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Yeehaw fan dragon centered lore. Most descriptions are taken straight from bloodborne. I also use some stuff from the wiki Important to note. Dragons in this story are anthro but more monstrous/other worldly ones aren't. All of my lore dragons will have art of what they look like in the story eventually [img]http://i.imgur.com/3skmWqS.png[/img] Yharnam is a mysterious city tucked away in the mountains beside a giant lake. The city is famous for blood healing. The Church in Yharnam had blood could heal any aliment, any disease and that drew in dragons from far and wide. However, when anything that sounds too good to be true, it is. There was an unexpected consequence to the blood. It began turning dragons into monsters. The city is in a deep mess trying to deal with its beast plague. The location as far as the world map [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/0ef4f4fa6f6f4edc111a801532cbdd4b/tumblr_pm0abi9t581tdkb4to1_500.jpg[/img][/center] [b]Some pictures of the setting[/b] Yharnam [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/7a686642360fbda0b555eea5b1ec2580/tumblr_pif59nIeE11tdkb4to1_540.jpg[/img] The Hunter's Dream Workshop [img]https://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Bloodborne/bloodborne-workshop-art-ishutani_small.jpg[/img] Artwork by [url=https://twitter.com/Ishu_tani]Ishutani[/url] Alter in the Grand Cathedral [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/c2459da0f14558159e127cf98e2f4296/tumblr_pkuiiurpMY1tdkb4to1_540.jpg[/img] Byrgenwerth College [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/c59086ed952d62c989e22041cc5d166f/tumblr_pmq8a1e7KZ1tdkb4to1_540.png[/img] Forsaken Castle Cainhurst [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/e8483466e97a4698299a2c38e07e2577/tumblr_pmq8snr7zB1tdkb4to1_540.jpg[/img] Cathedral Ward [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/51a89160f01e3ca0feec7706f71c6690/tumblr_pmqb0ah9DC1tdkb4to1_540.png[/img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/SILLcxG.png[/img] [center][b]The Healing Church[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/dfa189a39e1b22d6f426515dd3e5d109/tumblr_oukvbvOvYQ1uukx56o3_400.png[/img][/center] [center][u][b]Divisions of the Church[/b][/u] [b]Leaders[/b][/center] Vicar Amelia [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46142690][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/461427/46142690p.png[/img][/url] Vicar Amelia is the current head of the Healing Church. Amelia is often found praying to the altar in the Grand Cathedral which holds the skull of Laurence, the first Vicar. Here she kneels awaiting her inevitable transformation, praying, clasping her pendant which existed to carry a reminder that had been all but forgotten, and that may have prevented the madness that led Yharnam to ruin: [b]Fear the Old Blood[/b]. Valflame [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=36251123][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/362512/36251123p.png[/img][/url] Valflame is one of the two "leaders" of the choir. While none of the choir members actually out rank each there are a few members tasked with spiritual and ceremonial matters. Deirdre [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=44324969][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/443250/44324969p.png[/img][/url] Deirdre is the other "leader" of the choir. They take care of relations with other divisions of the Church and the public. They're important figureheads and do lots of ceremonies. [rule] [center][b]The Choir[/b][/center] Members of the Choir are both the highest-ranking clerics of the Healing Church, and scholars who continue the work that began at Byrgenwerth. The eye covering indicates their debt to the teachings of Master Willem, even though their paths diverged. Together with the left behind Great One, they look to the skies, in search of astral signs, that may lead them to the rediscovery of true greatness. Yurie [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46141883][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/461419/46141883p.png[/img][/url] [rule] [center][b]School of Mensis[/b][/center] The School of Mensis desperately seeks communion with the Great Ones, conducting strange research and rituals to do so. Despite sharing the same goal with the rest of the Healing Church, they don't seem to get along. The school also controls Yahar'gul, the Unseen Village. Micolash [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48681718][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/486818/48681718p.png[/img][/url] [rule] [center][b]The Executioners[/b][/center] Executioners were the second group of the churches hunters. Very few still remain as they have been mostly replaced by the more specialized black and white church hunters. This groups main purpose was to maintain purity and order. They despise the impure Vilebloods, and no matter what the circumstances, would never cooperate with the bloodthirsty hunters who serve the undead queen, Annalise. Alfred [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48261884][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/482619/48261884p.png[/img][/url] [rule] [center][b]White Church Hunters[/b][/center] These doctors are superiors to the black preventative hunters, and specialists in experimentally-backed blood ministration and the scourge of the beast. They believe that medicine is not a means of treatment but rather a method for research. and that some knowledge can only be obtained by exposing oneself to sickness. Ludivina [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=45404996][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/454050/45404996p.png[/img][/url] [rule] [center][b]Black Church Hunters[/b][/center] Most Healing Church hunters are elementary doctors who understand the importance of early prevention of the scourge, achieved by disposing of victims, and even potential victims, before signs of sickness manifest themselves. Their black attire is synonymous with fear, and that peculiar Yharnam madness. Ragnarok [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=36251124][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/362512/36251124p.png[/img][/url]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/5nh4hvn.png[/img] [center][b]Hunters[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/9577cc75dc5dccc458cea868c97edf48/tumblr_inline_o21bm9FwdX1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center] [center][b]The