The Duskbloods Characters - Every Bloodsworn Revealed So Far

From Albert to Zork

by Matthew Reynolds
Fri, 2:22pm

Two characters from Duskbloods standing against a cloudy red sky — *Image: FromSoftware*

The Duskbloods characters offer a range of playstyles to get to grips with.

Each has their own set of unique weapons, skills and aspects, but all offer surprising feats of agility, allowing them to jump and dash in superhuman fashion.

What follows are the confirmed characters for The Duskbloods Network Test, and though they cannot be customised - the skills and aspects in particular can be tweaked in the full game - it can help give you a useful taste of things to come.

The Duskbloods Characters - Every Bloodsworn Revealed So Far

There are six Duskbloods characters - also known as Bloodsworn - featured in the Network Test. They are:

Albert
Bloodhand Jan
Trang Lanh
Sniper Layla
Senator Samir Patres
Zork

Here's each character, broken down with their Weapons, Skills and Aspects. The following descriptions are all verbatim from the official The Duskbloods website:

Albert

Weapons

Lorrik's Jeweled Saber / Submachine Gun: A treasured sword used for melee attacks. Paired with a submachine gun for ranged attacks.

Skills

Blood Blade: Fires off a blade formed of the wielder's blood. Scales with wielder's blood caliber

Light of Hayern: Raises a crystal of light mounted and shines forth a beam of light

Aspects

High Lorrik Blood: Blood-based Bloodsworn skills have additional usages from the start.

Upriser: Increases stagger potential of attacks against Bloodsworn with high Virtue.

Bloodhand Jan

Weapons

Bloodthirsty Axe / Stone of Sorcery: A bloodstained bateleaxe made from a cast, used for melee attacks. The Stone of Sorcery is embedded in the left hand. It can be activated to unleash flames straight ahead.

Skills

Blink: Uses the wielder's blood to enhance the speed of evasion. Effect will be lost after some time.

Surrender to My Blood: Quench the axe's thirst with the wielder's blood, strike the blade into the ground and rend the surrounding area with blood slashes.

Aspects

Bloodhand Lineage: Counterattacking after receiving damage restores HP

Lord of Blood: Heals HP of spellbound foes and also boosts attack power

Trang Lanh

Weapon

Full Moon Blade: A circular blade made from cold silver. Can be used in melee combat or thrown like a chakram

Skills

Darkmoon: Conceals the body behind the darkmoon for a limited period

Mama Natha: Summons a giant silver serpent, the guardian of the Ratnam, to artack the surrounding area

Aspects

Alluring Bride: Drinking blood also spellbinds nearby enemies

Daughter of the Darkmoon: Hides oneself from distant foes to hinder targeting

Sniper Layla

Weapons

Hieroglyph Katars / Sniper Rifle: Dagger-like blades of polished bronze wielded in both hands for dealing melec attacks, paired with a ranged weapon in the form of a sizeable sniper rifle capable of precision aiming

Skills

Neb-ra Vanishing: Assume the form of a swarm of insects to move to a distant location. The afterimage confuses foes.

Verd Gatling Gun: Extracts a giant Gatling gun from the wielder's body, prepares to fire, and chen unleashes a rapid-fire barrage.

Aspects

Neb-ra Lineage: HP is gradually restored to 1/2 of max. Goldblood Stakes restore less than usual, however.

Nighteye: Longer range for lock-ons and observation

Senator Samir Patres

Weapons

Senate Rapier / Soulbird Ring: A well-tempered, narrow-bladed straight sword used to perform melee attacks as the primary weapon. The ring sends forth a pre-historic spectral bird for ranged attacks.

Skills

Bloodstake: Form a swamp of blood at the feet of foes. A colossal bloodstake rises from the swamp.

Saurian Form: Assume the form of a carnivorous dinosaur before charging at foes and attacking with powerful jaws.

Aspects

Blood Disciple: Lowers required Bloodsworn skill level.

Unshakable Sword: Perfect guarding boosts melee attack power.

Zork

Weapons

Undersea Cable / Speargun: A severed portion of an outmoded undersea cable is the primary melee weapon. The speargun is used for ranged attacks.

Skills

Missile: Deploys a cannon from the back of the diving suit, assumes a firing stance, and then fires.

Human Rocket: Deploys a propulsion mechanism from the back of the diving suit, shifting to flight mode and charging straight ahead.

Aspects

Law of the Deep Sea: Defeat Bloodsworn to steal max HP. Any HP gained is lost if defeated b the victim.
Dread Resonance: A howl of inhuman sonic wavelength. Hold down L and ZR to extend howling.

Which character are you looking forward to playing as in The Duskbloods Network Test? Let us know in the comments.

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Lumnethia
Fri, 4:41pm

Can wait to test them in action,
Albert sounds like a well rounded character (we already know that it's will be a pick for many), his skill Blood Blade is like the Skill of the Reduvia in Elden Ring, looks like a perfect way to extend combo if the opponent is get back, or staggered and range. His passive abilities are there to turn the tables and change the course of the match, giving him the possibilities to beat a lot of character at the end phases.

Bloodhand Jan is clearly a Bloodborne-like character, judging by his skills and passives (Old hunter's bone like movement, and rally potential kind of regeneration). His axe special attack (a skill) is difficult to land, but once you hit some players, it can blend them into smithereens.

Trang Lanh seems a little bland in comparison. Her invisibility reminds me of the Duchess from Nightreign, but her ability to steer the snake (Mama Natha) could make her quite tricky to deal with, especially near the edges.

Sniper Layla seem's interesting in term of balanced range, melee very short reach and the Sniper rifle for the maximum among these characters, the ability to repositioning can be handful at time for the opponent maybe indicating a likely hit and run strategy at times and apparently, the Gatling is a good finisher when a foes is at low hp.

Senator Samir Patres has some curious stuff his transformation for exemple, if his rapier do more than just poking then i will keep trying him. His perfect block lead him to be kind of a occasional counter type character.

Zork looks fun as a strength build rocket man with missiles and potential to stagger more others characters due to extended howling balancing his relatively slow but powerful cable.