The Unknown
| The Unknown | |
|---|---|
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| Gender | None (inhuman Entity that adapts its appearance as needed) |
| Origin | Unknown (Malevolent Entity) |
| Realm | Withered Isle |
| Power | UVX |
| Power Attack Type | Special Attack |
| Weapon | Gently-Used Axe |
Movement Speed   |
115 % | 4.6 m/s |
Terror Radius  |
32 metres |
Height   |
Average |
| DLC | CHAPTER 31: All Things Wicked |
| Voice Actor | Zoey Alexandria Wendorf (Blindlight, Transvoice Teacher) |
| Cost | 9,000 Iridescent Shards  
500 Auric Cells |
| Menu Music | |
| Terror Radius Music | |
| CharID | K35 |
The Unknown is one of 39 Killers
currently featured in Dead by Daylight
.
It was introduced as the Killer of CHAPTER 31: All Things Wicked, a Chapter DLC released on 12 March 2024.
Overview
The Unknown is a being beyond understanding, though many have tried.
Its personal Perks, Unbound
, Unforeseen
, and Undone
, allow it to move quicker, put its Terror Radius on a Generator, and deplete Repair progress.
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
Olivia’s master’s thesis was on urban legends and their origins. She believed they shared similarities with traditional folklore and picked one to illustrate her point. The Unknown was believed to be a mysterious evil so heinous that investigating it almost immediately invited death. At least that was how the story went. And there were many stories. One story was of a woman in Greenville who disappeared without a trace on stage in front of a room full of witnesses. Her friend disappeared weeks later while trying to investigate what happened. The police were stumped. They had no clues or leads, and that mystery created the perfect storm for amplifying and spreading an urban legend.
Instead of going back home for spring break, Olivia headed to Greenville to investigate. She drove to the second-cheapest motel in town and began to set up in a small room that smelled of cigarette smoke, mould, and booze. She turned one wall into a kind of evidence board. She taped up articles and various theories on similar disappearances attributed to The Unknown throughout the country. She made connections with red string and yellow thumbtacks. Anyone walking into the motel room would think she had lost her mind.
There were many theories as to The Unknown’s origin. Some said it was a malevolent entity conjured long ago by an ancient cult. Others believed it to be an alien that escaped from Area 51. Legend was it thrived in darkness and stole the voices of those it consumed so as to lure others to their doom.
The first newspaper articles Olivia found referenced a disappearance at a séance held in the 1800s. In the late 1950s, several college students mysteriously disappeared from a movie theatre. Witnesses saw them go inside. Some remembered seeing them in their seats. But when the lights came up, they were gone. No one saw them leave. No trace of them was ever found. A projectionist claimed to have heard voices in the empty darkness of the theatre later that night. But when he turned on the lights, no one was there. Then in the 1960s a group of teens disappeared while exploring an abandoned hospital believed to be haunted.
Stories and speculation arose to explain these mystifying disappearances. Some talked about a top-secret government research program run by the Office of Strategic Services in the 1950s. Project Apple-Pie. Mind control experiments using hallucinogenic drugs. Most of the records were destroyed in the '70s, but witnesses claim that experiments were performed on unsuspecting civilians in various settings and locations throughout the country, including movie theatres, hospitals and universities. Many believed these unethical experiments opened doorways to other dimensions which allowed evil things to enter the world.
Olivia wrote observations to pin to her evidence board. The Unknown dwells in darkness and can mimic its victims. Was it an evil entity? An extra-terrestrial? A failed government experiment? Or just a garden variety serial killer allergic to publicity? She wanted to prove The Unknown was nothing more than modern-day folklore. And that investigation led here to this night, to this place, to this shabby motel room.
Yet she couldn’t help but notice that the disappearances in Greenville included one detail the other stories didn’t. The fog. And she half-remembered another urban legend with a thick, unnatural fog that somehow made people disappear. Maybe, she mused, the Greenville disappearances didn’t relate to The Unknown but some other darkness.
For a moment Olivia wondered what would happen if one urban legend encountered another. She laughed at the idea and tempted fate by sketching a picture of what she thought The Unknown might look like. Then she pinned the sketch right in the middle of her evidence board, laughed nervously and waited to be consumed by The Unknown for having tried to define it. Anxiously, she stared at the windows and front door for seconds that turned to minutes and minutes that turned to hours.
But nothing happened.
Now it was after 2AM and Olivia was exhausted as she examined the articles and sipped cold coffee. So, when she first heard the whisper, she wondered if she imagined it.
“Olivia…”
It seemed to come from the bathroom.
“Help…”
The lights in the room flickered.
“Who’s there?”
