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The Hag

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The Hag (Lisa Sherwood)
Lore Overview

Lisa Sherwood lived a quiet life in a small, secluded village surrounded by swamps and superstition. The people were kind, and the elders taught her their ancient charms—symbols drawn to keep evil at bay. For Lisa, they were simple comforts, signs of safety in a world untouched by the outside. But even the most sacred wards cannot protect against what hides in the dark.

One stormy night, as lightning split the sky, Lisa lost her way in the mire. The rain was relentless, the mud thick beneath her feet. When she slipped and struck her head, the world blurred—and through her fading vision, she saw shadows moving between the trees. Then came the darkness.

When she awoke, she was chained in a flooded cellar. The air stank of rot, and in the flickering light, she saw others—starved, mutilated, alive only to feed their captors. The cannibals carved flesh from bone and feasted while the victims screamed. Days bled into weeks, her body ravaged and infected, her will the only thing that remained unbroken. One night, in a final act of defiance, she tore herself free—skin and sinew giving way to freedom.

Crawling through the filth, delirious and dying, Lisa remembered the symbols of protection the elders had once taught her. With the last of her strength, she carved them into the ground with what was left of her hands. The markings pulsed with a dark energy, and something ancient stirred—a hunger that called to her. When the villagers later found the shack, its inhabitants were torn apart, their remains scattered among the symbols drawn in blood.

Lisa’s body was never recovered. Only the whispers remained—of a twisted figure haunting the swamps, her charm-marked flesh stretched and warped, lashing out at any who dare approach.

The Hag was born, and her vengeance was eternal.

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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 Hex Effects persist until their associated Hex Totem is either cleansed or blessed.

 

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

Hex: Devour Hope

Hex: Ruin

A Hex that affects the Generator Repair progress of all Survivors.”

All Generators not currently being repaired experience the following effect:

  • Causes them to automatically regress at 100/125/150 % of the default Regression rate.

All Hex Effects persist until their associated Hex Totem is either cleansed or blessed.

 

“A curse is upon you. It will cause your ruin.”

A Hex which maintains the vile powers that flow throughout the Trial.

The Auras of Survivors within 2/3/4 metres of any Dull Totem are revealed to you.

  • When another Perk’s Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed, its Hex is transferred to the Hex: Undying Totem, including any accumulated Tokens, disabling Hex: Undying instead.

 

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

Hex: The Third Seal

Hag Builds

Totem-Centric Pressure
“Hex Control”

Hag Perk

A Hex that affects the Generator Repair progress of all Survivors.”

All Generators not currently being repaired experience the following effect:

  • Causes them to automatically regress at 100/125/150 % of the default Regression rate.

All Hex Effects persist until their associated Hex Totem is either cleansed or blessed.

 

“A curse is upon you. It will cause your ruin.”

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 Hex Effects persist until their associated Hex Totem is either cleansed or blessed.

 

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

General Perk

A Hex rooting its power on hope.

The false hope of Survivors fills you with excitement and strengthens your Totems.

For each Totem remaining in the environment, Hex: Thrill of the Hunt is granted 1 Token.

  • For each Token, all Survivors suffer from a stack-able 10/12/14 % Action Speed penalty to Cleansing and Blessing Totems, up to a maximum of 50/60/70 %.
  • Grants a stack-able 10 % bonus Bloodpoints for actions in the Hunter Category per Token, up to a maximum of 50 %.

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

Plague Perk

“A Hex rooting its power on hope.
The false hope of Survivors fills you with excitement and strengthens your Totems.”

Start the Trial with 5 Tokens, one for each Totem located in the environment:

  • Reduces the Action speeds for Blessing and Cleansing by a stack-able 8/10/12 % per Token, up to a maximum of 40/50/60 %.
Hex: Thrill of the Hunt loses -1 Token whenever a Totem is cleansed.

All Hex Effects persist until their associated Hex Totem is either cleansed or blessed.

Add-ons

Shackles once used to hold prisoners and carcasses in the cannibal village cellar.
The trapped life essence within unlocks tremendous potential in The Hag’s power.

  • Suppresses any indication to Survivors that they tripped Phantasm Traps.
  • Suppresses the creation of Mud Phantasms.

A large swamp cicada covered in a fine layer of ash; crispy.
Devoured to increase stamina.
Increases the Teleport range to tripped Phantasm Traps by +15 %.

Injury & Healing Suppression
“Blood Web”

General Perk

“You know where to hit to make them bleed.”

Survivors hit with your vicious Basic Attack suffer from the following effects for 70/80/90 seconds:

  • Inflicts the Haemorrhage and Mangled Status Effects.
  • Modifies the potency of Haemorrhage:
    • Increases the Spawn frequency of Pools of Blood by 50/75/100 %.
    • Increases the Regression rate of partial Healing progression by +25 %.
 
