#Witches of Hemwick

[redgryphon]

[val-of-the-north]

Some random Bloodborne doodles I made

[domeniudulce]

First try not even attempting to do so I beat the Witches of Hemwick. The boss run was harder than the boss.

[ryuuza-art]

Soulstober Stories Part 2:

Slowly getting used to Bloodborne's gameplay now, as I move onto the Cathedral and beyond.

4. Vicar Amelia

Again, I'd heard of Amelia, but wasn't sure what to expect, so I absolutely loved her transition from human to beast form! She introduced sweeping floor attacks, making staying on top of her tricky, but I learned to keep my distance and look for the right opening to attack.

Dealing with her healing during the second phase was... trying, at first. At least numbing mist helped somewhat during my second playthrough!

5. Witch of Hemwick

I'd forgotten exactly why the Witches gave me so much trouble (aside from there being two), but as I looked up references, I remembered the endlessly spawning Mad Ones & that they could revive each other if you didn't kill them quickly enough. Such relief when it was over! 😭

6. Darkbeast Paarl

The Darkbeast was fun! Challenging, but not frustrating and I love the blue lightning design. Once I applied some bolt resistance, it became more a test of my reflexes, with its quick, cat-like movements. It certainly made up for the shock of being beaten and dragged to the gaol! 😂

(I did *not* enjoy the Loran variant in the Chalice Dungeons. It's a lot more powerful and aggressive and if you try to lock on, the camera can prove more deadly than the boss! That music is permanently etched into my brain. 😭 )

[guiding-moonlight]

[technomancer-01]

"'In the outskirts of Yharnam, the city of gravekeeper witches carved by the sunlight, Hemwick.In its depths, an old, gigantic structure and one Old lady lies in wait. Holding suspicious rituals in the deepest of the night, for that very purpose it is said that she gathers the eyeballs of the living.

In the city where unwanted corpses would be gathered and disposed of, her outfit might just be befitting of one such place.”

Just a collection of older illustrations in my Tales From Old Yharnam tome. I'm still on my Cainhurst kick but I'm getting interested in revisiting some of these other locations : p

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[swallowtail-ageha]

Funniest thing abt micolash is that when you forget his fandom characterization as the teheheeeeh weird quirky guy he's actually pretty terrifying and one of the most morally corrupt people in the lore

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Witch of Hemwick - A Call Beyond by Domenico Cava

[alberichfanpage]

Here there be witches.

A close up <3

[pupzonline]

I’m ECSTATIC. Now I started ng+ and I’m ready to do it all over again :}

[katyspersonal]

A frustrating bit about the idea that Yurie is called the last scholar because of her having been one of the OG Byrgenwerth squad is her visible age.. Willem was already a sluggish ancient self even in Laurence's flashback and is still alive, for all we know the time in Byrgenwerth really has stopped as 95% of it is drifting between reality and Nightmare, but.. why at the expense of some wrinkles :pensive:

Would just be pretty great if she looked like a 50+ years old! (around 20 as Byrgenwerth scholar and at least 30 years since then because if Hunter's Dream has about 360 gravestones, it means 360 full moons ie at least 30 years of it existing) But, I guess it IS just a version?

[ichorandpride]

Witch of Hemwick: F-tier fuckability

six toes

maybe someone else would want that but... i'm good

(screenshot not mine because i was too busy running around looking for the hag)

[val-of-the-north]

Hemwick and the Hintertombs: An observation/headcanon

Hello guys, here’s something I noticed that I thought was pretty cool! The Bloodborne Wiki helped a lot with this observation, so I’ll be posting screenshots from it. Check it out here -> [x]

The Eye Collectors are very rare enemies in Bloodborne, appearing only in Yahar’gul (during the Evening) and the Hunter’s Nightmare. However, many have correctly pointed out that they are identical to the two Witches of Hemwick that we fight as an optional boss, only, they are not covered head to toes in eyes and don’t hold a strange cluster of eyes in one of their hands. Maybe, that’s why they are still just collectors and not witches?

Either way, it’s clear from their locations that these hags and the countryside of Hemwick itself have a deep connection with all that is dead and cursed... but how deep does this connection goes?

The Eye Collectors are also found in two other places: the preset Hintertomb Chalices. The Hintertombs are a place of death and stagnation, endless ever-growing graveyards where filth and dregs deposit. These women are attracted to what lurks there for its usefulness in rituals. For example, we can find several Bloodshot Eyeballs down there, as well as Inflicted Organs.

But it’s not over yet. Bloodshot Eyeballs are actually NEEDED to access the Hintertombs, its the primary ingredient in fact! And it’s exactly what the Witches of Hemwick drop upon defeat.

It seems like Hemwick and the Hintertombs are more connected than one would first realize... but it’s not surprising. Hemwick too is turning into a massive ever-expanding graveyard. I doubt the place was called “Charnel Lane” before the plague ravaged the adjacent city of Yharnam. Perhaps then, it’s all just a thematic connection? Maybe, but maybe there’s more to it than that.

The specialty of Hemwick, the Bone Marrow Ash, is found in great quantities in the Hintertombs. How strange that something the Charnel Lane is known for would to be this plentiful underground. (Retranslation on the right by Last Protagonist, found here ->[x])

Perhaps then, this is nothing but a long-standing tradition originated from the Pthumerians who reside here, the Hintertomb Tribe, as I like to call them. It wouldn’t be too out of the ordinary for the people of Hemwick to have descended from them somehow. After all, we know the blood of Pthumerian royalty survived at least in part within the Cainhurst nobles. Perhaps the common folk of Pthumeru would still be under their rule even on the surface, mingling with humans just as their rulers were...

And yes, the Hintertomb Tribe was once from Pthumeru, as Bone Marrow Ash is also found in the lower parts of that set of dungeons, such as the Ihyll and the Cursed Pthumerian Defilment. In fact, both the Lower Hintertomb and the cursed Chalice of Pthumeru are some of the only places where we can find Inflicted Organs. And what do we need those for? For the rotted offerings, most notably the Lower Hintertomb and the Cursed Chalice.

Rotted offerings are known to spawn new enemies, Rite Keepers and Tomb Prospectors, but most interesting are the Eye Collectors. This variant unique to the Rotted Offering have the power of summoning Mad Ones to disrupt dungeon crawling. And unlike the other two enemies, their spawn rates are higher in the Hintertomb Chalices, almost as if these crones were drawn to them.

[fromsoftbosspoll]

Favorite Bloodborne Boss Round 1

[squiiids]

imagine if you were a witch and you summoned shadow monsters to fight for you, but the guy they're fighting is so stupid that they can't even mentally conceive said shadow monsters, so your summons cant do anything at all to them

[old-hunter-henryk]

So I know you asked for character prompts but uh, locations? Perchance a Hemwick? Prithee, a Witch's Abode that is clearly a large dilapidated manor house, if ya nasty???

I been having lots of suspicions about Hemwick and the Witch(es) therein lately, lmao. Very interested to hear what other people think.

As is the case of much of the game, the level design of Hemwick Charnel Lane very much (understandably) prioritizes function over from, which does leave places like the Witches of Hemwick's boss arena as a wide open room without much determinate purpose.

"dilapitated manor house" I think is a possible candidate for what the building is meant to be, the manor where whomever was likely in charge of the area lived, before it was left largely abandoned and neglected like much of the rest of Hemwick.

However, with the name of the location, and the graveyard that lines the path, what's more fitting than for the "Charnel" in said name to be referring to a charnel house? Though, there's a lot less bones than one would expect for such a place.