lore-discussion

[gleaming zenith]

Thanks lads, I'm modifying Pathfinder to be a hunt RPG right now, as I'm going to run a campaign soon set in the Hunt Universe.

Your help is appreciated

[icy brook]

That’s cool as hell, how are you working in guns?

[quartz surge]

Is there anywhere besides the in game journal that I can learn more about the lore. Like what happened in the bayou from the start

[tall lava]

You can check the pinned messages of this channel for some resources

[quartz surge]

Thank you

[limpid bobcat]

shame we can't get harder bosses

[lethal tusk]

Here's a challenge. Don't leave the boss building

The bosses red health bar has to stay visible the whole time

[dire notch]

That sounds awesome

[gleaming zenith]

I've made a bunch of custom guns, all of which are the hunt guns of course

[icy brook]

Nice nice

[noble scarab]

You should check out Deadlands, which uses Savage Worlds, it’s a weird west rpg and Hunt translates almost literally into it.

[bleak glen]

Savage Worlds is the original Deadlands evolved and streamlined. The current Deadlands is just a SW setting and is fine, but IMO the original version captures the setting in game mechanics much better (although lengthier).

But yes, Hunt is definitely spot on with Deadlands.

[lost magnet]

Sorry if someone already said something, but I thought that was just the Revenant before he died. He does have an "alive" skin now as a reward from the dark tribute. It looks just like him, pants and all

[noble scarab]

he has a before/after

[gleaming zenith]

I would do that, but this is a one shot on short notice and my players are very familiar with Pathfinder. I will use deadlands in the future though

[gleaming zenith]

Alright, guys, does anybody know if holy water is a thing in hunt, and if so, would it work on the creatures

[noble scarab]

it exists, but probably doesn't work on any of the creatures. They don't seem to be demonic in origin or really subscribe to any belief set minus whatever various Hunters ascribe to them

extra-dimensional entities and all that

[gleaming zenith]

Alright cool, thanks

[severe mulch]

Where or how can we get more info on this or be updated about it?

Feel free to DM me as well

[stark aurora]

Also recommend 'Aces & Eights'. A Western-themed RPG with a really cool shooting/marksmanship mechanic called the 'Shotclock'. For a game with lots of Old West gunplay like 'Hunt', it would add a lot.
https://youtu.be/5zaZ0vBVTpI

[gleaming zenith]

I'll check it out

[gleaming zenith]

Once I finish making everything, I'll be posting it in the media channel

[noble scarab]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/594650/view/3180112431315883836

so i guess this is some kinda no-context continuation of lore?

interesting things to note: tons of unsolved murders (presumably dead Hunters), this detective roughly knows about grunts, and the moon aint loyal, and now a whole river is missing

[sleek crest]

CryTek: “Prepare for an expansion of Hunts narrative and story elements!”

Two stories later: nobody knows anything more than they did in the first place

[noble scarab]

We’re even more confused than we were!

[dark fiber]

So what’s the story behind the assassin?

[junior pecan]

Destined to happen. Just remember the core themes its all built on, and go out and do your own thing with those themes.

they're too good to discard like crytek has.

[icy brook]

I just realized the flash bomb is just a giant single use flash bulb from old tin type cameras

[noble scarab]

a flash bulb that's prototype somehow nearly killed Lynch

[ripe inlet]

No, it was frag granede.

[noble scarab]

It’s got mercury and glass, so I was thinking it sounds more like a flash bomb

[ripe inlet]

"pocket with sharpels" part is let me think it is frag granede. Both of them possible after all it is prototype. Prototype can be very different from final product.

[noble scarab]

agreed

[deft panther]

d

[knotty smelt]

So what does the sculptor look like eh?

[noble scarab]

we don't know. best guesses are either a formless entity, an insect like horror (not unlike Beelzebub), or its some sort of eldritch and unknowable blob

a lot of its creations are insect like, and Lynch is said to resemble a spider in her true form, so some sort of insect like being might not be implausible

[visual finch]

What Lynch THINK is it's true form

With all the insects-like theme, i've always got a "IT" like vibes

[icy brook]

I tho I everyone perceives it differently based on the way they read it, and I think that’s how the devs want us to imagine the sculptor

For some reason I’ve always imagined something like emrakul

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mtgsalvation_gamepedia/images/8/87/Emrakul.png/revision/latest?cb=20180417022146

[lost magnet]

Honestly I always imagined it as not even a real thing, but more like a force. Kinda like, and this was poorly worded, like the force in star wars. Sort of a thing thats looming in everything and everywhere. Except its more like a force of evil thats enveloped Louisiana

[gleaming zenith]

I've always imagined the sculptor as something like Azathoth or something. Maybe not as mindless as Azathoth, but definitely powerful and terrifying.

[knotty smelt]

He had one spider form that was maybe his true form.

So the sculptor is lovecraftian

[visual finch]

Yep, that's my take

[lone maple]

Hello

Kevin is Moon Knight

[gleaming zenith]

So let me get this straight. Some guy fucked the moon, and a river vanished because the moon turned evil. What the fuck is going on.

[noble scarab]

beats us

[jovial basin]

literaly or figuratively?

[empty owl]

that depends

[molten forge]

Ayyy

[grizzled pilot]

Yooooo

[bronze stump]

Is there any lore to where clues spawn?

Just had one appear on top of a table with a machete sticking out of it

Which was a bit odd

[noble scarab]

They’re holes in reality that let the corruption seep through

I don’t believe there’s any rhyme or reason to where they pop up

[scenic crown]

Wait does that mean that rifts are the cause of the infection surrounding them

[noble scarab]

Sorta, they’re related. The corruption is mostly spread via proximity to corrupted areas.

[rotund ferry]

who caldwell and why did he make the best revolvers ever?!?!?!

[white pasture]

Infection is the manifestation of the sculptor. Rifts for clues are simple points of energy for hunters to use to divine the location of bosses.

Distinct from corruption of hunters from their deal

[gleaming zenith]

Quick question, Is Harold Black dead?

[noble scarab]

far as we know, no

[zenith rose]

Isn't he The Researcher

I'm more curious why we haven't seen Lynch and The Twins as characters yet with their lore being what it is

[noble scarab]

he's a researcher, some of the notes were written by him, some by others later in the future

[worthy abyss]

Does the AHA have more info as to why they send their Hunters after each other?

[empty owl]

the AHA never sent the hunters after one another, it was after the death of huff that the hunters starts to do so en mass. Prior to it, its just hunters killing each others within their own volition

[sleek crest]

Because the AHA wants to have no future and ultimately fail in their attempt to contain the outbreak, that’s why

[bronze stump]

I always thought it was hunters just being scumbags and killing others to keep the bounty for themselves.

[lethal tusk]

Pretty much, since the leadership has fallen apart

[worthy abyss]

I assumed that as well.

Does that mean that there's a "No hard feelings" thing if two hunters, say the Mountain Man and Billy Story, tried killing each other one day, but partnered up before returning to the bayou?

[spiral otter]

I doubt it. Rivalries and grudges are probably what motivate a fair number of the firefights from a story perspective.

[worthy abyss]

True\

but I wonder, if from a story perspective, they gotta put stuff aside for somebody they hate more. A Hunter with a bounty they want.

[woven sun]

Which YT channel has the best Hunt lore series?

[icy brook]

Yeah the fact that so many hunters conceal their face implies they don’t want to gain any grudges

[noble scarab]

HazmatFTW

We know from the Scottfield entries that some Hunters recognize and interact with each other in the bayou, for better or worse.

But they also talk about trust and how things like that go, as in it’s almost a semi-sacred kinda bond between a duo or trio, because you have to trust them to not shoot you in the back

[hot vault]

do you guys call her bee lady or hive or other, i call her woman with a beehive occupied by bees infested inside her ribcage

[crimson elk]

"poison witch"

[drowsy slate]

Who exactly is Mr Chary?

[austere peak]

Some great answers to Mr. Chary's identity can be found in this channel already, just search for it ^^ have a look at this one

[lethal tusk]

Hive

[sleek crest]

Mr. Chary is the Sculptor’s long lost cousin

[steep hollow]

Me and my friend call them bee ladies
We call meatheads leechmen and water devils, water goblins

[bronze stump]

Water midgets

Here to stab yer ankles

[stuck zenith]

I call water devils , spaghetti with my friends

[analog rain]

Hive: Kitchen Nightmare
Meatball: mcs customer
Water Devil: hentai Monster

[sleek crest]

That is not the kind of hentai anybody wants to watch

[sleek sierra]

I used to call horses season 1s and half eaten horses season 8s because at the time we had trouble differentiating them depending on the angle

[rotund ferry]

i call her bee lady with friends and hive when im playing with someone new

[tribal frigate]

Aside from what info is given in the Traitor's Moon lore short, do we know what exactly Mr. Chary is doing to the weapons during his moon rituals?

[noble scarab]

it sounds like he's creating powerful occult weapons, possibly not unlike whatever gun the Twins retrieved from the land of the dead in BATS, but I think its probably benefiting him more than the bearer of the weapon

[loud magnet]

something similiar but i assume its for personal gain or to give to his own "soldiers" that he´ll use for something. but he is only in it for himself just like Lynch

i assume he has soldiers since he clearly has some followers of sorts

[noble scarab]

man probably has his own small faction of Hunters

[rotund ferry]

humans behavior

these kinds of men and the main theme of this game: the malice is the first things I understand pretty fast.
in part thank to have watched many Far West movie

[dim oxide]

Hello I'm new to the lore but what's the deal with the factions in hunt:showdown?