Olivia stared with wide eyes at the closed door of the bathroom. Her mind was playing tricks on her. Or —
Her friends had shown up to prank her.
“Ariella? Sean? Stop messing around...”
The lights continued to flicker as she edged closer to the bathroom. Fear spread in long waves through her, and a terrible realisation bloomed within her that The Unknown was behind the bathroom door, was preparing to make her pay for her hubris. Something began to whisper her name again. But then the voice rose, cracked, and distorted in sudden panic as if the brooding creature behind the door were under attack.
An unknown horror filled Olivia’s heart and left room for nothing else. She breathed deeply as cold sweat beaded on her forehead. She placed her hand on the doorknob. The lights turned off, but she could still hear the strangely inhuman cries. Then the lights turned back on, and she could see a strange black fog seeping through the bottom of the door.
Hesitantly, Olivia creaked the door open to see a bulky shape with frenzied tentacles being pulled into a thick mass of fog, vanishing slowly into the darkness like a dying shadow. The shrieking stopped suddenly, neighbours banged on the wall to turn down the TV, and Olivia stared intently at the black abyss that yawned before her. She wasn’t sure what to do. Part of her wanted to run. But the other part wanted to know more. And as she considered what to do next, dozens of voices began to call out to her with promises of the unknown and the impossible and of unearthly things beyond human experience.
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Unique Perks
The Unknown comes with 3 Perks
that are unique to it:
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Unbound | "Pain lingers in the air, an alluring aroma that excites the impulses."
When a Survivor becomes injured by any means, Unbound activates for 24/27/30 seconds:
|
|---|---|---|
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Undone | "Hope is the delusion that keeps its victims alive."
For every Repair or Healing Skill Check
"Erratic behavior in machinery could be related to [REDACTED], further testing required." — OSS Report, 12/02/1943 |
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Unforeseen | "Terror takes many forms and whispers devastating lies in its victims' ears."
After performing the Damage Generator action on a Generator
"Mom, if you find this, I'm sorry..." — Final Journal Entry, 07/12/1991 |
Prestige
Prestiging The Unknown will automatically add Tier I of its 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 Unknown twice more to automatically add Tier II and Tier III respectively into the other Killers' inventories.
Weapon: Gently-Used Axe
The Gently-Used Axe is the Primary Weapon of The Unknown.
Even its victims' belongings would disappear, with no sign of where they could have gone.
Power: UVX
"Some believed a specimen was recovered by the military for their experiments.
The codename: Unknown Venom X."
SPECIAL ABILITY: UVX PROJECTILE
Press and hold the Power button to charge UVX
Once it is fully charged, press the Attack button to launch a bouncing projectile, which creates a Blast Area of 2.25 metres upon impact:
- Survivors touching an airborne projectile suffer from a -6 % Hindered
Status Effect for 3 seconds. - Survivors touching the Blast Area suffer from the Weakened State.
UVX has a cool-down of 7 seconds.
SPECIAL AFFLICTION: WEAKENED
Weakened Survivors receive damage when touching a Blast Area and have up to 6 seconds added back to their Weakened Meter indicated on the HUD.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: STARING DOWN THE UNKNOWN
Survivors can remove their Weakened State by looking directly at The Unknown within a distance of 25 metres for a cumulative total of 10 seconds.
Doing so will highlight their outline in pink to The Unknown.
SPECIAL ABILITY: HALLUCINATIONS
The Unknown intermittently leaves behind a Hallucination, which charges over the course of 45 seconds.
Up to 4 Hallucinations can exist simultaneously in the environment, with the oldest one being recycled when creating another one.
New Hallucinations cannot be created when too close to other existings ones or several props.
The Auras
are revealed to The Unknown at all times and to Survivors when within 8 metres.
Survivors becoming Weakened or touching a Blast Area reduces the Charge time of the next Hallucination by -10 seconds.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: DISPELLING HALLUCINATIONS
Survivors can remove Hallucinations by approaching them and performing the Dispel interaction for 4 seconds:
- Reduces the Dispelling speed of Weakened Survivors by -25 %.
- Succeeding removes the Hallucination from the environment.
- Failing to complete the interaction causes the Survivor to become Weakened and triggers Killer Instinct for 5 seconds.
- This also applies when The Unknown teleports into a Hallucination mid-dispelling.
SPECIAL LOCOMOTION: TELEPORT
Press the Secondary Power button to teleport to any available Hallucination that is at least 3 metres away from your location, leaving behind a temporary Decoy for 5 seconds.
Teleportation has a cool-down of 25 seconds.
