Tarhos Kovács — The Knight
| The Knight | |
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| Name | Tarhos Kovács |
| Gender | Man |
| Origin | Hungarian |
| Realm | The Decimated Borgo |
| Power | Guardia Compagnia |
| Power Attack Type | Special Attack
(Guard Attacks) |
| Weapon | Imposing Claymore |
Movement Speed   |
115 % | 4.6 m/s |
Terror Radius  |
32 metres |
Height   |
Average |
| DLC | CHAPTER 26: Forged in Fog |
| Voice Actor | Misha Standjofski (Knight)
David A.B. (Carnifex) Simon Girard (Assassin) Jeff Mott (Jailer) (The Monster Factory) |
| Cost | 4,500 Iridescent Shards  
250 Auric Cells |
| Breathing | |
| Menu Music | |
| Terror Radius Music | |
| CharID | K30 |
Tarhos Kovács or "The Knight" is one of 38 Killers
currently featured in Dead by Daylight
.
He was introduced as the Killer of CHAPTER 26: Forged in Fog, a Chapter DLC released on 22 November 2022 and retired on 14 May 2024.
He is still available in the In-Game Store
and as part of the Endless Hunt Pack Chapter Pack DLC.
Overview
The Knight is a strategic Killer, able to send his faithful Guards to hunt for Survivors and damage objects on the battlefield.
His personal Perks, Nowhere to Hide
, Hex: Face the Darkness
, and Hubris
, allow him to reveal Survivors near Generators, curse Survivors to scream out in fear, and cause a Survivor who stuns you to become Exposed.
Difficulty Rating: Moderate
(These Killers require the Player to be comfortable with the basics of the role, though they share common mechanics with easier ones)
Lore
- Additional Lore can be found in Tome 14 - Betrayal: Nothing but Darkness
Tarhos Kovács didn’t remember much about his childhood, but what he did remember he would chase his entire life. He remembered the cries and screams in the village. He remembered his mother forcing him to swallow a thick, black fluid like medicine. He remembered collapsing to the hard floor only to awaken in a mass grave, buried under a crush of bodies, with the sound of the village burning in his ears. He remembered pushing, pulling, and climbing to the top of the bloody mass only to be seized by the death, destruction, and silence—the indifferent and impenetrable silence. A high-pitched whine suddenly sounded in his ears and his skin began to prickle as he realised he was in the presence of something he couldn’t possibly understand. And though he couldn’t articulate what he was experiencing, he knew it wasn’t pain, grief, or fear. It was something else. Something closer to—
Awe.
As Tarhos tried to make sense of the moment, he didn’t notice the men who approached him from behind. He didn’t even react when they carried him off to a horse-drawn buggy and locked him up in a small, wooden cage with other slaves. He just stared at the scene, mesmerized. And even as they rode away telling him he was headed for Italy, Tarhos stared through the wooden cracks with eyes wide open and a heart wanting to understand what could not be understood.
From that day on, Tarhos belonged to the Guardia Compagnia where he trained under Kadir Hakam. There he learned to wield weapons, forge armor, and recite a code of chivalry to obediently serve those who would employ his services. As the years passed, Tarhos made few friends amongst the hostile and competitive mercenaries. But his skill, strength, and smarts attracted a small following who believed his courage brought them luck in battle and that one day he would help them earn their collective freedom. Three of his followers pledged their undying allegiance to Tarhos and came to be known as his faithful three. His pack.
Alejandro Santiago apprenticed with the Guardia Compagnia’s Armourer.
Durkos Malecek showed an aptitude for stealth and silent kills.
Sander Rault matched Tarhos in size and strength. His weapon of choice: a massive battle axe.
As the Guardia Compagnia carried out campaigns in faraway lands, Tarhos dispatched countless enemies. Years passed. Blood flowed. And yet, all that killing still didn’t bring Tarhos closer to what he had experienced in his village. Nevertheless, for his bravery in battle, Tarhos was granted knighthood and freedom. The Hungarian slave was now liberated, his brutality rewarded, though his heart still longed for something else — something he could not name or describe. Tired of taking orders from those he considered his inferiors, Tarhos left the Guardia Compagnia to strike out on his own. Their leader, however, refused to release his followers.
Determined to raise enough gold to liberate his followers, Tarhos found employment with a wealthy Italian Lord. Vittorio Toscano was the Duke of Portoscuro. He was also a scholar, a world traveller, and a collector of ancient knowledge that had been hidden by an unknown cabal of mystics. Tarhos joined Vittorio’s latest expedition to find a fragment of a pillar from an ancient school lost to time. A stone Vittorio called the Lapis Paradisus for he believed it held secrets to open a gateway into a perfect world beyond good and evil.
