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The Entity taking Meg.

Dbd-journal-entity Quotes left This thing, that I dubbed The Entity, is evil in its purest form. I find it hard to spot, but I can hear the cracking sound this loathsome thing emanates. Like a deity, it surrounds the area, closing in on me as its Killers hunt me. It does not seem to be dangerous in itself. Not until you are caught and the Killer hangs you from one of the abhorrent Hooks. I have ended up there over and over and every time I yearn for both release as well as escape. Pain melts with fear in a most horrid way. Yet I return to it, more or less every night. Once on the Hook, Entity takes over, pulling one upwards to something else. Quotes right
~ Benedict Baker's Journal, November 1896

The Entity is a non-playable Character in Dead by DaylightIconHelp DBDlogo.


Overview

The Entity is an almighty malevolent being, travelling through the cosmos and slowly consuming worlds.

It creates the nightmarish Realms of the Trial Grounds to trap its victims, SurvivorsIconHelpLoading survivor and KillersIconHelpLoading killer in an endless cycle of Trials, with the intent of feeding on its victims' strongest emotions, allowing it to grow in power and slowly consume another world.

The ObserverIconHelp archivesGeneral describes it as one of the "Original Ones", also known as an "Ancient".


Modus Operandi

The ObserverIconHelp archivesGeneral describes The Entity's modus operandi in detail in the unreleased Tome entry Arcus 07

Cosmic Evil

The Entity is the cosmic embodiment of evil, turning worlds inside out with its very presence, a behaviour the ObserverIconHelp archivesGeneral and his people witnessed when The Entity befell their home world.
It corrupts its victims, slowly driving them towards madness and eventually pushing them over the edge, which allows it to snatch them from their world and trap them in its Realm.

The Entity travels from Terra world to Terra world, growing stronger in its power until it eventually consumes all worlds in the cosmos.
It is drawn to darker worlds, filled with chaos and darkness, as it chooses worlds that have failed to understand the metaphysical relationship between their thoughts and the world they live in, feeding off of their ignorance.

Corrupting Influence

The most effective way for The Entity to get a foothold in a new Terra world is for it to corrupt its inhabitants, to the point that they commit great atrocities as gruesome acts of violence weaken the veil between The Entity's Realm and the world.
Through this weak spot, The Entity's Realm begins seeping over into the world, allowing The Entity to pull its first victims into its own nightmarish construct, the "Corrupted Ones", those pushed to do the deeds that summoned this ancient evil in the first place, also known as the KillersIconHelpLoading killer.

The Killers are made to do The Entity's bidding, which is to relentlessly hunt and kill the Survivors. Many Killers do not do so willingly, although some are happy to sate their blood lust. Some have to be tortured over endless years to be coerced into doing what The Entity wants. The Entity is ever patient and the torture ever more severe.
Eventually they all cave in and start the hunt for The Entity.

The Entity actively recruits its Killers by sensing their killing potential in their mortal selves, before corrupting them into committing violent or evil acts.
It is possible for it to change its mind during the process of converting the human into a new Killer and choosing someone else instead if it senses greater potential in them, as happened with Rin Yamaoka and her father, the latter having originally been chosen to become a Killer.

Prey for The Entity comes in the form of the SurvivorsIconHelpLoading survivor, regular people who stumbled into the corrupted areas and were pulled through by The Entity, with no memory of how it had happened. Once they awaken by The Campfire, there is no escape for them anymore.

Gathering Sustenance

The Entity is described as an "Emotion Vampire", with sustenance coming in the form of strong emotions, such as the Killer's rage and anger, or the Survivors' desperation, hope or even affection towards other Survivors.

The most effective way for The Entity to procure those emotions is through the never-ending trials, invoking hope in Survivors towards an escape from the nightmarish construct and fuelling the Killer's blood lust in anticipation of the sacrifice, a bizarre ritual through which Entity extracts its sustenance, which it needs to magnify its power and sustain itself.

With each passing death, a little bit of the Survivor's soul is lost. Eventually, as all hope evaporates, the Survivor becomes less and less useful to Entity, slowly devolving into a cold and emotionless shell.
Those lost Survivors, whose hope has long since left them, are eventually thrown into a limbo realm known as "The Void".

Survivors that are mortally wounded and 'die' during a Trial, or shortly after escaping, will be revived by The Entity, also wiping their memories clean in the process and relocating them back to The Campfire.


Manifestations

The Entity occasionally manifests itself in a physical form throughout the Trial Grounds given certain circumstances.

