Messengers are special NPCs in Bloodborne that appear throughout the world to carry items and information back and forth.
You may obtain special messenger skins by preordering the game or obtaining a collector's edition. Several messenger skins can also be found throughout the game world.
"These small creatures have crept out of a nightmare, and while they may not look too friendly, they accompany hunters, follow their orders, and take care of messages left for others."
Bath Messengers
There are 2 Bath Messenger fountains in the Hunter's Dream, one above and one below. Lower Bath Messengers are to the left of the Plain Doll. Upper bath messengers ( Insight Bath Messenger) only appear when you have 1 Insight, and are outside an alcove next to where Gherman first talked to you by the workshop.
- In the lower bath fountain you may "Acquire Items", "Sell Items", or "Leave". You will see more messengers when you have more Badges
- The price of some items will increase as you progress the Moon Phases and further even higher on NG+
- The upper fountain can be reached by a side path or from inside the house. Items bought in this fountain are paid for with Insight.
- 1 or more insight is needed to make the messengers appear in the upper fountain, this applies every time you need their service.
- The upper fountain also sells clothing from defeated bosses and key NPCs; eg - Djura's, if killed, and Gascoigne's set.
- Map available Here
Shop
Consumables |
Base Cost |
Unlocked By |
 Blood VialSpecial blood vial that restores HP. |
180 | Available from the beginning. |
 Quicksilver BulletsSpecial bullets used to hunt beasts. |
160 | Available from the beginning. |
 AntidoteMedicinal pellets that counteract poison. |
300 | Obtaining the Sword Hunter Badge. |
 SedativeLiquid medicine that calms nerves. |
5,600 | Obtaining the Cosmic Eye Watcher Badge. |
 Molotov CocktailMolotov cocktail that explodes violently when thrown. |
180 | Available from the beginning. |
 Rope Molotov CocktailExploding Molotov cocktail that is thrown behind. |
400 | Obtaining the Powder Keg Hunter Badge. |
 Oil UrnUrn that covers target in oil when thrown. |
680 | Obtaining the Powder Keg Hunter Badge. |
 Pungent Blood CocktailA mature blood cocktail, thrown to attract beasts. |
1,000 or 1 Insight | Obtaining the Saw Hunter Badge. |
 Throwing KnifeFinely serrated throwing knife. |
100 | Obtaining the Saw Hunter Badge. |
 Poison KnifeKnife slathered in poison. |
2,800 | Obtaining the Cosmic Eye Watcher Badge. |
 PebbleRound pebbles that can be thrown at targets. |
10 | Available from the beginning. |
 Fire PaperCoarse rubbing paper that applies fire to weapon. |
1,720 or 1 Insight | Obtaining the Radiant Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Bolt PaperCoarse rubbing paper that applies bolt to weapon. |
2,100 or 1 Insight | Obtaining the Bolt Hunter Badge. |
 Bone Marrow AshAdditional medium that strengthens Quicksilver Bullets. |
740 | Obtaining the Radiant Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Bold Hunter's MarkAwaken anew without losing Blood Echoes. |
400 | Obtaining the Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Shining CoinsAssorted shining coins which might guide one's way. |
20 | Obtaining the Radiant Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Hand LanternUse weapons in both hands while illuminating the dark. |
2,000 | Obtaining the Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Small Resonant BellJoin another player’s game, becoming a “guest”. |
1 Insight | Available after gaining 10 Insight. |
 Sinister Resonant BellUsed to invade another Hunter's world. |
1 Insight | Available after gaining 10 Insight. |
 Numbing MistThrow to create mist cloud that prevents HP restoration. |
2 Insight | Obtaining the Cainhurst Badge. |
 Beast Blood PelletGiant medicinal pellet that grants short-lived beasthood. |
1 Insight | Obtaining the Cosmic Eye Watcher Badge. |
 Blue ElixirLiquid medicine that makes still bodies undetectable. |
2 Insight | Obtaining the Cosmic Eye Watcher Badge. |
 Lead ElixirLiquid medicine shifts weight to deflect attacks. |
2 Insight | After killing Rom, the Vacuous Spider. |
 Shaman Bone BladeSlash foes to make them lose their sense of direction. |
1 Insight | Clear Central Pthumeru Chalice Dungeon. |
Note: Many Consumables become more expensive as the Hunter progresses through the game.
