What are your thoughts on the new revelations regarding the Yamaoka bloodline?

thats1evildude
thats1evildude Member Posts: 18
edited February 8 in Lore

Namely, that the Yamaoka family name was actually taken by an impostor.

As revealed in Tome 23, Kazan's father had actually been a slave named Hachi who was taken as a child by the real Yamaoka family. He served as a playmate and servant to the heir, Renjiro Yamaoka. Then, during a voyage, Renjiro was killed, impaled on debris from his ship as it was torn apart in a storm. Hachi survived and took Renjiro's name, posing as the young noble by virtue of possessing his armour, weapons and family crest (which also survived the sinking ship). Most people accepted the lie, though there were always rumours about the false Yamaoka noble.

That means at least two different Killers (and one possible Survivor, as Renjiro is rumoured to be added to the game in the future) are members of a false dynasty. That samurai heritage was a pretty big deal for Rin and her family, at the very least. I wonder how she would take the news, assuming she could process it in a lucid way.

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  • AbsolutGrndZer0
    AbsolutGrndZer0 Member Posts: 1,881
    edited February 8

    Wow I hadn't read that, I will definitely have to! That is some seriously interesting lore! It's very unlikely something Rin would know, but would Hachi (now Renjiro) have told Kazan? Very interesting!

    EDIT: Okay, yeah. Just finished reading it. So Kazan never knew, but he heard the rumors and it's one of the things that drove him to become The Oni.

  • CatManThree
    CatManThree Member Posts: 103

    Its a fascinating idea in the context of Oni's character. Adds so much more depth and irony to his past.

    Something I am curious about though is the origin of the Yamaoka curse. Seemed like the curse originated with Oni, but the real Renjiro was described as violent and cruel. If the curse DID exist before, then it would seem its not be tied to the bloodline itself and only the name. More I think about it, the more the very nature of the curse as a whole comes into question to me personally.

  • thats1evildude
    thats1evildude Member Posts: 18
    edited February 16
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4056470#Comment_4056470

    That's certainly possible. Alternatively, perhaps the act of taking on a family name that didn't belong to Hachi is what created the curse. That strikes me as the sort of thing that would have supernatural repercussions in feudal Japan.