lore-discussion

[edgy aspen]

Any other references of divination by way of Tarot cards aside from Lynch?
Lynch used close-up weapons.
Wondering if the Fate's Whisper silenced Vetterli is possibly tied to others who had tarot reading gifts like Lynch.

[noble scarab]

There’s the auger, a lebel talon that was used by someone that was good at divination

[tired jay]

Does the poison sense trait have any lore significance? It just occurred to me that this is exactly what meatheads do. You're then literally perceiving the world like them. Makes me think that the traits (at least the more superhuman ones) are part of the corruption that the hunters just use to their advantage. But I also wonder where the line is. How much can you give into it without becoming one of them?

[junior pecan]

Yeah this was known haz. Essence talked about this from time to time, but that was like the very first rewrite. IIRC spider's lore now disproves this.

Pretty sure its what caused essence to leave, but maybe that was one of the other changes.

[upbeat kiln]

I see. But yeah, it's also more than 4 years old now. I still like the idea, though :))

[junior pecan]

You came to this channel far after Essence was done here. There wasn't any way you would know, we never documented enough of what we believed.

An Apt reflection of the failures of the writers.

[upbeat kiln]

The lore might be expanded now though!

Hopefully 😄

[noble scarab]

Hunters probably are able to use some aspects of the corruption to their advantage but I’m sure it feeds into the corruption as a whole

[vapid edge]

What is spiritual rot, do all hunters have it, and is that the cause of why the website says all their souls are consumed in death?

[noble scarab]

It’s a spiritual disease that stems from the ritual/demon blood that Hunters use. The more one uses dark sight and other corruption related abilities, the more one’s soul slips away to the other side. All Hunters have it, but it’s unknown why some are more affected than others.

[vapid edge]

What about the naturally immune?

Do they also experience it

[rugged harbor]

I’d really like to know the full extent of a hunters Dark Sight powers

Like in general everything it’s able to do for them

[jolly helm]

Arent those the perks

?

[jolly helm]

Would like to know more about the perks and see more of em

[noble scarab]

Perks are manifestations of the Hunters otherworldly power, I’d imagine that they can somehow focus on or select certain ones to work towards, which is represented by us buying perks

Even a basic Hunter is so much more than a normal person. Increased strength, durability, speed, the ability to access dark sight, etc

[wintry surge]

how did everyone get there? why are there all these devilish monsters and spirits and why am I with them, fighting against them? why am I fighting other hunters? dont we all want the same thing? cant we work together? or is it because of greed.

[noble scarab]

Some are there for different things, and originally it was mostly just Hunter vs monster, when the AHA was still the most prominent organization around. Maybe sometimes Hunters would kill or fight over a bounty, but it was mostly peaceful. Following the splintering of the AHA; greed, corruption, and hate took over. Various Hunter groups all started killing each other, some for bounty, some because the other Hunter wasn’t part of their faction, some for revenge, some just because it was fun.

It’s like a gold rush almost, a lot of non-faction Hunters came seeking gold and glory

As to why we fight them, it also depends, some want to see the bayou cleansed in the name of God, some just want the bounty, and others feel like they’re doing their duty.

The AHA recruits folks that happen to cross their path, or maybe you just heard of a place where a bounty is worth more than it’s weight in gold, so you head to the bayou

[wintry surge]

so (and I hate to compare this to a battle royal since its not even close to apex) but its kinda like apex in that sense? its almost like a game. a game for riches and glory and seeing who is the best out of all the factions?

whats the AHA

[noble scarab]

It’s not so much a game, at least not one that’s played by the Hunters

It’s the American Hunters Association, they operate in secret, killing monsters and putting down ghosts and things

Each region of America has a chapter, with the southern/ Louisiana branch operating out of Jackson, with Dr Huff being the former leader, but he’s dead now, so a dude called Chary wormed his way in, but our boy kev sent him packing

[wintry surge]

if there is one could you dm me a video on yt of the full lure of the game? i would love to know it all

[ripe inlet]

HazmatFTW has few video about lore. I think someone else also did some lore videos but i do not remember who has him.

[upbeat kiln]

A few? I have a dozen, my good sir! And @wintry surge There is also @real hinge and @severe mulch if you're looking for more of the lore ❤️

[ripe inlet]

compared to all the lore its looks like few. But your videos are great.

[buoyant crystal]

Hazmat is one of the reasons I git into Hunt. I love good lore. Nobidy ekse tells it better than Ol Hazmat.