First Hunter[/b][/center] Gehrman [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46703466][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/467035/46703466p.png[/img][/url] In time, a man named Gehrman would rise to the task of the Beast problem. Gehrman redesigned common clothing to provide better defense against the beasts' claws, and also created the Burial Blade, a unique weapon capable of transforming during battle to suit his need for a short or long weapon. Gehrman’s work was so admired that his Burial Blade would become the basis for all hunter armament technology, later known as trick weapons. Moreover, Gehrman was also a formidable fighter, whose agility would become mandatory in any hunter's fighting style. [center][b]The Different Factions of Hunters[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/9577cc75dc5dccc458cea868c97edf48/tumblr_inline_o21bm9FwdX1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center] [u]The Workshop Hunters[/u] The Workshop hunters were some of the first hunters, many of whom trained under Gehrman. They were a secretive force who killed the beasts that threatened the town under the cover of darkness. They had a workshop where they crafted new weapons and items to assist in the hunt. The workshop was hidden away within the church's grounds and now lies abandoned. [rule] [u]The Powder Kegs[/u] The Powder Kegs adoration of complex design and big booms culminated in weapon designs that contrast with those traditionally of the Workshop. The late Powder Kegs, bless their souls, had a motto: "If a weapon ain't got kick, it just ain't worth it.' They were the heretics of workshop. The church already was not a fan of their ways and they were the perfect ones to blame for the burning of Old Yharnam Djura [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=47029232][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/470293/47029232p.png[/img][/url] Djura is a former hunter who stayed in old yharnam to defend the beasts there. he believes they are still people [rule] [u]The Executioners[/u] The Executioners were the first church hunters after Ludwig's day. More can be found [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2572067#post_36339642]here[/url] [rule] [u]Ludwig's Church Hunters [/u] Ludwig, the first hunter of the Healing Church, once recruited Yharnamites to serve as hunters. This was when the workshop hunters stopped being a more secretive force and began working with the common folk hunters Ludwig [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48623863][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/486239/48623863p.png[/img][/url] [rule] [u]Hunters of Hunters[/u] The Hunters of Hunters wear feathered garb to imply sky burial. The first Hunter of Hunters came from a foreign land, and gave the dead a virtuous native funeral ritual, rather than impose a blasphemous Yharnam burial service upon them. with the hope that former compatriots might be returned to the skies, and find rest in the Hunter's Dream Eileen the Crow [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46107501][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/461076/46107501p.png[/img][/url] Eileen is an older hunter who was once was connected to the dream. She is an assassin whose sworn duty is putting blood drunk hunters to rest. Like the Good Hunter, she hails from outside Yharnam but her presence in the city is driven by an entirely different set of motives; she makes a point of keeping a low profile operating in the shadows [rule] [u]Black/White Church Hunters[/u] Black and White church hunters are two groups of church hunters that sprung up alongside the beast scourge and approach the problem with two distinct methods. More can be found [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/2572067#post_36339642]here[/url] [rule] [center][b]Hunters of the dream[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/9577cc75dc5dccc458cea868c97edf48/tumblr_inline_o21bm9FwdX1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/6BIYuVl.png[/img] [center][b]The Hunter's Dream[/b][/center] Gehrman [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46703466][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/467035/46703466p.png[/img][/url] The Doll [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=43387234][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/433873/43387234p.png[/img][/url] Messengers [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48748774][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/487488/48748774p.png[/img][/url] These small creatures have crept out of a nightmare, and while they may not look too friendly, they accompany hunters, follow their orders, and take care of messages left for others The Moon Presence [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=47860905][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/478610/47860905p.png[/img][/url]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/0o3rtTR.png[/img] [center][b]The Nightmares[/b][/center] [rule] [center][b]The Nightmare of Mensis[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/1472d40b5a1c39406f28a5a6638fd134/tumblr_inline_o21bmtn7Oz1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center] Micolash [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48681718][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/486818/48681718p.png[/img][/url] Mergo's Wet Nurse [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46977707][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/469778/46977707p.png[/img][/url] Mergo [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=50355121][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/503552/50355121p.png[/img][/url] Queen Yharnam [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46192545][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/461926/46192545p.png[/img][/url] Yharnam stares wordlessly up at the loft where her child, Mergo, rests. She can never actually get to them as this version of Yharnam is just a fragment of her consciousness lost in the nightmare. [center][b]The Hunter's Nightmare[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/1472d40b5a1c39406f28a5a6638fd134/tumblr_inline_o21bmtn7Oz1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center] Many years ago there was a fishing hamlet where a great one washed up on the beach. The people of the hamlet worshiped the corpse of this god. Then the scholars of Brygenwerth found this place. the scholars brought hunters to raid the town to find out more. They destroyed this village and as a result, a curse was placed upon them and every hunter after. "[i]Curse the fiends, their children too. And their children, forever true.