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Bloodborne, Part Ten
Mar. 11th, 2024 08:39 amOn the other side of the hillbilly-infested snake forest is Byrgenwerth. This is what I thought would be "the haunted university," but really it's just someone's lake house. It's a very aristocratic lake house, to be sure! But it's only a single building. At this lake house are about a dozen people whose heads are lotus seedpods filled with eyes, a giant centipede with a vertically slit mouth filled with teeth, and an old man staring at the lake.
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Based on bits and pieces of lore I've picked up, I assume that Rom used to be one of the scholars who hung out at Byrgenwerth. Again, as Byrgenwerth is someone's country estate, there must be a large university elsewhere. Willem, the old guy who hangs out on the balcony overlooking the lake, was apparently a professor who brought a bunch of grad students on a field trip to study forbidden knowledge. One of his students, Laurence, became obsessed with the blood of the Great Ones and went on to establish the Healing Church. Rom was probably another student. I guess she got obsessed with the eyes of the Great Ones and, in an experiment she performed on herself, unfortunately turned into a giant spider. Rom originally being human is just a theory, but grad students do be like that.
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Based on bits and pieces of lore I've picked up, I assume that Rom used to be one of the scholars who hung out at Byrgenwerth. Again, as Byrgenwerth is someone's country estate, there must be a large university elsewhere. Willem, the old guy who hangs out on the balcony overlooking the lake, was apparently a professor who brought a bunch of grad students on a field trip to study forbidden knowledge. One of his students, Laurence, became obsessed with the blood of the Great Ones and went on to establish the Healing Church. Rom was probably another student. I guess she got obsessed with the eyes of the Great Ones and, in an experiment she performed on herself, unfortunately turned into a giant spider. Rom originally being human is just a theory, but grad students do be like that.