"... Request for analysis [REDACTED] incident [REDACTED] awaiting approval." — Excerpt from leaked OSS report
Power Trivia
Movement Speeds:
- Walking: 4.6 m/s
- Charging UVX: 4.002 m/s
Hallucinations:
- Spawning timer: 45 charges
- Spawning charge rate per Weakened Survivor:
- 0 Weakened Survivors: +1 c/s or 45 seconds
- 1 Weakened Survivor: +1.25 c/s or 36 seconds
- 2 Weakened Survivors: +1.75 c/s or ~26 seconds
- 3 Weakened Survivors: +2.375 c/s or ~19 seconds
- 4 Weakened Survivors: +3.5 c/s or ~13 seconds
- Spawn duration: 3 seconds
- This refers to the period after the Spawning timer has been filled, in which the indicators on the sides of the HUD quickly rise to the top of the screen.
- Post-Spawn inactivity: 5 seconds
- Aura Reveal range: 8 metres
- This refers to the Auras of Hallucinations that are shown to Survivors who approach them, The Unknown can see its Hallucinations at any distance.
Spawn Restrictions:
Hallucinations cannot spawn in proximity to the following Environmental Objects:
- within 1.75 metres of Generators and Pallets
- within 2.15 metres of empty Hooks
- within 3 metres of the Hatch and Exit Gate Switches
- within 12 metres of hooked Survivors
- within 14 metres of other Hallucinations
Teleport:
- Minimum distance: 3 metres
- Maximum distance: no restrictions
- Teleport duration: 0.3 seconds
- Teleport Cool-down timer: 25 seconds
- Movement Speed Penalty duration: 1.4 seconds
- This refers to the slow-down after teleporting.
- Decoy Remnant Lifetime: 5 seconds
- This refers to the decoy left behind after a teleport
UVX:
- Charge time: 1 second
- Cancellation Cool-down time: 0.85 second
- It should be noted that if UVX is cancelled before reaching 20 % of its Charge time (i.e. 0.2 seconds), the Cancellation cool-down will not be applied.
- Launch Cool-down time: 2 seconds
- Hitbox size with environment: 10 centimetres
- Hitbox size with Survivors: 30 centimetres
- Starting Projectile Speed: 25 m/s
- Maximum Projectile Speed: 50 m/s
- Maximum Projectile Airborne duration: 5 seconds
- Area of Effect Expansion duration: 0.38 seconds
- Area of Effect Lingering duration: 0.2 seconds
- Area of Effect Radius: 2.25 metres
Weakened State:
- Removal duration: 10 seconds
- Buffer duration: 1.25 seconds
- This buffer prevents the interruption of Staring Down The Unknown when only briefly losing line of sight.
- Maximum Removal distance: 25 metres
Add-ons for UVX
| Icon | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Blurry Photo | The photo was found at an abandoned campsite. The campers were never seen again.
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Punctured Eyeball | The station was a scene of madness. The officers had seemingly turned on each other.
|
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Rabbit's Foot | The unlucky creature's remains were found by a tree, its intestines wedged between its teeth.
|
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Sketch Attempt | The victim’s child was given paper and crayons at the station, while he waited for his father to pick him up.
|
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Device of Undisclosed Origin | Was the thing made on Earth? Or somewhere else entirely?
|
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Last Known Recording | She studied Musique Concrète before she disappeared, her screams the last sound on the tape.
|
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Notebook of Theories | His studio apartment was empty and reeked of black mould. The book was the only thing left.
|
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Slashed Backpack | When the hiker was rescued from the mountain pass, she insisted her companion would never wander off alone.
|
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Victim's Map | He thought the key to solving the mystery lay beyond the forest, and feared he would never return.
|
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B-Movie Poster | The movie was rumored to be state-funded propaganda, made specifically for something called Project Apple-Pie.
|
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Footprint Cast | The cast sits in the Museum of the Weird in Sarasota, Florida and has long since been debunked.
|
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Front-Page Article | The assailant had torn gaping holes in the walls of the cabin, and drove the family into the woods.
|
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Hypnotist's Watch | Hypnotherapy was recommended to recover repressed memories. What emerged from his mind would be his undoing.
|
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Vanishing Box | The magician was popular at children's parties, and quickly became the top suspect.
|
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Discarded Milk Carton | She decided to take the long way home, and waved goodbye to her friends before parting ways.
|
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Homemade Mask | The killer had made the mask in the shed in his backyard, where he would bring the others when the sun went down.
|
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Obscure Game Cartridge | Some maintained Project Apple-Pie evolved over time, turning to new forms of media for results.
|
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Serum Vial | The molecular structure of the substance was synthesised in the lab, but its effects could never be replicated.
