Mensis Cage

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Armor Type Head
Set N/A
Protection
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Mensis Cage is a Head Armor (Attire) in Bloodborne.

 

Mensis Cage Information

"The School of Mensis controls the Unseen Village.

This hexagonal iron cage suggests their strange ways. The cage is a device that restrains the will of the self, allowing one to see the profane world for what it is.


It also serves as an antenna that facilitates contact with the Great Ones of the dream.


But to an observer, the iron cage appears to be precisely what delivered them to their harrowing nightmare."

 

 

Mensis Cage Information

  • Besides Micholash, summoned NPC Mensis Scholar Damian, and corpses in the Nightmare of Mensis and the Unseen Village also wear this massive helm.

 

 

Location

 

 

Player Notes

  • You look alright pairing it with Amygdala arm and charred hunter armor or harrowed armor. Insane hunter look.
  • It's very strange.
  • Gives shorter hunters that much needed boost in height.
  • Not bad against Ludwig the holy blade, but harrowed hood is better.

 

 

Trivia

  • "Mensis" is a Latin word for "month", possibly deriving from a proto-indo-european word for "moon, measure", as referring to the moons phases as a measure of time. "Menses", or "months" is also the origin of the word "menstruation", which was once associated with the phases of the moon.
  • "Mensis" is the genitive form of "mens", the Latin word for "mind" or "thought". The particular case translates as "of the mind" or "mind's". (Possibly a wordplay on both?)
  • Bares a very striking similarity to the cages worn by asylum stewards ("Zookeepers") in the film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and could have possibly been inspired by this aspect of the film. 
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    • Anonymous

      Btw if you're curious on which NG+ you currently are, the amount of Mensis Cages in your inventory should tell you which NG you are. 1 Cage for the base NG, 2 Cages means NG+1, 3 means NG+2 and so on.

      • Anonymous

        This armor's description of restraining will and facilitating contact with the great ones, combined with how lovecraft mythos sometimes have tentacles...
        ...
        ...
        OMFG! I had no idea the bloodborne great ones were so into BDSM! xD

        • Anonymous

          I use this item to track which ng+ I'm in. I just look at how many I have and account for whether or not I have killed Micolash in my current playthrough.

          • Anonymous

            You all are big dum dums
            This is obviously a chastity cage against k*ssing
            As Allah stated "kiss before marriage is haram"


            /s

            • Anonymous

              This must be an antonym to the tin foil hat, that "keeps away" alien signals, but here it "draws" near to one's mind to communicate with the Great Ones Both are supersticios items

              • Anonymous

                The Cage is reminiscent of the Cages worn over the head by the asylum guards keepers in the 1992 movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

                • Anonymous

                  Whoever commented with Latin need to brush up on their nouns. Genitive of mens is menTis, thus Mensis does not mean "of the mind".

                  • Anonymous

                    "The cage is a device that restrains the will of the self". So the human brain's electical impulses produces alternating magnetic field, and if you look at this cage as a closed current loop, using Faraday law, and Lenz's rule, you can conclude that this cage PHYSICALLY restrains the energy of ones brain. Such an interesting thing you can notice, if you didnt skip phys in school))

                    • Anonymous

                      "seeing the world as what it is" I kind of understand what that means. We do not really see the world as what it is in real life either. We live in a dreamlike state (so that our mind can handle the floot of informations), only awake in moments of shock caused by immense stress or trauma. We are sleepwalkers floating on the surface of the ocean of reality.

                      • Anonymous

                        You look alright pairing it with Amygdala arm and charred hunter armor or harrowed armor. Insane hunter look. It's very strange. Gives shorter hunters that much needed boost in height Whoever wrote these deserves a medal

                        • Anonymous

                          I just noticed that the cage could be a sort of imitation of Willem and Laurence's mitres (their tall, funky-looking hats). Not to mention, the remains of the Yahar'gul "test subjects" are all found propped in chairs facing the moon, similarly to Willem in his rocking chair. Or maybe this just explains why Willem and Laurence wore those silly hats in the first place, that they believed it would bring them closer to the Great Ones for some odd reason...

                          (When I refer to Laurence, I'm guessing the statue of a man wearing a sort of mitre on the Research Hall elevator is a depiction of him before turning into a roast Cleric Beast.)

                          • "The cage is a device ..... allowing one to see the profane world for what it is. It also serves as an antenna...." Sounds to me like they're repeatedly emphasizing that it has electrical properties. I'm thinking it's a Faraday Cage that allows for lucid dreaming, which is dreaming with the awareness that you're dreaming and full control over your actions and the dream's circumstances, while still under he influence of the Great Ones. To support this, note that it also has extremely low Bolt defense, 10, the lowest of any head gear second only the One-Eyed Iron Helm which has 0; in other words it might as well be a lightning rod. This would mean that the Dream is shared via a wireless electrical current rooted in ESP. To quote Tesla: "Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. [....] If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind." You know......like keeping us prisoners inside our own heads; the irony is that a protective CAGE would actually be liberating under those circumstances!

                            • Anonymous

                              "Restrains the will of the self, allowing one to see the profane world for what it is."

                              Huh... Coupled with the mummified remains of Micolash that transport the Hunter to the Lecture Hall, this quote reminds me of Siddhartha Gautama's enlightenment. In a quest to discover the reason behind sickness and death, Siddhartha sat under a pipal tree for forty days, and awoke under a full moon with full knowledge of life and death, liberating him from suffering and elevating him to Buddha. Of course, Micolash is a lot more of an asshole than Siddhartha Gautama.

                              • Anonymous

                                Error: The genitive form of "mens" is "mentis", not "mensis"; mensis only means "month".
                                (I've studied Latin)

                                • Anonymous

                                  If you let an Amygdala (only tested after killing Rom, the Vacuous Spider, with the Amygdala right before the door to Yahar'gul, Unseen Village. don't know, if its possible to do that before killing rom, in the Cathedral ward) catch you with the cage equipped, you will be teleported to the Lecture Building (1st floor) next a Lantern. But it seems impossible at this point to get to the 2nd floor. The door is blocked by Patches the Spider. The only way is to Nightmare Frontier. I don't know if its a shortcut for the game. sorry for my english, i am german :D maybe some one can write it in the wiki in proper english ;)

                                  • Anonymous

                                    I was told a rumor that gherman has some in battle dialogue if you where the cage. I always just sold it immediately after obtaining it. So I don't know. Clarify please?

                                    • Anonymous

                                      There's a dead body outside your cell in the Hypogean Gaol wearing a smaller version of the cage, it looks lik

                                      • Anonymous

                                        I invaded in nightmare frontier and the guy was invisible due the blue elixir, and with the mensis cage i was able to see him D: i don't know if you can see someone using the blue elixis even without the cage equipped.

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