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Lore Subforum
Hello, people of the Fog! As you all know, Dead by Daylight's Lore is quite versatile and mysterious. And of course we have a place for you to discuss it. Share your thoughts, theories, secrets and easter eggs (?) here. But remember - The Entity is watching. Always. artwork by Inkary
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Otto Stamper from Dredge's lore is not the same Otto Stamper from Doctor's lore
Basically, they're from two different terras/universes. One is from base Haddie's terra while the other is from tome Haddie's terra. Base Haddie in her lore finds the secluded island where the fold used to live as well as see the residual memories of when the people of the fold killed each other and created the Dredge,…
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Did BHVR Forget About Mikaela's Lore?
One thing I noticed while reading the lore, is that Mikaela's lore has nothing to do with Sable, yet Sable's lore has everything to do with Mikaela. Did the devs just completely forget what their story for Mikaela was?
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Will we see more End Transmission lore in the future?
I love this chapter and its concepts. Gabriel Soma and his internal confusion on his memories in particular stand out to me. I'd love to see more Hux lore too.
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Survivor PHD's
How did every survivor get a Master's Degree in engineering to all learn how to repair generators? Was it an intellectual gift of the Entiry?
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Is there a reason in the lore for Mother's Dwelling to have a henge
The lore mentions that the map simulates an eastern European forest and I think this is the huntress' map, I get that the henge prop is used in other maps of the red forest realm, but isn't a henge out of place in an eastern European forest?
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Doubts about Danny Johnson (Ghostface)
I have some questions about Danny: 1. What was his age when he entered the realm of the Entity? 2. What are his physical features: hair color, eyes, skin? 3. Does the fact that his father told him real horror stories mean that his father was a soldier? 4. Does the fact that his father was his first victim mean that his…
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Question for the lore writer of Sable Ward
Hi! I'm an artist creating stuff for Dead By Daylight and I wanted to ask you -BHVR- what the tattoo looks like Sable Ward has on the spot where the sun never shines and it's location! I'm very into details and since you cannot see them in the exported files I thought I give it a shot over here! Greetings :D
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[THEORY] The Unknowns True Identity?
I think I might know what the Unknown might be…..What if he’s Nyarlathotep? Or at least BHVRs own take on the character… For those who dont know, Nyarlathotep (also known as the Crawling Chaos or the Faceless God from the Lovecraft Mythos) is a Outer God much like the Entity and enjoys manipulating and causing madness to…
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Where has he gone, and will he come back.
When this game first started Benedict Baker was the individual responsible for giving us lore and even explaining what certain parts of the Entity’s realm did. But after a certain point he stopped writing, and we started getting the Tomes. Last we know he is still alive, and while I get he was most likely used as a tool…
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Sable is surprisingly shallow
This is a post to examine Sable more deeply and get away from the surface level "goth mommy" and "should have been Julian" posts. Because Sable is on her own a very interesting character albeit a confusing one the deeper you go. By her own admission Sable herself is not a goth and with the information we're given she is…
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Worst killers?
No i dont mean gameplay, im talking about which ones are the most irredeemable ones (to avoid bias and the obvious "one", we arent including Licensed characters, BESIDES Ghostface due to being a special case) In my opinion Knight, Clown and Doctor easily make it to the top 3. Knight is essentially a psychopathic warmonger,…
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Defining the Unknown
The newest freak of nature to join the DBD roster is the Unknown. Basically everyone I’ve shown this thing to has asked the same question: WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS THING? I mean, they’ve also asked where I get these things, why is it on my phone, and if I am okay, but those aren’t important. So, I’m here to do the…
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Which killers do you think could defeat the entity?