[upbeat kiln]

That made my day. Thank you so much ❤

[buoyant crystal]

Anytime, mate. Havent hada good year so making your day means a lot. 🧡 keep up the good work.

[upbeat kiln]

I will. Keep your head up, man. Hope you're alright ❤

[noble scarab]

Our lore community is just the best

[buoyant crystal]

Fr. best game community now that Spellbreak is gone at least in my opinion.

[earnest jungle]

Second that. The stories he weaves are second to none

[buoyant crystal]

👌 percection

[muted granite]

I forgot, so is the spider made out of multiple corpses or is it just a single person, it’s been i while since I read about her

[buoyant crystal]

Not 100% but I believe its one person.

[sharp anvil]

I'm pretty sure it was sculpted out of an entire graveyard? Or something like that

[buoyant crystal]

Ah I thought I heard someone before saying it was a man who got corrupted or something.

Or maybe it was the Assassin I am thinking of? Idk.

[ripe inlet]

Assasin was a man called vincent if i do not remember wrong.

[buoyant crystal]

Then yeah thats probably what got mixed up in my head. Thanks.

[buoyant crystal]

Whats up with Kid? Never heard his story.

[rigid ermine]

Afaik the spider was "made" by a doctor who was trapped with a group of people in a barn/building. His mind was probably corrupted a bit. That's why he did what he did and stitched the corpses of the ones who died together. I think there's something like that in the monstrorum in the spider-entry. Not a hundred on that though.

[noble scarab]

Spider was a bunch of corpses that got Sculpted together in a mass grave

[noble scarab]

His family and house burned down in an incident that may or may not be related to him and so he chose violence and went off to join the Hunt

[buoyant crystal]

Nice thanks

[fierce hazel]

"normally"

what is the lore behind that the bosses always come back after we banished them? or do we banish them only once and every match is basically just another "timeline"?

[noble scarab]

The Sculptor recreates them every time we kill them

[fierce hazel]

that would be super funny, maybe we are all playing in parallel dimensions sending them back to each other because no one wants them

[quiet escarp]

So I just got the game but who is the sculptor I keep seeing his name come up

[quiet escarp]

Ok so the sculptor is why everything has happened but there’s no way to directly fight him and or to permanently banish these entities

[hexed oasis]

also i think hes loosely based off the legend "Billy the Kid"

[edgy aspen]

Is there any lore behind what the banishing is? Blue flame, black spicules growing. Its a lovely animation that occurs. And what is the actual bounty that we are carrying as evidence of a successful hunt?

[noble scarab]

A banishment basically is just a quick ritual that sends these things back to the Sculptors domain. We don’t really know how it’s done tho. The bounty we carry is some small token from the boss, a piece of skin, or something. It also imbues us with a bit of the boss’ power, which allows us to see other Hunters in dark sight

[barren flint]

So, are the Zombies fully undead? Or do they still have sentience?

They scream in pain while burned. Undead do not.

Kinda seems they're "corrupted" but have not yet, "fully lost their conciousness"

Any info on this?

[noble scarab]

They’re still alive in there

Barely

The Sculptor also keeps bringing them back from time to time

[quiet escarp]

So do we know what the sculptors goals are or is it just a sick twisted game to him for see how many he can corrupted and twist

[junior pecan]

The devs have never revealed much of anything about it. Probably never will.

A grizzly bear is far scarier than complete darkness. Even in the absence of information the mind hedges bets using the context it can find. This perceived principle of Lovecraftian ambiguity is a fallacy, the unknown is only as scary as what it could be. ||Honestly I think its all become a behavioral script, and nobody is actually intrigued by it. If all the monsters of the SCP universe were just blobs of black tape labeled REDACTED it would make the setting worse, not better.||

[noble scarab]

The gist of it is that it wants to take over our world for unknown reasons

the sculptor is also being bullied by the other entities such as Lynch and the Teche Snake, so it may be running from that

[junior pecan]

We don't know if it wants to take over Louisiana, even that isn't confirmed or denied.

Could be an accident, could be a more traditional Loa figure up to weird incomprehensible behavior, could just be weather.

No, this sculptor is only present in Louisiana as far as has been confirmed. New york is a grunt problem, China has its own entity.

Hence the term 'sculptor', its a classification, not a name or title

It COULD be one big bad between all these separate events, but the AHA and other groups are under the impression that it is a separate actor.

