Why is this place so weirdly big?

Hopefully that satisfies all those questions.
Song used: Central Village - King's Field (US) OST

[@zorroya4856]

Im happy for the little nightmare. He's got so much space for himself and he deserves it.

[@Kavriel]

Actually i've got from a reliable source that he's a right bastard that doesn't treat his girlfriend right so no this little nightmare doesn't deserve shit.

[@x265_hevc5]

@@Kavriel He's a good boy. Idk where you're getting this fake news from

[@thetimehascome874]

I wonder who to believe

[@jphenry3404]

Well if his mum called him a little nightmare, I bet he's an absolute twat now

[@goodnesswhy]

@@Kavriel Are you trying to cancel my boy? Leave him alone!!

[@TheApollo90]

That little wandering nightmare upstairs is me when my parents have company over.

[@thekiss2083]

"I'll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I don't exist"

[@inoli3164]

same except i have an amazing bedroom in the basement

[@HeapOfBones]

And the hunter making a noise to make the wandering nightmare appear is analogous to the parents yelling "there's cookies if you want some!"

[@father_opan4358]

@@HeapOfBones Dinner is ready!

[@ZullietheWitch]

I guess it kind of sticks out as a place that could have a lot more stuff in it, so it didn't really meet expectations.

[@chompythebeast]

Like I mentioned elsewhere, maybe the real question left is what sort of rich folks lived in a place on a hill that big? I can't really remember much in the way of evidence for who may have previously occupied the space, or what their connection to the Witches might be (if any), but the Cainhurst carriage nearby seems to suggest an aristocratic connection

[@TheCrewExpendable]

Hey Zullie can you also please review the Orphanage and the outside of Astral Clock Tower in the present? They are also both very big but we don't get to see the outsides up close. The Orphanage, for example, has billowing clouds of smoke coming out of chimneys (perhaps from cremation fires?) but we don't really get to see that when we actually get there late game. The orphanage seem to stick out as as area that could have had a lot more stuff.

[@ladyabaxa]

@@chompythebeast The statuary in the boss room also suggests someone (or group of someones) of wealth and means lived there. Mounting complex, highly detailed figures high up in the wall means you're hiring an architect and their team of workers plus an artist of renown and their team of workers. Not something your average peasant can do. On a final note the center piece looks to me like a variation on Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica.

[@chompythebeast]

@@ladyabaxa Yeah, that's definitely a riff on the Pietà. Bloodborne is full of Christian motifs―the idea of chalices filled with blood being sacred, a powerful church controlling society, the obvious architectural influences, death obsession and resurrection, even Immaculate Conception and a character named Maria who guards the "Original Sin" of the Hunters and the Divine Child, using blood from her womb to do so. And that's all just sort of scratching the obvious. It's strange to me how relatively little people talk about how Bloodborne is essentially taking the divine impregnation/death cult aspect of Christianity (and perhaps Catholicism in particular) to a sort of horrifically logical extreme

[@brentdavila4383]

@Zullie the Witch Hello, thank you for your interesting content! Would it be possible to examine the huge pillars/columns that are visible in the foggy distance from the hunter's dream? I have always wondered what they are supposed to be or represent. To me they look reminicent of the trunks of the arch trees in Dark Souls. Thank you so much!

[@IggysEden]

This building ALWAYS struck me as odd. For as looming as it is during your trip through the area, all you do is go down into the basement. We got a haunted castle and a haunted Victorian city, it would have been cool to travel through a witch’s “haunted house” as you made your way to them (preferably not in the basement lol)

[@tezwoacz]

if its not in game files it doesent mean that nothing was ever planned for this location, it might be that they realised very early in development that they dont have time to make this location as large as it was supposed to be.

[@abovearth6740]

We could have kept the underground part by just changing a details. When you arrive in the witche's abode, the way to the basement is closed so you have to climb up some stairs and do stuff in the biggass building, maybe meeting an NPC hyping up the fight against the witches because they're a terrifying boss lore wise. Then at some point you get a key to the basement so you go back and *then* the boss fight start. All you need to add is two stairs, one going up and one going down to the basement.