The expedition searched Roman ruins in France and crossed the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain where the path led to the catacombs beneath the Portuguese city of Sintra.
The citizens there considered the catacombs sacred. Tarhos would have to kill the villagers guarding the entrance to retrieve the stone. Not wanting to shed blood, Vittorio commanded Tarhos to find another way. But Tarhos — who had seen the most horrific acts committed under the guise of chivalry — refused to be dissuaded by pretences of honour. He waited for Vittorio to ride back to camp. Then, with a mighty roar, he pushed forward, cutting a path of blood and gore into the darkness until he had the stone in his grasp.
Upon returning to the town of Portoscuro, Tarhos imprisoned Vittorio in his own dungeon, demanding to know the meaning behind the symbols etched in the stone. When Vittorio refused to talk, Tarhos brutally tortured his friends and relatives and made horrific displays of their bodies in the streets. But nothing he did shook Vittorio’s resolve to keep the secrets of the stone from Tarhos. Enraged, Tarhos seized control of Vittorio’s riches and raised a small army. Within months, Tarhos fearlessly marched upon the Guardia Compagnia, decimating their barracks, freeing his followers, cutting down his enemies like twigs and collecting their ‘righteous’ heads for his growing displays of ‘valor.’
In time several lords in neighbouring provinces believed Tarhos was the very embodiment of evil. They banded together to create a ‘moral’ and ‘virtuous’ army to purge evil from Portoscuro. Tarhos ignored their threats. He viewed the lords as a cowardly lot who cloaked their greed and ambition in laws, codes, and platitudes. Laws and codes and platitudes designed to hide from the very darkness Tarhos embraced and accepted without judgment.
But, with his enemies on the march, Tarhos headed toward the dungeons to give Vittorio the death he deserved. He refused to afford him even the slightest hope of rescue. With dark intentions, he entered the small prison, wound his way into the bowels of the earth, and pushed through a torch-lit corridor. He hesitated for a moment, realising he would never learn Vittorio’s knowledge and secrets. But neither would anyone else. That was good enough for him. And so, he unlocked and kicked open the dungeon door. Two quick strides brought him to an empty, rat-infested chamber.
Tarhos stood silent for a moment, then a roar of indignation burst out of his lungs as the sounds of battle suddenly reverberated through the town. Instantly, he stumbled through the corridor, rushed up the twisting stairs, vaulted out of the moonlit doorway and charged through pools of gleaming blood and viscera, smashing and shattering his way through the enemy. The ‘moral’ and ‘virtuous’ lords rained flaming boulders and tree-trunks among the town, bursting through homes, crushing villagers like worms, pounding the ground and igniting stacks of hay and piles of lumber into massive tongues of fire.
Amidst the carnage and chaos, the pack found Tarhos, and back-to-back, they became a whirlwind of death. Some believed their courage gave them luck. Others believed something otherworldly protected them. Whatever it was, they alone felled dozens of warriors as easily as stomping and crushing beetles. And as they butchered the enemy, Tarhos didn’t notice the strange fog rising from the fallen corpses and clattering armour until he couldn’t see two inches in front of him in any direction.
Tarhos stumbled forward, groping in the thick fog like the dark fluid his mother forced down his throat all those years ago. His coordination and sense of direction was confused as he called out for his pack. How long he stumbled in the almost perfect darkness he did not know. But suddenly the fog dissipated to reveal a phantasmal wasteland of rotting bodies and burning villages and great crumbling towers leaning drunkenly on the horizon. He stared in awe. A familiar high-pitched whine sounded in his ears and his skin began to prickle. He stood transfixed, realising by some incredible chance, his heart had found exactly what it had been searching for all his life. He didn’t need Vittorio. He didn’t need the stone. He had found his paradise. He had found —
The beauty and the horror.
He had found —
The Sublime.
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Unique Perks
The Knight comes with 3 Perks
that are unique to him:
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Hex: Face the Darkness | You make an example of one of your victims, forcing their allies to become awed by your power.
Whenever you injure a Survivor by any means, if there is still a Dull Totem
Hex: Face the Darkness deactivates once the Cursed Survivor either enters the Dying State Hex: Face the Darkness is disabled for the remainder of the Trial, if a Survivor manages to cleanse its Hex Totem "I shall make an example of one. These mewling worms will never know peace." — Tarhos Kovács |
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Hubris | You show no mercy, especially to those foolish enough to resist.
