#healing church

[mirths-lexicon]

I know everyone and their mother has made one of these by now but I wanted to do one with these two

[snipper-snapper]

redraw :3 color palette challenge

[secteel]

Another blorbo doctor 👀

[technomancer-01]

“Good Hunter, lost in the nightmare. What do you think of that beastly legend and those ailing wards of the church?... I know what you did to them... It’s not your fault. The nightmare held them, and now they are free. But, what about you? Have you profited at all?”

Folks, would you want this as a poster? I’m debating if I want this as an 8.5”x12” rather than just on my 4.5x6.5 spellbook pages. Granted it’d be a standalone. What do you think?

Etsy:

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[midorishinobi5]

Made that one girlcel Yharnam tweet into a comic with me and @lumbar-supp0rt’s Bloodborne ocs

[fantomette22]

Here's what I have been up to this last few days, a little Bloodborne fan comic! I'm happy how it turned out.

I love this game, it's mechanics, differents parts, characters, enemies, music and of course I've been fascinated with it's lore for more than year now.

The Black Church Set description is always a point that fascinated me, yet make my skin crawl each time I think about it : Most Healing Church hunters are elementary doctors who understand the importance of early prevention of the scourge, achieved by disposing of victims, and even potential victims, before signs of sickness manifest themselves.  Their black attire is synonymous with fear, and that peculiar Yharnam madness.When a cancer is discovered, one must pinpoint its location, reach in, and wrench it from the host's bosom."

It's not talk enough and when it made us understand what horrors and in what state Yharnam was living before the hunter show up.

Additional I mixt this with my very own story concerning Gehrman's past. After Lady Maria passed away but before the Hunter's Dream.

I wanted to represent how we pass from the old hunters to the church hunters & doctors taking personally matters in their hands. As well as the harsh reality some of the inhabitants faced.f

[katyahina]

Seems like Gold Pendant was not a single use one?

^^^ I have not seen these model rips before! Found them here ( x ), and apparently they were extracted by AstralLace (same person who we owe that high-quality Gratia model reference to)? This oval inside structure is rather interesting, too?

I have been thinking it was strange that a blood gem would be golden, but seeing that hollow place inside of the pendant, I feel like what Vicars were doing was adding blood (their own?) inside and locking the gem, allowing it to solidfy into mini Frenzy Spears from within! But since the blood would be trapped inside, it could easily make an amalgam and change its properties to golden!

I just think that I can finally be at rest with this line:

The description made it sound strange, because not only it implies there were other Vicars in the timeline between Laurence and Emilia, but also that they had to rely on this pendant consistently TO put down the Clerics that turned! So, if the gold blood gem was made upon ruining the pendant somehow, that'd mean it has not been used before, which would make the description pointless.

...unless! The golden gem formed within WAS used at least several times, and became a tradition within the walls of the Healing Church! Because the pendant is not the gem itself, but a small tool to MAKE this special gem!

Besides, rune Beast's Embrace is dropped by Laurence, and it is the second instance where the emphasis is made on "horrible/abhorrent" beasts, not just any type of beasts in general. Gold gem says it grants properties against the most horrible beasts too, which only further feels like it IS reserved to put down the Clerics in particular.

Soooo.... yeahhhhh. They've placed the lore inside of a small 3D model that its impossible to see without datamining. I don't know what else I expected from Fromsoft, really. -_-"

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Vicar Amelia is the hypocrisy of the Healing Church made flesh

By the time you encounter Vicar Amelia, you probably aren't surprised that the Healing Church is corrupt, but she is a remarkably blunt confirmation of that fact, chanting a prayer specifically glorifying the Old Blood that causes the Beast Plague, before turning into a beast before an altar with the severed rotten skull of her also corrupted predecessor, in an explosion of blood that stains the religious icons she prays before.

And her design supports that storytelling, making her a sheer white beast in ragged cleric's robes, complete with a veil over her face almost like a corrupted vision of a bride. Like the Cleric Beast she is somewhat chimeric, a wolf-like shape with deer's antlers and humanoid hands, and rail thin under her cloak like she has existed in permanent starvation. Emaciation is a recurring motif with Bloodborne beasts, both because it's instinctually scary and offputting, but I think it also speaks to the nature of beasthood: you are cursed to feel the sweet call of blood that can never satiate your endless hunger.

The prayers of the Healing Church are hypocrisy, and it is in large part their worship and use of the Old Blood that has led Yharnam to its present disaster, and poor Amelia, though she prostrates herself on the floor begging for salvation, ends up another victim of its lies.

