When the old blood was found, it must have been thought a miracle.

They called it "the blood of the Gods" and

rightly so for if you injected it into your veins, you would no longer be afflicted by the weaknesses of the flesh.
It follows that a city built upon this blood would become mighty indeed and so it was with Yharnam. The supply
of the blood was controlled by the Healing Church and the Church became the most powerful of all. But the
blood was foul, infected.

Those who had taken the old blood began transforming into hideous beasts and eventually the Church could keep
the scourge a secret no longer. Fearing the populace itself, they retreated into Cathedral Ward and devised a plan
to fight back. The Church Hunters were that plan. The hunters in white specialized in experimental blood
ministration, for the Church continued to use the old blood, albeit now with fear in their hearts. The hunters in
black were a little different. Their role was to violently purge the town of the beastly scourge.

Beasthood was a cancer, and with their surgical white gloves, the black Church Hunters would rip the beasthood
from the hearts of the Yharnamites. They were known to dispose the victims, even potential victims before signs
of sickness had even manifested themselves. Their black attire inspired fear in the hearts of the Yharnamites for
if they decided that you had the beast within you, then it was so. But the beast lies dormant within us all, and
ironically, the clerics transformed into the most terrifying beasts.

"Father" is a title used for clerics in a foreign land, and the Healing Church knew no such rank. An outsider,
Father Gascoigne, joined the ranks of the Black Church Hunters. Perhaps he, like many others, was sick and
needed treatment. Perhaps he saw the miracles that the Church was performing. Actual miracles that could
inspire a new faith in men. Or perhaps it was thirst for blood that drew him here, for Gascoigne turned out to be a
truly capable hunter. A fine addition to the ranks of the Church.

Gascoigne was partnered with another, an older hunter by the name of Henryk. Capable, beyond his years, this
old man was easily recognizable in his unique yellow garb. It's description tells us that they were a fierce and
gallant duo, but also that their partnership led to Henryk's tragically long life.

He must have been very old indeed to be tragically so. Perhaps Gascoigne's access to the Church granted Henryk
access to the old blood, and it's possible that the miraculous blood granted him life beyond his years. Who knows
what that can do to a man...

Together, Henryk and Gascoigne were a part of the effort to purge Yharnam of the scourge. Just two more
hunters doing "what hunters must" for the good of the city of course. Gascoigne even found love outside the
Church's walls within Ccentral Yharnam to a woman named Viola. Blonde and favouring a bright red brooch,
perhaps the jewel was a gift from another hunter. Imagine being a man of Yharnam during this time. Put your
yourself in this city.

As a good yharnamite would, you join the nightly hunt with your brothers, fighting against the scourge. You lock
your woman and children safely at home with incense at their doors to ward away the beasts. You fight alongside
the Black Church Hunters, though, these men of the Church are watching you at all times for any signs of the
plague. You fight alongside those who would kill you if they had to.

In time, Viola fell pregnant. Soon after, Gascoigne left the Healing Church. Perhaps he had something more
important to him now.

"Who... are you? I dont know your voice, But I know that smell. Are you a hunter?" - Nameless daughter of
Gascoigne

Family must have pulled him away from the Church, and on the night of our unending hunt we find this young
girl alone in her family's home.
"Please, will you look for my mum? Daddy never came back from the hunt, and she went to find him but now
she's gone, too...I'm all alone... and scared..."

We're looking for a woman with a red brooch, and a man garbed in black. Imagine being Gascoigne at this point
in the story. An ex-hunter of the Healing Church, he still wears the tattered black garb that shows how faithfully
he served the Church in their hunt. And tonight, the hunt is worse than any night before it. Tonight, the line
between man and beast is thinned. The beast-men of Yharnam cry for death to their ministers if they see you
wearing their minister's garb.

This is the exact same thing Gascoigne was wearing. It's unclear exactly what happened in the tomb of Oedon
but here we find Father Gascoigne, surrounded by the corpses of fellow yharnamites, Hacking them to pieces,
completely lost to his thirst for blood. On a rooftop nearby we find his wife dead.

