#bloodborne analysis

[greatness942]

Hi! Still in Danganronpa Brainrot, but the Full-Force Hyperfixation has just become a Normal Hyperfixation by now, so I can actually discuss something else!

Namely: Y'all. I love how meaningful the actual choice of sword is for Ludwig, the Holy Blade.

In case you are, somehow, unfamiliar with the best boss in FromSoft from a storytelling perspective, let me clue you in. Ludwig from Bloodborne was a benevolent member of a malevolent church, defiling their own humanity under the belief that it could stop the Victorian and Eldritch horrors plaguing their world. Ludwig was kind, pious, and skilled, but he was either unable to see the depths of their corruption or unwilling to accept it, and so he, as many Hunters, fell to the corruption of the Beast.

At first.

Throughout the whole first phase of his boss fight, he is a ruined, shambling hybrid of human, horse, and miscellaneous malformed flesh. He doesn't just look like a monster, there's only barely elements of him that aren't just grotesque husks of meat stapled together. His head is basically fully horse and only half of that horse head even retains his human features, let alone the other mouth on his neck that is filled with nothing but teeth and eyeballs. He's got, like, twelve legs, most of which end in horse hooves. He doesn't fight like a human, he fights like a creature of horror. Like a shoggoth given limbs, like...well, to be honest, he fights like how a horse probably would if it had hands and a form of super-cancer that created extra fully-usable limbs. And this is usually a motif with From Software: their bosses are usually fallen heroes-turned-beasts, either from a lore perspective, or shifting to a more horrifying form as the fight goes on. We even see it in Bloodborne with the fight against Father Gascoigne, who starts off as a normal dude and ends as...what I can only describe as a blind hunchbacked werewolf. So, surely, Ludwig must become even more monstrous, he must decay even further into hideous beast-hood. Maybe his vestigial mouth falls off and chases you like Pac-Man, or a whole horse comes out of his undercarriage and he begins acting like a twisted cross between a Centaur, a Nuckelavee, and Birkin from Resident Evil 2, or maybe-

Or maybe he sees our sword and remembers his humanity.

See, everyone's analyzed the way Phase Two subverts expectations by having Ludwig's sanity return, how he fights you as a swordsman and a honorable Hunter (hoon-ter) while fully bipedal, and it is absolutely beautiful and heartfelt. But nobody really analyzes his choice of blade, known in-game as the Holy Moonlight Sword.

Or as we FromSoft fans know it: The Moonlight Greatsword.

Another recurring motif in their games is this beaut', the Moonlight Greatsword, which appears in almost every game, and I do mean every game. It's in Armored Core, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, DSII, DSIII, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, King's Field. Every single one aside from Sekiro. And I find the Moonlight Greatsword really interesting here because of how often it's associated, usually, with monsters. Most especially? This motherfucker.

That's Seath the Scaleless from Dark Souls. The Moonlight Greatsword is one of his tails. He's a major asshole. Out of spite, he betrayed and condemned his fellow dragons, he experimented on people, he's an insane, and vile, and cruel bastard that, even after death, has harmed untold amounts of people.

So, Ludwig regaining his humanity through the sword that represents one of the most insane and despicable FromSoft characters is so fascinating to me. The symbol of cruelty, reimagined as a sigil of empathy. To carry the Moonlight Greatsword is no longer to carry the trophy of a rightfully slain villain, but to carry the legacy of a good man condemned by circumstance. With one boss fight, the intrinsic meaning of the Moonlight Greatsword in every FromSoft game changes.

It's no longer Power at Any Costs. It is Might For Right. It is using strength in only the most responsible way for only the most necessary tasks to ensure a brighter future.

Not only that, but like I said in the Hook, he's using our sword. The Moonlight Greatsword is usable in every Souls-like made by the OGs of the genre, which means that it's also a weapon of choice for certain Chosen Undead, Curse-Bearers, Ashen Ones, Demon Slayers, or Tarnished. To see a symbol of our own journeys used as a symbol of hope in a bleak and mad world is genuinely really heartfelt, and it goes to show just how much thought really went into Ludwig's story, and how much of an analogue he really is for the Player and the Hunters they control.

