So I’ve been replaying Bloodborne and I noticed this castle in the distance of the Nightmare Frontier. I can’t get any better resolution so this is all I have for pictures.
Does anyone in the Bloodborne community have any speculation on what this is? Cut content? The Hunter’s Nightmare? Micolash’s vacation home? Please tell me what your thoughts are!
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Traverse the nightmares with me :)
Spend a lot of time working on the nightmare layers piece, please take a look and share it with your fellow lost hunters!
For anyone who would like to purchase a print, the link is here :)
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Nightmare frontier (Loran) geologic interpretation
Alright, here I am to talk about another detail I noticed while replaying Bloodborne! It has more to do with well the geology of the nightmare frontier and from what it's based on in real life. I like analysis and trying to understand those in video game! But also might bue because I'm a technician geologist too XD Still I will try to stay simple and short.
So The Nightmare frontier in the Nightmare. This optional zone you can unlock thanks to Patches! And where we fight the Amygdala to obtained the Loran's chalice.
Notes : the nightmares are in layers. Mensis nightmare is on top then the frontier, under the fishing hamlet with the boats. And under the hamlet the hunter's nightmare/Yharnam of the dlc. For the one who didn't knew.
Notes 2 : The nightmare frontier is probably a nightmare originating from the region where Loran is (the out place area and the Loran chalice are goos indicator). You know that Pthumerian civilisation far from pthumeru & Yharnam who all become beasts... But if you are into the lore you probably know about Loran and all.
So in the frontiers we can find those strange stone hexagonal columns around :
Well it is a real geologic structures! Also named volcanic (basalts) columns, organ pipes etc (orgues volcaniques in French)
Volcanic columns of Panska skala. Source image : https://planet-terre.ens-lyon.fr/ressource/orgues-volcaniques.xml,
So, how it's formed? Well it is a bit complex but I will try to explain simply. You see those are formed from (effusive) volcanism (don't cofound with magmatic plutonism). You see when a volcano create really liquid lava and don't explode it's effusive. The lava cooled fast on the surface (huge thermic difference with the air or water) and don't crystallised, it often formed basalts (this black rock without minerals visible) or similars stone (can be andesite too in that case or even diorite. It's the same "family").
Those columns are not directly made on the surface but meters under the first couch of lava or they can be formed in magmatic veins that came from a magmatic chamber (in the ground) but cooled way faster than the chamber: it can create those or dyke or sills for exemple/ A magmatic chamber who cooled of will be crystallised on the contrary and take a lot of time! (Thousand if not millions of year) Still it's seems those columns take years or century to become rocks. Still it is "fast" on a geological levels.
Apparently with specific conditions temperature it create this hexagonal columns. It is also similar when clay who became dry and cracked on the ground if you prefer.
Anyway those volcanic columns can be found in many places! Europe, Africa, Asia, America etc There are usually millions of years old and we can see them thanks to erosions of the more tender rocks around it.
The first pic I show are at 80/100km north to Prague in Czech Republic. And You know Bloodborne is a bit more based on easter Europe so 👀
Anyway I think this is very cool the devs inspire themself from those! Very Interesting!
SO what it says about Loran region and Bloodborne world then ?🤔 Well I'm not sure but it's sure is very ancient geologic formation and even in XIX century 2 big theories fought about geology so it sure could be see as specials for old civilisation! Especially in link with old great ones or smt. And maybe Loran could be closer to Yharnam than we think.
ALSO
You see those weird ?ball rocks? in the all the nightmare area? really remind me of pillow lava. You know when lava pierce through the ocean and cold really fast
Ok and I'm not sure for Yharnam or Cainhurst geology but pretty sure the fishing hamlet is volcanic stone too. Why? Well the huge massifs black stones and the BLACK SAND, like in Hawaii ! Or in Iceland. Volcanic region with huge volcanic activity.
Black sand always means it came from volcanic rocks or that it's rich in iron minerals for exemple.
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Local fearsome Hunter who's beaten 5 bosses in a row on first ever try also happens to be an arachnophobic:
"I am not going anywhere near that shit"
[Or: I am very mentally not prepared to explore Mensis. Thankfully Yahar'gul is still kicking my butt for now so that shouldn't happen too soon.]
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I just beat the Amygdala in the Nightmare Frontier and it was the single most stressful fight of my life. Not because of the difficulty, but because I was already low on health potions just getting to the thing. Do think it’s pretty neat how it’s named after the part of the brain that produces the hormones that cause fear.
Gonna go for broke and try give Old Hunters DLC a shot. I’m really interested in the lore and I think there’s gonna be a lot there.
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Happy Valentine's day with the.... Choir? Damn, is Choir even a thing anymore? Everyone seems to be pursuing their own thing by now..
I think it is safe to take Forgotten Madman as his own character rather than some echo of the past of Ludwig 🤔 Dungeons already work well as catacombs without the timey-wimey stuff, and although there are some now-dead hunters that raise to the ring of the bell, soul of Ludwig is in the Nightmare, and did not die a human! Forgotten Madman also uses A Call Beyond, "secret weapon of the Choir", and Edgar likely had his taken by Micolash so it is still consistent
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"I'd wager you are as elegant on the dance floor as you are on the battlefield."
Inspired by this.
I sketched this to get it out of my head. Probably won't do more though 🤔
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