[@monsieurdorgat6864]

It's because that building once probably belonged to a lesser Cainhurst noble, to whom the peasants of Hemwick were serfs. When the path to Castle Cainhurst became broken and isolated from their landed lords, the increasingly insane Hemwick peasants took over the building and the viziers (the Witches of Hemwick) took it over. The noble may have been Runesmith Caryll, or maybe was a patron to Caryll, but that seems to be what they were after.

[@Tainuo]

@@monsieurdorgat6864 I can't believe I never made this connection, good stuff.

[@AtelierMcMuttonArt]

My first thought is that it'd feel a lot like the first building in the Upper Cathedral Ward, with the falling chandelier and the brain sucker things.

[@The80sGuy]

A big zone with a big mansion with... only 3 rooms... Damn, that was such a jebait !

[@jhalent93]

HEY I KNOW YOU!!! LOVE THE TUNES!!!

[@Gsmooth84]

Ikr, it blew my mind. It's just like Dragon Shrine from Dark Souls 2 somewhat

[@LyllianaofMirrah]

Do you rly ever do some soulsborne stuffs?

[@arbiter-]

Well it does lead to Castle Cainhurst in a way.

[@archangelgabriel8493]

Zullie, I beg...no matter how many eyes I have I will never be able to see how the Forbidden Woods ladder lines up to the clinic, this is the real Eldritch Truth we need to know!

[@orochifire]

Really? It makes perfect sense to me, the woods loop around behind where you start on the exit-side of the clinic, it's a huge area.

[@macaroll]

Oh that path! I was screaming internally when I went through there! Got through all that just to open a gate 😂

[@spyrotikus]

Hemwick was such an awesome area the first time around, and then when I beat the Witch of Hemwick and was left with a dead end I was just like "uhh where do I go now?

[@theomnitorium7476]

It's a really strange side area considering there isn't even anything there you need to progress the story. You could just never go there and be fine.

[@spyrotikus]

@@theomnitorium7476 That's one of the things I love so much about Bloodborne, how it has all these amazing areas and bosses that are completely optional, like Hemwick, Cainhurst, Upper Cathedral Ward, Yahar Gul before blood moon, and Nightmare Frontier. The way I play these games, no boss or area is optional because I love them so much, including the chalice dungeons and Lady Yharnam

[@theomnitorium7476]

@@spyrotikus I would actually agree. When I play a soulsbourne game, I also have a strict "no boss is optional" policy :)

[@omniscension8967]

@@theomnitorium7476 Perhaps not the story but having the rune tool is so useful it's always my first port of call.

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

@@omniscension8967 as a gun build user, i need my extra bullet slots

[@chompythebeast]

Must've been quite the home at some point there at the end of Hemwick Charnel Lane. Looks like what you might call a "manor". The fact that the Cainhurst carriage departs from the road just at the base of the hill there might also speak to a sort of (possibly former) aristocratic presence in this area. Not sure why the Witches took up shop in that space, though. Maybe they ate the rich

[@scramblex2692]

they took up shop there because the hunters needed someone to manufacture bone ash powder from human bones. a "charnel house" is a funeral home. The house is big and was at one point very nice because these women made a lot of money manufacturing arms to fight the beasts. it is my guess that all funerary services were diverted through this one place, and most burial was taking place in the forbidden woods area given the number of graves.

[@TheCrewExpendable]

@@scramblex2692 Plus it seems to witches have done some "independent research" on the side into the arcane. All the bodies flowing through the place seems to have given them an opportunity to extract eyes of the dead and graft them onto their bodies. They also have some connection with the School of Mensis since you find some of their executioners in the Lane and there are some witches (without eyeballs) in the Gaol trying to cut out your eyes if they grab you.

[@Solaire_of_Astora13]

My headcannon is that the Vileblood needed someone to organize all of their business from land in one building and used the one the witches use now but it was abandoned when the bloodline was ended and the scholars of the old blood took hold of the region. The building is now used by the clan of witches who control Hemwick from it and use to store important resources and prisoners (maybe perform rituals too). The witches are actually allied to other factions by acquiring eyes and weapons for them and the needed magic refinery needed for them to work the way they should while most of them are actually spread throughout the map doing whatever, while some of the matriarchs are left behind guarding them from intruders in the Hunt, which are the ones we fight.

