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The Ghoul

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The Ghoul (Ken Kaneki)
Lore Overview

Ken Kaneki had once been a gentle student of literature, content to spend his days buried in novels with his best friend. That life ended the night he walked Rize Kamishiro home. She was no ordinary woman, but a predator—a ghoul who nearly devoured him before fate intervened in a violent accident. To save his life, doctors transplanted Rize’s organs into Kaneki’s broken body, unknowingly cursing him with her monstrous hunger.

Food turned to ash in his mouth, replaced by an insatiable craving for human flesh. Terrified and alone, Kaneki stumbled into the world of ghouls, where he was taken in by the staff of Anteiku café. There, he struggled to balance his humanity with his new instincts, learning to fight with his kagune while resisting the urge to kill.

But Kaneki’s torment only deepened—hunted by humans, mistrusted by ghouls, and haunted by the monster within. His desperate battle for identity, torn between two worlds, would one day draw the attention of a far greater darkness: the Entity, which saw in him the perfect embodiment of suffering, survival, and hunger.

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“The greater the struggle, the more difficult the escape.”

Whenever a Survivors takes damage, Forever Entwined gains +1 Token, up to a maximum of 6/7/8 Tokens:

  • Increases the Action speeds for Dropping, Hooking, and Picking up a Survivor by a stack-able +4 % per Token, up to a maximum of 24/28/32 %.

 

“You tried to devour me so you have no room to complain if I eat you, do you?” — Ken Kaneki

Forever Entwined

Hex: Nothing but Misery

“You’ve been driven to the absolute depths of pain, and now you’re ready to inflict that pain on others.”

After damaging Survivors a total of 8 times with Basic Attacks, a random Dull Totem becomes a Hex Totem, cursing all Survivors:

  • Survivors damaged by a Basic Attack suffer from a -5 % Hindered Status Effect for 10/12.5/15 seconds.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

 

“All of the liabilities of this world are due to the inadequacies of the person involved.” — Ken Kaneki

“You know better than anyone that the light at the end of the tunnel is only an illusion.”

Whenever you hook a Survivor for the first time, None Are Free gains +1 Token, up to a maximum of 4 Tokens.
Once all Generators are completed, None Are Free calls upon The Entity to trigger the following effect:

  • Blocks all Windows and upright Pallets for a stack-able 12/14/16 seconds per Token, up to a maximum of 48/56/64 seconds.

 

“I’m not wrong. What’s wrong is this messed-up world!” — Ken Kaneki

None Are Free

Ghoul Builds

Aggressive Chase & Pressure
“Ashes to Ashes”

Clown Perk

After vaulting a Window, Bamboozle calls upon The Entity to block that Window for the next 8/12/16 seconds.

  • Blocked Windows cannot be vaulted by Survivors.
  • Increases your general Vaulting speed by 5/10/15 %.

Bamboozle only blocks one Window at a time and does not apply either of its effects to vaulting Pallets.

Artist Perk

(Strong early pressure and slowdown when used right with your birds.)

Overwhelming pain reverberates outwards.

At the start of the Trial, 4 random Hooks are changed into Scourge Hooks:

  • The Auras of Scourge Hooks are revealed to you in white.

You start the Trial with 4 Tokens on Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance.

Each time a Survivor is hooked on a Scourge Hook for the first time, 1 Token is consumed and the following effects apply:

  • The Generator with the most Progression explodes and instantly regresses by 10/15/20 % of its total Progression.
  • Normal Generator Regression applies afterwards.
  • All Survivors repairing that Generator will scream, but not reveal their location.

 

Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance is disabled for the remainder of the Trial once all Tokens are consumed.

“The pain spills beyond flesh/darkness staining the horizon.” — Girl in the Shadow by Carmina Mora

Blight Perk

A Hex that gains the favour of The Entity when blood is spilt.

  • Whenever a Survivor loses a Health State by any means and thus enters the Injured State or the Dying State, Hex: Blood Favour calls upon The Entity to block all Pallets within 24/28/32 metres of that Survivor’s location from being pulled down for the next 15 seconds.

 

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

“It would be no leap of the imagination to suggest that the Trials are a biological response of sorts.” — Journal of Talbot Grimes

Twins Perk

As the end nears, you go in for the kill.

Whenever a Generator is completed, Coup de Grâce gains +2 Tokens, up to a maximum of 10 Tokens per Trial:

  • Increases the range of your next Lunge Attack by 70/75/80 %, while consuming -1 Token.

Coup de Grâce can only hold a maximum of 5 Tokens at a time.