Hubris has a cool-down of 20 seconds. "You have made a grave mistake, standing in opposition to me this day." — Tarhos Kovács |
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Nowhere to Hide | The machinations of the weak and craven draw your ire. Your anger forces Survivors to reveal themselves. Performing the Damage Generator action on a Generator
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Prestige
Prestiging The Knight will automatically add Tier I of his 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 Knight twice more to automatically add Tier II and Tier III respectively into the other Killers' inventories.
Weapon: Imposing Claymore
The Imposing Claymore is the Primary Weapon of The Knight.
A massive weapon capable of cleaving a foe in half, in the right hands.
Power: Guardia Compagnia
"The Knight alone is a terrifying monster on the battlefield, but with his loyal Guards, he is nearly unstoppable.
Together, the Guardia Compagnia fights for their own freedom, killing anyone who gets in their way."
SPECIAL ABILITY: GUARDIA COMPAGNIA
The Knight can summon his three loyal companions one at a time to patrol nearby areas, hunt Survivors, or perform tasks on his behalf.
SPECIAL ABILITY: GUARD SUMMON
Press and hold the Secondary Power button to cycle through the 3 Guards.
Press and hold the Power button to enter the Guard Summon Mode.
Press the Secondary Power button to exit it at any time.
While in the Guard Summon Mode, The Knight can move forwards at 13.8 m/s while steering with his camera, represented to Survivors as a Ghostly Orb that quickly fades to become invisible after exceeding 10 metres.
Moving in this form leaves a trail known as the Patrol Path.
The Knight automatically exits the Guard Summon Mode after exceeding the maximum length of the Patrol Path of 32 metres or after 10 seconds have elapsed.
The Knight is unable to see Survivors in this mode, as well as their Scratch Marks
and Pools of Blood
, but can still see their interactions with the environment.
The Knight can summon a new Guard at any time while another one is already active, causing that one to de-spawn and go on cool-down.
SPECIAL COMPANIONS: GUARDS
Each of the 3 Guards comes with his own special abilities and has their own separate cool-down:
- The Carnifex
performs a Guard Order more quickly and has a shorter cool-down. - The Assassin
walks faster during a Hunt and inflicts hit Survivors with Deep Wound
Status Effect. - The Jailer
walks faster during a Patrol, has a larger Detection range, and longer Hunt and Patrol durations.
SPECIAL ABILITY: GUARD PATROL
While in the Guard Summon Mode drawing a Patrol Path of at least 10 metres grants the ability to order a Guard Patrol, summoning a Guard at the far end of the Patrol Path, causing him to repeatedly walk it up and down until either the Power Gauge is depleted or he detects a nearby Survivor, which will initiate a Hunt.
Additionally, the following effects apply, depending on the final length of the Patrol Path:
- Grants The Knight a +5 % Haste
Status Effect for 2 to 10 seconds. - Reduces the duration of the Hunt Start-up phase of a Guard by -10 to -25 %.
- Increases the duration of the Hunt of a Guard by a factor of x1 to x1.5:
- 1 to 15 metres: x1
- 16 to 25 metres: x1.25
- 26+ metres: x1.5
- Increases the Materialisation phase of the Standard placed by a Guard by a factor of x1 to x2:
- 1 to 15 metres: x1
- 16 to 25 metres: x1.5
- 26+ metres: x2
The Knight can cancel an active Patrol by hitting the Guard with a Basic Attack:
- Reduces the Cool-down duration of that Guard for that time to 10 seconds.
SPECIAL ABILITY: GUARD ORDER
While in the Guard Summon Mode, press the Attack button while within 6 metres of a Breakable Wall
, dropped Pallet
, or partially repaired Generator
to initiate a Guard Order, causing the summoned Guard to perform the Break or Damage action on the highlighted object.
A Guard Order regresses a Generator by -5 %.
SPECIAL ATTACK: GUARD HUNT
If a Survivor is inside the Detection range of a Guard and either in his line-of-sight or triggers a Loud Noise Notification, the Guard will detect their presence and phase through the environment, including through floors and across elevation, to reach their exact detected location over 2.5 seconds, after which he starts a Hunt , chasing after the Hunted Survivor:
- Places a Standard at the exact detected location of the Survivor, which materialises over several seconds.
- Damages any Survivor coming into its attack range, regardless of whether they are the Hunted Survivor or not.
Hunted Survivors can escape a Hunt unharmed by doing either of the following:
- Grabbing the materialised Standard by walking into it.