I mean some of them are actually indestructible maniacs, and this is one of my first posts so I thought I'd get something out there. Freddy would def win
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The Unknown and The Entity
This is a very interesting relationship. When we look at Dredge, the end of its tome doesn’t make it clear where it went. Did it go back to its own realm and get taken by the Entity later? Was it taken then? Is it from the Entities realm originally? Who knows. The Unknown on the other hand, gets taken by the Entity during…
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All Things Wicked Character Lore
After taking a year off from the forums, I think I've finally decided to (at least partially) come back. And what's this we have here? New chapter lore? What a fantastic (day-late) birthday present! Sable Ward Sable figured she had to be adopted. No way was she the progeny of her insanely perky mom and her grinning,…
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Inaccuracy in the Deathslinger Tome
In Deathslinger's new tome, it jumps around and follows about the same storyline as his regular bio does, just giving us some more info about what he was up to and how some things went down, but there's a small thing at the end that really bothers me, kind of messing up my enjoyment of the story. In Memory 6018, one of…
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DBD Killer Timeline
Since I have nothing better to do, I decided to put together a timeline for when each Killer's story took place. This took, honestly not that much time, but some of it is obviously questionable. And since a lot of these stories could have taken place during a large time period, obviously some Killers are in the wrong spot,…
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Chucky lore is a bit weird
When I say weird, I mean more specifically the version of Chucky that went into the fog combined with his skins plus Tiffany. The Chucky we have in game is intended to be specifically the Chucky from Child's play 2 right after he has a box of good guy's dropped on him. First thing, his weapon. In Child's play 2, I do…
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Does the Entity get angry when the Killer let's the last survivor escape?
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Campfire
When you boot up the menu and it shows the killer and four random survivors are they allowed to talk to each other or does the entity make them sit in complete silence?
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Dredge's Nightfall... Chanting? What Exactly Are The Lore Implications Of It?
I started playing Dredge again, and normally during Nightfall, you hear the darkness and souls that formed the Dredge screaming out and it rapidly gets more intense as Nightfall starts to end (both as a way to amplify the feeling Nightfall creates but also to act as an indicator for Nightfall ending). But I started to…
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How many Entities?
If I recall, the Entity can pull survivors and killers from various universes and timelines. Is there only one Entity that can do this, or does each universe/timeline have its own Entity? If so, can it communicate with itself? Does it compete with itself?
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Killers’ reaction to Chucky
Now that Chucky is in the game, what do y’all think how the other killers would react to meeting Chucky in the fog?
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The Bloodweb lore wise is so creepy
The Bloodweb is so creepy. As the player we are some type of guiding force for the Killers and Survivors. We as the players are the ones who feed the Entity while it rewards us with bloodpoints in order to continue the torture. In some ways we ourselves are the Entity. After we earn bloodpoints we perform forbidden…
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Things I Personally Dislike About Skull Merchant
Fun Intro Just like all my posts, this is my opinion. Feel free to have yours in the comments. I always love hearing from everyone else. I have made some of these points in the past, but I wanted to make a nice organized post on it. As terribly as the gameplay was, and I still hate it, I'm gonna try and keep this to the…
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What would happen if killers and survivors just did nothing in a trial?
If they did absolutely nothing, would that starve the Entity? I'm not saying they'd be taken by the void, I'm talking about if everyone just suddenly stopped killing/doing gens/anything. Could that hurt the Entity?
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What is The Knights, aka, Torhas's Stance?
Through the Knight's Lore we get to know that he experiended an Extreme amount of Violence with his Village literally being attacked and Massacred, with him surviving the Attack and feeling an un-desribable feeling known as "being in Awe." So was he in Awe with the Violence? Did he like it and wanted more of it? Because…
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Moved: stranger things map
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Why is the bathroom from the first Saw movie in The Gideon Meat Plant map?
The bathroom wasn't in the Gideon Meat Plant as it first appeared in Saw 3. Does anyone know the lore reason for it if there is one?
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The Legion Comics
Has anyone else been reading them? I've just recently got the third issue and I think they are an amazing addition to the story of the Legion. Especially this third issue, it gives Joey actual motivations and personality besides just having the coolest (edgiest) cosmetics. The reoccurring "Entity Dreams" and seeing its…
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Evacuation Diagram at Macmillan
The Entity needs to explain how I haven't seen all these rooms when I was trying to survive in there
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Moved: It would be cool for the next survivor to be someone saved from the void from this events ac…
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What was The Dredge doing before it was taken?
I really don’t think it was taken directly after Otter Stamper summoned it, it’s in game description isn’t really specific on where it went after it appeared from the ground. Most, if not all, killer bios end with “and then they disappeared into the fog lol,” but Dredge’s bio doesn’t. There’s no mention of any fog, he just…
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Moved: dead by daylight account
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Ciphers, Whispers and Spirit scratch cosmetic - All connected?