Add-ons

Worn by a ghoul from the 13th district whose hobby was torture.

Hooking a Survivor while in Enraged Mode triggers the following effect:

  • Causes all Survivors further than 40 metres to scream and reveal their location to you for 3 seconds.

They made her look innocent enough, which was exactly what she wanted.

Upon entering Enraged Mode, you benefit from the following effect:

  • The Auras of healthy Survivors currently repairing a Generator are revealed to you for 8 seconds.

Stealth & Ambush
“Phantom Veil”

Hillbilly Perk

Whenever a Generator is repaired to 70 %, you benefit from the following effects:

  • Triggers a Loud Noise Notification for that Generator, revealing its location.
  • Grants the Undetectable Status Effect for the next 12/14/16 seconds.

Tinkerer can only trigger once per Generator per Trial.

“The Hillbilly makes impressive tools out of scraps. Tools aimed at maiming us in creative ways.” — Notebook

Doctor Perk

Meticulous in your approach, terrifying in your application.

  • Increases the base value of your Terror Radius by 6/7/8 metres for the entire Trial.

Whenever you are not in a Chase with a Survivor, the following effect applies:

  • Reduces your Terror Radius by 12/14/16 metres.

“It’s time for your treatment!” — Herman Carter, The Doctor

Cenobite (General) Perk

“A Hex that toys with a victim’s suffering.”

Each time you hook a Survivor for the first time, if there is at least one Dull Totem in the environment, Hex: Fortune’s Fool activates and lights a Hex Totem:

  • Causes that Survivor to suffer permanently from the Oblivious Status Effect.
  • Blocks their Hex Totem from being cleansed by any other Survivor for 90 seconds.
  • The Aura of their Hex Totem is revealed to the Cursed Survivor within 24/20/16 metres.
All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

Nurse Perk

Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability.

  • The Auras of Survivors who are healing or being healed are revealed to you within 20/24/28 metres.

“Still attached to the fragments of her past life, she is drawn to those in need of help.”

Add-ons

A card carried by every ghoul investigator.

Performing a Kagune Leap Vault action triggers the following effect:

  • The Auras of all Survivors affected by the Kagune Mark are revealed to you within 24 metres of your location for 3 seconds.

Ghouls can never eat human food, but they can find ways to pretend.

  • Extends the Countdown by +5 seconds.

Frenzy & Snowball
“The Crimson Spiral”

Hag Perk

A Hex rooting its power on hope.
The false hope of Survivors ignites your hunger.

Whenever a Survivor is rescued from a Hook while you are at least 24 metres away, Hex: Devour Hope is granted +1 Token, up to a maximum of 5 Tokens:

  • 2 Tokens: Grants a 3/4/5 % Haste Status Effect for 10 seconds after 10 seconds of having hooked a Survivor.
  • 3 Tokens: causes all Survivors to suffer from a permanent Exposed Status Effect.
  • 5 Tokens: grants the ability to kill all Survivors by your own hand.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

“If you do nothing, you have their blood on your hands. If you save them, her hunger grows.”

Shape Perk

Whenever you hit a Survivor other than your Obsession with a Basic Attack, Save the Best for Last gains +1 Token, up to a maximum of 6/7/8 Tokens:

  • Grants a stack-able -4 % Cool-down reduction on successful Basic Attacks per Token, up to a maximum of 24/28/32 %.

Whenever you hit your Obsession with a Basic or Special Attack, Save the Best for Last loses -2 Tokens.

  • When the Obsession is sacrificed or killed, Save the Best for Last freezes its current Token count.

You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.

“Death has come to your little town, Sheriff.” — Dr Sam Loomis

Plague Perk

The cries of the unfaithful make your heart leap.

Whenever a Survivor is put into the Dying State by any means, all other Survivors within your Terror Radius will scream and reveal their current location to you for 4/5/6 seconds.

“Horror overcomes the heart of infidels who cry at the feet of the fallen.” — (Hymn of Praise, 11.4)

Cenobite (General) Perk

You induce mental suffering by crushing any hope of escape.

Whenever a Generator is completed, The Entity blocks the Generator with the most progression for 15/20/25 seconds.

  • The Aura of the blocked Generator is revealed to you in white during this time.

Add-ons

The white flowers turned red as blood.

Survivors hit with a Basic Attack while in Enraged Mode inflicts the following effect:

  • Causes them to suffer from the Haemorrhage Status Effect for 60 seconds.

Nothing could restrain him once he finally embraced his full potential.

