#forsaken castle cainhurst

[bloodexer]

Back to Cainhurst

#bloodborne #bloodborne hunter #forsaken castle cainhurst #cainhurst #soulsborne #bloodborne fanart #my art

[blaiddfailcam]

Forsaken Castle Cainhurst

#bloodborne #my gifs #martyr logarius #i wish the library wasn't so dim #makes it tough to gifify #forsaken castle cainhurst

[endys]

The fall of Cainhurst

Older bloodborne painting that took... many attempts to complete.

#bloodborne #cainhurst #vilebloods #forsaken castle cainhurst #bloodborne fan art #Thankfully the executioner cone hats are geometric and easy to paint

[folkdevilism]

#bloodborne #soulsborne #silver lady #bound widow #cainhurst #forsaken castle cainhurst

[beesmygod]

BLOODBORNE LORE Q+A PART 2: CAINHURST STATUES

part 1

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THE HUNTER ASKS:

all the statues in yharnam are weird. even the ones that look normal are so fucking weird. nearly every statue in this game hints at something much larger and stupider than we ever could have imagined.

before we start, for clarity's sake, the chalice dungeons are comprised of four major areas: pthumeru (the largest area and the aforementioned "tomb of the gods", it is a city that rose and fell eons before yharnam), the hintertomb (previously explained), ailing loran (a long ruined city whose fate echoes the fate of yharnam), and great isz (a dungeon that is overlapping with "the cosmos" and is of great story importance). they are NOT main game content. some people completely skip them because they appear to be repetitive and are honestly kind of boring. and yet....

this ties into castle cainhurst's "normal" statues. the first clue something is off is that all the knight statues are missing the right leg. all of them. and not in an uneven way that would imply they were knocked off by some art hating maniac.

it wasn't until the DLC came out that this became retroactively significant. the item description for the old hunter's trousers reads:

A widespread belief of the period was that "beast blood crept up the right leg," and this led to the double-wrapped belt.

the dlc takes place in the time of the old hunters, the distant past. but the knights predate the hunters, right? they have to. the rifle spear was said to be based on a "lost cainhurst weapon". its a pale and poor imitation of the reiterpallasch. and the statues...

the statues in cainhurst clog up rooms to much that they make moving around difficult. they're all the same 4 statues: a queen, a king, a different queen holding a child holding an orb (?), and a tasteful contrapposto nude. i cannot stress how many of these fucking things are just lying around or shattered around the castle. the depictions of the generic king and queen (in truth, these are recreations of statues around notre dame) match depictions in other parts of the game but absolutely no mention is made of their rule now or in the past.

how old is the cainhurst lineage?

old. really, really, old.

here's the only other place you can find the statues: as gold statuettes in the treasure rooms of the pthumeru dungeons

ah, and i know what you're thinking: obviously this is just fromsoft re-using assets in that classic sloppy late game kind of way. but there's. more. a lot more. its not just this.

its so old that the armor you see in the throne rooms and a portrait of a knight in cainhurst castle can be found scattered throughout the lowest parts of the labyrinth.

in modern cainhurst, the fellow above has been transformed through dastardly means into the gargoyle-esque enemy called the "child of antiquity". "bastard of cainhurst" probably would have been a better and more thematically appropriate name.

he is not the only cainhurstian (?) depicted on the this wall of what you probably thought was reused concept art. its probably that. but its something else too. you know who else is in these paintings and also in the chalice dungeons?

her.

in the sinister chalice descriptions ("sinister" being a modifier that adds her to the dungeon for extra challenge) she is described as a "mad pthumerian". h-how can she be a pthumerian if she's a cainhurst noble?!

have you noticed that bloodlickers will appear in chalice dungeon rooms where you've preformed a visceral attack? the only other place they're found in the game is cainhurst! they're read to be blood drunk nobles who have become vampiric like mosquitos or ticks. why are they in the dungeons??

there's also this cainhurst knight who continues to live and serve his queen. i believe one of his guaranteed encounters is at the very bottom floors of the labyrinth. how did he get down there??

did he get down there?

or...did they come up? the subjects of the portraits are pale and thin.

