The first two endings are determined by how you respond to Gehrman, the First Hunter. If you Submit Your Life the game ends right there with no additional fighting and you receive the first ending. If you Refuse, you must battle against Gehrman.
By choosing to submit your life, your fighting days are over. Your character will accept their death and allow Gherman to behead them, and wake up to the sun rising over the Cathedral Ward area of Yharnam - apparently free of the beasts you hunted throughout the night.
Beating the Moon Presence unlocks the game's best-hidden ending: 'Childhood's Beginning'. In it, the Hunter is shown transformed into a small, squid-like creature - an infant Great One - and replaces the Moon Presence in inhabiting the Hunter's Dream.
If you are killed by the boss you will respawn in the Hunter's Dream. Upon its defeat a cutscene will initiate and the game will end; you will then obtain the "Childhood's Beginning" trophy.
After finding Gehrman in the field behind the workshop, he offers to kill you and finally end the dream. After seeing your character getting decapitated, you are then seen waking up to a sunrise of a much brighter and more lively-looking Yharnam.
Type of Villain
Gehrman is one of the very first hunters of the Healing Church. He became the host of the Hunter's Dream under the control of the Moon Presence and is the secondary antagonist and one of the final bosses of Bloodborne.
Gehrman and Lady Maria had a very close relationship, right up to Lady Maria's death. Lady Maria was one of Gehrman's many students, and it seems she grew to be Gehrman's favorite.
The "Bad" Ending
If players refuse to accept Gehrman's offer of freedom, then Gehrman will attempt to force the Hunter out of the dream by killing them in combat.
Mergo's Wet Nurse, one of the final bosses you'll take down in Bloodborne, isn't too difficult for most of the encounter — but there's a 30-second stretch of this fight that's an absolute nightmare. Your goal is to stay directly behind her and attack her when she's slowing marching forward.
Recommended Level: 70
Even though Gehrman bears a passing resemblance to Father Gascoigne, you won't get far using the same battle tactics.
The secret boss that is the star of two of the three endings in Bloodborne is the Moon Presence, who can make an appearance at the end of the game and end everything before the fight itself.
He's also weak to Arcane damage, so the Tonitrus or the Blades of Mercy will be useful against him. For yet more assistance, equip runes that give you extra HP when you do visceral attacks and runes that boost your health and stamina.
After Maria's disappearance, Gehrman sought to obsessively replicate her in the form of the Doll. The Doll herself has exactly the same size and appearance as Maria, as well as the same voice. However, Gehrman soon became indifferent towards the Doll's presence, possibly due to the latter lacking Maria's personality.
The Umbilical Cord in the workshop implied that Gehrman invited the Moon Presence in the first place due to not being able to cope with the loss of Lady Maria.
Created by Gehrman and the Moon Presence, the Hunter's Dream was originally intended as a way to ensure there were always hunters to fight the beasts.
The Witches of Hemwick are the fifth boss you'll take on in Bloodborne, and they might be the easiest yet — if you move quick enough. Soot Monsters will spawn into the battlefield constantly during the fight, so you'll want to manage their numbers, but prioritizing hitting the Witches whenever you see them.
9 Mergo Is The Child Of Pthumerian Queen Yharnam
Queen Yharnam is a character seen several times throughout the main story of Bloodborne. She is also the final boss of the Chalice Dungeons. She was the ruler of Pthumeru and was granted an audience with the Great Ones.
Yharnam was the Queen of the ancient Pthumerian civilization and mother to the child Mergo. She wears a white, bloodstained dress with a veil to conceal her face, although she removes it when the player finds her in the Nightmare of Mensis.
When the hunter resists and ultimately defeats the Moon Presence, a Great One, in the final boss battle, the player unlocks the so-called “true ending” in which they are transformed into an infant Great One, “lifting humanity into its next childhood.” Translation: they become a baby squid.
Specifically, you have to track down four Umbilical Cords, and use at least three of them before destroying Gehrman.
There are a couple of details about the Orphan of Kos and Gehrman that hint at a connection between the two. It is known that Gehrman was among the Byrgenwerth hunters who attacked and massacred the people of the Fishing Hamlet. It also seems like they may have killed the real Orphan of Kos in the waking world.
At some point, likely out of guilt for her actions at the Fishing Hamlet, Maria forfeited her beloved Rakuyo, tossing it down a well when she could "no longer stomach it", supposedly killing herself as well. Her spirit was then pulled into the Hunter's Nightmare.
It's a very fitting sentence to utter, given the fact that Maria will appear as a corpse sitting on a chair when you approach her. However, the "corpse" Lady Maria is referring to here is not herself, but the washed-up Great One on the shores of the Fishing Hamlet.