Bloodborne: The Hunters

The cold nightmare, entrapping the bloodstarved hunters of Yharnam, all zealots and failures, fallen so far from their previous glory. The Hunters stuck here fight and fight, kill and kill, with only an endless and mindless bloodlust to spur them on. But in this grim and dark world of Yharnam, one man, with so many underlying vices and virtues of his own, believes it is his duty to reclaim the fractured city and end the endless nightmare. And Vaal, the slayer, the devil, the Good Hunter, will see it done.

But as he traces his steps, as he approaches the climax of his desire, with the spirit of his dead mentor on his back, Vaal encounters a new obstacle, an obstacle that turns out to be more a blessing, than a curse. After everything, the torment of his fight through Yharnam, the one last thing that stands in his way... Is the famed and utterly deadly, Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower.

Rewritten and republished due to chapter glitch.

First of a series.

Act II description:

With the nightmare over and dealt with, purged away by the combined forces of Vaal, Maria, and his not-so dead mentor, Gehrman, the duo of Vaal and Maria turn their attention to the next biggest threat to Yharnam, the Choir. Their ranks bolstered, Vaal and Maria face the choir at every turn, battle after battle, all to win the city of Yharnam, to protect it, to protect their homes.

But along the way, as with any war, people get hurt, and Vaal is forced to deal with the same crippling emotion and fear from his past... Guilt, over the death of a friend, of family.