- Unhooking another Survivor.
- Outlasting the duration of the Hunt indicated on their HUD portrait.
If The Knight comes within 8 metres of his Guard, the Depletion rate of the Hunt is increased by a factor of x3.
If either the Guard or The Knight damages the Hunted Survivor, the Hunt ends immediately and the former disappears.
If the Guard downs the Hunted Survivor, they trigger Killer Instinct for 3 seconds.
Power Trivia
Movement Speeds:
- Walking: 4.6 m/s
- Drawing the Patrol Path: 13.8 m/s
The Carnifex: 
- Patrol speed: 3.4 m/s (default)
- Break or Damage Action duration: 1.8 seconds (shortest)
- Patrol duration: 12 seconds (default)
- Hunt speed: 4.1 m/s (default)
- Attacks cause Deep Wound: no (default)
- Flag Materialisation time: 5 seconds (default)
- Hunt duration: 12 seconds (default)
- Spawn Vision range: 2 metres (default)
- Patrol Vision range: 10 metres (default)
- Cool-down duration: 20 seconds (shortest)
The Assassin: 
- Patrol speed: 3.4 m/s (default)
- Break or Damage Action duration: 5 seconds (default)
- Patrol duration: 12 seconds (default)
- Hunt speed: 4.4 m/s (fastest)
- Attacks cause Deep Wound: yes (damages)
- Flag Materialisation time: 5 seconds (default)
- Hunt duration: 12 seconds (default)
- Spawn Vision range: 2 metres (default)
- Patrol Vision range: 10 metres (default)
- Cool-down duration: 30 seconds (longest)
The Jailer: 
- Patrol speed: 4.1 m/s (fastest)
- Break or Damage Action duration: 5 seconds (default)
- Patrol duration: 24 seconds (longest)
- Hunt speed: 4.1 m/s (default)
- Attacks cause Deep Wound: no (default)
- Flag Materialisation time: 10 seconds (longest)
- Hunt duration: 24 seconds (longest)
- Spawn Vision range: 2 metres (default)
- Patrol Vision range: 16 metres (largest)
- Cool-down duration: 25 seconds (default)
Guards:
- Guard Order, maximum distance: 6 metres
- Spawn time: 1.5 seconds
- Vision angle: 180 °
- Vision Radius Expansion duration: 0.5 seconds
- This refers to how long it takes for a Guard's Vision radius to reach its full range, since it grows from the centre of the Guard's model outwards after they first spawn.
- Hunt Start-up duration: 2.5 seconds
- This refers to the time it takes a Guard to travel to the location the Survivor was detected at before the actual Hunt starts.
- This time is progressively reduced if the Patrol Path exceeds a length of 10 metres and ranges from a reduction of -10 % to a maximum of -25 % if the length reaches 32 metres.
- Pulling Survivors out of Lockers: 3 seconds
- Killer Instinct duration: 3 seconds
- Pallet and Vault Slow-down speed: 2.2 m/s
- Pallet and Vault Slow-down duration: 1 second
- Minimum Aura visibility distance: 12 metres
- Below this threshold, The Knight is unable to see an Aura of his Guards.
- Progression Penalty when Damaging Generators: -5 %
Patrol Path:
- Drawing Mode Charge time: 0.01 seconds
- Drawing Mode FOV increase: +25 °
- Drawing Mode Drawing time: up to 10 seconds
- After this time elapses, The Knight is automatically forced out of the Guard Summon mode.
In normal use cases, this has no effect on his ability to draw Paths, but prevents him from remaining in this mode for too long as a tactic to hide his Terror Radius.
- After this time elapses, The Knight is automatically forced out of the Guard Summon mode.
- Drawing Mode Drawing Time Warning threshold: at 70 %
- Reaching the threshold while drawing the Patrol Path will sound an alarm that not much Drawing time is left.
- Using the default values, this means the warning will sound after 7 seconds.
- Path length: up to 32 metres
- Path Length Warning threshold: at 70 %
- Reaching the threshold while drawing the Patrol Path will sound an alarm that not much Path is left.
- Using the default values, this means the warning will sound after drawing a Path of 22.4 metres.
- Distance between Path nodes: 2 to 5 metres
Patrol Path Camera:
- NOTE: while drawing a Patrol Path, the position of the camera (the Green Orb) is considered to be the location of The Knight, not where his body is physically located.
This does not, however, influence Unlockables with distance-related activation conditions as of Patch 6.4.2 anymore.