And also, there's the fact that, between the reappearing Souls bosses in Elden Ring: Nightreign not only being there, but explicitly being from another world, and the recurrences of identical items like the Moonlight Greatsword, it's implied that every FromSoft game is part of a shared multiverse: they aren't in the same continuity, necessarily, but their worlds co-exist and travel between them is possible in some esoteric way. Which means that Ludwig is literally using our Moonlight Greatsword. Which means some chad ripped off Seath's tail, and now, completely unaware of that legacy, a better man than Seath ever was is using said tail to absolutely dumpster some poor Victorian child who's just trying to get to the beach and figure out all this Kos shit. Or some say, Kosm shit. But then that's dipping into Japanese Theorycrafting and maybe taking easter eggs too literally for the sake of having fun. But also, I like having fun, so, ah well.

I hope you liked reading this! It's an angle of analysis no one else has really brought up, from what I can tell, and I hope you enjoyed seeing this fight from a different perspective than the twelve that already exist, because good god, quality gets studied, XD

[grant-us-eyes2]

So we've all seen plenty of lore explanations attempt to describe these babies.

They look like the doll, they got a head of messengers and eyes and everything. They cause frenzy, which is a status effect that you have lower resistance to as you gain Insight.

Now, I've seen these described as basically causing frenzy because the character can't confront the truth of what he's seeing, which is some kind of eldritch fact about the doll.

But, I think it's actually the opposite. Instead of revealing a hidden truth, the Winter Lanterns APPEAR like they're revealing something. Everything about them SEEMS meaningful, but in fact they are not at all meaningful. That's why they cause madness, because YOU the player are desperately trying to interpret something that has no underlying logic.

In short, I think Miyazaki is using Winter Lanterns specifically to make fun of us.

In long, I think the WHOLE GAME is Miyazaki basically making fun of us for trying to understand his games concretely.

[fantomette22]

The Dogs in Bloodborne!

So @bobbyzombiegg you wanted some headcanons on the dogs right? Following this post. Alright I will, but first i’m gonna recap all the dogs we can see in Bloodborne!

No I'm not talking about the weird beasts. Even the ones we're not sure if they have animal or human origins, I will stay focused on dogs only.

Rabid dog (Yharnam and found in most of the locations of the game)

They seems to be cream coloured but I saw people said it could be brown. It's the dog ennemies we encounter the most often. The chimera in the Nightmare of Mensis are made with them too.

Grey Rabid dog (grey/silver version found in Yaha'rgul & chalice dungeons)

Same breed as the light coloured ones but they have darker fur (grey/silver)

Some might already know but for the ones who don't know this dog highly ressemble the Irish Wolfhound Breed

It's one of the biggest dog in the world. Typically used to hunt wolves (that's how all the wolf in Ireland disappear), deers and big animals.

The breed almost disappear in the 19th century but it was restored into the one we know today with mixing the last ones with the Great Dane, Scottish deerhound, borzoi and even Tibetan dog.

It also highly ressemble the Scottish deerhound, the too breed being very similar and link.

I personally call the ones in Bloodborne just wolfhound because there's no guarantee it's a real breed and again Bloodborne, like dark souls is not our world so I don't think Irish and England exist XD there's equivalent maybe. (And Yharnam would be closer to this universe version or Poland or Czech).

If you are attentive they aren't presented in the hunter's nightmare (see below the old hunter's hound) With the scourge of the beasts becoming worst and huge beasts appearing more frequently the hunters and citizens turn themself to bigger dogs to hunt bigger prey.

Hunting dog (Hemwick Charnel lane & chalice dungeons)

Don't ask me what breed it is I have 0 idea. Greyhound? A mixt breed? Idk. They are principally found in Hemwick too. They have been equip of weapons to hurt beast better I supposed. A hardcore version of the collar of some shepherd dog 😅 The ones left almost in completely autonomy with a herd and half collars with spike to not get hurt by wolves.

Keeper's hunting dogs

Found in the chalice dungeons and are weird mutated fire dogs. They follow their master, the keepers. I suppose they were normal dogs before.

Watchdog of the Old Lords

Idk if that was a dog before. Could be a keeper who transformed or something for all we know. But well it's literally called a "watchdog" so-

The corpses of dead dogs in the chalice dungeons

(I know it looks great but please imagined it's a dog 💀 it's the only screenshot I found)

Sometimes you can see corpses in the chalice dungeons and sometimes there's dogs ones as well. They seem rather "normal". And not really the breeds we already see.

Old hunter hound /rabid dog (Hunter's Nightmare-Yharnam/ The Old Hunters dlc)

So those are probably Dobermann. Used as guard dogs and for protections. During old hunter's era, most beasts were beast patients / human size not huge scourge beasts. So this type of dogs was ideal. With the beast growing bigger having more scourge beasts around the poor dogs become too insufficient. And that's why Yharnam adopt bigger bred like the wolfhounds.

