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New killer concept

idkmaex
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New Killer Concept – The Hollowed



“Silence is mercy. The earth remembers every sound.”





Overview



Name: The Hollowed

Realm: Forsaken Fields

Weapon: Styche

Height: Tall

Movement Speed: 4.6 m/s

Terror Radius: 32 m





Appearance

A tall, lean figure dressed in tattered farmer’s clothes and old burlap wrappings.Instead of a head, a large pumpkin sits on his shoulders, its surface slick and rotting, carved with sharp eyes and a triangle nose.Inside, a candle flickers with a dim orange glow that brightens as his power charges.He wears a wide, worn scarecrow hat and carries an aged lantern in one hand and a heavy farming styche in the other.





Power – Not Soundproof

The Hollowed’s bond with the earth allows him to sense even the faintest vibrations caused by movement and noise.

Sound Meter:

His lantern begins unlit at the start of the trial.

As survivors make noise (missed skill checks, screams, rushed actions, or sprinting), the Sound Meter fills.

The more noise survivors create, the brighter the lantern burns.

The Hollowed also gains passive charge when survivors sprint near him, as the ground carries the sound of their footsteps.

When Fully Charged – Lantern’s Wrath:


Gains a temporary movement speed boost.

Can teleport to the location of recent loud noise events (failed skill checks, screams, or lantern cleanses).

His Lantern Strike lashes survivors with vines, forcing them to scream and revealing their aura for a few seconds.



Lantern Cleansing:

Survivors must locate Blue Lanterns scattered throughout the map to burn away the vines.Using a Blue Lantern removes the effect but creates a loud noise notification that The Hollowed can detect.





Special Attacks

Normal Form: The Hollowed opens his hand, and a spectral styche blade bursts from the ground, striking upward.Powered Form: He swings the lantern, releasing vines that wrap around the survivor and make them scream.





Perks

Whispering Grounds

When a survivor triggers a loud noise notification within 32 meters, they become Oblivious for 15 seconds.If they are already Oblivious, their aura is revealed for 3 seconds. (Cooldown: 30 seconds)


Entangling Harvest

After damaging a generator, vines grow around it. The generator automatically regresses at 100% normal speed until a survivor touches it or 45 seconds pass.


Suffocating Stillness

After damaging a generator, survivors within 24 meters suffer -50% healing speed and make no grunts of pain for 30 seconds.





Ultra-Rare Add-On – Rooted Terror

While in Powered Form, survivors within 16 meters have a 10% chance every 6 seconds to be snared by spectral vines, reducing movement speed by 30% for 2 seconds.This effect can only trigger once per survivor every 20 seconds.





Lore

He once said the earth could hear prayers.Now, it only hears screams.Before the fog took him, he was a quiet farmer who believed the soil whispered back to him. When drought struck, the whispers stopped. The silence gnawed at him until he pressed his ear to the ground, desperate to hear his wife’s voice again.The earth answered—not with her, but with thousands of buried whispers. They filled his head, echoing until silence itself became agony.He tried to burn his fields to drown out the noise, but the screams came from within. The soil had replaced his heart with wax and his breath with whispers.When the lantern lit by itself that night, he followed the sound into the dark. The ground opened beneath him and took him whole.Now he roams the forsaken acres, the candle in his head flickering with every noise. He hunts the loud not from hatred, but because silence is the only peace he has left.





Mori – “The Quiet Harvest”

The survivor collapses. The Hollowed kneels beside them, placing his lantern in the dirt. Vines rise from the soil and wrap around the survivor’s limbs.As they scream, he winces, as though the sound cuts through him. Slowly, he presses a finger to his mouth.“Shhh…”The vines tighten, pulling the survivor into the ground. Their screams fade to muffled echoes, then silence. The Hollowed lifts his lantern, its light dimming to a faint glow.“The earth will remember you.”





Map Concept – Forsaken Fields

A moonlit farmland surrounded by dead trees and broken scarecrows.The crops sway even without wind, and the distant creak of a hanging lantern echoes through the fog.Blue Lanterns glow faintly among the fields—the only light that keeps the vines away.

Hope I get noticed. Spent a lot of time of this

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Used ai for the photo