The Dark Souls of Going to Grad School
Feb. 26th, 2024 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingSo I’ve seen a lot of theories about the identity of the "runesmith of Byrgenwerth"
https://skelayton-lord.tumblr.com/post/167523600216
I'm not sure this post is going to make much sense to anyone who hasn't played Bloodborne. It doesn't make much sense to me, to be honest. I found it by googling "what does the Memory Altar do," and obviously this isn't an answer to my basic gameplay question, but it's as good a place as any to start looking for lore.
What I'm picking up on is that whatever happened in Yharnam is the end result of the studies of a group of scholars at a university called Byrgenwerth. Among other things (that I am still trying to piece together), these scholars decided that it was a good idea to literally open people's heads via craniectomy and carve runes into the inside of their skulls. Or something of that nature:
She heard the utterances of the great ones and had their runes literally burnt into her skull, just as we learned that Willem's goal of lining brains with eyes was in no way metaphorical. She heard these arcane utterances, and it literally left marks in her skull. Same with the hunter's mark - it is actually in the head of our hunter.
As far as academia goes, that sounds about right to be honest.
https://skelayton-lord.tumblr.com/post/167523600216
I'm not sure this post is going to make much sense to anyone who hasn't played Bloodborne. It doesn't make much sense to me, to be honest. I found it by googling "what does the Memory Altar do," and obviously this isn't an answer to my basic gameplay question, but it's as good a place as any to start looking for lore.
What I'm picking up on is that whatever happened in Yharnam is the end result of the studies of a group of scholars at a university called Byrgenwerth. Among other things (that I am still trying to piece together), these scholars decided that it was a good idea to literally open people's heads via craniectomy and carve runes into the inside of their skulls. Or something of that nature:
She heard the utterances of the great ones and had their runes literally burnt into her skull, just as we learned that Willem's goal of lining brains with eyes was in no way metaphorical. She heard these arcane utterances, and it literally left marks in her skull. Same with the hunter's mark - it is actually in the head of our hunter.
As far as academia goes, that sounds about right to be honest.