Dobermanns are born with long falling ears and a tail. The tails was cut so they don't got hurt into fight or hunting and the ears because they often got affections. Many countries have forbidden it because with modern standard of life it donees't have any real use now. Contrary to what people think "attack dogs" are not born agressive. It's just that if they aren't trained well and develop comportement issues and agression it's going to be a bit more of a problem than a chihuahua who would have the same issues.

Fish dogs (Hunter's nightmare-Fishing hamlet/ The Old hunters dlc)

Don't ask me please. there's no idea of knowing what they were before. But their fish's head apparently ressemble a viperfish's head, also called a chauliodus, deep sea fish from the Stomiidae family. Not putting pictures here for people who are sensible, I put a link above. Their body as slimed and long (30cm), they lived between 200 and 4000m of depth (3300-13000ft). Those types of fishes (their genus) were discovered in the very early XIX/19th century.

Now my headcanons on why most of wolfhounds in Yharnam have light fur and why the one in Yahar’gul have dark colored ones.

Objectively the most possible answer is simply that the dog’s population of this two area weren’t mixted together. When you have a small portions of individual who don’t mixt with more exterior individuals they tend to end up with similar traits because of dominant & rececive genes (and if it last a LONG time, that’s how new species appears. But it take thousands if not millions of years and generations).

Well my headcanons is much simpler than that and basically for fic purposes. I just thought it would make sense that Yahar’gul hunters kept the darker ones because they need to stay discreet (they themselves have black clothes) etc. And the other would have kept the lighter ones because they are easier to see and recognize at night.

At the beginning of the introduction of the wolfhound races in Yharnam it was probably mixed individuals of different fur coats. With a bit with time, selection and breeding they would end up with most of the dogs being light light colored for the hunters/citizens and church. And Yahar’gul doing the same would ended up with the darker ones.

And bonus headcanons:

I imagined a younger Paarl possibly taking care of the first generation of wolfhound in Yharnam (they were introduced to replace the dobermanns because beasts grew bigger). And i like imagining Gehrman to had help with training and had one of his own :3 a white one (yes I draw it I should do that again) (because you see, to have survived that long and have will to live after Maria passed away and the old hunters dying one by one i imagined it would have been nice for him to have a companion for a time).

[evangelifloss]

I think a really pivotal moment for me playing bloodborne was when I first encountered Vicar Amelia. Going in I knew she was going to become a boss somehow, but seeing her hunched over and praying whilst waiting for the inevitable struck a cord with me, or rather, I fell under the assumption that whatever beastly form she became, it would be inherently feminised. Think the white fury from how to train your dragon-- her male counterpart looks like a dragon, but because she's female, she's very soft and all ferocious tendencies are removed.

But then as I watched her transformation, which was freaking awesome by the way, I was stunned to see that upon becoming a beast, she actually looked like one. She wasn't slender or lithe, her fangs/teeth were very pronounced, and her whole body was incredibly imposing. Her head in particular was BIG. It looked like, well, a beast, that wasn't "this is a FEMALE, THEREFORE SHE HAS ELEGANT FEATURES" rather, they chucked that entire notion out the cathedral window.

Also they gave her freakin' antler horns and strangely proportioned arms. Not to mention her shroud became shaggy tendrils of fur, and her hood ended up becoming part of the design. We never are granted the sight to see her face. Or more specifically, her eyes. And we know how obsessed the lore is with eyes.

Vicar Amelia was a terrifying beast, violent and savage. Fromsoft in this case, really said "beasthood is beasthood, we will not be making the female ones any different from the male."

I was too impressed by her design that I died relatively straight away once the battle began. In fact I was too focused on trying to get details on her appearance rather than fight.

Anyways Vicar Amelia's human and consequential beasthood form slaps. That is how you design a female "monster". Animation industry in particular take notes-- not every goddamn female anthro animal needs breasts or delicate features.

[upright-hunter-rune]

A while ago I saw someone claiming that Lady Maria probably didn't wear her Hunter clothing in her day to day life, and so it can't be used to draw conclusions about what she wore casually, with the implication being that she typically more feminine clothing. That bothered me, but I didn't have a good argument against it at the time. Looking at the Cainhurst Knight set in game on a recent playthrough however made me realize two things that make me thing that she did wear the same clothing regularly, or at the very least clothing in a similar style.

