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| Enemy Type | Not Beast Nor Kin |
| Health | 1700 |
| Drops | Cursed Damp Blood Droplets (5) [33%], Pebble x10 [5%], Quicksilver Bullets x3 [62%] |
| Weak | Poison |
| Strong | Above average magical defenses |
| Locations | Nightmare Frontier, Nightmare of Mensis, Fishing Hamlet |
Winter Lanterns (sometimes called "brain trusts" prior to the release of the official guide) are an enemy in Bloodborne. Grotesque creatures with a lethal gimmick, Winter Lanterns will constantly damage you and build up your frenzy meter with their gaze.
These vaguely humanoid, eldritch abominations roam the Nightmare Frontier and the Nightmare of Mensis. Winter Lanterns require line of sight to cast their deadly spell and despite their appearance they cannot see anything behind them. Be forewarned, frenzy will continue to build for a few seconds after line of sight is broken.
Strategy
- Have Sedatives ready.
- Avoid fighting them up close, they cause Frenzy to build up while you are in their line of sight. In most cases, they are set up in a way that allows you to sneak past more or less undetected.
- Apart from their Frenzy AoE they only have one attack, a lunging grab attack that deals minor damage, but frenzy continues to build during the grab.
- Circle around them up close, and their grab should miss, which will leave their backs exposed for a long enough time to do a charge attack.
- Alternatively roll or dodge through their grab, but beware that the grab attack has good tracking and will catch you if you act too early.
- Wait halfway through the grab animation,
- Frenzy will not cause damage if it triggers in the middle of a visceral attack. Use this to your advantage, if you are farming them, by stacking an appropriate amount of frenzy resistance.
- Use the transformed Hunter Axe's heavy attack (Hold R2) to keep them on the ground.
- For those having trouble with this enemy, 3 sets of 2 poison throwing knifes are enough to kill one (except in The Nightmare Frontier, those are immune to Slow Poisoning).
- Can be knocked down with Burial Blade charge attack,
- Heavy weapons can stagger and cancel their grab, you can charge one, smash it a few times, then quickly roll away and use the sedative before you get frenzied.
- Simon's Bowblade in its bow form is a reliable weapon against this enemy for builds with high Bloodtinge. Being able to one-shot them or tear apart huge chunks of their hp with a charge attack.
Winter Lantern Information
- Similar to the Brain of Mensis, they cause frenzy by looking at you.
- If they do not notice you, the hunter will remain unaffected by Frenzy. However they will still afflict Frenzy even without outright attacking you. Simply being within their cone of vision will cause Frenzy.
- Blue Elixirs are very useful for negating their Frenzy effect.
- Winter Lanterns after the Lighthouse lamp can drop Physical ATK Blood Gems up to +22.3% (Old Hunter's DLC).
Drops
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| Nightmare Frontier | 1700 | 2759 | (x3) 62% | (x10) 5% | (5) 33% | (2) 33% | (2) 33% |
| Nightmare of Mensis | 1700 | 10177 | (x3) 62% | (x10) 5% | (5) 33% | -- | -- |
Notes & Trivia
- Their brain seems to be entwined with several messengers.
- Winter can be related to Death or Slumber, and, considering the high threat that these enemies pose, could imply that their name refers to them as a "death beacon" of sorts.
- At a certain level of Insight, they will begin singing in an off-key tone.
- They wear what appears to be a blood-stained version of the Doll set. minus the shawl
- Close examination of their hands reveal that they have the same hands as The Doll, albeit slimy and covered in tentacles.
- Their bodies are a great deal taller than The Doll and there is no doll head underneath the brain.
- Their mouths look just like venus fly traps.
- It has a large gash along the spine for which there is yet no explanation.
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This enemy should have been a boss fight. Seriously.
It could've worked for 2 reasons:
1) It would have been a complete change of pace from the standard boss fight model.
2) It would have forced the devs to re-work the frenzy status effect into something creative, instead of the instant 70% health loss "screw you" that it ended up being.
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Killed one when it was about to induct frenzy in the Nighthmare Frontier.. Even dead, it caused me to frenzy and ****ing die. **** these things.
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Fun fact: The frenzy is stopped if you use a Bold Hunter's Mark before the frenzy completes itself. The status effect doesn't work, and you can survive an encounter with one if you kill it, frenzy is still building up and you time it right.
