This page details the secondary characters of Bloodborne. Head back through here for the other character pages. Warning: unmarked spoilers ahead.

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Central Yharnam

Blood Minister

"Oh yes, Paleblood...heh. Well, you've come to the right place, Yharnam is the home of blood ministration. You need only to unravel its mystery. But where's an outsider like yourself to begin? Easy, with a bit of Yharnam blood of your own. But first, you need a contract."

Voiced by: Peter Pacey (English), Yoji Ueda (Japanese)

An old, wheelchair-bound man who is the first person you meet upon your journey. He administers the Yharnam blood into you shortly before the nightmare begins.

Hidden Eyes: Much like Father Gascoigne, he wears bandages over his eyes. Or, well... his right eye. The left one appears to have popped out of the socket and now dangles in his beard.
Palette Swap: He uses the same character model as the Wheelchair Huntsman, his only differentiating feature being his big fancy top hat.
Small Role, Big Impact: His ministration kicks off the Hunter's role in the plot, and he promptly never appears again.
Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: After the introduction, he just disappears. Although there's cut dialogue that shows he was supposed to show up again at some point, all we have in the main game are wild guesses:
- Since he resembles one of the Wheelchair Huntsmen, he might have gone insane and become just another member of a hunter mob.
- He might have been killed by the Scourge Beast that broke into the clinic.
- Impostor Iosefka might have turned him into the partially-transformed Celestial Emissary strapped to a table.
- He might even be the only real person in the entire game, with the rest being a dream until you wake up in Yharnam Sunrise.

Gilbert

"Oh you must be a Hunter, and not one from around here either. I'm Gilbert, a fellow outsider. You must have had a fine time of it. Yharnam has a special way of treating guests."

Voiced by: Daniel Fine (English), Touru Nara (Japanese)

A sickly man holed up in the house beside the Central Yharnam lamp post.

And Then John Was a Zombie: Once the Red Moon appears, if you return to Gilbert's residence, a humanoid beast is located outside his home; the window through which dialogue is initiated with Gilbert is smashed open and the incense lantern dim. It's implied he ultimately succumbs to the plague and is turned into a beast.
Incurable Cough of Death: His dialogue is peppered with coughing fits, which are loud enough that they can be heard from some distance away.
Nice Guy: He's one of the few pleasant people living in Yharnam and he helps The Hunter several times due to being a fellow outsider.
Only Sane Man: One of the few people in Yharnam to understand how messed-up the city is and realize that they only have themselves to blame.
The Voice: He remains locked away in the house, too sick to move, and content to die as a human. Unfortunately, he ends up living long enough to transform into a beast instead.

Iosefka

Doctor Iosefka

"Are you... out on the Hunt? Then I'm very sorry, but... I cannot open this door. I am Iosefka. The patients here in my clinic must not be exposed to infection. I know that you Hunt for us, for our town, but I'm sorry."

Voiced by: Jenny Funnell (English), Lucy Briggs^{Click here to see spoilers} (English); Aya Endo (Japanese), Mamiko Noto^{Click here to see spoilers} (Japanese)

The owner of the Clinic you start in. She reappears in her clinic after you first enter and leave the Hunter's Dream, and offers you vials of blood plasma and kind words of encouragement. After defeating the two bosses of Central Yharnam, she is willing to offer sanctuary to those still caught inside during the Hunt.

Affably Evil: Her Imposter is either this or Faux Affably Evil, but she does warn you to leave and should you do so, will forget you found a way inside her clinic.
Combat Tentacles: If made hostile, the Impostor Iosefka can use an Auger of Ebrietas to open a portal in front of her hand, from which the Great One's tentacles extend and lash out.
Get Out!: If you manage to enter her clinic, the imposter will warn you to leave. Should you comply, she'll continue doing business. If you don't...
Hospital Hottie: She's rather fairly attractive, from what little can be seen of her through the locked door.
Identical Stranger: The Impostor is one for the real Iosefka.
Kill and Replace: The fact that there are two voice actors credited ("Doctor Iosefka" and "Impostor Doctor") for Iosefka and the notable change in vocal tone before and after gaining access to the Cathedral Ward — combined with the fact that a Celestial Emissary is found with a vial of her blood on it — strongly implies that the real Iosefka was jumped by a near identical look-alike from the Choir and experimented on. There's a hole in the window in the doorway leading to her clinic from the starting area. If you manipulate the camera, you can actually see that they are two different women. The real Iosefka is unarmed, while the impostor is carrying a Threaded Cane.
Mad Scientist: It's revealed that Impostor Iosefka experiments on the people you send to her for safety, turning them into Celestial Emissaries. When you eventually reach the back entrance to the second floor of the Clinic, you find the results of her work. Venturing up to her study-bedroom will cause her to attack, gleeful for the opportunity to experiment on a Hunter. At least until the Red Moon appears. If you send her a survivor after triggering her warning speech but not making her hostile, she fesses up to her experiments and implies she's a member of the Healing Church's Choir. If the player comes back during the Blood Moon stage, she'll be found on a stretcher, babbling about visions and things writhing inside her head - possibly effects of the transformation caused by the consumption of an Umbilical Cord, implying she now experimented on herself.
Nice Girl: While she refuses to open the door into the clinic for you, she genuinely wishes you well, and gives a sample of her blood without asking for anything in return. It stands out from the rest of the Yharnamites, who either mock you or tell you to go away. Her impostor, on the hand, is most definitely not this trope.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Imposter states in a secret conversation that her end goal is to use the research gained from her experiments so that she may evolve humanity, viewing them as stupid. Then she throws her excuse out the window while she's convulsing on her operating table after the Mensis ritual completes, where she makes it clear that she was mostly interested in evolving herself.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: You can send the Afflicted Beggar to her, who's actually a Darkbeast who by all rights should have eaten her. The Imposter instead manages to get the drop on him turn him into a Celestial Emissary.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She's normally adamant that she doesn't want anyone in, because it would risk contagion. However, as the night progresses, either she realizes how bad it is for the survivors outside, or her patients die, causing her to ask the Hunter to send survivors to her where they will be safe. This is a lie, of course. The real reason Iosefka changed her mind is because a zealot from the Choir broke in and is now impersonating her.
Orphaned Etymology: Swears upon her "Hippocratic oath" that she will protect any survivors sent along to her clinic. Or rather, her imposter does. That said, the term is likely used as it's something that the Western audience is familiar with.
Professor Guinea Pig: Not only does is the Impostor refining the Choir's procedure to turn humans into Celestial Emissaries, she seems to have been conducting experiments with part of a Great One umbilical cord on herself.
Sanity Slippage: If you talk to her after the Red Moon appears, she states that something's writhing inside her head and giving her visions, which she describes as simultaneously nauseating and rapturous.
Sinister Minister: Various pieces of evidence point to her, or rather the impostor who replaces her, not-so-secretly being an agent of the Choir, the highest echelon of the Healing Church's leadership.
Surprise Pregnancy: One possible interpretation of her later game status is that she's one of those chosen to give birth to a new Great One. After the Red Moon appears, she is stuck in her bedroom and having seizure-like spasms due to the Umbilical Cord she's used.
Sword Cane: The trick weapon she wields is a Threaded Cane.
Walking Spoiler: It's hard to say anything about Iosefka because she's actually two completely different characters. One is everything she says she is, while the other is a Mad Scientist impersonating the former.

Lonely Old Woman

"I've heard, I have. Shutting up indoors isn't always enough. If you Hunters got off your arses, we wouldn't be in this mess. You're obligated to help me, you hear?"

Voiced by: Tilly Vosburgh (English), Hikari Yono (Japanese)

A cranky old woman whose initial hiding spot is being assaulted by one of the feral hounds. Asks if you know of a safer spot to hide.

Jerkass: She's rather ungrateful for getting caught up in the Hunt, badmouthing you. If you refuse to tell her about one of the safe spots, she curses you.
Jerkass Has a Point: She angrily tells the Hunter that it's their fault Yharnam has fallen to the plague. She means because the hunter is an outsider, but she is right in that the Hunters, or rather the Healing Church they work for, are at fault.
Gonk: Due to having the "Yharnam look". Data-mining reveals that a certain number of NPCs are modified via hidden Facial Deformation sliders.
Racist Grandma: Most of the crap she gives you revolves around the fact that you're an outsider, the fact that outsiders are the root of all misfortune that's befallen Yharnam as far as she's concerned, and how outsiders have even tainted the Yharnamites' blood... It later turns out that she's actually spot-on for very non-racist reasons. Whether she really is a racist or not essentially comes down to whether she's aware of the origin of the Beastly Scourge and Byrgenwerth/the Healing Church's involvement with the plague or if she's entirely Right for the Wrong Reasons.
Sanity Slippage: As the night wears on, she drops her cranky attitude in favor of mad cackling and sobbing over "the good old days." She calms down afterward, probably due to taking enough Sedative to drop a bull elephant.
Took a Level in Kindness: Sending her to the Chapel has her progressively become kinder towards you, seeing you as a son/daughter and giving you supplies from time to time. It's deconstructed. Said supplies are mostly sedatives, which explains why she starts to calm down and appears to think you are actually her son/daughter. She only becomes kinder to you because she's doped up and losing her mind.
Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay: If you ask her for sedatives more than 3 times, her supply will run out and she'll go out into town to look for more. The second time she does this, she ends up getting killed out there.

Young Girl & Older Sister

"Who...are you? I don't know your voice, but I know that smell...Are you a Hunter? Then, please, will you look for my mum? Daddy never came back from the Hunt, and she went to find him, but now she's gone, too... I'm all alone... and scared..."

Voiced by: Bo Chapman-Hailey (Young Girl, English), India Chapman-Hailey (Older Sister, English); Tomoyo Kurosawa (Young Girl, Japanese), Kana Hanazawa (Older Sister, Japanese)

A pair of young girls associated with a certain Hunter's residence. The younger of the two asks you to look for her mother, Viola, while the older of the two appears after the Blood Moon appears searching for her younger sister.

Cruelty Is the Only Option: To get one of the Formless Oedon runes, you have to send the young girl to the imposter Iosefka's clinic.
Death of a Child: Sending the younger girl to Iosefka's Clinic is a Fate Worse than Death, while sending her to the Cathedral Ward or giving her Viola's brooch will cause her to get killed by the Maneater Boar in the sewers of Central Yharnam. Should you give the older girl the bloodstained ribbon, she'll end up dead behind the house.
Disappeared Dad and Missing Mom: The young girl says her father never came back after the previous night of the Hunt and her mother went out to find him. When you find Viola's Brooch, not only is she dead, but you wind up killing her father, Gascoigne, in self-defense after he goes insane with bloodlust.
Driven to Suicide: Once you give the older girl the bloodstained ribbon, if you come back later, you find her body at the bottom of a drop right next to the house, with the clean ribbon on it. Although it's also possible that the nearby Huntsman's Minion killed her.
It May Help You on Your Quest: The younger girl gives you a Music Box so her parents can recognize its tune. Turns into a Chekhov's Gun, as its melody briefly restores Gascoigne's memory during the fight against him, and at the end when Mergo is crying for the Wet Nurse shortly after she died, you can play the lullaby to please Mergo for the last time.
The Voice: You only ever hear their voices. Although after giving the older girl the bloodstained ribbon and reloading the area, you do find her corpse at the bottom of the nearby ladder.
You Are Already Dead: It's safe to say that when you speak to the Young Girl for the first time, her fate is sealed. It doesn't matter what you do from then on; she will always die. The only way to save her is by never talking to her in the first place.

