At the time of writing, there are four “Bloodborne” volumes written by Ales Kot, with more written by Cullen Bunn coming in 2022. These limited series are for fans of Bloodborne’s lore and premise. What I found the most interesting was how insight into From Software’s worldbuilding provides a better experience for the reader while those ignorant of this lore might be irritated by the writing style, which I enjoyed because the opposite (madness-causing insight versus the ignorance of an unending dream) is a thematic component of the story in the video game. “Paleblood” serves as Bloodborne’s macguffin, or the idea of a goal.
“There must be more than the hunt.”
Each story follows a different character living in the world of Yarhman, brought to life by the art team’s amazing work across the whole series; “The Death of Sleep” was about a Paleblood child with a hunter who knew Durja and the Powder Kegs; “The Healing Thirst” displayed a member of the Healing Church being science bros with a love-mad scientist; “A Song of Crows” told the story of Eileen the crow; and “The Veil, Torn Asunder” dealt with a soldier suffering from war PTSD, showing that the madness of insight was a universal affliction in the world of Yarhman.
“When they say healing… they mean burning… us alive.”
An important aspect of the disease inflicting the city is how the beasts were all once human, where characters grow to realize they may be “undeserving of the hunt”. The unafflicted believed that people were transforming into beasts, but the protagonists’ individual descents into madness reveal to them (and us readers) that the insight was turning them into godlike beings, which enforces one of my favorite literary themes of death being a good--an idea that drove mad the living Yarhmanites who clung to the desirables of life. Perhaps the best part of these Bloodborne side stories is how this information is revealed to almost everyone in Yarhman, but they are all unable to convey this to each other until after they transform into monsters. For these characters, going mad was equivalent to obtaining insight about the hunt and the Paleblood, as one began to see monstrous gods fighting one another throughout Yarhman. In true fashion, the more insight one acquired, the more monsters one saw.
“... but nobody taught me how to grieve without killing myself...”
The four comic book stories set within Bloodborne’s world are all about the personal struggles of individuals living in Yarhman, their own issues and trauma, and how they manage to cope until the end of the hunters’ dream.
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Allen W. McLean
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