So, for a long time now the ciphers provided in the 1st anniversary event back in 2017 on the marked weapons for Trapper, Wraith, Billy and Nurse all have the same cipher on them as well as on the Odd Stamp Map item addon has bugged me, as their meaning has never truly been found. Some people on here and reddit seem to…
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Were the Nurse's Aka, Sally's Actions Justified?
Question in the title. Of course, the honest awnser to the question would be: "No." To me however, im conflicted. I would like to see what everyone else's spin on the Situation is. I read through her Tome and to me it just seems like even through all the Horrible Things that took Place of the Asylum, she tried to supress…
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Is Benedict Baker + his journal still canon?
Benedict was a survivor in DBD that wrote extra little entries on all the survivors and killers up until Clown’s release. BHVR has since scrubbed most, if not all, of his stuff. I’m just not sure if that implies a retcon or if it’s the world’s slowest-burning ARG. Thoughts?
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Moved: What does the EMP do?
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Where does Maria fit into the Lore?
In Silent Hill 3 we do learn that Maria was in fact a real person in the town of Silent Hill, a dancer at Haven's Night However, the Maria we see in Silent Hill 2 and the one we play as in the fog is the manifestation created for James. So Maria is just a manifestation of Silent Hill. Like Pyramid Head himself Maria is the…
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Is there a "why" do the skins exists?
So, I was reading a few discussions here, and started to link as well these short descriptions the skins have. We know so far they have a lore behind related to certain life episodes of each character. Now, my question goes beyond that. Is there a reason why skins exist in the entity real as it is? To put up a theory for…
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The Entity wants survivors to escape?
So I recently learned that pallets are made up of the fog (which is also the entity) so does that mean The Entity is helping them and wants them to escape, if not why pallets, why gens and exit gates, why make it even possible to escape, and also why killers? Once the endgame timer finishes the entity just kills them…
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The entity's pentimento
La Entité cast her shadow over the broken canvas of Carmina´s soul painting new life into the layers of her sorrow and loss, like a dark phoenix reborn from the ashes, told in the lenguage of a pentimento . " - A pentimento is an art term that refers to a visible trace of an earlier painting beneath a layer(s) of paint on…
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If the entity lost control over the realm
What killer would likely take over control? I'd say either Pinhead or Pyramid Head. You?
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Seeing stamper turning up a lot in the lore
There's the stampers in doctors and dredges lore and now a different stamper showing up in the lore for nick cage as well. I'd be interested to see if they expand on it, perhaps a family working to feed people to the entity or part of some kind of entity related cult.
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Survivors & Killers’ reaction to Nicolas Cage showing up (lore-wise)
Now that Nick Cage has arrived at the Entity’s Realm, how do y’all think of everyone’s reaction to meeting him, lore-wise of course.
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Tierlist of how strong killers would be in a fight lorewise. (Open for debate)
these fights are based on the killer vs an average human, the Human has very little to zero prep time (adrenaline and fear is gonna start kicking in), guns are not allowed for the human, killers are at their normal strength IRL (not entity strength boosted). Quick context on the tiers: Death: you could not beat this killer…
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Where did the idea of Pyramid Head is against the Entity came from, because it isn't true lorewise
Entity sought out Pyramid Head after Silent Hill "When his duty was complete and his presence no longer needed, he prepared for the long rest — and yet, his skills were required elsewhere. The Fog that streamed over him was somehow different than that he was accustomed to in Silent Hill, as if each wisp contained the…
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The killers returning to earth prt 2
This is a question I asked 2 years ago and ever since I asked that question have we received a lot of new content and stories to explore. now like last time, this is a form of "what-if" because of course we don't know what would happen if everyone just returned to earth. We aren't so sure if they'll return to their…
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Are ALL current Survivors really in the entitys realm anymore?
Whilst most of our questions about DBD Lore are awnsered, there's still one that bothers me: Are the current Survivors we have in the game really inside of the Entitys realm anymore? What i mean by this is that right now, the Realm is getting a bit too Full. There are many Survivors at the campfire and if more characters…
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Possible scenarios for the future
There’s some really interesting things the devs can explore but just haven’t yet. Let’s start with stuff that will most likely happen. Saku, the Redcrane is most likely going to join our survivor roster at some point. Her story has been told in the tomes, just like Haddie so I think it’s possible for her to be joining in…