#cosmic monster

Inktober, Day 14

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This is a Bloodborne sequel concept Old one Boss, I came up with for the VaatiVidya’s Bloodborne II contest! I was not in the winner video he made but I had a ton of fun making this creature! You can read on its abilities near the illustrations, I wrote them in a way that I feel like it’d be presented in the game.

A little more info on the Bloodborne art:

The idea for this boss stemmed from the fact that Bloodborne, unlike other souls games, lacked aerial enemies and tag team bosses. My idea was to have a two phase boss, starting with Chorister Bardhylli (Bar-thule-lee) alone. During the battle he’ll be beckoning the lesser Great One Peregrinus with his bell and once his health reaches half, there would be a cut scene of the great one gliding into the arena through a tear in space. The Chorister and the Great One would then have seperate life bars.

I created Peregrinus after reading about the flying creature in Lovecraft’s short story “The Festival”, I wanted to honor the Lovecraftian roots of Bloodborne and thought it’d be the perfect monster to base the lesser Great One on. Peregrinus is a mixture of bat, spider, arctiine moth and rhamphorhyncus. Its head shape is inspired by the bows of ancient Greek triremes. Peregrinus’ name is latin for “traveler” or “foreigner ”.

I’ll be posting Chorister Bardhylli soon, so be on the look out for him too !