Eileen the Crow

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"Prepare yourself for the worst. There are no humans left. They're all flesh-hungry beasts, now."

Voiced by: Jacqueline Boatswain (English), Yoko Soumi (Japanese)

A huntress. She has taken an oath to serve as the Hunter of Hunters and journeys across Yharnam, killing Hunters who have become addled by the blood.

Action Girl: She's introduced as a veteran Hunter when you meet her and can back up those claims easily. Though she might need your help dealing with Henryk.
All There in the Manual: She never tells you her name, and you would never know it's Eileen without examining the Crowfeather Set you get from her questline.
Animal Motifs: Crows, obviously. The Crow Hunters' outfits are patterned after birds in order to evoke sky burials.
Ascended Extra: Not really an extra, but the only canon character to appear in a comic is the Doll and Gehrman. Eileen has the entire comic A Song of Crows based around her.
Ax-Crazy: If you don't help her fight Henryk, she goes insane after you fight Rom and tries to kill you in the Grand Cathedral.
Bash Brothers: With you, against Henryk should you choose to help her.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Meeting just one person who was willing to display one act of kindness by helping her kill a blood-crazed hunter is all that's needed for Eileen to maintain her own sanity once the Blood Moon rises.
Boomerang Bigot: If you don't help her before the Blood Moon, she attacks you and starts raving about how Hunters are evil and must all die. Granted, she's not in her right mind when this happens, but it certainly puts her job and stubbornness in a new light.
Call-Back: Her fighting style and weapon of choice, a pair of daggers (though her's transform into a sword), are reminiscent of Lord's Blade Ciaran from Dark Souls.
Cool Old Lady: Though it's difficult to tell from appearances since she's covered from head to toe in her plague doctor outfit, she's apparently significantly older than you and asks why they never listen to their elders should they go after her assassination targets after she tells them not to (her voice actors in both the English and Japanese audio were in their late 40s/early 50s during recording, so it's fair to say she's in that age range).
Creepy Good: Despite her sinister appearance and demeanor, she's one of the more morally upright characters in the game. Unless she goes insane.
Dare to Be Badass: Her first conversation with your low-level and probably confused character basically amounts to this. To emphasize the point, she gifts you four Hunter's Marks and some gestures.
Eileen: Still lingering about? What's wrong? A Hunter, unnerved by a few beasts? Heh heh... No matter. Without fear in our hearts, we're little different from the beasts themselves... Enough trembling in your boots. A Hunter must Hunt.
Despair Event Horizon: Implied with her dialogue during her fight, where she proclaims that the beasts can never be stopped and that the Hunters must be killed.
Die Laughing: If she goes Ax-Crazy, she'll let out a creepy chuckle as she dies.
Dual Wielding: Her signature weapon, the Blade of Mercy, can split into a pair of twin blades.
Feeling Their Age: The main theme of her questline is how she's well past her prime despite being a skilled and badass Hunter, in the two fights we see her in she's clearly bitten off more than she can chew. Henryk is able to kill her alone and the Bloody Crow was able to severely wound her. Once you complete her questline she comes to accept her limitations and decides to entrust her position to a newer generation.
Fire-Forged Friends: Even though she tells you not to do so, going to Oedon Cemetery and helping her kill Henryk earns Eileen's respect. It also ensures she keeps her wits and stays friendly to you after the moon turns red.
Glass Cannon: By the standards of other late-game Hunters, she doesn't have a whole lot of health (still way more than you at the same level, though) but hits pretty hard with her Blades of Mercy and pistol. As a result you'll probably need to protect her during the fight with Henryk. Checking her stats with a save editor reveals that her weapons are +10 fortified and her Skill and Bloodtinge ratings are respectable, but her hit points are relatively low at 1,261, only slightly higher than Djura or the Yahar'gul Hunters and much lower than e.g. Henryk (1,716) or Yurie (2,281).
Hunter Of Her Own Kind: The purpose of the Hunter of Hunters covenant is to eliminate Yharnam Hunters who have become too dangerous and unstable to let live. By not completing her quest line, you are Eileen's next target if you enter the Grand Cathedral.
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Played with. She does indeed hunt Hunters, but her targets are not for sport, but rather to invoke a Karmic Death on those who have lost themselves to violence.
Laughing Mad: When she kills you if she goes berserk during the Blood Moon, she announces that "The Hunt drives Hunters mad," then lets off a wicked cackle.
Lightning Bruiser: One of the fastest Hunters in the game with her Blades of Mercy, and if you make her hostile she'll show you just how hard she hits with them.
Never Found the Body: If you keep her from going insane, then her fate after you kill the Crow is uncertain. She gives you her badge and then slumps down as if to sleep, but if you return later, she's gone, leaving only a pool of blood where she was laying. Her dialogue prior to the Bloody Crow fight makes it quite clear that she thinks she's going to survive (as she wants to fight the Bloody Crow again), and logically there's no reason she wouldn't given that she has plenty of blood vials and her wounds aren't in any vital areas, but the lack of explicit confirmation plus her last cryptic line about her eyes being heavy leaves just a bit of doubt. Though, the fact that you can't find her gear anywhere in the game world^note does make her survival much more likely, in combination with the other factors (a dead Djura, by comparison, definitely leaves loot and a body).
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: You first encounter her next to several fresh strung-up corpses in Hunter garb. No points for guessing what happened to them.^note
Old Master: Despite her advanced age, her fighting style is fast and aggressive even by the standards of the Hunters. Unfortunately, it's deconstructed; though she has great skill and is very determined, she really is too old to do her job. Her stubbornness will lead her to madness and death if she's left to her own devices. The only way she stays sane and alive is if you help her against her wishes, at which point she retires.
Only Sane Woman: One of the few friendly and rational people in Yharnam. Unless you don't finish her quest, in which case she'll go insane after the Blood Moon. Appropriately, her gear has very high Frenzy resistance, with her Beak Mask being the best anti-frenzy headgear in the game.
Oop North: She has a noticeable Northern English accent in the English audio.
Eileen: A hoonter moost hoont.
Passing the Torch: If you finish her questline, she passes her title and weapons down to you, as she's too old to do it any more.
Plague Doctor: Her outfit deliberately invokes the imagery, with the description of the mask even saying that the beak of it is filled with sweet-smelling herbs. It's probably an attempt to ward off the Scourge of the Beast, and fittingly it has the highest Frenzy resistance and lowest Beasthood of any headwear in the game.
Professional Killer: Her job description as a Hunter of Hunters. Her fighting style is clearly that of an agile assassin type.
Ravens and Crows: Her outfit has a crow motif and a cape made of feathers from crows.
Reluctant Retiree: After finishing her last event in her questline, she is forced to stop the hunting business due to her age and wounds.
She Who Fights Monsters: While she's thankful for whatever help your Hunter can provide, she urges them to focus on slaying beasts, not unstable Hunters, or else they may end up as her next quarry for this trope's reason. If you did not complete her quest by the time the moon turns red, then Eileen goes off the deep end and becomes just as unstable and murderous as Hunters she was supposed to kill.
Survivor's Guilt: She's suffering this in A Song of Crows, haunted by memories of a childhood friend of hers dying abruptly by falling through the ice of a frozen lake she was herself standing on. Unfortunately, since she's travelled to Yharnam, the cosmic forces at play create a Tulpa Serial Killer out of her powerful emotions to torment her.
Token Good Teammate: One of the very few NPC Hunters in the game that's on your side and not blood-drunk.
Transplant: While it's not obvious at first or an actual bird (or bird demon) this time around, she's a reference to the previous birds from the Souls series, with Snuggly the Crow, Ornifex, and Dyna & Tillo. She's also one within the world of Bloodborne, the latest of the Hunter of Hunters. You become her replacement if she survives.
Worf Had the Flu: Her age catches up by the end of her quest line when she gets defeated by the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst and left lying on the stairs to the Grand Cathedral. If you opt to fight the Bloody Crow, you'll easily see why she had so much trouble.

Cathedral Ward

Chapel Samaritan

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"Ahh, the Hunter. Alive and well, are ya? This here's a safe place. Stay as long as you like. But... next time you're out on a Hunt, remember what I asked. If you find any sane survivors, tell 'em to seek shelter at Oedon Chapel. Cause there's nothing to fear here... ha, hah ha!"

Voiced by: Daniel Fine (English), Masayasu Nagata (Japanese)

A blind, decrepit beggar in a red shawl found within the Old Oedon Chapel. He asks you to send civilians caught up in the Hunt to the Chapel.

Ambiguously Human: He's humanoid, but his skin is dark grey, his frame is inhumanly gaunt and lanky, his hands are massive, and his fingers are eerily long. His character model was initially meant to be used for a Pthumerian enemy in the Chalice Dungeons, but the enemy it was meant for was cut so who knows if he's a Pthumerian or not in the final game.
Creepy Good: While he isn't quite all there in the head and seems creepy as all hell, he ultimately wants to help those who can't defend themselves.
Face of a Thug: His decrepit and unsightly appearance makes it easy to distrust him, but he truly is a good Samaritan who just wants others to be safe from the Hunt.
Gonk: He's outright gruesome, even compared to the more human Yharnam residents, with his grayed skin and Glasgow Smile.
I Just Want to Have Friends: One of his reasons for saving people is that he's dreadfully lonely, and just wants someone to talk to. After sending everyone to the chapel, he'll even timidly ask you to be his friend once the Hunt is over.
In the Hood: He's draped in an All-Encompassing Mantle with a hood.
It's All My Fault: Should any of the survivors sent to the Chapel be killed, he blames himself completely.
Red Herring: He seems pretty creepy and shady when you first meet him. He doesn't look entirely human, with grey skin, bony arms, and blank white eyes. He also has a habit of nervously laughing at the ends of his dialogues, making him seem like he's hiding something. It's quite easy for you to end up trusting Iosefka instead of him. This proves to be a fatal mistake for any NPCs that get sent to Iosefka instead of the Chapel.
Nice Guy: In providing a safe haven from the Hunt, he genuinely just wants to help the people of Yharnam. Once you've saved everybody you can, he thanks you for your help, and timidly suggests that you be friends with him once the Hunt ends.
Sanity Slippage: A combination of a hard life and the nightly Hunts hasn't done much for his mental health.
Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: FromSoft tries to pull a fast one on you with the Chapel Dweller's creepy appearance and awkward speech, but he's really as nice as he acts and just wants as many people as possible to be safe, and Odeon Chapel is an actual safe house for those sent there. Far better than sending people to Isefka's Clinic, where they'll be turned into Celestial Emissaries.
Video Game Caring Potential: Should you recruit everyone except the beggar, he'll be hopeful that life after the Hunt will be easier. Importantly, he maintains this optimism even after the Mensis ritual's completion causes most of the other survivors to lose their minds from fear.