[noble scarab]

so you had the Louisiana branch of the AHA which existed up until mid summer-ish of 1895. Up until then the Hunters all fell under its overarching control/structure. I'm sure there were tensions and rivalries and probably some murders, but for the most part it was organized. Then the leader of the AHA was assassinated, and then all hell broke loose, each faction started fighting and it hasnt stopped. Basically you've got:
AHA/Huff/Finch loyalists
Voodoo practitioners
Isham Gird's Christian fanatics
The Night of the Hunter Cult
The Sinners

Im sure i left out a few, plus theres tons of unassociated Hunters that just kinda do their own thing trying to deal with all the other nutjobs out in the swamps

I guess now Chary has a group as well, unless Finch's group went over to him

[loud magnet]

Mr. Chary deals with the solo randos in the Bayou for the most part I think. And all the random solo characters per law like reptilian and black coat probably work for no one besides the highest bidder

[dim oxide]

Ok so I understand
-loyalist are just hunters
-voodoo who do you voodoo
I don't get the other 3 tho

[grizzled pilot]

Well they are just hunters with diffrent convictions (as it happens all 3 groups are comprised of religious fanatics)

[icy brook]

Most or all of the Native hunters also work together

[rotund ferry]

there are 2 chinese couple.
2 japanese dudes
Italian mafia
and some weirdo from the psychiatrist prison too.
Oh and a owner of a vinery you can buy in dlc

in all of those why i meet a bunch of polish and Dutch name lore don't mention?
aka USA born all due to immigrants from Europe

[dim oxide]

Ok I think I get it so the christian fanatics are the christians (obviously) and the sinners are satanists

[icy brook]

They are Islamic, they have fallen out of Islamic religious conventions so they turned to hunting to cleanse this world before they leave it

[late gull]

they want to redeem their sins before they die is that right ?

[dim oxide]

Wait...we're talking about the sinners right?

[late gull]

yes

[dim oxide]

Ok Christians and Islamic factions that leaves the night hunter cult

[icy brook]

They are a doomsday cult lead by the Night Seer legendary, they hunt the bosses to use their blood, they believe it will save them from the coming apocalypse

[empty owl]

the sinners are an islamic sect of hunters that operated mainly on the middle east, they are independent of the night of the hunter cult

[dim oxide]

Noice

[loud magnet]

I know. They were just examples

[ripe inlet]

There is too many faction in bayou.

Hardin has his own faction.

Lynch has her own faction

marshal doing some stuff. Not remember if she had a faction.)

cherry has his own faction(maybe its royalist)

Night seer faction

Christian faction

native american faction, vodo faction etc

sinner is not active in bayou. ( only few of them in bayou.)

There some researchers doing there own things.

also lets not forget mad mans, adrenaline junkies, murder seekers and revenge seekers. They are not part of factions but time to time they work with other peoples.

[slate apex]

What exactly is the lore behind the avtomat?
I don’t have it unlocked yet so I’m curious to what the lore is
As a Canadian I also appreciate the huot machine gun references in its design

[noble scarab]

John Voelkel/Victor finds the plans for it within a shack that'd been used as a workshop by the Night of the Hunter, then constructs it along with the help of Yuri, who was into guns

[slate apex]

How tf does it even work
It worked with the huot because the Ross was a straight pull bolt action rifle

[tall lava]

It has a modified bolt that moves straight but turns the bolt with the mechanism

There was a clip of it somewhere but can't find it rn

[tall lava]

Found it https://www.twitch.tv/crytek/clip/CuteEntertainingBarracudaCurseLit-yZjEBbfjzxn1e7WQ?filter=clips&range=all&sort=time

[icy brook]

Yeah it has a cam track right above the bolt handle

[steel ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/lore-so-much-lore-hero-omori-hero-omori-gif-25018854

[slim hatch]

Enjoy

[spring hearth]

this is a genuine question, where do y’all get the lore from. i’ve played the game on and off since it was introduced to xbox and outside of legendary hunter descriptions and the stuff in the library there’s not much and what is there is basically like “swamp zombies evil curse ooga booga” i LOVE lore and stuff i just don’t know how to get into it or where to find it 💀

[frigid violet]

@slim hatch where you find this?

[noble scarab]

thats almost all we have. a bit more is on their website, but really we just got the book of monsters/weapons to work with

[spring hearth]

that’s crazy that y’all get everything from that, guess i should read more lmao

[devout cedar]

Another letter
https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntShowdown/comments/u5t6e9/lore_the_well_killer_left_a_note_at_pearl/

[slim hatch]

DeSalle lower

[lethal crescent]

i'm just curious about how the phantom has a prosthetics arm like that and how it works like, well a normal arm like his right arm, is it connected to the serum hunters get? or just unexplained

[lethal tusk]

His left leg is also part prosthetic. And if you look when injecting meds or Stam shots he shoots them into the prosthesis. Unless he is injecting them into his bicep, because his arm is gone at the elbow at least...or higher.

I too have wondered the same Hanz

@devout cedar Your the phantom....we need answers.

[devout cedar]

Someone gave it to him no? Idk im drunk

[noble scarab]

Lynch gave it to him, so it’s probably not a normal prosthetic

[drowsy canopy]

Phantom was a very skilled shooter anyway he was able to fight off hunters even without his prosthetic arm literally one handed

safe to say he never needed the prosthetic but his made his life easier...

[tired spear]

so um

is the new lore available somewhere?

[rocky bloom]

🥳 🍻

[plush violet]

How does the phantom’s arm work?

[upbeat kiln]

Only he and Lynch knows

[plush violet]

Dang

[iron flume]

I got lost in the sauce & forgot to read the Traitors Moon event story once I completed it. Is there anywhere I can find it?

[grizzled pilot]

on this chat if you scroll up

you can search by users cuz rachta posted it

[iron flume]

@grizzled pilot , appreciate it.

[grizzled pilot]

np

[sleek crest]

Mayhaps the limbs is not entirely fabricated, but has some organic element to it as well

[foggy bramble]

Looking for that too!

[slate apex]

Who is mr chary and why is he thanking me?

Mom I wanna go home

[upbeat kiln]

You are hurting the moon. That makes him happy.

[slate apex]

How?
Am confused

[frank bobcat]

Mr Chary is a "scientist"

All scientists hate the moon, and want to punch it

This is what the space race was about

[frank bobcat]

The most recent event lore gives great details

[slate apex]

I heard from someone somewhere that the moon was corrupted by the creator

[upbeat kiln]

that made me lol so stupid hahaha

[frank bobcat]

The lore of the event casts the moon in a more favourable light

[slate apex]

Okays then
Wait so if we work for chary
Cause I heard from someone that he was the head of the AHA
And the moon’s good and does that mean that we are the bad guys?

[upbeat kiln]

There are no good guys in Hunt

except for Brewer.. (Maybe)

[slate apex]

Wait
Where have I seen your name before?
I swear I have seen it before

[upbeat kiln]

Well, I often ask questions in here, but I also do lore on the game on YouTube 🙂

[slate apex]

Oh that must be where I have seen you
Don’t wanna get you in trouble for self promotion tho so imma stop talking about it

Still love your channel tho

[fossil flame]

i think there are enough "good" guys in Hunt, most of them are just victims of circumstances

But yeah, Brewer seems to be the only one that noticed the evil within the AHA and actively tried to fight it

[upbeat kiln]

Yeah, I think that's a fair point.

[fossil flame]

But then again, we know next to nothing about most Hunters and their reputation or past

which is kinda sad tbh

[upbeat kiln]

if we only we had a team of dedicated writers that could help expand on this subject matter to the starving followers of this game who have been waiting for further in-depth lore for about half an eternity

[limpid bobcat]

Can anyone here send all of the traitors moon lore messages? I wont be able to check on PC anytime soon

[upbeat kiln]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PiIvWOL7xCC2Rjms1GicXh5Ptap8lk0gVXKmEe_iO1A/edit

[limpid bobcat]

Thanks

Okay so, what would the ritual achieve?

Why do it in the first place?

[upbeat kiln]

We don't know yet. That's part of the fun

https://tenor.com/view/jack-sparrow-johnny-depp-pirate-spooky-magic-gif-11873823

[icy brook]

Same, I think everyone at this point can agree the lore is going so wide, and everyone just wants some digestible deep lore into established characters

[frank bobcat]

Redneck a guy just protecting his chickens

[noble scarab]

the redneck is our only light in the darkness

[upbeat kiln]

Absolutely

[slate apex]

why did samuel col-
I mean uhhh Samuel Caldwell go to Louisiana?

[noble scarab]

It was his son that went instead of him as I recall

Victor Caldwell had some sort of grudge against the AHA

[slate apex]

lemmie guess
he dies?

[noble scarab]

yea, i mean he kinda fucked over the whole of the AHA before he died, but he was killed by the guy from the Vetterli lore pages

Victor blew up a bunch of Finch's handpicked Hunter squad, then probably/possibly killed Huff

[slate apex]

sooo
do you play as the AHA or your own thing?

[icy brook]

I think it depends on who your playing as

[slate apex]

let's say I don't use any legendary hunters

cause I don't use them

[icy brook]

Then I would say yes, at least to the effect that that’s who would be paying out for the bounty

[slate apex]

also
since it says "recruit hunter" I believe every account is actually a company based around the Louisiana corruption

like
a business

[icy brook]

I also agree with you on the topic of adding a Spencer carbine or rifle

[slate apex]

yea
it would be great

the only problem is finding a lore reason to do so

[icy brook]

They could be old surplus from the civil war or Indian conflicts

I think there was also a decent private market for them until smokeless came along

[slate apex]

and it should also have a tribute legendary skin to the 1st and 2nd United States Sharpshooters

[icy brook]

We need a sharps skin that does the same, even though it would be an anachronism on an 1874

But hunt doesn’t mind a few anachronisms here and there

[noble scarab]

I’d like to see another weapon that’s been Frankensteined together, like the bomb lance, or technically the avto

[icy brook]

Same!

It gives hunt a lot of flavor

[slate apex]

I wanna see a butchered up lever action gun made semi automatic

It’s possible with enough modifications

Although it would more likely be another full auto sadly

[icy brook]

The John Browning auto loading flapper rifle

[sleek crest]

I don’t think they need a lore reason for everything

[slate apex]

They do.

[sleek crest]

Okay let me rephrase that

They don’t need a lore reason for everything

[slate apex]

They do though
That’s the point of having lore

[sleek crest]

No, the point is to provide a rough context and connective tissues for most of the things players observe, but some things always remain unexplained in any given setting

Often because the information is simply unnecessary to the narrative

[noble scarab]

In relation to unnecessary narrative: We don’t need to know how Chary got to be the head of the AHA, or who he is, or anything about him, but we get to know a dude canonically fucked the moon, refused to elaborate, then left 🙃

[upbeat kiln]

Which was a great expansion on the already existing lore. Especially the censored sex-scene in the river

No sarcasm

at all

[earnest jungle]

You say that like it’s a bad thibg

[slate apex]

Excuse me the fucking what

[noble scarab]

Looks like the new blood bond hunters from the dev stream might be Native American in origin, which is cool

[ripe inlet]

Mr Charry is not head of AHA, it head of lousiana branch of AHA. (Huff was head of lousiana branch of AHA not whole AHA. It become clear at event lore.)

