Sable Ward
| Sable Ward | |
|---|---|
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| Gender | Woman |
| Origin | American |
| DLC | CHAPTER 31: All Things Wicked |
| Voice Actor | Liz Morey (Blindlight) |
| Cost | 9,000 Iridescent Shards  
500 Auric Cells |
| Menu Music | |
| CharID | S41 |
Sable Ward is one of 46 Survivors
currently featured in Dead by Daylight
.
She was introduced as the Survivor of CHAPTER 31: All Things Wicked, a Chapter DLC released on 12 March 2024.
Overview
Sable Ward is not afraid to embrace the darkness, or the power that lies within it.
Her personal Perks, Invocation: Weaving Spiders
, Strength in Shadows
, and Wicked
, allow her to quicken Repair progress, heal herself without a Med-Kit, and escape the Basement Hooks.
Lore
Sable figured she had to be adopted. No way was she the progeny of her insanely perky mom and her grinning, golf-playing, frat boy of a dad. They didn’t understand the first thing about her. No one in Greenville did. Except for Mikaela. They were fast friends since third grade. Up until then Sable had no friends. She wasn’t into ponies or dolls or tea parties with teddy bears. She liked bugs, lizards, riding bikes and dirt clod fights. Her favourite holiday was Halloween and Mikaela was the only one who didn’t think she was crazy when she dyed her hair purple in eighth grade. Sable’s mom was furious. Her dad didn’t even notice. Mikaela went with her to the mall when she got her ears pierced and helped her pick out her first tattoo. An occult symbol hidden in a place her parents would never see. Mikaela declined to get her own tattoo. She flirted with the dark side, but she didn’t live it. Not like Sable. The dark side made sense to Sable, and she revelled in it. Partly because it freaked out her parents and teachers. Partly because it felt like who she was. Some called her a goth because of the way she presented herself. But she wasn’t into labels. She loved horror movies and found the occult exciting. It made sense to her. She knew that the shiny suburban world of her mom and dad had a dark underbelly. They were afraid to confront their fear, so they pretended everything was perfect and that they would live forever. But Sable knew better. Death stalked us all and no one was getting out alive.
Mikaela got Sable a job at Moonstone. Probably the only place in town that would have hired her. She took classes at the local college and produced a guerrilla radio show on the shortwave in her attic. All Things Wicked This Night was about the world’s dark underbelly. The occult. Urban legends. Horror. And often there were heated discussions with Mikaela about the horror movies they’d catch at the only theatre in Greenville. Mikaela liked her horror with a little comedy, but Sable liked it meaner. Scarier. Bloodier. She relished the gore. Enjoyed the terror. Liked to feel the adrenaline rush. And their debates were entertaining to say the least.
When searching for inspiration for her show, Sable would take walks in the cemetery with all the statues and headstones of early settlers who had founded the town as a sanctuary for those escaping persecution. She often talked about that history on her show, and she formed a theory that the uncanny sightings and disappearances were somehow linked to the town’s history. One caller suggested the town was built on top of a fracture. The caller went on to describe a fracture as an overlap between worlds. Another caller said these fractures were created by an ancient cult devoted to forgotten demons. Another caller defined fractures as a cosmic buffet for an elder god that fed on pain, fear, and misery. And one caller even argued that it wasn’t a fracture but The Unknown, a mysterious creature that consumed anyone who dared to imagine it. All the theories made for fun and inspiring debates, and she loved nothing more than to discuss real-life horror until the horror became personal.
One evening Sable had challenged Mikaela to tell a real horror story at Moonstone’s Annual Halloween Festival. Scare the crap out of people. Stop dancing around the horror and embrace it. Tell a story about The Unknown. Make them imagine it. Make them believe The Unknown will show up on stage. Nothing terrifies an audience more than a show that could potentially kill them. Mikaela laughed at the idea and declined the challenge because she was working on another story with her roommate.
