Could use some help in making Lore Builds for Unknown and Dredge

Siachi

Title. They are two of my mains, and I like doing lore builds in general, but their lore doesn't really help much. Unknown is, well, unknown, and Dredge's lore is entirely its origin story.

For the Unknown, I'm pretty settled on Mindbreaker: along with the implied mental damage, its description mentions "weakening" its prey, and UVX inflicts "weaken". Besides that, the one constant there seems to be in its stories is: "People who go looking for the Unknown, become hunted by the Unknown."

I like the idea of Infectious Fright, that a survivor sees the Unknown's "handiwork", and subsequently becomes its next target. So I'm thinking terror radius based perks, or ones based on a survivor being close to the unknown. There are perks like Unnerving Presence that are based on the Terror Radius, but they're also really passive effects and not that exciting to use. And I think I'd prefer Scream perks instead of Aura; I feel that it'd be more fitting somehow? You know where they are, and the survivor knows that you know?

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For Dredge, I somehow have a harder time with this one than I do with Unknown. Going by its origin, it's basically a conglomeration of the repressed dark, negative thoughts of a cult, until they eventually boiled over in a fit of stress and paranoia, creating the Dredge out of those thoughts and their remains.

So I guess perks that would encourage paranoia in survivors somehow? Like Dark Devotion, make them distrust the marked Survivor? But that perk has a weird interaction with Dredge's Nightfall, where the survivor will still get the fake terror radius even when there's not supposed to be one. Hysteria might be an option just for the name alone, but I don't think the effect itself is particularly panic-inducing.

I've always seen Dredge as "The Entity Jr." somehow, so maybe perks like Whispers that imply a more direct connection? But I feel like that's more my own headcanon than anything official. Could go with a Pure Darkness theme, with stuff like Shadowborn, and Franklin's Demise for people daring to bring light into my domain? I don't know, like I said it's hard for me to pin down.

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So yeah, any thoughts or opinions or suggestions would be appreciated, I'm having a hard time figuring it out.