[/i]" The Hunter's Nightmare is where hunters who become drunk with blood lust end up and are trapped in an endless hunt. The landscape is a twisted and warped version of Yharnam, it almost seems to be put together from scraps of hunter's memories. There are two of the grand cathedrals in the Hunter's Dream. One lies past the River of Blood, and another contains the private research hall of the Healing Church. The Research Hall was where the Healing Church conducted experiments on dragons in an attempt to create beings capable of communication with the Great Ones. Many of the creatures in the hall are failed results of these early experiments, although the Church would eventually find success in this endeavor, creating the Celestial Emissary. Only chosen members of the Church, or their lamentable patients can enter the research hall. The Astral Clock Tower and Lumenflower Gardens still exist in Upper Cathedral Ward in the real world as well as the nightmare but the hall does not. Connected to the research hall is the astral clock tower. The clock interprets stars and connects them to cayrall runes on a functional level however it has another purpose here in the nightmare. Lady Maria lives behind it's face, determined to keep anyone from seeing the horrible truth it hides Simon the Harrowed [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=44746981][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/447470/44746981p.png[/img][/url] Brador [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=49041569][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/490416/49041569p.png[/img][/url] Lady Maria of the Astral Clock Tower [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=44273275][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/442733/44273275p.png[/img][/url] The caretaker of the tower's numerous patients, known to them only as Lady Maria, made her home behind the giant star-interpreting clock Adeline [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=50226820][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/502269/50226820p.png[/img][/url] Laurence the First Vicar [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46748984][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/467490/46748984p.png[/img][/url] In reality he became the first cleric beast, and his human skull only exists within the Nightmare. The skull is a symbol of Laurence's past, and what he failed to protect. He is destined to seek his skull, but even if he found it, it could never restore his memories. Ludwig [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48623863][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/486239/48623863p.png[/img][/url]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/pDsPRvs.png[/img] [center][b]Other places in and around Yharnam[/b][/center] [rule] [center][b]Oedon Chapel[/b] [/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/9577cc75dc5dccc458cea868c97edf48/tumblr_inline_o21bm9FwdX1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center] Chapel Dweller [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46996396][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/469964/46996396p.png[/img][/url] The Oedon Chapel Dweller is a friendly lil guy that lives in the Cathedral Ward. He advises anybody looking for a safe place to stay the night to come to the Oedon Chapel. Arianna [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=47412150][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/474122/47412150p.png[/img][/url] Arianna lives in lower Cathedral ward and came to Oedon Chapel once she ran out of the incense that wards away beasts Adella [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=49110117][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/491102/49110117p.png[/img][/url] [center][b]Iosefka's Clinic[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/23a991657ffe5c64c567c36fa383517c/tumblr_inline_o21bmybIsc1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center] Iosefka was a genuine and kind church doctor looking to help the dragons of the city. But a rouge member of the choir decided that she needed it to fulfill a "better" cause. This impostor Iosefka asks the hunter to find her more patients to "help" aka experiment on. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=47410870][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/474109/47410870p.png[/img][/url] [center][b]Central Yharnam[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/9577cc75dc5dccc458cea868c97edf48/tumblr_inline_o21bm9FwdX1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center] Ember [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=44351027][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/443511/44351027p.png[/img][/url] Florance [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=15127513][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/151276/15127513p.png[/img][/url] Renelle [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=49635734][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/496358/49635734p.png[/img][/url] [center][b]The Forbidden Woods + Hemwick[/b][/center] [center][img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/1472d40b5a1c39406f28a5a6638fd134/tumblr_inline_o21bmtn7Oz1r3lvtf_400.png[/img][/center] Just outside of Yharnam is a gate to a thick, maze-like forest. A dragon guards the gate and won't open it for anyone who doesn't have the password. A small makeshift village lies in the middle, isolated from most outside contact. No one knows why the village is still here or what it was for originally. The forest floor and trails are littered with gravestones. The headstones don't seem to belong to the people of the small village, they're all very old, overgrown, and shoved aside. Strange snake creatures roam the woods along side other oddities. Deeper in the woods is Hemwick Charnel Lane where it appears the dead from the city are brought for whatever sketchy reason. Groona [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=43808566][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/438086/43808566p.png[/img][/url] Groona is an herbalist and a self declared swamp witch. Herbal medicine fell out of favor with Yharamites long ago but she doesn't trust the Healing Church's blood in the slightest. And she was in the right to as she's basically the only dragon in the entire forest with some sanity. Comma [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48023441][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/480235/48023441p.png[/img][/url] Comma is an amalgamation of many feral spirals. They form an emperor like creature called a snake ball. (The forbidden woods also contain normal snakes that have become snake balls.) Comma is special as she maintains just a touch of her dragonhood and is relatively non aggressive. She lives with Groona as a familiar of sorts and receives herbal treatment from her.