Alfred

Vileblood Hunter Alfred

"You're a Hunter, aren't you? I knew it. That's precisely how I started out! Oh, beg pardon, you may call me Alfred. Protege of Master Logarius, Hunter of Vilebloods. So, what say you? Our prey might differ, but we are Hunters, the both of us. Why not cooperate, and discuss the things we've learned?"

Voiced by:' Daniel Flynn (English), Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese)

A member of the Executioners, a fanatical partition of the Healing Church dedicated to eradicating the Vilebloods of Cainhurst. By technicality, he's also an Old Hunter, carrying an Old Hunter Bell.

All for Nothing: If you take the Queenly Flesh to the Altar of Despair and resurrect Annalise, his martyrdom is rendered absolutely pointless.
Assist Character: Once you talk to him and agree to work with him, he can be summoned for assistance against the Cleric Beast and Blood-starved Beast.
As You Know: He says this line word for word when you ask him about the history of the Healing Church, although it's possibly more justified than other examples since the Player Character is a foreigner and the Healing Church is a local entity restricted to Yharnam's borders.
Bond One-Liner: "A Hunter's grudge is an awful thing. You must find your own way on this Hunt... As I have mine."
Chunky Salsa Rule: He will invoke this on Annalise if you let him. He's aware of certain traits in play, after all.
Alfred: Try stirring up trouble in this sorry state! All mangled and twisted, with every inside on the outside, for all the world to see!
Department of Redundancy Department: His title if you summon him to fight the Blood Starved Beast, "Old Hunter Vileblood Hunter Alfred", sounds like this, but it's accurate, seeing as he's both an Old Hunter and a Hunter of Vilebloods.
Determinator: The way he raves about his slaying of Annalise would indicate it took a while to reduce the Vileblood Queen into a meaty splatter.
Expy: Of Solaire. A friendly, helpful Religious Bruiser with blonde hair and a personal quest. He can also engage in jolly cooperation with you when you fight the Blood-Starved Beast. At one point he says "Praise the Good Blood", a twist on the famous "Praise the Sun" gesture. It also helps that he's voiced by Solaire's voice actor. And just like Solaire, he may end up going mad and dying depending on your actions. After accomplishing his goal, Alfred even very directly echoes Solaire's line from Dark Souls where he has done the same: "I've done it... I have!"
Hot Blooded Sideburns: Alfred has a large set of muttonchops, although the hot-blooded aspect only happens if you give him the Cainhurst invitation and he pulps Annalise.
Hypocrite: He despises the Vilebloods and the Byrgenwerth scholar who brought them the blood, but doesn't acknowledge that his own organization was founded by someone who similarly abandoned Byrgenwerth.
Knight Templar: While he claims to be an ordinary Hunter, Alfred is actually an Executioner.
Laughing Mad: If he kills Annalise, he starts laughing like a maniac should you talk to him before he returns to the altar.
Martyr Without a Cause: The remaining sane Executioners are few and far between, with Alfred possibly being the only one dedicated to the cause left. Giving him the Unaddressed Invitation found in Annalise's throne room will cause him to go kill her. Soon afterwards, he is found dead near the monument you first find him at, having presumably committed suicide with no Vilebloods left to hunt.
Mask of Sanity: A close-up to his eyes shows his pupils seem to be starting to collapse, hinting that despite his friendly nature, he's barely holding himself back from full blood-drunkenness. Which might explain his behavior at Cainhurst Castle, as well as his subsequent suicide.
Mr. Exposition: He provides backstory and information for the Healing Church, Byrgenwerth, and Cainhurst should you ask him. He also has a cut option for info on Old Yharnam, which is odd considering the place you first find him is near the hidden entrance to Old Yharnam.
Nice Guy: He's polite, helpful, knowledgeable, and always has your back. That said, though, he's still hiding a much darker, more violent side.
Nothing Left to Do but Die: After he grinds Annalise into a smear on the floor, his purpose as an Executioner is fulfilled and he, having outlived Logarius, returns to the church in Old Yharnam to die.
Not So Stoic: He's probably the kindest, most stable NPC in the game, offering you advice and encouragement regardless of whether his trust is returned. Should he be guided to Annalise, however, he grinds her to a twitching pulp, spends a great length of time shrieking laughter at the ceiling, and then returns to the altar of Logarius and commits suicide. If you attack him in the Cainhurst Castle, he delivers a lengthy rant while attacking you.
Alfred: "Just what is the meaning of this? Why turn your blade on me? You're jealous, aren't you? Unclean wench! Vile monstrosity! Bloody fool! Has the blood gone to your head? Pathetic, as you deserve!"
Only Sane Man: One of the few unambigiously decent people left in Yharnam, Alfred is polite, shares a lot of information with the player and gives off the air of a Knight in Shining Armor. In reality, as you may come to expect from this game by this point, he's actually one of the most unhinged characters around.
Shadow Archetype: He's everything Solaire isn't. Unlike him, Alfred's obsession to become a martyr like his teacher, who incidentally is like Gwyn in more ways than one, already twisted him before you even met. He also cannot be properly saved when you give him the letter to kill Annalise. When you return to the shrine you first find him at, he's already dead.
Shoot the Shaggy Dog: If you opt to bring the Queenly Flesh to the Altar of Despair. Doing so brings Annalise back to life (or at least restores her body), which renders everything he accomplished and died for completely pointless.
Undying Loyalty: His devotion to Martyr Logarius persists even after his presumed death, and Alfred is determined to finish what Logarius started once and for all. If you allow him to do this, he evidently decides he has no more reason to live and commits suicide.
Weapon Specialization: Though he favors the Kirk hammer in battle as an assist NPC, he carries Logarius' Wheel, the signature weapon of the Executioners. He grinds Annalise into a red smear on the ground with it if given the chance.

Arianna

Arianna, Woman of the Night

"I'd like to tender my thanks, but I haven't much to offer...all I can give is my blood. But would you even take a whore's blood?"

Voiced by: Pooky Quesnel (English), Toa Yukinari (Japanese)

A prostitute living in the Cathedral Ward.

Child by Rape: Unlike impostor Ioefska, she is very clearly not on board with being impregnated by a Great One.
Despair Event Horizon: If she survives into the Blood Moon Phase and gives birth to a baby old one, she'll be reduced to a sobbing wreck.
Fallen Princess: The fact that she wears the Noble Dress, which traces its origins to Castle Cainhurst, implies that she is a distant descendant of the old Cainhurst nobility.
High-Class Call Girl: In a sense. She's described as the Ward's "woman of pleasure", possibly servicing members of the clergy. Although given Yharnam's "disposition" with blood, she may be giving/selling her blood to them instead of actually sleeping with them. Given that her blood is the only thing she can think of to offer you in gratitude for helping her, it would appear that sex is not part of her job at all.
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Despite her profession, she's grateful for you leading her to a safe haven, and gives them a vial of her own blood from time to time, similar to Iosefka. The way the Chapel Samaritan talks about her only shows her kindness, as she apparently doesn't judge him for his odd appearance.
Chapel Samaritan: She... she actually talks to me! Well, only now and then, and she don't mince words, but she's a kind one. I can tell. A good woman.
Locked into Strangeness: Data mining reveals that she has three model variants that switch out as the game progresses. The first is when she first appears in Oedon Church, the second is when she starts to feel unwell, and the third is for after she gives birth. She progressively gets more pale, and by the time she gives birth, her hair has gone platinum blonde and her eyes have clouded over.
MacGuffin Super-Person: It's noted that her blood is similar to that of the nobility of Castle Cainhurst, she wears the dress of a Cainhurst noble, and a painting in Cainhurst shows a woman holding a baby with hair the same color as Arianna's. This all hints to her being descended from the Vilebloods or a Vileblood herself. If so, that would make her immensely important in the battle between the Executioners and the Vilebloods, but Yharnam's in the middle of a werewolf apocalypse right now and both sides are functionally wiped out, so neither side gets to capitalize on it.
Ms. Fanservice: The closest thing to this trope in Bloodborne due to her status as a prostitute and her dress has a noticeably low cut neckline, but she's otherwise very conservative.
Murder the Hypotenuse: She's the victim of this, should you take more special blood vials from her rather than Adella.
Surprise Pregnancy: She starts to feel unwell after you slay Rom. After slaying Mergo's Wet Nurse, she has moved to the Tomb of Oedon and given birth to a half-Great One baby, utterly shattering in the process. Slaying the child nets you one of the Umbilical Cord items, but doing so will kill Arianna, too. Data mining reveals that there's two variants of her dress that are exclusive to her: one with an obvious baby bump (although you can't tell by the way she's sitting) and a post-birth version that's bloodstained.

Narrow Minded Man

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"You... you're not from around here are ya? An outsider who's come to join the Hunt? What a pathetic idea. You what? What, you think I'm a beast? Well, maybe I think you're a beast. And step away from my castle!"

Voiced by: Lee Whitlock (English), Seiro Ogino (Japanese)

A paranoid xenophobe living across from Arianna.

