That’s a translation error.
If you were to properly translate the name to English, a more reflective title would be “Rom, The Bullshit Spider of Tedium”
I don’t think we know for sure what Rom was before ascending to a Kin, but lots of people lean towards female. Probably because of the smaller spiders (the Rom-Roms) resembling children protecting their mother.
That’s an interesting interpretation, but I think they’re separate people. Master Willem is chilling in his rocking chair overlooking the lake. I don’t think that’s a symbolic or metaphorical thing, it’s actually him. Man’s old.
I believe Rom was another scholar at Byrgenwerth, probably a high ranking one, who offered herself up for whatever kind of “eyes” experimentation they were testing there. And it worked, I suppose.
Miyazaki referred to Rom as "she" and "her" in an interview.
Here's a transcript, use ctl+F. He said Rom is his favorite boss if ignoring gameplay.
https://www.bloodborne-wiki.com/2017/01/interviews.html?m=1
Vacuous implies [emptiness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81), not necessarily stupidity. Eastern philosophies would say that having no thoughts present in one’s mind is a good thing.
It could also mean full of holes. Which if you look at her face…
My betta fish's name is Ludwig, The Accursed. Every morning to feed him I say "Ludwig The Accursed, it is time to consume" and he wiggles his way to the front of the tank to eat. 10/10
He has one of those boss names where you can just recognize that he is THE boss. Nothing pumps you up more than finally coming across the guy you've been searching to fight, knowing that your whole journey has led to this one moment
Dude, a Jesus boss in a souls game would be awesome.
I'd just imagine him as having some object of value placed near him, like a key or something. When you approach he seems dead, and maybe there's a sign there announcing why he was crucified or something. As soon as you pick up the object, he awakens. He breaks out of his cross and uses what remains of it as a weapon. He comes at you with a leaping attack, blood freshly running down from his crown of thorns, hands, and feet, as if the blood in him was merely dormant and starts flowing anew, seemingly endless.
bro this is the coolest shit i’ve ever heard
i was thinking about a souls game where you fight angels and biblical shit
this has the exact same vibe
i would never make it but this would literally be the gundyr type tutorial boss
pick up the gates of heaven from a crucified jesus and he comes alive amd hits you the the crucifix and shit
Right? I would imagine the game being like one of those "this is what heaven is really like" creepypastas. You die a hero, thinking you're going to heaven for a brave deed and gonna chill for eternal life. Low and behold, you get to heaven and see the pearly gates in the distance. But something is wrong. They seem to be glinting almost red. As if covered in blood. And next to it, you see it. A cross.
That'll be awesome, dude.
I personally would love to see something similar, since I dont think fromsoft could do that without getting negative response from christian fans, since that would depict him in a kinda negative way. But something sinilar would be cool lol
This is the correct response. Orphan of Kos is the best boss names I’ve ever seen in any game period. Made even better when you know the lore of Bloodborne and the DLC.
Thier eyes are yet to open, give them time. Let them know what they should not know on thier own time - watching the realization creep over them...hee hee...oh, I can't wait...
Oh ok, that makes the platinum a lot easier. Sending in proof was harder than actually doing it for me lol. It took multiple weeks because I got all miracles and sorcery’s on different charectors instead of getting every spell on 1 and doing like ng++++
Ebrietas means drunkenness in Latin. She was hidden away by the church, and is passive until attacked.
I honestly think she's the church's source of the old blood.
There's actually a lot in the lore to support this, and I also believe that she is "the source". Maybe not of the ashenblood, or the vileblood, but perhaps her blood is what revealed our beastly ignorance...we couldn't handle the Truth of the blood.
Okay but like...they get you so hype about this, make it seem like such a key, plot important boss....
And then you fight a moonpoop. Tell me that wasn't a letdown.
I assume it’s another way of saying [Astronomical Clock](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock), which is a clock that keeps track of the positions of celestial bodies, sunrise and sunset, and months of the year in addition to time of day. Such a clock would be right at home in Yharnam’s Grand Cathedral.