1) The Knight's Set is clothing first, armor second.

While Hunters' outfits- including the Knight's Set- do straddle the line between armor and clothing, the Knight's Set is clearly a piece of ostentatious clothing just as suited to dinner parties as disposing of beasts. Additionally, we know what the Cainhursts wore into combat: silver armor that is very stylistically distinct from the Knight's Set or Noble Dress.

Maria's Set is a modification of the Knight's Set more in line with the fashion sensibilities of Yharnam's Hunters, but it doesn't actually provide much more physical defense. It in fact provides less physical defense than the Yharnam Hunter set, itself implied by its description to be substandard for the fight against beasts. To me this all implies that Maria's set is also intended to be a set of fine clothing, perfectly suitable for day to day use (if probably in need of regular washing to get the blood out).

2) The female version of the Knight's Set is not all that impractical for hunting.

The typically given reason for a woman to wear men's clothing is that it's more practical. Pants are easier to run in than dresses, etc. But this doesn't actually seem particularly true in the case of the Knight's Set. Most of the differences between the male and female set are minor changes in shape or ornamentation. The Knight's Dress, the most obviously different piece, is loose and layered in such a way as to allow for movement. It seems made to be fought in just as much as the male outfit, and generally doesn't seem like it would get in the way any more than the long coats found on other sets would.

So practicality probably wasn't Maria's reason for basing her outfit so heavily on specifically the male Knight's Set, with no influence from the female version at all. It probably was simply personal preference, and there is no reason to think that preference for masculine fashion wouldn't extend to other clothing she would have worn.

[valascano]

The Body as a Vector for Corruption: A Discussion of Bloodborne

I know that I am a bit late to the Bloodborne party, but after having just finished the game, I’ve found myself fascinated by its lore. I’m certainly no expert on the world and its characters, so I’m not here to theorize about what certain things mean or are. Rather, I thought I’d explore one of Bloodborne’s themes, and examine how it applies this theme to its world and characters. My goal isn’t to analyze what the writers really “mean” with the game, but to discuss what the game made me consider.

Anyway, let’s talk about transcendence. 

(Image from here)

Throughout the course of the game, we’re repeatedly exposed to groups that have tried to overcome humanity’s limitations. They’ve attempted to transcend their physical boundaries by trying to become immortals, Kin, Great Ones- anything that is powerful enough to dominate reality. Consider the following: Imposter Iosefka attempting to turn humans into Kin, the Choir communicating with Ebrietas by turning orphans into Kin, the Vilebloods attempting to become immortal through feeding on blood, the Healing Church trying to create Great Ones by administering Old Blood found in Pthumeru, the Mensis Scholars attempting to grow Eyes on the Inside after consuming a Third of an Umbilical Cord and submitting themselves to the Brain of Mensis, the Byrgenworth Scholars attempting to grow Eyes on the Inside after harvesting Old Blood and perhaps Eyes from Kos, Arianna becoming impregnated by Oedon through corrupted blood, Imposter Iosefka choosing to impregnate herself with a Great One through some Eldritch means, and so on.

(Image from this video)

Ironically, all of these methods of transcendence are dependent upon the physicality that the various factions are attempting to leave behind. These characters consume and mix blood, harvest eyes, cage their heads, consume Eldritch Umbilical Cords, slaughter various other beings, experiment on beings to turn them into other beings, and even have some sort of sexual intercourse with the gods of the world, all in a desperate attempt to become like the gods. While the various characters of Bloodborne want to exist on multiple planes of reality and raise themselves to a new order of being, their attempts to evolve only consist of methods that are grounded in humanity’s physical reality. Moreover, their contradictory methods fail because they are the antithesis of the balanced path to transcendence and a bastardization of the proper development of the human person. In their desire to achieve enlightenment, Yharnam’s various scholars and hunters fritter away their humanity only to become mindless Beasts, fungus-like Kin, and abominations. Their physical natures are corruptible and corrupted because our humanity isn’t contained within the “soul.” Rather, our humanity is a product of our entire person-hood. 

Using only the body to try to reach transcendence must end in tragedy, as it leaves one entirely vulnerable to corruption. I am not saying that the body is inherently base or lower, nor am I trying to malign the physical body. The body, however, is quite fallible- it senses can be fooled, and the body can warp the person through physical addiction. That which the body partakes in can then influence the mind, the spirit, the emotions, and everything else that constitutes the person. Look at the vectors of influence that the Great Ones utilize when attempting to exert their will on humanity: Lust through sexual liaisons invites disaster and clouds the minds of Arianna, Iosefka, and perhaps even Queen Yharnam and Queen Annalise, Hunger through the physiological need for Hunters to consume blood transforms them into Beasts, Sloth through the eternal slumber/death of the Mensis Scholars traps them in a nightmare/alternate reality sustainted/ruled by Mergo, and so on. 