Page 5, Petella Note. A lot of this stuff is questionably canon after the first rewrites though.

But then again, due to the writers' obsession with ambiguity and fallible narrators, everything is questionably canon.

[noble scarab]

I bet the Sculptor was at least responsible for the NY infection and possibly the Cascades one

[edgy aspen]

Who is the Daniel Day Lewis legendary hunter, how do you get him and what is story?

He looks like a twitch drop from 2020.

[noble scarab]

If you’re talking about Billy, he’s currently unavailable and he’s famous for getting into trouble with the law and writing books about houses of ill repute

[molten forge]

So what we can gather from this is that it's essentially a perpetuated state of torment to those who have been corrupted.

[noble scarab]

Yes

[edgy aspen]

Can we assume the infighting of the AHA remnants is allowing the scultpor somehow to perpetuate these bosses being returned?

I like the idea that the bosses are a one time thing and the thousand sof games played are just individual instances of the "story". There are hundreds of versions of Carcass Gunrunner entering the bayou.
Some he gets 2x guantlets, some he sees now real action, spme he dies in his first fire fight, some he gets one bounty and goes back out and is betrayed.

But that "single boss - multiple versions of history" I guess has been confirmed NOT the case?

[edgy aspen]

Then there is only path forward. More bosses!

[icy brook]

It appears we may finally be getting some more snake based lore in the upcoming event, and maybe a tie in with the Sinners

[tardy citrus]

I was playing a match and one of my random teammates took me to a little shack near the edge of the map between golden acres and blanc brinery, there was some strange stuff inside and he kept saying this is how “they are going to escape to the future”

He kept putting his marker on the model train in the building too

[noble scarab]

Back to the future Easter egg

[rotund ferry]

I thought the sculptor was The Big Bad™️ and it was bullying everyone

[noble scarab]

lynch is bullying it by way of keeping it from taking over the earth. she wants to be the one to do that

the entities dont get along

[rotund ferry]

Ah so they bully each other equally

[noble scarab]

the sculptor also seems to either be unconsciously doing this invasion, lovecraft style, or its incredibly stupid and bad at what it does

granted the AHA is also handling this about as terribly as they could

[rotund ferry]

Gonna be honest right? Lynch's weird anime snake battle is bad writing

I love this game's lore but that was where they jumped the shark

[jolly helm]

Hey if it works it works, Sculptor cant lose if its opponent is just as bad

[rotund ferry]

The AHA started out being written very human, good intentions but still able to be influenced by coin, but throughout the the game they've gotten more cartoonishly greedy

[noble scarab]

its got a nice grimdark swamp cowboy vibe that sometimes falls facefirst into grimderp

[jolly helm]

Grimderp lol

[rotund ferry]

I would be more willing to dismiss how comically evil the AHA became if it weren't for the Lynch anime snake bird battle

And then she just ran off and hopped into a clue, apparently

That whole scene from lore never made any sense to me

[noble scarab]

Warhammer term

[noble scarab]

To be fair that was written by a dime novelist

So we don’t know exactly how that really went

[rotund ferry]

Give me just a moment to look that term up...

Ag

Ah

In that case, that probably isn't canon

[noble scarab]

All the Lynch stuff is written in an in universe book

Called Bad As They Seem

[rotund ferry]

Seeing that Lynch is viewed as less-than-human I would believe that the book is almost entirely fictional dramatization

[noble scarab]

Very possible

[rotund ferry]

The way the whole series of events in the book was explained to me by someone more knowledgeable on the lore than I am, I was under the impression we were getting an accurate retelling, which I really hope it isn't because it gets really wacky

[noble scarab]

Its vaguely accurate with Collins having changed things to make for a better story

So stuff like the creation of the serum is probably close to correct, probably the history of the Twins is right, maybe not one of them turning into a snake, but the bits with their family

We know at least Huff’s death is wrong in the book

I think his death and maybe like 1 other thing were all we could concretely find with what few bits of BATS we have

[jolly helm]

Well with how thier handling the lore they seem to leave it up to open interpretation in certain scenarios. some games do this which leads to others trying to fill in the gaps

[worthy abyss]

Was it the treachery and the fact that they had to kill each other too?

[white pasture]

@rotund ferry The entries on Lynch span multiple authors and paint a similar picture. She isn't portrayed as "less than" she is explained as not human at all. Which conforms with the various supernatural forces at play with the bayou. Hunters are portrayed as standard bounty hunters the distinction between what they hunt.