Right Hand Weapons |
Base Cost |
Unlocked By |
 Saw Cleaver |
1,000 | Obtaining the Saw Hunter Badge. |
 Saw Spear |
1,000 | Obtaining the Saw Hunter Badge. |
 Hunter Axe |
1,100 | Obtaining the Saw Hunter Badge. |
 Threaded Cane |
1,200 | Obtaining the Saw Hunter Badge. |
 Kirkhammer |
3,000 | Obtaining the Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Ludwig's Holy Blade |
20,000 | Obtaining the Radiant Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Rifle Spear |
4,000 | Obtaining the Powder Keg Hunter Badge. |
 Stake Driver |
8,000 | Obtaining the Powder Keg Hunter Badge. |
 Reiterpallasch |
18,000 | Killing Martyr Logarius. |
 Chikage |
50,000 | Obtaining the Cainhurst Badge. |
 Logarius' Wheel |
13,000 | Obtaining the Wheel Hunter Badge. |
 Blade of Mercy |
40,000 | Obtaining the Crow Hunter Badge. |
 Tonitrus |
26,000 | Obtaining the Spark Hunter Badge. |
 Beast Claw |
34,000 | Purchasable after obtaining in Ailing Loran Chalice. |
 Burial Blade |
60,000 | Obtaining the Old Hunter Badge. |
Updated Apr 15, 2015 7:34 pm
Left Hand Weapons |
Base Cost |
Unlocked By |
 Hunter Pistol |
1,600 | Obtaining the Saw Hunter Badge. |
 Hunter Blunderbuss |
1,700 | Obtaining the Saw Hunter Badge. |
 Repeating Pistol |
3,000 | Obtaining the Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Ludwig's Rifle |
10,000 | Obtaining the Radiant Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Flamesprayer |
8,000 | Talking to Gilbert after entering Cathedral Ward. Obtaining the Radiant Sword Hunter Badge. |
 Rosmarinus |
60,000 | Obtaining the Cosmic Eye Watcher Badge. |
 Hunter's Torch |
2,000 | Found in Old Yharnam (east outside the door "no hunters allowed.") |
 Evelyn |
16,000 | Obtaining the Cainhurst Badge. Found in Cainhurst Castle. |
 Cannon |
18,000 | Found in the Forbidden Woods. |
Materials |
Base Cost |
Unlocked By |
 Blood Stone Shard |
2,000 or 1 Insight | Beating a certain boss unlocks buying via Blood Echoes. Slaying the Blood-Starved Beast unlocks buying via insight. |
 Twin Blood Stone Shards |
10,000 or 2 Insight | Obtaining the Cosmic Eye Watcher Badge. |
 Ritual Blood (1) |
2,500 | Killing the Blood-Starved Beast in Old Yharnam. |
 Ritual Blood (2) |
6,000 | Completing Lower Pthumeru Chalice Dungeon. |
| Ritual Blood (3) | 12,000 or 30 insight | Completing Defiled Pthumeru Chalice Dungeon. |
 Ritual Blood (4) |
24,000 | Completing Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice Dungeon. |
 Tomb Mold (1) |
2,000 | Completing Hintertomb Chalice Dungeon. |
 Tomb Mold (2) |
5,000 | Completing Lower Pthumeru Chalice Dungeon. |
 Tomb Mold (3) |
10,000 | Completing Defiled Pthumeru Chalice Dungeon. |
 Tomb Mold (4) |
20,000 | Completing Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice Dungeon. |
 Coldblood Flowerbud |
2 Insight | Defeating Amygdala in Nightmare Frontier. |
 Bloodshot Eyeball |
2 Insight | Defeating the Witch of Hemwick. |
 Living String |
10 Insight | Killing Mother Brain. |
 Red Jelly |
5 Insight | Conducting the Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice Ritual (requires 4 Red Jelly). |
 Pearl Slug |
3 Insight | Finding a Pearl Slug in a Chalice Dungeon. |
Stump Messenger
Behind the house in the Hunter's Dream you'll find a tree stump with Stump Messengers.
- After you find a messenger skin you can apply them here.
Messenger Skins
Messenger Skins are special looks for the in-game Messengers in Bloodborne. You may obtain them based on your product purchase or as DLC, they are also found throughout the game world.