[slate apex]

NO SERIOUSLY
DID SOMEONE ACTUALLY CANONICALLY FUCK THE MOON

[noble scarab]

Yes

Some mad lad of a man had both a wife and he fucked the moon

https://www.huntshowdown.com/news/the-traitor-s-moon-knows-no-loyalty

[slate apex]

-he fucked the moon multiple times
-dies
-refuses to elaborate
-maybe turns into a horse idfk, hunt lore does weird shit sometimes

[slate apex]

Soooo is the moon sentient or something?
Or is this a sculptor’s doing

[noble scarab]

no its just the moon is sentient

[dreamy horizon]

hunt getting weird

and it was pretty weird before "moonfuck"

[rotund ferry]

Hunt maps are set in Louisianna, right?

[jovial basin]

all of them, yes

[molten forge]

https://tenor.com/view/avatar-the-last-airbender-zuko-thats-rough-buddy-thats-rough-gif-4264932

[sleek crest]

That doesn’t make any sense

[tacit dome]

Is there anywhere I can see the full lore for the traitor's moon event?

I only unlocked half of the entries before the event ended

[grizzled pilot]

On this channel
Search by RachtaZ he posted the whole thing a while back

[tacit dome]

For some reason I can't use the "in:" search command in this discord server.

or no wait, now it works, bugged out somehow

Thanks for the help

[grizzled pilot]

Np

[lethal tusk]

My first girlfriend is the moon....Love avatar, and quite apt, something like that could have happened where the moon manifested itself as a nymph or something in order to have that earthly relation!

[feral pecan]

Does anyone have the entire moon event lore pages written somewhere?

I have a friend who wants to read them because he missed the event

My b I didn’t read just above this

[jovial basin]

^

[devout cedar]

This is probably better for reading tho
#lore-discussion message

Mods pin?

[icy brook]

Y’all ever notice how the part of trip mines that unspool the string are old fly rod reels?

[noble scarab]

Neat!

[tribal frigate]

Hunters were the original MacGyvers

[jovial basin]

yea

look at the striker variants

they should add stuff like that

[noble scarab]

duct tapes a sharpened garden trowel to a sawed off flintlock

[icy brook]

I think the Springfield striker trowel is a homage or reference to the ill fated and infamous trowel bayonets used on 1873 Springfields

[analog pebble]

^

[dreamy horizon]

can someone please explain why I found this duck?

[sudden glacier]

it's an easter egg, probably not meant to be taken seriously

[noble scarab]

Each map has a few different Easter eggs, Stillwater has ducks, Desalle has a bunch of random ones, and Lawson has a lot of back to the future

[spring hearth]

i see a lot of people making jokes referencing the lore behind where meatheads come from but where do they actually come from and why is it funny

[stray crystal]

https://youtu.be/Qgtjant4-2Y

[dreamy horizon]

damn thought i found something good

[sudden glacier]

it's not funny its extremely disturbing

[spring hearth]

so it’s like blue waffle but for hunt players

[sudden glacier]

pretty much

[spring hearth]

i’ll google it later i just didn’t know if there was some deep theoretical origin bound in the hunt doctrines and dogmas

[sudden glacier]

so, as you may know, the inoculation prevents hunters from making children

meatheads are why

[jovial basin]

meatheads = baby

[spring hearth]

meat baby

[jovial basin]

loud obnoxious and reeking

[spring hearth]

sounds like my ex

[jovial basin]

full of parasites, cause they swallow dirt

[sudden glacier]

yeah, someone gave birth to a mini meathead and it was way more powerful than the current ones, so they said "we don't wanna know what else people will create"

[jovial basin]

babies

very understandable

[spring hearth]

all in all doesn’t sound like a very fun event

i always assumed they was like normal zombies but obese 💀

[noble scarab]

So way back pre-Louisiana incident the AHA figured out that Hunter couples cause demonic babies. So they banned women from Hunting. More recently a woman secretly initiated herself with her husband then proceeded to have a baby. A pregnant Hunter is very powerful and she killed many things, but finally when she went to have her baby, the child was malformed, filled with leeches, the size of an 8 year old. It tore her apart, killed the doctors and other Hunters present, before escaping into the bayou. The Sculptor liked what it saw, so it copied it and now Meatheads are a staple in its line of monsters. From then on the AHA added something to the serum that made female Hunters sterile, and allowed them to join up once more.

This has slightly backfired because male Hunters can get non-Hunters pregnant, which still results in semi-demonic babies, per the Berthier lore

[grizzled pilot]

I thought the berthier lore just described his wife turning into a zombie like this Salter fellow or whatever was his name

[noble scarab]

She was wanting to eat hellhound flesh, so thats not healthy. but both of them were going kinda insane so its hard to tell what exactly was happening

[slate apex]

So in the current setting in the game how long ago was the Louisiana event?

Current year is 1895

[noble scarab]

it should be 1896 by this point but sometimes people get upset when you mention that. The Louisiana event is the thing we are seeing in game, it began in late winter of 1894 and has continued till now (as of in game/lore time)

[slate apex]

Okay

Do you think the timeline with continue and we see history get more and more fucked up?

[noble scarab]

We know that this thing eventually gets solved, anything that's labeled as RN or researcher's notes are from the future

We also know that Hardin gets interviewed sometime later, probably in the 1910s or so

short term we will continue to see what happens, long term we know that it eventually was more or less resolved

[crystal ether]

They nuked the bayou

[slate apex]

Okay then

[slate apex]

Jokes?
Or not jokes?
Honestly I have no clue with this game sometimes lol

[noble scarab]

jokes

tho im sure if the AHA had the technology they wouldnt hesitate, so long as they could fry some other Hunters up with it

[crystal ether]

Turn the swamp into a giant microwave

[noble scarab]

The only solution these people have to anything is extreme gun violence

Pen ran out of ink? shoot it. Dog won't stop barking? Shoot it. A book has too many big words? Burn the book then shoot it while it burning. Gun jams? Pull out the backup gun and then shoot it.

Thats how the AHA operates

[slate apex]

Lol

So have there been any other events like this?

[noble scarab]

Yes, these events have happened throughout history, tho the most recent ones come from the Cascades (Washington area) New York (that one was just grunts), the bayou in ~1731 (grunts), lots of issues in Asia with Nian, and there's bound to have been others, they pretty much say anything thats folklore based has come from something that at one point or another been killed by either the AHA or another organization

or just by folks that can do that sort of thing, like the Native Americans and other indigenous folk

[slate apex]

So Louisiana might not be the last?

[next terrace]

Definitely isn't the first according to the lore, and won't be the last imo. There's something here the creatures on the other side desperately desire. They will keep boring holes through.

[rugged iron]

Cod zombies is just future hunt

[loud magnet]

It’s an Easter egg.

Stillwater has ducks, for example: check southwest of Alain & Son’s Fish you can find a pond of them

Desalle has shreks house in the bottom left. Be careful though, the donkey spawns in as a horse and can reveal you.

Lawson has back to the future stuff and an obelisk near one of the extractions

[slate apex]

Wait it’s shrek’s house?
I always called it New Zealand (if you get the reference you deserve bb)

[loud magnet]

My friend told me it was shreks house and it kinda looks like his with a wounded horse (donkey)

[jovial basin]

sometimes a meathead spawns

aka

the shrekinator

[woven glen]

wait whats the background on scrapbeak.?

[slate apex]

Did you see the scrapbeak trailer and are now confused?

[woven glen]

yup

[slate apex]

Same

[woven glen]

cuz i thought it was something different?

i was going to learn more on plage doc cuz i havent read up on him yet than went to sb cuz related n what not and now im confused

[woven glen]

so after re watching he was the subject of modifications that over 32 years became the bird man we know today

[slate apex]

So in the hunt universe is the Louisiana incident the most recent incident of it’s type?

[woven glen]

im not sure im looking around atm trying to figure uot if we know who or what the sculptur is

[noble scarab]

So Scrapbeak is a former civil war soldier that lost a leg during the war, he later lost his other leg, then an arm, and sometime in the fall of 1895, his son killed his pet birds, which pushed him over the edge, causing him to “crack” and turn into what we know as Scrapbeak

The plague doc is the dude that fixed up his legs at one point but presumably had nothing to do with him being turned into Scrapbeak

[noble scarab]

In order of oldest to most recent (that we know of), the Cascades incident that we know nothing about, the incident in New York (probably occurred in 1894/95 given that Stone was dealing with them recently) that was just grunts and was handled by the AHA, but then those Hunters were betrayed by either Lynch or Huff and poisoned with a batch of the inoculation juice, then the Louisiana incident of 1894-now

[noble scarab]

The Sculptor is a Lovecraftian entity that wants to break into our world for unknown reasons. We don’t know what it looks like, or what it wants. We just know it can replicate things and cause corruption

[worthy abyss]

So in the Hunt Universe, is there more than just one of each boss? It might be an obvious answer, but I'm kinda curious as to how there'd be several butchers roaming around the Bayou if it is true

[loud magnet]

Idk the answer but the sculpture liked the meatheads so he made more of them. For the record the first “meathead” was born from a female hunter after she got pregnant by another hunter.

So I assume the sculpture can just make more of the bosses but they might require more time to make etc

[worthy abyss]

makes sense.