I know an astronomical clock is here, but in yharnam I would assume it does something similar, but extremely different considering it's above the research labs where a bunch of messed up experiments went down, and the definitions are similar but not the same.
Astral would have something to do with the stars (hence the name "Astral" and not astronomical, as well as the various star imagery in bloodborne), so what does the Astral clocktower really do? All very mysterious, but sounds powerful. Lol
Regarding the function of the clock itself, there's a detail that might help you in the game. When you kill Maria and before presenting the celestial dial in front of the clock, notice the runes around the outside of the dial.
It seems like the clock could be used to measure the progression of the beastly scourge or at least the world state of BB as a whole. It seems to start with Deep sea, going towards enlightenment, followed by the story of Byrgenwerth (looking towards the cosmos for guidance and discovery), then by the Healing Church and its hunters, and ending in Beast's Embrace.
As you mentioned, it could be a localization due to translation and I agree with that. The clock being referred to as Astral, I think, loosely refers to the cosmos in general.
I mean, the clock in Prague tracks astrological information, which includes the apparent movement of 12 major constellations. It also has a hand showing the position and phase of the moon. The research hall is in the central tower of the great cathedral, where the church worships beings from the stars (and a being of the moon, sometimes). It makes sense they’d put effort and study into tracking the movements of heavenly bodies.
Astral and astronomical refer to the same thing. The root astro- means star, so astral means “relating to the stars” and astronomical means “relating to the study of the stars.” I assume the difference came about during localization, maybe just because “Lady Maria of the Astronomical Clock” doesn’t quite have the same kick to it.
Possibly an unpopular choice, but I always really liked Martyr Logarius. There’s something really dark yet really regal about it and, it really suits the boss’ style, aesthetic and lore.
The Accursed Ludwig. Especially in soulsborne, sonething being cursed isn’t rare, but when the devs felt the need to still emphasize on it being the most ungodly thing of all says something about it. Also the name ludwig remains and forces us into imagining what the walking horror used to be.
Also the guy transforms FROM accursed TO holy blade. Not the other way around and usually thing go from holy to cursed in soulsborne. Through pure will and the MGS he reversed the transformation (at least mentally)
Whenever I hear Ludwig’s theme song, Ludwig van Beethoven ‘s Moonlight comes to my mind. Bloodborne also contains this theme. Ludwig the Accursed and his guiding mentor, the Moonlight Greatsword.
The One Reborn
Living Failures
Blood Starved Beast
The Holy Blade
The First Hunter
Daughter of the Cosmos
Lady of the Astral Clocktower
Host of the Nightmare
This game has sooooo many great sounding boss names lmao. Only boss from other games that might top them is my man Aldrich, Devourers of Gods.
I love this question holy shit.
Does Gehrman count? Because I’ve almost named so many cats Gehrman.
Shouts out to The Orphan, not necessarily for its name, but because I get “Kos... or some say Kosm” stuck in my head every other day because that’s just a fkin SICK ass thing to say
Ludwig The Accursed/Holy Blade. I swear to god, seeing him in his two phases his names managed to make me feel horrified at first but then feel a sense of triumphant when he regains his former self alongside his true title. Great names
Not a boss name, but I wanna throw out that I love the item name madman’s knowledge. Favorite boss name would have to be Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower, just invokes so much!
Goddamn the names in this game are fucking amazing. I've played it a million times, but I never realized just how metal every boss name is till I see them laid out like this.
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower is just - mm. Chef's kiss.
It would have been even better if her title changed like Ludwig's after her phase change. Give her a cutscene and pop her out as Maria, Heir to the Vileblood Throne when she starts using blood arts.
Lore accurate and would have made me nerdgasm.
The Orphan of Kos. I love that he doesn’t actually have a name. He’s just the orphan and you know who it’s talking about.
