Bloodborne Liminality

**Bloodborne Liminality** is a Story Arc of the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in a replica of **Yharnam** seen in Hotel Liminal and follows the perspective of Kalos Urd.

## Main Arc

### Night of the Hunt

Kalos wakes up in Yharnam, the setting of the Bloodborne video game series, with little to no memory of why she is there. However, her instinct, both as a player and as a Moira, allows her to understand that someone has interfered with Hotel Liminal's game board. Determined to understand what happens, she teams up with doctor **Iosefka**. On the way, she encounters Lenore, a traumatized young girl who acknowledges Kalos as her enemy, but is hidden away behind a black fog before Kalos can attempt to understand her.

Kalos attempts to escape central Yharnam by avoiding **Father Gascoigne**, a blood-drunk hunter, but it is too late; he has succumbed to madness and attacks Kalos in desperation. Kalos lets herself be killed, allowing the world to return to a previous state, much like Kalos's **The Path less Taken** ability. However, this version of Kalos's ability is deeply painful and unnatural, hinting that Kalos's protector Aporia is no longer present to watch over her.

To calm Gascoigne down, Kalos brings his daughter to him, then learns that someone has stolen the key to open Oedon Chapel's gates. That person in question is a stranger to Yharnam: **Ira** of the Seven Sin-Eaters, artificial beings created by Kalos's nemesis Sulyvahn. Ira ends up giving away the key to Kalos, but it's too late: Lenore has antagonized Gascoigne, causing him to snap and turn into a beast, slaughtering everyone around him, including his own daughter.

Kalos, refusing this outcome, uses once more her new Authority, using hunter **Eileen** to stop Lenore, and rushing to steal the key from Ira. She then returns to the gates and opens them, bringing Gascoigne, his daughter, Eileen and Iosefka to safety. Another survivor from the previous board, Friede, is present on the scene, and tells Kalos that an unknown Norn has stolen the board for herself. Only Sulyvahn and Friede escaped, Friede due to ascending as a Norn herself, and Sulyvahn due to his magical prowess.

### Lust, Gluttony and Madness

Kalos must now learn the password from Yharnam's cathedral, but runs into several problems. After an encounter with **Alfred**, she learns that Sulyvahn is tne new head of the church, and **Luxuria**, another Sin-Eater, has commanded to lock down Cathedral Ward's less-recommandable streets, including the one where the prostitute **Arianna** lives. To break down the barriers, Kalos needs an ammunition expert, such as Powder Keg hunter **Djura**.

However, to reach Djura, Kalos must access his hideout of Old Yharnam through the back door, which implies she must get kidnapped and sent to the village of Yahar'gul. There, however, **Micolash**, a mad cultist and scholar, imprisons her, attempting to divine Kalos's secrets with a series of trials, using brainsuckers and deadly traps to ensnare Kalos in an unending nightmare. This fails, and Kalos escapes, alongside sister **Adella**.

Adella and Kalos make their way to the center of Old Yharnam, where they meet with another Sin-Eater, **Voracitas**. Voracitas is happy to confess to having released a horrific blood-starved beast in the streets of Yharnam, and Djura is already dead, forcing Kalos to reset once more. With her new knowledge, Kalos defeats the beast, enlists Djura's help, saves Arianna, defeating Luxuria in the process, then goes to the Cathedral itself, hoping to uncover the password that would lead her to the rest of the world.

### Deeper into the Unknown

However, she instead is drawn into Hotel Liminal to encounter Entelexia. A powerful, old Norn embodying ill-defined, abstract stories and vague endings, Entelexia has taken an interest in Aporia's ability to reset stories to zero and iterate worlds ad infinitum. However, Entelexia claims Kalos holds Aporia back due to her human nature, wishing to make Aporia truly inhuman; and as such, she has trapped Kalos in this board, hoping to eliminate her, and would have succeeded if not for Alatheia's quick intervention.