[@yugiohboyfriendappreciator7739]

Omg based Witches of Hemwick

[@anemoi6803]

@@yugiohboyfriendappreciator7739 beat me to it

[@metalmonster9536]

Hemwick Charnel Lane is not much of an interesting place, but the design is well done. I love how you open up the gates to access a whole new open place from the narrowing view of cathedral woods. Then it leads you to the laughter of mad people dancing around the fire far below, giving you a hint about the atmosphere of the place. Also I find it neat that when you open up the shortcut gate, it makes a straight path from the Lamp to the boss room. The place is simple but has fundamentals well put.

[@dylanschmeichel2008]

I disagree it was one of my favorite areas during my first playtrhrough. Just really dense atmosphere and genuine terror when entering the creaky barn not knowing what to expect. Nice change of pace too from the other areas.

[@metalmonster9536]

@@dylanschmeichel2008 Maybe I explained it wrong; I don't dislike the place. Also there are much more unfavorable levels like Forbidden Woods and Nightmare Frontier. Imo it just does not stand out amongst the beauty of Central Yharnam, Mensis and Research Hall(as you can see I'm a big fan of complex structure levels).

[@ericlechat719]

@@dylanschmeichel2008 Agreed. Hemwick Charnel Lane is my favourite place in the game, by far. I think it's beautiful.

[@Er404ChannelNotFound]

If I remember correctly, Lance once showed that the room above the Caryll rune tool has collision on the ground. Though it's not necessarily proof we were meant to traverse up there but it is interesting to ponder.

[@kosm999]

The road leading up to the manor is paved with corpses that have been burned and crucified. Considering it’s location, and that the building was at one point connected to Cainhurst via the stone bridge, I assumed that the bodies were the Cainhurst nobles since there aren’t any corpses of Vilebloods in Cainhurst Castle itself. Explains where the witches got all that ash with blood properties too if the bones it was made from were also vile blood in origin.

[@snek616]

The fact that Lancce and zullie communicate is weirdly awesome, like their part of the larger darksouls network

[@RamAurelius]

I always appreciated this boss for really using the insight mechanic in an interesting and unexpected way.

[@SIGNOR-G]

Wish they could have done at least 1 or 2 more bosses with this mechanic.

[@henrikbgh7221]

Yeah altrough an easy boss, but it did something very cool with the i sight mechanic, sad none of the other bosses didnt get some kind of treatment like this.

[@abovearth6740]

@@henrikbgh7221 Instead it affect some ennemies like the church guys with lanterns in cathedral ward.

[@SIGNOR-G]

In the dlc the living failures could have been replaced with a more "insightful" boss

[@henrikbgh7221]

@@SIGNOR-G yeah,also i think mergos wet nurse could have been one. Imagen of it was oppisit og the withes, that with more insight the less clones she would spawn.

[@ShotgunMcgee666]

I've been playing Bloodborne again (like 3 times now, all diff builds) and one thing I'm curious about is in Upper Cathedral Ward. Specifically the window where the Wolf Beast (or Scourge Beast?) breaks in when you get close and leave. The broken window shows the ledge of the balcony where you get Make Contact, but looking at where I believe the window is shows no broken window at all. I'm also curious as to where the beast is hiding to break into the window. I know you can see the beast that hangs from the building in Old Yharnam from pretty high up (just after the crucified BSB if I'm remembering right) so I'm curious if the UCW one out of bounds or just invisible. If you ever get the chance to look into it, that'd be really nifty.

[@roundninja]

I've checked and I wasn't able to find anything lurking on the outside of the building. It's a nice jump scare but I don't think they really set it up to make sense, just to startle you

[@MegaZeta]

I broke the window please don’t blame him for it. Sorry i’m trying to fix it

[@remilenoir1271]

To answer your first point : the exterior of buildings in Bloodborne almost never matches with the interior. This is universal across the game. Even windows you can see through from inside a building are oftentimes walled off, off centre, or completely absent when you get to see the outside of the building. This is either due to an oversight by the devs or to a lack of communication between interior/exterior design teams, but once you are aware of this, it's really hard not to see it...

