The Plague | |
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Name | Adiris |
Game Alias(es) | "High Priestess of Babylon" |
Gender | Woman |
Origin | Babylonian (Ancient Mesopotamia) |
Realm | Red Forest |
Power | Vile Purge |
Power Attack Type | Special Attack
(Corrupt Purge Hits) |
Weapon | Profane Censer |
Movement Speed | 115 % | 4.6 m/s |
Terror Radius | 32 metres |
Height | Tall |
DLC | CHAPTER 11: Demise of the Faithful |
Voice Actor | Undisclosed Voice Actress |
Cost | 4,500 Iridescent Shards
250 Auric Cells |
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CharID | K15 |
Adiris or "The Plague" is one of 35 Killers currently featured in Dead by Daylight.
She was introduced as the Killer of CHAPTER 11: Demise of the Faithful, a Chapter DLC released on 19 March 2019 and retired on 8 January 2024.
She is still available in the In-Game Store and as part of the Old Wounds Pack Chapter Pack DLC.
Overview
The Plague is a devout Killer, able to infect Survivors from a short distance using her Power, Vile Purge. Survivors inflicted by this contamination risk becoming injured or broken, unless they find a way to cure themselves in a Pool of Devotion.
Her personal Perks, Corrupt Intervention, Infectious Fright, and Dark Devotion, give her the ability to hinder Survivor objectives, while simultaneously confusing and frightening those within her presence.
Difficulty Rating: Hard
(These Killers use mechanics that are specific to them and require more practice to be effective)
Lore
- Additional Lore can be found in Tome 7 - Forsaken: The Maiden Guard.
When she was five years old, Adiris, the youngest of a family of seven, was left on the brick-red burning steps of the Temple of Purgation at the centre of Babylon. To process her shock and sorrow, she held onto the belief that the Gods had a plan for her. Her new life was one of quiet servitude. She would tend to the gardens, prepare ceremonial meals, and polish ceremonial incense burners. At night, she would pray for a sign that would reveal her purpose.
When she came of age, she attended the high-ranking priests during the yearly worshipping of the sea-goat, the God of Water and Creation. Swinging a censer down the great hypo-style hall, she cast thick black fumes that reached the cold towering stone pillars before dissipating. Her worries lifted, and the resulting bliss made her feel closer to the Gods than ever. She worked herself to the bone each day that followed, fulfilling her duties while taking on new ones, as she aided the priests during purification rituals.
The priests were more and more in need of assistance. Cleansings were being performed daily to answer the demand from outside the high temple walls, where a catastrophic plague had resurfaced. Within months, the priests contracted the disease. It did not take long before they became too weak to perform any kind of ritual. Adiris, having assisted many purification rituals, was the only one able to carry on. The swelling panic had to be contained, even if by a novice.
Anxious before her first ceremony, Adiris visited the priests' sanctuary chamber. When she lit the candles, she noticed a narrow opening at the back. Sliding through the gap, she reached a crypt hidden under the sanctuary. The chamber was bare except for the golden statue of a woman, who stood with outstretched hands, her fingers covered in jewels. It was the sign Adiris had been waiting for.
The great hall was packed with followers who bowed down as Adiris entered. She strode to the brick altar and grabbed a ceremonial dagger forged in silver, her ruby ringed fingers wrapping around the blade like claws. The sudden display of luxury intrigued the followers, who were struck already by her youth and beauty.
As she began reciting the Epic of Creation, a woman at the back swooned and collapsed. Adiris rushed to her and noticed the black blisters covering her feet. Without hesitation, Adiris grabbed her sacred blade and swung it at her own foot, severing a toe. Then she offered the bloody part to the Gods, asking them to protect the woman. A silence fell over the followers, who revered Adiris as their new priestess.
Tales of her wealth, beauty, and devotion began to spread across the city as quickly as the disease. Soon, Adiris' followers called her the High Priestess of Babylon.
