Bloodborne Lore: What is the Mensis ritual? Just what were they trying to achieve, and how did they do it? What the hell is the deal with all those mirrors in Yahar’gul? Only careful inspection and a bit of Victorian history can help us. Join us as we answer these questions and more by delving deep into Bloodborne’s and our own world’s history.

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References:
Find over 100 videos of wildlife encounters with giant mirrors installed in the jungle of Gabon (Central Africa) filmed by Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE, his wife Anne-Marie and their friend Michel Djomou Guiss: https://www.youtube.com/XHB06400CANNE... After watching each of these videos, please read the description attached to learn more about the behavior of wild animals when faced with their reflection.

Gameplay footage/music credit: Bloodborne, FromSoftware.

Video samples:
Chimpanzees with mirror-Xavier Hubert
"Reflections in the rainforest", Gabon - Xavier Hubert-Brierre
Aurora - Dr. Ryan Ridden
Ibn al-Haytham - Smithsonian Channel
Copernicus - 100 Greatest Discoveries - Discovery UK
Lens Making in the 1600s - Corning Museum of Glass
Newton's Dark Secrets, Chris Oxley
Through Galileos Telescope, 1933
Informercials, bryanalbrandt
Insomnia, Dr. Mike
Contact lenses, Welcome Library
Mercury Vapor, Heal Care without Harm
The Liquid Mirror Telescope, NASA Orbital Debris Observatory in Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Faraday cage, Joe Hanson, Be Smart
Tesla Coil, Slo Mo Guy
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Images:
Echo and Narcissus, John William Waterhouse
Amaterasu, 大阪
Mayan mirror murals, ANCIENT MAYA MOSAIC MIRRORS: FUNCTION, SYMBOLISM, AND MEANING, Cambridge University Press
Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God – Jan Matejko, 1873, Jagiellonian University Museum
1661 Cellarius's chart illustrating a heliocentric model of the universe, as proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus
Hubble Deep Fields, NASA
Michael Faraday, Hulton Deutsch, the Guardian

Contents of the Video
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00:00 Intro
06:58 Mensis mockinfomerccial
08:14 Mensis and optics (Ch. 1)
15:08 Mensis and electromagnetism (Ch. 2)
19:40 The Me3sis Ritual (Ch. 3)

Victorian physics engravings, Wellcome Collection
Darkbeast, Heardless
Galvani engravings, Smithsonian Collection
Maxwell’s Equations, Rhett Allain
James Clerk Maxwell, 1850s, Trinity College, Cambridge

Music and audio samples:
Mercurial - Ambient Music for Bloodborne
Happy Indie Summer Rock, Muzaproduction
Bloodborne (2015) Ambient Music, Nico Lujan