Oedon

Among the Great Ones, Oedon holds a unique position. His name marks both a church and its accompanying graveyard, making him a known quantity to Laurence and his followers as they began styling themselves clerics as much as researchers. With this Oedon Chapel at the key juncture between Old Yharnam, the burgeoning new Yharnam, and […]

Gascoigne

“Father” Gascoigne stands out from other church hunters in black for his epitaph. While cut dialogue confirms plans for Healing Church clerics to be addressed as such once upon a time, his equipment denies the concept for the final game in its description. Rather, Gascoigne is known as holy father because a cleric was his […]

Pthumeru

Preface What does it mean to have freedom or slavery? Bloodborne‘s director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, has admitted that the game was influenced in part by declining birthrates in developed countries, and would experience the birth of his own child in the years since launch. Bringing a new life into the world with another shackles couples in […]

Healing Church

Preface Bloodborne, with few exceptions, focuses more on its web of factions than its characters. But given the writing style of Director Hidetaka Miyazaki, these factions in many respects are this game’s characters. There is perhaps no fictional institution better embodying the corruption, elitism, and dehumanization in modern medicine than the Healing Church. Presenting themselves […]