"The old nobles, long-time imbibers of blood, are no strangers to the sanguine plague[...]"

how old? how long have they been imbibing blood? they've experienced blood plague before?!

why do both the bloody crow of cainhurst (one of annalise's knights who is evidently not a vileblood) and the shadows of yharnam (the entourage of queen yharnam) drop "blood rapture" runes which are deliberately vague about which queen the rune is in service to?

how old is the cainhurst lineage?! WHAT is the cainhurst lineage?! annalise, queen of the vilebloods, is the sole survivor of a massacre that wiped out the rest of the vilebloods (an ideologically charged name imposed on them by the church). she was left alive simply because she could not be killed but she was forced into a mask she cannot remove. but the mask does not prevent her from making us into a vileblood, as we only have to drink her blood to do so.

what could the mask be hiding? why does her dialog change when you unlock the lowest chambers of the labyrinth? how are there two undead queens?! (yucky item from bloodborne warning)

all hail the undying queen of blood!

#long post/ #bloodborne #forsaken castle cainhurst #bloodborne lore #this literally only discusses two of the statues in the game. im in trouble

[fantomette22]

King of Cainhurst and the Vilebloods VS Martyr Logarius and the Church Executioners

(Colorized, Cainhurst Castle, pre Moon Presence beckoning)

#bloodborne #bloodborne memes #i’m really sorry but i just got a revelation #that’s a really simplified version of how i saw it xD #i made this one really fast sorry for the bad quality #martyr logarius #king of cainhurst #church executioners #Vilebloods #cainhurst knight #forsaken castle cainhurst #cainhurst #I need more things about the King and Annalise pls :(

[moonlitinsight]

Old Hunter vs Old Vileblood (of my design)

#bloodborne fanart #bloodborne #elden ring #from software #art #old hunters dlc #forsaken castle cainhurst #digital art #bloodborne vilebloods #Vileblood #Evelyn #dark souls

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

"Vileblood" is a pretty horrible slur, but a lot of them nonetheless call themselves "vilebloods" out of spite.

#bloodborne #forsaken castle cainhurst #world building #headcanon #slur reclaimed

[slightlydeadghost]

Effie's (BB oc) Grandmother Katherine of Cainhurst, her younger design is here

#my art #oc katherine #artists on tumblr #artist #sketch #my oc #art #bloodborne #bloodborne oc #bloodborne fanart #cainhurst knight #bb oc #fromsoft oc #forsaken castle cainhurst #vileblood #fan character #my characters #character design #soulsborne #illustration #portrait #artwork #soulsborne fanart #bloodborne art #traditional artist #traditional art #pencil sketch #oc art

[katyahina]

About Arianna’s dress

Also I might be a complete dunce, but I only today noticed that Forsaken Castle Spirit mobs are wearing same shoes as Arianna:

But also, to think of it, their dresses likewise are VERY similar? Arianna’s is less detailed, but the structure is definitely the same:

They are definitely very similar, Arianna’s just lacking some decorations on the fringes and ruffles where the long part of the sleeves starts, but it does feel like they essentially just made grey and crimson variant of the same attire?

Interestingly, but despite Arianna’s dress being that of a noble line, there is no person with her variant of the dress on the portrait; there is only one in that of Spirits’ grey variant! Besides, seeing how Spirit enemies are basically... well, spirits... and do have their throats slit, it is more likely that they were decapitated right on the spot and... well, there is no enemy variant wearing crimson dress like Arianna’s either. Of course it could be that developers wasted their variations steam on Huntsmen BUT, this reminded me:

Bell-Ringing Women do normally wear black/dull clothes, and they ring the bell to summon spirits of the dead, but there is a special variant with red hood instead of black with Bell-Ringing Women that summon One Reborn (so, a quite different connotation from ordinary necromancy - a rebirth!). I am not sure how well that bellringer-like portrait repeats it, seems to not even have the hood and colors are typically red + golden for Cainhurst, but what if the idea of wearing a red (or red-ish) variant of the normal wear for a special occasion persisted?

So, Arianna’s dress easily might be not a typical dress for Cainhurst, but rather a variant of the typical dress! At first I thought maybe the crimson variant was for the balls/meetings/celebrations/etc, but it is LESS pomp and detailed than grey variant as you can see, so maybe that’s not the case? Rather, whatever the occasion for wearing crimson variant was didn’t require the same amount of beauty (although still needed to match the level close enough!), and was a bit more spare? To think of it, female Cainhurst nobles DO tend to dress sorta dull:

And, notice how the baby that this previous queen is holding is dressed in red too? So, typically female Cainhurst nobles were wearing same as Arianna but dull-colored and more elaborate in some places, and red color in this line is (fairly enough) associated with birth?

