lore-discussion

[tribal frigate]

Fashionably late. Red Shirt. I too, would enter a supernaturally corrupted bayou for a chance to secure some land for a fresh start. Hell I'd do it for 50 bucks, if I survived I'd be coming out with more anyway.

[earnest jungle]

Also Fashionably late: Russel Chambers I just like the everyman feel he gives off.

[rotund ferry]

Can I get some more information on sherriff Hardin? And also Carter the quickshooter.

But primarily I want to focus on sherriff hardin

[solar monolith]

I mean, he tried to quell the fighting in Prison during the beginning of the Outbreak, and he employed some of the Prisoners to be extra hands, but he had to put them back in because they were getting too rowdy, there aint really much to talk about him

Carter Is just A Showman

dont know why he decided to go to the Bayou though

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[worn yoke]

Same reason I would as a competition shooter tbh

moving targets :^)

[untold blaze]

Probably to put his skills to use, considering that he’s a sharpshooter

Probably got hired by the AHA or something

[earnest jungle]

Vengance might be the reason or the money. According to the Centennial and Terminus lore Felis murdered two of his close friends: Calamity Jane and Ethyl.

It’s also possible he was attracted by the money.

[earnest jungle]

👀👀👀

[ember warren]

all im sayin is that my suggestion for a Miner legendary hunter is just gonna be more suitable

[random lava]

You mean overallable

Miners don't wear suits

[ember warren]

if i dont get Steve from minecraft in Hunt within the next six minutes then im going haywire

[earnest jungle]

The presence of a coal mine is very interesting because it confirms we’re leaving the Bayou

[ember warren]

👀

[earnest jungle]

There are no coal deposits in Southern Louisiana

So we’re either heading East to Florida, West to Texas, or North into Mississippi, Arkansas or Tennessee.

[ember warren]

ayo

where did you find this photo? i'd like to read more about it

[earnest jungle]

The photo is from Twitter

Here’s a higher definition of the map though

[ember warren]

considering the message in the trailer said "heading north to DeSalle" i guess we can at least assume we're going in that direction

but also, if we're leaving the bayou, then what kinds of wet areas will we get in replacement of the swampy-dampy

[earnest jungle]

Rivers or lakes is what I’ve been guessing

[fallow gorge]

Does anyone know the type of trees shown in the other spoilers ?

That might help narrow down the location

[earnest jungle]

Well we’ve got a lot of information that can narrow down the information:
• The presence of a plantation indicates the map is in a former slave state.
• The Presence of a Coal Mine and Quarry indicates extensive mining which could point towards hilly or mountainous terrain
• The presence of a lumberyard indicates we’re somewhere forested
• And the named DeSalle, and the Architectural style of the plantation indicates this area was once in the French sphere of influence.

[ember warren]

i doubt we're leaving the state, it would be kinda odd to have a game with the premise of hunting things in Louisiana and then one of only three maps is in a place that kinda breaks with the premise

so anywhere within that yellow area within the state borders that has area fit for a quarry and a lumberyard. the terrain in louisiana is mostly flat, so any hills won't be supremely big.

[reef lava]

Are we sure it’s based off a specific location?

I’d say northern Louisiana is specific enough

[ember warren]

yea me aswell

at this point its just for fun

[untold blaze]

Yeah

[reef lava]

Fair enough

[untold blaze]

I’m just happy that the mines will be fun for Romero Hatchet combat

[ember warren]

will they?

[reef lava]

Ooh baby that’s gonna get some people tilted on the feedback page

I can almost taste the salt

[ember warren]

boutta turn them into salt mines

[reef lava]

Ha

[untold blaze]

Yes, it’ll be a massacre

Or I’ll get sniped from the bottom of the mines, who knows

[ember warren]

[untold blaze]

The plantation home though will be fun

Because house combat in this game is fuckin awesome

[ember warren]

im hyped to see the decorations in all the areas tbh

[untold blaze]

Likewise

[molten forge]

Has anyone noticed that all the compound teasers have writing on them with the compound name except the Seven Sisters Estate. the SSE has "Happy Day" written on it.

[molten forge]

DeSalle is a family name in this case as DeSalle's Silence implies, so DeSalle is certainly an individual in this case.

I'll put a bit of tin foil hat on this time and make a guess here: Letters from Huff's father to Huff mentioned a certain "R", the Prodigal Daughter has a handful of bullets on her Sparks, with the names Elise (Archaeologist), Elwood (Elwood Finch) and an individual named "Richard".

My tin foil hat is calling that it is Richard DeSalle.

Other than that the DeSalle family might have a relatively big part in the AHA. My guess that the message "Heading North to DeSalle" was Finch.

This is also that directly north of Jackson, Louisiana, where Huff had his Asylum is Natchez, Mississippi on the other side of the river.

It's also right against the border to louisiana

[acoustic harbor]

with that description a grave-keeper/digger would fit as well

[molten forge]

Pickaxe melee weapon tho? 👀

[acoustic harbor]

gravediggers would use that as well in that period

[late cobalt]

How much credit do we give to the "Bad as They Seem"?
As in, is one of twins actually part-snake now, and the other has a lightning gun?

Since, their dad is in the game, is it factual, or just embellished by the guy who wrote their story down?

[molten forge]

Well, if the twins are lightly based off of a certain Natchez legend, there might be a bit more to them in said fashion

Particularly it's a natchez legend about two twins that fight monsters

Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away (or Lodge Boy and Wild Boy.)

"These mythical twins, born when their pregnant mother was killed by a monster, are common to the folklore of many Midwestern and Eastern tribes. Particularly in the Natchez and other Southeastern tribes, they are generally portrayed as rowdy monster-slayers who cause a lot of trouble during the course of their adventures."

[late cobalt]

I see.

[molten forge]

I see a lot of correlations in this and the twins in hunt tbh

[late cobalt]

I'm not familier with native legends, cause I'm from eastern europe.
But I do hope we get more of the folklore and paranormal side of the setting in the game. (Traits like Necromancer, Serpent) and the characters from the story who should have shipped as legendaries with 1.0

[molten forge]

http://www.native-languages.org/crowstory.htm

[late cobalt]

Thanks

[molten forge]

Snakes, monsters and a certain woman being a monster are some of the things in correlation

For the Twins in hunt, we know it wasn't the labor that killed the mother.

[fallow gorge]

I hope the twins get added as legendary characters sometime in the future.

[earnest jungle]

The Researcher Notes confirm that one of the twins is in fact part snake and there is photographic evidence according to the notes

[late cobalt]

That is my #1 wish too

[rotund ferry]

scrapbeaks origin

[untold blaze]

Civil war Veteran loses legs, gets an obsession over birds, gets into argument with someone, said someone kills his birds, Vet goes nuts

[thick garnet]

I am veteran who lost the use of a leg and would kill a man for harming my pet. This lore is accurate.

[earnest jungle]

Sorry but text

[zinc cedar]

The text tab on the kamacite moon uppercut, is that confirmed as the origins of the events we see in game.

[rotund ferry]

More info on sherriff Hardin, and Huff? I want to know more about all of the AHA, if you guys can do that for me, I'd heavily appreciate that.

[dawn dove]

All i know about Sheriff Hardin is that hes a badass and leads one of the most successful groups in the Bayou

Hes like a top faction leader

Night Seer and Reverend are the other big two

[untold blaze]

Is the Bone Doctors group powerful lore wise, or do they just hunt and do edgy voodoo bullshit?

[rich nymph]

Is the revenant canonically a voodoo boy? Or did they just revive him and he's doin' whatever

[earnest jungle]

His story appears to be complex.

The Cult of the Night Hunt Resurrected him, The Bone Doctor Intercepted him, and he has been shown working for the Reverend Ishim Grid.

With whom his loyalties lie cannot be said

[untold blaze]

So he’s more of a mercenary then some of the other hunters, considering that he has little to no personal ties?

Also what do you mean by intercepted?

[earnest jungle]

It was the Bone Doctor who dug the Revenant out of his Grave and near as we can tell the Cult of the Night Hunt is not copasetic with the Mississippi Valley Voodoo Community.

[molten forge]

Is it possible that Bone Doc and the Cult resurrected him because of a premonition perhaps?

That he has been resurrected because he is intended to play a greater role in bringin the entire event check

I can see the bigger players work together, albeit perhaps begrudgingly, but ultimately the Revenant, Bone Doctor and Night Seer's goals align

[untold blaze]

Thank y’all

[amber onyx]

It says that the Night Speaker revive him, is it another name for Bone Doctor? or maybe another guy from the cult?

[ember warren]

the night speaker is the guy with the glasses and grey coat with chicken scratch all over it, the bone doctor is the voodoo guy with a skull mask and a big black coat

[untold blaze]

Yup

[amber onyx]

Isnt he called the Night Seer?

So the same guy can get multiple nicknames i guess?

[ember warren]

no you're right, he is called the night seer, my bad lol

but as far as i know, i dont think they're two separate entities

[amber onyx]

Maybe is another person that revived him and the bone doctor is using him like some sort of voodoo doll and provide assistance to others like the reverend

i mean im not sure, lets just wait and see if they make an update in the lore, or they add the night speaker

[ember warren]

im calling it now: the night speaker is just gonna be The Night Seer but with even bigger sunglasses

[earnest jungle]

The Night Speaker is a confirmed member of the Cult of the Night Hunt and is not the Bone Doctor as Per the research Notes.

[amber onyx]

And the Night Speaker is not the Night Seer right?
Only another member

[earnest jungle]

Correct

[ember warren]

has anyone compiled the soundbytes for The Ballad of Hatfish yet? i'd love to hear the whole thing

[cloud bobcat]

Here ya go https://youtu.be/m2YJr0fs6AU

[ember warren]

[patent seal]

POG thank u

[charred spade]

[earnest jungle]

Question: Did we ever figure out what compound this is

[junior pecan]

Second floor arden parish, off a glance

Facing from SE corner towards NW corner

[exotic juniper]

how edible are the leeches

[lyric arrow]

@exotic juniper The leeches of the meatheads are already changed by the sculptor as told in the first mastery:
" It appears to have a symbiotic relationship with leeches, though these, too, are not the creatures you might recognize as such. The leeches appear to have acted as the creature's sensory organs, allowing him to see, to find prey, and to weaken that prey with their own poisonous bites. They are a clever extension of the creature, advance troops in a way."