But her faith was tried when she showed the first signs of infection; her cough became a mix of phlegm and blood, her neck erupted in abscesses, and her four-toed foot darkened. Ashamed of her condition, she began wearing a veiled headpiece and carried a censer that masked the rancid smell of sick that clang to her skin. Hoping to be saved, she kept performing the rituals, offering blessed water and food to her followers.
But no ritual could save her. In a desperate attempt to appease the Gods, Adiris banished herself from the city. She traveled north with a few followers, venturing through the cold woodlands of Urashtu, until it was no longer possible to walk.
They camped in a damp cave, where Adiris lay in a pool of vomit. Her foot, which had turned black, was so swollen she could not go any further. Her followers and she realised the truth in that cave: they were all infected with the plague.
Kneeling among her retching followers, Adiris made one last prayer. The black fumes of incense rose into the damp air before being wiped off by a cold breeze.
Neither the body of Adiris nor those of her followers were ever found. Many told tales of her return, but no one truly knew what fate had befallen the High Priestess of Babylon.
Load-out
Unique Perks
The Plague comes with 3 Perks that are unique to her:
Corrupt Intervention | Your prayers invoke a dark power that meddles with the Survivors' chances of survival.
Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State. "It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7) | |
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Dark Devotion | The display of your Powers creates a whirlwind of panic that spreads throughout the land.
Whenever the Obsession loses a Health State by any means and thus enters the Injured State, Dark Devotion activates:
The Obsession with your transferred Terror Radius is also considered to be 'inside the Terror Radius' for other purposes. You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. "And terror shall take hold of a defiant non-believer, who shall falsely announce my arrival." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 48.9) | |
Infectious Fright | The cries of the unfaithful make your heart leap. Whenever a Survivor is put into the Dying State by any means, all other Survivors within your Terror Radius will scream and reveal their current location to you for 4/5/6 seconds. |
Prestige
Prestiging The Plague will automatically add Tier I of her Unique Perks to the inventories of all other Killers and unlock the ability for their higher-tiered versions to spawn in their Bloodweb.
Prestige The Plague twice more to automatically add Tier II and Tier III respectively into the other Killers' inventories.
Weapon: Profane Censer
The Profane Censer is the Primary Weapon of The Plague.
It is exuding the sweet fragrances of the Gardens the Priestess used to tend to.
Power: Vile Purge
"Her condition deteriorated as the black plague overtook her body:
Her toes blackened, her neck mushroomed into cysts, and her throat gagged with bloody vomit."
SPECIAL ABILITY: VILE PURGE
Press and hold the Power button to charge Vile Purge.
Release the Power button to unleash a stream of infectious bile or press the Attack button to swallow it back down:
- Hitting Survivors with a Vomit Projectile inflicts them with Sickness.
- Successive hits slowly fill the Sickness Meter.
- Hitting environmental objects causes them to become infectious to Survivors for 40 seconds.
SPECIAL STATE: SICKNESS
Sickness is indicated on the Status HUD icon of affected Survivors, which also doubles as a Sickness Meter:
- Infected Survivors with a partially filled Sickness Meter vomit at random intervals, infecting both nearby environmental objects and other Survivors.
- Infected Survivors with a full Sickness Meter are put into the Injured State and suffer permanently from the Broken Status Effect.
SPECIAL OBJECT: POOLS OF DEVOTION
Pools of Devotion spawn randomly throughout the environment:
- 5 Pools of Devotion spawn in the Uncorrupted State.
- 1 Pool of Devotion spawns in the Corrupted State.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: CLEANSING INFECTION
Survivors can approach an Uncorrupted Pool of Devotion and interact with it to cleanse themselves.
Cleansing removes all Sickness and automatically heals them back to full health, but corrupts the Pool of Devotion.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: INGESTING CORRUPTION
The Plague can approach a Corrupted Pool of Devotion and press and hold the Interaction button to ingest its corruption and empower her purge:
- Replaces Vile Purge with Corrupt Purge for 60 seconds.
- Resets the Pool of Devotion.
The Plague automatically receives Corrupt Purge when Survivors corrupt all available Pools of Devotion, resetting them all.
