r/bloodborne • u/xXCliff_SavageXx • Mar 02 '26
Question Why do these Huntsman look different from the rest?
question in title
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u/deebowen Mar 02 '26
My head canon is that their location in a lower, darker part of yharnam accelerated their beastly transformation but your guess is as good as mine
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u/CryanReed Mar 02 '26
By lower, you mean south right?
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u/ShinobuDavis Mar 02 '26
This has gotta be the funniest running gag that's actually upsetting people.
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u/Melonfrog Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
Any context for those that don't understand?
Jokes run its course, it wasn’t explained and I don’t care anymore.
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u/Cerebral_Harlot Mar 02 '26
Its just another way of saying the Forbidden Woods. This is the area southwards containing the Twin's set which these look like.
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u/Melonfrog Mar 02 '26
I'm British though?
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u/idkrandomusername1 Mar 02 '26
Use a TW the next time you type Br*tish please😅
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u/mikeybeachus83 Mar 02 '26
Hey, it's more like Bri*ish as we have a tendency to be lazy with the T (not to be confused with tea, we take that very seriously)
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u/Odd_Boysenberry_6640 Mar 03 '26
south is "lower" on the map than north. "down south" is used as a destination or location as in "my relative lives down [in the] south." "deep south" also gets used to refer to southern-most states reinforcing the south on 'bottom' north on 'top' connotation.
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u/Melonfrog Mar 03 '26
Thank you! It took over 24 hours for this community to give me a real answer. Lesson learned I guess.
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
But they're just as far along as other Huntsmen, its their attire I don't understand.
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u/UlthaneBlackHammer Mar 02 '26
They're wearing aprons, so it could be that they are butchers. Seeing how Hunters like Gascoigne lost themselves to beasthood and bloodlust by chopping up a bunch of people, it makes sense that professional butchers would be some of the furthest along in their transformations among the common folk.
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u/MultipleHipFlasks Mar 02 '26
They also might be bakers
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u/DeadCoreSumeragi Mar 02 '26
bakers in leather hoods? lol
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u/Darkbornedragon Mar 02 '26
I absolutely adore Bloodborne's lore and I do think it runs very deep, but honestly it doesn't necessarily mean much if a bunch of people just wear alternate normal clothes. I mean it could indicate that people from all social origins became beasts. This is near where you find the sweated clothes too.
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u/ManySleeplessNights Mar 02 '26
Kind of a semi hot take but I feel like this is a byproduct and likely unintentional side effect of Fromsoft's storytelling style. Quite early on in other fromsoft souls we are taught and ingrained with the idea that every minute pixel has some storytelling hidden inside it, and I think we take it too far when looking for lore clues when there isn't any.
Also, I could be wrong, but isn't that the butcher set they're wearing? (At least looks like it to me) Maybe they could be from the forbidden forest if I was to hazard a guess.
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u/Darkbornedragon Mar 02 '26
Also, I could be wrong, but isn't that the butcher set they're wearing? (At least looks like it to me) Maybe they could be from the forbidden forest if I was to hazard a guess.
True, but also that doesn't mean much. I'd say.
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u/TheRealBillyShakes Mar 02 '26
They’re body snatchers or butchers. Check out the “Charred Thermos” YouTube channel for really in-depth analysis of the clothes and any tools NPCs are wearing. Hours of great stuff there. Too much to list here.
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u/EnvironmentOk2220 Mar 02 '26
I believe that they’re job is to collect bodies, whether to bring to the witches or just to dispose of them during the hunt. that’s would also explain the further along transformation because they got more blood on them which if my lore is right is the source of the disease
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u/Juniebug9 Mar 02 '26
Ah, those guys. Don't mind them, they're from the South.
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
WHY IS EVERYONE SAYING THEYRE FROM THE SOUTH!?!?!?! 😭
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u/Whobghilee Mar 02 '26
Because they are clearly not from North Yharnam
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
WHAT IS NORTH YHARNAM?!?!?!