So it's hard to pin down if they are edible.
eating them might not be a good thing as it may expose you to the demonic influence long anough to succumb to it. (IIRC the reason for the extraction timer is that Hunter can succumb to the demonic influence if exposed to it too long)

[exotic juniper]

wanna eat it

[lyric arrow]

They are described as poisonous, which would mean the create poison as a means to attack not to defend, IIRC

so the poison may not be an issue if you don't destroy the containing organs

[exotic juniper]

juicy

[cloud bobcat]

Venomous - it bites you and you die
Poisonous - you bite it and you die

[lyric arrow]

Thx then i mixed up poisonous and venomous

english not first language

[cloud bobcat]

You learn something every day) Not my first language too

Regarding the leeches - I would make an (somewhat) educated guess that you probably can eat the meaty part if you cook it

Seeing how they are spitting poison, they would either have glands that open directly into the mouth, or into the gastrointestinal tract which then constricts and pushes the poison out

Either way, meat should not come into contact with poison that much

[lyric arrow]

That's what i thought and said (albeit less good than you) too

altho the leeches are already under demonic influence by the sculptor

not sure if cooking helps with that

[cloud bobcat]

It's hard to tell whenever sculptor's corruption can be transferred by eating. If it can, than yes. Cooking will probably just make it kill you a little more delicious

[plain zenith]

I love this lore related discussion! Why not create a "Tier 3 Hunter's recipe of the bayou"

[ember warren]

Water Devil salad with lemon zest

[cloud bobcat]

Water Devil sushi

Hellhound kebab

All other will be kinda weird and cannibalistic

Also

If I remember correctly, there are some small game at least around the bayou. I'm really interested how a rabbit would look if corrupted by sculptor

Jackalope dlc when?

[plain zenith]

Sorry I couldn't resist

[frank iris]

amazing

10/10

[rustic hearth]

You did it

You won #lore-discussion

[modest oasis]

This whole discussion got me very curious. So I looked up if leeches were edible and what they tasted like "Sure, leeches feast on the blood of humans, but did you know you can feast on them as well? That's right. Survivalist Alec Deacon says to “grind them and mix them into a paste that you can fry a little, for better taste.”
Now, i was curious on what they tasted like. Some people say that leeches taste like chicken liver, but one guy says otherwise. There's not much else information on them tho, sadly.
@lyric arrow @exotic juniper @cloud bobcat

So. My guesstimation is that the most deadly part of it would be the demonic stuff to do with them. But I'm sure they taste grand fried up! Eating them in the non-ground way will probably have a very strange chewy texture tho

[lyric arrow]

That is very interesting.
now we only need to find out if their demonic part makes them inedible

[cloud bobcat]

To be honest, you can eat almost anything that does not explicitly contain poison

[rich nymph]

I don't think real leeches shoot poison out of them

[modest oasis]

Why did I do research on this? Well, I'm a big fan of leeches. It's like how there's only very few species that would latch onto a human for blood feasting

[lyric arrow]

Leeches are awesome

ngl

[cloud bobcat]

I ate that bad boy once

[modest oasis]

You are correct. But judging by real life counterparts, they'd have poison glands to be able to spray like that. Avoid those, and you are safe.

[cloud bobcat]

Yeah, but, as stated earlier, I think you can get the poison out fairly easily

[modest oasis]

Also, now I'm curious on how creatures get poison in said glands. I wonder what creates the poison 🤔

[rich nymph]

Yall are nasty for wanting to eat chicken sized bugs

[modest oasis]

"The primary mechanism for the diversification of venom is thought to be the duplication of gene coding for other tissues, followed by their expression in the venom glands. The proteins then evolved into various venom proteins through natural selection." Oh neat.

[modest oasis]

Hey, good protein, man!

Ooh. I hope they bring out big ass mosquito monsters. I wonder how they'd taste 🤤

[rich nymph]

The bug family was not made for consumption

[cloud bobcat]

Studied biology for 6 years and haven't once thought about it. Neat

[modest oasis]

Nor have I, and I'm a big lover of biology

[cloud bobcat]

Oh no, please no flying enemies. Bugs in RE7 was annoying as hell to fight

[modest oasis]

Also, not made for consumption? Do you mean by western belief? There's countries all over the world that have bug delicacies, one of the main ones being escargot, being snails.

Bugs are a lower part of the food chain, and the negatives in eating them are related to human based pesticides and herbicides 👍

[rich nymph]

I'm just being funny, personally I could genuinely never eat bugs even if I was seconds away from perishing

[modest oasis]

Just was clearing that up in case you genuinely believed that

[rich nymph]

Nah man I've seen lion King

[modest oasis]

"Slimy, yet satisfying"

[rich nymph]

the horror

[earnest jungle]

If I may weigh in, the way Ghoul originally worked is that it implied that while looting a hunter you took a nice big bite out of them… and now Ghoul works by killing a grunt at close range…

So it seems to be if your a hunter it’s safe to eat even the putrid flesh of the grunts

[cloud bobcat]

Well, hunters are already injected with demon juice.

Also, it's kinda fun that you can trigger ghoul from couple of meters with crossbow

Wonder how it works...

[sly bison]

any lore around this?

[modest oasis]

They are the first person to get to Prestige 100, I believe :D

[rotund ferry]

Not sure if there is any official lore, but it was the reward for the first Prestige 100 player

[modest oasis]

Beat you to it, Finall Also, I was wondering why you looked so weird, Finall. Good job on getting the red name!

[rotund ferry]

Thanks!

[earnest jungle]

Hey guys I think we’re getting a new legendary monster hunter

[oak nymph]

Ohhhhh

[modest oasis]

Yoooo. That crossbowwww~<3333

[oak nymph]

Any chance we think this could be the Hunter that owned Bunny from the lore?

[untold blaze]

I’m pretty sure it is

Judging by what it said about the hellhounds, and the fact that Bunny was the first hellhound

[icy brook]

Fits the hunter theme for sure

[rotund ferry]

Werewovles confirmed.

[civic meteor]

Whats this ?

ok its too dark to read lmao

[hallow kraken]

Is there a lore explanation to the buying of hunters? Why are some of them free? Who or what are you while doing stuff in the menu like equipping them?

[wet sparrow]

Look theory from me

We are a hunter agency

We equip people with guns and send them out

And people that are free are either in debt or just suicidal

[hallow kraken]

So are we like the sheriff or something? This is probably something the devs didn’t intend for us to care about

[valid dove]

Any ideas what the new hunter will look like

They mention scars

I don’t think it’s the same hunter that Bunny is about

[untold blaze]

We know that the hunter in question was missing some part of his eye or ear due to a enemy hunter, correct?

And he may have gotten more scars when Bunny Turned

[valid dove]

I haven’t seen anything saying he’s missing a part

Also why would a hunter set out to tame hellhounds reminding him of his beloved dog’s corpse

Doesnt make sense for the two to be the same

Also the style of the Bunny gun doesn’t match the vibe of the other two

[untold blaze]

He might be set out to tame hellhounds reminding him of his dogs corpse maybe as a way to kind of cope with the fact that his dog died, or the fact that he might want to find some way to get his dog back

[charred spade]

People deal with loss in tons of ways you wouldn't expect

[solar monolith]

Do we Know Who "RN" is (The Person writing notes in the special ammo lore tabs)

[amber onyx]

Did you guys see the scrapbeak poem? Im not sure if its still in the church

BTW, did someone already has the 5th book of scrapbeak?
i need 40 more cleansweaps to get it

[rotund ferry]

Can someone write the poem for scrapbeak?

I need all the scrapbeak lore

[empty osprey]

this is actually a general sam reference.

[wind echo]

thats failspawner

[modest oasis]

It's the guy who got to prestige 100 first

[cloud bobcat]

"Researcher's note" as far as I understand

[solar monolith]

gotcha

[void forge]

Does the fact that there's specifically an AHA (American Hunters Association) imply that there are similar outbreaks in other countries or is more to do with the fact that there are hunters from all over the world? i.e there could potentially be a British Hunters Association, French Hunters Association.

[ember warren]

thats a good question actually

[noble nebula]

<@&357256267087085568> ^

[cloud bobcat]

From the q&a with one of the devs

[ember warren]

i guess that answers that

[void forge]

That doesn't necessarily answer whether there are other outbreaks though 🤔

[untold blaze]

If there are other Hunters organizations, then there are sure as hell other Outbreaks

[wet sparrow]

^

[amber onyx]

Cant wait for the mexico expansion lmao

[untold blaze]

Same here, get to go fist to fist with a chupacabra or some shit

[valid dove]

there’s an organization called the Sinners which is the middle eastern hunters

Pretty sure thats the only other confirmed one but their implied to be all over

Devs have said they want to keep the game in Louisiana only, lore is still fun though

[fallow gorge]

I would legit buy a Hunt game set in mexico with rancheros and cowboys

[amber onyx]

I actually wonder if we are gonna advance on time, i mean the lore is being talked as 1895 is the past

[stiff gorge]

German hunt is just cod zombies

[fierce sinew]

A lot of the lore is written/compiled after the fact by somebody studying the incident IIRC. Also there's a few indications the timeline includes 1896, but the game just sort of broadly represents the whole period.

[soft linden]

Suche für PS4 2 spieler

[fierce robin]

same honestly

[cyan bramble]

@fallow gorge whats a rancheros

[cyan bramble]

!lfg

[lucid temple]

Be sure to check out our LFG Channels:
For PC: #na, #eu, #asia, #oceania, #south-america
For consoles #looking-for-group-console & #looking-for-group-xbox
Regional LFG channels: #ru-поиск-игроков & #br-procurando-grupo

[cyan bramble]

du fragst an der falschen Stelle.