But a strange, black fog had taken Mikaela during her performance and Sable felt the icy hand of guilt grab her by the back of the neck. She was convinced that she had somehow sent Mikaela to her doom. Did The Unknown take her? Did she try to define The Unknown? What about her roommate? Her roommate disappeared as well. But then she realised Mikaela’s story wasn’t about The Unknown. It was about something else. Another dimension. A dimension filled with terrifying creatures, sadistic killers, and endless horror.
This was not The Unknown.
With this realisation, Sable began to investigate other disappearances in Greenville. Before long, she realised most of the disappearances occurred at the theatre or somewhere close by. Investigating further, she discovered the theatre was built over the ruins of an old, one-room schoolhouse that had burned to the ground in the 1920s. Somehow the students couldn’t get out and everyone perished in the flames. Feeling close to an answer, she continued her research and discovered two teenage brothers had recently disappeared from the theatre. Elias and Elan. The only witness, their younger sister, Ellen, was committed to an institution after ripping her eyes out. And so, pretending to be a relative, Sable went to talk to Ellen who admitted she and her brothers had been trying to steal old movie posters from the storage room behind the movie screen. She then described a secret door in the basement and a passageway that led to another place.
A dark place.
A cold place.
An evil place.
Stay away from there, she begged. Stay away.
But Sable wasn’t about to stay away.
Not after that story.
Determined to see Mikaela again, Sable hitched a ride to the theatre and soon found the door behind the movie screen. In the darkness she jimmied the door open with a crowbar and headed down a creaking, wooden stairway to the dank cellar. A light switch activated flickering fluorescent lights that illuminated a room filled with broken theatre seats and old movie posters dating back eighty years. She searched the sprawling basement and found a thick wooden door hidden behind a poster of the original Frankenstein. She pushed and shoved the door open to reveal an endless circular stairway descending into perfect darkness. Using a penlight to navigate, she descended for ten minutes before she noticed the cold, black fog rising from the lower depths.
The same cold, black fog that had taken Mikaela.
Sable considered running back up the stairs to where she would be safe. But then she thought about the terrifying creatures and the sadistic killers and the endless horror, and she quickly decided she wasn’t going to let her best friend have all the fun.
Load-out
Unique Perks
Sable comes with 3 Perks
that are unique to her:
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Invocation: Weaving Spiders | "The place where fear festers and terror treads is also where those with the gift can reach across the veil."
When in the Basement Once the Invocation is completed, the following effects apply:
"I call upon the spirits of the night, to aid us in our desperate flight!" — Sable |
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Strength in Shadows | "A chance for renewed power down where danger calls home."
Whenever you are inside the Basement
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Wicked | "They can try to hurt you. But you're not going down so easily." After you are unhooked by any means, Wicked triggers its primary effect:
   , Wicked potentially triggers its secondary effect:
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Prestige
Prestiging Sable will automatically add Tier I of her Unique Perks to the inventories of all other Survivors and unlock the ability for their higher-tiered versions to spawn in their Bloodweb
.
Prestige Sable twice more to automatically add Tier II and Tier III respectively into the other Survivors' inventories.
Achievements
There is 1 Achievement related to Sable:
| Icon | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Adept Sable | Playing as Sable Ward, escape a Trial using only her 3 Unique Perks: Invocation: Weaving Spiders, Strength in Shadows, and Wicked |
Cosmetic Options
Players can choose from a variety of Cosmetic options to customise Sable:
Base Cosmetics
Default
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sable Ward | 
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Common | An outcast, a free-spirit, a lover of all things dark and twisted. |
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Lacy Top | 
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Common | Even when she was alone broadcasting her radio show, Sable liked to dress with flair. |
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Ombre Skirt | 
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Common | Flecks of color danced with the darkness around her. |
Prestige
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Bloody Sable Ward |
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Rare | A misfit, a troublemaker, a daughter of absolute darkness. |
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Blood-Drenched Top |
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Rare | Even in her deepest despair, Sable liked to dress with flair. |
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Spattered Skirt |
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Rare | Flecks of blood danced with the carnage around her. |
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
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | Collection | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Murder Mill |
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Rare | Vintage memorabilia from a cursed production. | The Casting of Frank Stone | Purchasing The Casting of Frank Stone™ |
DLC
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | DLC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Garden Casuals |
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Common | Once she saw it in the store window, she knew she had a reason to save her money. | CHAPTER 31: All Things Wicked. |
Exclusive
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Twitchy Sable |
|
Rare | Twitchy Sable is twitching. | Given to selected twitch affiliates/partners |
Rift
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She spent nights under the full moon in Greenville Cemetery, looking for material for her show.
