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Milkweed is a Caryll Rune in Bloodborne. It was added with The Old Hunters DLC.
Milkweed Effects
- Transforms the player into a celestial Kin form as part of an oath.
- With the Kos Parasite and milkweed rune, the player has unique dodge animations and a slight increase in dodge distance.
- Caryll Rune of the Covenant: Lumenwood Kin
- Small increase in item discovery +10 (Only adds +9 if one has 50 arc and 3 eye runes equipped)
Location
- Received from Saint Adeline in the Research Hall after finishing her quest line.
Notes
- To memorize this rune, you must have the Rune Workshop Tool.
- Kos Parasite receives an enhanced moveset, but the rune is required to use it effectively.
- Players receive reduced fall damage while rune is equipped.
- Counterpart to the other transformation rune: Beast's Embrace.
- If you go to the Madman NPC figure at the very start of the fishing hamlet with the milkweed rune equipped, he gives you Accursed Brew.
Improvements for Kos Parasite
- A special tongue / headbutt leap attack (Forward-R2)
- A special Arcane A.O.E. attack (L2) which consumes two Quicksilver Bullets. (Attack may be parried)
- A dashing heavy attack (R2) while transformed will make the character lunge forward with six long tentacles, whipping the target. (Each tentacle hits separately)
- Attacking an enemy from behind with a leap attack will trigger a backstab, allowing for a Visceral Attack.
- During combat, the character will writhe, behaving more as a kin while also using unique dodge animations. (Dodge distance increases slightly)
Media
Trivia
The inscription of the rune resembles the letters H, P and L, which could possibly be a reference to H.P. Lovecraft, whose work Bloodborne takes inspiration from.
| Caryll Runes |
Anti-Clockwise Metamorphosis ♦ Arcane Lake ♦ Beast ♦ Beast's Embrace ♦ Blood Rapture ♦ Clawmark ♦ Clear Deep Sea ♦ Clockwise Metamorphosis ♦ Communion ♦ Corruption ♦ Deep Sea ♦ Dissipating Lake ♦ Eye ♦ Fading Lake ♦ Formless Oedon ♦ Great Deep Sea ♦ Great Lake ♦ Guidance ♦ Heir ♦ Hunter ♦ Impurity ♦ Lake ♦ Moon ♦ Murky Deep Sea ♦ Oedon Writhe ♦ Radiance ♦ Stunning Deep Sea |
AnonymousKinda hate that you need this rune to get a unique moveset on the only pure arcane melee weapon in the game. And that it makes you look incredibly dumb while doing so.
Also, the fact that you can swap out oath runes at will with no cost completely undercuts the impact of the transformation. Like "Oh no, now I'm broccoli forev- oop, I'm human again. And now I'm a beast. And now I'm a vampire. And... now I'm broccoli again."
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I get that the whole point of Caryll runes is that they attempt to convey and transcribe inhuman sounds beyond our understanding, but to this day I still have no idea what a "sticky" whisper sounds like.
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Forgot what it was called so I searched "brocoli," this was the only result
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The image of it kinda says the word 'HELP' which honestly makes a lot of sense.
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I will never ascend to cauliflower irl. What's the point of it all
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Why does everyone say broccoli when it's clearly cauliflower?
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it's pretty funny to choose the rune that makes you lose your humanity to potentially reference lovecraft.
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If you equip this and talk to the mumbling guy at the beginning of fishing village, you get accursed brew
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Ahhh, I see. So you become a catalytic host and use your parasites as weapons. Equivalent to eating a tapeworm sandwich and fertilizer and whipping people from your *******. Absolutely beautiful and creative, I love this game. Broccoli look is just a bonus.
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The cauliflower head can be fun to have at first, but it really can hamper fashionborne if you want to use the kos parasite.
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Now that I think about it, the way your character dodges and weaves with this oath is not only very puppet-like, but also a lot like how the celestial mobs (blue rogers) move, think about how they move their arms, jump away from you, and are always tilted backwards when idle. You're both humans who were forcefully turned into kin, and seem to now be puppets to higher powers.