[amber onyx]

Its basically a rural guy, like farmers or agricultors

[cyan bramble]

then why did that guy react with "whatthefuck" emote that actually sounds like an interesting setting

[amber onyx]

I guess a proper traduction would be a rancher

Oh it was and its still really common in the north of mexico to see those guys

I must know im from the north, i also think a mexican expansio would be nice, but i think we just need to stick to the US

[cyan bramble]

i dont mind if they stick to the current location either

but if they added more lore be damned id be happy

[amber onyx]

It would be a lot of work, crytek is really small compared to other companies, a mexican expansion would require a lot of time, investigation and all of that, im happy with what we have

[cyan bramble]

yeah that is true

[fallow gorge]

They're basically Mexican cowboys of the old days

[molten forge]

They're already seemingly expanding outside of louisiana

Albeit on the edge

[amber onyx]

Its dennis

[plain zenith]

@fresh idol In the little Hunt related comic I'm working on, I'll give my vision of the sculptor! (my main's character vision to be more acurate)

[fresh idol]

:)

[noble phoenix]

I always feel like the hunters are fighting a losing battle to keep it contained. Especially with the chaos of the AHA infighting

[amber harbor]

There was also a quote in one of the articles on the official site that implied the AHA fighting the corruption is what actually makes it grow

[earnest jungle]

I think what was meant by that passage is that the AHA’s bounty system is only making the outbreak worse.

Which is based on the Researcher’s characterization of Huff’s efforts as slapdash and ineffective.

Which makes sense, the AHA is taking a very hands off approach to combating the outbreak. Their bounty system pits hunter against hunter.

Worse yet the AHA lacks cohesion. As is evidence by their employment of the Night of the Hunt Cult shows that not everyone in the AHA’s employ actually share’s their goal in opposing the Sculptor.

So I find it very easy to believe the AHA’s chaotic and disorganized “sink or swim” strategy of opposing the sculptor is doing more harm than good.

[still frigate]

Who is the sculptor?

[untold blaze]

An extradimensional entity who’s the cause of the Outbreak

[solar monolith]

and is no person

[untold blaze]

And creates the things we fight

Both daemon, and undead

[solar monolith]

or really anything we can/have seen directly

[amber onyx]

Man i can wait for the scooby gang to go to the bayou and unmask the sculptor and surprise is dennis and he hide the 98% of the game dolchs

Nah but seriously, is the sculptor a person?
Or just a supernatural entity from another world?

[rotund ferry]

The writing team always described it as an entity.

[warped stream]

Whatre the odds of ever having a novel written in the Hunt setting. The lore in-game is amazing, I'd love to see a novelization of some sort.

I know that's not directly a lore discussion but it would certainly spark more discussions if one was written lol.

[rotund ferry]

I wonder if we'll ever get to see more of the sculptor in game

Could be a great setup for a big event

[plain zenith]

@Papa Carl G_Official#0642 There is someone who did some short novel

related to Hunt

I don't remember the name

#fanart message

also this guy did a few chapter of his own Hunt story

#fanart message

didn't read any of those though

[weak turtle]

Post for someone who was interested. This playlist has all the real life counterparts to the guns in the game for those who want to learn more about em. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4XU-vcGxYBjJgX5M3628Nak1Rk3OZied

[amber onyx]

I was watching the gameplay stream that the devs made sometime ago, whats that on the top right?

[rotund ferry]

It says "no stream sniping".

[lyric arrow]

It's a message in "Voinych"
#lore-discussion message

[amber onyx]

Are you serious? lmao i tough it was something more serious hahaha

Sorry

[molten forge]

So far with all the map teasers there is the compound name handwritten on each photo with exception of the Seven Sisters Estate, which has "Happy Day" written on it.

Can someone dig into it?

I feel it's the Devs hinting something

[brave nymph]

The 20th of March is international happy day but we've missed that, is it the date that image was first released maybe?

[molten forge]

28 may.

It has been posted on 28 may

Perhaps it can have something to do with gospels?

Since it's called the Seven Sisters Estate.

But yeah, it is the only tease that has something other than the compound name handwritten on it

[split yacht]

Could simply be a reference to the content, it looks like a photograph taken during/after some sort of banquet?

[molten forge]

It currently looks very decrepit though

Plus it feels somewhat out of place

"Plates left unfinished, food left to rot. Time doesn’t move forward at a steady pace. It lurches, stumbles and leaps. Sometimes, it catches up."

[split yacht]

Does the handwriting match up to anything we already have seen?

[molten forge]

I'm not sure, but it seems comparable to that on the other teasers

I'll drop the other teasers

Like all of them have comparable handwriting

And the compound names on them

The "y" is identical on all of them

I just can't shake that it might mean something

"Happy Day" must mean something in this context

[primal tulip]

I'd assume that the pictured gazebo was the site of a wedding when it was abandoned, so 'Happy Day' was written by someone who was there before it went to hell

[split yacht]

The picture shows the place already a bit run down. Could just be a narrator with a sick sense of humour?

Idk I’m shooting in the breeze here

[stiff gorge]

it could also be a wedding?

the large table of food along with the gazebo gives off southern wedding vibes

[molten forge]

Maybe it's a hint towards a boss as well

I mean Scrapbeak was hinted at quite far back

[crystal roost]

Has there been any effort to consolidate the lore of this game ?

If you have any interest in a small scale lore project DM me

[reef lava]

The wiki is probably the best place to find it, but it’s incomplete and full of holes the size of a nitro express round

[modern marsh]

I wouldn't say so, it's better to check out pinned messages on this channel

[crystal roost]

That's the issue I'm trying to solve for us

The wiki is dreadfully incomplete and won't get any better until some of us in the community start helping it. The best place to start is by collecting the written lore bits into a single archived source that we have control over and can use for distribution.

[amber onyx]

What if we start by using the book of monsters/weapons?

Before we start making little things like biographies

[untold blaze]

Yeah

[amber onyx]

I dont mind making it, should i just go with screenshots in word i guess?

[untold blaze]

I think they have one already made

Check pins

[amber onyx]

As of the moment, the only one missing is scrapbeak

I dont see the book of weapons

[untold blaze]

It’s in game

Or in pins

[amber onyx]

I see the custom ammo, let me see more down

Found it, but it doesnt seem to be updated?

[amber harbor]

There is a google doc with all lore until the centenial sniper update, minus the last scrapbeak page

If you have something that isnt there you can post a screenshot and ill update the doc

[amber onyx]

What is the name of that google doc? @amber harbor

Im seeing pinned comments

Ahh i see now, i got confused on the way it shows

The Gus Leroux letters are missing? i dont see them

[amber harbor]

They're in the vandal entries

The doc is the one Var'un posted in 2019, "HUNT:Showdown Lore"

[crystal roost]

If there is an already work done on a Google doc, I'll work from that

But I'll need the link and preferably maybe we can pin it?

[amber harbor]

it is pinned

[split yacht]

I know this is from a few days back now but I’ve noticed something. Each of the teaser image captions describe the location shown. It could just be that the phrase ‘happy day’ is simply a scene description

[crystal roost]

Man blind there. I actually scrolled past all of these, read them, and didn't realize

[amber onyx]

Its the Hunt Showdown lore, there is another one literary called book of weapons but that one is not updated

[earnest jungle]

I wonder if the Blanchett Family has any connection to Ash Creek

All right Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gentlethems. What do Ash Creek, Lawson Delta, and Stillwater Bayou all have in common?

There is a type or compound that is found across all of these maps

[still frigate]

Logging

[novel saffron]

Sawmills

[earnest jungle]

CORRECT!

It’s the trees this is all connected somehow to the trees

[rapid gate]

Hey quick two questions for you why would they ask what grunts are good for? and how far has the "infection" spread?

[amber onyx]

Cant wait for tree boss then

[amber harbor]

those tree merged people / grunts spring to mind

[harsh mica]

grunts that have flowers growing outta the top fo their heads?

[amber harbor]

there was a guy stuck in the trunk of a tree somewhere

[sudden glacier]

I remember seeing that, yeah

[earnest jungle]

Also look at those trees

Look at those leaves

Better prepare for a bitter harvest, for autumn is coming.

[icy brook]

The main structure of the compound looks quite similar to Lawson Station

[valid dove]

I knew they would add a mountain of some sorts this map 👀

[modest oasis]

That's near Cyprus

[maiden jay]

I didn’t even know that this game had lore until now. Can someone give me a rundown?

[wheat quiver]

How time you got :p

[sharp schooner]

The game lore is vast and convoluted, collected largely from cross-referencing bits and pieces that are linked to recurring places and characters in the weapon and monster entries - and obscure hints from the developers.

Soooo, how deep do you want to dive in this rabbit hole? :sweat_smile:

[maiden jay]

No clue

I got nothing better to do

So I guess deep

[honest lake]

I'd recommend reading through the pinned messages in this channel. It's pretty much all there...

[maiden jay]

Oh ty

[sharp schooner]

I guess a brief rundown could be: an extradimensional being known only as the Sculptor is running around in the Louisiana swamps (if it even has a physical form, that is), spreading some kind of hellish zombie corruption.

[maiden jay]

Thanks

These are a lot of names

[honest lake]

True. But it's worth diving in imho.
The lore adds a lot of mystery and fluff to the game.
I'd love to see a decent story-driven singleplayer game in the Hunt universe.

[maiden jay]

btw do those symbols in the dark sight trailer mean anything

[sharp schooner]

Also AHA, abbreviation for American Hunters Association, is a loose organization of cutthroats, fanatics and all around despicable people who go into the bayou to hunt monsters created by the Sculptor.

[sharp schooner]

They're an alphabet derived from an half a millenia old esoteric volume called the Voynich Manuscript.