Asshole Victim: He's the first person the Afflicted Beggar kills if they both go to Cathedral Ward. You're also likely to not have much sympathy for him if he gets experimented on by Imposter Iosefka if he goes to Iosefka's Clinic instead of Cathedral Ward.
Gonk: Due to having the "Yharnam look". Data mining reveals that a certain number of NPCs are modified via hidden Facial Deformation sliders.
Guide Dang It!: Trying to get him to move to the right haven makes some players frustrated. Your only real hint for the solution is how often he calls you a liar. He's so paranoid of "filthy outsiders" and their lies, that he'll go to the opposite haven that you suggest to him. How he even knew about the other place is a total mystery, especially since it's entirely possible for you not to know about it at this point. If you haven't spoken to Imposter!Iosefka, you won't get the option to send people to the Clinic, but he'll still go there if you tell him to go to Cathedral Ward.
Fantastic Racism: He despises outsiders, including the Player Character, to an almost illogical degree. Then again, he seems to despise pretty much everyone to an almost illogical degree.
Horrible Judge of Character: In addition to distrusting you, he distrusts the Chapel Samaritan, who is arguably the most kindhearted character in the whole game, and his assessment of Arianna and Adella is completely ass-backwards. His distrust can potentially be his undoing; if you suggest he go to Cathedral Ward, he'll instead go to Iosefka's clinic... and straight to his transformation.
- In a bit of Fridge Brilliance, it's less that he's a moron for thinking all these things and is simply trying to lead you off course, similar to that of a Troll. Alternatively, he actually wants to help the players, but his paranoia and lack of trust means that any advice he gives is wrong.
Jerkass: Not all that polite.
Jerkass Has a Point: Trying to send him to Iosefka's Clinic instead of the Chapel would have ended badly for him, and he calls you out for it, even if he wasn't actually aware of it. Though, he'll also go there if you correctly tell him that the Chapel is safer, so he doesn't have much room to talk.
No Name Given: Like many other civilians, you never learn his name.
Not Distracted by the Sexy: Seems to be completely unattracted to Arianna, who's certainly a looker to be sure.
Only Sane Man: Despite his paranoia, he's the only person in the chapel that doesn't descend into madness once the Blood Moon rises. Though you could consider his ravings about how smart he is for not trusting you or anyone else a form of madness. Regardless, he'd probably be the only person in the chapel to actually be capable of returning to a semi-normal life after the night is over.
Properly Paranoid: Despite how frustratingly paranoid he is, you can't exactly blame him.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a playthrough.
- If you tell him to go to Iosefka's, he'll go to the Oedon Chappel. He's totally right not to trust you, since Iosefka has been replaced by an impostor.
- He tells you to "beware the blind man." While he probably meant the Chapel Dweller (who's perfectly nice), the blindfolded Forest Beggar really is untrustworthy.
The Smart Guy: While certainly paranoid and a bit of a Troll, he's still on the nose about most of what he says (even if he won't tell you the correct information), and by the end of the night, is the only person who hasn't gone mad.
Troll: He will give the character advice if bothered by them, and while the advice does have some insight to it, it is almost always the opposite of what is the case.

Old Yharnam

Retired Hunter Djura

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"You there, Hunter. Didn't you see the warning? Turn back at once. Old Yharnam, burned and abandoned by men, is now home only to beasts. They are of no harm to those above. Turn back...or the Hunter will face the Hunt."

Voiced by: William Houston (English), Hiroshi Shirokuma (Japanese)

An old Hunter from the time that Old Yharnam was burned in cleansing fire by the Healing Church. Djura keeps watch over the torched husk of a city, protecting the beasts that remain. He belongs to the Powder Kegs, a heretical sect of the Workshop who favored somewhat unwieldy but extremely powerful weapons.

Animal Motifs: His hat is called the Gray Wolf Cap, and he's a lone wolf in his battle to protect the Old Yharnam beasts, aside from one other Hunter.
Boss in Mook Clothing: More so than most other NPC Hunters, as (despite not being as strong as them, even relative to the time you face him in-game) he has a unique arena and a two-phase challenge (the battle itself and dodging between cover to avoid his minigun while fighting Beast Patients).
The Champion: He protects the beasts of Old Yharnam; if someone dared to harm them, Djura would respond with his Gatling Gun.
Cool Old Guy: Should you make him non-hostile and agree to spare the beasts of Old Yharnam, he'll give you his Powder Keg Badge and a gesture.
Disney Villain Death: Given that he's fought atop a tall tower, this is by far the easiest method of killing him.
Easily Forgiven: Mutually. You can forgive him for trying to gun you down with a Gatling gun, while he can forgive you (complete with a gift and teaching you a gesture) even if you've slaughtered hundreds of the Old Yharnam beasts that he considers people. In your case at least it's justified, since killing you just sends you back to the dream, which he acknowledges upon any death, so from your perspectives he's just throwing you out.
Expy: His spiel about how the obviously not harmless monsters in his area are just misunderstood, kind souls is meant to invoke memories of Crossbreed Priscilla and her friends who totally wouldn't harm a soul.
Eyepatch of Power: He wears a single bandage that goes across his right eye.
From a Certain Point of View: He is technically right when he says the beasts of Old Yharnam won't harm people above. The entire area is closed off and optional, and most of the beasts there are unique to that area with no intention of leaving. He may even have a point about the beasts being sapient, but there's too little evidence to tell for sure.
Hidden Eyes: One eye is covered by a bandage, and the other isn't visible because his hat covers it.
The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Should you attack him after befriending him, he hunts you and says this:
Djura: When the frail of heart joins the fray, the Hunter becomes the hunted.
Idiot Hero: The description for his hat states that he was "said to have been both uncommonly kind and dreadfully foolish."
Last of His Kind: His weapons and badge imply he's the last of the Powder Keg Hunters, who created weapons which are flashy and strong but slow and often impractical.
Only Sane Man: In a weird sense. In spite of being a Zombie Advocate of sorts, his chest, arm, and leg pieces have the highest Frenzy (Called "Insanity" in Japan) resistance in the game (the headpiece with the best Frenzy resistance belongs to Eileen, another example of this trope) and unlike another character who speaks in defense of the monsters in their area, he does have a point that Old Yharnam's beasts are of no threat to most humans (since there's no one except Djura and his ally in Old Yharnam, and the beasts never leave the area) and he takes steps to discourage people from entering, such as barricades and his 'hunters not welcome' sign.
Old Soldier: Despite having disappeared into Old Yharnam to watch over the surviving "residents", he hasn't lost his edge at all.
Precursor Heroes: The few glimpses of Djura's past we see strongly suggest that he was the Dream-sustained Hunter during the Old Yharnam outbreak, just like the player character is during the game. After finishing his Hunt (and helping the Powder Kegs burn down Old Yharnam), Djura chose to let Gehrman sever him from the Dream, so he could return to the charred ruins and atone for his actions.
Violence is the Only Option: While you can get his badge and gesture by befriending him, you have to kill him in order to buy his attire.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The apparent reason for sympathizing with the beasts, as revealed through dialogue should you befriend him and spare the lives of the Old Yharnam beasts. He doesn't see them as monsters, he sees them as people. And, in his defense, they do seem to have set up some kind of religion among themselves.
Djura: There's nothing more horrific than a Hunt. In case you've failed to realize... The things you hunt, they're not beasts. They're people. One day, you will see...
Zombie Advocate: He actively protects the beasts of Old Yharnam, first with barricades, then with warnings, and finally with a massive Gatling gun.

Hypogean Gaol

Sister Adella

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"Please, leave me be...Don't take me...Please...Oh, please, dear gods. Oh, merciful gods, help me...In the name of the Healing Church, cleanse us of this horrible dream..."

Voiced by: Lucy Briggs (English), Seiko Uedo (Japanese)

A member of the Healing Church, captured by the Kidnappers of the School of Mensis.

Ax-Crazy: If you take Arianna's blood too many times, Adella will murder her. And when the moon turns red, she'll come after you, babbling like a madwoman the entire time.
Break the Cutie: She seems rather oblivious to most of the Healing Church's crimes and comes across as another traumatized innocent at first. However, the events of the game clearly take a massive toll on her sanity.
Bullying a Dragon: If she's killed Arianna and is still alive after the Blood Moon, she'll come after you next. Problem is she's a nun with no combat experience, and her only attack is a slow and predictable lunge with her knife. She stands basically no chance against you.
Dramatic Irony: Adella starts off confident that the Healing Church will pull a Big Damn Heroes and save everyone if they can hold out a bit longer. Given that Laurence, the First Vicar, his eventual successor Vicar Amelia, and the surviving clerics are now beasts, the streets are littered with the corpses of priests, the Church Giants are out of control, and the Choir is MIA, they're in no position to help anyone. And that's ignoring the fact that they're responsible for the crisis in the first place...
Girl with Psycho Weapon: Somehow manages to get her hands on a huge surgical knife after the Blood Moon, which she uses to try and kill you. Amusingly, it does so little damage you'd have to actively try to die by her hand.
Green-Eyed Monster: Behind her modest front, Adella hides a jealous and unstable disposition. She can be seen spying on you whenever you're talking to Arianna.
Laughing Mad: After the moon turns red, assuming she hasn't killed Arianna, she doesn't even talk or give you blood vials anymore, instead just half-sobbing, half-giggling for a long time.
Locked into Strangeness: She has an alternate model that switches out after the Blood Moon, that shows her skin having gone paler and her eyes clouded over.
Mercy Kill: How she views killing Arianna and you, believing their blood to be tainted. She might actually have a point, given that Arianna was impregnated by a Great One, but she has no way of knowing this.
Nuns Are Spooky: She looks fairly demure and harmless at first, but she gets more insane and obsessed with you as the game goes on.
Pose of Supplication: She can be found huddled in a corner praying fervently to the gods for protection, and will mistake you for a Yahar'Gul Hunter unless you're wearing a Church-related outfit.
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: In contrast to Arianna.
Sinister Minister: She is a nun of the Healing Church, abducted to be a subject in the School of Mensis' rituals.
Sole Survivor: She says she was one of many young women abducted by the Mensis Kidnappers. Now, she's the only one left.
Token Evil Teammate: She's a low-ranking member of the Healing Church.
Yandere: If you receive Arianna's blood five times while Adella is present, her jealous side comes out and she kills Arianna out of spite. Then, under the right conditions, she'll try to kill you.

Forbidden Woods

Afflicted Beggar

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"Blimey! Don't scare me like that. On a night like this... I took you for a monster. Oh, thank the stars, you're fairly normal... Was it you put down that awful beast? Oh, that thing had me be trembling, frozen in me boots. And then you came along. Well... if you're a Hunter... then... Would you know of any safe havens?"

Voiced by: Peter Pacey (English), Toru Sakurai (Japanese)

A bandage-wrapped man found within the Forbidden Woods. Please ignore the fresh corpse he was taking bites out of.

