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| Location | Drops |
| The Hunter's Nightmare | Brador's Set, Bloodletter |
Brador is a non-player character in Bloodborne and is part of The Old Hunters DLC. He wields Bloodletter.
"A Church Assassin, who killed his compatriots and wore their beastly remains as attire, going into hiding in the deeper cells of The Hunter's Nightmare. The Church provided him with a single, soundless bell of death to ensure their secrets would be kept."
Brador (and Armor) Locations
This character can be found in the prison past the Underground Corpse Pile lamp, in a cell accessed with the Underground Cell Inner Chamber Key.
After lighting the Lighthouse Hut lamp in the Fishing Hamlet, Brador will invade the player's world at 4 specific locations with each of these summoned versions dropping 1 piece of Brador's Set and with Brador himself dropping the Bloodletter when finally killed. Alternatively, you can simply go straight to his cell and kill him, receiving Bloodletter and preventing the invasions, without any consequences; all the set pieces will be found on the ground in the locations where the shadow versions would have normally spawned.
The locations of the shadows and thus the set pieces are as follows:
- Just in front of the passageway leading to Brador's cell. This encounter drops Brador's Testimony.
- On the bridge around the front and to the left of the Lighthouse Hut lamp. This encounter drops the Bloodied Arm Bands.
- After the second encounter, continue off the bridge and onto the next rooftop. The next encounter is inside building you are standing on. Drop to ground level and enter through a break in the beams to reach the stairs. Take the Kin Coldblood (10) and Brador will appear when you try to leave the house. This encounter drops the Beast Hide Garb.
- In the underground caverns after the area with the ammonite enemies. Follow the path on the left towards a dead end with an item and some enemies. Brador will spawn behind you once you are halfway down the path. This last encounter drops the Bloodied Trousers.
Dialogue
When speaking through cell door
Are you a hunter? Well, that's very odd.
Do you hear the toll of the bell?
If selecting "I hear the bell"
Hmph. Liar. Such pettiness will be your undoing.
The beasts you seek will not be found here.
Go back to your hunt, and if you have the chance, put this night behind you.
...places better left untouched, secrets better left alone...
...only a fool would so brazenly roam...
If selecting "I hear nothing"
Very well.
The beasts you seek will not be found here.
Go back to your hunt, and if you have the chance, put this night behind you.
...places better left untouched, secrets better left alone...
...only a fool would so brazenly roam...
Generic dialogue
"Bear in mind.
Some places are better left untouched, and some secrets are better left alone.
...only fools do brazenly roam..."
Speak through cell door after obtaining Underground Cell Inner Chamber Key
"Do you hear this?
Fear the bell's toll.
For only death awaits prying eyes,
and the Church assassins are never far behind.
[laughs]"
After entering cell
"Well, well, look who's here.
Welcome to my quarters. I've never entertained a guest before.
Are you going to kill me?
After all you've done, kill me, as if to right your wrongs?
[laughs]"
Generic dialogue
"What is it? Aren't you going to kill me?
Or perhaps, beg my forgiveness?
Well, leave off. What's done is done.
[laughs]"
If killed by Brador
"Unending death awaits those who pry into the unknown..."
On death
"Nothing changes, such is the nature of man...
[laughs]"
Video
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Mhazard - Brador, The Church Assassin
Lore
Based on his description and the size of his cleric beast attire, we can assume that when the scourge was young, cleric beasts were smaller. Hunters like him would quietly assassinate victims who would transform or who the church knew were bound to transform sooner or later. Eventually as they dabbled more into the old blood, this method became obsolete as beasts became bigger, more dangerous and more public.
Other Notes:
- It is possible to kill Brador after obtaining the Underground Cell Inner Chamber Key, without killing him when he invades. In that case he will no longer invade you and the gear pieces dropped by killing him will be found where he would normally invade your world.
- Brador will use Lead Elixir making regular attacks bounce off. He will trick the Bloodletter straight away, as soon as he spawns, and use the transformed mace form, usually spamming around 5-6 hits in a row (especially if he drinks the Elixir), making him very susceptible to parries. Brador is also vulnerable to Blacksky Eye.