[frank iris]

Also on Hunt lore and text/language AHA is written as UwU

xd

[sharp schooner]

Tbf nobody really knows what the manuscript reads but the developers made their own alphabet based on it

[frank iris]

[sharp schooner]

If it reads anything at all. We wouldn't know since nobody has cracked the code.

If there is one.... 😂

[maiden jay]

So the devs have made assigned symbols from the voynich manuscript to words?

or is it letters

[cloud bobcat]

Letters

[sharp schooner]

The letters in the trailer spell something like "went north to desalle"

[cloud bobcat]

Going North to desalle iirc

[sharp schooner]

Thanks

[sleek merlin]

Where can I read or found some Information about the Sculptor? I am… very very interested in the lore.

[junior pecan]

Goddamnit please stop coming back to biomass ive already put months of work into the clone

I swear if mirror is even partly right im gonna be pissed

Might have to do with rot, dead pigs, dead heartwood of trees, dead insects, dead bodies at graves and crematoriums and old battlesites

[earnest jungle]

I’m not suggesting biomass, I am suggesting what I have dubbed the “The Devil’s Lorax Theory”

I have always believed that the Widow Blanchett helped to unleash the Sculptor in an attempt to save her beloved Forests.

Like the Devil’s Lorax the Widow Blanchett helped to unleash the Sculptor upon this world to put a stop to the clearcutting of her beloved trees and take vengeance on those who wronged her.

[junior pecan]

I know you're not supporting it or suggesting it I'm just pointing out that every time bodies are mentioned it brings the theory to mind, and that's problematic since I'm actually using it now for something else.

[wicked escarp]

but yeah the latest dlc really has me speculatin' on a possible werewolf boss in the future

oop , wrong section

[icy brook]

https://youtu.be/720KRBa_H1U

Is it just me or does Desalle look even more decrepit and infected than the prior two maps?

I almost wonder if the events in this map are more on the 1896 side of things

[earnest jungle]

The game is definitely moving forward in the timeline

I’d place this map somewhere in the Autumn of 1895

Or quite possibly but disturbingly the Autumn of ‘94.

Both have disturbing implications for the outbreak. If this map is set during the Autumn Months of 94 it means that Huff was far more negligent in his handling of the outbreak than we could have ever possibly imagined.

If we’re in the Autumn if 95 it means whatever efforts the Twins took to end the outbreak at the end of the summer failed and now things are getting worse.

[earnest jungle]

You’re good this is still lore relevant

Looks like this map is going to be centered around a mountain.

[amber onyx]

The pic looked like prison hahah

The penultimun pic

[hallow kraken]

Could that be the asylum?

[rapid gate]

hey wait are those new Lematt, specter, and Mosin sniper legionaries?

[rotund ferry]

I hope not, we have enough legendary LeMats

[frank iris]

no

Lemat from trials 90 stars

Specter from trials either

Mosin sniper = just Bunny from the shop

The only new one I've spotted is the Terminus Handcannon

I am curious if they'll release the anniversary contest skins with this update... hmm

most likely

[keen delta]

im just saying though every map has a lumber yard i think the lumber companies caused the monsters we see in the game

[amber onyx]

The new skin that you can see in the trailer is the terminus handcannon

I wonder how are they gonna connect the native american in the lore

[tall cloud]

Unless Crytek took creative liberty to change the color and material of some gun components, it’s definitely not the skin contest entry

[opaque zenith]

LETS FUCKING GO FINALLY A TERMINUS HANDCANNON SKIN

[worldly pasture]

Sheeeeeeesh

[restive storm]

the contest winner is also a handcannon skin

[opaque zenith]

nice

[hollow vault]

Right so I haven't really looked into Hunt lore, and if I did it's been so long that I'm now a walking rust clump.

In basic terms, either demons from another dimension broke through and caused a ruckus or some voodoo shit went down causing a bunch of zombies and monsters to be roaming bayous and whatnot, and a by product of this is that there are some weird glass holes in Space time and people have like magic sight. And the big boy monsters are either leave super valuable shit when banished or they're so much of a blight that killing them is worth $50. Which in the 1800s is probably like $5 billion. Did I get anything wrong?

[rustic hearth]

Nah that's pretty much right

[hollow vault]

Really?

[sudden glacier]

so basically there's a angry God in anothed dimension who throws stuff into ours, and the bosses leave behind valuable organs

[junior pecan]

Not sure hes a god. Not sure hes angry. Not sure anything comes out of his dimension. And iirc not quite certain its an organ. I think the wording from the devs was “a part of their soul”, but its been a long time, i could easily be wrong

[earnest jungle]

We have good reason to believe that the Sculptor is effectively creative sterile. The Sculptor appears to be incapable of wholly original creation and must instead twist and modify things in our world in order to be of use to him.

And we suspect that the Sculptor’s Goal is colonialism. The question is are the hunting grounds settler colonies or extractive colonies? Meaning is the Sculptor interested in conquering and settling our world with demons, or extracting resources from our world?

[junior pecan]

What basis does the colonialism angle have beyond archetypicality? Even the holy ground growths have had nothing come of them and no solid theories yet.

And again, all life is still mostly native, albeit twisted. If immigration were the focus I’d expect we wouldn’t have so little of it.

[amber harbor]

Now, the rotten hulls of the unfinished have a lure of their own, and so the innumerable come.
I assume the innumerable refers to the grunts, so what could possibly draw them in? The clues? Or is it the actual rotting wood, since Rexli said wood has something to do with it

[rapid gate]

they keep mentioning grunts

so what is some important about grunts

[valid dove]

That line is definitely suggesting that the rotten wood is somehow luring them, interesting

Maybe it all started with the sculptor doing something to the natural fauna of the area

[icy brook]

To me it’s agenda seems mainly extractive, the sculptor appears to me to be a leach rather than a conqueror

That’s why it’s heavy hitters such a the butcher and assassin are defensive rather than actively expansionistic

[solar monolith]

And The Assassin Was In created to Kill hunters because I assume the Sculptor got annoyed at his pets being killed

[icy brook]

^

[rotund ferry]

I mean we don’t see it in game, but the scrapbeak entries do imply that he wanders the bayou right? I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say the others do to.

[icy brook]

I kind of cut the scrapbeak as being a gatherer of mostly non organic materials for the sculptor

[amber harbor]

all bosses roam the afflicted zones, they get a sense that hunters are near via smth like dark sight and they hunker down and defend

like we do as wellsprings

[winter blade]

Would hate to see an Assassin roaming the bayou

[little gale]

Does anyone know what a bounty would look like?

A lot of the things you are talking about here is not mentioned in the fandom wiki on their site. Is there a place where I can read everything related to lore? I am in the process of making a homebrew RPG story based on the hunt lore and would like more to read upon. The lore is pulling me more and more in ^^

[marble kernel]

@little gale look at the pinned stuff here in lore-discussion. 😀

[little gale]

thanks 🙂

[vocal acorn]

where is the louisiana incident book in the game?

[modern marsh]

step 1) go into bayou
step 2) meet strange monsters
step 3)
step 4) 1895 Louisiana incident

[rustic hearth]

It's not actually in the game, it was a lorebook that was released before the game. Most of the details are retconned and are no longer canon, but it still gives clues and insight into the lore.

[junior pecan]

It was in game a long time ago

[rustic hearth]

Sorry my bad

[restive storm]

have people already figured out what the devil language says on one of the tier3s wristbands?

[rotund ferry]

Something i just thought about, did weapons that no longer exist due to custom ammo (Hand crossbow Poison, Crossbow Shotbolt etc.) have mastery logs that are just gone from the game now?

[maiden jay]

I’m trying to get into the lore but I don’t know where to start. Does anyone know a video to get me into the groove?

[rotund ferry]

not a video, but the pinned posts are great resources

[valid dove]

havent looked but it’s probably just an entry under the ammo unlock now

[amber harbor]

Its part of the main mastery now(crossbow now contains shotbolt and explosive) @rotund ferry

[potent merlin]

DM me a picture of the wristband text thingy if you have any

[restive storm]

I ll try to grab one and give you an idea of what I mean

[clear charm]

Bro did anyone else see the coded message

[junior pecan]

No, get pics and someone will decipher them

Or wait for someone else to do it

[earnest jungle]

Could you post the pics

[frank iris]

Hey guys

could anyone send me the Centennial Sniper picture from the book?

I mean the one with the weapon picture

I need it for something but I am on fresh prestige

??

[modest oasis]

I misread your sentence and posted something entirely different, apologies

[frank iris]

Ok, ok

[restive storm]

these are the best pictures I could get

I have a third one

but apparently I am not allowed to post it

cause an automated bot tells me it seems to be explicit

if anyone has a better idea on how to view the model I am open for suggestions

[junior pecan]

Theres a translation sheet in pinned messages of this channel

[restive storm]

yea I was hoping if Id show which wristband I mean someone else might have already figure something out

cause I cant even tell most letters apart

[rotund ferry]

[prime iron]

I read that the Monster problem isnt limited to Louisiana but It spread out even outisde usa. I can't find the source

[nocturne dome]

Well there's both a samurai and a couple Chinese hunters so it's safe to assume that it's probably not just in the US

[amber harbor]

This event is louisiana/usa only

It spread as far as New York (or the NY event is different), there was a mention of a grunt huntress in the Christmas entries on the website

[rotund ferry]

This event is, but there have been others before in other places. Usually at the "frontier of civilisation".

[amber harbor]

But events have happened and will happen, of varying magnitudes in different locations, hence the foreign hunters and associations

[prime iron]

So is safe to assume that, in the past, or in the early XX century, there would be other events like this with their hunter kinda (maybe events in the african colonization)
I didn't understood what made this worlds collision.
Should be something from another dimension (the sculpture) that someway started to interact with our dimension.
In some way, due to the western aspect, I'll like to think at those things in a "dark tower" vibe about parallel universes collision.
Or is more like "a sorceror create a portal and the scultpor came from there"? Or, again, is more like a pacific rim things where the enemies decided to open the gate to conquer our world?