Affably Evil: His murderous and cannibalistic tendencies aside, he's genuinely friendly to you and happy to share a few drinks with you.
Asshole Victim: He's the one person you can send to Iosefka's Clinic and feel absolutely no guilt about what Imposter Iosefka is going to do to him, due to him being a Beast.
Bandaged Face: He's got most of his head wrapped in unneeded gauze. The very same bandage was worn by Simon The Harrowed.
Beware the Nice Ones: In two ways. The first is, despite presenting himself as a friendly, if jittery, individual, he goes on to murder every other NPC in the Chapel if sent there and left unchecked. Two, he's in actuality a sentient Darkbeast.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He has a pleasant mask to be sure, acting chummy and friendly to the player, especially compared to how they're usually treated. As soon as that falls off, however... well, he becomes much more abrasive and hateful.
Dark Is Evil: His beast form is covered in black fur, and he's wreathed in dark lightning.
Evil Sounds Deep: Averted, his voice sounds pretty normal. Played straight when he transforms into an Darkbeast, in which his voice becomes so deep it's hard to tell he was even human at one point.
Eviler than Thou: He actually falls victim to this; if you send him to Iosefka's Clinic, instead of finding helpless victims to munch on, he gets captured and experimented on by the Imposter Iosefka, just like anyone else you send there.
- He can also fall victim to this if you send him to Oedon Chapel, allow him to kill everyone so you get a source of Beast Blood Pellets, and then kill him when everyone's dead and he's of no further use to you.
Gonk: His human form, due to having the "Yharnam look".
Hidden Depths: As the Harrowed Set reveals, the Afflicted Beggar was once a Harrowed Hunter, a brand of Healing Church Hunter who disguised themselves as beggars and served as the first line of defense against the Beasts. Unfortunately for him, he has since succumbed to the plague and is now an Abhorrent Beast himself.
I Am a Humanitarian: When you first meet him, he's covered in blood and chowing down on a child's corpse.
Lightning Bruiser: When in beast form, he's super fast, channels powerful electricity and shockwaves, frightfully strong, and has a ridiculous amount of HP. It's almost suicide fighting him head on.
Most Definitely Not a Villain: He claims to be perfectly innocent... after you come across him eating bodies. It turns out he's an Abhorrent Beast that somehow figured out how to shift back into human form.
Never My Fault: While he does have a point that he didn't choose to become a Darkbeast, he's still a gleefully murderous cannibal.
"Not So Different" Remark: When he turns into an Abhorrent Beast, he'll launch into a speech saying that Hunters like you are no better than him, since you're both just killers in the end. It falls flat when you remember you walked in on him eating people.
Obviously Evil: It's incredibly obvious when you first meet him that sending him to live with the other rescued NPCs is a pretty bad idea. It's so obvious, in fact, that you may end up second-guessing yourself.
One-Winged Angel: Attacking him causes him to reveal his true form... an Abhorrent Beast.
Optional Boss: Well, more like Bonus Mini-Boss, but fighting the Beggar is entirely optional, can be done in either the Forbidden Woods or the Cathedral Ward, and nets the player a powerful Beast Rune. He's also an incredibly strong opponent... unless you just send him to the impostor Iosefka.
Power Echoes: When he reverts to his true form, his voice is distorted and echoic.
Recurring Element: He's very similar to Yurt the Silent Chief from Demon's Souls in terms of his role in the game as a murderer of citizens, or in this case survivors.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: When he transforms into an Abhorrent Beast.
Shock and Awe: In his true form, he's wreathed in electricity.
Token Evil Teammate: He's seemingly the only beast who has retained his mental faculties, meaning he's willfully malicious rather than simply animalistic.
Villainous Breakdown: When you gain the upper hand against him in battle, he starts to lose it.
Beggar: Die! Die, DIE! Hunters are killers, nothing less! You call me a beast? A beast?! What would you know?! I didn't ask for this!
What the Hell, Hero?:
- If you aggro him, he calls you out on attacking him as he transforms into his true form, seemingly unaware that you caught him eating people.
  Beggar: Have you got a screw loose? Or is it your... animal intuition?
- Gives you an even harsher (and deserved) one if you send him to the Chapel, allow him to kill everyone there, let him share his Beast Blood Pellets with you, and then attack him.
  Beggar: Oh, you are a sick puppy... You drink the blood of half the town and now this... And you talk of beasts? You Hunters are the real killers!
Would Hurt a Child: Not just hurt. The body he's feasting on when the player stumbles upon him initially in the Forbidden Woods, is that of a child, one he most likely murdered himself.

Valtr

Valtr, Master of The League/^{Click here to see spoilers}Beast Eater

"Ahh, a new face, are you? And an accomplished Hunter... it would appear. I am Valtr, Master of the League. Members of the League cleanse the streets of all the filth that's spread about during the Hunt. Like any half-decent Hunter ought to, you know? Haven't you seen enough of the wretched beasts, freakish slugs, and mad doctors? Sentence these fiends to death. With the help of your League confederates. What do you say? Why not join the League?"

Voiced by: Jason Pitt (English), Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese)

The leader of the League, a band of Hunters that seek out and destroy "Vermin": centipede-like creatures that live in filth and are believed to be the source of man's impurity.

Artificial Stupidity: Valtr doesn't perform so well during the second phase of the battle with Laurence, The First Vicar because his AI will often cause him to ignore the pools of magma and walk straight into it.
Assist Character: If you have the Impurity rune equipped, you can summon him for assistance against Ludwig the Accursed and Laurence, the First Vicar.
Ax-Crazy: He's more than a little insane and clearly likes killing. Fortunately, his psychotic tendencies are focused primarily at Beasts and Vermin.
Badass in a Nice Suit: There's a fable that Yharnamites favor, about a group of constables who chased a beast all the way to Yharnam. Only one of them survived, and he ate the beast in vengeance. As for the nice suit, he wears the Constable Set.
Blood Knight: Just listening to his Motive Rant makes it clear that he enjoys hunting and killing perhaps a bit too much.
Valtr: "The night brims with defiled scum, and is permeated by their rotten stench. Just think. Now you're all set to Hunt and kill to your heart's content!"
Broken Ace: As a summon, Valtr is able to stunlock Ludwig of all bosses quite easily, does a decent amount of damage, and is still useful in multiple tiers of NG+. As a person, however, he's actually slightly insane from his occupation and is just a provocation away from snapping. Some of this is probably an act, but how much is impossible to tell, as learning that he can no longer see vermin requires either killing him or causing him to leave the player his helmet and disappear.
Cloudcuckoolander: Considering he's a Solaire Expy, it's a given. In his case, it's implied that the Vermin that the League seeks to destroy are naught but an illusion. The League Staff description even says, "No matter that an oath must be taken to uphold the illusion." And, if one crushes enough Vermin that he makes the player the new Master of the League, it's revealed that he lost the ability to see Vermin long ago, but kept up the facade, implying this is an Invoked Trope.
Cool Helmet: His Master's Iron Helmet. When you have his helmet after his quest, he removes it when summoned and his title is changed from Master of the League to Beast Eater.
Crazy Sane: Despite his seeming madness he is still able to lead the League. And it's implied that he and the League he leads need his crusade against the Vermin to function. Of course, the fact that he lost the ability to see Vermin long ago puts his own madness into question.
Creepy Good: He's on your side, but his obsession with butchering vermin and somewhat ominous appearance make him this.
Early-Bird Cameo: He's the Whirligig build for the TGS demo of The Old Hunters DLC.
Expy: Of Solaire, moreso than Alfred. Both are leaders of a co-op focused covenant and have a Cool Helmet. It helps they look really similar as well, with or without the helmet.
Eyepatch of Power: Implied to be the reason why his helmet only has one eye hole. Though his revealed face has two functional eyes, implying the Master of the League is a Legacy Character.
Famed In-Story: He's wearing a Constable set, which is linked to a folk legend about a bunch of foreign cops chasing a beast to Yharnam, getting slaughtered down to one survivor, who then killed the beast and ate it whole. Crushing enough Vermin to have him relinquish his position as Master of the League to you reveals that said survivor was him, when he can now be summoned under his other epithet.
Good Is Not Soft: He's on your side, polite enough to avert Good Is Not Nice, and is the leader of a Co-Op covenant. That said, he's also very into the indiscriminate application of violence against the "wretched beasts, freakish slugs, and mad doctors" troubling Yharnam.
Jade-Colored Glasses: Being the sole survivor of the group and eating a beast that was once human tends to leave you as such.
Legacy Character: The helmet of the Master of the League has only one eye-hole, seemingly because the original owner had only one eye, but Valtr had two, and gives you his helmet when he makes you the new Master of the League. This implies that he may not have been the first Master either.
Lightning Bruiser: Like any other Hunter.
Obfuscating Insanity: He puts on a hammy and dramatic facade, but getting his helmet reveals that he lost the ability to see Vermin long ago. This implies that he is aware that the League's crusade against Vermin is a sham, but keeps up the facade because it helps his confederates to direct their aggression against the enemies of humanity.
Red Baron: Master of the League. If he leaves the title to you, and is then summoned, it's revealed he has a second epithet: the Beast Eater.
Red Herring: As the game goes on, the existence of Vermin are an increasingly puzzling and out of place element of the mythology of the Great Ones and the Old Blood. This is because they're an elaborate lie to keep the League's bloodlust focused on slaying evil monsters instead of innocent people. And Valtr knows.
Sole Survivor: He wears the set of the only survivor of a bunch of foreign lawmen that chased down a beast to Yharnam, only to be slaughtered down to one of their number. Getting his helmet and summoning him reveals that lawman was him.

Byrgenwerth

Provost Willem

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"We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open... Fear the old blood."

Voiced by: Steven Elliot (English), Mugihito (Japanese)

Alternatively known as Master Willem. The final head of the now-defunct Byrgenwerth College, his teachings would eventually lead to the founding of the Healing Church. Even though the Church has declared the abandoned College forbidden ground, some say he still resides there, gazing out at the lake in his rocking chair.

