ARCHIVE DOSSIER // SUBJECT UNCONFINED

The Entity File

A collection of recorded canon, incomplete testimony, and recovered fiction concerning the intelligence behind the Trials. Recovered Fiction is original fan writing and is not official Dead by Daylight lore. The catalogue is preserved as found. Minor damage in the transcription has not been corrected.

It has no single face, no mapped home, and no mercy that can be earned. Its Realm is assembled from memry, and its Trials are shaped to make emotion endure.

FILE 00 // PRIMARY SUBJECT

Recorded Canon

An Intelligence in the Fog

The Entity is understood through fragments. Some records are official. Some are early observations. Some remain interpretation. The Archive keeps those boundaries visible.

The Entity is an ancient force that reaches across worlds, taking Survivors and Killers into a Realm built for repeated Trials. It does not require death alone. It feeds through powerful emotion: hope, fear, rage, despair, devotion, and the impulse to kill.

The Black Fog is part of that process. Within it, memories and impressins can be made into places that feel familiar while remaining wrong.

The campfire, the Trial, the return, and the eventual discarding of exhausted remnants form a cycle that preserves suffering only while it remains useful.

FILE 01 // FEEDING RITUAL

The Cycle of the Trial

Seven stages repeatedly described across recovered accounts. Their sequence is preserved here as reference, not escape.

The Taking

A person vanishes into the Fog.

Campfire

Warmth between repetitions.

Trial

A place made from memory.

Offering

Emotion is gathered.

Return

Escape is not release.

Fading

The self is worn away.

The Void

The emptied are filed elsewhere.

The Entity does not fear escape. Escape allows hope to return.

FILE SERIES 02 // WITNESSES AND RESEARCHERS

Indexed Personnel

Records of those who documented, shaped, sensed, or wrshipped what waited beyond the campfire.

Recorded Canon

APPENDICES // BURIED RECORDS

Material Filed Below the Catalogue

Not deleted. Not confirmed. Merely separated from the primary record until classification can be restored.

Some records are emptied rather than erased. They still answr when a surviving impression returns to them.

An unfiled margin has adhered to the catalogue. Accepted / accepted / returned 054 / 142 / 1513