(Image of Micolash’s corpse from here)

Focusing solely on using the body to elevate the person consistently results in monsters, chaos, and nightmares. All of the various groups that attempt Eldritch Evolution become inebriated by or addicted to the substances they utilize in their rituals. Values of purity of body and clarity of thought are trampled upon, the metaphorical filth of the physical realm is bathed in, and the various characters of Bloodborne literally and figuratively lose their humanity. They all inch ever-closer to the Eldritch Truth, but they come to forget a very critical Human Truth: that the human person is to rise above the seeming boundaries of humanity by simultaneously guiding all of their aspects forward. 

Ultimately, this simple Human Truth may be why only the Good Hunter is able to finally Transcend to a higher state in the True Ending. The Good Hunter is by no means a paragon of virtue, but the Good Hunter has weathered unimaginable hardship, endured physical punishment, danced with madness and Insight, imbibed Blood while resisting the Beasts’ Scourge, and gained fortitude by conquering nightmares, guardians, and gods. Only this full and entire development of the human person enables the Good Hunter to finally become what every other faction could only dream of.

[fantomette22]

Brain fluid, Great ones, Blood and parasites.

I am replaying Bloodborne and I'm noticing a few new things.

I finally get to the research hall and read the brain fluids description again (in French & English)

Greyish amoeba-shaped brain fluid. Wobbles and bounces.

Extracted from a patient whose head expanded until that was all that they were.

In the early days of the Healing Church, the Great Ones were linked to the ocean, and so the cerebral patients would imbibe water, and listen for the howl of the sea. Brain fluid writhed inside the head, the initial makings of internal eyes. (…)

So… was i supposed to found out myself they actually have parasite inside ??

So one thing you need to know is that "brain fluid" or cerebrospinal fluid (liquide céphalo-rachidien/cérébrospinal en VF) is a transparent liquid where you have your brain and inside your spine for your nerves. It doesn't quite fit what we have in game right ?

But they did add water in it, right ? It also said (but it's more clear in French that it have an amoeba (amibe) shape.

What's an amoeba ? from wikipedia : "(...) is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape (...) Amoeboid cells occur not only among the protozoa, but also in fungi, algae, and animals. Microbiologists often use the terms "amoeboid" and "amoeba" interchangeably for any organism that exhibits amoeboid movement."

It's an eucaryote (membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus like our cells) and unicellular organism that can lived without and host in the earth or water for example (unlike our cells who need to be a part of a pluricellulaires organism).

But, there's some type of amoeba who act as parasite and actually can "eat" a brain💀 (actually it attacked the nervous system & cells from the cavity between the nose and brain ) do you see where I'm trying to get ?

The water they put inside the patients head... probably had microorganism inside it. If it's not the Kos parasites then others things really similar.

It will take too long to develop everything, maybe another day so really short : we know about the Kos parasite right ? And that Kos probably had parasites who infected and transformed the inhabitants of the Hamlet.

For the blood we literally have vermin, the loran silver beasts (+ the maggots), the bloodletting beast with the giant worms and the blood dregs. (the eyes that turned blind some parasite do that in real life too)

I thought at first that what caused the beast plague was "infected cells' like cancerous cells that created more organic materials, mutated their host and boom. And not just some bacteria or viruses (that is possible too XD but also vermin are those arthropods like parasites so I was a bit confused.

But now ! If we need to have a more scientifically and realistically approach about what happened in Bloodborne (and not just boom great ones dream magic) I think it can be caused by unicellular beings who composed the great ones and mess with everyone 👍

I mean diseases and organism disfunction (of the neural system for ex) are caused on a cellular if not molecular level after all (how molecules and drugs act in the neurons and synapses of the brain is really fascinating ! But it’s not easy to learn)

Also why are great ones so close to the first protozoan cells organism for some reason ?! There's multicellular organism I guess but exist on different planes of existence (if they're not aliens or smt) but bc of the parasites blood and all (odeon is kinda blood/ what we have in the blood) so they're probably really really old forms of life you (like unicellular organisms).I guess we could say that great ones are parasites of the mind !👈 👈 (ok enough of today)

Little bonus : the first unicellular appear between 3,5 and 3,8 billion years. The multicellular appeared 2 billions years ago, our Earth have 4,5 billions years, our solar system just a bit more and the universe is 13,8 billions years old. Homo sapiens sapiens (us) is like 200 000 years old 💀 but don't worry the homininae line appeared 10 million years ago!