Adventurer Archaeologist: He and the other scholars of Byrgenwerth College uncovered the ancient tombs beneath the great city of Yharnam. What they found in those tombs should have stayed buried.
All for Nothing: He sought to become a god and he has gone to quite a few immoral lengths in order to achieve this as the massacre of the Fishing Hamlet will attest to, yet although he seems to have achieved some form of altered state of being, by the time The Hunter finds him, he's all alone, a vegetable bound to his old college, with most of his former associates either long dead, trapped within The Nightmare Realm, have gone mad, or some combination of the three, and it's made pretty clear that he didn't get what he was after in the end.
Alien Blood: If attacked, he is revealed to (now) have white blood.
Anti-Climax: Despite being one of the most important figures behind the fall of Yharnam, by the time the player reaches him he's little more than an immobile, half-comatose old man who can do nothing but weakly moan should the player choose to maul him to death. He doesn't get a grandiose boss battle like several of his former understudies.
Body Horror: He has what appears to be florescent fungus growing from under his collar and his feet have become gangrenous◊.
Evil vs. Evil: Ultimately, both he and Laurence only fell out with one another due to different research methodologies. Methodologies which, in the long run, would both result in the near destruction of Yharnam.
Decomposite Character: Early versions of the game had him and Micolash being one and the same, with the one in Byrgenwerth being Micolash's physical body that was left behind when his mind entered the Nightmare. It was even a boss, 'Micolash's Cast-Off Shell'.
Godhood Seeker: He sought to "line his brain with eyes" in order to become more than human, "elevat[ing] his being and thoughts to those of a Great One". He ordered the massacre of the Fishing Hamlet to harvest the villagers' eldritch knowledge. Fortunately for the wider world, the ritual meant to achieve this functionally backfired.
The Heretic: He and the rest of Byrgenwerth were declared heretics by the Healing Church, which is ironic since he was the grandfather of said Church, and the Church's teachings are heretical from his point of view, as the church seeks the Old Blood and Willem fears it.
Hypocrite: He condemns Laurence and the Healing Church's heretical use of the "old blood", but as the Old Hunters DLC reveals, he was not above massacring an innocent town and performing horrific experiments on its locals, their dead goddess Kos/Kosm, and Kos/Kosm's child in order to become an ascendant Great One. By the time the Hunter finds him, his actions have backfired on him enormously.
Laser-Guided Karma: He has already suffered this due to meddling with the Great Ones. Lore implies that he was the one who ordered the massacre of the Fishing Hamlet to steal the villagers' knowledge and experiment on them and their goddess Kos, for the sake of turning himself into a Great One. Instead, he turned himself into a brain-dead vegetable who's confined to his chair and can barely talk and move. For all his ambitions of becoming more than human, he ends up stuck in a comatose (and functionally still human) body, isolated from human contact, while everyone close to him is either dead or transformed into an Animalistic Abomination.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Byrgenwerth's adage of "fear the old blood" due to the horrible effects it can have on people seems reasonable enough. Then it's subverted as Willem's own pursuit of Insight was just as, if not more horrific, as the fate of the Fishing Hamlet in The Old Hunters DLC reveals.
Mad Scientist: It's heavily implied that the massacre of the Fishing Hamlet was carried out on his orders, leading to Kos creating the Hunter's Nightmare as her curse on the future Hunters when they killed her and her worshippers and abducted her child for experimentation. No wonder Lady Maria was so disgusted with herself.
Minor Major Character: He appears once in person (as a braindead vegetable) and once in a flashback, and is never fought, yet he is the catalyst for the entire game.
My Skull Runneth Over: He's presumably one of those whose brains were stillborn as a result of too much eldritch knowledge, as mentioned in the Great One Mergo's lore. While it didn't kill him like it did the School of Mensis, it still completely destroyed him mentally.
Non-Action Big Bad: He's an old scholar, not a Hunter. He's still responsible for Byrgenwerth ruining everything by trying to study the Great Ones.
Our Founder: He was the first of the scholars who made contact with the Great Ones, and is considered to be the grandfather of the Healing Church.
Predecessor Villain: Being the teacher of the Healing Church's founder, in addition to his own efforts to turn himself into a Great One, his actions have contributed to everything bad that happens throughout the story.
- The Hunter's Nightmare was created because in the course of his quest to become a god like the Great Ones, he ordered the Fishing Hamlet's destruction and getting most of his students/subordinates cursed down the line.
- While not directly involved with the Healing Church's rise, it nonetheless came into existence because of his research and his dispute with his apprentice Laurence over the Old Blood. This makes him indirectly responsible for the horrible experiments performed on innocent Yharnamites by the Imposter Iosefka, who is part of the Choir leading the Healing Church, and the massacre of the Cainhurst nobility.
- Shortly before he lost his last remnants of sanity, he seemd to have tried to perform some sort of ritual to turn the lake into some sort of portal leading to the Great One Rom, who fuels the barrier between our realm and the Great Ones in order to have it killed, only to have no one left capable of doing so. Even as a near-braindead vegetable, he still manages to instruct the player to do the deed, which only accelerates Yharnam's collapse.
The Speechless: He speaks in the flashbacks, but that's about it. After finding him in his rocking chair in Byrgenwerth, attempting to speak to him will only result in him moaning and pointing at the lake with his scepter, seemingly in an attempt to tell the Hunter to kill Rom, thereby completing Byrgenwerth's ritual.
Staff of Authority: Carries an ornate staff with him at all times even while brain-dead and permanently in a rocking chair.

Forsaken Cainhurst Castle

Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods

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"I am Annalise, Queen of Castle Cainhurst. Ruler of the Vilebloods, and sworn enemy of the Church."

Voiced by: Jenny Funnell (English), Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese)

The last remaining noble of Cainhurst, Annalise is hidden away in a secret chamber deep within Cainhurst Castle.

Ambiguous Situation: It is unclear if she is the one who was responsible for sending The Hunter the Cainhurst Summons in the first place, but it can be rather heavily inferred, give the more blatant supernatural nature of Cainhurst and The Vilebloods' legacy when exploring their former Castle and home. The fact that an unknown presence is watching The Hunter if they choose to climb into the stagecoach that takes them over to Cainhurst Castle seems to indicate that The Hunter is indeed being watched by someone or something that could in fact be relate to Annalise in some form.
And I Must Scream: Maybe. Others have come to believe that she could somehow in fact still alive after Alfred grinds her into a pile of bloody flesh. Should you make an attempt to kill her without Alfred's help, she will still collapse into a pile of bloody flesh after leaving and reentering the chamber.
Benevolent Boss: If you kneel before her, she showers you in praise, declares you her beloved (but platonic) knight and, according to Dummied Out game files she was meant to give you the gift of her own vial of blood for every dreg you bring her.
- Although then again, given the history of The Cainhurst Nobles in accordance to the lore, her friendly demeanor when she is first met could be interpreted as trying to lure The Hunter into serving her willingly.
Big Bad Wannabe: Maybe. Her primary goal is to give birth to the Child of Blood, and it is later revealed through Blood Dregs themselves that this is supposed to mean the next heir to the Cainhurst line. Not only is her entire order gone by the time you even meet her, but she has also been apparently passed up as the mother for a progeny for The Great Ones, and no amount of Blood Dregs she consumes will change that. That said, she doesn't seem to mind too much, perfectly content with just waiting.
The Bad Guy Wins: If resurrected after Alfred commits suicide, she will have now officially outlasted the entire order of Executioners, Victory for Cainhurst!
- Although then again, The Executioners themselves weren't exactly saints either, so bringing down either one could be seen as defeating a Lesser of Two Evils.
The Chess Master: Owning to the Ambiguous Situation mentioned above, if it is true that Annalise herself had something to do with The Hunter receiving a summons to Cainhurst, then it's possible that Annalise had purposefully planned for The Hunter to visit the castle so as to possibly recruit them as a new ally in her ongiong battle against The Executioners.
- After all, The Hunter finds the Cainhurst Summons, addressed to them specifically, in Iosefka's clinic, where they start their journey in Yharnam in the first place, and the summons itself is placed on the exact same operating table that The Hunter awakens on, which is located in the very same room where Doctor Iosefka will provide The Hunter with blood during their periodic returns. If Annalise is the one responsible, then the decision to place the summons in the clinic could've been a strategic maneuver so that the summons would be in a location that The Hunter would be immediately familiar with, and doing so would certainly guarantee that the The Hunter would find the summons eventually at one point.
- By the time that the Cainhurst Summons becomes available, The Hunter will have already defeated several powerful beasts in addition to possibly several other Hunters. During this time, it is possible that Annalise may have become aware of The Hunter's exploits (if not by herself, then perhaps by a proxy) and, by leaving a summons for them to find, she is showing that she has come to acknowledge The Hunter as an incredibly powerful individual, that, if convinced to be on her side, would result in Cainhurst receiving a strong ally who would be able to assist in turning the battle against The Executioners into Cainhurst's favor!
Complete Immortality: Maybe. A possible reason that she could have survived the above-mentioned genocide. She also cannot be killed by The Hunter under normal circumstances, either. This also seems to be why The Executioners placed that binding mask on her in the first place, and Logarius kept the crown needed to enter her central keep with him. it has been interpreted that she's perhaps still alive if Alfred gets to her and turns her into a pinkish smear on the ground, although this may not necessarily be the case. Nevertheless, she can actually be resurrected by you later on, making his martyrdom pointless.
The Faceless: She wears a strange mask that is locked onto her head and there's no known way to remove it. That said, there's concept art of her sans the mask in the Design Works artbook and one of the paintings found within Cainhurst Castle proper appears to be her before the Executioners' assault, although the woman in said painting has much darker hair than Annalise does.
Kneel Before Zod: When first approached, she will command you to either kneel or get out. If you fail to comply and keep approaching, she will tell you to kneel in a very threatening tone.
Lady and Knight: If you opt to become a Vileblood, then she effectively becomes the (dark) lady to your knight.
Last of Her Kind: By the time you reach her, she is the sole remaining Vileblood, as Logarius and his Executioners had managed to kill all but her. Of course, that changes if you choose to become a Vileblood as well.
Our Vampires Are Different: As a Vileblood, she regularly consumes blood. As a royal member of the Cainhurst family, she probably has Blood Magic powers similar to Lady Maria. She fits the stereotype of being an immortal noble that lives in a creepy, haunted castle and Vilebloods already seem to be the closest thing the setting has to the vampires.
Power Limiter: Her dialog implies the above mentioned mask that she wears is something like this, although to what degree or if at all is unknown.
Romance Sidequest: Averted. Though the player can propose marriage, she will turn them down, stating that not only does she not need a consort, "such a path would belike to further ruin", though she does find the player dear to her in some manner.
Resurrective Immortality: If one takes the Queenly Flesh that drops if he/she or Alfred kills her and brings it to the Altar of Despair after Ebrietas is killed, Annalise can be brought back to life (or at least given a new body) like nothing happened. There's a very good chance that any dialogue or reaction created in response to being killed by Alfred was lost somewhere during production.
Shout-Out: To L'Homme au Masque de Fer or The Man in the Iron Mask. Maybe. The Japanese script has Annalise specifically mention that the mask/helmet she is wearing is made of iron.
The Royal We: Speaks like this.
The Unfought: There is no way to engage her, so we'll never know what kind of powers she possesses as a Vampiric Cainhurst Royal, if any at all.
Undeathly Pallor: She has very pale skin.

Nightmare Frontier

Patches the Spider

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"Remember: no matter the circumstances, there will always be people willing to push you down a hole."

Voiced by: William Vanderpuye (English), Naomi Kusumi (Japanese)

A human-faced spider that worships the Amygdala found around Yharnam.

Affably Evil: His attempt to kill the player as an offering to the Amygdala aside, he's very friendly and polite in his interactions with them.
Bald of Evil: As per tradition, this version of Patches is completely bald, and comes across as even more sinister than his previous incarnations.
Beast with a Human Face: His body has changed from the previous games, but his face is familiar enough.
Dirty Coward: True to fashion, he starts fumbling a bit once you confront him on the second floor of the Lecture Hall, and asks if you think ill of him for trying to kill you.
Easily Forgiven: Depending on your choices, he can be this as usual.
Evil Laugh: Seems being a spider hasn't gotten rid of his trademark laugh.
Giant Spider: He is a Nightmare Apostle with a human head.
Heel–Face Turn: He becomes a merchant in the Chalice Dungeons if you exhaust his dialogue and forgive him in the Lecture Hall. He sells the same items that the Bath Messengers in the Hunter's Dream do, but for a much higher price than usual. And should you acquire weapons from Old Hunter DLC, he sells the Uncanny and Lost version of the weapons to you.
Irony: In his previous appearances, Patches always had a disdain for clerics. In Bloodborne, he pretty much is a cleric in all but name to Amygdala.
Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when you confront him after killing the Amygdala in the Nightmare Frontier.
Recurring Element: Another version of FromSoft's signature bald Dirty Coward who kicks you off a cliff, followed by begging for mercy and becoming a merchant.
Shmuck Bait: He lays down a note and some Shining Coins near the edge of a cliff that urge you to go forward. Of course, he kicks you down into the canyon if you actually fall for it.
Small Role, Big Impact: He's a very minor character divorced from the main plot. However, the door he blocks in the Lecture Hall is extremely vital in that if he weren't there, you'd have access to the second floor of the Lecture Hall without needing to kill Rom and enable Micolash's ritual to succeed, which would save the sanity and lives of many people.
Transplant: Despite being, well, a spider, he's still more or less the same entity from Demon's Souls and Dark Souls.
Villains Want Mercy: Begs for his life when you find his hiding spot in the Lecture Hall. He actually gives you the "Beg for life" gesture, in fact.