So what if Arianna’s variant of the dress had to do something with it too? I for example like the idea that average female noble would wear crimson variant of the dress while expecting a child! Like what if her mother ran away during Cainhurst massacre not with her, but while being pregnant with her! And it could explain how this dress apparently stretches well enough to give the space for the belly; there is a pregnant variant of Arianna’s dress that player cannot equip normally that she gets, seen well only through save-editing:

( Source: ( x ))

So, dress that allows enough freedom when belly starts to grow, while also marking the woman’s current status, while meeting the color symbolism they probably like, while also still looking beautiful enough to meet Cainhurst standards! I think I like that idea for what is the purpose for this less common variant! And then Arianna, of course, inherited the dress from her mom! would’ve been ironic through the prism of this idea, since she DID end up being pregnant after all, hah;

These are just my thoughts on the matter, though! Description of her dress simply says it is that of the nobles and I just come from how no one but Arianna wears it, meanwhile the (murdered) women of Cainhurst + that on the portrait all wear grey variant and it just FEELS like it has to mean something for me personally!

I was initially convinced it was the other way around (crimson is regular, grey is special) because I’ve been mandella’d into thinking mobs were called ‘Bound Widows’ but, nope! Apparently they are ‘Forsaken Castle Spirits’ and since portrait (that I suppose depicts NOT a spirit) has grey dress too, I feel like the other way around is more likely. Thought it’d be hilarious in a messed up way if there simply were THIS many widowed women in the castle..

#bloodborne #forsaken castle cainhurst #forsaken castle spirits #arianna woman of pleasure #bloodborne theory #not art #text post #yeah.. as you can probably tell i played bloodborne today to cheer up #and visited cainhurst #i began thinking about stuff on tired brain but i like what it gave me

[zegoldensombrero]

♠️ Digital Illustration ♠️

Here’s a rough idea of the next installment in the BLOODBORNE Black Metal series — this time with Cainhurst castle🏰

SHOP

#illustration #drawing #ze golden sombrero #art #zegoldensombrero #artist #draw #artists on tumblr #ink #pen and ink #fan art #wip #bloodborne #dark souls #elden ring #work in progress #forsaken castle cainhurst #Cainhurst #black metal

[bloodexer]

Hear them crying

#bloodborne #soulsborne #bloodborne fanart #bloodborne hunter #forsaken castle cainhurst #my art

[entillum]

Young noble from Cainhurst

Honestly, I have kind of apathy and these little sketches are all I can do

#bloodborne #soulsborne #forsaken castle cainhurst #noble #vileblood #traitional art #art #illustration #sketch #oc art

[lorddeathofmurdermountain]

Had some genius try to explain to me how the Executioners were the bad guys and how the Vilebloods were victims. Oh, cry me a river. Why yes, those poor, murderous vampire wannabes, how sad that they won't be able to continue their mindless slaughter of innocent people due to the horrid purge committed by the thoroughly fucking brainwashed Executioners. How tragic that their butchery of hunters and common people alike, fueled only by their sick, demented pleasure, only "excused" by needing to give Blood Dregs to their Queen, has been cut short.

Go home and acquire some Insight, dumbass.

#bloodborne #forsaken castle cainhurst #queen annalise #okay now that the general tags have been taken care of #who in their right mind sides with the vilebloods #mf saw Twilight and decided they were now exclusively pro-vampire #aka anti-life but whatever #why yes #let's all go and judge morally complex characters and narratives often seen in souls games by simply labeling a side as good and bad #meanwhile let's also side eith the guys anyone normal would consider the worse of the two #like don't get me wrong I fuckin VIBE with Cainhurst #but I don't go pretending like they're the good guys and that they fell victim to the mea #moustache twirling #(tag on its own for emphasis) #Executioners of the Church

[folkdevilism]

#bloodborne #soulsborne #alfred bloodborne #vileblood hunter alfred #alfred the executioner #alfred hunter of vilebloods #logarius wheel #cainhurst #forsaken castle cainhurst #castle cainhurst #alfred

[areas-of-fromsoft]

Bloodborne Round 3, Match 2. Favourite Area?

#areas of fromsoft #fromsoft tournament #poll #round 3 #bloodborne #forsaken cainhurst castle #central yharnam