Entelexia claims Lenore, her pawn, will defeat Kalos, then leaves, having erased the password with her powers. This forces Kalos to ally with **Iosefka's impostor**, facing against Sin-Eater **Invidia** in a battle of wits in the Forbidden Forest, as she planned to use the monstrous Suspicious Beggar to slaughter everyone in Oedon Chapel. However, even after succeeding, Kalos still has to find a plan to hide the refugees before the Paleblood moon comes, which will happen when Kalos encounters the Old One **Rom**.

Only one place escapes the Moon: Cainhurst Castle. However, **Superbia** of the Sin-Eaters has already reached the place, allowing Alfred to kill Cainhurst's queen **Annalise**. This, of course, enrages her last remaining servant, the **Bloody Crow**, who renders the place inhospitable. To make things right, Kalos takes Annalise's remains, using impostor Iosekfa's key to reach Upper Cathedral Ward and pray to the Altar of Despair in order to revive the fallen queen.

There, Kalos meets with **Acedia** of the Sin-Eaters and after a harsh battle, defeats him, reaching the Altar of Despair, where she witnesses Sulyvahn's corpse; the ambitious man has visibly committed ritual suicide before Kalos's arrival. Not having much time left, Kalos revives Annalise, assuages the Bloody Crow, and allows the rest of the refugees to move to Cainhurst, allowing her to reach Rom. The latter, manifested as a spectral woman, agrees to help Kalos with reaching the end of the road.

### A Satisfying End

As the Paleblood moon appears, Micolash locks Yahar'gul down to prevent any entry. Kalos is forced to reach him through the nightmarish Lecture Hall, encountering the last Sin-Eater, **Avaritia**, there. After bargaining with **Patches**, Kalos accesses Micolash's Nightmare of Mensis, and finally kills the madman there. This allows her to access the top of the Nightmare, which Lenore has already reached, having killed Mergo's Wet Nurse and planning to kill the infant next.

Kalos confronts Lenore, who begs Kalos to let Entelexia wins. She explains Entelexia has trapped and tortured her for centuries, and only death in uncertainty will release her and the rest of Yharnam. Kalos refuses Lenore's vision, claiming that uncertainty is neither death nor mercy, and swears to bring a definite end. Upon hearing that, Entelexia attempts to erase Lenore. Kalos saves her and is hit instead, but is saved by Ataraxia, who takes control of Lenore's body. Aporia's old rival tells Kalos that Lenore is her human shell, much like Kalos is Aporia's, and asks of Kalos to bring about a satisfying end, before leaving, severing her and Entelexia's connexion to the board.

In order to satisfy both Oedon's desire to protect Mergo, and the Moon Presence's wish to end the Nightmare, Kalos destroys the infant's spiritual body and traps it inside a wedding ring, which she gifts Annalise, allowing the queen to become pregnant with the dark child. Then, she goes to the final frontier: the Hunter's Nightmare, only to discover that Sulyvahn has warped it into his personal utopia, sacrificing thousands of hunters and using his Sin-Eater's atrocities to infiltrate the Nightmare and change it from inside.

Conflicted, Kalos accepts Sulyvahn's actions, but refuses his ambition to entirely eliminate the entity Kos and usurp her; she instead teams up with **Lady Maria** to mercy kill the Orphan of Kos, then, with the help of old hunter **Gehrman**, the pair confronts Sulyvahn, with Kalos proclaiming that as long as he would be obsessed with power and becoming an equal to Norns, he would never reach them. Sulyvahn is forced to disappear from the board, swearing he would one day claim all he is owed. With this final fight, Kalos is allowed, through an autorisation giving by Fortuna herself, to leave the board, allowing Yharnam to experience a new, different sunrise.

## Characters

### Norns

* Alatheia, the Forbidden Secret
* Ataraxia, the Ultimate End
* Friede, the Stagnant Eternity
* Entelexia, the Twilit Fog

### Moira

* Kalos Urd
* Lenore

### Others

* Sulyvahn
* Dark Souls Characters
* Seven Sin-Eaters

## Trivia

* As the name implies, the story is heavily based on FromSoftware's Bloodborne game.