[ripe inlet]

Most of things i know about lynch come from BATS, and it is wrote by Dime novelist. Sure there is few other lore pieces about lynch beside from BATS, but not much.

[edgy aspen]

Who is Vaegir? From the "Knowthyhunter" Instagram post.
"Deput Blaze 'Babyface' Norris was recruited by Vaegir."
Is this just a player submission?

I guess its just a player. Multiple "Babyfaces" with different names can be recruited.

[indigo raptor]

Veagir is a player and streamer, yes

[steady osprey]

So since it was brought up in general.

How risky you think even bringing a snack with you on a hunt is, let alone stored food.

What even can be effected by the sculptor

[upbeat kiln]

Watch out in the bayous. Don't want your porridge turning on you.

[buoyant crystal]

New Boss is just a bunch of sandwiches new hunters bring with them XD

[restive patrol]

as long as it is not filled with any parasites, you're good I think (water devil lore specifies that they originated from maggots/bloodworms that entered a hunter's body via infested rotting meat that they ate, where they proceeded to feast on the hunter's blood, which corrupted them)

[white pasture]

You can only enter the Bayou for 60 minute intervals (this is confirmed lore) and only Hunters who have been inoculated can survive for that duration. And even Hunters eventually succumb.

[bleak oak]

yes

[white pasture]

There are exceptions but they all appear to have other supernatural means to protect themselves. Soul Survivor mode is how Hunters can survive after they become corrupted to a certain degree. Its why all t3 hunters look like they are dying of disease.

[bleak oak]

yesyes

[hexed oasis]

Not sure if this has been talked about or if its significant to to the games lore, but the legendary hunter Sofia says in her description she's seeking revenge on "four strangers" who murdered her family. I haven't read all the bios of each legendary but are the 4 strangers possibly other legendary hunters? i think that would be interesting.

[random lava]

Tier2/3's actually

[ripe inlet]

When was last time we had devs at lore channel? I am surprised.

[mighty lintel]

Well with the new cinematic for "A swig of fortune" we finally know who made the bet with Redshirt.

[crude gazelle]

the dude also stole revenant uppercut and killed carter by throwing up a dynamite bundle instead of firebomb right ?

[mighty lintel]

Carter isnt dead lol

He was injured probably

But certainly not killed

He took the Uppercut, and the Revenant came back thats all we know

[noble scarab]

The revenant came back for his gun

[restive patrol]

not even injured (you can see his boots when the Spirited gets down to pick up the terminus)

[proud wyvern]

How did the monsters start existing?

[waxen stone]

Really, at that range shooting a big dynamite bundle?
Flew back.

Is there any other lore reason how he dies? If not, that looks like it.

Does infact look like his shoes on closer inspection.
Kinda weird tho how he would survive that.

[slow thistle]

Anyone know a good place to catch up on lore? Just binged all of Hazmats videos

Also, he mentions rumors that the corruption possibly spread as far as New York. Is this just speculation by the AHA?

[mighty lintel]

Honestly you can search buzzwords in this channel and pretty much find out whatcha need too know

[mighty lintel]

From what I can see here’s what happens. Carter shoots the dynamite bundle which is about 15 yards out above his head. That’s far enough away to not get burned to badly, probably just a little singe on his clothes. The shockwave is going down and breaks the railing but sends the shrapnel from it down as well away from Carter, the shockwave itself is pushing him back and away from the danger. Dynamite really isn’t all that deadly unless you’re really close to it or if it blows something up causing shrapnel

[noble scarab]

There was a smaller infection in NY that was just grunts. The NY AHA handled it

These are also Hunters, they’re tougher than you’d expect

[mighty lintel]

I also don’t know if we knew this before, but we now know who originally shot the revenant. A well dressed African American with a nice mustache goatee combo and a terminus.

[noble scarab]

We knew that from the Dark in New Orleans trailer

Isn’t it a tier 2 tho?

[mighty lintel]

Maybe, looks like it. A friend of mine also said it could be Carcass but I doubt that.

[mighty lintel]

We may get a bit more information about the New York outbreak because of the new character from New York, Hackshaw

[noble scarab]

Fingers crossed

Circe is also from NY

[mighty lintel]

Yeah, but isn’t she more upstate, Hackshaw looks like a NYC Cop

[slow thistle]

Do we know if this is the same sculptor/infection or one of the ones before Louisiana

[mighty lintel]

I think it’s the same sort of infection. A sculptor is a type of creature, not one singular thing. Probably something different or maybe a reverberation of what’s happening in Louisiana. Same with El Paso and probably the Cascades. China for sure has its own different entity.