The two most common manifestations come in the form of spikes or spider legs. The spikes are used by The Entity to block Exit GatesIconHelp exitGates and WindowsIconHelp window, or to destroy PalletsIconHelp pullDown.
The spider legs either shoot through the ground, piercing and killing any Survivor that did not make it out of the Trial Grounds within the Endgame Collapse timer, or manifest themselves around the HookIconHelpLoading hook, to eventually sacrifice a hooked Survivor, and in case of a successful sacrifice, above the Hook to transport the sacrificed Survivor up into the sky in order to extract its sustenance from the sacrifice.

The Fog

The Black Fog, also known as "Dark Fog" or "Auric Fog", surrounds the pocket Realms of The Entity and is but one of The Entity's many manifestations, described in Arcus 54 as a conscious entity in and by itself.
The Observer describes The Fog as feeling alive, containing swirls and streams of memories and imprints of beings from all the Terra worlds the Entity had consumed.

The Black Fog is composed mostly of auric particles and cells, from which The Entity forms everything inside its Realms.
Indications of this are found with the Iridescent Add-ons of Killers that were all formed from the Fog itself and are imbued with its power.

Some of the Entity's more knowledgeable victims, such as Vigo and The ObserverIconHelp archivesGeneral were aware of the originally mentioned metaphysical relationship between their thoughts and the world they lived in, and thus able to hone their skills and "bend the Fog's irrefragable rules", which allowed them to create to mould and shape The Black Fog to their own will.

The rich presence of auric particles and cells also indicates that The Entity is far more ancient than the Observer and his people ever suspected, leading to his speculation that The Entity is an "Original One", an "Ancient".

The Realms

The Entity builds a reflection of the real world in its construct to confuse its victims. Unable though to really understand the true nature of the world it touches, it tries to replicate it as best it can, although it never quite gets it right. As a result, the world is an ever changing nightmarish fusion of familiar and strange elements as The Entity makes up what it cannot comprehend.

In this bizarre world, there are several familiar parts.
The Maps and their Realms are based on the world it infects and there are strange mechanical GeneratorsIconHelpLoading generators that the Survivors can power up to open two Exit GatesIconHelp exitGates.
If they succeed they will escape, although only back to The Campfire that they started from.

The Realms respond to and change according to The Entity's consciousness and act as an expression of The Entity's unconscious need for fear and terror.

The Bloodweb

After a CharacterIconHelpLoading players reaches Level 10, The Entity will begin to share the BloodwebIconHelp bloodweb with that Character.
After the Player has bought numerous Nodes from the Character's Bloodweb, a dark, smoky patch will appear, and the Player will then take turns with The Entity in taking Nodes from the Bloodweb:
The Entity will move to another Node after every purchase made by the Player.
When The Entity cannot take over any of the adjacent Nodes, it will move to another place.


The Blight

An entry in Vigo's Journal revealed that once a year, The Entity was infested with blight, which required The Entity to undergo a purge.
The blight manifested itself in the form of cankers spawning throughout the Realms, which bloomed into pustules from which a mysterious nectar could be harvested and distilled into the Putrid SerumIconHelp putridSerum.

The Putrid Serum could corrupt those injected with it, causing strange mutations that could increase one's physical prowess while becoming strangely disfigured.

It is possible that due to its hypothesised biology, The Entity is, at its core, a plant-like organism, as blight is a symptom commonly found in plants affected by a pathogenic organism, which was reflected by the cankerous growing on Hooks and the cankerous pustules that appeared throughout the Realms.


Trivia

  • According to Arcus 1513, there is a world in which a "Cult of The Entity" exists called The Black Vale, possibly Vigo's world.
  • The Entity is described by The ObserverIconHelp archivesGeneral as a "Cosmic Blood Pudding" (Arcus 328) or as a "Serpent of Chaos" (Arcus 07).
  • It is presumed that The Entity prefers to physically manifest itself in the form of a spider, similar to Stephen King's "IT".
  • Towards the beginning of The Entity's parasitic relationship with the real world, there may have been some trial and error, namely with the existence of trials and their emphasis on Generators and other in-game objects.
    • The Developers have noted that it is very possible that the first Killer was not a success, and was promptly thrown into The Void.
  • The degree of torture needed to convince initially unwilling Killers to do The Entity's bidding can generally be gauged from any physical alterations, such as The Trapper's numerous iron hooks piercing through his upper torso. Though in Rin’s case, the alterations were received from her father.
    • Killers without physical alterations do The Entity's bidding willingly, as she provides them with victims to sate their own blood lust.