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The gargoyles watched over the dead, and Sable begged their pardon as she passed by.
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She couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to be laid to rest here, and when it would happen.
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She hoped the gargoyles would watch over her too, when her time came.
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She spent nights walking among the tombstones in Greenville Cemetery, hoping for a sign of the supernatural.
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She felt the eyes of the gargoyles on her and gave them a respectful curtsey.
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Thoughts of her inevitable death flooded her mind as she found an empty plot.
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She lay at the bottom of the hole and asked the gargoyles to watch over her.
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In-Game Store
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No one could understand her need to be free and be her true self.
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Adults would look at her with judgmental eyes. But she didn’t dress up for them.
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She walked through life with confidence, unwilling to conform to other people’s standards.
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No one could understand her need to be free and be her true self.
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Adults would look at her with judgmental eyes. But she didn’t dress up for them.
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She walked through life with confidence, unwilling to conform to other people’s standards.
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No one could understand her need to be free and be her true self.
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Adults would look at her with judgmental eyes. But she didn’t dress up for them.
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She walked through life with confidence, unwilling to conform to other people’s standards.
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No one could understand her need to be free and be her true self.
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Adults would look at her with judgmental eyes. But she didn’t dress up for them.
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She walked through life with confidence, unwilling to conform to other people’s standards.
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She pulled out all the stops when the mood struck her.
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She had no trouble centering her bottom lip with or without a mirror.
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She felt safe and secure with her corset wrapped around her.
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They provided just enough warmth on those late-summer nights.
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She pulled out all the stops when the mood struck her.
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She had no trouble centering her bottom lip with or without a mirror.
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She felt safe and secure with her corset wrapped around her.
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They provided just enough warmth on those late-summer nights.
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She pulled out all the stops when the mood struck her.
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She had no trouble centering her bottom lip with or without a mirror.
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She felt safe and secure with her corset wrapped around her.
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They provided just enough warmth on those late-summer nights.
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Sable took the bus to the city in search of a new look.
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Her hairstylist was a fellow goth and knew just what kind of cut to give her.
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She was the queen of death and the underworld – for Sable, it was love at first sight.
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The pants felt luxurious, and she ran her fingers along the stripes all the way back to Greenville.
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Sable took the bus to the city in search of a new look.
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Her hairstylist was a fellow goth and knew just what kind of cut to give her.
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She was the queen of death and the underworld – for Sable, it was love at first sight.
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The pants felt luxurious, and she ran her fingers along the stripes all the way back to Greenville.
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Kids ran by, kicking sand onto Sable's towel. She rolled her eyes, wishing she could be at home alone with her book.
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She lowered her sunglasses and saw her parents swimming and laughing in the water, not ready to leave yet. Over their heads, dark clouds appeared out of nowhere.
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She felt the first drops on her shoulders before torrential rain poured down. The other beachgoers panicked, scrambling to grab their things.
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As her parents stumbled out of the water, Sable couldn’t help but laugh. Her wish had been granted beyond expectations.
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She bought tickets to the overnight horror marathon at the cinema and dressed for the occasion.
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The lineup of old monster movies inspired Sable’s scary-cute headwear.
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She quickly zipped up her jacket and clipped the chains around her front. She didn’t want to miss the previews.
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Buckling her boots, she felt at last like she was in touch with her inner monster.
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She rolled her eyes as Mikaela excitedly browsed the racks of the fabric store, picking out items for their costumes.
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Her fabric pens and glue guns would give their costumes a grungy, DIY touch.
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She found the rope in the back of her garage, caked in dust and neglect.
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Mikaela watched as Sable painted her boots and leggings, giving pointers as she went.