- Maximum Yaw input: 290 °
- Yaw is the turning motion of the camera.
- Initial Offset distance: 80 centimetres
- This refers to how far the camera is offset from The Knight's location when entering the Summon Guard mode.
- Maximum Camera Walk speed: 13.8 m/s
- Camera Acceleration multiplier: x1
- The camera uses the same acceleration curve when moving as the Killer.
- Camera Strafe multiplier: x0.25
- The camera uses the same acceleration curve when strafing as the Killer.
- The Green Orb is visible to Survivors, but continuously shrinks in size while moving forward, until it completely disappears once the Patrol Path is longer than 10 metres.
Standard:
- Haste strength on pick-up: 50 %
- Haste duration on pick-up: 3 seconds
- Endurance duration on pick-up: 3 seconds
Add-ons for Guardia Compagnia
| Icon | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Gritty Lump | A rock-hard, dense loaf filled their stomachs on most days, giving them the energy to commit truly heinous acts.
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Map of the Realm | These unique leather maps were not easy to come by, but when they could not be purchased, they could be taken by force.
|
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Pillaged Mead | Drinks taken from their victims tasted sweet, but such frivolities were often short-lived.
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Tattered Tabard | Cloaked in heavy fabrics, neither human nor nature could stop them once they had their target.
|
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Battle Axe Head | Sander Rault was a tower of a man, terrifying in form and demeanour.
|
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Call to Arms | Posted across many towns, lords desperate to protect their riches posted for able-bodied mercenaries. None survived.
|
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Cold Steel Manacles | Alejandro Santiago apprenticed as an armourer and showed no remorse.
|
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Dried Horsemeat | Long campaigns often required restocking, and the steeds of fallen enemies were as good as any farm-fresh ration.
|
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Treated Blade | Durkos Malecek stuck to the shadows, and was an efficient slaughterer.
|
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Broken Hilt | A fresh weapon is clean, even surgical; an attack with a broken one is malicious and desperate.
|
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Grim Iron Mask | No method of torture was too base for Guardia Compagnia. Pain and humiliation went hand-in-hand.
|
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Ironworker's Tongs | Vital for repairs between battles and a horrifying, gauging, tearing improvisational weapon.
|
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Sharpened Mount | To stand before the Standard of the Guardia Compagnia was to stand at the threshold between life and death.
|
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Town Watch's Torch | Upon breaching a village, the first thing they would extinguish was the torches, and with them, hope.
|
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Blacksmith's Hammer | In their hands, everything was a weapon.
|
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Flint and Steel | Attacks at night were not uncommon. Fear was often their greatest ally. Summoning The Carnifex |
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Healing Poultice | Their reputation was so large, so horrible, that the mere knowledge that they were coming was enough to bring people to their knees.
Summoning The Assassin
|
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Jailer's Chimes | Many captives met the same grisly end for attempting to escape his clutches.
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Iridescent Company Banner | Where this banner was raised, those who called themselves 'civilised' ran and hid, because for all their codes and laws, they had nothing resembling actual strength.
"They huddle in their villages like parasites! They have lost the drive for power." — Tarhos Kovács |
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Knight's Contract | The original document contracting Tarhos to Vittorio's employ. The laws of man could not stand up, though, to natural law.
"I fear he has left me here to die." — Vittorio Toscano |
Achievements
There are 2 Achievements related to The Knight:
| Icon | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Adept Knight | Playing as The Knight, achieve a Merciless Victory using only his 3 Unique Perks: Nowhere to Hide, Hex: Face the Darkness, and Hubris |
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Cruelty Loves Company | Playing as The Knight   , damage a total of 50 Survivors while they are being pursued by a Guard.
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Cosmetic Options
Players can choose from a variety of Cosmetic options to customise The Knight:
Default
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description |
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The Knight | 
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Common | A dangerous and terrifying warrior obsessed with death and darkness.
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Polished Armor | 
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Common | Shining cold iron adorned his body from head to toe, making him an unstoppable juggernaut.
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Imposing Claymore | 
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Common | A massive weapon capable of cleaving a foe in half, in the right hands.
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Prestige
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | Additional Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Bloody Knight |
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Rare | A deadly and blood-soaked warrior obsessed with death and darkness. | Prestige Level 6 Reward
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Streaked Armor |
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Rare | Bloody cold iron adorned his body from head to toe, making him a terrifying juggernaut. | Prestige Level 5 Reward
|
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War-Scarred Claymore |
|
Rare | A massive and gory weapon that cleaved many a foe in half. | Prestige Level 4 Reward
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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. | ||
Special
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Bloodwyrm |
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Very Rare | He had no reason to believe in dragons. But he knew they struck fear in the hearts of gormless serfs. | Buying a Pack of Auric Cells in Blood Moon 2024 |
Event
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | Event | Exclusive to Event Participation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Frosty Eyes |
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Event | Heart chilling eyes of the cold blooded.
