Saku Nakano
Saku Nakano is a Tome
Character in Dead by Daylight
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Overview
Also known as ‘’The Redcrane’’, she is a highly skilled Japanese swordswoman, and the last surviving member of the Red Crown Clan.
Appearance
In most appearances, she wears a black and red kimono and wields a katana, and occasionally a longbow. On the back of her kimono has the symbol of a black circle with two tentacles.
Before she enters the Entity's Realm and journeyed for centuries, she is described as such:
"She was tall and lean with strong, sinuous arms and piercing dark eyes. She had long, black oiled hair gathered in a perfect queue, doubled over and tied neatly with a red and white sash. She wore thong sandals and a simple black kimono. A vibrant red sash around her waist held two scabbard swords. One sword was short and straight, the other was long and curved at the tip."
Sometime she is shown as wearing a long black skirt and a white short-sleeved shirt with a red circle on the back.
Lore
Early Life
She is the last surviving member of the Red Crown Clan, a centuries old clan who all other members having been taken into the fog. She wandedered the lands of Japan seeking to honor her oath of hunting down and destroying The Black Serpent Society, the enemy of her clan.
She lost her sister to that same fog a long ago, when they fought an Oni
and she managed to escape, but her sister didn’t. At one point, she entered a Bleed and encountered that demon samurai again, as well as the decapitated heads of her alternate selves. Knowing that the demon samurai could not be defeated, she instead chose to leave and continue her hunt.
Entity’s Realm
In the Entity’s Realm, she wandered for what felt like thousands of centuries without rest or respite, hunting the twenty one Black Serpent Society Disciples, and manages to kill twelve of them. She constantly moved through different realms, from cities filled with the undead, to wastelands of bombed out ruins. On her travels she fough a variety of monsters, such as giant a faceless statue, undead gladiators and zombies.
During her travels she found and rescued Maurice from a near dead gigantic tentacled creature. Together they journey through the lands, fighting plant monsters and an undead army.
At some point in her travels, she rescued Mahan Singh from The Horror, a nightmarish mechanical monster, alongside a CIA agent, a detective and an aviator. Later, she joined Mahan Singh and Jaden as they holed up in a motel.
Tome Appearances
- Tome 10 - SAW: Things in the Fog
- Tome 12 - Discordance: The House of Arkham (II)
- Tome 13 - Malevolence: The House of Arkham (III)
- Tome 14 - Betrayal: The House of Arkham (IV)
- Tome 15 - Ascension: The House of Arkham (V)
Trivia
- She is the protagonist in an eighteenth century story written by an anonymous Japanese author.
- The people she fought have likened her fighting prowess to beings empowered by The Entity.
Gallery
Core Memory #1: THE REDCRANE 715
Core Memory #2: THE REDCRANE 713
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