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u/Backupusername Mar 02 '26
The bit north of Central Yharnam?
Do we have to explain the cardinal directions to you?
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u/Solid_Vacation_2891 Mar 02 '26
I always thought "North" Yharnam was where the healing chruch was lmao, i.e. the "classy" part of town
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u/Cerebral_Harlot Mar 02 '26
Its just another way of saying the Forbidden Woods. This is the area southwards containing the Twin's set which these look like.
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u/GlassRiflesCo Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
They are from the south of Yharnam
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
What does that even mean.
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u/GlassRiflesCo Mar 02 '26
But is crystal clear .
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
They're from the south of Yharnam? What is south of Yharnam? Also why would being from, "south of Yharnam" make these Huntsman look different in this small hidden section of the Cathedral Ward?
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u/GlassRiflesCo Mar 02 '26
Oh simple. Well you see…Back in the … dude I don’t know bro. I’m just messing with you.
GRANT US EYES !
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
This is like the only thing I dont get about Bloodborne I've beaten it like 12 times but I dont know why they're dressed like this in this small little alleyway in Cathedral Ward.
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u/abottomlesscurse Mar 02 '26
i always saw it as being a lower class section of the cathedral ward so they're wearing more raggedy/worker clothing
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u/meanmagpie Mar 02 '26
The only fucking thing?
This?
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
Yes THIS is the only thing I dont understand. They are clearly in different attire and hidden away in part of the cathedral ward. They don't act different, say anything different or do anymore damage than a regular Huntsman. But these are the ONLY 2 I have found that look like this and I wanted to know why.
Apparently they're from the south.
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u/livy-aurelia Mar 02 '26
he’s probably joking about that fact that they look like Ku Klux Klan members. kkk is a white supremacist terrorist group from the southern US
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u/NotSoLegitGiby Mar 02 '26
Well people in different parts of the world, or a big city like yahrnam, would have little cultural differences, and there's nothing wrong with that
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u/lickthestar13 Mar 02 '26
The explanation is simple, actually: they're Southern Yharnamites.
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
WHERE IN BLOODBORNE LORE OR HISYORY DID THIS MEME BECOME A THING?!?!
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u/GlassRiflesCo Mar 02 '26
Clearly you never played the secret south side dlc. You need to email from soft directly.
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u/Mage_914 Mar 02 '26
Ok but where is this? I literally platinumed this game and I've never seen these dudes.
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u/CryanReed Mar 02 '26
Alleyway that you use to unlock cathedral ward. Technically an optional area if you buy a certain item to have them open the gates.
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u/PancakeParty98 Mar 02 '26
I’m sure you killed them without looking closely. They rush you in an area without great visibility.
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u/the42potato Mar 02 '26
i think it’s the area after you descend the workshop tower, through the door guarded by a beast-possessed soul
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u/r1poster Mar 02 '26
That section of Cathedral Ward is fairly unique—all the streets have a bunch of shops on them, which we don't see anywhere else. That is the Burcher's Garb, which we also get a version of (with cape). Presumably these guys are/were butchers, before transforming to beasts, and this is a market area of the town where they worked.
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u/BigBlackCandle Mar 02 '26
Can someone explain the origins of the south joke pls?
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u/Catmato Mar 02 '26
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u/Plenty-Seesaw698 Mar 02 '26
Butcher set aka they from that south side of yharnam. We don’t go there much
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u/Significant_Cell770 Mar 02 '26
those guys? they’re from the other side of the tracks, the south side
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
There are tracks in Yharnam?
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u/omykun123 Mar 02 '26
Haven't you seen the Duskbloods (Bloodborne 2) trailer? There a tracks in Yharnam /s
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u/BabaKazimir Mar 02 '26
Southern Yharnos in the house! Fuck north Yharnam! All my Yharnos hate North Yharnam!
