| Master Willem | |
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| Information | |
| Appears In | Bloodborne |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Human |
| Affiliation | Byrgenwerth |
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| Status | Determinant |
| Location | Byrgenwerth |
| English Voice | Steven Elliot |
| Japanese Voice | |
| Brazilian Voice | Vanderlan Mendes |
- "We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open...
Fear the old blood." - — Master Willem
Master Willem, also known as Provost Willem, is a character in Bloodborne.
Description[]
Master Willem is one of the more significant characters in Bloodborne.
Location[]
- He can be found in Byrgenwerth, near the entrance to Moonside Lake (where Rom, the Vacuous Spider is encountered).
Lore[]
Master Willem was the head of the Byrgenwerth college, a highly prestigious school of knowledge, and zealously pursued the truth and the idea of elevating the mind to the plane of the gods through Insight.
He sent expeditions into the old labyrinth to uncover the secrets of the ancient Pthumerians. Two things were uncovered from these expeditions; knowledge of the Great Ones and the Old Blood, from which the Healing Church would base its ministry upon. The scholars of Byrgenwerth became divided. Some, like Laurence, believed that the blood was the path to evolving mankind, while Willem was staunchly opposed to using the blood, believing that mankind must pursue Insight instead, warning against "evolution without courage".
Willem and Laurence eventually had a falling out, with Laurence leaving along with his followers to found the Healing Church. Willem considered this a betrayal. Laurence and his Healing Church would bring the blood to the city of Yharnam. The blood, that could cure any disease, made Yharnam extremely wealthy and powerful, but Willem was proven right in the end, when the blood was found to be infected, afflicting the entire city with the plague of beasts, with Laurence himself falling victim to it.
Willem continued his work, and seems to have eventually made contact with the Great Ones. However, doing so appears to have brought ruin to Byrgenwerth. Byrgenwerth lies ruined and desolate, as Rom came to inhabit the lake. The spider kept Willem trapped and isolated at the college. When the Hunter comes across him, all he is capable of doing is pointing towards the lake, beckoning the hunter to defeat Rom.
Unused Dialogue[]
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Notes[]
- Talking to him for the first time will grant the player 2 Insight.
- Killing Willem will make him drop the Eye Rune (2).
Trivia[]
- Willem appears to be growing a sort of pale fungus from the back of his mind.
- Provost Willem appears to have an office in the Lecture Building. It is the same office where Patches holes up.
- Gehrman mentions Willem and Laurence in a bit of rare dialogue as the player nears the end of the game. In his sleep, Gehrman begs Willem and Laurence to free him from the Dream, implying he knew the two rather well.
- He once said "We are thinking on the basest of planes. What we need, are more eyes". After the raid at Fishing Hamlet to harvest eyes, he started to cultivate eyes on the cerebral patients at Byrgenwerth. He even sought the Third Umbilical Cord to line his brain with eyes, to elevate his thought.
- Willem has some unused animations that appear to be him attacking the player, maybe in self defense.
- Willem may have been named after professor Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology. Like Master Willem, Wundt had a student protégé, Oswald Külpe, who (like Laurence) broke away and founded his own laboratory at the University of Würzburg (possibly a namesake of Byrgenwerth), and developed new ideas which Wundt disagreed with.
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