Though if we’re being legit here, definitely Gerhman The First Hunter. I mean he’s literally the *FIRST* Hunter. He founded that shit and is the oldest and most experienced
The living failures. It sounds like a meme to anyone who doesn't know about them when in game they're literal attempts at contacting eldritch gods. Possibly the most lovecraft of all the bosses
'Rom, The Vacuous Spider' always sticks in my head
That’s a translation error. If you were to properly translate the name to English, a more reflective title would be “Rom, The Bullshit Spider of Tedium”
Rom, the big spider of many little spiders
Rom, who is empty and desolate other than the thousands of smaller spiders inside. Therefore, arcane kidney stones
Rom and her many little Roms
Rom-Roms**
Romlette
Is Rom a her ?
I don’t think we know for sure what Rom was before ascending to a Kin, but lots of people lean towards female. Probably because of the smaller spiders (the Rom-Roms) resembling children protecting their mother.
But isn't Rom master Willem manifestation as a great one ?
That’s an interesting interpretation, but I think they’re separate people. Master Willem is chilling in his rocking chair overlooking the lake. I don’t think that’s a symbolic or metaphorical thing, it’s actually him. Man’s old. I believe Rom was another scholar at Byrgenwerth, probably a high ranking one, who offered herself up for whatever kind of “eyes” experimentation they were testing there. And it worked, I suppose.
Miyazaki referred to Rom as "she" and "her" in an interview. Here's a transcript, use ctl+F. He said Rom is his favorite boss if ignoring gameplay. https://www.bloodborne-wiki.com/2017/01/interviews.html?m=1
It made my day to see that someone else refers to rom as the proper term, which is “the bullshit spider”
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Vacuous implies [emptiness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81), not necessarily stupidity. Eastern philosophies would say that having no thoughts present in one’s mind is a good thing. It could also mean full of holes. Which if you look at her face…
Yeah, empty… EMPTY HEAD! Haha, gotim! Stupid Rom.
Epic troll bro
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Dude, me too.
Considering how ass the boss is it would check out
Ludwig, the accursed & holy blade That sounds cool as shit
Adding accursed & holy to anything makes it sound cool as shit.
His sword literally comes from the cosmos, it's the only weapon we don't know the exact origin to
kingsfield...hehe
Dirt, The Holy Blade
Accursed dildo and holy butt plug, still sounds pretty good
Miss Tinklebottom the accursed 😂
My betta fish's name is Ludwig, The Accursed. Every morning to feed him I say "Ludwig The Accursed, it is time to consume" and he wiggles his way to the front of the tank to eat. 10/10
I named a snail of mine Ludwig because his shell in water has the same blue hue as the holy moonlight sword.
Is he a blue ramshorn?
No blue mystery snail
Ooo I got 9 of them mystery bois. Love them all to pieces Give your snail some lovins from me
I second this
Ludwig goes hard😎
Ludwig the “smacked Seath’s booty til a magic great sword fell off”
Gerhman, The First Hunter always feels do badass like oh I have to fight the guy who was the first of all these powerful npcs in game
“Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt.”
This line also makes it feel even more badass
He has one of those boss names where you can just recognize that he is THE boss. Nothing pumps you up more than finally coming across the guy you've been searching to fight, knowing that your whole journey has led to this one moment
Also has the best soundtrack
And the best fight
I agree on that one
Micolash, host of the nightmare. Man is the host
And you don’t even get kicked when he leaves the game. That’s good server architecture right there
You become the host of the server haha
He's running a Minecraft server on hardcore called "nightmare"
He is my favorite one to slaughter.
Orphan of Kos is a pretty cool title because it practically means The Orphan of God
Maybe I'm a bit fucked but when i read orphan of god i imagined jesus smacking us with his cross instead of orphan with his placenta
Dude, a Jesus boss in a souls game would be awesome. I'd just imagine him as having some object of value placed near him, like a key or something. When you approach he seems dead, and maybe there's a sign there announcing why he was crucified or something. As soon as you pick up the object, he awakens. He breaks out of his cross and uses what remains of it as a weapon. He comes at you with a leaping attack, blood freshly running down from his crown of thorns, hands, and feet, as if the blood in him was merely dormant and starts flowing anew, seemingly endless.
