Mar. 12th, 2024

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The Religion Of The Healing Church In Bloodborne
https://burnttongueblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/the-religion-of-the-healing-church-in-bloodborne-lore-study/

The Healing Church, eager to study the Old Blood and attain evolution through it, looked at the power controlled by the Catholic Church or a Catholic-like church, in the surrounding country/continent/world and used it as a blueprint to create their own organization – an organization that would inspire religious fervour in the local populace, and allow them the finances, power and freedom to experiment as they saw fit.

I'm onboard with this reading. It supports my own interpretation of Bloodborne lore, which is that the timeline of the events leading to the game is quite short, probably only about 30 years. The Healing Church only recently supplanted the primary religion in Yharnam, but this shift resulted in the city's relative isolation in the midst of an industrial revolution.

The Bloodborne DLC apparently sets up the timeline of what happened and who the major players were. I really appreciate this summary and analysis essay:

What's going on in Bloodborne: The Old Hunters?
https://www.eurogamer.net/bloodborne-whats-going-on-in-the-old-hunters

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