SPECIAL ATTACK: CORRUPT PURGE
Press and hold the Power button to charge Corrupt Purge
Release the Power button to unleash a stream of lethal bile or press the Attack button to swallow it back down:
- Hitting Survivors with a Vomit Projectile inflicts them with damage, causing them to lose a Health State.
Power Trivia
Movement Speeds:
- Vomit Charging & Cool-down: 3.6 m/s
- Vomit Holding & Vomiting: 4.4 m/s
- Vomit Projectiles: 10.55 m/s
Vile Purge & Corrupt Purge:
- Approximate maximum range: 13 metres
- Charges: 1.5 Charges
- Charge rate: 1 c/s
- Charge time: 1.5 seconds
- Activation Charge threshold: 25 %
- Tapping the Power button will cause The Plague to charge up to this threshold, then vomit automatically.
- Drain rate: 0.8 c/s
- Vomit time: 1.875 seconds
- Vomit Cool-down duration: 1.5 seconds
- Infection time of Interactables: 40 seconds
- This refers to how long vomited-on Props stay infected for before they become uninfected again.
- Corrupt Purge:
- deals damage: Yes
- deals double damage: No
- Damage Immunity duration after being hit by Corrupt Purge: 3 seconds
- When The Plague is stunned with a Pallet she will lose Corrupt Purge.
- Other stuns do not cause her to lose Corrupt Purge.
Vomit Projectiles:
- Sickness additive: 1.25 %
- Amount of Killer momentum added to projectile speed: 100 %
- Launch rate: 1 Projectile every 0.03 seconds
- for 1 second: ~33.3 Projectiles
- for the entire Vomit duration: ~62.5 Projectiles
Sickness:
- Sickness accumulated for:
- each Vomit Projectile: 1.25 %
- being infected, crawling, crouching, walking: 0 % per second; None
- running, interacting with non-infected Props: 1 % per second
- interacting with infected Props: 2 % per second
- Reaching 100 % Sickness:
- injures Survivors: Yes
- downs Survivors: No
- 100 % Sickness inflicts Survivors with:
- Broken Status Effect: Yes
- Exposed Status Effect: No
- Inactive: On being hooked, Sickness:
- resets completely: No
- resets partially (to 50 % Sickness): No
Survivor Vomiting:
- Vomiting threshold: 50 % Sickness
- This refers to how sick Survivors must be before starting to vomit.
- Vomiting intervals: 5 seconds (min); 15 seconds (max)
- This refers to the minimum and maximum cool-down time in-between bouts of vomiting.
- Inactive: vomiting inflicts a Movement Speed penalty of 0 %; nothing for 1 second.
Pools of Devotion:
- Cleansing Sickness duration: 8 seconds
- Ingesting Corruption duration: 1 second
- Reset delay: 5 seconds
- When all Pools of Devotion become corrupted: this refers to the delay before The Plague gains Corrupt Purge and the Pools reset.
- Amount of Pools of Devotion corrupted when loading into Trial: 1 Pool of Devotion.
Add-ons for Vile Purge
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Healing Salve | A bitterly pungent paste of crushed roots, which were marinated in fish brine for three days and in wine for two. Applied on skin rashes.
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Limestone Seal | A cylindrical seal made from porous stone that displays a ritualistic scene with winged deities.
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Olibanum Incense | Precious resin extracted from Boswellia trees, used during ceremonies for their sweet citrusy fragrance.
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Prayer Tablet Fragment | A fragmented stone tablet with a corrupted incantation originally used to purge illnesses and feelings of general malaise.
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Blessed Apple | A perfectly ripe fruit to break fast during the purification ceremony. Delicious.
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Emetic Potion | A mustard-water based syrup that induces vomiting when consumed. Used to purge evil from the body.
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Haematite Seal | A cylindrical seal forged from a metallic hard-stone, engraved with bird-headed beings that stood next to strange machines. Used as a container for sanctified ashes.
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Potent Tincture | A frothing, murky liquid that permeates the air with an acute aroma of herbs and alcohol. Applied directly on blisters.
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Prophylactic Amulet | A fragmented stone tablet with a corrupted incantation originally used to purge illnesses and feelings of general malaise.
