#cathedral ward

[artofchinara]

Some of my smaller Bloodborne sketches for Soulstober. Somewhere between 1 and 2 hours each.

[mirths-lexicon]

Timendum est vetus sanguinem

Amelia always knew she'd be taking the position of Vicar from her mentor. She just didn't expect it to be so soon, nor did she expect to be the last Vicar to ever be.

[guiding-moonlight]

[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.

[bellepeppergirl]

My Special Little Guy in Bloodborne.

Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time, and in the fifty bajillion times I have played it, there has been one thing I saw that probably nobody cares about, but I still really found interesting and like to talk about. When you beat the Blood-Starved Beast... there is a door in Cathedral Ward that opens. Most people already know this, but what you may not know is that there is a "unique" enemy there. At first, I thought he was really weird because he had an interesting model that I had never seen before. But after a few times encountering him, I realized... it wasn't a unique model, it was two in one! For some reason, one of the Yharnamites in the tower that leads up to Upper Cathedral Ward is two models that are fused together. It's kinda interesting because he is literally two different enemies with different weapons and animations, but yet they somehow wound up mashed up during development. As far as I know, this one here is the only one like this and, also as far as I know, I have literally never seen anybody else talk about it, which means I am probably the only person on Earth who cares about this random, bugged out Yharnamite. I just think he's neat! Anyways, I tried to get a video, but I'm kinda bad at this stuff lmao

I attempted to get some footage of him attacking, which makes some of his glitchy textures easier to see, but he might have moved around too much. I then tried to record his body, and then show what his model is supposed to look like. I believe the other model in him is one of the Yharnamites in the black Healing Church attire who use the pitchforks.

[alexhwriting]

Streaming!

Going to end a bit early, but join me for more Bloodborne deep dive!

[blaiddfailcam]

Upper Cathedral Ward

[alberichfanpage]

In case you were curious about the dialogue Oedon Chapel Dweller has to say if you send all the survivors to the clinic instead.

[phoenixcatch7]

Made it into old yharnam!

Cathedral ward is pretty blocked off for now, I've got just enough leg room to run about and grind the enemies but that's about it. Met Alfred!! He's got a way smoother voice than I remember, but knowing what I do of him gives me the creeps. Helpful enough though - I can summon him at the entrance of the blood starved beasts church.

The funny thing about playing this game with great general knowledge of it is that I recognise many rooms and important locations, but I don't know where on earth those places are, so I'm still stumbling blindly onto them. There's a lot of stuff I know, surface level, like the history of Queen yharnam and the vile bloods and the healing church, but I'm uncovering a lot of smaller stuff that adds to the richness of the world.

The gatling sniper on the tower uses a boom weapon, which means he's a (remnant?) member of the crazy explosion sect of hunters. And I can't put it into words, but I feel like that makes sense with the heavy and thankless duty he has taken on, almost sacrificing himself to protect and guard the quarantined community of old yharnam where no one else would stand for them. Something about the bull headed determination despite what society might say, a deeply emotional morality and a lifetime among monsters and men.

Like I would not make it as a hunter because I read the sign and was like 'welp none of my business let's turn back' but unfortunately that's the only way to progress!

Old yharnam is pleasingly vertical, very easy to get around despite being very disorienting. I don't know how they managed to make an 'old town' area in the gothic cobblestone wet dream of an old town but they did it and they did it WELL.

I did get stuck on getting the messenger bandages in that one corner of the beast church like seven/eight times (why so harrrrrd) but I only died twice to the frenzied mob of parishioners, so, win! I felt so bad each time, though, like I'm not here to kill anyone I just want to loot the place (and interrogate the sniper) I'll be on my way! Their singing was almost nice, shame they kept spotting me (how?!) and starting up those awful screeches. And then they chased me to the ends of the earth!!! Glowing red eyes!! Very scary!!!!

I've reached the blood starved beast so far, but I know that she's a tough one (and FAST, killed me quick) so I'm going to grind the new areas and crank up the levels. Learn my way around them like I know central like the back of my hand. I'm really good at parrying to visceral (thank you zelda breath of the wild) but bullets are SO EXPENSIVE. WHY.

[wonder-worker]

"As regards women whose monuments depict a livery collar, the traditional supposition which saw ladies as appendages of their husbands should be revised. It may be true that some women did have livery collars depicted on their memorials in right of their husbands, but there are examples of those who were probably awarded a collar for their own royal service [...] Elizabeth Donne, wife of Sir John Donne, is depicted along with her husband wearing a collar of suns and roses with a white lion pendant in Hans Memling’s Donne Triptych. As she was one of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s gentlewomen, receiving a £10 annuity, it is likely that she received a collar in this capacity. The same can be said of Margaret, wife of Nicholas Gaynesford (d. 1498), whose brass at All Saints’, Carshalton (Surrey), survives. Although her husband has no collar, Margaret is depicted in a ‘choker’ collar of suns and roses. According to the tomb inscription, she served in the households of both Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York."

-Matthew Ward, "The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales: Politics, Identity and Affinity"

[mirths-lexicon]

Nervous

[amandab821]

I went a couple of days without playing lies of p and somehow in that time my brain reverted to bloodborne tactics and I tried to press L2 to shoot an enemy as he was attacking with a gun that I do NOT have

[fantomette22]

I know I said to myself I would try to do my 3rd playthrough of bloodborne "fast" but actually this run is actually more a "I look more closely at the environment, every objects who lay over and details run"

[swallowtail-ageha]

(God i forgot how comforting playing bloodborne was for me)

[comicchannel]

Bloodborne The Board Game Upper Cathedral Ward Expansion - CMON

Link para compra BR: *Possível importar pelo Link abaixo

Buy here: https://amzn.to/3ZysZjj

[labyrinthinemole]

Assigned to make a cathedral art project in my art history course, I had to make the Grand Cathedral