AnonymousYou can "cheese" his phantoms by using the transformed charge r2 with the burial blade as it will throw him back even after lead elixir
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Can you take the lore bit out concerning the size of the cleric beast.
1. Size in all souls games has always been a nebulous thing. Like the fact you can wear giant's armor even though you're only as tall as thier knee caps in Dark Souls.
2. Laurence is the 1st cleric beast, and he isn't small, so it completely contradicts the idea that somehow, the scourge evolved to make cleric beasts larger.
Simply put, Brador's head piece exists because its cool, and the developers are not gonna let something like the size of an actual cleric beast stop them from making a cool armor set the way they want to.
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Has anyone had him bug out when he invades? He'd die the instant he spawned in, without dropping any pieces of his armor. I did, however, fight him once and got his armbands. Quitting and reloading by where he spawned/died didn't fix it either.
Coming back to his hallway after getting Simon's key (having finished his quest) and hearing that bell chime accompanied by his laugh, while the mist slowly rises from the doorway... 100% the best invasion entrance in all of FromSoft (so far).
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I appreciate that people are lusting after this lad in the comments, ya'll have a type and I See You
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Anyone else think Brador is...well, a bit of a noob? His attire is an altered version of the foreign attire, which is what we start the game wearing, complete with awful stats on the parts not reinforced with beast hide. His tactics are among the worst of the enemy hunters we face as well. He very rarely, if ever, uses any attack besides basic R1's and uncharged R2's (I've never seen him use the L2 in any of my many playthroughs), and he has an embarrassing tendency to continue his r1 chain long after you're out of range, making him easy prey for interrupts and viscerals. He doesn't dodge much, preferring to trade hits, and he seems to have very little concept of strafing, moving mostly just forwards and occasionally dodging backwards (dodging mostly backwards is another behavior that can be considered noobish). My thought is that, while on his first hunt, Brador witnessed a church hunter become a minor cleric beast, and slew it. Not wanting the public to panic at the knowledge that beast hunters became among the most horrific beasts, the Healing Church coerced Brador into keeping quiet on the affair. Seeing the value of a hunter who would keep quiet on sensitive matters, they "promoted" him to church assassin in the nightmare, and gave him a weapon that would, supposedly, allow him to purge any beastliness from his blood, as well as a relentless, but silent bell. They knew he couldn't defeat an accomplished hunter in a single battle, but they trusted that his relentless invasions would eventually wear them down, as he did with Simon.
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Imagine trying to murder someone like 4 times only for them to break down your door and 360 noscope you to death with a pebble
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I found that for the first invasion past the underground corpse pile, him, like the church pick hunter you find there earlier, seems to not be able to enter Yamamura’s cell, (or that is at least out of Aggro range) so if you back into there the fight is super easy. Gives you a breather and lets you take him out with weak arc spells.
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In a series where NPCs typically either don't care about you or just manipulate you to do their bidding, this guy decides "hey, I'm gonna bully this random guy for no real reason"
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>lore: we can assume that cleric beasts were smaller We can read description of the Laurence's Skull to find out who was the first Cleric beast. Based on the size of Laurence's skull in the waking world plus the size of the First Vicar boss in the nightmare, we can assume that Cleric beasts can be either big or small. Or that size difference is just a simple convension.
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Easy tip for his invasions if you keep dying: when he spawns just run past him until he stops following you, he'll lose interest and walk back to his starting location and stop giving his back to you, just walk to him, backstab him and repeat until he dies.
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I wonder if there is any extra Dialogue if you kill kos before you kill him?
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I wonder if Brador is based on Mills/Bisley character "Slough Feg" the Old "Weird" Horned God: He's a representation of the Green Man (a very CelticBritish Isles thing). A few things that caught my thoughts: 1) He's only got the one horn - whereas when you wear the set you have two (as the new Horned Gods in Slaine) 2) He's an old "king" who hunts down the new Kings (who are wed to the Earth Goddess and know how the earth works - have insight) But as they say... seek for signs and you will find them.
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He gives me creeps ;--; I don't know why but I awlays feel uneasy towards him ;--;
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Augur of Ebrietas is very effective against him. I'm at level 38 in Arcane and just 3-4 shot of it and Brador is always defeated.
