Bloodborne category
Story Guides
11 entries tagged Story Guides, 11 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Bloodborne: The Old Hunters Story Explained and Bloodborne Story Explained: Yharnam, the Old Blood and the Great Ones.
- All Three Bloodborne Endings Explained: Yharnam Sunrise, Honoring Wishes and Childhood's BeginningBloodborne has three endings, all decided in one conversation with Gehrman under the great tree. How to get each one, where to find the Third Umbilical Cords for the secret ending, and what each ending means, with the game's own words kept apart from the fan theories.
- Bloodborne Lore Summary: the Whole Story in Five MinutesBloodborne's lore in a nutshell: the blood, the beasts, the Great Ones and the three endings, in plain words. The first section is spoiler-free for anyone about to play. Everything after it spoils the whole game, with links to the deep pages for each part.
- Bloodborne Story Explained: Yharnam, the Old Blood and the Great OnesThe whole Bloodborne story in order, from the blood transfusion that brings your hunter to Yharnam to the three endings in the Hunter's Dream. What the game actually tells you, what fans have pieced together, and where the two part ways.
- Is Gehrman Evil?Nothing in Bloodborne shows Gehrman as evil. He is a worn-out old hunter trapped in the Hunter's Dream who offers the player a merciful way out. But the game also hints at a "curious mania", a bargain with the Moon Presence and a past he may want to forget. Here is the evidence on both sides.
- Bloodborne: The Old Hunters Story ExplainedThe Old Hunters story from start to finish: the Hunter's Nightmare, Ludwig and Laurence, the Research Hall, Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower, the Fishing Hamlet and the curse of Kos. What the expansion states, what fans infer, and how it changes the main game.
- What Happened to the Doll in Bloodborne?Bloodborne never tells the Doll's backstory outright. She is a doll made by human hands that came to life in the Hunter's Dream, most likely built by Gehrman in Lady Maria's image, and she remembers nothing of where she came from. Here is what the game shows, what it only hints, and what becomes of her in each ending.
- Why Did Gehrman Make a Deal With the Moon Presence?Bloodborne never shows Gehrman making a deal, and never gives him a reason. The pact is a fan reading built from his sleep talk, an umbilical cord and one note. Here's what the game actually states, and the three main explanations players give for why he did it.
- Why Did Gehrman Make the Doll?Bloodborne never says Gehrman made the Doll, or why. The leading reading is that he built her in the image of his student Lady Maria, out of a love the game calls a mania. Here is what the game states, and where the reading takes over.
- Why Did Lady Maria Kill Herself?Bloodborne never says Lady Maria killed herself. It shows her slumped in a chair over a pool of her own blood, and the usual reading is guilt over the Fishing Hamlet. Here is what the game shows, what it says, and what players infer.
- Why Is Gehrman in the Hunter's Dream?Gehrman is in the Hunter's Dream because he is bound to it. The Doll says staying there is his purpose, and he begs in his sleep to be unshackled. The game ties the Dream to the Moon Presence but never spells out his deal. Here is what it says and what players infer.
- Why Is Gehrman Waiting for Laurence?Bloodborne never says. Gehrman asks Laurence "what's taking you so long" in his sleep, and later begs him to unshackle him from the dream, but the game never explains what Laurence was meant to do. It does show why he never comes: Laurence became a beast.