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One paper, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead by Daylight universe is pretty cut and dry. Survivors are pulled from alternate realities and forced to flee from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a series of brutal Killers, some of whom possess supernatural abilities. Simple premise, at least compared to some other games. However, in actuality, the world of Dead by Daylight is far more complicated than it appears, and this complexity is almost entirely due to a singular entity, or rather The Entity.
The Entity is the unseen overseer of the horrors that transpire within the world of Dead by Daylight. Many questions surrounding the being's motives and even how it's capable of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:pulling people through space and time to 'participate' in its twisted game have spawned a plethora of theories, but there's one question that seems to be avoided. What exactly is The Entity?
Appearance
Despite having existed for an undetermined amount of time, there's no record of what The Entity actually looks like. It's often depicted as a swirling void of darkness, as shown when it 'consumes' a Survivor, but it has no distinctive shape. It's described as "evil in its purest form" and, as evil has no true form, it would appear The Entity follows this thread.
On occasion, The Entity has been known to manifest aspects of itself throughout its 'Trial Ground' in the form of spidery legs and large black thorns, but its entire form has never been shown. There's speculation that The Entity is plant-like in nature, with the 'leg' its summons being vines, given its susceptibility to the Blight.
What It Does
Despite being what many believe to be a cosmic being, The Entity is limited to what it can do to a physical being. As it resides within a dimension separate from its victims, it has to take an indirect approach to securing its influence. Once The Entity finds a new Terra world to feast upon, it uses its greatest tool. Its ability to corrupt.
Everywhere it goes, The Entity corrupts everything it touches, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:influencing the world's inhabitants and forcing them to commit horrible atrocities. Through these acts, The Entity is capable of bonding its own realm with the reality of its victims. With its realm attached to its victims', it slowly seeps in like a fungus. It creates realms that mimic the real world that serve as both corrals and hunting grounds for The Entity's unsuspecting prey.
The Trial Grounds
The realms that The Entity creates to house its prey are known as Trial Grounds. They exist outside of time and space and, as previously stated, these areas greatly resemble locations within the victims' world. On the surface, aside from a few protrusions resembling glowing pustules, several large hooks, and an assortment of generators, these realms are nearly perfect replicas of real places. On a deeper inspection, however, there are quite a few changes.
The realms are maze-like, complete with winding halls or paths that, while giving a rather open appearance, are very confined. Furthermore, these realms are small, sometimes consisting of a single building. These realms are also isolated, trapping the Survivors within even if the realm appears to go on. Dotting these realms are generators that are linked to the Survivors' only means of escape.
All of these things are put into place to give Survivors, regular people who have stumbled or have been pulled into one of these realms, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hope that they can run and escape while also instilling a feeling of entrapment. The only way to escape is to fix the generators that have been spawned within the realm and leave through the 'doors,' but even this isn't a 'true' escape as the cycle is doomed to repeat until the Survivors lose their will to live.
The Killers
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Because The Entity cannot directly attack Survivors, it's forced to enlist the help of others. The individuals that The Entity initially corrupted into committing obscene acts of violence are the first to be brought into its realm. These corrupted individuals are then forced to submit to The Entity's will and forced to hunt Survivors to feed their new master.
Some of these corrupted individuals, or Killers, are more than willing to hunt, maim, and kill Survivors to satiate their own bloodlust, but others need convincing. If one of its chosen Killers refused to play their part, The Entity will torture them into submission. Because the realms exist outside of time, the torture a Killer is subjected to is virtually endless. The Entity is patient, and it's more than willing to wait for its tool to be properly shaped.
Insatiable Hunger
The Entity is impossibly old. There's no record of when it first came into being, but The Entity is believed to be an ancient creature that travels through space in search of one thing. Food. The Entity is completely driven by an insatiable hunger that is unlike any living organism to date. Instead of consuming organic matter, The Entity's palate is far more particular.
Instead of simply consuming organic matter like every other living organism, The Entity feasts upon intense emotion. Feelings of anger, fear, sadness, jubilation, and hatred are delicacies for this cosmic being. It thrives off of the suffering of others in a quite literal sense. It's why it traps people within its Trial Grounds.
They're farms for The Entity to breed intense emotions that it can feed upon. The hellish torture The Entity forces people through is all so that it can feed to its black heart's content. Even death isn't an escape for those that it traps, as it will just bring them back so they can continue to suffer. It's only when a Survivor is nothing more than a husk that The Entity will offer them 'rest' by casting them into another realm known as The Void.
The Almost Fair Hunts
One thing to note is that when The Entity hunts, or rather its Killers do, it will make things 'fair' for the Survivors. A great deal of the Killers that The Entity controls are more than capable of simply killing the Survivors without any difficulty. Take Freddy Krueger, for example. While he's given the ability to immediately send Survivors to sleep to attack them, he never shows the sheer versatility and power that he has demonstrated in other forms of media.
On top of weakening its Killers, The Entity even creates 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a means of escaping the Trial Grounds and its Killers. This all would seem counterintuitive as it's letting its prey escape, but this is part of its feast. It doesn't just feed on pain and suffering, it also consumes feelings of hope and desperation.
It purposefully gives Survivors ways to evade and escape their Killers as the feeling of happiness and relief that a Survivor experience nourishes The Entity just as much as their pain. There's also no risk of its prey escaping The Entity as it's nearly impossible to escape one of The Entity's realms. Even if a Survivor 'makes it out, they merely reappear at the campsite without memories of what had transpired, just like the ones that die during these trials.
Its Weakness
While The Entity gives the impression that it's an all-powerful deity, it's not infallible. Despite all of its abilities, it seems to have one thing that makes it almost mortal. A single weakness that an individual known as Vigo exploited to escape The Entity's clutches. The Blight.
Not to be confused with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Talbot Grimes, who bares the same moniker, the Blight is the affliction that plagues The Entity once a year. The Blight takes the form of glowing cankers that seep into the various realms The Entity creates. These pustules release nectar of sorts that corrupts those who come into contact with it. It can grant them a severe increase in the affected's physical abilities but will cause horrible mutations within them.
To rid itself of these pustules, The Entity must go through a purge. In this state, it's implied that The Entity is weakened, and the control that it has over its realms weakens. It was during such an occasion that Vigo was able to escape. As an aside, this blight is the reason why many believe The Entity is plant-like as blight is a common symptom in plants infected by a pathogen.