[junior pecan]

We don’t know. It could be any of those things

[prime iron]

Man how I dream a Hunt triple A full singleplayer campaign with all this lore, could be a series that will last years.

[cyan tide]

correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure the lore for the characters in spirit of nian implies that there are creatures outside of the US as well, just maybe not of the same origin and etc

[icy brook]

Yeah there is pretty compelling hints that every or at least most cultures have had experiences with these entities and have means of dealing with them

[potent merlin]

It could also be other curses and other troubles in other ends of the world, or did once upon a time that is why they went to America and y

[still frigate]

Some dev said there's other hunters guilds all over the world

[arctic python]

picture in arden. is this the saloon in the new map?

[earnest jungle]

It is

[amber harbor]

I knew it wasnt Station

[pearl abyss]

How much do hunter get paid? Like the job gotta pay well right because there risking life and limb and i be pissed if i cant make rent even after killing the spider

[amber harbor]

I think its whatever it pays ingame, but keep in mind its old dollars which were worth more

[spark skiff]

I got the feeling money always came 2nd by a long shot to the actual hunt; it is blood lust that drives most of them.

Hunters are also partially demonic themselves and they part take in a blood ritual that allows them to channel the dark energies of the sculptor.

[icy brook]

It does seem that becoming a hunter is the newest gold rush, or bison hunting, all the T1s look like poor greenhorns trying to get rich quick to me

[severe mulch]

Just in case the scrapbeak entry was not fixed in the docs, here's mine with a letter to letter copy from the monstrum.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YzekYV3C42V3m73uwOaRPdyxhNQaisi2OEpSemMEBzw/edit?usp=sharing

[amber harbor]

done

[pearl abyss]

Kind of a topic i wonder. Is this blight just in the states or is it world wide? I ask because i made a suggestion for a japansese yokai boss since it be cool to see bosses based on things from other cultures

[sharp schooner]

There are implications in the lore that this Lousiana Incident is not an isolated case but rather one of many known to history. Afaik there are no other incidents ongoing in the world at the time, but historically there have been. Or, at least there are other hunter associations worldwide and thus other cultures seem well aware that these things happen.

[nocturne dome]

I think it's implied many of the big baddies of myths are from the many incidents but I might be talking out of my ass

[icy cloud]

I think the Spirit of nian? would be such an implication for the eastern regions to have similar issues as louisiana, if I am not mistaken

[grim flower]

Sorry to hop into y’all’s discussion but I have a theory that the aha does multiple different task and deals with many different anomaly’s Ans the Louisiana incident is just one of many different type of issues they deal with

But a lot of people probably already had that idea

[rotund ferry]

I believe the devs have stated before that the AHA isn't the only Hunter's Association in the world. So there's a possibility of seeing different groups of Hunters from different parts of the world during this alternate time period. Which would be super interesting to see.

People could also then, perhaps legitimately, stop crying about their precious snow map. It would be cool to see a Hunters association from remote Siberia during this time period, or at least something with a cold Russian vibe.

[steep cave]

question - who are those that made scrapbeak? in the announcement trailer he's shown on the operating table, who gave him his metal leg?

[solar monolith]

Pretty sure it's our friend the Plague Doctor

[steep cave]

I think you could be right there 👍

[noble scarab]

I think the plague doc was just responsible for an arm or leg replacement cause he isn’t mentioned in scrapbeak’s lore entry at all. Plus his own lore has him being away from the bayou dealing with the plague during at least the start of the outbreak

[spring hearth]

I’ve always liked how the bosses relate to other parts of the game, the butcher is basically just a buffed meat head, scrap beak is tied heavily to the environmental drops and also the environmental hazard of birds, the assassin is like the hive bugs but on crack and with less poison

[gritty hornet]

Just throwing this out there, are hunters self employed, or do they belong to a “lodge” or hunting group? And if so, do they kill each other for a higher ranking within GT he lodge or for clout purposes?

[rotund ferry]

For all we know, the AHA is just a very loose organisation and the killing is done out of greed for the rewards. A bunch of hunters goes into the bayou, what happens there stays there and whoever comes out alive gets the reward.

[steep cave]

some belong to the UwU

[dapper apex]

I’m really excited for the Native American characters and seeing how they tie into things

[orchid herald]

Has anyone compiled all of the weapon and monster books into a single pdf/file, or is the wiki just the best place to read everything?

[amber harbor]

pinned google doc

[orchid herald]

:O oh no shit, thanks lol

[wet island]

Friday July Ninth, for anyone who isnt bothered to decipher it

[frank iris]

nice

[modest oasis]

:( I was deciphering it and now I was spoiled

[rotund ferry]

Actually translates to "Time is just a construct, love Crytek". 😉

[ashen barn]

So, does anyone have the complete lore entries for scrapbeak? I can't find it in the docs, and the wiki is missing several entries

[edgy spindle]

try this @ snoipah

[rustic hearth]

finally

[floral girder]

Where is DeSalle? Still Louisiana, or have we moved further West?

[fierce sinew]

Still louisiana.

[pearl abyss]

Ok not really a lore thing but carter if he took a picture of the bounty after death would be the type of guy to dap on it

[nocturne dome]

lmao

[clever bison]

Does anyone have any resources about the overall backstory of Hunt? Watched pretty much every YouTube lore video available, (regardless of quality) but I still thirst for info

[amber harbor]

Pinned comments might be interesting to check out

[clever bison]

Very cool! Didn't even think to check that. I'my a dummy haha. Thanks so much 🙂

[modest fulcrum]

you should have flaged it as spoiler :v

[dire knoll]

the map is out lmao

[modest fulcrum]

I didn't know xdxdxd

[earnest jungle]

So our worse fears have been realized in regards to the geography of the New Map: the Devs have no idea what it’s supposed to be.

This map could be in any state from Colorado to Mississippi.

[rotund ferry]

They said as much in the stream, yes. Either they call it creative freedom or the narrative team expands the story of Hunt to other regions I guess

[earnest jungle]

Me personally I’m guessing it’s somewhere in the border states. Only place that makes sense.

The presence of a plantation means that this must have been in a slave state.

[cyan bramble]

personally that sounds awesome tbh

why stick to only one local

[earnest jungle]

Oh no I am glad we’re going out of state, my problem is which state are we going to?

If I’m hazarding a guess we’re somewhere in Missouri, Arkansa, Tenessee, or Kentucky.

Because finding a plantation in Colorado would be like running into a Roman Aqueduct in Finland

[cloud bobcat]

Players: We analysed this five promotional images, entire game lore and multiple real live parallels and narrowed the possible locations of the new map to this 50km zone
Devs: We wanted to catch a general feeling of the Midwest

(sponsored by square pillars™)

[valid dove]

The landscape isnt that unreasonable for it to still be in Louisiana

North louisiana is rockier

Don’t want to spam the chat with pictures but here’s an old quarry

[icy brook]

Yeah I have yet to watch the stream but it definitely still fits in Louisiana

[cloud bobcat]

I just was too hyped to see the asylum in game

But it turned out to be a prison

[earnest jungle]

Just based on their description of it being in the Midwest I’m leaning more towards Missouri.

As that was the only Midwestern State where slavery was legal.

[bold tiger]

@earnest jungle ain't no mountains here in Missouri

Well mostly

[earnest jungle]

What about the Ozarks?

[bold tiger]

Not as rocky

Arkansas more likely

Though I guess those are still considered the Ozarks

[earnest jungle]

Ozarks is on Missouri-Arkansas Border.

[faint nimbus]

So I’ve been looking at people’s gameplay and I see stuff like the swamp ferns along the river

[noble scarab]

so we got Mose's Poultry in there, which is mentioned in the Redneck's lore. Its mentioned as being in a "range long declared corrupted" which seems to indicate that this map's corruption isn't recent

this'd make me think that it should still be in southern Louisiana somewhere due to that being the only spots with the plague going on?

not that the terrian really agrees with that

[nocturne dome]

Firstly corrupt doesn't mean plague

Or just mean plague

Secondly pretty sure it started in 1890

Unless they changed it

[earnest jungle]

Or it could mean that the plaugr started here and then made its way South.

And DeSalle appears to be where the Port Sulfur Band witnessed a deadly outbreak first hand which went on to inspire much of their music

And Huff was described as Negligent in his handling of the early stages of the Outbreak by the Researcher

https://i.imgur.com/J0jYDYv.jpg

[rotund ferry]

Meet Robert DeSalle

[clever bison]

Well, you aren't going to find too many towns outside of Lousiana with a name like "De Salle", since the French didn't get around much.

Just like you won't find towns in the East Coast named "San Antonio" or something, since the Spanish didn't settle anything there.

The rocky landscape I wouldn't call mountains, they're pretty small compared to real mountains, and there are definitely places like that on the Texas/Lousiana border

I lived in the DFW area and passed that border many times and at different locations as a kid on road trips

the pictures that @valid dove sent also make it seem all the more plausible that it could very well still be in Louisana

[junior pecan]

Indication of reservoir theory, or whatever it was you called it @earnest jungle

[icy brook]

Yeah DeSalle definitely looks more corrupt than the other two maps, I still have yet to explore it on test though

[rustic hearth]

The Port Sulfur Band is a part of the lore?

[cloud bobcat]

Yes, devs confirmed it some times ago

[cloud bobcat]

So, don't really have any idea about possible significance, but "November 9th"

[earnest jungle]

Gives us a date for when the outbreak began some time after Nov 9 1894

[junior pecan]

The train cars in new map still say louisiana. Iirc those paint textures are applied overtop of the models themselves meaning that isn’t just an oversight.

[fierce sinew]

From my understanding it's supposed to still be louisiana but more toward the border. When they were talking about the midwest in the stream it was more about visual reference than the actual setting.

