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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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Hag and her underdevelouped lore
Out of every killer in the game, I think the playerbase can collectively agree that the most underdevelouped and poorly handled killer is Hag. Simplistic and vague backstory has never been fleshed out upon ever beyond a very VERY bad tome story. What glimpses of intrigue due exist can be confusing or very unclear, and not…
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What are the correct numbers for Adiris/David Tapp's memories?
Both Adiris in Tome 7 and David Tapp in Tome 10 have Memory 4100 through 4106. Obviously they can't both be that number, but I'd really like to know who has the numbers correct, and what the numbers are for the other?
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How do the survivors communicate?
We know that within the trials they cannot speak to each other, (which has now been disproven) but what about around the campfire??? The survivors interact and communicate with each other at the fire, this is shown through their animations and some voicelines. We also know that there are some survivors that don't speak…
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What is the timeline?
I'm trying to piece all the lore together to find a specific timeline. I'm trying to make a timeline around all the times characters have been taken into the fog. It's easier for characters that are from the past, like Vittorio or the twins, but when it comes to more modern characters like Orela and Sable it's kinda hard…
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How is Leon from resident evil being hunted by legion a 16 year old in a mask
Wouldn't Leon just beat him to a pulp isn't legion supposed to be a 16 year old with a mask and a knife and sometimes also a teenage girl like why would Leon not just turn around and subdue them
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Nurse's tome objectively does not contradict/retcon her base lore
Nurse's entire base lore is not only incredibly barebone and vague to begin with (even prior to being shortened by bhvr to be even more barebone and vague than what it already was), but there is nothing within the tome story that can't be explained or that goes against anything that's already established within the base…
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Hey, what are the rules?
As you know, the trials have specific rules. But what are all of them, spoken and unspoken. Example, can you defend yourself against a killer? I'm the kind of person that wants all details, so if someone could share them, that would be great. gO, gHoStFaCe!!!
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The Hidden Monster Among Us: Julian, Mikaela, and The Unknown
I’ve been connecting dots between Mikaela’s lore, The Unknown’s lore, and some cultural analogies, and it seems clear: Julian was never really her best friend. He was The Unknown in disguise, targeting Mikaela as the intended host. 1. Julian as The Unknown (Mask & Predator) Julian appears to be Mikaela’s supportive…
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Is Burong still in control of her human form in the entity's realm?
I absolutely love the Krasue's lore. It's short but really good! After hearing her voicelinesI do havea couple of questions. From her lore we know that Burong isn't aware of what the Krasue does at night, or atleast that she doesn't remember what happens. However in the trail the two of them have to work togther, I mean we…
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what do the Killers REALLY do after/outside the trials?
I can't imagine them socializing with each other when it comes to killers like Myers, who is just a walking killing machine we never saw speak in the movies as an adult as far as I'm concerned. And as for a Killer like the Legion, they literally have themselves as a group of four people so I don't know if all four seek…
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Retaliation
In lore, when a survivor gets picked up and is en-route to a hook. What is stopping the survivor from straight up going sicko mode and biting the killer all over like a night monkey. If I was brutally stabbed and carried over my killer's shoulder. I would keep biting like its thanksgiving.
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THE NEW TOME IS FOR TRAPPER?
i’m honestly surprised I think trapper deserved a second tome more than anybody because his first one felt more like a character assassination rather than a actual expansion, but I am really curious to see where this goes.
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Endless Halloween Festival: Betwixt the Veil - Mikaela, Sable & Tryks All Along 🎭
Mikaela & Sable/Je-Zable (TRYKS) – The Hidden Orchestrator? Last time, we explored the idea that Julian wasn’t just Mikaela’s friend, but possibly The Unknown in disguise. But what if the real antagonist was hiding in plain sight? What if it was TRYKS all along? 👀 Looking at the lore side by side, the connection between…
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Endless Halloween Festival: Betwixt the Veil - Mikaela, Sable & Tryks All Along 🎭
Mikaela & Sable/Je-Zable (TRYKS) – The Hidden Orchestrator?Last time, we explored the idea that Julian wasn’t just Mikaela’s friend, but possibly The Unknown in disguise. But what if the real antagonist was hiding in plain sight? What if it was TRYKS all along? Looking at the lore side by side, the connection between…
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Sinister Grace Character Lore
With a new bloody chapter comes new bloody lore. And since we're not getting our "November" chapter until January, it'll be a while before we get more of these. Vee Boonyasak The energetic Vee Boonyasak always loved exploring and getting into trouble, but more than anything, she loved playing the drums. She began to teach…
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The First Generation: The Origins of the Lost Tapes and Neutral Perks
Quick note. Everything I'm about to say is pretty loose theory. There's no hard evidence nor confirmation to confirm this, but I still think it's an interesting idea regardless. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: As of right now, there are eight survivor perks known as the "Lost Tapes" perks. Each of these perks includes a quote from…
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Could Sable and Tryks be the same person?
