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When our hapless Hunter first awakens in the grim world of Yharnam, they soon find that friends are hard to come by. Everyone they encounter seems to want to kill them. The very few early-game exceptions include Gilbert, the kindly-sounding ailing man in the window, and Iosefka.

Iosefka, too, has a benevolent tone. She wishes the Hunter well, but, apologizing most profusely, refuses them refuge in her clinic. Her patients must remain safe from outside infection.

A little later, however, she has completely changed her tune. She asks the Hunter to send people to her so that she might ‘save’ them. In true FromSoftware fashion, this NPC has sinister, veiled intent. Imposter Iosefka has taken the original’s place.

What becomes of the real Iosefka, and the imposter’s other victims if they’re sent to her? By finding a hidden passage in the Forbidden Woods, it’s possible to gain access to the clinic again. Here (before defeating Rom, the Vacuous Spider) you’ll find the original Iosefka, transformed into a Celestial Minion by the hideous experimentations of the imposter.

Imposter Iosefka can be fought as an optional miniboss, and after the Blood Moon, if she isn’t killed prior, she will seemingly be impregnated by a Great One, as indicated by her position on her operating table and her pained yet enraptured words.