New Chapter: Fire and Blood

Overview

"The Warrior" is a killer idea developed for counter the biggest problem for killers main players: the so called "gen rushing".

His personal perks help him on being a threat for bold survivors, as long as he remains honourable in his faith, and slow down the generators repair.

Difficulty rating: Hard

Lore

Back in the ages, the warriors were recruited by the God of Fire itself for living in a perennial life of war and fight under him control. Was for them an honour to serve the strongest of the gods by being him personal army. After the fall of the old gods, and so the death of the God of Fire, the army of warriors disbanded.

There were a civil war among them for take control of what was left after the fall of the old world and the beginning of the new one, but soon they learned that a civil war is never honourable. The faith, the rules, the honour became an obstacle in this internal war against themself.

They fought for only one thing now: survive. The God of Fire's eyes were not upon them any longer, there were no reason for show the gods how much they worthed. The only thing left was to live for existence; but this leaded them to annihilation, to see friends as foes, to trust no one, to abandon all they thought was right.

In this chaos, some organized themself as a group for fight together at the end of the world. But soon those groups came in war each other.

Surtur joined the group under the Crow banner but soon he found himself in middle of war against who used to call brothers. Some of them were unrecognizable for how much they mutated form after have abandoned all ideals that used to make them great.

He won the war at least, killing Jess and the few more left, but the War toke the life of all his mates and brothers that didn't subjugate to an existence without honour.

That war against himself didn't please any good on him, but left him only sad and angry for everything he lose.

In seek of the perennial age of war and fire, Surtur reached the overworld and become a valuable resource for the Entity now: he cannot live without serve and being a killer for the Entity can now satisfy his lust for killing.

Stats

Gender: Male

Nationality: Unknown

Realm: Volcano's town - The abandoned village / The fire city

Power: Rage

Weapons:

• Fire Axe
• Fire War Hammer
• Fire Trident
• Fire javelin
• Fire Great sword

Speed: 110% / 4.4m/s

Terror Radius: 24 Meters

Height: Tall

Ability: Arsenal

You're ability allows you to change weapon at any moment, giving you access to many different playstyle for hunt down the survivors.

• Fire Axe: your primary basic weapon
• Fire War Hammer: You can charge a hit that can put to dying state any survivor you hit. Requires to be charged before being used. The recoil for missing and hitting a survivor is increased. You can break pallets with it (very similar to kanobo of The Oni)
• Fire Trident: You can hit survivor from higher distance (+30/50%) and even behind a pallet directly in front of the survivor. The recoil for missing and hitting a survivor is increased.
• Fire Javelin: You can charge and throw your weapon as a bolt. Requires to be charged before being used. The bolt is very fast and run in a streight line, stopping only when it hits anything. After it stops, it is recalled back to its owner.
• Fire Great Sword: You can swing your weapon hitting everyone in his path (360° all around him). Do not trigger stun animation when hit a wall but it is very slow (50/70% slower than the regular hit to any survivor). It has a slighlty higher distance (10/20%). Can hit multiple survivors and the swing pass through everything, eventually hitting survivors behind thin walls. The recoil for missing and hitting a survivor is increased

Passive Ability: Rage

You know no defeat. Everytime a generator is completed your Rage grows in power making you more dangerous in every form.

For each generator completed your Rage reach a new level for 1.30/2.00 minutes (between 1.30 and 2 minutes, depens what is more balanced). After the time have passed you lose one level and you go back to the previous one. If a generator is completed before the level time is expired, the timer reset and you gain the new level. If you kill a survivor or a survivor dies, you lose one level.

You start the trial with Level 1 Rage.

For each Rage level:

Terror radius increased by 4%

• On First Level:

Normal speed and normal stats

• On second level:

Speed increased by +5% on the killer base speed.

Vaulting and breaking pallet increased of +5% on the killer base vault and break speed animation.

Recoil for special weapons increased by 5% on base killer stats.

• On Third level:

Speed increased by +5% on the killer base speed.

Vaulting and breaking pallet increased of +10% on the killer base vault and break speed animation.

Recoil for special weapons increased by +10% on base killer stats.

• On Fourth Level:

Speed increased by +10% on the killer base speed.

Vaulting and breaking pallet increased of +15% on the killer base vault and break speed animation.

Recoil for weapon increased by +15% on base killer stats.

Survivors suffer the exposed status effect

Each time the Warrior gain or lose a new level, a loud grunt( becoming louder and similar to a scream in rage for each level) warn the survivors mapwide and the Warrior change behaviour in a more savage and brutal look.

Important note: When the Warrior goes back the previous rage level he loses the status for that rage level and set new status for the courrent one.