[slate apex]

Wat
Really? That’s how that happened

Tf is up with this game and pregnancy’s

[loud magnet]

If I recall correctly

[slate apex]

I didn’t know this was aliens

I mean
You got hives
Meatheads

Like tf

[loud magnet]

Female hunters can make children which are easily corrupted inside of the womb. Hives are another example of females problems

That’s why the serum that lets you resist the bayous corruption and the sculptures influence also makes you sterile (after the meathead thing happend)

Male hunter sleeping with females still create hybrid demons but idk much about that lore

[loud magnet]

Some devs fetish idk

[slate apex]

You can just say male hunters sleeping with male hunters

[loud magnet]

And if it is then here comes my ban

[slate apex]

Not none female hunters

[loud magnet]

Idk. My phone borked

[slate apex]

Lol

Wait it only makes female hunters sterile

[loud magnet]

Yeah

As far as I’ve read and understood

Males can still produce sperm and impregnate people, I think. Pretty sure on this

[slate apex]

Okay then

I swear this game has the weirdest lore

Ahem
SOMEONE SLEPT WITH THE GOD DAMN MOON

[loud magnet]

Uhm, I’ve seen worse. But I don’t think I’m allowed to mention stuff like that here

[woven glen]

the children are meatheads 🙂

[slate apex]

Alright

[loud magnet]

It only happened once the meatheads are hand made by the sculpture. Only the original (as far as I know) was birthed naturally through normal impregantion and not the sculpture

Since it was a demon/human hybrid due to it being hunters conceiving the child

[woven glen]

oh true

[slate apex]

Soooo are hunters magic or something

[loud magnet]

I guess females stumbling into the bayous could have been forcefully turned into meathead producers. 1 female dead = 1 meathead

[loud magnet]

They have demon blood in them due to the serum that lynch created. And they kinda go on goody fun trips to hell while closing rifts. They are human on the outside but more demon on the inside (mentally unstable and enjoy weird shit)

[slate apex]

Sooooooo the hunt showdown playerbase

[loud magnet]

Only people that have a natural immunity to the bayou don’t get the demon issue I believe. Look at the voodoo people. Bone man has a naturally immunity

[loud magnet]

whispers: ”bushwookies”

[slate apex]

Lol

[noble scarab]

Hive, armored, and meathead replicas all come from grunts via cocoons

[devout cedar]

All lore videos are mostly visually made by screenshots, cuts from hunt trailers and other pictures. Do you think it could be good idea to record the story as its being told in-game and edit it?

Just saw this video (https://youtu.be/qNYK251GMdo) and I think it would be super easy to remake with game footage. Would that be good or would it lose the lore feeling?

[sleek sierra]

So usually lore does seem to almost be divorced from game footage except when it's a video where someone shows letter locations etc
I think grounding lore in game footage woukd be sick, especially if you took the presumably high effort route that you did with your video that was like "If hunt was a real horror game"

Could stage some interesting cinematic shots if you get rid of teammate blue outline

@devout cedar

[slate apex]

I’m pretty sure the blue outline is canonical
With all the drugs and stuff

[slate apex]

Soooo
In the lore what was the single worse incident?
Was Louisiana 1895 the worst one or somewhere else at a different time?

[icy brook]

I’d personally assume the louvent is probably the worst

Given the sheer number of hunters present, and that it’s implied the other events like NY, the Cascades, and Chinese events seem to have been wrapped up quickly and without too much manpower

[fickle wedge]

Do the people who die go to hell supposedly?

[icy brook]

I guess the go to the quick play purgatory and can redeem themselves, then if they did their I guess they go to hell

Since we know all the bosses are simple copies of creatures the sculptor thinks are dangerous, do you think he finds minor spirits and entities to drive the copied body?

Given that each boss banishment sends a soul back to hell

[noble scarab]

It might use the souls of the grunts that it collects.

[heady topaz]

is there a recommended video series for all the lore of the game?

[upbeat kiln]

I think it would drastically enhance it. Actual relevant video footage is always better than a simple still image.

Speaking from my own POV, I find it very frustrating there aren't custom lobbies, or training lobbies in the game, where I can que up with friends to record footage, as that would make for a much more engaging video.

[upbeat kiln]

Hello I cover a lot of the basics on my channel, and then there are both @severe mulch and @real hinge, who also make great content about the lore :))

[heady topaz]

Literally just found and started your video series seconds after I asked the question. These are incredibly well-made so far and I'm really enjoying what I've seen so far. You do an amazing job at immersing the viewer and that's awesome. Keep it up and thank you for the response brother! will definitely be sticking to your series until the end!

[upbeat kiln]

Thank you! Glad you enjoy it ❤️

[real hinge]

Thanks for the shoutout man! Literally just put out my new lore video yesterday.

[real hinge]

Holy shit that’s me! Recognition from one of the Hunt gods 🙏 I always ask myself that same question, I think my style works with covering monsters and overall lore. But tricky when it’s about a character and I can’t find any footage (or easily make any footage) of the phantom. I used some of the ishim gird cinematic for his lore (edited to that old style) and I tried it with sheriff Hardin with a mate using that skin. I might have a play around with actual gameplay footage for a lore video again though.

[devout cedar]

Yeah I was thinking we could use 1.8.1 test severs

[devout cedar]

Ur vids are very well explained, I didn't even know that much about the phantom

[real hinge]

I’ve tried it in game and when we’ve been distracted recording always getting slapped by opponents. Fully agree custom lobbies would be perfect for this…if only they existed 😅

[real hinge]

Thanks man 🙏 also love the idea of recording and editing in game footage relevant to the lore.

[real hinge]

Think there’s a setting to drastically reduce the blue outline, not sure if it removes it completely though.

[random lava]

I know your pain

[devout cedar]

1.8.1 is live now, I dont think anyone will be playing so we could use that

[real hinge]

That’s a good shout. I’ll have to re-install the test server but I like your thinking

[devout cedar]

If anyone here wants to help with recording the lore about The Phantom, DM me

[willow lily]

what if hunt showdown

real!!!!!!

[spare isle]

Hunt= cowboy go yeehaw, zombies go grrrr and cowboy go pew pew, zombies go noo I'm dead, then other cowboy go, my kill I kill you now, and these two pew pew

Simple

[sleek sierra]

As a new hunter
You hunt the monster and showdown the hunters
With experience
You hunt the hunters and showdown the monster

[slate apex]

You acquire gun
You go hunt
You showdown other individuals who have also acquired gun
You hunt mega monster man who looks like bird
You kill mega monster man who looks like bird
You make mega monster man blue
Blue mega monster man becomes bounty
You leave

Why did I take the time to type this out

[sleek sierra]

You forgot the part where you hear schlopping sounds and look over and realize they serpented blue bounty

[slate apex]

Lol

[glacial portal]

Is the significance of the 10 pointed star on the flag known? I don’t know if every flag in the game is the same, but in fort bolden, the flag on the 2nd floor has a misprinted 16th and 17th star, the latter of which had one layer printed right side up, and the second layer printed upside down, creating a 10 pointed star. I looked up some facts online and found that the 10 pointed star can represent either the tree of life or 10 of Jesus’s disciples, and Ohio was the 17th US state, but that’s as far as I got. The flag itself is also a 44 star flag, dating it as the 1891 version, created when Wyoming became an official state.

If you wanted to stretch for some meaning, you could say it had to do with the first ever car crash, which happened in Ohio in 1891, when a man named James (which was also the name of the 1st of Jesus’s disciples to be martyred), accompanied by a passenger also named James, hit a tree root with his car, causing it to careen out of control and slam into a hitching post, but that seems like too much of a stretch to me.

[devout cedar]

Slate Mastery 1/2

Slate Mastery 2/2

Slate Pennyshot

Slate Slug

[icy brook]

thanks!

[noble scarab]

So it looks like Huff was having people be tortured at the prison more or less right before and up to the infection

Probably gives us a decent idea of what Monroe went through

[earnest jungle]

Huff was a real charmer, makes you wonder why anyone would have wanted to blow his brains out

[noble scarab]

Did Caldwell ever give a reason for his hatred/murder of Huff? It seems to me that its more motivated by something personal as opposed to vengeance for his crimes

[drowsy canopy]

I am pretty sure the explanation was that Caldwell's kid was killed by hunters and Huff covered up the murder

I could be wrong I am not familiar with the specific lore entry

[earnest jungle]

You’re thinking of Winfield, whose foster son Red was murdered by Felis and that murder is why Winfield refused to supply the AHA with their guns.

The source of Caldwell’s alienation isn’t clear.

Either he was always against Huff from the very start because well everything about Huff’s character and actions or Huff did something that alienated him when showing him their private army.

[icy brook]

We need some Sparks company lore 😔

[restive patrol]

too bad it went defunct in 1881

[icy brook]

The model 78 really stopped the show

But perhaps in the hunt universe they never ceased operations

[fleet jungle]

Why do the Hunters fight each other, when theres a whole apocalypse that everyone tries to fight against?

[jagged tide]

I have stopped playing for the traitor's moon event, but wanted to ask: Did some lore appear for the event concerning the kid, the rat and Lionora's heir? Crytek said, those would play an important role in the lore of the event. So was there anything? Or was it just to boost these DLCs?

[noble scarab]

Just for the dlc sales

[earnest jungle]

Did they say that because if so then oh wow was that a bold faced lie.

[noble scarab]

I can’t recall them saying that particular thing, but I know they advertised it as opening the next chapter in Hunts’s lore, but the best we got was something about a dude fucking the actual moon

[grizzled pilot]

Hard to beat that if you ask me

[noble scarab]

thats fair

[slate apex]

Sooooo how different is the history of the hunt world from ours

Or are they almost the same

[restive patrol]

almost the same, just with a little demonic vibes sprinkled on top (along with copyright-obligated name changes)

[slate apex]

The copyright for all these gun names have expired almost 100 years ago now

[restive patrol]

maybe cause German copyright laws are different? It's been pointed out that they've expired and we still get the "B-bUt LiCeNsIng AnD CoPyRiGhT IsSuEs."

hell they even changed the schofield's name despite that being the military service model lmao

so prob just some knee-jerk fear of being copyrighted

[slate apex]

I can understand being worried about colt
But SPENCER???
Like come on he’s been dead since before ww1

Winchester I can also worry about I guess

Idk about sharps

[restive patrol]

sharps died in 1881

so that one should be called its proper name but nope, they changed it

[slate apex]

Sparks is a fun name tho

[sleek sierra]

Using fake names also allows them to be creative with how those guns work

So people don't go "that's not how the gun works for real!"

"unrealistic!!!"

I dunno tho, they did keep nagants and Lemat and berthier and lebel etc

[restive patrol]

the thing that completely flies in the face of this proposal and works to further emphasize that they are just doing it for copyright are the book of weapons reiterating the real world history of their development to a tea and the schofield's proper name actually being usable as a search term for the "scottfield"

[sleek sierra]

Yah

[noble scarab]

The names kinda give it this alt history feel, plus I think Sparks & Specter sound more like gun names you’d find in this type of setting

They’re cool

[icy brook]

They likely don’t use Sharps as a company name for fear of stepping on the Shiloh or C Sharps company’s toes

[grizzled pilot]

It also might be something they were woried at the beginning and later down the line realized was probably unnessesary

[lethal tusk]

Depending on the age of the copyright, and if the business is still in business, some of those names can go into open use territory without risk of copyright infringement. Also if something becomes es commen use, such as kleenex. Then they can be used without infringment.