Gender Trivia

  • The Entity is often designated as of female gender.
    • This is due to the French language, mother tongue of most of the Developers, neither possessing a gender-neutral pronoun nor a grammatical neuter.
    • The Entity's original French name, "L(a)' Entité" is a feminine noun and the Developers have been known to refer to The Entity with feminine pronouns in English as well.
THE KILLERS IconHelpLoading killer
BASE GAME /
CHAPTERS
1 - 2
K01 charSelect portrait Evan MacMillan - The TrapperIconHelpLoading trapper K02 charSelect portrait Philip Ojomo - The WraithIconHelpLoading wraith K03 charSelect portrait Max Thompson Jr. - The HillbillyIconHelpLoading hillbilly K04 charSelect portrait Sally Smithson - The NurseIconHelpLoading nurse K05 charSelect portrait Michael Myers - The ShapeIconHelpLoading shape
CHAPTERS
3 - 6
K06 charSelect portrait Lisa Sherwood - The HagIconHelpLoading hag K07 charSelect portrait Herman Carter - The DoctorIconHelpLoading doctor K08 charSelect portrait Anna - The HuntressIconHelpLoading huntress K09 charSelect portrait Bubba Sawyer - The CannibalIconHelpLoading cannibal K10 charSelect portrait Freddy Krueger - The NightmareIconHelpLoading nightmare
CHAPTERS
7 - 11
K11 charSelect portrait Amanda Young - The PigIconHelpLoading pig K12 charSelect portrait Jeffrey Hawk - The ClownIconHelpLoading clown K13 charSelect portrait Rin Yamaoka - The SpiritIconHelpLoading spirit K14 charSelect portrait Frank, Julie, Susie, Joey - The LegionIconHelpLoading legion K15 charSelect portrait Adiris - The PlagueIconHelpLoading plague
CHAPTERS
12 - 16
K16 charSelect portrait Danny Johnson - The Ghost FaceIconHelpLoading ghost K17 charSelect portrait The DemogorgonIconHelpLoading demogorgon K18 charSelect portrait Kazan Yamaoka - The OniIconHelpLoading oni K19 charSelect portrait Caleb Quinn - The DeathslingerIconHelpLoading deathslinger K20 charSelect portrait Pyramid Head - The ExecutionerIconHelpLoading wales
CHAPTERS
17 - 21
K21 charSelect portrait Talbot Grimes - The BlightIconHelpLoading blight K22 charSelect portrait Charlotte & Victor Deshayes - The TwinsIconHelpLoading twins K23 charSelect portrait Ji-Woon Hak - The TricksterIconHelpLoading trickster K24 charSelect portrait Nemesis T-Type - The NemesisIconHelpLoading nemesis K25 charSelect portrait Elliot Spencer - The CenobiteIconHelpLoading cenobite
CHAPTERS
22 - 26
K26 charSelect portrait Carmina Mora - The ArtistIconHelpLoading artist K27 charSelect portrait Sadako Yamamura - The OnryōIconHelpLoading onryo K28 charSelect portrait The DredgeIconHelpLoading dredge K29 charSelect portrait Albert Wesker - The MastermindIconHelpLoading mastermind K30 charSelect portrait Tarhos Kovács - The KnightIconHelpLoading knight
CHAPTERS
27 - 31
K31 charSelect portrait Adriana Imai - The Skull MerchantIconHelpLoading skullMerchant K32 charSelect portrait HUX-A7-13 - The SingularityIconHelpLoading singularity K33 charSelect portrait The XenomorphIconHelpLoading xenomorph K34 charSelect portrait Charles Lee Ray - The Good GuyIconHelpLoading goodGuy K35 charSelect portrait The UnknownIconHelpLoading unknown
THE SURVIVORS IconHelpLoading survivor
BASE GAME /
CHAPTER 1
S01 charSelect portrait Dwight FairfieldSurvivorDwight S02 charSelect portrait Meg ThomasSurvivorMeg S03 charSelect portrait Claudette MorelSurvivorClaudette S04 charSelect portrait Jake ParkSurvivorJake S05 charSelect portrait Nea KarlssonSurvivorNea
CHAPTERS
2 - 5
S06 charSelect portrait Laurie StrodeSurvivorLaurie S07 charSelect portrait Ace ViscontiSurvivorAce S08 charSelect portrait Bill OverbeckSurvivorBill S09 charSelect portrait Feng MinSurvivorFeng S10 charSelect portrait David KingSurvivorDavid
CHAPTERS
6 - 10
S11 charSelect portrait Quentin SmithSurvivorQuentin S12 charSelect portrait David TappSurvivorTapp S13 charSelect portrait Kate DensonSurvivorKate S14 charSelect portrait Adam FrancisSurvivorAdam S15 charSelect portrait Jeff JohansenSurvivorJeff
CHAPTERS
11 - 14