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they can sense you behind walls even when you're not moving. what the **** that almost gave me a heart attack
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So... maybe I am missing something, but in free cam, as long as they aren't in the camera sight, the frienzy effect won't take place.
so if you turn your back to them and attack behind you (from camera pov), they won't be able to do more than attempt to grab you. Don't lock on them, and turn the camera back from them
I don't understand how no one before commented on this fact. This is classic lovecraftian lore and more than one video game from this 'lore' use this.
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Whoever made these deserves to die and their family tortured for eternity
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All them eyes and these mfs still can’t see me coming. way overhyped difficulty. they die in 2 hits. if they had a fast tentacle attack similar in style to the threaded cane they would be cooler.
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"laaa, laa, la la laaa" - Winter Lantern when asked about it's opinions on the current state of the economy
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Surprised nobody’s said this yet, you can literally spam saw spear’s R2 til they die, each hit staggers them. Just don’t let the frenzy get you first of course
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This thing wil not prove light in the dark winter times.
In conclusion THIS THING IS A LIAR!
To be more accurate in the name i would call them "frenzy huggers"
-becease they inflict frenzy from afar, and they rely on it to kill you.
-and they always try to embrace you (the player) when you are eather in there sight and they chase you for there hug. Or your in range for their hug.
And before you say "it's a bad name for them you dumbass" keep in mind we have an enemy in this game that is literally called "brainsucker"
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If you parry and visceral them before frenzy builds up it doesn't deal any damage
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One of the few enemies in this game I consider genuinely cheap
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1st time walking in an area where i heard a lantern sing. I was like "wtf kind of abomination is waiting for me ahead, and makes that noise"
Then i see a messenger with the messages "wife ahead" *i'm looking infrond of me and see the lantern* "YOU CALL THAT A WIFE!?!?!?!?!?!" and i died to the frenzy by being distracted
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I usually either rush these guys and stagger them with a transformation attack (or heavy) to land a few more hits before the grab starts, if they’re still alive by then either dodge away and use a sedative or shoot and visceral… just don’t forget frenzy protection like the deep sea rune
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and to think in fishing hamlet there's 2 of these guys AND 2 shark men within incredibly close vicinity
why miyazaki
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this enemy is like going to McDonald’s and getting told to **** off, being lit on fire, seconds before a nuclear bomb goes off
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Don’t bother using Blue Elixirs to sneak around the ones after the Mergo’s Loft: Middle lantern. They somehow still notice you despite being hidden by the elixir effects and even the mass of heads structures. Walking slowly at a distance or standing still, as the elixir recommends, had zero affect. Attempted this multiple times, and the same thing happened each go.
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in fact, Winter Lanterns appear **ONLY** in the vincinity of a true Great Ones:
- Nightmare of Mensis - check, right around Brain of Mensis - Ascended Great One
- Nightmare Frontier - before Amygdala - a Great One
- Fishing Hamlet tunnels - before Kos, a Great One (technically dead by then, but formerly...?)
so the only one missing the pair would be Ebrietas, but Ebrietas supposedly be a left behind Great One, so maybe thats the difference?
any afterthoughts?
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This is hands down the most terrifying enemy in the soulsborne series for me.
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I love these enemies, they have an awesome design and add a an unique kind of challange to exploration
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My favorite and most effective way kill them is to shoot mid grab animation to open them for a visceral attack and then let the frenzy pop during your animation. Instant kill them every time.
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These enemies were very clearly never playtested. How the **** do you let an enemy like this into a game? Bullshit tracking on the grab attack too, you can be behind them and they will pivot on the ****ing spot
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The Fishing Hamlet lanterns are perfect for non-chalice gem farming. So close to the lift. So easy to kill one at a time if you've got the right weapon setup. Just equip beak mask + ashen set + Deep Sea rune to max out your frenzy resistance + Eye runes to increase your chances of getting gems, carry sedatives just in case, and equip a heavy-ish weapon with good stagger. I do fine with LHB or transformed Church Pick, presumably lots of other weapons work well too. Wait for the first guy to walk past, charge him, then do a single non-charged R2 and a quick R1 and if you're strong enough, he should be toast. No need to use the sedatives once you get the technique down. From there you just wait for the frenzy bar to go down (I usually pop into the other cavern and kill the snail girls; you'll end up with a bunch of Fool's Blood Gems too). You can get a pretty good range of 20.6-22.3% cursed physical gems in droplet shape. Less often you'll get Adept gems, but I've gotten a couple 25.7% thrust gems that way, too. Also some worthless cursed Heavy and Striking gems, but more often than not you get a pretty good cursed tempering that will be usable unless you get a bad curse.