This is an interesting point of discussion I found scrolling through DbD's socials. With this Masquerade being the last one, people are wondering what will happen to Tryks, and there are many options, but that's not the main point. Among these discussions, sometimes someone starts wondering if Tryks isn't the person Sable…
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Vigo's Fog Vial
Time moves differently and disjointedly in the Entity's realm. One of the few to canonically escape is Alan Wake, but whilst he reappeared from the lake 13 years later, it's been stated by Sam Lake time worked differently in the Dark Place, so Alan could have been in there for hundreds of years, and possibly many of those…
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Ken Kaneki vs DBD Killers
Been awhile since I've been here but I am curious on something and need other people to figure this idea out. If Ken fight each DBD killer, would Ken win? I'm asking because someone thinks that Ken stomps on every killer that's in DBD. But I have doubt, I think characters like Vecna, Dracula and possibly Albert Whesker…
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Can Entity be fed by positive emotions?
I know it can be silly, but actually can Entity be fed by positive emotions? Like when we play snow fight during Christmas event and other good stuff.
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Let's ACTUALLY Map Out the Realm
Lets actually take a minute to piece together the worldbuilding of Dead By Daylight. Basically MOSTLY every playable map in the game isn't the ACTUAL place that the Survivors/Killers came from, but rather a simplistic somewhat replica that the Entity made from the memories of the people it brings in, one exception being…
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Did Orela take meds/surgery during her transition?
I was just looking at character lore and just realised Orela is trans. Her model character chest looks pretty flat and transition doesn't always means going thru surgery/medication. Do you think she went thru any of those or she only transitioned socially? (changing alignment and stuff but without physically change)
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The Walking Dead Character Lore
A little bit more meat than our usual Survivor-only licensed chapter (are these still called paragraphs?) since we have two folks to talk about (even though one of them is literally unplayable for some reason), and neither one is reduced to a singular paragraph. Still not quite pre-Ash levels, but it's not Leon. Rick…
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Dead By Daylight Endless Hell Theory
Hello I want to start off by saying this is only a Theory and this can Be Completely Wrong and I'm not expecting this to be Right in any shape or form. Ok Let's get to the Theory. My Theory is that The Entire game is actually Hell It's Self but formed in a different Way. As Each Game starts Players give Offerings to get…
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Who's Vigo?
I've seen some videos about him, but I didn't quite understand. Who's he? What are the theories about him?
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Are "The Entity" and "IT" the same being?
At first glance, it may seem like a far-fetched question. After all, they originate from entirely different mythologies, penned by different authors, in separate fictional universes. But if we set aside the boundaries of intellectual property and approach this from a metaphysical or meta-narrative perspective, the idea…
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Why do people think any killer can harm the entity?
It makes no sense to me, especially that we can disprove some of the killers easily. Myers came out in 2016, back when moris were able to kill people without hooking them even once. Every killer had the ability to do what myers does until now and the only reason he has this ability now is because devs didn't touch him that…
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Cross Series Lore thoughts
Okay so, Dracula is fated to duel those with blood of Belmont right? And Xenomorph makes bbys by implanting them in living beings So theoretically a Belmont-made Xenomorph would have to fight Dracula at some point. Is that sound cross-lore thoughts?
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How many different discarded pocket dimensions/Killers/Survivors are in the Void?
The Void is my favorite part of DBD's entirety just because of the pretty glowy blue stuff and the ghosts in the sky and the shattered remains of the pocket dimensions within it but how many different Killers and Survivors and their fragmented worlds have gotten thrown in there?