[molten forge]

Isn't Sharps still in business?

[icy brook]

There are a few reproduction companies but the original plant in Hartford dissolved in 1881

[next terrace]

Might be a matter of whether they can readily get the rights to a name, whether someone holds the rights to a name, whether US or EU applies, etc.

[slate apex]

Who are the DeSalle brothers?

I’m assuming the founders of desalle

But the description of the legendary sparks “desalle’s silence” worries me

Also who invented the suppressed guns?

[noble scarab]

The Desalle family has been active in that area for awhile, there’s even a statue of an ancestor there in upper Desalle that died in a war, not sure which. Anyway, these two brothers, Darin and Lewis, inherited the family fortune/land. They ended up diversifying their interests, with Darin buying up industrial sites, while Lewis mostly just turned into a drunk and ran his saloon in lower Desalle.

It’s my head canon that Cain is actually Lewis Desalle, having murdered his brother and gone crazy, becoming our favorite swamp caveman

[slate apex]

Interesting

[noble scarab]

Darin was an industrious dude, which probably means he just murdered people that tried to form a union or cause trouble in any of his properties

Using his sparks silenced

And silencers are evidently one of those Hunt things, where they weren’t common until later around 1902 or so

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

[icy brook]

I’ve always thought the suppressors of hunt resembled the early mufflers of automobiles, although I’m not sure of any direct connection

[analog pebble]

well considering they were invented at the same time

pretty direct

according to the ever reliable wikipedia they were developed together by hiram maxim

so not entirely unreasonable that people wouldve cobbled together suppressed guns

[iron flume]

Trying to find the traitors moon event story, was busy playing & forgot to read it once I finished

[restive patrol]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PiIvWOL7xCC2Rjms1GicXh5Ptap8lk0gVXKmEe_iO1A/edit

[iron flume]

@restive patrol , much appreciated.

[earnest jungle]

The DeSalle lore confuses me… I think the writers have mixed up Darrin and Lewis because according to the History of Lower DeSalle Lewis inherited the family home and left it to rot wanting nothing to do with the legacy of the plantation. Yet Lewis writes as if Darrin inherited the Plantation and as if Lewis would prefer to keep and restore it.

Normally I’d chalk this up to unreliable narrators but the information in the blog post is presented as if from an omniscient narrator.

The letter just doesn’t match the characterization of the brothers in the blog post.

Darrin was the industrious eldest brother who invested his wealth and Lewis was the foolish younger brother who frittered away all his money on booze to forget a legacy he didn’t wish to preserve.

It makes more sense for Lewis to be the one considering selling the family house to Frank and Darrin being outraged over the potential sale.

Because Lewis wanted nothing to do with the DeSalle Family and Darrin was the one who seemed obsessed with restoring it.

This could be explained via unreliable narration but I'm pretty sure this is just a continuity error and they got Darrin and Lewis mixed up.

I do have to wonder then, is darkness Rising about the DeSalle brothers?

Are there any devs who could clarify which of the two DeSalle brothers owns the Pearl Plantation?

[noble scarab]

Lewis owes it, per the link I posted above Disregard, you mentioned this

and also Pearl is mentioned in one of the Vetterli pages, and according to that, something was fucked up there well before the Sculptor moved in

also which letter are you referring to?

[earnest jungle]

The one Essence posted a couple months ago written by Lewis to Fiona

[noble scarab]

gotcha

[slow kernel]

Honestly I'd really love an animated series for Hunt: Showdown's legendary hunters

[edgy vault]

isnt binge making one

[noble scarab]

There’s a live action one supposedly in the works

[slow kernel]

Binge?

the video streaming service?

yo if this is true, I really wanna see some "tales from the bayou" kinda thing

[edgy vault]

yes binge the streaming service has announced back in november that they make a tv series based on hunt

[slate apex]

Can I see the announcement?

I hope this doesn’t turn out like the halo tv show

[edgy vault]

https://www.crytek.com/news/live-action-hunt-showdown-series-in-the-works

[static kestrel]

Any fresh news about this topic?

[slow kernel]

It’s coming in 2022 apparently

That’s gonna be something to look out for then

[noble scarab]

Really can’t imagine it’ll be any good sadly

[edgy vault]

why not

[edgy vault]

nothing offical

[noble scarab]

I mean it’s a video game based tv show from a small and unknown streaming service

Plus it’s not like the lore has been on point lately

[edgy vault]

netflix used to be a small service, jeez it depends on what people are working on. if they use young talent and let the creativity and the setting flow, it can be amazing. if they reverse to what they think works, in view of hollywood they going to fail.

and behind binge there is foxtel so there is money enough bro

[next terrace]

The producers who are attached haven't made the best stuff previously. And of that unremarkable stuff that they have made previously, none of it matches the tone and setting of Hunt. So, sadly, I am similarly skeptical.

I want to be good. Badly. But it's hard to see how it'll be possible from here.

[fallow gorge]

I believe the live action approach is a mistake

There's only so much actors can do, especially involving Hunt. I firmly believe animation will suit Hunt better overall

[nocturne wharf]

The problem is that Netflix itself is taking care of it. No offense to them at all, but hunt is quite ... Graphic, and considering frigging Amazon's track record, i.e. The Boys, Invincible, etc, you can bet your ass they'd handle that part better.

[loud magnet]

Animated by one of the Love Death Robots animators would be great

[nocturne wharf]

But it's live action, hence will be a disaster

Live action always means that they are people, not animations

[edgy vault]

Netflix is not in the mix or did i miss smething

[frank bobcat]

It'd get anime'd, it's safer live action

[nocturne wharf]

Sorry misread... Well, disregarding the assumption that Netflix was the one that was making it the point about Amazon shows are far more graphic and suiting for a Hunt L.A. adaptation

[edgy vault]

i just hope binge is putting some new talent on it

new director new faces then it might be a good fit

[loud magnet]

Too far along in production for that I think

[edgy vault]

i havent checked who is doing it

where do you guys get information on who is the producer

and so on

[loud magnet]

Just search for Hunt: Showdown tv show and go on a rabbit hole hunt

[edgy vault]

i did imdb did not give any information

[next terrace]

Crytek official blog: https://www.crytek.com/news/live-action-hunt-showdown-series-in-the-works
PC Gamer article: https://www.pcgamer.com/hunt-showdown-tv-series-wont-be-about-jump-scares-says-executive-producer/
imdb cast & crew listing (confusing because this is separate from the listing for the show): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16120596/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ql_cl

there's a bunch more

Apparently binge is a streaming service targeted at gamers? They're also doing System Shock & Driver.

[slate apex]

So, what’s up with the archeologist appearing in the prodigal daughter trailer
Were they one of the people responsible for the death of her mother?

[icy brook]

It’s assumed so, given the Reckoning skin has a case inscribed “Elsie”

[slate apex]

Hm
So what do we know about the murder of Sarah’s mother?
Was the AHA responsible?

[icy brook]

I think that may be all we know, there are also other names engraved on the skin

As much as I like hunt lore, it seems more interested in creating loose ends than tying them

[slate apex]

And what would the archeologist have against a union war hero anyways

[icy brook]

That I have no clue

[noble scarab]

Finch being one of her targets at least kinda makes sense

the others, not so much

[lethal tusk]

Well she was more spy than hero. So perhaps she fouled one of the professors experiments or something. Spys have alot of intrigue surrounding them.

[slate apex]

She was a spy in the American civil war
Which ended 30 years before the events of the game
I don’t think she coulda messed up any of the professors experiments

Why is the AHA so…… diverse?
It’s kinda weird for a organization active in the 1890s

I’m curious if there’s a lore reason to their progressiveness

[grizzled pilot]

Not all legendary hunters are a part of AHA, l believe they are meant to represent the fact that the wacky monster things arent just restricted to louisiana and they cause problems to a wide group of ppl all across the world

[slate apex]

I also mean regular hunters as well

[grizzled pilot]

And progressivity is marketable these days soooo

[slate apex]

Fair

[grizzled pilot]

Its also probable that it just draws a lot of attention with the bounties and stuff but l dont think there is any textual evidence to support that

Just my guess

[icy brook]

The AHA hires are likely diverse for the same reason historical cowboys and buffalo hunters were also relatively diverse, all that is required of them is to be a low skilled hand in the field that doesn’t care too much for discomfort or danger

[earnest jungle]

While the AHA employs hunters of all races, genders, nationalities, and background the armored lore states the AHA is quite discriminatory in handing out contracts. Favoring men over women and white people over people of color.

Which checks out given Huff participated in a white supremacists neo-confederate uprising in Louisiana during reconstruction.

[slate apex]

Okay then

[earnest jungle]

But at the same time the AHA is desperate, Huff was unprepared for the severity of the Louisiana event.

He allowed the outbreak to fester possibly for years without taking strong action.

So the AHA is not in a position to turn away capable hunters.

And as the old Louisiana Event Scrapbook indicates hunters were attracted from all over the world by the Louisiana event.

[icy brook]

The Chinese hunters must have been top notch, given the AHA had to smuggle them in around the Chinese Exclusion Act immigration policies

[earnest jungle]

That wouldn’t even be as hard as most people think assuming Huff was competent all you have to do is send them to Mexico and then from Mexico they could enter the US. A lot of Asian Immigrants did this to get past the Exclusion act.

The exclusion act banned immigration from asian countries not asian people a loop hole many took advantage of.

[loud bison]

Hunt lore is interesting as hell, goddamn.

[drowsy canopy]

apparently after the news of the Louisiana outbreak came out and the scale of it was revealed Hunters from chapters across the world came over to see what's up

the AHA is not an American organization merely the American Chapter of a world spanning secret society of monster hunters that has been killing other worldly entities since the time when Crossbows were a novel invention

most of the foreigners seem to have arrived on their own volition, they are not being brought in they are coming to participate in the greatest hunt in living memory (Louisiana event logs are record the thoughts of Persian who arriving to Louisiana with a bunch of other Persians for the honor of hunting the monsters in the Bayou) as for the Africans they were mostly drawn from the local population of Louisiana which is a lot more African then the American Average... as for the women, its a new age for the Hunters, gunpowder weapons have evolved to the point where brawn alone doesn't make fights... There is an American saying "God made man equal and woman but Samuel Colt (Caldwell) made them equal..." this is a corruption of the original quote but the point stands. The AHA always the progressive thinkers technologically is perfectly willing to let men and women serve in the hunt since in the end of the day both man and woman can wield a revolver to roughly equal effectiveness.