[icy brook]

^

I’m hyped to see what lies in the kids urban areas, I need to get on test and explore a bit

[glad verge]

What's the reward for the bounty? Do they bring the bounties to the AHA and they get what, money?

[granite stump]

I just thought about this, from what i remember the lore books all take place after the actual game right? i remember reading the first grunt journal and it saying "I'm starting to think these events may have been the beginning of the zombie stories we have today"

[wet sparrow]

Pretty sure that if the AHA was dissolved there would still be people willing to buy those bounty’s

Or maybe sheriffs simply pay you like with criminals

[haughty copper]

Is there any lore behind the revanant?

[earnest jungle]

Killed over a card game, resurrected by the Night of the Hunt Cult, intercepted by Doctor John, worked with the Reverend.

[crimson berry]

Did he have the dead mans hand

Someone should check the hands at the table if possible

[cold badger]

almost

this is a different table tho nvm

should have had a 5-card dead mans hand though

[crimson berry]

Dead mans hand is essential wild west legend

[random lava]

no deadman's hand for revenant

[crimson berry]

oof

may I ask por que

[random lava]

Idk I am not a level designer, but dead man's hand was 5 card stud game which is not wat is happening on the table

would have been a nice touch tho

[crimson berry]

ah

[cloud bobcat]

Iirc, on the revenant's table his cards are not shown

Assuming his cards are the one near the bloody seat ofc

[random lava]

his cards aren't shown no

[clever bison]

if you look at the train stations in De Salle there are posters showing the schedule and pricing for the "Lawson - Blanchet Bayou Line", so it's connected to the same railroad we see in the other maps 🙂

[real hinge]

There’s the theory he was made by the plague doctor (he’s mentioned as using all sorts of methods to battle the plague/monsters - theory being he made scrapbeak to fight the sculptor’s creations) however it’s more likely that scrapbeak is another of the sculptors creations.

[real hinge]

I’m currently making a series of videos on the lore - only have 3 out so far. Working on 4th and 5th - but there’s so much it’s taking me a while to find the right info/theories etc. Can drop a link if you like/allowed

[junior pecan]

Money is part of it, as said in the water devils lore. But there’s been specific offers of cards from a true deck before

Which is still sorta canon from the machete entries

[icy brook]

It’s also insinuated that for some hunters just hunting other humans is enough of a reward for them

[earnest jungle]

The researchers notes indicate that the True Deck was just one of many hunter legends and it never existed.

[earnest jungle]

Hmm seems we have a clue as to map number 4

That’s it!

That’s how Blanchett connects to Lawson and DeSalle

Their family owns the railroad!

[smoky island]

Two of the easter eggs on the new map "take place" in Utah.

||127 hours reference and the Utah monolith||

[fierce sinew]

Nah I'm pretty sure it's still louisiana, they just used more midwestern places like Utah as a visual reference for variety's sake.

Well, among other references. I recall some folks in the chat from louisiana saying the map does resemble some places on the texas border.

[fleet kiln]

Yeah it’s happened to me a lot

[clever bison]

@real hinge yep! been watching your lore series lately as well. Keep up the great work

I'm quite interested in learning about whether or not the plague has spread outside of Louisiana. getting a map in neighboring Texas or another border state would be very cool, since we've pretty much covered the different landscapes that Louisiana has

I've always wondered how the plague was actually handled, and if it was ever "beaten".

some of the lore in game has certain characters write about stuff like it happened but in the present day (when they're writing their piece) it is no longer a threat. Like how the Grunts were mentioned to be the inspiration for modern zombie films

[icy brook]

Has anyone encountered the open air boss arena mentioned in the stream, that could have pretty interesting lore implications

[junior pecan]

There was already multiple of those on the first map

[fierce sinew]

Yeah I'm not sure why they thought it was so special when the first map has, IIRC, 2 open air boss rooms.

[bold tiger]

I think they are meaning there is no roof at all the boss can move on, or something like that

[icy brook]

^

[real hinge]

Cheers! Appreciate the support. I was actually planning on doing a video soon about the wider world as I’ve come across some lore/info that I want to explore. There’s definitely a huge amount of lore, and from what I gather the AHA have come across similar events/regularly deal with beings akin to the sculptor. I think we’re led to believe the Louisiana incident gets handled…eventually. But that it’s not the end of the sculptor or similar events happening. I think it’s just that the Louisiana event is pivotal and gets out of hand a bit…probably due to all the factions in the aha shitting on each other and the assassination of Huff doesn’t help things 😂

[noble scarab]

Doesn’t the Skinflint’s lore involve an AHA chapter in NY where there’s a similar ongoing incident?

[real hinge]

Yeah I’ve definitely read a couple of entries that involve New York. There’s also a diary entry that uses the phrasing “A sculptor” which implies there’s more than one sculptor type creature

[fierce sinew]

IIRC there are other incidents and other chapters but they're extremely, extremely minor in comparison, and the sculptor is something they knew about but hadn't really encountered before.

[noble scarab]

Do we think that hunters from other countries have their own versions of the AHA^tm brand demon blood ritual, which allows them access to dark sight? Or did those people hunt without it? Hunting without it may have been possible if it was a smaller outbreak

Tho if I recall it also inoculates against whatever plague it is that’s turning folks into grunts, through its also been shown via the redneck lore and here and there in other places that people can sometimes withstand the plague without turning

Like the kids Hardin was sending into the bayou

[round fog]

where does the sculpter get mentioned?

[noble scarab]

its in a fair number of lore entries, i know one of the scrapbeak's mentions it for sure

[empty owl]

i think the lore from the website mentions the sculptor numerous times

[sand crag]

yeah but it doesnt mention all the high ping

where is that section??

[visual finch]

Do we know, lore wise, how far are the 3 maps from each other?

[sudden glacier]

well they're all in Louisiana

[visual finch]

I mean, the Louisiana Event is in just (for now) in this 3 random spot or the 3 maps are kinda interconnected?

[visual finch]

Louisiana is big

[sudden glacier]

depends on where you're from if you think it is

[visual finch]

I mean, we can shrink it to the bayou region i guess

[sudden glacier]

we can assume that the newest map is more north due to the quarry

[cloud bobcat]

Well, and the blatant "heading North" from the trailer. Also, I still stand by Sleepy's theory that new map is located North-West from New Orleans in the general region of Nachez. There is just too many "coincidences".

[burnt storm]

https://www.huntshowdown.com/news/the-history-of-upper-lower-desalle

[valid dove]

Statue in louisiana that reminded me of the one in Desalle

[earnest jungle]

There is some connection. Lawson Delta and De Salle are connected by the Lawson-Blanchett Bayou Line, and Henrik Graf owns properties in both De Salle and Stillwater Bayou. Geographically Lawson and Still Water are in the Bayou along the Gulf of Mexico, while De Salle is likely on the Border of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana based on its mountainous geography.

And we know De Salle is in the North because the Port Sulphur Band was heading south to New Orleans in their song and we were heading north from New Orleans.

On a side note Corentin DeSalle is an interesting name.

Not only is it the name of a French-Celtic Saint but it also means Hurricane or Tempest.

[dapper ibex]

Do we know what the ritual that gives dark sight

Like do they shoot up magical herbs in their arms

[cloud bobcat]

that's one of the ways yes

Also demon juice

[sharp schooner]

Sheriff Hardin made some prisoners drink the demon juice

[glass finch]

All I know is that the Bone Doctor brought back to life the revenant

[dapper ibex]

Ahh yes do now think later

[cloud bobcat]

Serum is the essence extracted from demons. It is said in one of the Lynch entries. In romero entries (i think) new hunter was injected with herbs

[glass finch]

I wrote a story about the immolator and the hive, I am sharing the link in here since is a bit long and I don't want to spam the chat. I hope you enjoy it and if you have feedback please let me know.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h6FJ7Yo4_x8FiaN9FchIKpt73pTaTEExdNfTSktz-eU/edit?usp=sharing

[valid dove]

🤔

[hushed meteor]

damn the legendary guns lores are coming together with their new lore on upper and lower desalle

[empty owl]

the desalle silence?

[visual finch]

Nice. So there is connection but there is some distance between the 3. So the event is likely MOVING.

[clever bison]

I don't think it really moves around, but it pops up in places around the world. One of the entries has Skinflint handling an incident of the same stuff up in NY with that AHA chapter, and The Spirit of Nian DLC character's bio said that he came to Lousiana to learn more about the incident since they were experiencing the same shit happening over in Asia

It's also cool how we can now go to Moses Poultry, since the first time it was mentioned was in The Redneck's bio where it stated that he had to ditch his business due to the plague

Funny imagining that fat, homeless-looking, overalls-wearing dude owning a successful poultry business

[visual finch]

Yeah that was an awesome fit in

And surviving the event

Also, we have the death spot of the Revenant

[native brook]

Does anyone know how the Immolator turned into what it is?

[clever bison]

He was a pastor who pent up all his anger and then suddenly exploded lol

[visual finch]

Moral of the story, don't be angry.

[native brook]

Wait so if you get real pissed off you can turn into that?

[visual finch]

I suggest you to read the immolator entry for more details. You can unlock it smashing a lot of immo, or there's the full monster entry on the pinned message in this channel

[clever bison]

Psychoghost has a good Lore series where he just reads through all the stuff from the Monsterpedia from in game. It's good for learning about the monsters and stuff if you don't want to grind out all the entries yourself

[clever bison]

Also a good option

[clever bison]

The Sculptor(s) are the ones that make people turn into stuff, so the transformations are triggered because of the entity that kinda lights a match, per say, and acts as a catalyst

The Sculptor(s) is whatever the entity, or entities, that cause all of this weird stuff to happen

[native brook]

Ooh

That makes a lot of sense, from what I was hearing from someone else it had to do with the fact that you didn't get all the wells in quickplay

[visual finch]

nah it's not that

[sharp schooner]

Related to the previous: Do we know lore about the wellspring, what is it, and why stuff happens the way it does in quickplay? Why do the hunters close the rifts and how/why do they become the wellspring?