"Have an amazing Winter season 2022!" - The Dead by Daylight Team |
Bone Chill 2022 Tome: Level 2 |
Yes |
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Knight's Mask | 
|
Event | A mask he found himself wearing at the masquerade ball. | Twisted Masquerade 2023 | Yes |
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Burning Sight |
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Event | His gaze had the power to incite chaos and fear. | Haunted by Daylight 2023 | Yes |
|
Open Heart |
|
Event | The sight of his exposed heart unnerved his enemies. | Haunted by Daylight 2023 | Yes |
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Knight Pommel |
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Event | He carved into the pommel with one of his opponent's sharpened blade. | Haunted by Daylight 2023 | Yes |
Rift
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Tarhos was locked in gruesome battle with the most fearsome mercenary in the empire.
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The enemy wore the death mask of a defeated general, a testament to his prowess and brutality.
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Tarhos ripped the weapon from his enemy’s severed hand and claimed the armor as a trophy.
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His enemy lived by a code of honor – Tarhos used this weakness to his benefit.
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Tarhos tore the weapon from his enemy’s severed hand and took the armor for himself.
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This frustrating mask only increased his desire for chaos.
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Whatever the situation, he would always upset the balance in his favor.
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This blade was used to deliver crushing blows.
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This mask only increased his desire for chaos.
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This warped blade was used to deliver crushing blows.
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Tarhos arrived at the village where his target was rumored to be hiding. The air was heavy with the stench of decay and despair.
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The sound of coughing and cries of pain bothered him to no end. He spat on the floor, distancing himself from mediocrity.
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A man grabbed his cape, begging for crumbs. He pushed him away in disgust, his frail frame cowering on the sidewalk.
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The sight of his own reflection in the beggar’s eyes fueled his anger. He set the village on fire and watched as the flames consumed the crowd.
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His armor gave no indication of his humanity and made him look like an iron statue.
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His freakish physique bowed and broke any armor except for this, custom-made for him by his company.
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Few could handle the weight of this enormous sword, let alone use it so effectively.
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His armor gave no indication of his humanity and made him look like an iron statue.
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His freakish physique bowed and broke any armor except for this, custom-made for him by his company.
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His armor gave no indication of his humanity and made him look like an iron statue.
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His freakish physique bowed and broke any armor except for this, custom-made for him by his company.
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Few could handle the weight of this enormous sword, let alone use it so effectively.
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His armor gave no indication of his humanity and made him look like an iron statue.
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His freakish physique bowed and broke any armor except for this, custom-made for him by his company.
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Few could handle the weight of this enormous sword, let alone use it so effectively.
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Years of battle wore at his protection, but not his resolve.
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He marched through rain and snow. He was even tougher than his armor.
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A horrible grinding sound followed him as rust tore into rust.
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The sword has gone dull, but it’s still effective—just crueler.
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Earlier iterations of his gear utilized whatever protective materials his company could find.
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The smell of copper reminded him of the blood of his victims.
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Early in his career, he worked for others. He didn’t really start to earn until he and his company worked for themselves.
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One of the first swords he wielded.
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He was rarely more intimidating than he was in this armor.
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During downtime, he took great care to polish his armor.
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Bold and fearless, he liked to stand out amongst the other knights.
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A fine sword forged in the village he razed to the ground.
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An armor he forged himself, knowing the fear he wanted to inspire.
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A helmet that inspired horror in all villages.
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A refined armor with a touch of gold and forged details that daunted every opponent he met.
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The thieves heard of an ancient relic hidden in a cave. An encampment had surrounded the cave, so they knew they'd have to be careful.
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They came across a towering knight on their way to the cave. In the dark of the night, his eyes seemed to glow red like fire.
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It was hard to see through the darkness, but the knight appeared to be more monster than man, powered by some sinister darkness.
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Their screams were suddenly silenced. Only the thuds of their severed bodies hitting the ground echoed in the mountain pass.
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The boy was unique among the slaves bound for Italy. While others were gripped by fear, he was entranced by visions of blood and fire.
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A moth fluttered into the slaves' cage. He reached out for the creature, and it landed in his hand.