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Wish this buffed the amygdala arm, it would be pretty cool having an alien buffed club to back up your alien tentacle whips
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One Broccoli to rule them all... All Hail Pale Broccoli... "-Thourt Pale Broccoli's Acolyte from whence thou came broccoli are eaten here revered" Broccoli 21
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In all forms but physical I am a broccoli... I don't have the DLC :^(
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Is it just me, or does it seem to glow more blue as you become more soaked with enemies’ blood?
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10 points to discovery stat... they couldn't be a bit more generous with Oath rune boosts?
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Observation - The move sets look as if the hunter has lost all control over his body and that the phantasms have taken full control. Dodging around looks as if the hunter is being grabbed and pulled by an invisible force and the tentacles act as though they’re attacking on their own. Bloodborne example of spiritual possession? “So Sorry Master Willem, I didn’t mean to kill you...the phantasms made me do it!” :P
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Basically it turns you into a coral bed habitat for phantasms, much like the Augur of Ebrietas and Call From Beyound. The phantasms are passive in this state but the parasite of kos seems to excite them and/or makes them aggressive, allowing you to call them to reach out and attack foes.
Hmmm...wouldn't call it a step towards ascension so much as you become the pet sitter for the great ones pets. That being said however, you got to start somewhere! Lol!
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The look of the Milkweed form looks like its a reference to the 1963 Japanese horror movie Matango, in which the creatures depicted on the posters for the movie look virtually identical.
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Whats the skinny on the new covenant hostilities? Like if I summon a HoH or Confed with this equipped will they be purple?
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You just need to exhaust his dialogue to get the brew, at least for me
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Anyone else notice that when you return to your world with the milkweed rune equipped you leave a slight burst aura as you disappear?
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Given what the Hunter's Nightmare is revealed to contain (or rather, be directly beneath), I suspect that this rune that turns its user into a creature described as "peering toward the sky" might just be the Old Ones' way of telling the listener "Look up, dammit!". The staff and patients at the ward are all taking great pains to obtain knowledge from the Great Ones, and yet the answers to many of their questions are almost literally right above their heads.
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The L2 skill is amazing for clearing mobs, the regular attacks have decent range. This is a great arcane weapon. The Milkweed itself is useful with all 3 eye runes for blood rocl farming, too.
Doesn't affect the player using this rune. Their Bolt resistance is unaffected. Please test things before you put them on the wiki.
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it only changes your head and hands and not your whole body like the Beast`s Embrace rune. :)
I was wondering with both this and the beast rune if you take more damage from weapons that do more damage to kin.
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Congratulations! You have ascended to a higher state of being...Broccoli! With just a few more insight you will eventually ascend to carrot, tomato, celery and eventually a divine potato! For nothing has more eyes then a potato! Sheesh...
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Is there any particular rewards for this covenant, in PvP ? Or is it just pure fashion with a nice add of gameplay ?
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One of the funniest fights of my life. It completely changes the way you dodge, making the guy look like he was flailing about the entire time. As he approached me he just sorta started spinning around in place. Kin Hunters are fabulous, yo.
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You would think you would become some sort of kickass version of a brainsucker. But no. You get a cauliflower head.
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Besides the item discovery and using the kos parasite does this have any other practical effects? Like maybe a boost to arc?
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I can finally identify as Celestial Broccoli-Kin and not be completely insane!
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I accidently killed adeline. Is there anyway to get it without her?
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Has anyone ever considered if this rune classifies the player as a Kin? As in, will they take additional damage from say Thrust or plain Kin Damage Up? And does the Beast's Embrace rune behave similarly? It's just a small detail I'd like to know.
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The current trivia is incorrect. You recieve the brew just from talking to the fisherman with the rune equipped. You needn't kill him to aquire it.
Do you hear it, Hunter? The spunk oozing slowly... Drip drop
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