[noble scarab]

its also well known that the AHA's only solution to anything is excessive gun violence, and you need living bodies to hold a gun or multiple guns (even better) which leads to them accepting everyone and anyone

[loud bison]

The American way

[exotic juniper]

so who exactly is the sculptor

[noble scarab]

its a lovecraftian entity that wishes to break into our world for unknown reasons.

[slate apex]

prolly for fun tbh

sounds fun

[noble scarab]

Lynch was having fun with it, so probably

[torn schooner]

I hope he becomes a boss

that'd be sick

[celest notch]

Are the clues explained on the lore, like what are they, how are they created

Who created them

[loud magnet]

They are rifts from the sculptor. It’s said it’s addicting to close them and it feels like going through hell while you do so, but the effect after is so addicting it’s worth it

[celest notch]

Hot damn they got weed laying around like that

They sure as he'll are addicting, I be tk'ing my teammates so I can open them myself

[restive patrol]

there's also this that explains the experience of interacting with a clue https://www.huntshowdown.com/news/dark-awaits

[slim hatch]

This points back to the theories back in 2019? in EA pertaining to relevance of the moths / insects to sculptor

[woven glen]

Anyone got a link on spider lore legit the only one I don’t know much about

[noble scarab]

It’s on the wiki, and I think it’s pinned here somewhere

https://huntshowdown.fandom.com/wiki/Spider

[vernal stag]

I made a lot of updates to the wiki this week so it should now include all lore for all weapons, including ammo types. The only thing missing as far as I can tell is Mastery 5 for Scrapbeak in case anyone has that unlocked and can post a screenshot of it. I can crop it and edit it in myself. Thanks! edit: Found it through a recent reddit post

[spring hearth]

canonically are the bosses like singular entities or are the multiple of them, like is there one singular butcher on earth or a slew of them

[vernal stag]

As far as I can tell, the lore indicates that there's only one of each. For gameplay reasons of course, we need to fight them over and over again. I can't remember any lore that says so, but it could also be that the Sculptor is summoning the same bosses multiple times, even after they're banished.

[spring hearth]

that makes sense

[restive patrol]

in lore, there is only ever a single instance of each boss at any given time, however once they are killed and banished, the Sculptor recycles them and sends them out again, hence why we fight them multiple times (I believe it is mentioned in the Spider lore entries)

[spring hearth]

oH

thank you

[dense harness]

Hey can anyone remind me what the main factions of Hunt are? I know there the AHA and the doomsday cult, but am I missing any?

[noble scarab]

Voodoo, Night of the Hunter, AHA loyalists/Finch, Sinners, Christians, Natives, Hardins lawmen

[ripe inlet]

• Lynch's faction.

[next terrace]

Lynch works through the AHA I thought?

[upbeat kiln]

WIth the AHA. She provided them with an improved serum, and probably recruited people through the organisation - but I'm certain she would find it comical, if not insulting, to say she answered to Huff.

[loud magnet]

This might just be speculative (or me misremembering lore), but the only person she actively worked with was Hardin’s Lawmen. She just helped AHA with the serum and basically manipulated their people to work for her. ||She also kinda just killed Huff cause some weird girl said the snake was unhappy about her threatening Huff||

[next terrace]

Oh yeah, she definitely didn't answer to anyone in the AHA. Didn't she kill Huff and take over for a while though? It seemed to be inferred that she was running things after she killed Huff (in the Crossbow Shotbolt lore piece), at least until the twins drove her off. Unless I'm misreading the twins' story, which is very possible.

[upbeat kiln]

According to BATS she kills Huff by cutting his throat, and leaves the AHA to collapse in the power vacuum that followed, where Finch and eventually Mr. Chary would take over. But the narrator of BATS might have been unreliable - and Huff might have been shot by someone else, though I don't remember who.

[small abyss]

@upbeat kiln so who is mr chary really ?

[upbeat kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/no-idea-idk-i-dunno-i-dont-know-no-clue-gif-5178996

Let me transfer you to our leading expert on the matter; here is @noble scarab with an in-depth analysis.

[small abyss]

Is there anything written story wise online? I cant find any lore on the wiki

[upbeat kiln]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PiIvWOL7xCC2Rjms1GicXh5Ptap8lk0gVXKmEe_iO1A/edit

[small abyss]

Thanks

@upbeat kiln sounds like he's the devil

Or something similar

[upbeat kiln]

Could be!

[small abyss]

I'm actually from Louisiana, been here all my life. Lots of cool stories down here. Wish they'd add the rougarou

[edgy vault]

i hope they will use bad moon rising as a song in the tv series

[noble scarab]

To follow up on what Hazmat had said, we know little to nothing about Chary. He’s an incredibly gifted occultist, and evidently is very charming and convincing. He presumably charmed his way to head of the AHA for like a week before our guy Kevin ran him off.

[slate apex]

Wait he’s no longer the head of the AHA?

[ripe inlet]

She work with AHA/huff and lore says she has her own people. Maybe smaller than other factions but she has big story impact. Because that, i think we need to add her faction to main factions. (also we do not know with faction how big.)

[sweet peak]

I have a question for the lore Peeps

After you kill and banish the bosses, and pick up the bounties

What exactly are the bounties?

Are they like

A token of some sort?

And why do hunters want to extract with them?

Or is it just proof of death

[noble scarab]

Probably not, he just kinda up and left so I’d assume the post is vacant

[noble scarab]

The tokens are thought to be something from a boss to 1, prove you killed it, 2, for use in occult rituals as they provide power, 3, you turn it into Finch and you get paid

[sweet peak]

What’s finch?

[slate apex]

Finch is a person
They give it to finch
(So turn it into finch)

[sweet peak]

Ah, alright thanks!

[noble scarab]

He was Huffs second in command, but he avoided getting killed in the schism and now he runs a sort of safe area/neutral zone outside of the bayou where Hunters can buy guns and turn in bounties

[ripe inlet]

Charry head of lousiana branch of AHA.

[slate apex]

isn't he the guy from the legendary conversion "spite"?

and doesn't he have a bullet with his name on it from the prodigal daughter?

[noble scarab]

Yes and yes

[rotund ferry]

Oh whatever happened to Lynch or whatever her name was

We literally have not heard a peep about her for the longest time

[noble scarab]

per BATS she fucked off back into where-ever her and the Sculptor come from

[slow kernel]

wait, yo, are we getting any more bosses anytime soon?

[junior pecan]

Your name perturbs me

[slate apex]

How common is the knowledge of the Louisiana incident in the hunt showdown world?

[noble scarab]

Not common unless you’re an AHA/other monster hunter association member/got connections

The govt probably knows to a small degree because they seem to help fund the AHA, and the Louisiana governor was told it was it wasn’t a big deal

[spring hearth]

the lore discussion channel never fails to talk about things i don’t understand and it gets a little more fun to read every time i visit

[celest notch]

i dont expect a uhaul truck to understand anything to be honest

[upbeat kiln]

Don't put restrictions on the poor truck :((

[slate apex]

Remember, someone canonically fucked the moon

[celest notch]

ayo

who

[slate apex]

Idk

Someone

[celest notch]

was about to find a new main

my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

[slate apex]

He has no name

[spring hearth]

is this a fr or ong situation

[slate apex]

This canonically happened in hunt’s lore

[spring hearth]

oh god

average Louisiana resident

[upbeat kiln]

I wonder how strong his pull-out game was

[noble scarab]

It’s the moon, mans couldn’t pull out if he wanted to.

[next terrace]

Jokes aside, it seems like the Moon and the Snake (the one that spoke to the twins and partially changed one of them) are native spirits opposed to the Sculptor and the other beings trying to break through. Do we know anything else about them?

[noble scarab]

The snake is the Teche snake, which is supposed to be a holy figure to the local natives

I think it’s folklore should translate pretty directly to Hunt

Moon wise, we got nothing. Maybe something related to the gods referenced in the dusk and dawn silenced pair

[spring hearth]

i’d be lyin if i said i wouldn’t pork the moon

[spring hearth]

if the hunters goal is to like fight off the stuff the sculptor makes why do they kill eachother and if the answer is greed over the bounty tokens why do we work together in the first place if i could theoretically kill my teammates and get all the bounty to myself

[next terrace]

Some of it is greed. Some of it is faction rivalry. Some of it is old grudges and hatreds. Presumably, if you're on a team, then you've built up enough trust to not murder one another immediately.

I'd also argue that the serum and constantly interacting with the corruption probably does awful things to a Hunter's psychology, let alone their soul. None of the Hunters are good people, and if they were before the went into the bayou, then they lose something in the process.

[spring hearth]

so you’re gonna look me in the eyes and tell me sheriff hardin isn’t a nice little small town sheriff who always orders biscuits and gravy before he goes to work and likes to have dinner with his mom on fridays

[true cedar]

What's the point of banishing then?

[celest notch]

You send them to florida

[spring hearth]

to be quirky

i feel like hunt is kind of like one of those horror movies that’s super good until the end where they explain what’s happening and it just makes it less enjoyable

i plan to educate myself this week tho so who knows

[celest notch]

Good truck

[small abyss]

I mean...thats a pretty big notch in the belt.

[noble scarab]

Sheriff Hardin brought trains of orphans into the bayou, sent them into the Hunting Grounds with a handful of guns, some knives, then when about 4 came back he decided they were too much trouble and he shot them

[spring hearth]

that’s even better

i can’t tell if that’s even a joke or not, it seems unnecessary

[noble scarab]

It’s not a joke

Mans a psycho

[spring hearth]

wtf 💀

just another reason sherif hardin on top

[noble scarab]

https://www.huntshowdown.com/news/the-confessions-of-sheriff-hardin-pt-1

[spring hearth]

did the redneck do anything horrifying or genocidal

[noble scarab]

Not to our knowledge

Mans was literally to stubborn to die

I bet he fucking massacred a bucket of chicken tho

[spring hearth]

next you’re gonna tell me redshirt was a church burner

[noble scarab]

No, he just got drunk one day and decided to be a badass

He and the redneck are probably the most “innocent” of the legendaries

By innocent, I mean they still murder folks on the regular and have had their souls stolen and corrupted

[spring hearth]

boys will be boys

[jovial basin]

redshirt is just trying to win a bet

[celest notch]

Correct

[spring hearth]

i thought it was duos only then they added trios after

[upbeat kiln]

Literally laughed out loud at this 🤣

[sweet star]

Witch hunter seems fine lore wise

[regal trout]

Hmm

Are these descriptions hinting at a werewolf? Or are they hunting Lonely Howl

[noble scarab]

those are the Lonely Howl's mother and brother, they're hunting him for the murder of his father

[regal trout]

Ah that makes sense

Cuz he's all crazy and bloodlust

[earnest jungle]

My guess both.

