Bloodborne - Factions
The organizations, covenants and hidden orders of Bloodborne. Nearly every group in Yharnam is a splinter of the Healing Church or a reaction against it, and each faction entry covers where it operates, what it believes and which covenant or questline it feeds into.
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· updated 2026-09-15
| Name | Type | Description | Region | Points Of Interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Healing Church | Dominant Religious Order | The church founded by Laurence after he took the Old Blood from the Pthumerian labyrinth. | Yharnam, Cathedral Ward | Laurence, the First Vicar Vicar Amelia The Grand Cathedral The Healing Church Workshop Father Gascoigne, a Church hunter |
| Byrgenwerth | Scholar Order | The original academic order whose scholars excavated the labyrinth and found the Old Blood and the Great Ones. | Forbidden Woods | Master Willem The Byrgenwerth college The Moonside Lake excavation The Choir's origins |
| The Choir | Church Inner Circle | The Healing Church's most secretive branch, devoted to communion with the Great Ones and to creating Kin through experiment. | Upper Cathedral Ward | Upper Cathedral Ward The orphanage Ebrietas at the Altar of Despair The Celestial Emissary experiment |
| The School of Mensis | Breakaway Cult | A Church splinter that broke away to pursue direct contact with the Great Ones through ritual rather than ministry. | Yahar'gul, Unseen Village | Micolash, Host of the Nightmare Yahar'gul, Unseen Village The One Reborn The Hypogean Gaol kidnappers |
| The Hunter's Workshop | Hunter Order | Gehrman's workshop and the institution that trained Yharnam's hunters. | Hunter's Dream, Cathedral Ward | Gehrman, the First Hunter The Abandoned Old Workshop The Doll and the Messengers The Burial Blade |
| The Powder Kegs | Hunter Splinter Group | A workshop faction that favoured explosives, heavy machinery and unconventional weapons over the Church's restrained doctrine. | Old Yharnam and the Workshop | Djura The Powder Keg Hunter Badge Old Yharnam's tower Stake Driver and Cannon |
| The Executioners | Church Militant Order | The Healing Church's fanatical enforcers, sworn to destroy Cainhurst and its Vilebloods. | Cathedral Ward and Cainhurst | Alfred, Hunter of Vilebloods Martyr Logarius The Radiance oath rune The assault on Cainhurst |
| The Cainhurst Vilebloods | Rival Noble House | The nobles of Cainhurst, who practised blood magic and refused the Healing Church's authority, and were massacred for it. | Cainhurst Castle | Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods Cainhurst Castle The Corruption oath rune The Bloody Crow of Cainhurst |
| Hunter of Hunters | Covenant | A covenant of hunters who police other hunters, killing those who have turned beast or lost themselves to the blood. | Roaming | Eileen the Crow The Hunter oath rune The Bloody Crow duel Blade of Mercy reward |
| The League | Covenant | A covenant of Confederates founded by Valtr to hunt Vermin, the parasites that infest beasts and men. | Forbidden Woods and the Hunter's Nightmare | Valtr, Master of the League The Impurity oath rune Vermin and the Confederate summons The League hut in the Forbidden Woods |
| The Harrowed | Hunter Order | A small order of hunters who investigate the Church's worst crimes, including the massacre at the Fishing Hamlet. | Hunter's Nightmare and the Fishing Hamlet | Simon the Harrowed The Fishing Hamlet investigation Simon's Bowblade The Kos cover-up |
| The Pthumerians | Ancient Civilization | The long-dead civilisation that built the labyrinth and first communed with the Great Ones, leaving behind the chalice rituals the Church later exploited. | The labyrinth beneath Yharnam | Pthumeru Chalice Great Pthumeru Ihyll Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen The bell-ringing summoners of Yahar'gul |
| The Great Ones | Cosmic Entities | The transcendent beings whose blood, corpses and dreams underpin everything in Yharnam. | Everywhere and the nightmare realms | Oedon, the formless Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos Rom, the Vacuous Spider The Moon Presence Kos and the Orphan |
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