Bloodborne - Characters
The Hunters, Church figures, NPC survivors and Great Ones of Bloodborne. Personalities and questlines are listed alongside what each character contributes to the story or to the player's run, from the Dream's keeper to the Great Ones behind Yharnam's plague.
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| Name | Description | Role | Faction | Abilities | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hunter | The player character, an outsider who arrives in Yharnam for a blood ministration and wakes bound to the Hunter's Dream. | Protagonist | The Hunters | Trick weapon combat and transformation attacks Gun parries and Visceral Attacks Rally healing through aggression Resurrection at the Hunter's Dream Caryll runes and Blood Gem builds | Player character, created at the start of the game |
| Gehrman, the First Hunter | The founder of the hunter tradition, now bound to the Dream as its caretaker and wheelchair-bound in the Workshop garden. | Mentor | The Hunters / Hunter's Dream | Burial Blade mastery Dream-bound immortality Guidance to new Hunters | Hunter's Dream, available from the start of the game |
| The Doll | The porcelain doll who tends the Dream's garden and channels Blood Echoes into the Hunter's levels. | Ally | Hunter's Dream | Levelling the Hunter with Blood Echoes Dream maintenance | Hunter's Dream, from the start of the game |
| Master Willem | The founder of Byrgenwerth and the scholar who first argued that humanity needed more eyes to perceive the Great Ones. | Mentor | Byrgenwerth | Great One scholarship The eyes and insight doctrine | Byrgenwerth, upper floor |
| Laurence, the First Vicar | Willem's student and the first Vicar of the Healing Church, who took the Old Blood from the labyrinth and built a religion around it. | Antagonist | The Healing Church | Fire-wreathed beast form Church authority and the blood ministry | Hunter's Nightmare, the Grand Cathedral (The Old Hunters) |
| Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower | A Cainhurst noble who became Gehrman's finest student and the keeper of the Astral Clocktower, guarding the Fishing Hamlet's secret. | Antagonist | Cainhurst / The Hunters | Rakuyo dual-blade mastery Blood magic and blood projectiles Fire-coated third-phase attacks | Astral Clocktower (The Old Hunters) |
| Micolash, Host of the Nightmare | The leader of the School of Mensis, who sacrificed his followers to contact Mergo and now runs endlessly through his own nightmare in a cage on his head. | Antagonist | School of Mensis | A Call Beyond arcane spell Nightmare manipulation Puppet congregation | Nightmare of Mensis (mandatory boss) |
| Father Gascoigne | A Church hunter and family man who is already losing himself to beasthood when the player meets him in Oedon Tomb. | Antagonist | The Healing Church | Hunter Axe and blunderbuss Beast transformation Gun parries and ripostes | Oedon Tomb, Central Yharnam (mandatory boss) |
| Eileen the Crow | An aging Hunter of Hunters whose calling is to kill hunters who have turned beast or gone mad. | Ally | Hunter of Hunters | Blade of Mercy dual blades Hunter tracking Hunter of Hunters oath | Central Yharnam rafters, then outside Oedon Chapel |
| Djura | The Powder Keg gunner who watches over Old Yharnam from his tower and fires on anyone who enters. | Ally | The Hunters / Old Yharnam | Gatling gun emplacement Beast sympathy Powder Keg crafting knowledge | Old Yharnam tower |
| Alfred, Hunter of Vilebloods | A cheerful Executioner devoted to the Healing Church and to wiping out Cainhurst. | Ally | The Executioners | Logarius' Wheel mastery Executioner oath Church miracles | Cathedral Ward, near the Grand Cathedral steps |
| Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods | The undying queen of Cainhurst, kept alive by the blood of her knights and seeking to birth a Child of Blood. | Supporting | Cainhurst Vilebloods | Immortality through blood Vileblood oath and Blood Dregs Blood healing | Cainhurst Castle, past the Martyr Logarius rooftop |
