing the blood into their own bodies, and became, to their own contentment, evolved.
In honour of this, they began to create a new city atop the ruins of these tombs. What better place to create a city than directly above theꦯ ruins of a previous great civilisation? In honour of the most potently-blooded queen of the Pthumerians, the city was named Yharnam. With that naming, it too became cursed to follow in the footsteps of many of those prior civilisations.
In search of greater enlightenment, many scholars of Byrgenwerth became enchanted by꧟ the idea that eyes on the inside were required, to see the world in a way that was 🧔impossible naturally. Seeking this goal, they discovered an orphaned Great One upon the shore of a small Fishing Hamlet, and slaughtered the village for their, in their view, blessed eyes.
Creation Of The Healing Church
At this point, opinion in Byrgenwerth became split. To some, like Willem, the Old Blood was a curse. It had brought ruin to others, and it seemed intent to cause ruin upon this current world too. They had gone far enough in their pursuit of enlightenment and should stop before they meet their end. For others like Laurence, there was no sacrifice too great in service to humanity's evolution. Blood was needed. Eyes were needed. Sacrifice was needed. With this, Byrgenwerth split, and rather quickly fell into lost history like the very civilisations they discovered.
From here, Laurenc✱e founde♍d the Healing Church in the city of Yharnam, making Blood Ministration its speciality. The city was immediately transfixed, and imbibement of blood became a ritual of the city, eventually forming into a full-blown religion. Blood Ministration was pushed as an elixir of sorts, a cure for all ailments, and the city became dogged in its protection of it. Outsiders were shunned and dismissed, no matter how far they travelled for this divine medicine.
At the highest echelons of the Healing Church was The Choir. The Choir, as their name implied, communicated with Ebrietas. Ebrietas is unique, a living Great One discovered♊ in the Tomb of the Gods. She alone could commune with the Great Ones that existed in a plane beyond human existence, and she was treasured by the Healing Church for the invaluable knowledge she shared.
After a time, the Healing Church became the de-facto rulers of Yharnam, a city that was undeniably a theocracy. They were better than all others, the archivists of history, and messengers of the Gods. Yet like all the civilisations that came before them, that self-same hubr💙is is what would lead to the demise of Yharnam.
Abuse Of The Great Ones
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While the Healing Church held Ebrietas in high esteem, they did not view her, or any of the Great Ones, as equals. If humanity could harness ༺their power, they would then be equals, if not ev𝐆en greater for having actually achieved such growth as a species. They had already caused so many atrocities in their pursuit of enlightenment, what is blasphemy in the face of their very gods?
In this greed, the Healing Church began acquiring any and all vestiges of Great Ones that they could and began their experiments. The desecration of Kos at the Fishing Hamlet, the entrapment of Ebrietas beneath Cathedral Wa🎀rd, and the creation of Kin. These experiments went on and on all to serve humanity, in the mind of the Healing Church. Of course, much of this was secret from the general public, only aware of the divine blood which they were given.
Though many Great Ones had already ascended to a plane of existence far beyond that of humanity, the Great Ones that did still dwell within this realm did not take these assaults without retribution. Amygdala are spread throughout the world and annihilated any who didn't have the knowledge to perceive them. The Nightmare Frontier was upheld by many others to keep the abusive humans trapped in a horrid world of their own belief. The Moon Presence created the Hunter's Dream, all to punish Gehrman and other hunters until it accomplished whatever task it deemed fit.
Yet all this still did not stop them. They experimented on humans in the Research Hall, they created beings they hoped would become Great Ones, and much more. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lady Maria, one of the hunter൲s that travelled to the Fishing Hamlet, had the decency to regret her actions, easing the perpetual suffering of those experimented on. In a rather ironic twist though, it was ultimately the drinking of the Old Blood ✨that would be their undoing, not the Great Ones directly.
The Spread Of The Beast Scourge
Ironically, what you see at the beginning of Bloodborne, accursed beasts roaming the city, is the culmination of years of buried history by the Healing Church. It is the surface of the issue, but also the result of their wicked equations. In a cycle that perhaps only Willem of Byrgenwerth cared to examine, the Beast Sco🎃urge was not new, and the imbibement of Old Blood would lead Yharnam to the same fate.
Within the Chalice Dungeons, the sealed labyrinth beneath Yharnam, you can learn of an old land known as Loran. In a time long forgotten, Loran was o♔nce a great civilisation that drank the Old Blood as well, but ultimately succumbed to a Beast Scourge, not unlike that of Yharnam at present. Tied with this is that the Beast Hunts in Yharnam are a cyclical event. With the dawning of the Blood Moon, those who have consumed the Old Blood are rapidly mutated, becoming Beasts. As such, many of the very Hunters within Yharnam are rarely from the city itself.
The Bea♈st Scourge became the downfall of Yharnam. With the presence of Hunters with no vested interest in the Great Ones or Blood Ministration, they viewed the city with clarity. They can simply do their job and end the night in peace, or choose to destroy it altogether. Meanwhile, the Healing Church would rather burn the city to the ground, as evidenced in Old Yharnam, than sacrifice the research t🍸hat brought about this very world.
The City As It Currently Stands
By the time of the game its✨elf, the Beast Hunts of Yharnam have begun once again. You sign your contract to allow Blood Ministration, and away you go into the night. You are reviled as an outsider, yet are the only thing keeping the city safe from itself.
Ultimately, Yharnam is a city living on borrowed time, repeating the mistakes of countless previous civilisations that sought the same goals as them, and also faiꦏled. Either you end the nightmare and cleanse Yharnam this night, or simply finish your hunt and let another Hunter take up the mantle, Yharnam is doomed to become another ruin.