To equip Messenger Skins, in the Hunter's Dream, head to the top entrance of the house and take the path on the left where you will find a Stump Messenger that allows you to equip the Messenger Skins you've collected.
| Name | Location |
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Drops from Giant Pig in Central Yharnam sewers after returning the Red Jeweled Brooch or telling Viola's daughter about Oedon Chapel. |
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Following Viola's daughter's questline, after obtaining Red Messenger Ribbon and killing Rom, the Vacuous Spider, go back to the house and give the sister the Red Messenger Ribbon (Warning: you will lose this item). Exhaust her dialogue and when loading this area again, you will find a corpse at the bottom of the ladder with the White Messenger Ribbon. |
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Above Oedon Chapel. Reached by the door that opens up in the Cathedral Ward after defeating the Blood-starved Beast. Exit the elevator through the opening between the floors. |
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In Cathedral Ward, from the lantern, go straight and head right up the stairs. After the gate, climb up the ladder on the right and drop down onto the rooftops where you will find a corpse with this item. |
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Reached by the door that opens up in the Cathedral Ward after defeating the Blood-starved Beast. After the machine gun wheelchair, walk to the Healing Church Workshop and turn right, drop down the broken walkway then drop down onto the wooden beams where you will find this item on a corpse. |
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Available via the "Nightmare Edition" (EU Only) as DLC. Also available in the "Limited Hunter Edition" (Japan Only) |
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Available via the "Limited Hunter Edition" (Japan Only) as DLC. |
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Retailer pre-order DLC (also available via the "Limited Hunter Edition"). |
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In Old Yharnam, accessible by climbing up the first ladder to Djura and dropping to the right then performing a jump onto the wooden platform where this item is located on a corpse. |
Notes & Trivia
- Some creatures you encounter have messengers imbedded in them, for example Mother Brain, the Winter Lanterns and the Crawlers.
AnonymousIf you have a problem with these lil dudes you have a problem with me bubba
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Bolt paper links to "bolt badge" which doesn't exist lol, should be the "spark hunter badge" like the tonitrus
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I found some trivia that isn't mentioned. The torch/lantern holders in the aqueducts are in the shape of Messengers, meaning that the people who built Yharnam knew about them and liked them so much, they modeled their light fixtures after them.
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If they ever make a Bloodborne 2, I want smoking pipes for my messengers.
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what funky little dudes! i love them! love makin them wear hats!
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Why doesn't this list them as "sea urchins" as they're listed as this in the games files.
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I can't tell if I'm stating the obvious or if this is genuinely something no one else has cared to mention, but don't the Messengers look distinctly Pthumerian? They look like mini-Watchers, though instead of worshiping the Great Ones, they worship the Hunters. That, and their eyes are white--at least on the variants that HAVE eyes...
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They need to update the information. nothing from the dlc is on the page
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In the beginning of the game, after you make a contract and have a blood transfusion, you have a nightmare about a beast arising from the blood, the beast approaches and as it reaches out to you in a gesture of wanting you to accept it, it bursts into flames upon touching you. I’m guessing this is a metaphor for you’re immune to the rampant beasthood curse plaguing the town and it’s for this very reason the messagers came for you. They see your immunity as a sign that you’re some sort of super hunter and so brand you with the mark of the hunter. Hence why the doll says soon after, “Ah, you found yourself a hunter.” In consequence, you’re robbed of your memories and somehow infused with fighting skills...or maybe you always had them? Clearly you’ve been indentured into the dream hunters by the messagers.
It’s really all a hypothesis but it’s how I make sense of it.
Guys, keep this alive:
Easy Layer 1 Chalice Dungeon Messenger Bath
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The Bath is in the 1st level's predungeon area with only 1 weak enemy nearby.
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I feel like this page should mention something about the Messengers in Chalice Dungeons that for some reason think it's okay to teleport you INTO harm's way. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and pretend they're just trying to help me gain blood echoes, but LET ME TRAVEL AT MY OWN PACE GOD DAMN!
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I have some trivia to point out!
After spending time in the Hunter's Dream with headphones on, I noticed strange crying. After investigating, I noticed that it was coming from the bloodstains/hunter tombstones that were lying everywhere from suiciders. After looking closer at the tombstones, I noticed that the Messengers were the ones sobbing. So all that time I've been hearing random sobbing in dungeons and stuff, thinking it was just ambient noise, it was actually the Messengers mourning over the deaths of other Hunters.
I thought this was extremely cool and sad at the same time, From really outdid themselves with the details this time!