[@michaelmannix1604]

I always kind of wished the boss fight necessitated us to search multiple rooms throughout the building, kind of like a simpler version of Micolash's fight. At least then the Mad Ones would feel a bit more intimidating if they could potentially corner you in close quarters. That said, it's always been intriguing to me how the geography of Hemwick matches up with the Fishing Hamlet's. The Witch's Abode in particular is strangely similar to the huge, fortress-like structure housing the snail women. Aside from that, I suppose Hemwick was governed by Cainhurst in a previous era, but had long since fallen into chaos... It's a neat area that I wish felt a little more like a world of its own, rather than a sidequest to acquire the Rune Workshop Tool.

[@macaroll]

Thanks for the hint! I was wondering where I could get the Rune Workshop Tool!

[@FreekinEkin2]

I'm curious how areas look from other areas, and how the map is connected. I always look back at the bridge to the witches' abode from Cainhurst, and the bridge seems to point off in the wrong direction. Unfortunately, with this being on console, we never got IllusoryWall's Bloodborne Dissected series. Would have been awesome.

[@Alfreduss]

Also there is like a tunel with a big road near henweek

[@damianwozniak3946]

So.eone did actually cinfirm that the bridge doesn't line up with Cainhurst. I believe it was Lance that mentioned this in one of his Bloodborne related videos, but I am not sure.

[@MitridatedCarbon]

@@Alfreduss I think it used to connect to yarghul (in lore) before they walled off the main street. That's how Mensis got the corpses I think.

[@vexn3699]

With Bloodborne coming to PC, we might get it yet. Here's hoping

[@commanderleo]

@@vexn3699 why do people say this with total conviction? Did someone mention it's coming to PC and I just missed it?

[@DippyDog79]

I have 2 requests for Bloodborne: First is Ive been curious if the ships in Nightmare Frontier and Yharham in the FIshing Hamlet if they have models or not, I thought it was cool looking down and seeing them and was curious if From Software made actual models for them or if there are something else. Also weirdly the ship sails or flags in Nightmare Frontier kinda bug out and start spinning for some reason when I've played, idk if others got that to happen. And the second request is in the Hunter's Nightmare, before you get the Whirlygig Saw a random snail woman falls from the sky, and Im always have been curious if it actually fell from a spot that would make sense like the area where they reside, least close to the caves or in the Fishing Hamlet, or just a random spot out of bounds that From Software wouldn't think people would look into. Maybe be interesting to look into. Love your content, hope to see more crazy stuff!

[@shotgunmasterQL]

I think someone (could have been Zullie) definitely did a video on the snail lady, though I don't remember the conclusion of the video. I think you were able to trigger the fall manually from a specific angle, and also aggro the snail lady with a specific trick? Nothing specific on the place it falls from, though.

[@blarg2429]

@@shotgunmasterQL Local Hunter Aggroes The Servants Of The Great Ones With This One Weird Trick! Snail Ladies Hate Him!

[@nebky]

Man I really wish they'd done more with this, fighting through a mansion to reach the witches would have more than made up for how easy they are. Makes the whole zone feel cut short.

[@keskes1338]

Holy crap!!!! Everytime I'm speeding through this area I stop for that wanderer near the boss room, and it always takes me a second to find it, usually only seeing it once it starts running. I had NO IDEA it dropped down. Thank you so much! So many years later and we are still being granted eyes!

[@Raptor747]

I like that it's a lot bigger than the areas you have access to. Makes it feel more real--like it's not just a room whose sole purpose is for your bossfight, but you're just fighting in one small part of the building.

[@juliebelle1756]

Hey Zullie! Odd request, but recently I was invading in the Ringed City and as I spawned into the sunken church in the Swamp, for some reason the lighting of the area was more of a reddish color, making the church's roof tiles look like the roof of The Grand Archives. I don't know if this happens every time you spawn as a red summon in the ringed city, but it faded back to the more blue-ish hue in just a few seconds, so I wonder if this is some kind of effect put over swamp to make the area appear more blue-ish? It'd be cool if you could look into that since it confused me, thank you!

[@thomasjefferson2676]

I love how much thought goes into every single detail of the Souls games and I cannot wait to explore Elden ring.

[@Cheattoe]

Every secret must be found, every corner scratched at, we must claw through the nightmare itself! Praise the Witch!

[@YaBoiSquidster]

Always wanted more in that building. Felt like a DS 2 boss where you just double back once you're done.