  • Reduces the Cool-down duration of Kagune Leap by -1.4 seconds per Token when outside of Enraged Mode.

Sweat & Generator Disruption
“The Iron Collapse”

Nemesis Perk

The NE-α parasite provides you with the intelligence and awareness needed to set a trap.

Performing the Damage Generator action on a Generator applies Eruption:

  • All affected Generators are highlighted to you in yellow.
  • The next time any Survivor enters the Dying State by any means, all affected Generators explode and immediately start regressing, which removes the highlighted Aura.
  • Instantly regresses the Generator by -10 % of its maximum possible Progression.
  • Causes all Survivors repairing the afflicted Generators to scream and reveal their Aura to you for 8/10/12 seconds.

Eruption has a cool-down of 30 seconds.

“It can use weapons?” — Jill Valentine

Demogorgon Perk

Your eerie presence charges the air and interferes with technology.

Whenever you put a Survivor into the Dying State with a Basic Attack, all Generators within 32 metres of your location instantly explode and start regressing.

  • Instantly regresses affected Generators by 6/7/8 %.

“The creature appears to have some unknown influence over electricity and nearby electronics.” — Hawkins National Laboratory

Clown Perk

After vaulting a Window, Bamboozle calls upon The Entity to block that Window for the next 8/12/16 seconds.

  • Blocked Windows cannot be vaulted by Survivors.
  • Increases your general Vaulting speed by 5/10/15 %.

Bamboozle only blocks one Window at a time and does not apply either of its effects to vaulting Pallets.

Shape Perk

Whenever you hit a Survivor other than your Obsession with a Basic Attack, Save the Best for Last gains +1 Token, up to a maximum of 6/7/8 Tokens:

  • Grants a stack-able -4 % Cool-down reduction on successful Basic Attacks per Token, up to a maximum of 24/28/32 %.

Whenever you hit your Obsession with a Basic or Special Attack, Save the Best for Last loses -2 Tokens.

  • When the Obsession is sacrificed or killed, Save the Best for Last freezes its current Token count.

You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.

“Death has come to your little town, Sheriff.” — Dr Sam Loomis

Add-ons

The thing caused him immeasurable torment.

Performing a Vault action while in Enraged Mode triggers the following effect:

  • Blocks that Window to all Survivors for 10 seconds.

Every ghoul’s favourite drink, the one human delicacy they can consume.

  • Increases the Movement speed during Kagune Leaps by +2 m/s.

Information & Stealth
“Specter’s Insight”

Hillbilly Perk

Whenever a Generator is repaired to 70 %, you benefit from the following effects:

  • Triggers a Loud Noise Notification for that Generator, revealing its location.
  • Grants the Undetectable Status Effect for the next 12/14/16 seconds.

Tinkerer can only trigger once per Generator per Trial.

“The Hillbilly makes impressive tools out of scraps. Tools aimed at maiming us in creative ways.” — Notebook

Nemesis Perk

You have been designed to track down and eliminate targets.

At the start of the Trial, the Auras of all Survivors are revealed to you for 7/8/9 seconds.

  • Extends the duration of all instances of a Survivor Aura being revealed to you by +2 seconds.

Lethal Pursuer benefits from its own effect.

“…it knows what it wants and won’t stop till it gets it.” — Carlos Oliveira

Cenobite (General) Perk

“A Hex that toys with a victim’s suffering.”

Each time you hook a Survivor for the first time, if there is at least one Dull Totem in the environment, Hex: Fortune’s Fool activates and lights a Hex Totem:

  • Causes that Survivor to suffer permanently from the Oblivious Status Effect.
  • Blocks their Hex Totem from being cleansed by any other Survivor for 90 seconds.
  • The Aura of their Hex Totem is revealed to the Cursed Survivor within 24/20/16 metres.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

Knight Perk

The machinations of the weak and craven draw your ire.
Your anger forces Survivors to reveal themselves.

Performing the Damage Generator action on a Generator triggers Nowhere to Hide:

  • The Auras of all Survivors within 24 metres of your location are revealed to you for 3/4/5 seconds.

“Out with you, cowards! Show yourselves!” — Tarhos Kovács

Add-ons

They made her look innocent enough, which was exactly what she wanted.

Upon entering Enraged Mode, you benefit from the following effect:

  • The Auras of healthy Survivors currently repairing a Generator are revealed to you for 8 seconds.

A glove worn by a ghoul investigator.

Survivors affected by the Kagune Mark experience the following effect after it is removed:

  • Causes them to suffer from the Exhausted Status Effect for 15 seconds.

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