Exemple: Switching from rage 4 to rage 3 the warrior loses 5% speed, vaulting, breaking, swapping and the survivors are no longer exposed.

Also, "The Warrior" can lose a level of rage after the 2 minutes. When the timer expires, it stops untill another generator is completed. that means survivors can not camp or hide for a lot ot time waiting for all his accumulated rage to expire to level 1. The only way to lose another 1 level is by kill a survivor.

Important thing: The timer works only for 1 level of rage (for example: if The Warrior reach level 3 rage, the time will bring him back to level 2 rage, than stops and the next completed generator will bring him again to tier 3) and the only way to lose another level is by killing a survivor.

Power Trivia:

• The different weapons can be chosen by a menu next the killer's power by pressing the M2 or scroll M3 and selected with CTRL or M3 button
• The weapon's icons are showed on bottom middle screen
• After choosing a weapon, an animation of 2.5 second will swap the current weapon. While swapping weapon the killer suffer no speed penality but he can not attack in the meantime
• The weapon swapped will change form in the new one in a blow of flames.
• There are a totals of 5 different swapping animations, one each weapon. 
• There are 3 different behaviour for the killer based on his power level: on level 1 he's standing straight and walk similar to The Shape. On power 2 he's now walking similar to The Trapper, breathing heavly. On power 3 he is curved on his back similar to the Oni, and he starts to glow on flames making him more detectable. On power 4 or above he's curved as he's charging similar to the blood rage of the Oni and he's considerably glowed in flames.
• Standing too close to hoocked survivors will make you lose your rage much faster (around 50%). This is referred to the "calm" the warrior feels when he's close enough to defeated foes. 
• However, being in a chase next to a hooked survivor won't let him rage fade faster.

Arsenal and "coins"

An idea for this killer would give him a system to get "coins" whenever a generator is completed (for a max of 4 coins).

The killer starts with the Fire Axe and can unlock the next weapon after the first generator is completed.

A "coin" can be spent for "unlock" a selected weapon at his choice.

Add-ons

Rare: Back scabbard

• (you start the trial with 1 coin for your Arsenal)

Very rare: Double scabbard

• (you start the trial with 2 coins for your Arsenal)

Common: Leather gloves

• Slightly reduces the time animation for swap the weapon.

Uncommon: Iron spaulders

• Moderately reduces the time animation for swap the weapon.

Rare: Metal alloy armour

• Considerably reduces the time animation for swap the weapon.

Common: Burnt book

• Survivors suffer with Blindess status effect for 45 seconds when finishing repair a generator

Just a few pages are still legible.

Uncommon: Philosophy book

• Survivors suffer with Exausted Status Effect for 30 seconds when finishing repair a generator

Half of a Warrior ability comes from experience and self-awareness.

Rare: Astronomy book

• Survivors suffer with Oblivious Status Effect for 30 seconds when finishing repair a generator

The universe hides many powerful secrets. Hold them and you'll hold the gods power.

Uncommon: Liar's tongue

• Slightly increase the timer before Rage expires.

"Lies have short legs."

Rare: Brother's eyes

• Moderately increase the timer before Rage expires.

"The left from the older, the right from the youngest. Beware to trick the wrong foes."

Very rare: Franx's dagger

• Considerably increase the timer before Rage expires.

"Trophy of a fallen old enemy. Every action has its consequence".

Ultra rare: Iridescent Jail key

• Every survivor who finish repair a generator at least 24m. from the killer will suffer the exposed status effect for 30 seconds.

"The old jailer's key where he was once locked up. A strange power make it glows in many different colours".

Common: Obsidian blade

• Hit target suffers from a slightly Haemorrhage Status Effect.

Uncommon: Sapphire blade

• Hit target suffers from a moderately Haemorrhage Status Effect.

Rare: Diamond blade

• Hit target suffers from a considerably Haemorrhage Status Effect.

"A very sharp and fragile blade for perfectly cut through the human flesh".

Uncommon: Burnt Iron blade

• Hit target suffers from a slightly Mangled Status Effect for 120 seconds.

"A rude rusted weapon. Optimal for leave the victim in pain".

Rare: Serrated blade

• Hit target suffers from a moderately Mangled Status Effect for 120 seconds.
• Slightly decreases Repair speed of Survivors injured by the fire weapons.

"A brutal blade design for rip through the flesh."

Very rare: Volcano metal

• Hit target suffers from a tremendous Mangled Status Effect for 120 seconds.
• Moderately decreases Repair speed of Survivors injured by the fire weapons.