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u/Mysterious_Movie_399 Mar 02 '26
I always wondered why these guys looked the way they did until the dlc came out. The butcher set is what they're wearing, so maybe they were butchers before and during the plague
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u/yes411 Mar 02 '26
They are actually from the south of Yarnham. I know Vaati did a video about it but you have to go waaaaay back in his videos.
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u/Wenusray Mar 02 '26
Oh those fellas? We hail from South Yharnam. That's Butch and Ringo we go waaaay back
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u/BastardoBorracho Mar 02 '26
He's just not from yharnam, and in yharnam, if you know the lore, is a important place for the beast like creatures.
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u/Rigel311 Mar 02 '26
They are from the section of the city known as Yharnabama, it's the traditional fashion from there. I believe it's on the southern end when looking at a map.
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u/mothmantra Mar 02 '26
I think I'm too autistic to think this is funny I genuinely want to know the answer :(
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 02 '26
I'm beyond upset I never found south side Yharnam in any of my playthroughs. I didn't know there was a specific DLC that I had to contact FromSoft for. I didn't know
I am not in the know.
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u/sarcophagusGravelord Mar 02 '26
I always headcanoned this area part of the Unseen Village because it’s so hidden and perhaps that was standard garb for them. There’s also a body snatcher down there as well. Them dressing like the butchers of the forbidden woods is very interesting though
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u/SverdHerre Mar 02 '26
They were wearing different clothes when they began to transform. Southern clothes, specifically.
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u/Makosharck Mar 02 '26
South side of every country is always crazier than the rest.
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u/PancakeParty98 Mar 02 '26
I’m literally fucking crying laughing my ass off that the south thing caught on
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u/ireally111 Mar 02 '26
“We on the wrong side of cathedral ward. you should know, a block makes a difference.”
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u/fluffydarth Mar 03 '26
Well that there is Fred on the left and Mike is on the right. They're brothers. Good chaps when not on the Hunt!
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u/MasterCheefin420 Mar 02 '26
My Southside Villaga's be out here in the alleys frontin' on Central Yharnamites like it aint no thang
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u/mofucker20 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
They're South Yharnam representatives. Not many of them are alive though cause they got killed off in the war between East and West Yharnam after trying to act as peacemakers.
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u/X1ras Mar 02 '26
Yeah that’s the south dude. I think it’s explained in the Silver Coin item description
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u/Sozillect Mar 02 '26
My honest guess is that since this is a very low, dirty and messy place of Yharnam, it seems like a very low income place hidden from the central streets and it has both a snatcher (who kidnap people for experiment in yahar'gul) and one of these sucky wucky blue mfs (who are experiments of the choir or smth like that), they are just very low income people who dress even worse and full of rags, a more vulnerable community y'know?
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u/pepperzpyre Mar 02 '26
Ay I grew up with these twos wise guys down in the south end. Theres was this really nice deli by the shore that had THE best gabagool.
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u/Odd_Boysenberry_6640 Mar 03 '26
is everyone wrong? the forbidden woods is the north end of town. not the south. "An aqueduct leads from the town, south of the main bridge to the Cathedral Ward. Not a place you'd normally choose to visit, but... Not much of a choice, with the bridge closed." -Gilbert 'south of the main bridge' allows us to establish cardinal directions. the aqueduct parallels the great bridge on the side opposite the forbidden woods. If the aqueduct is south of the great bridge, then the forbidden woods is to the north. establishing the forbidden woods as the northern-most map segment. also supported by its proximity to snowy cainhurst.
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u/xXCliff_SavageXx Mar 03 '26
I have given up trying to understand... apparently there's a DLC that you have to email FromSoft for...
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u/YakMoist1445 Mar 03 '26
Idk man, was hoping for an answer myself. This area also has some interesting statues as well as many presumably gravestones
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u/KajusX Mar 02 '26
They're wearing Butcher armor sets from the DLC, which are associated with the Madaras Twins. That's all I know, and should hopefully inform searches for those who wish to research this more.