| Iosefka | The clinic doctor who performs the player's blood ministration and then speaks through a closed door, asking for survivors to be sent to her. | Supporting | Iosefka's Clinic | Blood ministration Clinic experiments | Iosefka's Clinic, Central Yharnam |
| Arianna | A woman found in the Cathedral Ward's back streets who takes refuge at Oedon Chapel and eventually bears a Child of Blood, making her the subject of the game's most unsettling side quest. | Ally | Oedon Chapel | Healing blood Oedon Chapel refuge | Cathedral Ward back streets, then Oedon Chapel |
| Adella the Nun | A nun rescued from the Cathedral Ward's streets who takes shelter at Oedon Chapel. | Supporting | The Healing Church | Healing blood Chapel refuge | Cathedral Ward, locked in a house near Oedon Chapel |
| Valtr, Master of the League | The one-eyed leader of the League, a covenant of hunters who hunt Vermin, the parasites that infest beasts and men. | Ally | The League | League covenant leadership Whirligig Saw mastery Vermin detection | Forbidden Woods, in the League hut near the first lamp |
| Simon the Harrowed | A hunter of the Harrowed who appears across the Hunter's Nightmare and Research Hall, hunting the secret of Kos and the Church's crime at the Fishing Hamlet. | Ally | The Harrowed | Simon's Bowblade Church intelligence gathering Harpoon and trap knowledge | Hunter's Nightmare and Research Hall (The Old Hunters) |
| Brador, the Bloodletter | A Church assassin imprisoned in a cell in the Research Hall, wearing a beast-hide helm and carrying the Bloodletter. | Antagonist | The Healing Church | Bloodletter blood weapon Invasions Church assassination | Research Hall cells (The Old Hunters) |
| Ludwig the Holy Blade | The legendary first Church hunter, remembered as a hero and found in the Nightmare as a screaming, horse-like beast. | Antagonist | The Healing Church | Holy Moonlight Sword Beast-form charges Moonlight projectile waves | Hunter's Nightmare, the blood river arena (The Old Hunters) |
| Rom, the Vacuous Spider | A Great One once human, transformed by Willem's experiments and now hiding the truth of the Blood Moon behind a veil. | Supporting | Byrgenwerth | Arcane meteor showers Reality veiling Spawn control over its spider brood | Moonside Lake, Byrgenwerth (mandatory boss) |
| Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos | A Great One abandoned by its kin and left weeping at the Altar of Despair, where the Church studies it. | Supporting | Great Ones | Arcane star showers Arena-wide charges Great One physiology | Altar of Despair, Upper Cathedral Ward |
| Oedon | The formless Great One whose name is on the chapel, the tomb and the runes, and who exists only as a voice and a presence. | Supporting | Great Ones | Formless existence Blood-related influence Oedon Writhe and Formless Oedon runes | Referenced throughout; no physical encounter |
| The Moon Presence | The Great One that holds the Hunter's Dream together and keeps Gehrman bound to it. | Antagonist | Great Ones | Dream control Health-draining grasp Arena-wide scream that sets the Hunter to one hit point | Hunter's Dream, true final boss |
| Orphan of Kos | The newborn child of Kos, born from its mother's corpse on the Fishing Hamlet shore and driven mad by the hunters who killed her. | Antagonist | Great Ones | Placenta weapon combos Lightning storm Relentless aerial assault | Fishing Hamlet shore (The Old Hunters) |
| Gilbert | A sickly Yharnam resident who speaks to the player through a shuttered window in Central Yharnam, explains the Hunt and gives the Flamesprayer. | Supporting | Yharnam citizens | Information and the Flamesprayer Window dialogue | Central Yharnam, lit window near the first lamp |
| Patches the Spider | FromSoftware's recurring trickster, here a spider-like creature in the Lecture Building who shoves the player into the Nightmare Frontier and later offers to sell them items. | Supporting | None | Trickery and ambush Merchant inventory Nightmare navigation | Lecture Building, first floor |
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