"The blade of this weapon is infused in the power of fire, leaving perennial wounds on his victims"

Very rare: Little plant in a pot:

• You start the trial with level 2 rage.

"He used to be a great warrior, my best friend. I will never forgive nor forget his murderer."

Ultra rare: Jess Head:

• You can mori your victims on level 4 Rage

"A warrior dies when nothing remembers him. I won't let you die, my old enemy, so you must carry your shame as long as I live."

Add-ons trivia:

-Slightly(0.5 secs)/moderately(0.75 sec) /Considerably (1.0 sec) reduces the time animation for swap the weapon.

-Slightly(20 secs.)/moderately(40 secs)/Considerably(1 min) increase the timer before Rage expires.

-Slightly(10 secs)/moderately(15 secs)/Considerably(20 secs) reduces recovery time for special ability.

-Slightly (-5%)/Moderately ( -10%) reduces generator's progress speed.

all add-ons that modify the same effects do not stack

There are a totals of 20 addons:

• 3 common
• 4 uncommon
• 6 rare
• 4 very rare
• 2 ultra rare

Mori

While the survivor is laying down, the Warrior swing a powerful strike with his axe on the survivor's arm, cutting it off.

Survivor scream in pain while the warrior walk around laughing leaving the camera angle and leaving the survivor in pain.

The survivor is shocked and screaming and try to crawl away.

Short after the Warrior, in a frenzy rage and lust for blood, suddenly jump on the survivor, striking him multiple times with his axe in a bloody fury, cutting him in pieces while fire explosion come out through the axe's blows.

With the pointy part of his weapon impales the survivor head (or where it should supposed to be, cuz DBD doesn't like decapitations) and taunt in a powerful scream opening his arms rising the bloody weapon with the cut head on it.

Perks

Labyrinth:

• Tier 1: Rare
• Tier 2: Very Rare
• Tier 3: Very Rare

Hex totem. The survivors on injured state suffer from hallucinations that consist in: Fake generators, fake hatches, fake totems, fake chests. Interact with the hallucinations reveal the survivor aura for 4/6/8 seconds in a range of 28 meters.

"From the ancient underground Cities comes his power, and the weak will be lost in this maze"

Honour:

• Tier 1: Uncommon
• Tier 2: Rare
• Tier 3: Rare

After a survivor has been rescued from the hook that survivor is marked and you gain 1 token up to 8 tokens. Each token slow down by 4% the generators repair. Putting the marked survivor on dying state will make you lose 3/2/1 coin/s. You can have up to 2 marked survivors at same time. If an unmarked survivor is hooked he becomes marked and the second-last survivor marked lose his mark.

Note: Thanatophobia could change in slowing healing speed

Vendetta:

• Tier 1: Uncommon
• Tier 2: Rare
• Tier 3: Very Rare

After a survivor successfully stun you, you become obsessed with that survivor. Everytime the obsession is chased the obession will suffer from the blindness status effect for 20 seconds and put the obession from healty to injuried state will also apply a deep wound status effect. The perk can be used once every 60/80/90 seconds.

"punish for the bolds will be soon delivered."

Perks Trivia:

Labyrinth's hallucinations take place in map spawn points where normally there could be a possibility to spawn an interactive object. Hallucinations have a cooldown of 20 seconds. Labyrinth's hallucinations consist in:

• Fake generators: In all places where could be a generator spawn a fake generator. When a survivor interact with it trying to repair it his aura will be revealed. When the generator will stop to be repaired by any survivor, it will disappear.
• Fake hatches: When the hatch will spawn, if the totem is still active, in all places where could be a hatch spawn a fake hatch (for a max of 4 hatches). When a survivor will try to interact with it, his aura will be revealed and the fake hatch will despawn.
• Fake totems: All totems are enlighten. In all places where could be a totem spawn a fake totem (for a max of 10 totems). When a survivor interact with it trying to break it his aura will be revealed. If the survivor will interrupt the totem it will disappear. If the survivor break the fake totem it will break normally but will give no bonus (for example will not activate Inner Strength)
• Fake chests: a max of 7 chest appears in the level (including all "real" chests). Interact with the fake chests will reveal the survivor's aura. Interrupt the action will make the fake chest disappear (after completing the animation for close the chest). Successfully search a fake chest will spawn no item."

The perk will give the killer no audio warning but just reveal the aura.

The perk Honour is setted to low tier perk, even if could be a very strong perk that afflict generators repair, because is a very specific perk that could be easly counter. The survivors see the icon on bottom right, therefore the survivors will know that the killer will prioritize the unmarked survivors, so they are "relatively" safe from being put to death state as long as they are marked. However, if the killer chooses to put them on dying state anyway, the perk effect will be minimized or even canceled.