[slow thistle]

But time frame are those before 1895?

[mighty lintel]

I’m pretty sure New York and China are concurrent with Louisiana. El Paso I honestly don’t know and the Cascades were before, that’s where Carter was before he came to Louisiana.

[slow thistle]

Thanks!

[rich turtle]

i have a question

how did the waterdevil be created

and what creature was it before

if it even was a known creature (to humans) before

[mighty lintel]

I believe it was just created by the sculptor, like all the other creatures, he sort of just corrupted some waterborne string type creature (probably leeches) and formed a pack of them. The water devil isn’t one creature but a pack of small string like creatures.

[rich turtle]

oh that’s makes sense

[mighty lintel]

Yeah makes sense

[rich turtle]

that must have been a lot of leeches

[mighty lintel]

Then the sculptor did the old copy paste as he does with the other creatures

With a little bit of extra dark magic

[rich turtle]

damn

for some reason i thought the waterdevil had a larger body under the water

yeah that makes sense

i think i thought that because of the early concept art

[mighty lintel]

Can someone give me the low down on the events in El Paso and the Cascades. I know Carter was in the cascades but otherwise I don’t know much about either event

[soft crow]

Anyone translate the words in the newest teaser yet?

[void blaze]

Why is it just Louisiana, and could the same thing theoretically happen somewhere else?

[tribal frigate]

Scroll further up just a tad. There is said to be multiple events occurring. I'm not sure if they're concurrent, but new york, el paso, the cascades and china have been said to experience these outbreaks

[noble scarab]

Never heard of one in El Paso, but the cascades event was similar to the one in the bayou, but was quelled by local Native American tribes

China has and has had their own Nain (Nian?) for a long time, with it being dealt with by their versions of Hunters

[noble scarab]

The first page is the title of the book, the devils moons or something similar, the next page shown is the art and things for the traitors moon, then next up is the Serpents moon, or whatever they’ve named it

[neat juniper]

What exactly is lore difference between normal human and hunter? Like strength, reflexes, supernatural means?

I am interested in how big of a difference there is

Not a whole lot is still something

Like, once they get stabbed with their super serum, do their muscles just badumm, and grows instantly or they are trained to be better than average person

Well yeah, obviously, but they are still much, or not so much stronger than average guy down the road, aren't they

That's a good answer btw, thanks, i'll keep note of that
"Uh-huh, so every one of them is a masochist"

Uh-huh, so it's not strength but endurance

Could it be because their blood is enhanced with serum thus allowing them to bring more oxygen to muscles?

Sooo, serum just gives them hallucinations a.k.a. dark sight, and everything other than that it's just training?

Oh oh oh!!! The syringes in game

Can normal people also use them or only hunters?

Like if just the guy down the road is shot, will one syringe of strange red liquid be able to make him healthy?

So we have found one more significant difference of hunters/humans, hunters can take much more of... Chemicals? Than just human

That's a great advancement

I do still think that hunters will be able to withstand a dose larger than that lethal for a human

Like of cyanide

Or whatever other drug you can think of

Heh

So for now we know that hunters have :

1. hallucinations -dark sight
2. advanced immune system
3. some training to not just straight up die in bayou after running for 5 seconds
   4)maybe advanced endurance?
4. advanced masochism
   6)advanced bayou addiction

Very great, thank you for participating in mine research, if anyone else has something to add, feel free to, i'll update my list

[versed wedge]

Hunters definite have some sort of muscle enhancement considering how hard they hit with their punches compared to gunshots

Like they instant gib heads with a duster to the face

[neat juniper]

To be fair, the oneshot to the head with dusters isn't impossible, especially if it's someone out of boxers, and exploding head after headshot is on grunts, who clearly have experienced some sort of decay thus making them squishy

So still within realm of a bit of training

[noble scarab]

I’m of the opinion that they do gain supernatural strength, endurance, and durability. Your average white shirt is probably the closest to base human, maybe a bit stronger and more durable, while your level 50 is far beyond human.

These are people that lug pounds and pounds of guns, ammo, and gear through the waist deep bayou on the daily, often sprinting while doing so, only to get shot in the head with a nitro express, or a bomb lance, then they’re able to get back up

[upbeat kiln]

I second this. I don't think they can be classified as simply human anymore. The amount of punishment and trauma they can endure is just absurd.