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My theory is that he kills hunters who ‘know too much’. After witnessing his allies turning into beasts due to their insanity he now kills any hunter whi pries too much.
Its worth noting that his weapon is extremely effective against hunters WITH HIGH INSIGHT, because of its frenzy attack. High insight is a sign of a hunter acquiring too much knowledge.
Therefore it makes sense that he fights hunters who go mad!
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What does his face look like? I want to cosplay him but I can't get a good look at his face
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He's one of many Bloodborne's cool characters, but why didn't he attack us in his cell? And the "church gave him a silent bell to kill all nosy people who want to pry into their creepy experiments" sends shivers down my spine, now every time i invade i wear his set except the hand and pant cause they have very low stats, instead i use valtr's hand and pant which look very closely to Brador
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He managed to kill me at one of the locations, the one under the house, and now he's stopped invading me there. is there any way to prompt another invasion?
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Been to all 4 locations, has all 4 set pieces and then what?Nothing? Kill him for weapon?Forget about him?
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As a small experiment I looked for the fastest way to get his items. Didn't light ANY lamps in fishing village, and went directly back to his cell after recieving the key from Simon. Brador's phantom appears outside his cell. I ran past and unlocked his cell and gave him a quick little pop on the head. Voila! The resullts? Getting the key from Simon triggers the invasions, not the lamps, and his real form has a tiny healthbar that only requres one hit.
I'm not 100% sure when exactly it happened because I wasn't really paying close attention, but after killing Brador in his cell the Church Servant and Wheelchair Mob remain dead even if you leave and return. Seems they may be tied to Brador somehow (maybe they're guarding him?). Someone should check to confirm, but I'm pretty positive they stopped respawning after killing him. They're just lying there dead whenever I come back by.
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You can get a piece of his set each time you defeat one of his phantoms. Returning and fighting the phantom in an already defeated spawn locations just yields blood echoes.
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If you kill him as soon as you get the key for his cell, he'll only invade you before you get to him and drop the head piece, then if you kill him you get the weapon. From this point, you won't get invaded and you will find the rest of the armor set where he was supposed to spawn to invade you. Tested and Verifyed !
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You don't have to fight them at all. After you get the key tp to ludwigs arena and run to the cell of Brador. He will ring the bell and try to kill you, but his spirit disappears when you descend the ladder leading to his cell. Open the door, kill him and pick up all his armor pieces, including the head attire.
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Once I kill him he never invades in that spot again. Even before I killed him in his cell.
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After getting his health down a bit, he drinks a potion or something and all of my attacks bounce. Is there a way to counteract this?
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Soon as I got his key i went into his cell and shoved my knife in his mouth before he finished speaking. ***** him already for being a church hunter, ***** him twice for not atleast being cool about *****ing you like patches, ***** him three times cause he fights like a cheap little ***** and so he dies like a little *****.
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If only we could wear a burning version of his armor that wont hurt us. Lawrence looks so much more badass than the average cleric beast in all those flames. If only the hunter would skin his foes like this psycho killer. Though I guess if we did skin lawrence, we wouldnt be fire proof and just die eventually...or the fire would go out when he dies.
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So, Brador attacked Simon, right? I guess it should be mentioned on his page, as it does on Simon's.
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whats cooler than the ability to invade players out of the blue?
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I got stuck somewhere down, and I wanted to get the hell out of the area, so I used a Bold Hunter's Mark to get out, despite one of Brador's phantoms being alive. That phantom NO LONGER SPAWNS. Why!?
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WHERE THE ***** EVEN, this is the least helpful guide for it. where is the hole eve?
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If anyone is having trouble killing brador obtain the gating gun, upgrade it, and lock on and shoot when he invades...he won't dodge left or right, he'll just back up so keep walking towards him, make sure to have formless odeon and blood bullets before you try, just in case. Here's a video of it if this wasn't clear and sorry if this is late http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EbNoZO42Gs0 Credit goes to moose torrent
So I killed him on every invasion and inside his cell. He keeps invading despite being dead and never dropped Bloodletter. What?
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