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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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Five Nights at Freddy's Character Lore
As is tradition, even when there's barely anything to work with as is standard for licensed chapters, I present the lore of Springtrap. Deep within the abandoned Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, William Afton ran from the ghosts of his victims. He frantically put on his beloved Spring Bonnie costume, the disguise he wore while…
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Steady Pulse Character Lore
After straining my eyes for a while (seriously, why did you make Orela's default outfit the SAME color as the words in the Bio? And why isn't her paramedic uniform her default to begin with?), I present to you the story of Orela Rose. Orela Rose grew up on Chicago’s far north side in Roger’s Park, just blocks from Lake…
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Augustine is Dead by Daylight's version of Reverse Flash or Kang
When The Casting Of Frank Stone came out, I know a lot of people were scratching their heads about the different versions of Augustine, including the after credits scene. But I think the easiest way to understand her is to view her as being like Kang the conqueror in the Marvel universe or the Reverse Flash in the dc…
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Tokyo Ghoul Character Lore
Our first anime chapter (no, Castlevania is not an anime, it's a game series with an anime adaptation) brings us Ken Kaneki… and that's basically the extent of my Tokyo Ghoul knowledge, so I really can't say how accurate any of his backstory is, other than the interview where they wanted to explore a what if Kaneki went…
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I've made some Lore-based builds for killers, any feedback would be appreciated
(I don't know if this subforum or general discussion would be better to post this) I'd include pictures for better readability, but it's going to be a wall of a post even without them. Thank you to those who provided feedback in the past, and if anyone has any thoughts, feedback, or a build of your own that you'd like to…
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The entity's realm explored the 9 circles of the underworld
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear" Before anyone says I'm reaching for the stars a bit , I want you to notice something in…
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2v8 is pretty fun as deathslinger, because funny gun go boom
i loved dbd's 1v4 formula of coregameplay loop so much so that i kept it in my life for years since 2018, since i had that free trial on PSN, i always wondered about such a gamemode where you could kill with your friend, since my friend Ray loved playing survivor, and i loved playing killer because at the time in early…
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Why don't the survivors fight back?
I'm sure there is already a well established reason for this, but I can't help but wonder why Lara Croft doesn't just build a makeshift weapon from some sticks, climb up a tree, then pounce down on an unsuspecting Legion walking by. Or why Ada and Leon don't use all of their knife defense skills against Michael. Why don't…
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The Unknown foreshadowed everything
So I ran into an interesting theory, perhaps one that already circulated and I'm just late to the party but I still find it extremely fascinating. The Unknown has some interesting voice lines, ones that don't fully make sense and were assumed to be remnents of the people taken by the Unknown. There's an interesting idea at…
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Why is David King a survivor?
So in the Lore stream a while back they talked about how the Entity chooses the killers for its realm, it can see within one the potential for there ruthless abilities to slaughter fellow men. So I am curious as to why David King is a survivor. In his lore he is a bruiser, going out with friends to drink and get in fights…
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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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Doomed Course Character Lore
BHVR, you can't just drop a PTB without any warning when I'm busy like this. Especially for our first genuinely evil Survivor and the absolute fever dream that is the Killer's story. Taurie Cain Taurie Cain was born and raised in a suburb outside Glasgow with her older brother Ewan. Unusual for Scotland, the kids were…
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Heartache & Heartstrings
Who are the most tragic Killers and Survivors? Which stories resonate with you? Do any Killers earn your sympathy? Meg’s story is really sad, I think that much is obvious. There are so many others but I have to give an honorable mention to Gabriel. His origins are just awful. The Killers’ stories are really sorrowful too.…
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What would change if the survivors fought back?
I know the entity stops them but what If it didn’t, what if they could. they have the means to. Toolboxes have saws, lockers can have knifes and axes, there is wood and flaming barrels, and many maps have special things as well; blades and hammers, bricks, even Armor and chains. Some perks also have things like DS and…
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Original wraith lore
Hey BHVR, can You leak original wraith lore? We know that auto heaven and junkyard is not original wraith place, swamp is. And wraiths lore was changed, we accept this, and deal with his current lore. But can we know what was his original lore? My personal idea is that Hags lore is actually Wraith lore.
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Which killers could the survivors beat?
Fed up of running away, all four survivors decide to wait in a doorway and jump the killer as a group. Which ones could they realistically beat this way, if we assume the survivors are all regular people and discount the action heroes?
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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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The Entity Is Arachne
I think I might know the true name of our spider God or Goddess I should say, it's Arachne from Greek mythology, supporting evidence well I got a few but there is the most obvious the charms from a few tomes back. I think there was the charm called mother of spiders. Also if you look at her story in Greek myth, she has…
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Backstorys are fun an all, but can we get some stories of the survivors in the fog?
nothing elaborate just some slice of life stories, just some dwight shenanigans were between trials he travels around different places and interact with other survivors
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What does the entity want?
Does it want to be worshipped, or does it prefer to watch a cat-and-mouse chase? What does it really want? We know that it plays with both killers and victims as if mocking them in its endless cycle of existence, and it has its own rules. It provides a way out to those who deserve to escape and enjoys the fact that the…