Hey you know we're closer to the dinosaurs who lived at the end of the cretaceous (64Ma) than between the Dino of the cretaceous and the beginning to the triassic (first Dino : 230/250 Ma)? CRAZY HMMM ??????

Anyway I do believe Bloodborne universe is actually as fantastic as dark souls or Elden Ring and not super ultra realistic like our own world. Some things just doesn't make sense realistically and maybe don't have a possible realistic and scientific explanation (the dreams, great ones etc) but it's cool to try to used sciences to explain things in the universe ! That make its own world more coherent in its own logic I believe ! (it's like you know sci fi movies, Frankenstein and all. it's not possible in real life but based on true sciences stuff).

[fantomette22]

Nightmare frontier (Loran) geologic interpretation

Alright, here I am to talk about another detail I noticed while replaying Bloodborne! It has more to do with well the geology of the nightmare frontier and from what it's based on in real life. I like analysis and trying to understand those in video game! But also might bue because I'm a technician geologist too XD Still I will try to stay simple and short.

So The Nightmare frontier in the Nightmare. This optional zone you can unlock thanks to Patches! And where we fight the Amygdala to obtained the Loran's chalice.

Notes : the nightmares are in layers. Mensis nightmare is on top then the frontier, under the fishing hamlet with the boats. And under the hamlet the hunter's nightmare/Yharnam of the dlc. For the one who didn't knew.

Notes 2 : The nightmare frontier is probably a nightmare originating from the region where Loran is (the out place area and the Loran chalice are goos indicator). You know that Pthumerian civilisation far from pthumeru & Yharnam who all become beasts... But if you are into the lore you probably know about Loran and all.

So in the frontiers we can find those strange stone hexagonal columns around :

Well it is a real geologic structures! Also named volcanic (basalts) columns, organ pipes etc (orgues volcaniques in French)

Volcanic columns of Panska skala. Source image : https://planet-terre.ens-lyon.fr/ressource/orgues-volcaniques.xml,

So, how it's formed? Well it is a bit complex but I will try to explain simply. You see those are formed from (effusive) volcanism (don't cofound with magmatic plutonism). You see when a volcano create really liquid lava and don't explode it's effusive. The lava cooled fast on the surface (huge thermic difference with the air or water) and don't crystallised, it often formed basalts (this black rock without minerals visible) or similars stone (can be andesite too in that case or even diorite. It's the same "family").

Those columns are not directly made on the surface but meters under the first couch of lava or they can be formed in magmatic veins that came from a magmatic chamber (in the ground) but cooled way faster than the chamber: it can create those or dyke or sills for exemple/ A magmatic chamber who cooled of will be crystallised on the contrary and take a lot of time! (Thousand if not millions of year) Still it's seems those columns take years or century to become rocks. Still it is "fast" on a geological levels.

Apparently with specific conditions temperature it create this hexagonal columns. It is also similar when clay who became dry and cracked on the ground if you prefer.

Anyway those volcanic columns can be found in many places! Europe, Africa, Asia, America etc There are usually millions of years old and we can see them thanks to erosions of the more tender rocks around it.

The first pic I show are at 80/100km north to Prague in Czech Republic. And You know Bloodborne is a bit more based on easter Europe so 👀

Anyway I think this is very cool the devs inspire themself from those! Very Interesting!

SO what it says about Loran region and Bloodborne world then ?🤔 Well I'm not sure but it's sure is very ancient geologic formation and even in XIX century 2 big theories fought about geology so it sure could be see as specials for old civilisation! Especially in link with old great ones or smt. And maybe Loran could be closer to Yharnam than we think.

ALSO

You see those weird ?ball rocks? in the all the nightmare area? really remind me of pillow lava. You know when lava pierce through the ocean and cold really fast

Ok and I'm not sure for Yharnam or Cainhurst geology but pretty sure the fishing hamlet is volcanic stone too. Why? Well the huge massifs black stones and the BLACK SAND, like in Hawaii ! Or in Iceland. Volcanic region with huge volcanic activity.

Black sand always means it came from volcanic rocks or that it's rich in iron minerals for exemple.