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Captured by the Dark | The documentary purported that the disappearances were linked to small-town cinemas. Audiences left the theater feeling uneasy.
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Iridescent OSS Report | The report was redacted to the point of being meaningless. But still, theorists tried to extract meaning from it.
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Achievements
There are 2 Achievements related to The Unknown:
| Icon | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Adept Unknown | Playing as The Unknown, achieve a Merciless Victory using only their 3 Unique Perks: Unbound, Unforeseen, and Undone |
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Prey Upon | Playing as The Unknown   , down Survivors with UVX a total of 20 times.
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Cosmetic Options
Players can choose from a variety of Cosmetic options to customise The Unknown:
Default
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Unknown | 
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Common | Nobody knows for sure what it looks like, but there are many theories. |
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Uncanny Being | 
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Common | Its otherworldly form would be the last thing its victims ever saw. |
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Gently-Used Axe | 
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Common | Even its victims’ belongings would disappear, with no sign of where they could have gone. |
Prestige
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Bloody Unknown |
|
Rare | Nobody knows for sure what it looks like, and those that find out are never seen again. |
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Abnormal Being |
|
Rare | Its unnatural form would be the last thing its victims ever saw. |
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Heavily-Used Axe |
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Rare | Even its victims’ belongings would disappear, to be used for more ominous purposes. |
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
Event
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Unknown's Mask |
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Event | She heard someone calling her name. A voice she recognized, but something was off, and she couldn’t tell what. | Twisted Masquerade 2024 |
|
Twisted Flapper Gown | 
|
Event | The voice kept calling her, like a kid asking to play hide-and-seek. She grabbed a bottle of champagne, ready to strike, and turned to face... It. | Twisted Masquerade 2024 |
|
Sparkling Slaughter | 
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Event | She stared at the twisted figure as its skin oozed, materializing blue fabric. The champagne crashed to the floor. Escape was never an option. | Twisted Masquerade 2024 |
DLC
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | DLC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Garden Casuals |
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Common | Her prize-winning peonies wilted without someone to care for them. | CHAPTER 31: All Things Wicked. |
Rift
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The people celebrated a fateful anniversary with music, dancing, and a great pyre in the town square.
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He kept watch over the festivities, only diverting his attention when he heard a soft voice calling for aid.
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Fear struck the crowd when they heard a man's screams from the forest outside the city walls. Had evil returned once again?
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Search parties found neither clue nor sign of the guard. The loss was lamented for a moment, before life carried on as it always had.
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Most folks were focused on the event. They didn’t notice someone had wandered off until it was too late.
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Someone thought they saw movement in the distance, but couldn’t make it out.
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The axe blade caught the sunlight as the mysterious figure disappeared into the forest.
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Most folks were focused on the event. They didn’t notice someone had wandered off until it was too late.
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Most folks were focused on the event. They didn’t notice someone had wandered off until it was too late.
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Most folks were focused on the event. They didn’t notice someone had wandered off until it was too late.
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All we know is there are things in this world beyond our understanding.
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Its face would be the last you ever saw.
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It walks among us, without our knowledge.
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We may never know what drives it.
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Its face would be the last you ever saw.
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It walks among us, without our knowledge.
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All we know is there are things in this world beyond our understanding.
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Its face would be the last you ever saw.
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It walks among us, without our knowledge.
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We may never know what drives it.
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A high school cheerleader had gone missing a decade ago, but someone thought they saw her at the playoff game.
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The whispers on the street were getting louder, and it seemed like everyone was on edge.
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The quarterback was last seen that same night; was it a coincidence?
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A custodian notified police that something had been removed from the shed during the game.
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A high school cheerleader had gone missing a decade ago, but someone thought they saw her at the playoff game.
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The whispers on the street were getting louder, and it seemed like everyone was on edge.
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The quarterback was last seen that same night; was it a coincidence?
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A custodian notified police that something had been removed from the shed during the game.
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Stories spread across the Midwest about a woman who disappeared in the middle of a parking lot.
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She dropped her grocery bags and screamed as some dark revelation took hold of her.
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Witnesses wondered if she saw something at the far end of the parking lot that made her scream.
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These blades could cut more than just coupons.
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The biggest kid in the schoolyard had everyone's attention – he told them The Unknown was so scary, it even killed the Big Bad Wolf. - Designed by DuckieGrumpy
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The big kid told a story about an actor who became obsessed with the legend of The Unknown and paid dearly for it.
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The actor was playing the Big Bad Wolf in a play about fairy tales – in the middle of the show, there was a horrible accident.
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There was a scream and the stagelights suddenly went down. When they came back on, the actor had disappeared, never to be seen again.