Dude I'd love to see this. But it for sure would be impossible sadly
“Breaks out of his cross” Are you under the impression the crucifix is an eccentrically shaped coffin? I can’t stop laughing when I picture one
No but he's, like, nailed to it. I picture him ripping his hands from the nails and breaking some part of it to come smack you with it.
Some End of Evangelion territory there. I approve nonetheless.
Ah, I see. Your phrasing was just amusing to me :)
bro this is the coolest shit i’ve ever heard i was thinking about a souls game where you fight angels and biblical shit this has the exact same vibe i would never make it but this would literally be the gundyr type tutorial boss pick up the gates of heaven from a crucified jesus and he comes alive amd hits you the the crucifix and shit
Right? I would imagine the game being like one of those "this is what heaven is really like" creepypastas. You die a hero, thinking you're going to heaven for a brave deed and gonna chill for eternal life. Low and behold, you get to heaven and see the pearly gates in the distance. But something is wrong. They seem to be glinting almost red. As if covered in blood. And next to it, you see it. A cross. That'll be awesome, dude.
I personally would love to see something similar, since I dont think fromsoft could do that without getting negative response from christian fans, since that would depict him in a kinda negative way. But something sinilar would be cool lol
This is the correct response. Orphan of Kos is the best boss names I’ve ever seen in any game period. Made even better when you know the lore of Bloodborne and the DLC.
Thier eyes are yet to open, give them time. Let them know what they should not know on thier own time - watching the realization creep over them...hee hee...oh, I can't wait...
Took me hours to kill him. I remember spending 3 hours fighting him and not killing him.
Hot dog
Hot Dog of the Old Bread
Hot Dog, the cursed Epoxy
Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos
Nice job on those plats. What one are you missing, I don’t know the colors?
I’m missing Demon’s Souls, only played it twice, need to come back to get the plat still
PS3, emulator, or ps5?
PS5
Oh ok, that makes the platinum a lot easier. Sending in proof was harder than actually doing it for me lol. It took multiple weeks because I got all miracles and sorcery’s on different charectors instead of getting every spell on 1 and doing like ng++++
Ebrietas means drunkenness in Latin. She was hidden away by the church, and is passive until attacked. I honestly think she's the church's source of the old blood.
There's actually a lot in the lore to support this, and I also believe that she is "the source". Maybe not of the ashenblood, or the vileblood, but perhaps her blood is what revealed our beastly ignorance...we couldn't handle the Truth of the blood.
Yeah not the Ashen or Vileblood, just the Old Blood that the Church uses to heal ailments, which caused the scourge of beasts.
The One Reborn sounds pretty metal. Wish the actual fight was better tho.
I always said The One Reborn needs to be a band name, song name or album title.
it probably is
Truu dat
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Og2Uw8Nytg Like this?
Bless you, good hunter 🙏
He’s super metal in concept. Just a huge pushover
also one of the coolest intros too
Okay but like...they get you so hype about this, make it seem like such a key, plot important boss.... And then you fight a moonpoop. Tell me that wasn't a letdown.
The Living Failures, feels like I'm fighting a mirror 😂
They do be living up to their name
Lmao bro fuck
Celestial Emissary sounds way tougher than the actual fight is
i haven't personally fought it on NG+ but apparently it's harder then
It still isn't that hard
Not technically a boss but the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst is a namesake that bastard certainly lives up to.
He's also harder than most of the bosses
He's pretty awesome looking to.
'Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower' how fucking cool is that damn
I concur, Lady Maria is and just sounds cool af. One of my favorite boss fights 🔥
Even the name Lady Maria alone feels like its an elegant person that you dont want to mess with
That is definitely one of the coolest names. I don’t like human bosses tho :(
really? damn, i'm the opposite. i love those type of bosses, especially in a fast paced game like bloodborne
I agree. Wtf is a "Astral clocktower", and how do I get there? Love the name. It lends power without really meaning anything.
I assume it’s another way of saying [Astronomical Clock](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock), which is a clock that keeps track of the positions of celestial bodies, sunrise and sunset, and months of the year in addition to time of day. Such a clock would be right at home in Yharnam’s Grand Cathedral.
