CCRB RECORD No. 0008
Bloodborne
Determination: Explicit — Corruption 3, Blasphemy 3
A vicar prays at the cathedral altar for communion in blood, then turns into the beast you have to kill.
The previous record identified the Healing Church as antagonist and left the sacramental material unrecorded. Yharnam's primary social institution is the Healing Church, and the plague is its doing: blood ministration, the Church's healing sacrament, is what turns the city's people into beasts. Its vocabulary is clerical throughout — vicars, clerics, a Grand Cathedral, the Cathedral Ward, Oedon Chapel, Martyr Logarius, Father Gascoigne, the Cleric Beast. The clearest instance is Vicar Amelia, heard praying long before she is seen, at an altar holding the skull of Laurence, the Church's first vicar: her prayer asks the congregation to seek the old blood, to wish to partake in communion, and to feast upon the old blood. She transforms mid-prayer into the boss the player kills, still clutching a gold pendant she uses to heal herself in a shaft of golden light. Beneath the same cathedral…