Afaik the qp hunters are hunters who got lost / left behind in the swamp and therefore are as good as dead. The only chance to make it out alive is to become the wellspring, whatever that means...

[molten forge]

The end of a QP shows people basically burning up

So it might be a form of limbo/crossroads?

Where people fight to return to life.

The location and wellsprings could very well just be a representation of the hunter's most recent memories, being the locations and the absorbing of clues.

Or perhaps becoming the wellspring is basically becoming a beacon for "revival" so to say?

To allow people like for example Doctor John to bring you back

[marble kernel]

@sharp schooner People speculate that the serum that is given to hunters is slowly killing them. Therefore, many Tier 3 hunters have blue fingers / hands / arms and so on. Hunters can save time by collecting the Wellspring.

[wet sparrow]

Well it does say that your soul is saved

I always assumed hunters that spend too much time in the bayou slowly die

And that qp is just a afterlife or something along those lines

Maybe the wellsprings represent the power of the bayou which slowly makes them whole again and saves their soul

[amber harbor]

it was confirmed that qp is not an afterlife

[earnest jungle]

No it’s not any old anger it’s religious fervor, the energies of the Sculptor are volatile and react to strong emotions it seems.

[wet sparrow]

Imagine you’re just chilling, you then stub your toe and combust

[wicked gull]

I have a question about William Durant, aka The Black Coat. Is he dead?

[native brook]

Ahh got it, gonna have to look up more of the sculptor.

[native brook]

Lol now that would be fucked

[earnest jungle]

Deader than dead.

He’s so dead his death was show in the Dark Sight Trailer.

[wicked gull]

But then why is he a legendary hunter? Was he revived somehow?

Most of the timeline of what happens in the lore makes sense, but the existence of William Durant as a Legendary Hunter you can play as confuses me, because he was killed by the Twins in “As Bad as They Seem” and his body was burned in a furnace.

[noble scarab]

he was probably included because he had been on previous hunts and any current "canon" hunts wouldn't feature him

i think there are a few legendary hunters who are also dead, potentially dead, or soon to be dead, such as the archaeologist, per both the prodigal daughter's trailer and one of the desalle trailers

i think felis is also one that may have at least gotten shot in one of the centennial's lore pages

[lament panther]

I highly doubt the hunts we play should be regarded as canon in any way. After that logic there are potentially 12 wierd sisters running around in the Bayou- yeah thats just not happening xD

[icy brook]

^

[noble scarab]

by canon i just meant that we knew they were in and around the bayou, i wasn't meaning to say that 5 Rednecks died trying to gun down a Felis and a Mountain Man was canon

[clever bison]

The Legendary Hunters are just key characters that we get to play as - very literally hunters that have achieved legendary status among the rest of the hunters through their exploits. Some have died previously and some may die as the story continues. Heck, some might come back (see, The Revenant lol). As the dude's before me said, the hunts we go on aren't canon.

[noble scarab]

Did the Gold Rush legendary ever end up being relevant to DeSalle at all? I'd thought it was supposed to be some kind of reference to the next map

[empty owl]

i don't think it is

something about its owner going down south

but since the gold rush historically takes place in the west coast it is safe to say that we're not going to see it referenced in the new map

also regarding the archaeologist and the prodigal's daughter rivalry, one of the bullets in the reckoning has the name elise etched to it

and since her mother is a union spy, it is odd seeing a woman who has connection towards native americans have to do with the murder of an union spy

what confuses me the most is the existence of huff

it is stated that in-game he is still alive or atleast in some form or another

but in the mcgowan and lynch entries it is stated that he either died with his throat slit open by lynch or being shot in the head by one of the mcgowan twins

and considering that the "bad as they seem" entries suggest he is fueled by motivation and power, i reckon he made a deal with the sculptor and we'll meet him as a boss somewhere down the line

[noble scarab]

where does it reference Huff being alive in-game? in his dolch precision skin lore?

[empty owl]

oh sorry, i meant the dark sight trailer

to be specific the description of it

"all road leads to a man named huff" or something to that effect

[polar fable]

Wasn’t that Finch?

[amber harbor]

it is Finch

[amber harbor]

the game takes place before bad as they seem , evidenced by Durant being alive. Monstrorum/Book of Weapons is post event; letters and documents compiled by a modern day researcher

[empty owl]

ooooh riiight

hold on, so bad as they seem is actually a historical account on the AHA?

[amber harbor]

it might be exaggerated a little but the core story is true

[cloud bobcat]

But we have the Twin's weapons in game. Which were made after Durant death. I would say, the game itself is just somewhere in the period of the incident, but doesn't have the exact timestamp.

[cloud bobcat]

What Kebab said. We can safely say that Huff was killed on behalf of Lynch by some killer and not by Lynch herself. But all in all Collins is pretty accurate somehow. In some entry the hunter featured in one of the novels was scared as to how Collins even know how the guy blinks.

[empty owl]

also snakeskin chambers was one of hardin's men right?

[cloud bobcat]

Yep.

One of the prisoners Hardin initiated (the ones mentioned in the Hardin's bio)

[wicked gull]

No actually the game takes place after as bad as they seem. Huff was killed in 1895 and the game takes place in 1896 or 1897 as far as I can tell. This is base off of the fact that the Dolch 96(Mauser C96 in the real world) is in the game, 96 of course meaning 1896. William Durant was killed before Huff was.

The lack of the Gewehr 98 or some in-game equivalent leads me to believe the game has to be set sometime before 1898. Although the devs could probably add it or some in-game equivalent into the game, the point stands that the game takes place during or after 1896.

[lyric arrow]

@wicked gull The time is 1895

You can't base the time off the date of one piece of technology

For example spitzer projectiles for the mosin were not a thing until 1907

[wicked gull]

Fair point.

But what exactly is the problem with it being in 1896?

[lyric arrow]

I don't think there is a problem with it being from 1896

ingame it's even described as a prototype

reflecting that the Mauser C96 wasn't commercially available until 1896

[wicked gull]

No what I mean is what is the problem with the game being set in 1896.

I get your point though.

[lyric arrow]

It could be - altho the dev's stated otherwise

[wicked gull]

I did not know they did. Where did they state it?

[lyric arrow]

I don't have it off the top of my head

would be a lot of going through vod's of dev streams to find that

[wicked gull]

It takes place after the death of Philip Huff Jones though.

Right?

[lyric arrow]

@wicked gull Well steam for example

"Wir befinden uns im Jahr 1895 und ihr schlüpft in die Rolle eines Jägers, [...]"

translated from german : "Were in the jear 1895 and you take the role of a hunter, [...]"

It's in the games description

[wicked gull]

Ok. Thank you.

[lyric arrow]

That i sadly can't answer.

I'm not that versed in Hunt's lore

[wicked gull]

He was assassinated in 1895 which led to the AHA splitting into different factions such as the Night of the Hunter cult, Voodoo worshippers, etc.

[bright linden]

has anybody else noticed that the scavenger perk really is scrap beak.
Ps: hi im new here

[tired spear]

you mean Vulture?

Not exactly. Vulture has an actual vulture head on top of his body, while scrapbeak has his mask surgically attached to his face and is (was, at least) very much human.

I do agree that they must've been inspired by the trait for that boss.

[gloomy osprey]

so when was dagz introduced? @quick bridge

[empty owl]

the game does not state it outright but it may happened during our tenure as a hunter, so huff was possibly killed when the AHA was in its prime

and that the assassination is the one that led the AHA to its downfall

[icy brook]

I’m fairly certain the Spirit of Nian DLC confirms the timeline has advanced into 96

Given the Fire Monkey flares indicate they were first used the year of their namesake

[clever bison]

correctomundo

[noble scarab]

Desalle is thought to take place in the fall of either '95 or '96 right?

[empty owl]

would possibly so

[covert pike]

is there any particular reason that theres such a large influence of arabic in the lore? Items like the Lord's Prayer, as well as all the letterings having that samr distinctive method for writing on the occult style of legendary weapons (empty cairn mosin, black hand rival, etc.)

[hallow kraken]

It’s not Arabic, even though it looks like it. It’s the weird language of hunt that’s supposed to be based off of the voynich manuscript

[nocturne dome]

wrong

[nocturne dome]

no

devs said its still 1895

also you need to deliver the supplies for the upcoming holiday

u arent gonna use 1895 stuff

because its already passed

[icy brook]

When did they confirm the dates?