New Realm and maps

Overview

The new Realm have place in a village not far from an active volcano.

There are a current of 2 maps. "The Abandoned Village" prominent colour palette is blue and "The Fire City" prominent colour palette is grey and orange.

in "The Abandoned Village" looks like a medieval city where all its inhabitants left their home immediatelly leaving almost everything intact. is raining (more like a drizzling rain). There are some houses and stores explorable. The village, like any medieval village, have houses quite close each other and small streets.

Landmarks

The central square in the cente have always a generator

The church has always a generator

The butcher shop has a basement

Not far from the windmill is the killer shack

in "The Fire City" looks more like a complex medieval city with tall buildings in stone. The city was completely set on fire and all its inhabitants who couldn't flee were killed and sacrificed. Is located not far from the volcano that is possible see. There is a river outside the city but it is blocked by walls. One escape gate is always on the bridge next to the river.

Landmarks

There is a walkpath under the bridge and 2 stairs that connect it on the bridge sides.

The main building has a second floor and there is always a generator

(all the images are not mine, they are created by other people and vaguely represent the reconstruction of the environment.)

Possible Achievements

Adept Warrior: Achieve a Merciless Victory with The Warrior using only his 3 perks.

Daemon from Hell: Kill with your hands a total of 4 survivors with Rage 4. (requires Jess Head add-on)

Unbeatable: down a survivor a total of 30 times after they complete a generator

New Survivor: Eldur Handersson

If the primary aspect of this killer is to defend the generators (and I mean slow down the repair progress) so also the new Survivor would have a main aspect that orbit around defending: Defend his survivability.

Gender: Male

Role: Escaper

Nationality: Iceland

New Survivor's Perks:

Death Delay:

• Tier 1: Uncommon
• Tier 2: Rare
• Tier 3: Very Rare

When on the hook, as long as you are within the killers heartbeat radius, the entity's sacrifice speed is reduced by 10/15/20% and hook escape chance is increased by 3/4/5%.

Lucky Charm:

• Tier 1: Uncommon
• Tier 2: Rare
• Tier 3: Rare

After being rescured from a hook the perk will activate for a max of 90/105/120 secs. If another survivor is hooked this perk will be disabled. If you are hooked for the second time in a row (so no other survivors have been hooked after your first escape from the hook and this perk is still active) you'll enter second phase but will not activate struggle, giving you access to escape attempts.

Back Door:

• Tier 1: Rare
• Tier 2: Very Rare
• Tier 3: Very Rare

Once per trial, sprint into a looker and stay hidden for 3 seconds will make you disappear from that looker and appear in a random locker in the map in a 20/24/28 meter range.

Conclusion

I have to admit that see this killer, even reworked, in the game will make me very happy. By the way, i dont pretend it and I consider this guide as a good way to show some creativity.

For the people that expected more from the lore, i just say that i could write books on it and on how the beginning and the civil war developed, but we are not here for this and this brief lore is written only for make this killer more interesting with a backstory behind.

The perks and the ability are concepted not for make him overpower but for force the matches to be slow and more tactic.

This way, we are importing a new idea for change the already complex playstyle of the game.

So, facing "the Warrior" would force the survivors to play more hide and seek, also tactic what generator and when to do it for force the Warrior on low rage level and so making him not a big deal.

Paradoxicaly, the NOED would be a wrong perk on the killer, because the survivors could have more time for do all totems.

That's where Labyrint perk pop in. The survivors that spend too much time on secondary objective could be hardly punish for this.

Also, being a warrior makes him a "man" of honor and with a code. The "code" could be reflected on a "Dead by Daylight" code where all survivors have to be threated equally and give them good chanches to fight back.

Here where the Rage pop up. Having a story of sadness and anger make him easly fall in rage for any event that put him in disadvantage. So, bold survivors that count on them ability to outsmart the killer would than have to face a crescent threat that could more easly down them down.

At last, here where the "Calm" effect show up. After having defeated a foe, there is no more reason for being angry at him anylonger, and being next to the defeated foe would create a sensation of peace on the killer. That's why the "Rage" ability considerably fade faster when too close to an hook and when a survivor dies. Also, this prelude the "patrolling" and "camping" strategy of the killer, considering he would become "weaker" doing so.

Another idea would give the ability of the:

"Fire Blast"

Press and hold the Active Ability button to perform the Fire Blast and make a generator in view to explode and regress. Every survivor too close to that generator (1 meter) will be put to injured state.

The Fire Blast power has a cooldown of 90 seconds

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