[@hexxygirl7669]

I can see Vicar Amelia being in there almost like it was a collective group and one of the many (amelia) turned into a beast breaking the building (could explain some of the broken parts and ceiling) but was ultimately cut due to how the beasthood was spread as it wasnt fast and spontanious is was a slow emotional tide that drowned yharnum. I love looking at the vast world and the diffrent tones fromsoftwares ideas could hold and if bloodborne was quite possibly a "helper" situation instead of hunter and your role was more to hunt to help those who could not protect themselves but was scrapped or not even thought of but none the less Thank you zuulie for this Insight

[@kakachi1426]

I really like how you put up your stuff. It's direct and to the point, revealing the game's secrets in a stylish manner. You're a witch of the twenty-first century.

[@porkstamina]

I always thought that with the hanging bodies this boss room was much more foreboding than the Witches deserve, being an easy fight. Knowing that Amelia was originally meant to be here, it makes sense.

[@BotterZA]

The art direction of FromSoft is just on another level. I am constantly blown away.

[@ForeverLaxx]

Half the time, that Wandering Nightmare seems to despawn for me without ever dropping down into the room.

[@misterguy2329]

Yes, me too. After completing this area, I came back just to see if I missed a way into the house. It was way too big to have just a basement, and seemed like such a weird design.

[@cotykilgannon1468]

This is why I like this channel. I've run through this building a million times and have never once even noticed how large it really is, nor have I ever given any thought to there being a fake second floor. I gotta play bloodborne again.

[@joebykaeby]

The Witches are an underwhelming boss fight, but I’ve always appreciated how lore-rich they and the entirety of Hemwick are - not so much in context of larger lore of the game, but the environmental storytelling about Hemwick itself is so dense. Plus the Witches got one of the best tracks in the game imo.

[@alyseleem2692]

I do believe the place has a bigger lore connection to other areas, though. Think about it. The bridge to Cainhurst was destroyed. Why is that? It's pretty much the only connection the castle has to proper land. What happened? Well, look at the boss arena. It's a basement, but a very big one. Lots of statues,too, depicting the sick and dying, as well as a man lying on a woman's lap.... This place used to be for preaching, it seems. And whatever they preached was likely not for the ears of certain folk up top. The people of Hemwick live off producing Bone Marrow Ash, which is used by those possessing weak Bloodtinge. In contrast, the Vilebloods generally possess weaponry and tools that require high Bloodtinge and Skill. Indeed, one of them caught with this powder would be a disgrace to the organisation..... And yet, by the time we come, it's known to be mass-produced there. What do you think was being preached in that basement? And tobwhat audience? Because if I'm thinking correctly, this might be one of those spots where the Church was in it's infancy. A small, fringe cult on the run, giving out sermons and miracle cures to the common folk. What could go wrong?

[@MitridatedCarbon]

It kinda reminds me of a run down version of the spider room in mensis, plus the crying woman's statue reminds me of kos, or it may be an allegory for "every great one loses its child". it could be an old Pthumerian cathedral during a time Cainhurst had more power and more influence, before the arrival of the church. or maybe Hemwick was where the Fishing hamlet once stood, the abode was once where they would harvest slugs and phantasms, but with the arrival of Byrgenwerth, it all had been repurposed for body harvesting, which in turn influenced modern Hemwick, explaining the strange statue at the beginning with its webbed fingers, the vicinity to water, the women being the main authority and workforce, etc.

[@zacharron]

After living in an alley next to a staircase in Cathedral Ward and on top of a roof in Old Yharnam, that Wandering Nightmare deserves some new digs.

[@soybean9098]

Never noticed how huge the building is in comparison

[@Brachynogre]

That reminds of the Ringed City in DS 3. In the background is a huge castle. But we never went in this castle. Its only for decoration.

[@procionemannaro2030]

Video idea: is it possibile to free the camera during cutscenes in bloodborne? If yes during the Cainhurst carriage cutscene it seems that there is someone who is spying you from behind the bushes, maybe there could be a secret…

[@OurBenefactors]

If that's possible, I'd like to see what actually happens during Vicar Amelia's transformation, when the camera cuts away and just shows the shadow and the blood splatter.