S16 charSelect portrait Jane RomeroSurvivorJane S17 charSelect portrait Ash WilliamsSurvivorAsh S18 charSelect portrait Nancy WheelerSurvivorNancy S19 charSelect portrait Steve HarringtonSurvivorSteve S20 charSelect portrait Yui KimuraSurvivorYui
CHAPTERS
15 - 19
S21 charSelect portrait Zarina KassirSurvivorZarina S22 charSelect portrait Cheryl MasonSurvivorCheryl S23 charSelect portrait Felix RichterSurvivorFelix S24 charSelect portrait Élodie RakotoSurvivorElodie S25 charSelect portrait Yun-Jin LeeSurvivorYun-Jin
CHAPTERS
20 - 23
S26 charSelect portrait Jill ValentineSurvivorJill S27 charSelect portrait Leon Scott KennedySurvivorLeon S28 charSelect portrait Mikaela ReidSurvivorMikaela S29 charSelect portrait Jonah VasquezSurvivorJonah S30 charSelect portrait Yoichi AsakawaSurvivorYoichi
CHAPTERS
24 - 27
S31 charSelect portrait Haddie KaurSurvivorHaddie S32 charSelect portrait Ada WongSurvivorAda S33 charSelect portrait Rebecca ChambersSurvivorRebecca S34 charSelect portrait Vittorio ToscanoSurvivorVittorio S35 charSelect portrait Thalita LyraSurvivorThalita
CHAPTERS
27 - 30.5
S36 charSelect portrait Renato LyraSurvivorRenato S37 charSelect portrait Gabriel SomaSurvivorGabriel S38 charSelect portrait Nicolas CageSurvivorNicolas S39 charSelect portrait Ellen RipleySurvivorEllen S40 charSelect portrait Alan WakeSurvivorAlan
CHAPTER
31
S41 charSelect portrait Sable WardUnknown QuestionMark
LEGENDARY CHARACTERS
S27 Carlos charSelect portrait Carlos Oliveira K25 Chatterer charSelect portrait The Chatterer S27 Chris charSelect portrait Chris Redfield S26 Claire charSelect portrait Claire Redfield S22 Cybil charSelect portrait Cybil Bennett K07 Pharaoh Eddie charSelect portrait Pharaoh Eddie
K19 Stranger Eddie charSelect portrait Stranger Eddie K28 Eddie's Tribute charSelect portrait Eddie's Tribute K18 Samurai Eddie charSelect portrait Samurai Eddie K14 HUNK charSelect portrait HUNK S22 James charSelect portrait James Sunderland S19 Jonathan charSelect portrait Jonathan Byers
S22 Lisa charSelect portrait Lisa Garland K07 Look-See charSelect portrait The Look-See S22 Maria charSelect portrait Maria K08 Mordeo charSelect portrait The Mordeo K01 Naughty Bear charSelect portrait Naughty Bear S40 Rose Marigold charSelect portrait Rose Marigold
S40 Saga Anderson charSelect portrait Saga Anderson S26 Sheva charSelect portrait Sheva Alomar K34 Tiffany Valentine charSelect portrait Tiffany Valentine S36 Tubarão charSelect portrait Tubarão K21 Birkin charSelect portrait William Birkin K33 Xenomorph Queen charSelect portrait The Xenomorph Queen
MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS
K18 Armoured Titan charSelect portrait The Armoured Titan K08 Baba Yaga charSelect portrait The Baba Yaga K30 Draugr charSelect portrait The Draugr K21 Ferryman charSelect portrait The Ferryman K26 Jabberwock charSelect portrait The Jabberwock K01 Krampus charSelect portrait The Krampus
K18 Minotaur charSelect portrait The Minotaur K13 War Hammer Titan charSelect portrait The War Hammer Titan
COSTUME CHARACTERS
S22 Alessa charSelect portrait Alessa Gillespie S02 Annie charSelect portrait Annie Leonhart S23 Armin charSelect portrait Armin Arlert K06 Birch charSelect portrait The Birch S23 Blitz charSelect portrait Blitz S01 Eren charSelect portrait Eren Yeager
K23 God Of Desire charSelect portrait The God of Desire K33 Grid Xenomorph charSelect portrait The Grid Xenomorph S21 Hange charSelect Portrait Hange Zoë S13 Historia charSelect portrait Historia Reiss S07 Kenny charSelect portrait Kenny Ackerman S04 Levi charSelect Portrait Levi Ackerman
S20 Mikasa charSelect portrait Mikasa Ackerman S39 Ripley 8 charSelect portrait Ripley 8 K27 Rotten Remains charSelect portrait The Rotten Remains S40 Mr Scratch charSelect portrait Mr Scratch S14 Wamai charSelect portrait Wamai K33 Xenomorph Clone charSelect portrait The Xenomorph Clone
LORE CHARACTERS
Alex Benedict Baker The EntityIconHelp entity The ObserverIconHelp archivesGeneral Vigo and many more...
UNUSED CHARACTERS
The Smasher The Teacher
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