![]() Now if we have a god of blood, it’s important to know how exactly he has his power in the present age of Yharnam. To think, it was corrupted blood that began this eldritch liaison.” - One Third of Umbilical Cord (from Arianna’s celestial child) “Every Great One loses its child, and then yearns for a surrogate, and Oedon, the formless Great One, is no different. “In the age of the Great Ones, wedlock was a blood contract, only permitted to those slated to bear a special child.” - Ring of Betrothal ![]() ![]() Given the statue and the nature of other Great Ones, it’s conceivable that Oedon once had a physical form, and if we learned anything about the dream, it’s that dead things can survive in it. When paired with the ideas that Mergo is formless after stillbirth, persisting in voice, and the Wet Nurse is likely the formless spirit of a dead Great One (given the ghostly effects and siderite weapons), it may be extrapolated that Oedon is persisting in spirit after death. This is a graveyard, and it’s difficult to imagine a graveyard dedicated to a figure that’s still considered among the living. This is a fully-realized tomb featuring a statue of a physical idea of Oedon, surrounded by gravestones. A literal god of blood.Ĭonsider Oedon Tomb where we find Gascoigne. He may traditionally be described as formless, but he’s still a legitimate Great One that is so powerful that he is considered to be everywhere and nowhere, with blood as his essence. According to the description above, Oedon is a presence. It’s incredibly important to entertain a shift in perspective here, an embrace of the dream logic that this game clearly operates on. ![]() If Oedon is consistently referred to as the Formless Great One, how could he possibly be the moon-dwelling physical thing we brutalize with a ? “Formless” is the one detail that sticks out to people about Oedon, and the immediate discounting of this possible identity of the Moon Presence means that people miss an entire way to interpret the story. Both Oedon, and Oedon’s inadvertent worshippers, surreptitiously seek the precious blood.” - Oedon Writhe RuneĪlright, let’s tackle the big question first. “Human or no, the oozing blood is a medium of the highest grade, and the essence of the formless Great One, Oedon. Regardless, here’s the reasoning and consequences for Option A. You may prefer one theory over another not due to facts but because of what you feel the story is about. Option A has a lot of what I think is really compelling evidence, but keep in mind that each train of thought will reveal very different themes and takeaways for the overall story. This was the conclusion I naturally came to back in 2015, before exposure to the online community. The Hunter’s Nightmare elucidates a LOT of Truth of course, but I’ll be reserving it for future theory extensions which I’m greatly looking forward to. Note: The Old Hunters will temporarily be considered “optional content” for these Oedon-centric theories. In an attempt to cover the most ground with the simplest conclusions, I’ll be using the identity of the Moon Presence to explore two major trains of thought, starting with the one that is bafflingly entertained the least (due to a single adjective that, with Kos as my witness, I will work around). Now I’d like to explore for myself what seem to be the most important ideas from which all others might branch. ![]() They often work off of the ideas or assumptions presented by the more prominent “lorehunters,” and subsequently become rather homogeneous. But, of course, if you opt for this, you also end up skipping and the best ending for a speedrunner.During my exhaustive observation of Bloodborne’s fantastic community (seriously, the friendliest and cleverest I’ve ever seen), a surprisingly limited amount of Big Picture theories and variations have ever come to my attention. This ending is also the easiest ending, as you are able to skip the last and the final optional boss. This ending could also mean the exact opposite, having the player being killed from the real world and waking up in the afterlife while escaping the hell of the real world. Dying at the hands of Gehrman finally release the player and allows them to return to the real world and escape the nightmarish dream The Blood had trapped them in. This ending heavily implies that the entire game of Bloodborne does take place within a dream. After seeing your character getting decapitated, you are then seen waking up to a sunrise of a much brighter and more lively-looking Yharnam. After finding Gehrman in the field behind the workshop, he offers to kill you and finally end the dream. After defeating Mergo's Wet Nurse, the hunter returns to the Hunter Dream to find the workshop on fire. This is the easiest ending to attain in Bloodborne. ![]()
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