#since it has her coffin and shes direcrly responsible for closing the gate to thw hamlet

[saintadeline]

Do you think the Research Hall was dragged directly into the Nightmare like the Lecture Building was, or was it recreated from the memories of its inhabitants like the Nightmare Cathedral Ward was?

The way i see it its kind of like a secret third thing ...? Unsure how I'd categorize it. It's definitely more based on memories than say something like mensis that was quite literal, and it's also not a physical port (sorry i love calling it a port like its videojames) like what happens with actual rituals like with yaharghul & the hunters dream. But i think its not entirely like the central yharnam hunters nightmare in the sense that the rh was not brought there as a sole torture dimension for wrongdoers. Its easy to go "the entirety of the rh is maria's nightmare" but i think thats not true at all, otherwise the same could be said of laurence and cathedral ward, but we Know the hunters nightmare is for all hunters. Sorry im probably not making any sense rn im sick but IM TRYING. Also my personal take on it is that the rh patients were taken in by kos in an act of divine messed-up-yet-genuine empathy. Because since the rh is more than just maria, and theres not a lot of actual researchers (aka people who Could be there as punishment) and there is no way kos sought to actually torture the patients, i think the research hall was kind of like her idea of taking them under her protection, possibly after the failures managed in some way to make some kind of (failed) contact with her. To me the way kos sees the rh is kind of like the lab rats she rescued out of good will except she doesnt know how to take care of them at all so theyre in one of those torture labyrinth plastic cages for hamsters. At least thats how i see it. Also, it not being 100% truthful to reality explains a lot of physical questions like why the hell does it look like that. And if the research hall we see is taken from the patients twisted (traumatized) view of it, it does really make sense that its comprised entirely of strange twisting stairs and operation rooms.