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Her show that night was about a psychic's involvement in a murder investigation, but a new idea came to her while on the air.
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With a hint of foreboding in her voice, she started to talk to her audience about the afterlife.
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As if summoned by her words, a blue butterfly glided across the studio and landed on her microphone.
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The sight of this little visitor captured Sable's imagination. She finished her show with a reminder that death is not necessarily the end.
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She bought tickets to the overnight horror marathon at the cinema and dressed for the occasion.
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The lineup of old monster movies inspired Sable’s scary-cute headwear.
400
7200
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She quickly zipped up her jacket and clipped the chains around her front. She didn’t want to miss the previews.
400
7200
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Buckling her boots, she felt at last like she was in touch with her inner monster.
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She devoted multiple episodes of her radio show to uncover a serial killer the pressed called Little Red. - Designed by DuckieGrumpy
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She was at the library researching Little Red when she got the feeling she was being watched. She rose from the table to investigate.
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She caught a glimpse of a figure in a red hood slipping away like a shadow. Her heart raced. Was that Little Red?
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Maybe Little Red listened to her show and knew she was trying to solve the murders. Or maybe her imagination was getting the better of her.
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Ideal for a misty fall evening with a cup of coffee and an unsolved mystery.
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DLC
Sable is part of 1 DLC:
Trivia
- Sable's Lore reveals that she and Mikaela Reid
were friends before they entered the Realm of the Entity.
- Sable is the only Survivor who willingly joined The Entity's Realm in search of her friend.
- Sable, similarly to Mikaela with Boon Perks, introduced a new Perk variety: Invocation Perks.
Voice-Lines
- Sable is the tenth voiced Survivor since Ash Williams.
| Voice Line | Audio |
|---|---|
| Idling in the Main Menu | |
| "Great." | |
| "Not again." | |
| "I get the feeling something bad is about to happen. Yum." | |
| "I get the feeling something horrible is about to happen." | |
| "This all feels very familiar." | |
| "Super." | |
| "Yum." | |
| "Where am I?" | |
| "Where’s Toto?" | |
| "Fantastic." | |
| Loading into a Lobby | |
| "A fire. Yeah. We’re so lucky." | |
| "A fire. Yum. Bring out the marshmallows." | |
| "A fire. Yum." | |
| "Whatever we do, separating isn’t the best idea." | |
| "Who forgot the marshmallows? The nerve." | |
| "Okay. People. Let’s try to work as a team." | |
| "Okay. This is not what I expected." | |
| "A fire. Wow. We’re so lucky." | |
| "Does anyone know where we are?" | |
| "This ain’t Kansas, is it?" | |
| "I feel like Dorothy. Except no dog and no flying house." | |
| "So the moral of the story is… doesn’t matter…" | |
| "So the moral of the story is… stay away from the fog…" | |
| "So the moral of the story is… you see fog… you run away…" | |
| "So the moral of the story is… we’re screwed…" | |
| "So the moral of the story is… death isn’t what I expected…" | |
| "This feels like something I read." | |
| "It’s like I’m in a story I heard at the Moonstone." | |
| "Anyone else feel like they are being watched?" | |
| "I have the feeling I’ve been here before." | |
| "I just had a déjà vu. Yum." | |
| "I just had a déjà vu. I think I know what’s going to happen next." | |
| "I haven’t enjoyed a moment like this since I had my wisdom teeth pulled." | |
| "Yeah. Let’s hear a campfire story." | |
| "Someone bring a radio? I want to hear a creepy story." | |
| "She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil. I hope." | |
| "If we walk far enough… we shall sometime come to someplace." | |
| "Okay. I want to wake up now. Seriously." | |
| "Anyone have a story they want to share?" | |
| "Anyone have a HAM? I know a great station for scary stories." | |
Gallery
In-game assets
Sable Ward
Sable Ward (Portrait render)
Sable Ward (Background image)
Concept arts
'Poisoned Angel' Concept Art
'Leather Hellion' Concept Art
'Winged Interlude' Concept Art
'Whimsical Weather' Concept Art
'Cemetery Grotesque' Concept Art