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He watched as the moth crawled from his fingertips to his palm. It looked so small and weak in his grasp.
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After a moment's rest, the moth was on its way again. He watched it slip out of the cage and fly freely into the night.
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Armor he was forced to wear by his lord.
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This frustrating mask only increased his desire for chaos.
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Whatever the situation, he would always upset the balance in his favor.
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This blade was used to deliver crushing blows.
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Something in The Entity’s Realm brought him to the brink of death… and back again.
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The ancient sigils discovered by his former employer created unexpected effects.
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Covered in an ancient, unknown script with an otherworldly glow.
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Captured by creeping ivy in the fog, he let his burning desire for chaos consume him, changing him.
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His gaze had the power to incite fear and chaos.
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The sight of his exposed heart unnerved his enemies.
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He carved into the pommel with one of his opponent's sharpened blade.
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The blade was designed to cut through armor.
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A mask he found himself wearing at the masquerade ball.
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Alternate Character Models
The Knight has 1 alternate Character model available in the in-game Store:
- The Draugr
DLC
The Knight is part of 2 DLCs:
- Chapter DLC:
- CHAPTER 26: Forged in Fog (retired)
- Pack DLCs:
- Endless Hunt Pack (Chapter Pack)
Change Log
Patch 6.4.2
- Buff: Guards damaging Generators now also apply the immediate default Regression penalty of -2.5 %, instead of only activating the Generator's Regression state as they did before.
Patch 6.5.0
- Buff: doubled the Regression penalty when using a Guard to damage a Generator to -5 %.
- Buff: the orb that indicates the location of The Knight while drawing a Patrol Path will shrink over time and disappear completely after 10 metres.
- Buff: When drawing a Patrol Path longer than 10 metres, The Knight will gain the Haste Status Effect with the duration dependent on the length of the Patrol Path.
- Buff: Guards will move to the position where they spotted a Survivor and start a Hunt faster if a Patrol Path is longer than 10 metres.
- Nerf: added a time limit of 10 seconds to drawing a Patrol Path.
- This change was motivated by some Knight players using his Power to hide his Terror Radius for extended periods of time, especially when near a hooked Survivor.
Patch 8.1.0
- Rework: Reworked Guardia Compagnia to give more versatility between The Knight and his Guards.
- Buff: reduced the Breaking time of all Guards:
- Reduced it for The Carnifex from 2 seconds to 1.8 seconds.
- Reduced it for The Jailer/Assassin from 6 seconds to 5 seconds.
- Buff (undocumented): halved the Expansion duration of a Guard's Detection radius from 1 second to 0.5 seconds.
- Buff: increased the Detection radius of all Guards:
- Increased it for The Jailer from 14 metres to 16 metres.
- Increased it for The Carnifex/Assassin from 8 metres to 10 metres.
- Buff: granted the ability to manually swap between Guards rather than summoning them in their standard rotation.
- Buff: added a positive multiplier to the Hunt duration based on Path length, increasing the Hunt time by a factor of up to x1.5.
- Buff: added a positive multiplier to the Spawn time of the Standards based on the length of the Patrol Paths, increasing the Spawn time by a factor of up to x2.
- This change helps taking advantage of the Hunt duration multiplier.
- QoL: reduced the camera push distance from 160 cm to 80 cm.
- This allows The Knight to place Guards in tighter spaces.
- QoL: allows The Knight to cancel a Patrol Path before a Guard is summoned.
- Nerf: Patrol Paths now have a minimum length of 10 metres.
- This change prevents The Knight from placing Guards in a single location without the Guard moving.
- This nerf does not affect a Guard completing an Order in a Patrol Path that is less than 10 metres in length.
- Nerf: added a negative multiplier to the Hunt duration based on proximity to The Knight, reducing the Hunt time by a factor of x3 if The Knight is within 8 metres of his Guard.
- Nerf: adjusted the ability of Guards to detect Survivors, reducing the possibility of them being detected through solid walls.
- Nerf: Increased the Cool-down duration after a Guard disappears from 3 seconds to 10 seconds
- Change: swapped the Hunt durations and Standard spawn times between The Carnifex and The Jailer to make the latter a more valid choice:
- Reduced the base Hunt duration of The Carnifex from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
- Increased the base Hunt duration of The Jailer from 12 seconds to 24 seconds.
- Reduced the Standard spawn time of The Carnifex from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.
- Increased the Standard spawn time of The Jailer from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Change: received an Add-on Pass, reworking several Add-ons.