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Ashen Apple | A peeled apple rolled into sanctified ashes. Eating such a fruit warded off the malignantly envious spirits of the deceased.
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Exorcism Amulet | An obsidian amulet to ward off sickness during exorcism rituals. Inscribed with a prayer to the God of Mayhem and Pestilence. Fills the wearer with fierce devotion.
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Incensed Ointment | A dark waxy paste, laced with cedar sap that diffuses a sweet and earthy aroma. Applied directly on infected skin.
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Infected Emetic | A disgusting syrup of unknown origin. The thick yellow liquid is consumed to induce vomiting. Used to purge evil from the body.
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Rubbing Oil | A beaker of rubbing oil with expectorant quality. Exudes the evergreen scent of laurel and rosemary.
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Devotee's Amulet | A blood stone amulet carved intricately with the effigy of the Babylonian God of Mayhem and Pestilence. Fills the wearer with boundless devotion.
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Severed Toe | The decaying severed toe of Adiris, weaved on a thread and worn as an amulet around the neck. Radiates with vile power.
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Vile Emetic | A foul-smelling and half-congealed potion of unidentifiable ingredients. Consumed to rapidly induce vomiting. Used to purge evil from the body.
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Worship Tablet | A stone tablet adorned with gold, showing the drawings and writings of a corrupted incantation used originally to worship forgotten deities.
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Black Incense | A dark paste made of sharp osseous shavings. The inhaling of its foul fumes sharpens the mind's eye.
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Iridescent Seal | A translucent cylindrical seal moulded from The Fog itself with the effigy of The Plague. Its surface is warm and pulsates with The Entity's power.
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Achievements
There are 2 Achievements related to The Plague:
Icon | Name | Description |
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Adept Plague | Playing as The Plague, achieve a Merciless Victory using only her 3 Unique Perks: Corrupt Intervention, Infectious Fright, and Dark Devotion | |
Terminal Illness | Playing as The Plague, down Survivors inflicted with maximum Sickness a total of 50 times. |
Cosmetic Options
Players can choose from a variety of Cosmetic options to customise The Plague:
Base Cosmetics
Default
Prestige
Perk Charms
Prestige Level 7 Reward | Prestige Level 8 Reward | Prestige Level 9 Reward |
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A keepsake gained upon mastery of a particular skill. |
Alternatives
Special
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Frosty Eyes | Uncommon | Heart chilling eyes of the cold blooded.
"Have a Wonderful Winter 2019-2020!" - The Dead by Daylight Team |
No Collection | Winter Event 2019 | ||
Sinner's End | Very Rare | The mask of the Maiden Guards represented the executioner, and their divine right to end a sinner's life. | Forsaken | Amazon Prime Gaming August 2022 reward | ||
Purity of Soul | Very Rare | The uniforms of the Maiden Guards showed bare skin, symbolizing the purity of its members- and their right to judge others. | Forsaken | Amazon Prime Gaming August 2022 reward | ||
Cleansing Flame | Very Rare | A censer filled with embers and oil, it was used to cleanse a high priest of his blasphemous ways. | Forsaken | Amazon Prime Gaming August 2022 reward |
Event
Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | Event | Exclusive to Event Participation |
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Crown of the Entity | Event | A crown emanating a festive and ominous aura created by the Entity's biggest fan. | Fourth Year Anniversary | Yes | ||
5th Anniversary Crown | Event | A crown crafted for a very special anniversary.
"Thank you for supporting & inspiring us along the years!" - The Dead by Daylight Team |
Fifth Year Anniversary | Yes | ||
Gum Ball Vessel | Event | A vile, cloying scent disperses from the cracks in its glass. | Haunted by Daylight | Yes |
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Red and black vestments were her final attempt to conceal the infection ravaging her body.
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Some thought the dyes too rich and garish, but to gain a god’s attention, drastic measures sometimes had to be followed.