[clever bison]

"year of their debut in the bayou"

and the devs confirmed it was 1895 before the Spirit of Nian DLC was released

[icy brook]

^

[clever bison]

Also, this is the only DLC with this much info included in the description, and the only DLC that has DATES included

The individual(s) handling the lore knew what they were doing when giving us this info

[nocturne dome]

anyways devs still said 1895

so

[clever bison]

keep telling yourself that while you ignore what other evidence has been given

"1896.... What would happen that year in Louisiana"

[nocturne dome]

this

[nocturne dome]

the event started in like 1890

nothing majorly bad has happened yet

[clever bison]

The expanded lore that they've given us with Spirit of Nian shows that the overall lore is progressing. I think that it's safe to assume we're late in 1895 (as the DLC states) and going into 1896, or in the early days of 1896

It doesn't matter a whole lot anyway, since there aren't any major events in between the times we're speaking about

I think many of us just thought it was interesting how time is advancing. I'm sure most of us didn't expect it

[nocturne dome]

it isnt advancing

did u read what nixa said

the game date is the entire year of 1895

[nocturne dome]

nixa says something about that

its a misinterpretation as he put it

[clever bison]

If that's the case then they should change the description of the Fire Monkey fuses, since it very clearly says that they were first used in the bayou in 1896

and also the entire description of the Spirit of Nian DLC

but they haven't so

https://tenor.com/view/whatever-shrug-love-lucy-okay-idk-gif-16447471

[nocturne dome]

but the dev just said its 1895

this is what he said since u chose to ignore it

[clever bison]

I'm not saying that Hunt HAS been set in 1896, but that with the introduction of the dlc mentioning the Chinese New Year in 1896 that it looks like we're moving forward in time as we play and as updates come out

Devs should change the description of the DLC, because the wording definitely states that the year that those hunters came to the bayou and when the Fire Monkey fuses saw use was IN 1896

[icy brook]

If nothing else Lawson and Stillwater both look like late spring/summer growth, DeSalle is definitely set in the fall

[nocturne dome]

1896 something bad has happened

[clever bison]

that isn't a "misinterpretation", it's a correct interpretation of the info they gave us. so if they say that we're wrong they need to fix the source

[nocturne dome]

nothing majorly bad has happened

[nocturne dome]

no u are misinterpreting it

[clever bison]

That would line up with Spirit of Nian since it mentions it being late in the year

[icy brook]

^

[nocturne dome]

the leaves are yellow

not brown and red

its early autumn

[clever bison]

"Misinterpreting it"

very clearly states that these fuses were first used in 1896

[icy brook]

The Christmas event also discussed some stuff I’d assume transpired in the winter of 95

[nocturne dome]

its the entire year of 1895

not just late 1895

[clever bison]

I'm sure that when Nixa was saying that the game was still set in 1895 that it was totally 100% true at the time that he made the statement. Game devs are very coy with the info they hand out, and rarely give us the full story. He never ruled out that time is progressing in the game, he just said that at the time that the Spirit of Nian DLC was released it was still 1895 in the game.

Now with the new map and other info we can see that it is quite possible that the lore is being expanded further and possibly time is moving forward as we play and get new updates to the game

[nocturne dome]

he literally said it recently

lmao

the new map is early autumn

super early autumn

hunt so far takes place in the entire year

nothing has progressed

[clever bison]

so hunt takes place where all the seasons are at once and no time passes. makes total sense

that's why the first two maps aren't set in autumn and De Salle is

[nocturne dome]

what

no, the game takes place during the whole year

[clever bison]

that's what pen and i are saying...

that the game takes place throughout the year of 1895 and time is constantly progressing as we get updates

[nocturne dome]

no first you said the game progressed to 1896

[clever bison]

the Spirit of Nian DLC says this

[nocturne dome]

black coat and a couple other characters should be dead i believe

its not progressing

its just the entire year

[clever bison]

but since Nixa said that it hasn't progressed to 1896 YET and you gave us the msgs he sent before as proof then it's clear that it's still 1895 to this point and slowly moving towards 1896

but it still makes no sense why the Fire Monkey fusees are usable

since they were first used in 1896, according to the dev's own lore

[nocturne dome]

because you deliver supplies

[icy brook]

They should be an anachronism lol

[nocturne dome]

they have to be shipped from china

[clever bison]

exactly

[nocturne dome]

to Louisiana

which means u have to ship them really early

or else they will be late

[clever bison]

they weren't delivered an entire year early. it very clearly says in the description that they were first used in 1896

and your logic about shipping them around has no basis

[nocturne dome]

look up shipping times

for 1900

[clever bison]

shipping times lmfao. nah, i'll stick to what the devs wrote

[sudden glacier]

can i chime in?

[clever bison]

of course

[icy brook]

Plus from a lore stand point it makes more sense they were brought over as part of the Chinese hunters packs

[nocturne dome]

and the chinese hunters came in 1895

[sudden glacier]

perhaps, out of the dev's words about time being off in the new map, the outside world has progressed to 1896, but the actual "events" are stuck in 1895
this is a theory please don't hurt me

[clever bison]

you're right, in late 1895

[nocturne dome]

yes

but there has always been lore in late 1895

theres even lore dating post event

[clever bison]

i like this idea. i wonder if that's what they could be going for. but then again, the outbreak started before 1895 and time still progressed... maybe it's cos this is a bigger badder event that has stopped time? interesting take on it

[nocturne dome]

everyone is seriously overthinking it

time isnt progressing

the game takes place, as a setting, in the whole year

outside of the game ofc time is gonna progress

but thats from reality

[sudden glacier]

then why are the environments always the same

[clever bison]

bottom line, the Fire Monkey fusees break the lore of the game being "ONLY set in 1895" because of their description which the lore writer wrote themselves. so either the devs made a mistake with the description or they didn't, but the point stands that the description sets those fusees seeing their first use in 1896, which, whether they intended it or not, pushes the entire timeline into early 1896 around the Chinese New Year

the CURRENT point of the timeline, i mean. not the entire game's timeline. i mean that from 1895 we now have a point where we can say that things have moved into 1896

[nocturne dome]

the fire monkeys came with the hunters

and no

there is no current point

the "current point" is the entire year

theres lore post 1895

theres lore pre 1895

[sudden glacier]

so in other words

[nocturne dome]

doesnt mean the game setting is in those dates

[clever bison]

they did, but the description for the Fire Monkey very clearly states the date they were first used. So you get a point in time for reference and can infer the time period of the game when the DLC was introduced because of this

[sudden glacier]

the devs made a typo

[nocturne dome]

no

[sudden glacier]

because that's the only way it can be explained

[nocturne dome]

u have to start making and shipping supplies for the holidays early

[sudden glacier]

not a year early

[nocturne dome]

thats why theres christmas stuff after thanksgiving

chinese new year is in january

it could be 3 months early and itd still be in 1895

1 month really

[clever bison]

the Fire Monkeys aren't just lore, they are an in game item that you use. and since you have a reference for when they were FIRST used, you can assume that any time they're used by you it is either that first time mentioned in the description, or another time after that, still putting things in 1896

[clever bison]

CNY is in february

so a decent ways into the new year

[nocturne dome]

one month into the year

[sudden glacier]

so much of me wants to ping the developer that so confidently said "no it's 1895" in this channel to ask him what he thinks

[nocturne dome]

my point still stands

also sometimes its january

1896 is febuary

[clever bison]

shipping and logistics isn't mentioned in the lore, and this is pointless anyway. it doesn't matter when they were SHIPPED since we have a time when they were first USED in the bayou, meaning someone used a Fire Monkey fusee in the bayou in 1896

[nocturne dome]

he already said what he thinks

[nocturne dome]

no we have a date on when they were first known to arrive

[sudden glacier]

the chinese new year in 1896 was on February the 13th

the amazing part about actual dates from the real world, they can he checked

[clever bison]

^

The Spirit of Nian lore states all of this

so take it up with the lore guy who wrote it if you don't like the timeline they've given us

or ask Nixa to tell the lore guy to change the descriptions, because it isn't misinterpretation if it's what was explicitly written

[nocturne dome]

ok id like to point out a couple things

the dolch is the 1930s model

the auto 5 started production in like 1903

this doesnt mean the game is 1930

[sudden glacier]

its called the dolch 96

its based off of the mauser c96

which was first produced in 1896

[nocturne dome]

the actual model is a 1930s gun

[sudden glacier]

the gun its based off of was around from 1896 to around 1927

[nocturne dome]

the devs make mistakes

[nocturne dome]

no

the actual model is a wwii model

[clever bison]

anachronisms like guns being in the game even if they were introduced decades later are discounted. but when the lore written about something with such specific dates is given it's different

talking about the Spirit of Nian stuff, since it's the only DLC that the devs added so many dates to

the devs dont like giving us times for reference, so you've gotta think that them stating it so explicitly and putting so much effort into the descriptions of stuff in that DLC holds a reason behind it.

[sudden glacier]

I honestly like my interpretation because it can also explain why a gun that "doesn't exist for another 40 years" is in the game

Tired hours are setting in so typos will exist

[icy brook]

Ngl a few of the fire arms anachronisms can be explained rather easily

[nocturne dome]

my point is we shouldnt take everything at face value

[clever bison]

i think we can leave things off with a quote from the late William Carter-

"tis better to c00m in the sink, than to sink in the c00m"

[nocturne dome]

lmao

[sudden glacier]

indeed

I should go catch up on sleep now

[nocturne dome]

yeah im done with this convo

[icy brook]

I am quite interested to know whether the beast master is associated with a faction or if he’s a free agent

[noble scarab]

Seems like a bit of a free agent, he was getting his ass kicked by those hellhounds solo in his trailer

Most other hunters probably consider him crazy for trying to tame them

[real hinge]

Quick question about sheriff Hardin… his lore mentions a lot about him working his hunts/recruitment etc from a “base of operations” at a prison…is that Nichols prison? I was strolling around trying to find anything in the prison to show he was there (lots of names to be found on plaques etc) but couldn’t find anything. I’m making the assumption it’s the same prison based on location and the confessions stating him sending people in to the bayou to hunt and being able to hear gunfire etc.

[warm lagoon]

It's not mentioned which prison exactly but it's likely Nichols prison

[real hinge]

Yeah that’s my thinking. Makes sense as in the confessions he says something about watching his recruits fighting hellhounds… just making a new lore video and like to fact check repeatedly as there’s so much lore to read through 😅

[clever bison]

The being able to hear gunfire makes Nichols the best candidate for where Hardin based his stuff. The prison in De Salle isn't in the bayou, so that most likely rules it out :)

looking forward to your new vid!

[real hinge]

It definitely fits the most. He was on the front lines at the start of the outbreak as well, so seems the likely location. Just got to figure out the timeline of events with the orphans, lynch, and the assassin sent to kill Hardin 🤷‍♂️

[real hinge]

Thanks, appreciate that! Should have two out over the next week.

[hallow kraken]

Does anyone know if there is an explanation to reviving? Is there some weird voodoo stuff going on or are you just bandaging them or something.

[noble scarab]

Both probably. Might have something to do with the ritual blood and the hunters being semi supernatural

Either that or revives are non canon except for the revenant who was brought back via some voodoo by several different groups

[hallow kraken]

Thanks