#i just havent develop it that deeply yet HJKLASDFA

[batteryrose]

The Original Scholars

bloodborne au and all that

ok so I might as well try to explain my concept on it.. in a vague way similar to how bloodborne’s lore itself is told, bc I think that’s the charm of it and overexplaining wouldn’t give it justice. The game likes to give its lore through item descriptions, so I try to imitate that.

Might update and add to this in the future, look out.

Original scholars

The scholars of the Old College were the first to find advancement in the Higher learning. Their teachings started from their delving of the deep catacomb labyrinths below Paris. It gave them path to the Cosmic knowledge, the insight to realise the existence of the Great Ones.

Old Blood

Deep beneath the labyrinths are the tomb of gods where the old knowledge is found and the blood alongside it. It was the main foundation of the Healing Church, whose conception the result of the breaking up between College scholars, some favouring further use of it while the other complete abstinence.

"The blood has great potent healing properties and also the capability of evolving mankind."

Vlad

Former scholar and the founder of the Healing Church. Forbidden knowledge led him to see the inevitable catastrophe that one day will befall civilization. Thus he believed the Old Blood as a way to transcend humanity, through transfusing it into human bodies. The Church promised a cure of any disease, and citizens flock to them for healing.

Comte of St Germain

Provost of the Old College. Held a great distrust towards the blood that led to the falling out between him and Vlad, and the breaking up of the scholars. Believed further pursuit of the Cosmic knowledge and establishing contact with the Great Ones should be the way of ascension instead.

Leonardo

Close friend of the provost. A dedicated scholar that prefers the field-work side of things. Involved in the discovery of the Fishing Hamlet, folks that worships a stranded Great One who came from the deep ocean. It is rumoured that both the college and the church's pursuits contributed to its desecration, and Leonardo possibly took part in it, being a proficient hunter himself.

The Scrouge of Beasts

The all-healing Old Blood brought a side-effect. Bloodthirsty beasts born out of men started to plague the city, terrorising folks at night. Hunters are deployed by the church to get rid of these beasts, but they soon too become addicted to the blood and hunt itself, continuing the cycle of beasts.

They burned part of the city down and locked the beasts in one place. The church closed their doors after, but its likely they continued their work of ascending humanity in secret, perhaps even more ambitiously.

Meanwhile, the abandoned hunters still looks for preys.

The Dream

A plane of reality materialised by the Moon Presence (a Great One) upon the Comte's eventual successful contact with them. He became tied to the Dream and the Moon through their "contract", with conditions that he never quite understood. This led him to seek more great scholars and men to be binded into the dream too, and figure out the Cosmic will.

Anyone bound to the Dream are unable to truly die, waking up inside it every time they did and can go back to the waking world if they so choose. A mansion stood lonely upon single piece of land. One cannot venture further than this.

One day a strange man showed up inside the mansion, not knowing to agree to any sort of contract. The Comte has long since fell into a mysterious slumber, so he couldn't have invited him here....