"My mum wears a red jeweled brooch. It's so big and beautiful. You won't miss it. Oh, I mustn't forget. If you
find my mum, give her this music box. It plays one of daddy's favorite songs...And when daddy forgets us we
play it for him so he remembers. Mum's so silly, running off without it!"

"A small music box recieved from a young Yharnam girl. Plays a song shared by her mother and father. Inside
the lid is a small scrap of paper, perhaps an old message. Two names can be made out, however faintly. 'Viola
and Gascoigne.'" - Small music box

When we play their song, the husband recoils in agony as if Gascoigne is fighting from losing himself to the
beastly scourge. He wants to forget, but the music reminds him of his wife, his children, his city, his humanity,
his despair.

His wife is likely dead by his hands for she didn't have their music box to remind him of who he was as she had
done many times before. Gascoigne is beyond saving and you end his suffering. By the end of it, it almost
sounds as if his last words are "forgive me..Forgive me!" We don't have the heart to give a child her dead
mother's brooch. Instead, we send her to Oedon Chapel. She can't stay in this house alone for neither her mother
nor her father are coming back for her. Better to send her to a safe place.

"Hello hunter. Still can't find my mum? Oh, okay. I can wait...But isn't there something I can do? Maybe mum
and dad are stuck out there, waiting for me to come and find them. What do you think, miss hunter?"

We send her to Oedon Chapel.

"Yes okay, thank you miss hunter! I love you almost as much as mum and dad, and grandad!"

She never appears there. Trace the path she would have taken. Imagine this little girl creeping through a sewer
filled with crawling corpses and carrion crows. To run past it all and come so close the chapel only to spy this
thing at the end of the deep, twisting tunnels, a grotesque and giant pig drawing near from the darkness. It eats
the little girl, and after your revenge, you find the bloodied white ribbon upon its remains.

"Oh...you haven't by chance... seen my little sister, have you?"

Someone did come back for the little girl. It turns out, Gascoigne had two daughters and you just sent one to her
death.

"I told her to look after the house, but she's run off somewhere. She's still quite small, and wears a big white
ribbon. Have you seen her out there anywhere?...Oh, how did this happen...Why would she ever go outside? At
least... I'll have something to remember her by..."
The truly sad thing is a friend of the family was waiting at Oedon tomb arround this time. The one the littlest
daughter calls "grandad". Henryk. He could've met the youngest daughter there had the pig not consumed her in
the tunnel. Instead, Henryk goes mad in this place. Perhaps he discovered that someone killed his friend or
perhaps, since the littlest daughter calls him "grandad", he discovered the corpse of his daughter, Viola.

"I must warn you...not to go near the tomb below Oedon Chapel in the Cathedral Ward. Henryk, an old hunter,
has gone mad...And he's my mark..." - Eileen the Crow

When we arrive, we're already too late. As with Gascoigne, loss pushes Henryk over the edge. We've seen that
hunters turn into terrible beasts, so the hunter must become the hunted. You can join Eileen and help her lay this
mad hunter down to rest once and for all.

"That wasn't necessary of ya...But you have my thanks. We made it with our lives... You're not bad at all. You
must have killed Gascoigne as well then. He was falling apart... I'm sure it had to be done...But try to keep your
hands clean. The Hunter should hunt Beasts. Leave the hunting of Hunters to me." - Eileen

Gascoigne killed his wife. We killed Gascoigne. Henryk tried to kill us, so Eileen killed Henryk. The last
surviving daughter throws herself off a ledge upon receiving her sister's bloodied ribbon, and the bloodline of
Gascoigne ends here. However, somewhere in another hunt, perhaps, you never spoke to the littlest daughter.
She never went looking for her parents, she never travelled down this tunnel. She stayed home until her sister
returned and they huddled together until morning came.

"I won't be afraid. I know, I do...The morning always comes."