The Cleric Beast hide and scalp that Brador wears.

Well, the Chalice dungeon are the Old Lanyrinth and supposed to be in the "Waking World“, whereas the DLC takes place in a Nightmare realm!

Also, the cleft on Laurence’s real world skull match up almost perfectly with the wound on the Bloodletting Beast! That’s pretty good proof, I’d say....

As to why he’s a Burning Cleric Beast in the Hunter’s Nightmare, we can only speculate. It doesn’t even really make sense, that his human skull is in the Nightmare, after all the BB and BCB both still have their heads...

But the Nightmare twists things and makes them more symbolic, so maybe he’s depicted as an eternally burning Cleric Beast, because he had a hand in the burning of Old Yharnam! Or maybe just as a sort of purgatory....

Remember, Maria and Gehrman are both influenced by things happening in the Nightmare and arguably have parts of their consciousness trapped in there!

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