[@soapdish124]

Lance McDonald made a whole video on it, interesting stuff

[@procionemannaro2030]

@@soapdish124 thank you i will check tat

[@damianwozniak3946]

@@OurBenefactors Lance McDonald shows this and what the op asked for in one of his videos.

[@AlastorAltruistGaming]

The witch’s castle somehow reminds me of Aunt Josephine’s house in A Series of Unfortunate Events, as both her house & this boss room take place over a very large lake.

[@Spidamonk]

Thanks for making this video Zully. I’ve been curious for years actually about the structure of that building and its size.

[@TheRealGovika]

When this eventually comes to PC imagine the redesign of places like this to give extra content and items. Wonderful upload as always

[@gaston6814]

One thing we never think about is how foul the places in the games would smell like. Seeing the hanging bodies made me imagine how rancid the smell would be.

[@Thrano]

It's so big because it includes the witches' bordello side hustle: The Bitches' Abode

[@TheCrewExpendable]

Hey Zullie can you also please review the Orphanage and the outside of Astral Clock Tower in the present? They are also both very big but we don't get to see the outsides up close. The Orphanage, for example, has billowing clouds of smoke coming out of chimneys (perhaps from cremation fires?) but we don't really get to see that when we actually get there late game.

[@Narakiomal]

One thing I always wondered is how the Balista in Smouldering Lake works/look like before you reach it and what triggers it to shoot you.

[@ZullietheWitch]

It's a person. Well, an NPC at least.

[@mattpk1609]

When I first saw it I was SO ready for narrow corridor horror Mansion. Still like what we got tho

[@mirox6271]

As we exit the arena from where we entered we can see a beutiful view. It is theorised that because of these scenic view, the player wasn't supposed to ever enter from that way during early development. Which would make some sense to what the whole arena is too. The view reveals a lot of what is "ahead" of us. Like the swamp with the big crabs in dark souls 3

[@Neo2266.]

The Witches must be compensating

[@ninepillarsofsalt]

You do such a great job making videos there's such smooth camera movement

[@Phantosification]

I remember getting up to the building and thinking: "Yeah, a new dungeon!" And then you only get to see the basement. :/

[@phobos5323]

My personal theory is that this might have been designed as an old Church, if not the first Church building. It would make sense considering Amelia, and the connection between Laurence and La Piet; even more if consider their relationship with Cainhurst and all the theories about it both for the final game and pre-release. But well, that's a lot of ifs and assumptions...

[@Diverdjent]

This is gold Zullie. One of my fav places in the game. Thank you for sharing. 🧙🏻‍♀️🔮🎥✨🔔✨

[@BuckMarley]

I still love seeing these videos showing up in 2021

[@letthebasscannon223]

iirc Hemwick was supposed to be the first area of the game, so it's unsurprising there's a lot of weirdness surrounding it

[@NarffetWerlz]

Big hope for Elden Ring: you'll get to these big places and get to explore them thoroughly, even if it's just empty rooms

[@bingoboppins9875]

Thanks for clearing that one up, Zullie

[@anomel2468]

I almost wish that Amelia’s fight took place here; I think it would’ve been cool to fight such a big boss in a space that barely contains it.

[@AvanToor]

In my head canon, the building above the entrance is where all the spare witches live.

[@jojoversus1100]

Great video as always, Zullie!

[@loopstratos4619]

Never played King's field, but I immediately recognized the OST as an old fromsoft game. Old fromsoft really has a unique music style.

[@finndriessen5829]

Tbh alot in the soul series is (really big) if you look good enough at it. Like Irithyl, No man's wharf, half of everything in Yharnam's town. And ofc Gwynevere's chambers.

[@milanfisher1462]

from the outside it looks to me what Byrgenwerth should have looked like

[@gamernation1400]

What's wrong with how it looks?

[@milanfisher1462]

@@gamernation1400 I always felt like Byrgenwerth was too small. There's no living quarters or anything and its in such a secluded area I don't think students walked back and forth through the woods everyday

[@Er404ChannelNotFound]

Immediately recognized the King's Field OST as soon as the video started lol.