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10 October 2023 (Tuesday)
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DLC
The Plague is part of 3 DLCs:
- Chapter DLC:
- CHAPTER 11: Demise of the Faithful (retired)
- Pack DLCs:
- Old Wounds Pack (Chapter Pack)
- Terror Expansion Pack (Character Pack)
Change Log
Patch 2.6.0
- Buff: increased Corrupt Purge duration from 45 seconds to 60 seconds.
- Buff: increased Environmental Infection duration from 20 seconds to 35 seconds.
- Buff: slightly increased The Plague's Movement speed while charging Vile Purge and Corrupt Purge
- Buff: Survivor Infection no longer resets upon being hooked.
- QoL: added the ability for The Plague to infect Exit Gate Switches.
- QoL: once all Pools of Devotion are corrupted, they reset and automatically grant The Plague Corrupt Purge.
- QoL: improved The Plague's Deviousness and Brutality scoring.
- Nerf: slightly reduced The Plague's Movement speed while holding Vile Purge and Corrupt Purge
Patch 2.7.0
- QoL: further improved The Plague's Brutality scoring.
Patch 3.2.2
- QoL: adjusted the projectile-throwing interaction to increase its responsiveness.
Patch 3.6.0
- Buff: The Plague now starts with one corrupted Pool of Devotion.
Patch 4.7.0
- QoL: improved the colours of the Sickness Meter on the HUD for colour-blind players.
Patch 5.1.0
- Change: removed the redundant ability for The Plague to infect Breakable Walls, since Survivors have no means of interacting with them in the first place.
Patch 5.3.0
- QoL: releasing the Power button early will now continue to charge Vile Purge until the minimum threshold is reached, instead of cancelling it.
- Buff: increased the Cool-down Movement speed of Vile Purge from 2.3 m/s to 3.6 m/s.
- Buff: increased infection time on objects from 35 seconds to 40 seconds.
- Buff: interacting with infected objects will now cause a Survivor's Sickness Meter to increase twice as fast.
- Buff: increased the time it takes to cleanse from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.
Unknown Patch
- Change: Reassessed the difficulty rating from Very Hard to Hard.
Trivia
- The Plague was the sixth female Killer.
- The Plague, unlike most Killers, has no weapon-wipe animation due to her Weapon being a censer swinging from her hand.
- The Plague was the second Killer with just a first name.
- The Plague was the first Killer to speak an actual (albeit dead) language.
- The Plague was the second Killer to break Pallets and damage Generators with her Weapon.
- The Plague audibly swallows her vomit back down when cancelling her Power manually.
- The Incense Burner was jokingly referred to as "The Onion" by the Developers, due to remarks made by the Community on its shape in the first Teaser.
Lore Trivia
- The Plague is to-date the oldest Killer in Dead by Daylight, coming from Babylonia (1895-539 BC), a state based in central-southern Mesopotamia, an ancient Kingdom in the region of present-day Iraq.
- The Plague took on the role of High Priestess after the other Priests succumbed to the plague in order to support her city.
- Playing as The Plague, one can see the ruby-ringed fingers mentioned in her Lore, which she got from the gold-adorned goddess statue in The Temple of Purgation.
- The Plague's name, "Adiris", means persistence, resourcefulness and empathy.
- This is fitting with her personality and motivations in her Lore.
- The Plague is also the only Killer to have willingly sacrificed herself to The Entity in an attempt to save her people from the plague.
- However, admittedly, The Plague believed that The Entity was her god, and was not aware of its true nature or intentions.
- A gold Tablet inside the Temple is inscribed with Akkadian cuneiform.
The inscription consists of five repeating glyphs.
The glyphs read as Dingir I-ti-n Sîn, representing "Iddin-Sin", King of the Kingdom of Simurrum, an important city state in Mesopotamia[1], where Adiris originates from. - It is likely that The Plague exclaims the sentence Adda ni ka dingir asar po me in her Mori animation, which roughly translates to Send them to your mouth, God.
Video
The Plague ingesting Corruption |
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References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingir#/media/File:King_Iddin-Sin_name_inscription.jpg King Iddin-Sin inscription. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
Gallery
For more go to The Plague's Gallery
In-game assets
Official art
Old assets
Concept arts