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However, Bloodborne rejects this idea, as evidenced by the fact humans (including the player) can ascend to become Great Ones. The decisive factor in all this is insight, or inhuman knowledge as the game puts it. Gaining insight decreases your beasthood stat. The beast represents humanity's atavistic and instinctual shadow, which becomes agitated when faced with the potential for transcendence, and its own obsolescence; but supreme knowledge is capable of overcoming it. The ideology of Byrgenwerth was proven correct by the story's events; the scholars' primary error was simply their retarded literalism (lets stick eyes in our skulls for insight!!1). Mind over matter, and knowledge above all. Bloodborne is a Faustian tale, if anything.