Historical Characters

Laurence

Laurence, the First Vicar

"I tell you, I will not forget our adage."

Voiced by: Daniel Fine (English), Yutaka Aoyama (Japanese)

A man introduced in a flashback cutscene, a former student of Master Willem and the founder of the Healing Church.

The Apprentice: He was Master Willem's student and acolyte before they had a falling out. And he is repeatedly mentioned by another one of Willem's apprentices, Gehrman, while the latter is trapped in the Hunter's Dream.
Blood Magic: Several item descriptions indicate that Laurence left Byrgenwerth to found the Healing Church over his use of blood — specifically Old Blood — in his research, which Willem opposed.
The Faceless: There are no confirmed appearances of his face. The most we see of Laurence are a few small glimpses in a flashback (and if you use modding to view the cutscene from different angles, you'll find that the devs used Micolash's model for Laurence's appearance, since you just see his arm). That is his now bestial skull on the altar, though, and he is encountered in The Old Hunters expansion.
The Heretic: Willem accused him of betraying the true ways of the College, though Laurence protested that he would always uphold their adage: "Fear the old blood." The church he founded eventually (as shown by Amelia's prayer) turned "fear the old blood" into "seek the old blood", to everyone's detriment.
Our Founder: He's the one who founded the Healing Church.
Karmic Transformation: There are hints that he ultimately became a beast, almost certainly as a result of him being just as enthusiastic a user of blood as the rest of the Healing Church. Word of God confirms this, and that the beast skull found in the Cathedral is his. The Old Hunters has made it even more complicated, as it was initially thought that the Bloodletting Beast found in the Chalice Dungeons was him. In an earlier version of the storyline, it definitely was. As of the final game, it pretty much still is, as the skull matches the general shape and wounds of the Bloodletting Beast. The Old Hunters adds the lava-blooded Cleric Beast version found in the Hunter's Nightmare, which made the situation more muddled. The closest explanation for this situation is that the Bloodletting Beast in the Chalice Dungeons is his vermin-controlled/animated body, while his "consciousness" (for lack of a better word) has been trapped in the Hunter's Nightmare.
My God, What Have I Done?: The lyrics of the song that plays during the optional boss fight against him suggests that he genuinely wished to help people with offerings of the Blood to heal people. Yet it wasn't until it was too late did he realize it was his fault that he essentially helped unleash a horrific scourge on the world. Worst yet, it's highly likely he didn't realize this until he was already infected himself.
Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in one scene and is mentioned in a few items, not counting his appearance as the fiery Cleric Beast in the DLC. However, Laurence is a key figure in much of the backstory for Bloodborne. He studied under Master Willem at Byrgenwerth, founded the Healing Church, worked extensively with Gehrman and the Hunters, and has a connection of sorts with the Moon Presence. If he hadn't founded the Healing Church, there would be no Beast Scourge, no Hunters to kill the beasts, and no blood ministration to draw in the player character.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Unlike his successors and his teacher, who want/wanted to use the power of the Great Ones to become gods themselves, Lawrence genuinely wanted to use the Great One's power via the healing blood to help people. It's just it also involved causing the Ashen Blood epidemic so he and his followers could swoop in to be the heroes who cured it, establishing the Healing Church's Choir with all their atrocities, AND the Scourge of the Beast ultimately being spread due to the use of the healing blood in the first place.

Caryll

Runesmith Caryll

A member of the Brygenwerth faculty, Caryll was a runesmith for the College who transcribed the voice of the Great One Oedon. Most of the works have been secreted away, some even forbidden and considered heretical.

The Ghost: Is always mentioned, never seen, and is likely long dead by the time of current events.
Lost in Translation: Caryll's Japanese title indicates that she was a copyist of Runes rather than a creator of them.
Uncertain Doom: Their tools are found on the body of a hunter surrounded by researching paper, but it's unclear if that hunter is Caryll or not. The body, notably, is very fresh compared to the skull of Caryll's contemporary Laurence.

Ludwig

Ludwig, the Holy Blade

The First Hunter of the Healing Church, founder of the Healing Church Workshop. He was the first to recruit and train Yharnamite citizens as Hunters en-mass, and designed weapons to combat giant beasts.

For info on his Boss Battle, go to Bloodborne Characters From The Old Hunters.

BFS: Ludwig's Holy Blade was based on his weapon of choice, the Holy Moonlight Sword, which has a distinct design from the other Holy Blades.
Expy: To Artorias. Both are Master Swordsmen of their group and have succumbed to their respective curses by the time you meet them.
The Ghost: He's only mentioned in the Vanilla game. But The Old Hunters DLC introduces him as a malformed beast.
Godzilla Threshold: One may question his methods, as the weapons he made are overkill against the smaller beasts and whipping the townsfolk into a frenzy made the streets even more dangerous in the long run. But when facing the larger beasts, beasts born of members of the Healing Church, his reasoning becomes crystal clear.
Karmic Transformation: As noted above, Healing Church members tend to transform into the larger beasts that stalk Yharnam. Ludwig was no exception.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He did try to clear the beasts and was apparently open with the public, but he was still working for the Healing Church and the hunting mobs just made the Scourge of the Beast spread faster.
Super Prototype: Actually somewhat averted in regards to the Holy Moonlight Sword that he wielded and his namesake Holy Blades that it inspired. While the Holy Blades lack the Moonlight Sword's more exotic abilities, they do have better stats and scaling with Strength and Skill. However, the Moonlight Sword swings faster, has very good Arcane scaling, and has a far more varied moveset, making it shine in both PvP and PvE. Essentially, neither of them completely outshines the other, and both are very reliable weapons.
Torches and Pitchforks: One of his first actions was to make the Hunt public, encouraging anyone who could lift a torch to join the Hunt. These mobs were effective at first but quickly devolved.
Was Once a Man: By the time the player meets him, he's succumbed to the Scourge of the Beast.
Weapon Specialization: His signature weapon was Ludwig's Holy Blade, a silver longsword with a scabbard so big and heavy it can be used as a BFS. He also made Ludwig's Rifle, a very powerful shotgun with surprisingly good range and narrow spread. However, the Holy Blades wielded by the present Healing Church are actually imitations, as his Trick Weapon is actually the Holy Moonlight Sword, which he wields in the second half of the boss fight.

Archibald

An eccentric inventor associated with the Healing Church workshop. He was obsessed with darkbeasts and the electricity that they could generate with their bodies, and is credited with the creation of the Tonitrus line of weapons.

The Blacksmith: The cut version of him is implied to have been this, being the one to put blood gems on your weapons instead of obtaining the Blood Gem Workshop Tool from the chest in the Oedon Chapel basement study.
Expy: Of Nikola Tesla, being an eccentric scientist who was obsessed with the potential of electricity. He also, like Tesla, was not very well-regarded by his contemporaries.
The Ghost: Is only ever mentioned in the descriptions of the Tonitrus, Tiny Tonitrus, Bolt Paper, and the Spark Hunter Badge. That said, data mining has revealed that he was supposed to be an actual NPC at one point.
Mad Scientist: You don't earn the descriptor of "infamous eccentric" without being a little crazy. His methodology is also mentioned to incidentally mirror that of Byrgenwerth, which is not a favorable comparison. The cut version was no better, being absolutely obsessed with the blood gems found in the Chalice Dungeons.
Red Baron: His name is almost always followed by "the infamous eccentric" in item descriptions.
Shock and Awe: His life's work was focused on the production of electricity, particularly in the form of very dangerous weapons.
Weapon Specialization: The product of his research was the Tonitrus, a mace that can electrify itself for a damage boost. He also created the Tiny Tonitrus, which fires a wave of lightning, and the Fire Paper and Bolt Paper, which apply their respective elements to a weapon for a little while.

Irreverent Izzy

A Hunter from years past who was fascinated by the darkbeasts, creating the Beast Claw trick weapon and the Beast Roar Hunter's tool.

Admiring the Abomination: Izzy's fascination with Beasts and Darkbeasts led to them "creating" at least 2 devices that allow you to tap into the Scourge without being infected yourself.
Ambiguous Gender: Izzy's gender is never mentioned in-game.
Meaningful Name: To be Irreverent means to not really care about things that others take extremely seriously. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Izzy loved Beasts despite surely knowing full well how dangerous and terrifying they are.
The Ghost: Izzy has potentially long since died. It's possible that Izzy is trapped in the Hunter's Nightmare and is also the identity of the Bestial Hunter in the Old Hunters DLC.

Organizations

The Healing Church

An organization founded by the Byrgenwerth scholar Laurence, who came to Yharnam during an outbreak of a plague known as Ashen Blood, offering the miraculous Old Blood as a cure. Since then, they have become the most powerful group in Yharnam and all but leads the city through their monopoly on Blood Ministration.

Church Militant: The Church Hunters, established by Ludwig and replacing the old Hunter's Workshop, are mostly clerics and men of the cloth who recruit civilians to fight alongside them. Unlike most examples, the Church Hunters are less military and more pest control.
Corrupt Church: Deliberately cover up the side effects of blood ministration so they can get more patients.
Dark Is Evil: The Church Hunters wear black, and the description of the Black Church set implies that they double as secret police who dispose of "plague victims" before they even show signs of sickness.
Their black attire is synonymous with fear, and that peculiar Yharnam madness.
Engineered Heroics: The Healing Church initially caused the Ashen Blood outbreak so that they could swoop in with the Old Blood to cure it.
Godhood Seeker: The Choir's goal is to ascend as Kin to the Great Ones.
Light Is Not Good: The higher ranks of the Healing Church wear white and are the ones who keep propagating the Beast Scourge so they can experiment on its victims.
They believe that medicine is not a means of treatment but rather a method for research, and that some knowledge can only be gained by exposing oneself to sickness.
Lost in Translation: Their nature and that of the Old Blood is heavily rooted in the Shinto concept of kegare, or 'impurity'. The Old Blood is a source of kegare, and Laurence thought he could make Old Blood safe to use by purifying it of its kegare, but he was wrong. The Healing Church opposes the Vilebloods because they used a form of Blood Ministration that did not remove its kegare, thus making them a source of kegare themselves that needed to be removed lest their kegare infect everyone around them.
Mad Scientist: The Healing Church is functionally the public-facing side of a secret society of these. And the Old Blood is just one of the things they're experimenting with...
Mystery Cult: The Choir are the only ones who understand the Healing Church's true purpose as successors to Byrgenwerth. The lower ranks have no idea that the Great Ones even exist.
Obliviously Evil: While the Healing Church itself is so corrupt that it's impossible to work for it without contributing to its evil, the lower ranks are implied to consist mostly of good people unaware of the Church's true nature who simply believe in its stated mission, such as Adella (mental breakdown notwithstanding) and Ludwig.
Religion of Evil: The highest echelons aren't just unconcerned with their flock; they actively think of them as guinea pigs so they can ascend themselves to Great One status. They know exactly what the Old Blood is doing and encourage it so they can study its effects.
Scary Amoral Religion: Their theology is focused on imbibing the Old Blood to reach enlightenment, and if you're unable to do so, it's because you are Weak-Willed or otherwise mentally unfit, not because of any moral failing. The Choir goes all-out Religion of Evil, as they're using the aforementioned dogma as a cover for experimenting on Yharnam's citizens for their own gain.
The Theocracy: While it is certainly possible that Yharnam has some kind of civil government, no trace of it is seen and the Healing Church seems to be the only authority in the city.
Tyke Bomb: It's stated that the Healing Church took in the orphan kids of Yharnam and 'instructed' them in Upper Cathedral Ward to become the 'new thinkers' of the Healing Church and help their quest for transcendance - said orphans would later grow up to form the Choir, become the new leadership of the Church and lead it to even more fanatical and extreme measures to achieve communion with the Great Ones.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While the Healing Church never had completely clean hands considering what they did to gain their power, it's likely that Laurence initially introduced Blood Ministration to Yharnam as part of a genuine attempt to use its Panacea properties to help people, only realizing its role in creating the Beast Scourge when it was too late.