My full analysis of Vicar Amelia

[katyspersonal]

Lrb honestly, I still can't believe how clever some parallels in Bloodborne are

Both Micolash and Laurence conceive a ritual of summoning Paleblood Moon, and both runes associated with their institutions have this shape in the middle, very (most) likely referring to a Great One child they need.

But what Micolash is doing is keeping the state of Bloodmoon looming over Yharnam permanently, when Laurence makes a Hunter's Dream that is one-and-gone deal and is remotely passive and obscured after Flora takes Gehrman as bait and switch (the cord Laurence used is still in Abandoned Workshop)

But I really love how Moon rune is red and Communion rune is white. The Paleblood Moon is associated with both 'pale' state and 'red' state, I always feel like it has connotation of being pure vs having "sipped" enough blood. It can be hunt (so, literal bloodspill) or being a Kin of 'stars' (that bleed blood devoid of color red and are called 'Emissary of the Moon' / 'Larva of the Moon' / 'Bastard of the Moon' in internal files), sacrificing their "color" in worshipping it. But also in GENERAL white and red are two possible colors of the moon!!!! Source: look in the sky normally vs look in the sky in rare wolf moon events

I just fucking love how many parallels Laurence and Micolash have, but it is reflected in such lore details too. Laurence is 'pale' moon and Micolash is red bloody moon (and they were classmates)

[aliesther-eistein]

Done.

[squishyputty]

Pathfinder campaign idea: Somewhere in the mana wastes, a church of Erastil is having problems dealing with abberations made by a cult of Lamashtu, and they pay the party to hunt them down. They even give you some special holy relics that work despite the lack of magic in the area. However, as you progress, something begins to seem... wrong. You can only find a handful of actual cultists. Not nearly enough to justify all this. And the corruption seems to... spread? From one creature to another. Nad also... a few of them seem to have holy relics... like the ones the party got at the start. And then things keep getting worse. No matter how many abominations the party hunts down, more seem to replace them. Until eventually, they track down one of the beasts, leading them back to the church where they started. But something's wrong. All the other hunters and priests who were there before are either missing or dead. The party ventures deeper in, fighting more abberations, now mixed with various twisted undead creatures. And it slowly becomes more clear: This quest was never to get rid of the beasts. The church just wanted to collect their bodies to use for their own experiments. Also, they're a church to Urgathoa, not Erastil. They were using the blood to make the magical weapons the party used, and in an attempt to turn themselves into powerful undead. In other words, Bloodborne. Or at least, the Healing Church. Modified to better fit Pathfinder, of course. Oh, and if you're a player, not a DM, and you still want to play Bloodborne in Pathfinder, fear not! Start with the champion class and follow a diety with the dream domain, and take the feet to gain the domain spell for it. Play lawful good for extra damage. Take a mix of Dex and Str, depending on what you want to be good at. Grab a one handed melee weapon, and a gun. When you reach level 3, take a shifting rune for your melee weapon, so that you can change it between 2 forms at will. Then, focus on maxing your damage output with feats like Smite Evil. It might not be perfect, but it's a good starting point, at least.

[asphodelflowers]

Honestly, that would be enough in most media to classify them as evil, but the Healing Church is so massively, almost comically evil that hiring assassins is one of the less fucked up things they've done.

My friend: So like…on a scale of 1-10, how messed up is that church in Bloodborne?

Me: They canonically have assassins working for them.

My friend: Oh. Okay.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about Eddie learning Buck will be there for him off the job, even without Chris being in the equation.

Something something about that being an important realisation for him to finally make because he’s always hidden behind his son when it comes to Buck (and his love life more generally - even Shannon in reality was for Chris not himself) but he won’t be able to this time.

Something something about that realisation being the key to giving himself permission to examine his heart and feel his true feelings.

[secteel]

Some panels I finished ✨

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Sunday doodles

[audreyrose7]

No because it's insane to me, LITERALLY INSANE, that women can be religious, that they can't understand the terrible way that religion in the church treats them, no light bulb goes above their head and goes "wait that doesn't seem fair or good" they just go about their day, they go to church, they read their Bible, they obey their husbands, (of course some women wake up) but it boggles my mind how many don't, how many people just are religious their whole lives, their bibles are torn and tattered dog eared, coffee stained, well loved, they studied the Bible and yet never saw the horrible truth in it. Mind-boggling.

But then I have to remember that for so many years I was one of them and I didn't want to wake up either. And that also is mind-boggling.