These hunters are specifically tied to the Lonely Howl but with all of the wolf related legendaries they’re making it’s hard for me to imagine they aren’t planning at least something wereworlf related.

[regal trout]

Aye good point

[earnest jungle]

They teased the Scrapbeak Boss with a legendary Death Note

All of these wolf related hunters could be teasing at something werewolf related.

[regal trout]

Yeah isn't Lonely Howl implied to be basically feral

[earnest jungle]

The trailer show’s him to be very intelligent but in the way an animal is very intelligent. It’s an alien intelligence unfamiliar to humans but arguably no lesser than our own.

But he is blood thirsty

He has a well developed sense of sadism.

[regal trout]

Yeah fun fact

The things on his bow are string suppressors

They're used to make the bowstring not vibrate at a harmonic frequency to make it harder to hear the "twang"

They're used by IRL hunters sometimes

It's cool seeing them depicted in a video game

[earnest jungle]

I do think they’re working on some kind of boss because they released the third boss a year after the game hit early access and Scrapbeak two years after.

[regal trout]

It makes complete sense some people would become hunters just to essentially give them an excuse to murder people with the actual purpose of the AHA being secondary

I'd assume a new boss would be at 2.0 or 1.9

[earnest jungle]

Definitely to both

[regal trout]

One thing I want that would make sense lore wise is a classic big game hunter style legendary

Since iirc the canon reason why we have Nitro Express rifles is that they're brought over by big game hunters

One of the trials mentions it

It's neat when we have reasons for why certain legendary Hunters would find themselves in the Bayou on their own agenda as opposed to just the AHA's

[earnest jungle]

A lot of the legendaries actually have ulterior motives to them

[regal trout]

Yee I like it

Like it's cool how even the cheapest legendaries, the two acolytes, actually have their own goals and motives, that being that they believe the blood of the monsters will bring them strength and immortality

[celest notch]

are these coming next patch?

[jovial basin]

pretty sure its about lonely howl

[celest notch]

their last name is literally frisk, so they are his family

[tired spear]

Scrapbeak's lair features a few eggs and i'm just here wondering - how the HECK did he lay them?

is there a lore explanation for those eggs or what?

[upbeat kiln]

I think he's a bird lover, not that he lays them himself

I might be wrong though?

And if he does.. I don't think I wanna know how

[celest notch]

I do

[cloud ledge]

I would really like to know more about Black Coat, since he's my favorite hunter. There's any place i can read more about him?

Or it's just the basic informations on he's description?

[celest notch]

i think thats about it

[grizzled pilot]

Some early Bad as they seem lore entries have his lore, you can find it scattered around lore entries tied to various weapons but you can also look up the whole story on the wiki or probably reddit

[noble scarab]

He’s the father of Fin and Jos, the twins. He killed their mother after she gave birth, then came back years later to kill his brother who was raising the kids. They then killed him. He’s a scumbag. He somehow is able to wear a large fluffy black coat in the middle of a Deep South summer. That’s about all we got.

I might’ve read he’s like a cousin to Billy or something, unsure on that one

[noble scarab]

It’d be cool to see a legendary that was more like Chary, working mostly against the AHA, or maybe they just really hated Huff or something

[cloud ledge]

Wut, where did u read that?

[next terrace]

it's all in the Bad as they Seem story arc, across multiple weapons. He's mentioned by his real name, not as the Black Coat. I haven't seen anything about him being cousins with Billy personally, though.

https://huntshowdown.fandom.com/wiki/Bad_As_They_Seem

[empty owl]

i just saw the name elwood engraved in the middle bullet of the reckoning skin, could it refer to elwood finch by any chance?

although i do find it odd for an asylum staff member and former mental patient to be on the hit list of a union assassin

[keen leaf]

Prodigal daughter is not an union assassin, she is the daughter of an union Spy, seeking to avenge her mother. But her mother death circumstance are unclear. Finch could be tied to it

[slate apex]

The archeologist 100% has something to do with it as well

[keen leaf]

Yeah, she's Seen in the trailer

[slate apex]

I main the prodigal daughter
Do you think she will succeed in her mission to average her mother’s murder?

I would love to see the hunt showdown TV show have the prodigal daughter as one of the main characters

[bold tiger]

Careful if it gets put on CBS, judging by the halo show she'd constantly take her mask off and we'd get a bunch of sculptor drama

[slate apex]

Fair

[bold tiger]

Also judging by halo we'd have plenty of hunter ass

[slate apex]

We already get enough lol

[lusty flume]

This is so funny to me. “It’s a shame all I could find were these complex and incredibly effective pistols”

[noble scarab]

He simply doesn’t vibe with the Dolch

[bold tiger]

I would like a sawspear lookalike bomblance

[noble scarab]

I think every weapon from Bloodborne could translate directly to Hunt with 0 issues

[rugged zealot]

What community is the Lonely Howl part of?

[vernal stag]

None that we've seen, as far as I can tell. They're like a new, small group of wolf hunters that are native to the south

[rugged zealot]

I see hopefully they reveal it

[hoary surge]

How long has the infection been going on for days,months,years? Also is the infection just Louisiana or also neighboring states

[drowsy canopy]

the infection has been going on for around 2 years in game. It is currently 1896 in game and the infection began sometime in 1894

it is confined to the Bayou thanks to an AHA quarantine

[misty jewel]

My brother made this suggestion about a mini (roaming) boss.
It has lore and everything:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntShowdown/comments/phc5cm/agares_the_mini_boss/

[celest notch]

I like the idea of a romaing mini boss, but no bounty attached to it

[next terrace]

haha right? it's one of the sillier lore bits.

[hoary surge]

Thanks

[spring hearth]

what’s going on with the rest of the country/world during the events of Hunt, ik there are hunters from around the world and hunters from across America coming to the bayou but are there similar outbreaks outside of the LA delta?

[fossil flame]

There have been multiple outbreaks all around the world, but the Louisiana outbreak was the greatest one so far

[spring hearth]

why is there a duck under port reeker and what did he do to deserve such imprisonment

[lethal tusk]

Also the U.S. is just coming out of the Civil War, so more fighting and death is not something that would alarm the people of this time. And it being confined to the south would make the rest of the u.s. over look the fact that there is a problem. From our history, the south was a post apocalyptic semi wasteland after the war so having something that could give these folks something ro profit from was probably looked at as a blessing.

[drowsy canopy]

its been thirty years since the end of the war, what has kept it form the eyes of the public is a cover up and the fact it happened i the Bayou

which would be among the most isolated communities in America

[noble scarab]

I mean the south was still a wreck

[lethal tusk]

When the majority of the population is wiped out and your way of esrning a life style all but removed 30 years is a short time, nearly the life span of a person. Or at least their adult life.

[noble scarab]

But he’s right

[lethal tusk]

I don't argue with the cover up haha

It's just easier to do that when everyone is okay with it

[lethal holly]

Sherif hardin... I hate this manz

Dure he stopped the infection alittle but

He sent orphans and prisoners in-

No wonder there's alot of teddy bears and kid toys around

[next terrace]

The governor of LA was corrupt af in both the fiction and reality of that time, so it could have been partially covered up

[lethal tusk]

I completely agree, but when you have a population that is happy for the cover up, it makes things alot easier. Especially when you are giving people money.

[celest notch]

What's your favorite faction, I'd say the christians

[celest notch]

So is dire wolf the lonely howl dad or brother

I want to say brother since the mother lore says specifically her son, but dire wolf sounds as if he didn't know who it was.

[noble scarab]

I believe it should be his brother, considering Lonely howl was said to have killed his father

[lethal holly]

What- what you talking bout a dire wolf?

[noble scarab]

two new legendary hunters are coming next patch, i dont recall their names but theyre all wolf-related

mother and brother to the lonely howl

[lethal holly]

https://youtu.be/zd_FajaGiFM

Just wanted to post this ere cuz

The man's voice is so MMMM

[noble scarab]

Hazmat is a dedicated contributor to this here lore chat

[upbeat kiln]

Oh, stop it you ❤️

[lethal holly]

I'm sorry but it's too good man

Your voice matches the whole vibe of hunt

[lethal holly]

Good to know I didn't know the manz was here

[upbeat kiln]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoy the content ❤️

[balmy plaza]

this was very well done

[next terrace]

The big names I've met in this community have been genuinely awesome, down to earth people. @upbeat kiln @devout cedar @real hinge

Good dudes.

[real hinge]

Humbled bro 🙏 it’s great working with you atm as well!

[upbeat kiln]

Right back at you man ❤️

[devout cedar]

cant wait to release my first lore video

its been soooo much pain trying to record it

[next terrace]

The finished product will be worth it, I think.

Machinima without a dedicated 'free play' server or custom servers is always tricky. I think you guys are doing awesome stuff with very limited tools.

[lethal holly]

Wait, so I do have a small question about quickplay

Is there any lore surrounding them being damned souls?

Like. "If you don't make it you're sent to helll oooOooOoOo" but por que h

[noble scarab]

they arent so much damned as per the christian tradition, but we know that something about the serum can cause a degradation of the soul and the body. a lot of the tier 3 Hunters have skin lesions and hair loss, which is thought to be part of the disease. the wellspring in quickplay is able to cure this affliction and buy them and others more time.

the Hunters that win the wellspring bring it back and they are able to somehow transfer this energy to others, thus staving off the disease in themselves and whoever else, probably the "important" people first, then they go on to be more or less normal Hunters

[lethal holly]

Ah. Makes sense.

This is very informing ngl

[next terrace]

I just assumed the damage on the tier 3 hunters was scars from fighting the sculptors creations, along with battling other hunters. There's a lot of weird ass poison and fire being thrown around the bayou.

[lethal holly]

That makes alotta sense tbh

[next terrace]

though, I hadn't heard that about the wellspring. Where's the lore on that contained so I can read up?

[lethal holly]

I did notice some characters hqve parts of hair missing and I just thought he got shot in the head but lived.