[@shotgunmasterQL]

Okay, it feels like I'm taking crazy pills. On two different save files, I can see some really weird animation going on (looks like bush or grass, not a flag) on a mid section tower. It sways pretty wildly and clips through the tower until it swings back out. There are two "units" that sway, one on the lower part of the tower and one on a higher part of the tower. Each "unit" seems to have more than two of these objects animating. I can just barely notice that in this video as well, but I think it's extremely hard to spot if you don't know what you are looking for. At 0:08, one of the mid section towers left of the decrepit ceiling is the one I'm talking about, and I think you can see one loop of the higher "unit" doing the animation. The lower one is almost unnoticeable here. Based on this video, it definitely looks like patches of grass, but like it's doing a flag animation or something. Really weird.

[@Metxblue]

God, I had forgotten how gorgeous this game looks.

[@brreakfastYT]

I honestly never noticed how big the building was. I never even noticed the actual building until you run into it then go down into the basement.

[@cryofreezie3943]

Can you look at the buildings are out in the nightmare frontier?

[@geminiwolf91]

Yeah I also thought this building was a bit odd. I remember looking up at it and thinking "man, I wish we could've explored the whole house before fighting the witch boss". Would've been a cool little haunted house dungeon kind of place to set up the boss.

[@sparkywilson1405]

Man I LOVE it when you use King's Field music. It's so fucking creepy and it's great.

[@Nick.t.S]

There’s an area in DS3 that I’ve been interested in for a while now. There’s a room with a Lycanthrope in the ruins of the road of sacrifice swamp is with the crabs. If you look at the textures used in the water the building reflected doesn’t match to the ruins themselves. Likely just different textures or assets used, but it almost looks like it was supposed to be a different building or something. Could likely be nothing but just something I noticed.

[@madnexxstudio101]

This building used to drive me crazy in my first playtrough. I didn't know how to travel to Cairnhust (I managed to systematicaly dodge the "station" In every of my Hemwick visits). I was so desperate I looked at every oob visual detail to find a way and I couldn't pass over the fact this building seemed way to big for what it is. Plus it is exatly align with the broken brigde leading to the castle. But no obviously the way to Cairnhust is "by the sea"

[@theoemile6832]

From: *Makes a huge mansion with tons of unused space Wandering Nightmare: *It's free real estate.*

[@katanamaru1]

Yeah I was expecting some level there. A spooky monster filled mansion, or a Scooby-Doo style sequence.

[@polbulanosalto7403]

I would love to see what else can cause the little nightmare guys to drop down.

[@matiasluukkanen7718]

I hope they would have made that unused mansion into multi-storied maze where multiple Mad Ones are constantly chasing and hunting you throughout the narrow confines of labyrinthine passages, witches cackling from the shadows and vanishing, until you stumble to the main hall and can engage them without the confusing lay-out. Would have made the promising bossfight and great area that much more memorable.

[@cosmicbilly]

Bloodborne is such a beautiful game. Even over half a decade later, it still looks so good.

[@ChugThatEstus]

Who authorized you to make a video in my home! Great vid as always zul !

[@enderkatze6129]

I Wonder what the inside of the manor proper would look like, had it been fully modelled.

[@anecro]

Most buildings in videogames are larger than their interiors often are. I'll go off talking about Doom again but the most comical case of this I've ever seen is the Colosseum in Doom Eternal. If you look at the building from above you can see the boss arena within it and it's so damn tiny compared to the actual thing, though if you're in the room it appears as though that's the arena and there's seats all around it despite the whole room being just a small circle inside the massive building

[@fettel1988]

If you designed solely for play-space, your world is a lego set. It's like whining why Anor Londo is a full castle city, but you explore ONE section.

[@dracses4529]

The things unseen has been a huge part of gaming mysteries/wonder for a long time though, but I like that a lot of times you don't get to see things like the other parts of Anor Londo. One of the non-Dark Souls related ones to me is from Halo 2 actually. You go to the city-ship High Charity and walk through tons of different sections in what one could assume are the political wing of the city, but I always wondered what a residential or market area would look like. In Bloodborne we thankfully get to see tons of Yharnam, but I'll always crave for more! XD

[@asro_1793]

“ the upper reaches are filled with dangling corpses and odd statues” Blood borne in a nutshell

[@trapnug2626]

I look forward to your videos every day.