[lapis tundra]

Has anyone made a decoder for the text on the book in the trailer yet? I figured out how to read it, but I don't know if someone already made a decoder. Also, if you launch the game, when you get to the menu, before the music starts in, you can hear a gator "growl"

[upbeat kiln]

I just briefly looked at the trailer, but I thought it was written in Voynich, no?

[restive patrol]

The endurance is actually something you can reach. Here's a really good video of someone who attempted to reach the proficiency of a hunter. https://youtu.be/RyM2YNuS4os

[noble scarab]

Very cool

[jolly helm]

Hunter getting up after being shot through the head: Ah just another Tuesday innit.

[versed wedge]

Pretty sure when he meant endurance, he meant how many bullets and headshots they eat

[restive patrol]

"These are people that lug pounds and pounds of guns, ammo, and gear through the waist deep bayou on the daily, often sprinting while doing so"

[versed wedge]

You don't carry that much gear in the game actually, compared to a modern soldier.
You carry like 1 Shotgun with 10 shells, 1 sidearm with 2 mags, a knife, a medkit, maybe flares and choke bombs and about 4 grenades if you're a spammer. So roughly 30 pounds max.

According to research conducted by Marine Corps Capt. Courtney Thompson at the Naval Postgraduate School, the most a Marine should be stuck carrying into the fight is a comparatively measly 58 pounds.

[spare python]

my theory is that its just like more blood

to replace the blood you just lost

i know that not how that actually works but its the 1800s

the past was a circus from start to finish who knows what rudimentary medicine they used in like ancient roman times or something

[icy brook]

This is a good point, hunters generally carry far less ammo than most cartridge belts or boxes can accommodate

[steady osprey]

Which is hilarious considering the models will often have more ammo storage shown then you have.

[icy brook]

Exactly, like why would you bring half a tube worth of spare ammo for a lebel

[lyric arrow]

the other part drew swamp water and is rendered unusable 🤣

are they tho ?

i mean yes you could propably get away with it if they are just wet - but you'd risk a missfire or malfunction

[steady osprey]

I dunno where the Russian started laquer coating x54r

[lyric arrow]

and iirc the shotgun cartriges are paper

[steady osprey]

A lot of the blackpowder rounds will be hit or miss

Especially any paper patched ones

Even waxed they where known to have issues

Hence why ww1 shotguns where issued with full brass

[icy brook]

The rust black powder guns like the sparks and paxes would accumulate in the bayou

[drowsy canopy]

many shotgun shells were initially made of brass

thought brass shells were well on their way out at the time, its reasonable to expect that hunters may still use them, weapon reliability is crucial for hunters

[lyric arrow]

I was speaking of what they're modeled after

and i'm pretty sure the model is a paper cartrige

[steady osprey]

Yep it is

[icy brook]

Mechanic where Auto-5 tears the case head from the paper hull and jams mechanic when?

[steady osprey]

Hahaha

I'm surprised we don't have a sawn off auto 5, when it was a very popular thing

?

Hmm, could keep it big slow with just more handling but less range, the recoils spring reaches into the sock a bit so it's scetchy, but yeah I can understand your concern (I think I still never got the slug hype personally)

Probably will be a long time before the crown and king gets touched anyway

[potent merlin]

👎

[cedar forge]

I have a lore question

why do zombies, immolators, meatheads, hives, bosses etc. not attack each other

because they're dead, right?

they only attack the living like humans

hunters

but why does no "dead" being ever attack birds or ducks

ever though about that?

[neat juniper]

Well, if i am connected to lore correctly, they are not actually dead, they are possessed by outlandish demon creature thing, and every grunt/non boss mob you engage is still a living human being

Maybe with a sprinkle of being tortured

And, as any demon, they are not driven just by pure instinct, they see a hunter and be like "hell na, i don't want them on my land"

While ducks won't close the rifts and clues to slow down their invasion

Any experts saying i'm right/wrong? Because i honestly have no idea

[noble scarab]

That’s pretty much it

I’d imagine the crows are there to feast on the bodies and things and more or less just fly off or are ignored. The ducks are a bit more of a gameplay thing, I’d bet they’re easy prey for water devils.

