Here's why I think it might be. (DS spoilers and potential BB alpha spoilers inbound)
{The plot of Demon's souls concerned battling the old one, the source of all magic and demons. Soul magic was harnessed by sorcerers using the old one's power, while clerics used miracles to call on god's power. Clerics despised sorcerers for seeking power from the demonic old one, and believed miracles were a tool given by god so that Clerics might fight the demons off. A twist came in the form of an item which revealed that god and the old one were one and the same entity, clerics and sorcerers just chose to interpret it differently. This item was called the 'Talisman of Beasts', and its description goes:
An old wooden amulet resembling the Old One.
It can utilize both miracles and spells.
The symbol of God was nothing more than the Image of the Old One.
Interesting. On to Bloodborne Alpha.
Watching playthrough's there are a couple of things that suggest Bloodborne exists in a post old one world. In the city of Yharnam people are slowly turning into beasts, it is not a curse, but a blood-borne condition our hero seeks to cure himself of. There is no magic, no demons nor souls, things the old one introduced and could conceivably have taken as it exited the world. Not to mention the obvious connection to beasts (ie. the talisman of beasts), bloodborne was after all codenamed project beast.
Also, Alpha testers found a way to climb a bench and roll over a fence into an area where they clipped through the floor. This happened until the final day of the alpha when the floor was suddenly solid and they could follow a path which ended in a boss battle with a human, becoming a beast halfway through the battle. If the boss defeats the player it quietly says 'Umbasa' over your body, a blessing heard in Demon souls and associated with Clerics and God. Miazaki has denied in interviews that bb is connected to ds, but the obtuse way this discovery was made leads me to suspect Miazaki orchestrated it purposefully as a hint, as he is want to do.
So maybe Yharnam is a world where god/the old one has left, and human's are reverting to their primal forms without the souls that had uplifted them. Far fetched maybe, but Umbasa is a pretty big giveaway seeing as how that word has no meaning outside demon souls. If I wanted to go one step further, and I do, I would say the cleric beast boss from BB looks eerily similar to Manus of the Abyss from the Dark souls dlc. See the twisted antlers, wolf legs, and disproportionately elongated left arm covered in long grey fur. And since the cleric beast is an example of a human gone extremely far down its regression into beast, and Manus is the primal human, it makes sense that humans would be regressing to a Manus state, and so there could be a connection here between all three worlds. But now I'm just speculating.
P.S. Also I would love if Marvellous Chester appeared in BB, he's already travelled from another world and time to be in Oolacile, might as well be Yharnam he came from. And he's dressed appropriately victorian. Ok. Maybe I'm going too far now. So.
What do you think?}
An old wooden amulet resembling the Old One.
It can utilize both miracles and spells.
The symbol of God was nothing more than the Image of the Old One.
Interesting. On to Bloodborne Alpha.
Watching playthrough's there are a couple of things that suggest Bloodborne exists in a post old one world. In the city of Yharnam people are slowly turning into beasts, it is not a curse, but a blood-borne condition our hero seeks to cure himself of. There is no magic, no demons nor souls, things the old one introduced and could conceivably have taken as it exited the world. Not to mention the obvious connection to beasts (ie. the talisman of beasts), bloodborne was after all codenamed project beast.
Also, Alpha testers found a way to climb a bench and roll over a fence into an area where they clipped through the floor. This happened until the final day of the alpha when the floor was suddenly solid and they could follow a path which ended in a boss battle with a human, becoming a beast halfway through the battle. If the boss defeats the player it quietly says 'Umbasa' over your body, a blessing heard in Demon souls and associated with Clerics and God. Miazaki has denied in interviews that bb is connected to ds, but the obtuse way this discovery was made leads me to suspect Miazaki orchestrated it purposefully as a hint, as he is want to do.
So maybe Yharnam is a world where god/the old one has left, and human's are reverting to their primal forms without the souls that had uplifted them. Far fetched maybe, but Umbasa is a pretty big giveaway seeing as how that word has no meaning outside demon souls. If I wanted to go one step further, and I do, I would say the cleric beast boss from BB looks eerily similar to Manus of the Abyss from the Dark souls dlc. See the twisted antlers, wolf legs, and disproportionately elongated left arm covered in long grey fur. And since the cleric beast is an example of a human gone extremely far down its regression into beast, and Manus is the primal human, it makes sense that humans would be regressing to a Manus state, and so there could be a connection here between all three worlds. But now I'm just speculating.
P.S. Also I would love if Marvellous Chester appeared in BB, he's already travelled from another world and time to be in Oolacile, might as well be Yharnam he came from. And he's dressed appropriately victorian. Ok. Maybe I'm going too far now. So.
What do you think?}
