Fishing Hamlet Lore Question - Residents Transformations
I’m revisiting Yharnam again and will finally have the chance to try out the DLC!
But one part I remember from a play through I watched years ago was The Fishing Hamlet and its unique residents, that look very different from the beasts of Yharnam or Loran.
Which I’m assuming might be cleared up a bit when visiting the Hamlet myself, but one specific detail that I wanted to explore prior, was the role of sex in one’s transformation.
In the base game from my recollection, both males and females seem to turn into similar beasts, like the beast patients.
Yet in the fishing hamlet, it seems that the male residents became more monstrous and fish like, whereas its female denizens resembled Kos?
I’m unsure whether something may have been lost in translation, but the in game names for these enemy types each read:
- Fishmen
- Snail women
Seemingly separating the trajectory of the transformation for both males and females in the Hamlet.
Obviously women in Bloodborne are uniquely primed to bear and birth great ones by acting as surrogates for them, which might explain this divergent evolution.
But I guess sex characteristics would naturally breakdown (like with the celestial emissaries) during these transformations, meaning perhaps some males might have become snail women and some females fish men, depending on their prior roles within the hamlet?
I’m just really interested in these differences and why we don’t see this much anywhere else? Or perhaps I may have missed certain lore my first time through the base game?