[icy brook]

My head canon is that the crows are familiars with sculptor, as a sort of keeping eyes on hunters

And the ducks just don’t understand the bayou is corrupt because their ducks

[rough ridge]

@icy brook thatd make sense but there are dead crows on scrapbeak lair lined up in circles

[keen leaf]

Grunts are dead bodies actually moved by a sickness caused by the portal that the sculptor made. Immo and Hives are one guy, cloned by the sculptor multiple times (Immo was a priest, Hive was a mother of a familly)
Armored are totaly sculptor-made entities.
Meathead and Water devils are actually consequences of the infected blood of Hunters. Water devils are mutated bloodworms, Meathead was supposed to be a newborn that turned out not to be a baby. And i can't explain why there's multiple instance of it (So i assume that the sculptor just clone them like the others)

The common point here is the link between them, being the dark power of the Sculptor, so i guess they don't attack each other because of that

[jolly helm]

The sculptor manipulates them yes but their all motivated by the same drive that the corruption causes. The sculptor is one of many entities that now inhabit the bayou or trying to make their presence known

[spring vale]

Ok I haven't really read lore

Who exactly is the sculptor

[grizzled pilot]

He is something between a demon and a god, its just very powerful being that views the world in a completly diffrent way than us, very lovecraft like

[sharp anvil]

Basically you can't particularly comprehend who or what it really is.

Or maybe you can but I'm stupid

Actually really dumb question but lore wise has anyone seen the sculptor?

And if so, did they go like insane from it in the typical lovecraftian way

[jolly helm]

As the lore puts it, it seems to learn from each encounter, as the AHA says the Louisiana incident was different compared to the many other times they've faced this supernatural entity

[drowsy canopy]

The Sculptor is not so much a physical thing as a spirit or presence

I believe Scragmolio one of the in game Scholar Hunters presented the idea that the Sculptor is the entire infection when he said the spider was a creature made to purify bad sections of the infection

or in short the Sculptor is every monster in the Bayou

[jolly helm]

Well I think it is a separate entity that controls the corruption in some capacity.

[versed wedge]

Wasn't there evidence that the Sculptor has infiltrated the AHA in a human guise for its agenda and Lynch is trying to kill it?

[noble scarab]

Lynch was only trying to stop the Sculptor because it was doing what she had planned on doing

[hushed nova]

I find it interesting that the "Serpent Moon" event happens a day before the new moon

[keen leaf]

I think it was said that the Sculptor is one entity, but there is more of those in the realm he come from, so it's actually one only being, but controlling the infection

But i doesn't manifest physically in our World, more like in a veil inbetween World

Think like the Dark Gods/ Ring entity from the expanse Books

[keen leaf]

Yeah, and that's not what Book of Monster says

[versed wedge]

Lynch's symbol is there serpent right? Or was that the twins

[upbeat kiln]

The Twins have a connection with a serpent :))

[burnt bobcat]

Who has the best lore from start to finish

That I can go listen to

[grizzled pilot]

Probably Hazmat aka the guy who posted a message just above you

[mighty lintel]

Hazmat has one of the best videos, it’s what convinced me to buy the game. Another YouTuber named Liisn also has good lore videos on the bosses and monsters in the game. Those two are the big ones I can think of

[mighty lintel]

This is correct, another sculptor like entity is doing the same thing in China. We don’t know if the New York, El Paso and Cascade events are caused by the Sculptor in Louisiana or if they were/are caused by a different one as well

[mighty lintel]

Grunts and Hives are still definitely technically alive and just being puppeted . That’s why the hives always scream because they are in constant pain from having their spine literally broken and why grunts scream in pain when you burn them. The others I do not know. Meathead were never human in the first place and I’m pretty sure immolatiors to are still alive

[bold tiger]

Hives are clones

All the monsters except grunts are

Was going to mention that. But i don't think it's that way in the lore

But hey 300 people seems pretty fucking high for the 1k area

In fact the bayou would be one of the most population dense places on earth if all about 300 grunts were humans

[keen leaf]

I think armored aren't clone because they weren't even human in the first place

they are just.... a bunch of evil powered clay man

[buoyant crystal]

Golems if you will.

I thought hives were dead women who got corrupted. And thats why female hunters are a higher risk on the Assosiation. Could have swore I read that somewhere.

