Central Yharnam Lore Notes:
Location: Immediately upon waking in Iosefka's Clinic, on a chair to the character's right:
"Handwritten scrawl: Seek paleblood to transcend the hunt."
Location: Within the Dark House near the gate shortcut to Central Yharnam lamp. First accessed from the Great Bridge. Note is on a first floor shelf near the enemy in the wheelchair:
"When The Hunt began, the Healing Church left us, blocking the great bridge to Cathedral Ward, as Old Yharnam burned to the ground that moonlit night."
Hunter's Dream Lore Notes:
Location: Inside the house, behind the Memory Altar:
"To escape this dreadful Hunter's Dream, halt the source of the spreading scourge of beasts, lest the night carry on forever."
Location: Inside the house, where Gehrman is normally located, after he speaks about the Healing Church Workshop:
"Ascend to Oedon Chapel."
Location: Inside the house, where Gehrman is normally located, after entering Old Yharnam:
"A Holy Chalice is said to be enshrined in Old Yharnam, seated in the valley."
Cathedral Ward Lore Notes:
Location: After beating Father Gascoigne and ascending a ladder into a study as you're entering Cathedral Ward , the note is around the first table:
"The Byrgenwerth spider hides all manner of rituals, and keeps our lost master from us. A terrible shame. It makes my head shudder uncontrollably."
Location: Found on top of the tower where you need to drop down to be able to open the second gate:
"A watchman of Byrgenwerth guards the gate with a password, the sacred adage of the Grand Cathedral."
Location: The note is on the right side near some candles before you ascend the steps inside the Grand Cathedral in Cathedral Ward:
"Heir to the ritual of blood, purveyor of ministration. Place your hand on the altar's sacred covering, and inscribe Master Laurence's adage upon your flesh."
Location: Found on the outside of the workshop building while ascending to Upper Cathedral Ward:
"The sky and the cosmos are one. "The Choir.""
Old Yharnam Lore Notes:
Location: Up the stairs from the Bell Chime Maiden Spawn, near the Charred Hunter Set:
"The red moon hangs low, and beasts rule the streets. Are we left no other choice, than to burn it all to cinders?"
Byrgenwerth Lore Notes:
Location: On a Bookshelf on the same floor as the Lunarium Key door:
"When the red moon hangs low, the line between man and beast is blurred. And when the Great Ones descend, a womb will be blessed with child.
Location: On a couch on the opposite side of the same floor as the first note:
"The spider hides all manner of rituals, certain to reveal nothing, for true enlightenment need not be shared."
Yahar'gul, Unseen Village Lore Notes:
Location: In the shrouded Chapel entrance to Yarhar'gul village, only appears on screen once after killing Rom and awakening in the chapel:
"Ritual secret broken. Seek the nightmare newborn"
Location: Right in front of Hypogean Gaol lamp on the floor:
"Nightmarish rituals crave a newborn. Find one, and silence its harrowing cry."
Location: Found on the right side outside of the cell you wake up in after being captured by a snatcher:
"Madmen toil surreptitiously in rituals to beckon the moon. Uncover their secrets."
Location: Outside Hypogean Gaol. Leave through the front door. This note is on top of the stairs leading to the area where the Yahar'gul set can be found:
"Behold! A Paleblood sky!"
Location: In a jail cell behind the first Chime Maiden you encounter after the Yahar'gul lantern:
"The Mensis ritual must be stopped, lest we all become beasts."
Lecture Building Lore Notes:
Location: Second floor of one of the two lecture halls lying on the ground in the corner:
"Master Willem was right. Evolution without courage will be the ruin of our race."
Location: After picking up Note 1, progress to the next room. The note is behind a cage on a table:
"Hunt the Great Ones, Hunt the Great Ones."
Location: In one the rooms at the end of the hallway on the second floor of the Lecture Building:
"The nameless moon presence beckoned by Laurence and his associates. Paleblood."
Location: Same room as the third note:
"Three third cords."
Appears when accepting the Eye of a Blood-Drunk Hunter:
"The Eye of a Blood-drunk Hunter beckons hunters to the Hunter's Nightmare. A deformed creature will whisk you away outside Oedon Chapel."
Appears when the Insight Messenger bath is empty:
"This bath appears linked to the nightmare, but there are no messengers."