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/bdksTav.png[/img] [center][b]Byrgenwerth[/b][/center] Byrgenwerth College was the origin of the knowledge that inspired the Healing Church and it's divisions and may have even influenced The Vilebloods. The scholars of this college originally found the entrance of the Labyrinth and began to seek out the truth of the universe Provost Willem [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48068823][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/480689/48068823p.png[/img][/url] Rom [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48931751][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/489318/48931751p.png[/img][/url] [i]"The spider hides all manner of rituals, certain to reveal nothing, for true enlightenment need not be shared."[/i]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/PurJtbR.png[/img] [center][b]Cainhurst[/b][/center] Forsaken Castle Cainhurst is a snowy castle and it's grounds are connected to the mainland by a grand bridge. The castle used to have control over Hemwick and some other lands along the shore in its height. In present day, the castle lies abandoned and in disarray, the bridge destroyed. Only the Queen remains there The Cainhurst Vilebloods were in active conflict with the Healing Church, until they were exterminated by the Executioners. Their conflict began when the Cainhurst nobility acquired something called Vile Blood, that subsequently tainted the castle and the inhabiting nobles, turning them into vampires or something similar. They received the Blood from a traitorous student of Byrgenwerth, but consequently began hunting for more Blood amongst the ranks of the Healing Church. Martyr Logarius chose to stay behind in Castle Cainhurst after the Vilebloods were eradicated, since their Queen could not be killed, having consumed enough blood to become immortal. He donned the Crown of Illusions, to forever hide Annalise from the world. Pledgers to this oath are Cainhurst Vilebloods, hunters of blood who find dregs for their Queen of coldblood, particularly in that of hunters. Yet the corrupt are heretics in the eyes of the Church, thus subject to the wrath of the Executioners Queen Annalise [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48692450][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/486925/48692450p.png[/img][/url]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/GoF4bnD.png[/img] [center][b]The Ancient Past[/b][/center] [b]Before the age of dragons[/b] An interesting note, an artifact called Ring of Betrothal was made by a Great One and imbued with some special meaning. In the age of the Great Ones, wedlock was a blood contract, only permitted to those slated to bear a special child. [b]Pthumeru[/b] Long ago there was a thriving society called Pthumeru. These dragons lived in a land they called Loran and built beautiful cities. They were able to harness the power that came from the blood of the Great Ones. However, they were not careful with the blood and things went south. The Pthumerians eventually fell to madness and retreated deep into the tombs of the great ones. Eventually the city of Yharnam was built on top of the labyrinth after it was long forgotten. Legend says they still remain there guarding the gods final resting place before they ascended. When the dragons rediscovered the labyrinth they were in awe of the power of the Pthumerians and got into the old blood just like the dragons before them. Queen Yharnam [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46192545][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/461926/46192545p.png[/img][/url] Queen Yharnam was the last leader of the Pthumerian people before their society fell

[img]http://i.imgur.com/chiGc8T.png[/img] [center][b]The Great Ones[/b][/center] The Great Ones are unique and distinct beings that ascended to a higher plane of existence long ago. At least most of them did. Due to their uniqueness and strangeness they can not have their own children and seek surrogates instead. The Great Ones are on a near incomprehensible to normal dragons for the most part Formless Oedon [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=47052105][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/470522/47052105p.png[/img][/url] The Great One Oedon, lacking form, exists only in voice, and is symbolized by this rune. Human or not, the oozing blood is a medium of the highest grade, and the essence of the formless Great One. Both Oedon, and his inadvertent worshipers, surreptitiously seek the precious blood. Moon Presence [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=47860905][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/478610/47860905p.png[/img][/url] Ebrietas [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=49438927][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/494390/49438927p.png[/img][/url] Mergo [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=50355121][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/503552/50355121p.png[/img][/url] Mergo's Wet Nurse [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=46977707][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/469778/46977707p.png[/img][/url] Brain of Mensis [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48626764][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/486268/48626764p.png[/img][/url] Kos [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=49870787][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/498708/49870787p.png[/img][/url] Orphan of Kos