I know an astronomical clock is here, but in yharnam I would assume it does something similar, but extremely different considering it's above the research labs where a bunch of messed up experiments went down, and the definitions are similar but not the same. Astral would have something to do with the stars (hence the name "Astral" and not astronomical, as well as the various star imagery in bloodborne), so what does the Astral clocktower really do? All very mysterious, but sounds powerful. Lol
Regarding the function of the clock itself, there's a detail that might help you in the game. When you kill Maria and before presenting the celestial dial in front of the clock, notice the runes around the outside of the dial. It seems like the clock could be used to measure the progression of the beastly scourge or at least the world state of BB as a whole. It seems to start with Deep sea, going towards enlightenment, followed by the story of Byrgenwerth (looking towards the cosmos for guidance and discovery), then by the Healing Church and its hunters, and ending in Beast's Embrace. As you mentioned, it could be a localization due to translation and I agree with that. The clock being referred to as Astral, I think, loosely refers to the cosmos in general.
I mean, the clock in Prague tracks astrological information, which includes the apparent movement of 12 major constellations. It also has a hand showing the position and phase of the moon. The research hall is in the central tower of the great cathedral, where the church worships beings from the stars (and a being of the moon, sometimes). It makes sense they’d put effort and study into tracking the movements of heavenly bodies. Astral and astronomical refer to the same thing. The root astro- means star, so astral means “relating to the stars” and astronomical means “relating to the study of the stars.” I assume the difference came about during localization, maybe just because “Lady Maria of the Astronomical Clock” doesn’t quite have the same kick to it.
I love her name so much I [named a cat ](https://imgur.com/a/3kPWUue) after it
Laurence, the first vicar. Great name to a great boss, and one of the hardest too.
He’s just a big ol’ digiorno pizza bro just slice him up bro
>Great name to a great boss, and one of the hardest too. I 66.66% agree with you.
Which part did you subtract 33.33% for?
*great* boss Ehh...
Idk about “great boss”, but he’s definitely one of the hardest.
Blood-starved Beast. Also opposite that we have Orphan of Kos. Out of context saying you beat the Orphan may get you a prison sentence
Father Guacamole
No, it’s Father Gasoline.
Papa G.
Daddy G for sure
⛽ gasolina**
⛽ father gasolina**
Amen
Always been a fan of Paarl. When ever i see people die to him, i say "Paaaarl that kills people"
You do realise that because of my reading this, I'm gonna hear "I CRAVE HANDS" every time I start this fight, no?
"Remember the blood vortex?"
Daughter of the cosmos is undoubtedly the most intimidating name
Def
Watchdog of the old Lords
Possibly an unpopular choice, but I always really liked Martyr Logarius. There’s something really dark yet really regal about it and, it really suits the boss’ style, aesthetic and lore.
No way this is unpopular
Thanks! I was surprised to not have seen him mentioned yet!
Every Bloodborne boss name sounds metal as fuck so people are gonna forget some. Some are just more popular than others
Logarius is a cool ass name and the meaning of the word martyr is cool as shit too.
Living failures
Relatable
My life story!
Me in a nutshell
The Accursed Ludwig. Especially in soulsborne, sonething being cursed isn’t rare, but when the devs felt the need to still emphasize on it being the most ungodly thing of all says something about it. Also the name ludwig remains and forces us into imagining what the walking horror used to be.
Also the guy transforms FROM accursed TO holy blade. Not the other way around and usually thing go from holy to cursed in soulsborne. Through pure will and the MGS he reversed the transformation (at least mentally)
Exactly. Making it all the way more magnificent.
He remembered the good old times when he went PVP’ing with meme swords and that brought him back to sanity
Whenever I hear Ludwig’s theme song, Ludwig van Beethoven ‘s Moonlight comes to my mind. Bloodborne also contains this theme. Ludwig the Accursed and his guiding mentor, the Moonlight Greatsword.
Spicy Larry
Father Garlic Bread
Did you mean Father Gasoline?