[noble scarab]

https://www.huntshowdown.com/news/a-communique-for-all-hunters

this is about all we have far as quickplay lore goes

[lethal holly]

Hunt lore in a nutshell:

[wet condor]

can someone hint me why there cant be alligators?

[restive patrol]

well there could be and there could not be (For now, reason is water devils drove most of them out of the swamp, however, there are still some populations that survived)

so they left the door open for potentially adding an alligator mob

[wet condor]

ah got it. Had a friend that swear that water devils killed them all but in the book of monsters I read that they were driven away. Just making sure. Ty

[noble scarab]

Can anyone make out what the tattoo on the back of Dire Wolf's hand says?

seems to be in latin

[sweet peak]

I have a question for any lore Peeps

It’s mainly just my curiosity, but does anyone know the cannon calibers for the small, medium, and long ammo?

[regal trout]

I'm pretty sure medium ammo is something akin to 45-70

[noble scarab]

i think it depends on the pistol tbh

[restive patrol]

by looking at the model of the individual cartridges for each gun, looking them up online and matching it like that, or some are outright told ingame in the book of weapons

[regal trout]

The actual Uppercut used .45 Colt (Colt Walker)

[noble scarab]

semi better image of dire wolf's tattoo

[restive patrol]

yea, cuz metallurgy is not that good yet to contain .45-70 in an opentop frame

[regal trout]

Mhmm

I do like that, canonically, the Mauser C96 being "Special ammo" Makes sense

[sweet peak]

Thanks! I didn’t know if there was something that made all the guns use the same ammo type or what not, but seeing that it’s just the ammo of the gun that it’s real life counter part would use clears some stuff up

[regal trout]

Since it's this crazy hot pistol cartridge that no other gun at that time period uses

Nagant uses 7.62x38mm but that's unique to those series of pistols

[ripe inlet]

https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntShowdown/comments/u4uyxy/here_is_a_list_of_all_the_calibers_of_the_weapons/ Most detailed answer for calibers.

[sweet peak]

Oh shit, thanks man

[next terrace]

There's a specific reference in at least one lore page referencing the gators leaving when the corruption arrived. Why wasn't explained.

[ripe inlet]

I think lore said, some of them left corrupted area, staying alliagors eated by water devils.

[sweet peak]

It looks like "virescit vulnere virtus" and Google translate says "Wound"

[humble ridge]

Do you guys need new lore pages?

[noble scarab]

yes

[icy brook]

I think the sharps might be 45-90 but all the others are spot on

Honestly a lot of Hunt’s guns would be considered special ammo for the period lol

[novel patrol]

Anyone have any good sources for Cain lore? Personally I think he is a barber but I might alone in that regard.

[spring hearth]

in reference to the hand tattoo, “virescit” literally means to turn green, vulnere means wound or blow (as in noun and verb i think), and virtus has a lot of meanings all related to what we would call “virtue” so stuff like power, strength, courage, and then stuff relating to like angels and religious virtue

[humble ridge]

Berthier Mle 1892 Riposte mastery

Scottfield Model 3 Brawler mastery 1/2

Scottfield Model 3 Brawler mastery 2/2

[spring hearth]

if i was guessing i would say it means something similar to like “virtue grows from wounds” or something, taking “grows from” from “to turn green” like a plant?

i’m looking at different dictionaries and some translate virescit to sprout

the takeaway is like grow strong from wounds but idk the exact wording

[humble ridge]

Caldwell Model 92 New Army and Winfield Model 93 Slate can wait until tomorrow

Wait, I thought new pages have been released only today, but some guy shared pages of Slate some time ago already. Am I missing something?

[vernal stag]

They might have been available in the beta test

[spark umbra]

Is there any explanation as to what exactly the bounty tokens are?

Like, are they pieces of the boss' bodies? Or are they something else entirely?

[feral pecan]

Iirc they are some form of leftovers (i don’t remember where it’s said) from the banishment process itself. Also (once again please check me on this) they are physical objects given to buyers of some form be it collectors or practitioners so we know it’s something

Tangible

[jovial mist]

is the grammatical error in the Romaro page intentional
steal= steel

has it been 3 years and im the only one to notice?

[copper flame]

i think the assassin is a good boy that is more lore hot take

[novel patrol]

How so? Would love to hear the hot take.

[copper flame]

he doesnt take shit from anyone and spits

[novel patrol]

Fierce one for sure! But nothing a little hammer swinging can't fix.

[regal trout]

I always figured they were objects of power, trophies or sigils etc

[lethal holly]

I love how someone just. Strapped a sword to the end of a rifle and called it the riposte variant of said gun

We all know some ex civil war soldier did thst.

"Yep seems good"

[rugged zealot]

Who's Luna Wolfs son?

[void forge]

Probably the Lone Wolf

[celest notch]

The lonely howl most likely

They all frisks

[void forge]

In fact, if you were to read his description you will be able to 100% confirm that he is the son of the two new bloodbond hunters.

[regal trout]

They're both determined to hunt him down since he's implied to be essentially feral now

Human intelligence still, but purely focused on his next kill

[small abyss]

I thought lonely howl killed his father and the 2 new hunters are his brother and mother

[noble scarab]

Fairly sure it’s his mother and brother, but the descriptions never make anything easy

[devout cedar]

Last pages we missing from the new guns is just New Army right?

Caldwell 92 New Army 1/2

Caldwell 92 New Army 2/2

Caldwell 92 New Army - Dum Dum Ammo

Caldwell 92 New Army - FMJ Ammo

Nice spam

[upbeat kiln]

A true man of the people

[noble scarab]

What the fuck is that November 1897 date

It seems like those are researchers notes from after the incident, so are to assume it’s been dealt with by 1897 then?

[upbeat kiln]

Seems a bit.. unlikely unless they dropped a Victorian nuke on the bayous lol

[noble scarab]

The AHA would if they had one

But it’s strange that an outsider that doesn’t even seem to be a Hunter is investigating

And considering they don’t mention the horrors of the bayou, and only mention knowing of rumors

They can’t have been there while the incident was in full swing, right?

[upbeat kiln]

It's a second-hand source, right? This guy's mentor was in the bayous, and tried to solve it, but couldn't. Could the mentor be the guy writing as "RN"?

But you're right, the date and wording is strange

[noble scarab]

Did Harold Black ever take students? I wonder if he was writing as RN

usually his notes specifically have his name

no clue

[earnest jungle]

Nope read closers the language seems to imply that A) this person is not affiliated with the AHA, and B) the reports of monsters in the Bayou are still being reported

I am ever more certain that what's happening in Louisiana had been happening for a long time by 1895 and continued a long time after.

[lethal holly]

I still find it funny that the researcher and the assassin boss were drinking buddies.

Like. "HELL YEA BROTHER LETS GO HUNTING WHILE DRUNK"

Not realizing that his friend was the assassin. And the one who now- fuckin killed his friends

I wonder when hazmat will make lore on each boss individually

His voice makes any story interesting. Boring or not.

[celest notch]

Fr lmfao love the voice

[sweet peak]

Yo! Me again, I got another question for the lore peeps

What can you tell me about the Lonely howls backstory, he’s one of my favorite legendaries and I’d like to know more

[noble scarab]

Mans from Kansas, his family hunted wolves, he is just a psychopath and wanted to hunt people, so he killed his father and went to the bayou

[sweet peak]

Huh

Interesting

[noble scarab]

yea theres not much there

his family seems to be natives, which is interesting

[buoyant crystal]

We have any lore on Steel Eyed or am I just blind?

[noble scarab]

He's some kinda outlaw, thats about it

[buoyant crystal]

Yeah thats wgat I could find. Hope he gets some lore or something.

[noble scarab]

Lulu got lore eventually, so here's hoping

[buoyant crystal]

That is true. Thanks, Mate. Happy Hunting.

[upbeat kiln]

@lethal holly @celest notch You guys are just the best :)) thank you

[lethal holly]

Lol what I say about you comes from my heart dude, you're an amazing creator and the way you set the tone and voice things makes listening and viewing so great! I love your videos and will always watch them like I've been over. And over and over

[vagrant saddle]

hungary is where i thrive

[amber onyx]

Is there any other pages missing? or we got them all from the new ones?

[noble scarab]

should have everything

personally i dont know if the scottfield brawler was posted, but i bet it was

[amber onyx]

yup, was posted by acidlord

btw, where do you guys keep all of that stuff? i guess there is some sort of document were we can read all of that and its updated?

[noble scarab]

its just kinda in chat

sadly the lore docs dont get updated much

Rachta Z usually posts it

we have the traitors moon stuff pinned

[amber onyx]

i think the new ones are slate, scottfield brawler, winfield slate and berthier riposte?

lol sorry, i mean, new army, brawler, slate, berthier riposte

i was finally able to get all 4 of them, brawler and new army was posted but i dont see slate and riposte?

[noble scarab]

the slate was posted awhile ago, unsure about the riposte

the slates was part 1 on the pelican prison stuff

[amber onyx]

i did a quicksearch and riposte is posted as well, im still scrolling to see slate tough

[noble scarab]

#lore-discussion message

[mint glade]

Any idea WHY new missions are called summons?

[noble scarab]

Probably a thing to do with a law related summons, such as an order to find x lairs or kill x Hunters

[rugged zealot]

Is Lonely Howl a cult member? Cause he has the signs and what nots

[restive patrol]

cool that we are getting a buffalo soldier legendary (also like the detail of them adding a U.S marked spencer shotgun, cuz little known fact, they were issued to U.S frontier troops for hunting or guarding prisoners albeit in small numbers) https://youtu.be/oROttbSkayU?t=353 timestamped for my source

[warm skiff]

What's the lore on the weeb representation?

I mean ronin

[celest notch]

was the phrase weeb representation necessary?

[warm skiff]

it's a joke sir

[faint delta]

Ding Ding Ding

[celest notch]

wait so thats his dad and not brother?

confirmed?

[rotund ferry]

How does bounty collection work in the game lore?

Is it a painful process?

[rotund ferry]

Who is who’s dad

[celest notch]

apparently the lonely howl is son of the 2 new hunters, i knew luna was the mom, but i thought the other was a brother not dad

[azure galleon]

i thought all we know is lonely howl killed his dad, and remus is a part of the same pack, relation unknown

[warm skiff]

the clue collection apparently is a painful process where the hunters experience thousands of years of torture

but that pain becomes a drug that they begin to crave more and more