Just some insight I wanted to share: The Brain of Mensis and heads of Winter lanterns show messengers acting just like Leukocytes (white blood cells) gathering round and engulfing "invaders" or foreign bodies in the nightmare. This correlates nicely with with the opening cinematic where the beast (representing the scourge, carried by erythrocytes) cannot touch the player and the messengers gather round to protect us. I feel this also supports the theory that the player hunter is anaemic (paleblood)
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The messengers, when viewing the death spectre, can be heard sobbing. It's as though they are mourning the death of their hunter.
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Pretty sure one of the bath messengers is trying to sell you an estus flask
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the prices on the blood bath messengers double once you go past the door after the gascoigne fight
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The price of some items increase inded, trowing knife went from 100 to 200 and now they cost me 450 im blood lvl 35 at this moment
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Every time you talk with them the say something that sounds like evbola or something like that can someone test it further please because im curios
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I obtained the Worn Top Hat and White Messenger Head Bandage from my Gamestop pre-order.
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Does anyone else think that the messengers are the soul remains of the bastards of Loran. They look kind of like the bastard of Loran item, and they are often thought of as babies.
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I added this but it got deleted you unlock Blod shards when you beat Blood starved Beast in the Old town. I was farming the stones before hand to level up and then when I beat the BSB I suddenly had the stones in shop
The Tomb Prospector set opened for me as soon as I killed the Blood Spattered Beast if memory serves.
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Can anyone confirm that it's the badges gained that increases the # of messengers in the bottom bath? I suspect it's so, but not sure if it's that or as you beat certain bosses.
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Hey, I can't see any shop tabs other than consumables and R.weapons. Anyone else having this problem?
I have done some testing in order to identify what unlocks each particular chalice dungeon material for purchase. Here is a comprehensive list: Ritual Blood (1)/ Tomb Mould (1) - Complete the Hintertomb Chalice Dungeon * Ritual Blood (1) is available before this Ritual Blood (2)/ Tomb Mould (2) - Complete the Lower Pthumeru Chalice Dungeon Ritual Blood (3)/ Tomb Mould (3) - Complete Defiled Pthumeru Chalice Dungeon Ritual Blood (4)/ Tomb Mould (4) - Complete the Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice Dungeon Pearl Slug - Defeat Ebrietas at the Altar of Despair Coldblood Flower Bud - Defeat Amygdala in Nightmare Frontier Bloodshot Eyeball - Defeat Witch of Hemwick * Needs Confirmation, this was unlocked for purchase early on Living String - Obtain one from the Mother Frenzy Brain, it will be available to purchase afterwards Red Jelly - Perform the ritual for Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice Dungeon and it will be available straight away to purchase
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The messengers seem to be inspired by Berserk as are many aspects of the game as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_E1ZbJlB8E This video discusses the messenger at around 6:50 in the video but I recommend starting at 6:08 for the full discussion on Berserk should you wish to watch this.
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muuuhh buy pre-order and que a "***** exclusive items" .. i bought on the first week and can't get couse is *****in blocked region...
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I've redeemed my Worn Top Hat DLC and made my messengers wear them to my heart's content. But after defeating the Witch of Hemwick, I lit the lamp, and they all BALD?! How did my DLC disappear? I checked my storage, and my stump but they aren't there. It disappeared. How did that happened. I hope someone here knows the solution..
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Can someone add what he sell ? Because, if you forgive him... he will become a merchant.
saw hunter badge = blue elixir messenger sword hunter badge = molotov messenger powder keg hunter badge = rooter messenger (left of the main messenger) radiant sword hunter badge = book messenger spark hunter badge = clapping messenger to the far right cainhurst badge = upside-down messenger (far left) wheel hunter badge = clapping messenger (to the right more towards the front) cosmic eye watcher badge = tall messenger in the back of the bath crow hunter badge = knife-wielding messenger old hunter badge = PRAISE-THE-MOON messenger
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I can buy ritual blood 5 and tomb mould 5 as well as a bunch of other good chalice ***** in the blood echoes bath, when did this happen? How did i unlock it? I havent even finished pthumeru ihyll for this character
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Every time you kill a boss, one new messenger appears in the blood shop. (Insight shop idk, and I don't know about great ones)
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The winter lanterns, weird white squid monsters, both unique to the nightmare, are all composed of messengers. Visible on the brain of the lanterns and inside the squid when they open up for their breath attack. Thoughts?
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For some really wierd reason i cant get sinister bell from the messengers shop, no matter how much i have insight it wont sell it to me some1 pls help
Messengers >>>>> Vilebloods
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