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Originally Posted by soundwave628
I'm at the giant cathedral (even though I went past it to the charnel area) but I still have like no idea what I'm doing or what is going on in the story.
anyone have any tips? I just got ludwigs holy blade and upgraded it but still feel like the cleaver is better. just switched to the repeating pistol but it goes through ammo so fast.
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This is a collection of the story (based on the hints dropepd throughout the game and a hefty dose of guesses as well) up to the time when the game starts made by someone on Gamefaq:
I don't agree with all points, but it gives a decent idea aobut how everything took a turn for the worst in Yarnham.
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> In ancient times the Great Ones came to this world.
They came from the "Cosmos" which could mean outer-space or another dimension.
However, a text in-game says: "The cosmos and the skies are the same"
This points to space and that the Great Ones are quicksilver based aliens.
> The ancient civilization Pthumeria
-Pthumeria was an ancient civilization ruled by Queen Yharnam
long before the city of Yharnam existed (Pthumeria sounds like Sumeria? *wink wink*)
- It was populated by Sumerians err...Pthumerians, an ancient race of people who truly understood the Truth of the Great Ones.
- Queen Yharnam was the medium/representative of the Great Ones (Choir discovered a medium, though she’s the only likely candidate).
- The Great Ones wanted children-hosts. Queen Yharnam was the 1st attempt at making a Great Child
but her baby died and she failed to deliver.
- Eventually the Pthumerians retreated into a deep labyrinth,
with their holy chalices being the actual keys to their ancient rituals and various areas in the Labyrinth.
> After a long time (thousands of years?) the City of Yharnam is built where Pthumeria existed.
> The new Yharnamites escavated the old ruins and found the Deep Labyrinth of Pthumerians.
> The Academy of Byrgenwerth is created to study the Labyrinth and the Great Ones in there.
- They discover the effects on mixing blood with the Great Ones.
- The discovery lead some to madness and start to creat an artificial Great One (The One Reborn).
- Some scientist escape the maddening Academy and create the Healing Church in Yhrnam bringing the Chalices with them.
- They declare the Academy and the woods "Forbidden"
> The Choir is formed (highest order of Clerics) in the Healing Church and start experiments with the blood and the Chalices.
Their goal is understanding the Great Ones and gain their abilities.
- This leads to the Ashen Blood Plaque, a poison so powerfull even antidotes were useless.
- The Church desperately burns Yharnam and everyone in it.
> Central Yharnam is build next to the Old-Burnt Yharnam.
- The experiments continue and now it leads to the beast plaque.
- The Choir creates the order of Hunters to kill the beasts and prevent the disease from spreading
- Gehrman is one of the very first hunters if not the 1st. Gehrman creates the workshop where Hunters create their weapons.
- Hunters use altered beast blood to enhance themselves and combat the beasts. (Like Dragon Age darkspawn blood and Wardens)
> The Blood Ministration is founded: The art of using blood for healing.
- The church used it for every illness. The pungent cocktail suggests that it even replaced alcohol in Yharnam for how intoxicating it was.
- The church rose quickly to incredible prestige for the healing qualities of the blood.
- However they still couldn't cure the beast plaque. Neither stop its spreading.
> The Orphanage is founded
- Children were abducted from the streets of Yharnam and experimented upon to become hosts for the Great Ones.
- This lead to the Celestial Emissary Great One returning to the world.
> Cainhurst wants and starts to experiment with blood themselves
- They hunt and kill Hunters and take their blood
- Their Queen (Annalise) becomes immortal and wats to create a Great Child too (Blood Child)
- The Choir responds with sending Lagarius and his Executioners to purge them.
- Annalise is immortal so Lagarius still stands guard in front of her.
> Situations is out of control
- Hunters slowly become beasts themselves
- Yharnamites start to help the Hunters in their hunt and get infected too.
- Ludwig and some fellow hunters leave the old Hunter order to create more powerfull and forbidden weapons
- Ludwig is considered the first hunter of the new order.
> The "Hunters of Hunters" order kills the hunters that have become beasts (Eileen in among them)
> Yharnam is in ruins full of beasts
> The Choir makes a breakthrough. They make themselves the Moon Presence Great One.
(The Heling church = The Choir = created hunters = beckoned hunters = What Moon Presence does)
- With Insight (=God Knowledge) and Gehrman they create the Hunter's Dream.
- Gehrman acts as a guide for new Hunters.
- Their new goals are 1. Purge beasts 2. Find a way so the rest of humanity can follow them as celestial hosts.
- Every Red Moon they impregnate women to create children hosts
- Female Hunter MC won't get impregnated because of the beast repelent blood she received at the beginning.
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In particular, I do not necessarily agree that The Choir became The Moon Presence.
What we DO know for sure is that as The Hunter (player) arrives in Yarnham, looking for a remedy to his incurable sickness, a Hunt for beasts is going on in the streets.
<what follows is my current understanding>
All the events unravelling from that point forward seem to have been ordained by Great Ones (terrifying gigantic alien creatures), which are kept hidden from sight by an effect cast by a creature named Rom, who lives in his own pocket dimension, well hidden.
Their goal, in particular this very night of the Blood Moon, is the creation of a new Great One new born, an event which has been preordained (a "womb" is supposed to be granted this "privilege", in effect a woman is supposed to give birth to an Alien creature this very night).
At the very beginning of the story you were "temporarily" helped by an injection of (contaminated) blood, but as your rescuer mentions, you will need to find "Pale Blood" to save yourself. The Church oversees the ministration of blood, so getting to the Healing Church and finding someone who can help is your first goal.
Eventually you find out that most if not all Church Clerics as well as their own order of hunters (Executioneers) have been contaminated by plagued blood ("Beware of the Old Blood"?) and turned into beast or driven mad and locked in a conflict with Cainhurst (a clan led by Queen Annalise from Cainhurst castle) which uses "vile blood" for their own purposes. A third clan of Hunters tries to bring back order (Hunters of Hunters - cf Eileen the Crow) but they are few and outgunned, even though the Vilebloods have now been decimated. Most other Hunters attack on sigh, unless they can see you are part of their covenant. Eileen is a rarity, but you have to introduce yourself early on.
At first you fight the now monstruous Clerics and their Hunters (The Beast, Father Gascione, Blood Starved Beast, Vicar Amelia) but soon find out that must more sinister forces are at play that at one time the Church tried to suppress and study (closing down the Academy that studied these ancient forces, forbidding entrance to Hemwick Charnel Lane, and the old woods leading to Byrgenwerth itself), perhaps even ending up worshipping them. You find out that a coven of Witches in Hemwick Lane worship said forces, shadows having risen under their spells, and while forbidden practices are at play in Yarnham itself to master the Great Ones blood (Iosefka's clinic), you find an Ancient One when finally travelling to Byrgenwerth and end up killing him, revealing to all the truth behind the veil it had been casting.
You continue to investigate, searching for a cure, now fighting Ancient Alien Gods themselves, but throughout it all you cannot help wonder if with each victory and each breakthrough in understanding it all throughout new insights ... You are not in fact one step closer to bringing a sinister and very old plan to fruition ... as an ethereal baby's cry can be heard resonating throughout Yarnham.
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