[keen leaf]

^

The risk with female hunter are babies, wich become Meathead

[neat juniper]

The lessons here, kids, is if you are in Louisiana just don't have kids at all, hive was a mother, meathead was fake infant, immolator was priest who consoled a child, i believe you can see a pattern
Darn it, even the lonely howl dlc has a fleeing child running from his parents into bayou, and parents coming to kill him

[mighty lintel]

Also Lynchs Serum helps out with that

[noble scarab]

Armoreds are made from grunts, they’re just the next stage of “evolution”. You can see some grunts in the process of becoming them scattered across the maps

[mighty lintel]

Just making sure I have this right. Jos and Fin are the name of the twins right

[neat juniper]

Ok but... So the reptilian guy was just like "damn, all crocodiles are gone because of this supernatural other worldly demon thing? That also has about 50% chance of destroying the world at some point in the future?
Well then, imma go and slap that sucker for nullifying all my baby alligators that i was supposed to be hunting"

Like other hunters had actual reasons to be connected to the bayou, like hiding from the government, researching it and reptilian just really hates the fact that sculptor killed all the gators?

[reef lava]

I mean, Red Shirt is literally in the bayou on a dare he made when he was drunk, so I don’t think it’s that implausible

[neat juniper]

Hey, as far as i'm aware redshirt was hunter before the dare

He didn't become one out of spite because now to hunt crocodiles he had to go further from home than before

[mighty lintel]

Can someone answer this for me plz :)

[neat juniper]

K gimme a moment

Yes

Yes they are

Josie mcgovan and fina mcgovan

Mcgowan*

[neat juniper]

Notice meeee

[mighty lintel]

Thank you love you kisses mwah

I’m writing a whole google folder with all the lore so I can collect it in one place and share it with y’all

Since the Hunt Wiki is dead

[neat juniper]

What a chad move

[mighty lintel]

Yesss

I’m gonna grind the game so I can unlock all the entries and stuff and then just do a key word search in this channel

[neat juniper]

Uhmmm.. .would you like me to add more job to you orrrr you are fine for now?

[mighty lintel]

Go ahead I need info

[neat juniper]

So some legendary hunters bio got lore, legendary skins even (don't forget to input that one if not the first of hellhounds was the dog of the bunny mosin creator, that's a key lore detail) there is also a wee bit of lore in trailers and i believe in trials can be found some interesting details

But i volunteer to grind some entries for you, whatcha missing for now?

[mighty lintel]

I know most of that, did not know the trials gave lore. Is it actually playing them that’s needed or just reading the descriptions of the trial. I also gotta check I’m at work rn but I’ll check when I get home

[neat juniper]

Just reading

[mighty lintel]

Kew

[neat juniper]

Like the rat had some fondness of teammates untill they left her surrounded in armoreds

But that's the minor details i guess

[mighty lintel]

Yeah

I’ll get most of those when I go deep into character stuff

It’s gonna be like probably a month long project to compile all the lore into this google folder

[neat juniper]

👍

It's worth it

[mighty lintel]

Yessss

It’ll help us all out a lot

If you’re still awake we could probably duo or something to grind xp for lore docs

[neat juniper]

That is debatable

The awake part

[mighty lintel]

Haha

I won’t be home for like 5 more hours

[neat juniper]

Yee, no i am not awake at all then

Just gimme the weapon or mob to grind, job'll be done

[mighty lintel]

Honestly hounds and water devils would be the only mobs I need

So go kill those fools

[neat juniper]

On it

[noble scarab]

Double check the wiki or the pinned posts here, we should have those

[mighty lintel]

Kewl

[wary quarry]

Is the timeline being moved forward or is the alof like the crown and king in that its a prototype

Ok and secondly hunt released a teaser on twitter for a new gun by the sound of it, anything on discussion of that?

Confirmed?

Howd it fire twice? Is it some king of single loader or is it double barrel? Or is it just two

Ah

[earnest jungle]

There was a big leak about a month ago everything got leaked but I ain’t ruining the surprise so don’t bother asking.

[crisp summit]

ya think its gonna have also the damage of sparks?

[wooden leaf]

yup, but the damage drop off will probs start at about 20m

[steady osprey]

Not sure, pistols like that usally used a carbine load

[humble ridge]

Hi people! Do we have a spreadsheet of legendary hunters and their correspond legendary equipment?

[edgy aspen]

Hmm, interesting project.

[twin ledge]

Hmm I dont think so. But you can try to create one. Certainly. it would be nice to have one.

[twin ledge]

It is conversion device for shotgun. Basicaly it make a one shot shotgun a similar to pumb action. you always need to open the breach. Te mechanism reload the new shell and then you will close. Good video about this is from Forgotten Weapons on youtube.