School of Mensis

A faction of higher-up Healing Church members that split off from the Choir at some point in the past, the School of Mensis was cast out of Upper Cathedral Ward and turned the Hidden Village of Yahar'gul into their new headquarters.

Ambiguous Situation: It's unknown if Micolash is actually their leader or just the 'lucky' member who got to be the Host of the Nightmare - either way, he represents the organization as a whole with his presence.
Apocalypse Cult: Though one whose apocalypse is secondary, perhaps even incidental, to their actual goal of transcendance - either way, their mass ritual to reach out to the Nightmare and beckon the moon would have, if not stopped by the Hunter, caused the Beast Scourge to fall upon all of Yharnam's surroundings, if not the entire world.
Big Bad: They serve, collectively, as the closest thing has to a villain, as their ritual beckons the Nightmare to approach the waking world, causing chaos, madness, and the possibility of a full-on Beast Scourge apocalypse - all for the sake of gaining arcane knowledge. They're also the faction that is closest to achieving its goals, as the Choir practically collapsed upon itself, the base layer of the Healing Church became a bunch of beasts and madmen, and Byrgenwerth is half-imploded and half trapped in the Nightmare Lecture Hall. In comparison, Mensis and its minions successfully manage to beckon the Nightmare and reach Mergo, but they are ultimately stopped by the Hunter.
Evil vs. Evil: Mensis and the Choir detest each other very openly, but ultimately their goal of transcendance is exactly the same - they're simply in competition with one another on who gets there first.
Enemy Mine: Despite being the closest thing the game has to a main antaginst, you can summon a member of Mensis for certain Choir-related bosses, like Rom and Ebrietas, due to the bad blood between them.
Human Sacrifice: Unlike the Choir, which attempted to reach the Great Ones with the study of the cosmos and 'singing' towards it, Mensis' most prominent attempt for reaching Great One-hood was kidnapping human beings and sacrificing them en-masse in a perverted attempt to create an artificial Great One - and so the One Reborn was created.
Posthumous Character: Only a handful of Mensis members remain in the waking world - most others discarded their bodies in their attempts of reaching the Nightmare - and considering only Micolash is there, it's easy to assume they failed.

Old Hunters' Workshop

When the Scourge of Beasts first appeared, a hunter named Gehrman established the Workshop to equip and train hunters to go out and kill the beasts before they could do harm. Though they were eventually replaced by the Church Hunters, many old hunters are still active.

Church Militant: Downplayed. The workshop seems to be at least sponsored by the Church, but does not appear to be directly subservient to it.

Old Hunters Allies

Henriett

A Huntress of the Healing Church initially found in the Cathedral Ward. Her initial summon sign is near the shortcut to the Grand Cathedral.

Awesome, but Impractical: She wields the powerful Repeating Pistol.
Badass Longcoat: She wears the Cloaked Hunter Garb.
Molotov Cocktail: She has this in her arsenal as well.
The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female Old Hunter to be summonable.
Torches and Pitchforks: Minus the Pitchfork, she has a Hunter's Torch.

Madman Waller

A Madman that can be summoned in various locations and Chalice Dungeons, especially Lower Pthumeru Layer 3.

Ax-Crazy: Well, he is a Madman.
Carry a Big Stick / Sinister Scythe: Wields the Amygdalan Arm, a weapon that transforms from a Massive Club to a sentient scythe-like appendage.
Church Militant: Although a Madman, he was formerly a Tomb Prospector of the Healing Church.
In the Hood: Wears the Madman Set.
Mighty Glacier: He's stronger than most Old Hunters but never goes faster than a jogging pace, which is slow for a standard Hunter.
Shotguns Are Just Better: He also wields Ludwig's Rifle.

Mensis Scholar Damian

A member of the School of Mensis, Damian can be found in various locations and Chalice Dungeons, especially in the Altar of Despair.

Badass Bookworm: Comes with being a Scholar of Mensis.
Cane Sword: Wields the Threaded Cane, which is also a Whip Sword.
Enemy Mine: The locations of his summoning signs imply this. Both are right outside the boss chambers for Rom and Ebritas, the Old Ones used by Brygenwerth and The Choir, both rival factions to the School of Mensis.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Wields the Loch Shield, which can decrease the amount of Arcane Damage taken.
Old Master: Looking at him with a monocular will show him to be a lot older than the other Hunter summons, with grey hair and a wrinkled face, hinting at the knowledge and power of an aged Scholar of Mensis.
Squishy Wizard: Damian has the Blacksky Eye Hunter Tool, the Augur of Ebriatas, and A Call Beyond. He also has pretty low health for an Old Hunter summon.

Tomb Prospectors Olek and Gremia

One of the few remaining Tomb Prospectors, Olek and Gremia are key allies in many of the Chalice Dungeons.

Awesome, but Impractical: Olek wields the Repeating Pistol.
BFS: Gremia wields Ludwig's Holy Blade.
Church Militant: Well they're tomb prospectors of the Healing Church, so it counts.
Evil Counterpart: The good counterparts as it were to the Forgotten Madman and the Madman's Escort, wielding the same weapons of choice as those two.
Molotov Cocktail: Both have some in their arsenal.
Stone Wall: Their attacks aren't very damaging on their own, but they can take quite a beating before needing to heal.

The Queen Killer

A mysterious, unnamed Executioner found in a few chalices. It's suggested he's responsible for slaying another queen in his past life, suggesting that there were other queens before Annalise.

BFG: He wields the Powder Keg prototype Cannon.
Cool Helmet: The only thing he wears is the Gold Ardeo and his undergarments.
Evil Counterpart: His allies can be encountered as enemies.
Improbable Weapon User: He also wields Logarius' Wheel.
Meaningful Name: You can summon him to help you kill the Pthumerian Queen, Yharnam.
No Name Given: Unlike the rest of the summons, no one knows who he is.
Walking Shirtless Scene: He wears nothing aside from his Ardeo.

Defector Antal

As the name implies, Antal is a defector of the Yahar'gul Hunters, who respond only to the School of Mensis. He can be found within the Yahar'gul boss fights, Darkbeast Paarl, and The One Reborn.

Cool Helmet: His Yarhar'gul Iron Helmet under the hood. It's reminiscent of armor from a long age past.
Cool Sword: Wields the Church Pick, which transforms from a Large Sword to a War Pick.
Defector from Decadence: Implied that he no longer works for the Yahar'gul Hunters and by extension the School of Mensis.
Kill It with Fire: He also wields the Flamesprayer.
Smart People Wear Glasses: He's wearing spectacles.

Vitus

One of the few remaining Old Hunters not trapped in the Hunter's Nightmare. Vitus can be found in the higher tier Chalice Dungeons.

Coat, Hat, Mask: Wears the Old Hunter set, which has this set up.
Whip Sword: Wields the Beast Cutter, a massive, serrated Cleaver that can transform into a Bladed Whip.

Beastclaw Jozef

Powder Keg Hunter equipped with Beast Claws and a follower of Irreverent Izzy, he can be found in the higher tier Chalice Dungeons.

Badass Longcoat: He wears the Charred Hunter Set of the Powder Kegs fame.
Wolverine Claws: He wields the Beast Claw.

Younger Madaras Twin

The younger brother of Madaras Twin, known for keeping a serpent in the Forbidden Woods.

See Enemy Characters and Bosses for more information about him.

Henryk

The taciturn old Hunter Henryk was once partners with Father Gascoigne, and though they were a fierce and gallant duo, their partnership led to Henryk's tragically long life.

See Enemy Characters and Bosses for more information about him.

Characters / Bloodborne Secondary Characters

Central Yharnam

Blood Minister

Gilbert

Doctor Iosefka

Lonely Old Woman

Young Girl & Older Sister

Eileen the Crow

Cathedral Ward

Chapel Samaritan

Vileblood Hunter Alfred

Arianna, Woman of the Night

Narrow Minded Man

Old Yharnam

Retired Hunter Djura

Hypogean Gaol

Sister Adella

Forbidden Woods

Afflicted Beggar

Valtr, Master of The League/^{Click here to see spoilers}Beast Eater

Byrgenwerth

Provost Willem

Forsaken Cainhurst Castle

Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods

Nightmare Frontier

Patches the Spider

Historical Characters

Laurence, the First Vicar

Runesmith Caryll

Ludwig, the Holy Blade

Archibald

Irreverent Izzy

Organizations

Old Hunters Allies

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Central Yharnam

Blood Minister

Gilbert

Doctor Iosefka

Lonely Old Woman

Young Girl & Older Sister

Eileen the Crow

Cathedral Ward

Chapel Samaritan

Vileblood Hunter Alfred

Arianna, Woman of the Night

Narrow Minded Man

Old Yharnam

Retired Hunter Djura

Hypogean Gaol

Sister Adella

Forbidden Woods

Afflicted Beggar

Valtr, Master of The League/Click here to see spoilersBeast Eater

Byrgenwerth

Provost Willem

Forsaken Cainhurst Castle

Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods

Nightmare Frontier

Patches the Spider

Historical Characters

Laurence, the First Vicar

Runesmith Caryll

Ludwig, the Holy Blade

Archibald

Irreverent Izzy

Organizations

Old Hunters Allies

Previous

Index

Next

Valtr, Master of The League/^{Click here to see spoilers}Beast Eater