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Does the Unknown have same Dredge background?
They both are on the same isle sure, but aren’t both also the culmination of bad thoughts?
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They’re both eldritch horror-style creations as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’re from the same realm.
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I don’t think it’s stated. I personally think they’re different. Dredge is created by the entity and The Unknown came to life from negative energy that comes off of people’s emotions like how the Cursed Spirits are given life by negative emotions in Jujutsu Kaisen.
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Near as I can tell, the point of the Unknown's presentation in general is that there's no cohesive understanding you can come to.
Like how the lore is from someone else's perspective entirely, and the addons all referencing contradictory theories as to what it could be. I don't think you're supposed to be able to say conclusively if it has the same background as Dredge or any other killer.
(I think this is very cool so I hope it's intended to be like that)
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What I meant was, that in the same way that the Dredge came into existence because of dark thoughts and fear, that the unknown was able to come into existence the same way.
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I know, my answer stands. I don't think we're supposed to know either way.
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No, Dredge & Unknown has basically nothing in common and both of their maps being in the same realm means nothing (just like how Huntress & Plague's maps being in the same realm doesn't mean anything with each other lorewise.)
The Dredge is a boogeyman made real as an amalgamation of people and all their negative thoughts while The Unknown is an urban legend with no real origin or form and that nobody really knows anything concrete about it's existence or if it's even real, even when it comes for someone who tries to visualize it, it only takes the form of what the person imagined it as.
The Unknown has nothing to do with negative energy, we basically know nothing concrete about it (hence it's name being the unknown) except that visualizing it summons it to your location to kill you and steal your voice in the form it was visualized as.
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I think he mixed up the Unknown and Dredge there; he probably meant the Dredge was birthed from repressed negative thinking (which is implied by its lore) and that the Unknown was created by the entity. I don’t think the entity created the Unknown personally but it seems to be a common suspicion.
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What I see it is as is
Dredge is the amalgamation of dark thoughts from several people while the unknown is the amalgamation of a person's single idea of what it looks like as they never fully specify what the unknown looks like in the lore instead saying this person drew what she thinks it looks like. So in the end sure it follows the same idea but instead of multiple people it's just one but the lore is also different plus it's a different style to the dredge with the unknown having a more uncanny human appearance and needing a chiropractor plus maybe a tooth brush because of those yellow teeth.
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