Just pop a Bold Hunter's Mark, rinse and repeat.
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It was a missed opportunity that there wasn't a huge poison swamp to navigate, with said swamp filled with wandering winter lanterns and rock thowing yetis. Let's hope for BB2
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just use heavy weapon to stagger them. Also the ashen hunter set has good resistance to frenzy but sedatives are still recommended
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There's a lot of hatred against these fellows. However, they are nice guys once you get around 500 frenzy resistance. It takes the right clothes + top frenzy Res rune (+300). I kill the two buddies under the hut in dlc in a row, without even getting frenzy or taking sedatives. Good to farm cursed gems which fit into any slot.
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The worst ****in enemy ever, let's design an enemy that would kill you just by looking at you, get ****ed whoever designed this ****!!
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I know this is years too late, but has anyone tried "make contact" gesture on these things?
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Just to clear up the confusion on whether these enemies can detect you behind them or not, the ones in the frontier cannot see you behind them, the ones in Mensis can detect you and will turn around to begin inflicting frenzy on you and the final ones in the hamlet can see and inflict frenzy on you without turning around. In this sense they get progressively harder to deal with each area you encounter them.
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Apparently some people have found a way to sexualize this enemy. *****ing disgusting. Who looks at this enemy and gets a rock hard boner?
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I managed to get a radial Cursed Tempering Damp Blood Gem(4) from one in the nightmare of mensis. Its effects are no different than the droplets it drops though
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Ashen Hunter set with beak mask and that rune that adds 200 frenzy resistance, if your quick and have a +8 or 9 heavy weapon you should be able to kill 1 just before the frenzy bar fills up. Or just use the sedatives the old lady give your to heal the frenzy.
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They most definitely can see behind themselves I dont know why you would write such a damaging lie
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If you're too lazy to do the chalice dungeons they're a great source for gems just gear up with the crowfeather set( ashen hunter is ok too) especially the beak mask some sedatives and a heavy weapon like hunter axe(not trasformed) or kirkhammer(hammer form) and R2 them to the ground till they're dead. This might only work on NG though since they're weaker and I usually have 0 insights with a frenzy rune. It takes me 3 R2 with hunter axe +9.
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Imagine there were Winter Lanterns instead of the Deacons of the Deep in ds3....
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can the ones in the frontier drop (5) droplets? i’m tryna make a good blade of mercy without going dungeon diving to far
Oh boy, a stealth sequence! What did we do Miyazaki, weren’t the dogs enough?
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Everybody be gangsta until the winter lantern starts singing
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Beast roar knocks them down so you can whale on them, but they can still easily kill you by frenzy.
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The ones in the fishing hamlet can also drop cursed tempering damp radials and triangles.
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The only mob in the game you end up accidentally farming simply because you are trying to get past them without dying.
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Is it any wonder these things blow your brains out? they are like mini-brains of mensis... either that or their appearance is so ugly, and what you are seeing is a defense mechanism of the character's mind to try to blot it out... Personally it doesn't matter which it is, I like to kill them with 99 bloodtinge cannon, buffed with bone marrow ash, and do it before they piss me off. At the end of the day, the best defense against frenzy is to make sure you spend less time thinking of the crap you just saw, trust me.
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If you use the gesture "Make Contact" in front of them they don't attack you, but due to frenzy you still can be dead :)
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These *****ing psycho, low self-esteem, sociopathic *****es who wanna stomp me where it hurts, everytime!!! FFS
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While I was farming for blood gems here I got a radial “Cursed Tempering Damp Blood Gem(4)” [Phys ark up 19% & increase stamina cost 2.7%] from the first of three winter lanterns. I don’t know if it’s rare or not but I just wanted to point this out
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If their frenzy didn’t constantly lower your hp as it is building up, they’d be more manageable. That’s what I find most cheap about them. Just straight health degen. Nothing else in soulsborne games does that. Just straight lowers your health by looking at you. Cheap.
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