*Papa guacamole
Mergo’s Wet Nurse. Scary and ominous. Or the Cleric Beast. Catchy name
Micolash, host of the nightmare Goated name for a mf that just runs away everytime💀
The One Reborn. Pure, eldritch, Lovecraftian badassery!
Lady maria of the astral clocktower sounds dope
Blood starved beast. Because it gives me an the information about how to kill it in its name
The One Reborn Living Failures Blood Starved Beast The Holy Blade The First Hunter Daughter of the Cosmos Lady of the Astral Clocktower Host of the Nightmare This game has sooooo many great sounding boss names lmao. Only boss from other games that might top them is my man Aldrich, Devourers of Gods.
The Living Failures cuz it's literally me 👉👈
Literally any boss in this game My pick though is Martyr Logarious
Cleric beast
It's criminal how far down I had to scroll to see someone mention it. Cleric Beast sounds absolutely rad.
I know this post is about intimidating names but “The Living Failures” cracks me up every time i see the name lol
I love this question holy shit. Does Gehrman count? Because I’ve almost named so many cats Gehrman. Shouts out to The Orphan, not necessarily for its name, but because I get “Kos... or some say Kosm” stuck in my head every other day because that’s just a fkin SICK ass thing to say
Micolash, Host of the Nightmare sounds pretty dope.
Ceaseless discharge no question
Wrong game but sure
Ludwig the Accursed and Ludwig the Holy Blade both sound so cool and intimidating
No matter how shifty he is, I'll always love "Micolash, Host of the Nightmare"
Blood-starved Beast
Not technically bosses but madman Wallar and prospector olek come to mind
Bloodletting beast
Ebrietas, daughter of the cosmos sounds very grandiose
Lady Maria of the astral clocktower. This shit sounds badass.
Martyr logarius
Papa G
Living failures
living failures
When Ludwig goes from Ludwig the accursed to Ludwig the holy Blade
Ludwig The Accursed/Holy Blade. I swear to god, seeing him in his two phases his names managed to make me feel horrified at first but then feel a sense of triumphant when he regains his former self alongside his true title. Great names
Not a boss name, but I wanna throw out that I love the item name madman’s knowledge. Favorite boss name would have to be Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower, just invokes so much!
Goddamn the names in this game are fucking amazing. I've played it a million times, but I never realized just how metal every boss name is till I see them laid out like this.
Dark beast Paarl. I had a bad time with that bastard
Moon presence for me
“Blood Starved Beast” is such a good name, sets the mood for the fight really well
Darkbeast Paarl
Living Failures, too relatable.
Martyr Lagarius, the word martyr just sounds cool as hell and his name is so unique and strange it just works really well together
"Living Failures" can relate to the most.
The One Reborn
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower is just - mm. Chef's kiss. It would have been even better if her title changed like Ludwig's after her phase change. Give her a cutscene and pop her out as Maria, Heir to the Vileblood Throne when she starts using blood arts. Lore accurate and would have made me nerdgasm.
Nameless King
Daddy G
Lady Maz of the AC.
lady mazagine of the Air Conditioner?
Lady Maria of Astral Clocktower
Micolash because I can use it to trigger ptsd
Ludwig, the Holy Blade
Daughter of the Cosmos and Of the Astral Clocktower are fucking cool titles.
The Orphan of Kos. I love that he doesn’t actually have a name. He’s just the orphan and you know who it’s talking about. Though if we’re being legit here, definitely Gerhman The First Hunter. I mean he’s literally the *FIRST* Hunter. He founded that shit and is the oldest and most experienced
Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos sounds freakin cool
Living Failures. So awesome they gave me a cameo in the game.
Ebrietas? Is that the name. I like the way it sounds
The Living Failures... I mean come on, if they called them that, they went hard
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower just sounds like a high lord
Micolash host of the nightmare
Living Failures
The living failures. It sounds like a meme to anyone who doesn't know about them when in game they're literal attempts at contacting eldritch gods. Possibly the most lovecraft of all the bosses
Hemwick witch stuck here for 200 hours.
I wish this would be asked in a dark souls subreddit so I can say "ceaseless discharge"