[@ArcRay20]

they are masters of designing very large structures that manage to not have entrances to the rest of the building. lol. like i dont recall there being any extra doors that were blocked off on the inside of the building.

[@flergindergin]

FromSoft: makes big building for decoration The Fans: deepest lore?

[@SekiroDubi]

Hey Zullie, great stuff as usual. Can you do one where from the Bridge leading to Gascoigne, you show the Bloodstarved beast arena that's below? I'd assume BSD is not there, but still it'd be interesting to see what's actually there. Thanks! (I hope you have done this one already, AFAIK you haven't)

[@AlfonsoSRT]

I always lookedat it from the distance and thought it was Cainhurst, because it looks so huge.

[@Ashlevon]

Seeing all the peasants and bodies near and in that manor brings me the idea that the manor might've once been tied to some kind of royalty long ago, then was left abandoned, and then repurposed by the nearby population. The large size could imply many rooms, in which blood ministration might have happened, or the beast plague or ashen blood was treated by methods less medical and more apothecarian.

[@LovelessDogg1]

The alpha map files for the abode have a balcony on the back of the building, where you would jump from to access the nightmare for the first time. This building used to be the starting area and act as the hub in the earliest draft of the game and it also be the area you would return to in order to reach the endgame.

[@HighPriestFuneral]

I've never seen a video about that, can I find that somewhere?

[@LovelessDogg1]

@@HighPriestFuneral hmm, well. I can’t point to any video specifically, but SinclairLore on KZbin has a series of podcasts and livestreams where they talk about and show off cut content and older builds of the souls games. They show off Raw Map data for Bloodborne on one stream, and on another talk about an old hand drawn map that was shown off at an art gallery in France. On that old concept map, The Witch’s Abode is labeled “Place of Origin” in Japanese, which just means it’s the starting area of the game. There’s a ton more like that on that channel. So, check it out I suppose. 😅

[@HighPriestFuneral]

@@LovelessDogg1 Oh, that is intriguing! Thanks for that information.

[@bjarki7860]

I always thought the wandering nightmare was inside the barrell

[@envoyofrot7046]

It looks like the final room where you get the Mensis Rune Tool is also way bigger than it needs to be

[@garygarypov5060]

Now I'm mad that Amelia wasn't in Hemwick. That sounds infinitely better than a nonsense boss fight in Cathedral Ward and a placeholder cheese boss in the village.

[@HighPriestFuneral]

I've always been curious about that Zullie. All of those church details and unique designs to just be wasted like that... what a shame. I don't know if you do requests, but may I ask what the area above Ebrietas' room looks like? To me it's always looked like a dilapidated wooden structure ready to give way, but from a geographic standpoint I think it would be the furthest part of that direction on the map.

[@rareroe305]

While you're looking at Hemick Charnal Lane, if I remember right there's a sort of highway you can see in the first couple areas, up and to the left if you're going from the lamp towards the boss. It'd be interesting to see if they line up with anything, like the bridge to Cainhurst. Knowing From, it probably does something like that.

[@SnipesMcFinley]

The area above the entrance could just be a facade. There are a lot of facades throughout Yharnum!

[@indecay8756]

its a shame because that place looks so good from the outside

[@kamuymamushi5877]

In Elden Ring, that would be a whole lotta dungeon crawl

[@neamraven]

It's like asking why buildings are so big in Yharnam. They look big on the outside but you don't get to explore them or you don't get to explore them fully. Same here, you just don't get to explore the upper floors of the building.

[@AlfonsoSRT]

Have you done a big zoom out of Yharnam? I'm very curios as to how the map design looks like from above.

[@alyseleem2692]

I might as well throw it out there: I believe the boss arena used to be preached at by the early church. The fact that it's in a wide basement indicates it was, at least at some point, a secret. Others have indicated the sleeping man statue looks like Laurence.

[@-Lemv]

Yeah,this building looks... weirdly small for what seems a castle/maison .Like you just go to the entrance but it only leads to the boss arena,there is no second floor for what seems like a big building with a lot of rooms on the outside. In my playthouths in this area I was wondered about that

[@Unreal849]

You gotta have alot of hiding space if your facing the hunter

[@SIGNOR-G]

Agree. That fella is vicious