- Buff: reduced the Breaking time of all Guards:
Patch 8.2.0
- Buff: all three Guards now have a separate Cool-down instead of a shared 10 seconds:
- The Carnifex: 20 seconds
- The Assassin: 30 seconds
- The Jailer: 25 seconds
- Despite the higher Cool-down durations, this change is a buff since The Knight can use a different Guard now while one is on Cool-down instead of having to wait it out all the time.
- Buff: The Knight can now summon a new Guard at any time while another one is already active, causing the latter to de-spawn and go on cool-down.
- Guards will not de-spawn if they are in the middle of completing an Order when another is summoned.
- Buff: manually de-spawning a Guard by attacking them with a Basic Attack now reduces their individual cool-down to just 10 seconds.
Trivia
- The Knight was originally a Hungarian slave, but was eventually granted freedom and a knighthood for his bravery in battle as a soldier.
- The Carnifex was originally called "The Executioner", according to the Power icon's file name.
This was likely changed to use the Latin terminology to avoid confusion with the actual Killer The Executioner
. - The Knight, unlike other average height Killers, does not hoist himself through Window
vaults, but rather steps through them in the same manner as tall Killers do.
Voice Actors
- The Knight shares his voice actor, Misha Standjofski, with one of the many pained, wailing voices that can be heard during Nightfall when facing The Dredge
and William Birkin. - The Carnifex shares his voice actor, David A.B., with the Male Zombie when facing The Nemesis
.
Patrol Path
- When The Knight is drawing the Patrol Path, Survivors can see the current position of The Knight's free-floating camera represented as a green orb moving about the Trial Grounds, but only if the drawn Path is shorter than 10 metres, after which it becomes invisible to Survivors.
- The green orb will emit the same stinger sound effect Killers have when starting to move after having stood still for a while, if The Knight has been standing still long enough to be considered stationary before he enters the Guard Summon mode.
- The green orb represents The Knight's actual location in the game world, rather than his visible, physical one.
This behaviour is analogous to The Spirit
while Phase Walking, with the phase-walking Spirit representing the green orb, and her Husk representing the kneeling Knight.
- For The Knight, this behaviour used to have implications on Perks such as Make Your Choice
or Hex: Devour Hope
, which have distance-related activation conditions and would activate based on the location of the green orb, rather than The Knight's "Husk". - For balancing purposes, this behaviour was deemed a "bug" and was remedied with Patch 6.4.2.
- For The Knight, this behaviour used to have implications on Perks such as Make Your Choice
Guards
- Each Guard is represented by a unique Power icon, meaning that the Power icon tells The Knight which particular Guard will be summoned next.
- That symbol is also shown as a green hologram floating above The Knight's left arm (which controls his Power).
- As the hologram is also visible to Survivors, attentive Survivor can see it and know which Guard he will summon next as well.
Weapon
- The Knight's Weapon is a Claymore, a Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword and one of the most recognisable types of swords in popular culture.
- The Knight accurately uses both hands to wield this Weapon.
- While carrying a Survivor on his shoulder, The Knight is physically unable to wield the sword with both hands.
- To adjust for this, the Developers created a unique animation for attacking while carrying, having The Knight carry the sword at the hilt and hitting Survivors with its pommel (the tip of the hilt) by thrusting it forwards.
Standard
- A Standard is a special form of a flag, whose use dates back to ancient times to mark locations for troops on a battlefield.
The Faithful Three
- The Knight had three loyal followers that formed his pack known as "The Faithful Three":
- Alejandro Santiago (The Jailer), who apprenticed with the Guardia Compagnia's Armourer.
- Durkos Malecek (The Assassin), who showed an aptitude for stealth and silent kills.
- Sander Rault (The Carnifex), who matched Tarhos in size and strength, and wielded a massive Battle Axe.
Name
- "Tarhos" is a Hungarian given name.
- "Kovács" (anglicised as "Kovach") is the Hungarian word for "Forger" or "Smith" and is the Hungarian equivalent to the common English last name "Smith", which denotes the profession.
- "Carnifex" is the Latin word for "Butcher", but was also used in Ancient Rome to refer to an executioner.
- The connection to the Roman terminology is also evidenced by the fact that The Carnifex is referred to as The Executioner in the game files.
Gallery
In-game assets
The Knight
The Knight (Portrait render)
The Knight (Background image)
Old assets
The Knight (Old Portrait render)
Concept arts
'Enchanted Plates' Concept Art
'Permanent Injuction' Concept Art
'Grim Campaign' Concept Art