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Look away while you can, or the next fool may be you.
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DLC
The Unknown is part of 1 DLC:
Change Log
Patch 8.3.0
- Buff: reduced the Movement Speed Recovery time after a Teleport from 1.7 seconds to 1.4 seconds.
- Quality of Life: the body texture on Survivors hit with a Projectile now only appears if it successfully Weakened the Survivor.
- Quality of Life: added new HUD icons to better surface the various mechanics and cool-downs of its Power.
- Quality of Life: updated the SFX for airborne hits to make them sound more neutral.
Trivia
- The Unknown usually speaks a quick phrase directed at the Player when selected as the active Killer, crawling off-screen before appearing again and looking right at the camera.
- The Unknown's name, as well as its Unique Perks, all start with the prefix "un-".
- The Unknown is the first and only Killer whose Memento Mori animation has collisions with environmental objects.
- This is due to The Unknown ending the animation in a different place than started.
- If there were no collisions, The Unknown could potentially get to inaccessible areas using the Memento Mori animation.
- As of Patch 8.3.0, The Unknown is the second Killer to have miniature power icons next to the main power icon, which are used to display various Cool-downs.
- The Unknown was originally named The Horror.
Misconception
- Some members of the Community believe that The Unknown has built-in Whispers
, thinking that The Unknown only speaks mid-Trial if a Survivor is detected in their vicinity.
- This, however, is not true, as that would be an unfair advantage.
- While The Unknown and its Hallucinations do indeed speak when detecting a Survivor nearby, they also occasionally do so when there is no one nearby.
Gender
- Based on its Lore, The Unknown does not really have a specific gender, as it adjusts its appearance and voice between seemingly male and female as it desires, in order to efficiently stalk and attack its victims.
- This is also supported by the general use of the neuter singular pronoun 'it', intermingled with male and female pronouns in various Cosmetic descriptions, and it always using both its male and female voice simultaneously.
- Furthermore, which of the voices is heard predominantly changes with the selected outfit:
- When wearing a male outfit, the male voice is louder than the female voice.
- When wearing a female outfit, the female voice is louder than the male voice.
- Nevertheless, its default Cosmetic features a mostly male appearance, based on the features of its head and its style of clothing, when compared to its other Cosmetic options in the Store and the Game's code categorises it as a male Killer, suggesting that The Unknown prefers to default to its male appearance in the Realm of the Entity, which it likely had upon entering The Fog.
Voice-Acting
- The Unknown was voiced by the late Zoey Alexandria, who had been a professional voice feminisation teacher, classically trained and educated singer, and metal vocalist.
- She had voiced both the female and male voices heard from The Unknown, as she had specialised in that vocal technique and also used it in her performing work.
- Zoey Alexandria, who had suffered from several auto-immune diseases and related health issues, unfortunately passed away on 30 April 2024 at the age of 29, just two months after the release of The Unknown's Chapter.[1]
- The Unknown is the second character to be voiced by a transgender voice actor/actress, with the first being Tubarão.
Controversy
- Some members of the community believed that The Unknown resembled a transphobic caricature, particularly due to the cosmetics resembling a highschool cheerleader.
- However, this was not the intention behind this, as The Unknown is meant to poorly resemble and mimic the victims it takes.
- The Voice Actress behind The Unknown was, however, the target of transphobic harrassment by hateful members of the community due to her involvement in the character.
- She later clarified in a Twitter/X post that Behaviour were not transphobic, and her only issue was the lack of communication surrounding the character's final appearance, and not the skins themselves.
- A spokesperson for Behaviour Interactive told PinkNews that “We will continue to express support to our voice actress, to all of our community members as well as standing actively against hate in our game”.
- Zoey Alexandria also said in the previously mentioned post that Behaviour have been "nothing but kind and supporting" through the process.
Voice-Lines
- The Unknown is the sixth Killer to actively speak during Trials.
- The Unknown speaks in a distorted manner and uses both its male and female voice simultaneously.
- However, Weakened Survivors will hear one voice clearly (which one depends on the chosen Cosmetics) and with much less distortion, suggesting that The Unknown and its Hallucinations are much more convincing to weakened victims.
Table to be added.
References
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1ck018z/the_unknowns_voice_actor_zoey_alexandria_has_died/ The Unknown's Voice Actor, Zoey Alexandria, Has Died. Reddit post. Retrieved 4 May 2024
Gallery
In-game assets
The Unknown
The Unknown (Portrait render)
The Unknown (Background image)
Concept arts
'Greenville Pep' Concept Art
'Bonfire Faire' Concept Art
