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The Hunter currently has resistance for soul manipulation for the reason that he is "Able to wield the Chikage without having his soul instantly absorbed"
The description of the Chikage is:
"Foreign-made weapon wielded by the royal guards who protect Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods at Cainhurst Castle. When the intricate, rippled engraving that spans the Chikage's blade is imbrued with blood, the sword sings in scarlet hues. However, the rite eats away at the wielder's very essence."
The item does bloodtinge damage when transformed, and constantly drains the user's HP.
I'll just quote what I've said elsewhere on this:
Chikage only says it drains the wielder's "essence", and given the context I'm pretty sure that's refering to blood, not the soul.
It's also not really resistance seeing as it continually drains them. Saying that they resist it because they don't instantly die isn't a valid reason if it doesn't have proof of instantly killing anyone else with its drain. It's more likely that's just its basic drain rate.
It was argued against me that:
No actually it is referring to the soul in this case, its the only weapon in the game that refers to it as such whereas weapons like the Bloodletter which works the same way (Damaging the Hunter to make the weapon stronger) states that it uses blood
My response:
If the only reason it's the soul is because it uses the word "essence", that's a pretty flimsy justification, even without context saying otherwise.
"When the intricate, rippled engraving that spans the Chikage's blade is imbued with blood, the sword sings in scarlet hues."
It's pretty clear that it's also using blood.
The context that I keep referring to is that Bloodborne is a game very heavily geared towards blood. Souls are practically never mentioned in as much significane.
I am in favour of removing this resistance from the Hunter. What are other people's thoughts?
The description of the Chikage is:
"Foreign-made weapon wielded by the royal guards who protect Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods at Cainhurst Castle. When the intricate, rippled engraving that spans the Chikage's blade is imbrued with blood, the sword sings in scarlet hues. However, the rite eats away at the wielder's very essence."
The item does bloodtinge damage when transformed, and constantly drains the user's HP.
I'll just quote what I've said elsewhere on this:
Chikage only says it drains the wielder's "essence", and given the context I'm pretty sure that's refering to blood, not the soul.
It's also not really resistance seeing as it continually drains them. Saying that they resist it because they don't instantly die isn't a valid reason if it doesn't have proof of instantly killing anyone else with its drain. It's more likely that's just its basic drain rate.
It was argued against me that:
No actually it is referring to the soul in this case, its the only weapon in the game that refers to it as such whereas weapons like the Bloodletter which works the same way (Damaging the Hunter to make the weapon stronger) states that it uses blood
My response:
If the only reason it's the soul is because it uses the word "essence", that's a pretty flimsy justification, even without context saying otherwise.
"When the intricate, rippled engraving that spans the Chikage's blade is imbued with blood, the sword sings in scarlet hues."
It's pretty clear that it's also using blood.
The context that I keep referring to is that Bloodborne is a game very heavily geared towards blood. Souls are practically never mentioned in as much significane.
I am in favour of removing this resistance from the Hunter. What are other people's thoughts?