“It is in its sadistic nature. There is no swift kill as it delights in the obscene spectacle of our agonising suffering.”

Hag Perk

A Hex which maintains the vile powers that flow throughout the Trial.

The Auras of Survivors within 2/3/4 metres of any Dull Totem are revealed to you.

  • When another Perk’s Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed, its Hex is transferred to the Hex: Undying Totem, including any accumulated Tokens, disabling Hex: Undying instead.

 

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

Shape Perk

Damaging any Survivor other than the Obsession with a Basic Attack causes Save the Best for Last to gain +1 Token, up to a maximum of 6/7/8 Tokens.
Damaging the Obsession with either a Basic or Special Attack causes Save the Best for Last to lose -2 Tokens:

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

Save the Best for Last freezes its current Token Count once the Obsession is sacrificed or killed.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.

 

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

General Perk

Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability.
Whenever a Generator is completed, Bitter Murmur triggers its primary effect:

  • The Auras  of any Survivors within 16 metres of that Generator are revealed to you for 5 seconds.

Once the last Generator is completed, Bitter Murmur triggers its secondary effect:

  • The Auras of all Survivors are revealed to you for 5/7/10 seconds.

Add-ons

A rigid ornament worn around the neck made from dead plants adorned with withered orchid petals and leaves.

  • Increases the Setting speed of Phantasm Traps by +20 %.

A handful of yellowish wings, dry and crisp.
Devoured to increase stamina.

  • Increases the Teleport range to tripped Phantasm Traps by +12.5 %.

Stealth & Deception
“Veil of Deceipt”

Doctor Perk

“Meticulous in your approach, terrifying in your application.”

While actively chasing a Survivor, Monitor & Abuse applies its primary effect:

  • Increases your Terror Radius by 5/10/15 %.
While not actively chasing a Survivor, Monitor & Abuse applies its secondary effect:
  • Reduces your Terror Radius by 15/20/25 %.

 

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

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

Pig Perk

Whenever a Survivor is rescued from a Hook while you are farther than 32 metres away, Make Your Choice activates:

  • Causes the unhooking Survivor to scream and reveal their location to you.
  • Causes them to suffer from the Exposed Status Effect for 40/50/60 seconds.

Make Your Choice has a cooldown of 40/50/60 seconds.

 

“You’d be surprised what tools can save a life.” — Amanda Young

Plague Perk

“The display of your Powers creates a whirlwind of panic that spreads throughout the land.”

Whenever the Obsession becomes injured by any means, Dark Devotion activates for 35/40/45 seconds:

  • Transfers your Terror Radius to the Obsession.
    • This Terror Radius is set to 40 metres.
  • Grants the Undetectable Status Effect.
You can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.

 

“And terror shall take hold of a defiant non-believer, who shall falsely announce my arrival.” — (The Tablet of Adiris, 48.9)

Add-ons

A small piece of cotton torn from the dress worn by Lisa Sherwood on the day she disappeared.
The trapped life essence within unlocks tremendous potential in The Hag’s power.

  • Press the Active Ability button to teleport to any untripped Phantasm Trap anywhere in the environment.

Mint Rag has a cool-down of 10 seconds.

Three frail willow branches attached to form a triangular wreath.

  • The Auras of Survivors tripping Phantasm Traps are revealed to you for 5 seconds.

High-Risk, High-Reward
“Aggressive Ambush”

Plague Perk

“A Hex rooting its power on hope.
The false hope of Survivors fills you with excitement and strengthens your Totems.”

Start the Trial with 5 Tokens, one for each Totem located in the environment:

  • Reduces the Action speeds for Blessing and Cleansing by a stack-able 8/10/12 % per Token, up to a maximum of 40/50/60 %.

Hex: Thrill of the Hunt loses -1 Token whenever a Totem is cleansed.

All Hex Effects persist until their associated Hex Totem is either cleansed or blessed.

Cannibal Perk

Survivors hit with your vicious Basic Attack drop any equipped Item on impact:

  • The Auras of lost Items are revealed to within 32/48/64 metres.

 

“Sally, I hear something. Stop! Stop!” — Franklin Hardesty

Twins Perk

You protect what little you have and are perceptive to those rummaging through your stockpiles.

Hoarder triggers a Loud Noise Notification for 4 seconds, whenever a Survivor performs any of the following actions within 32/48/64 metres of your location:

  • Unlocks a Chest.
  • Picks up any Item.

Hoarder spawns 2 additional Chests in the Trial.

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

Add-ons

The cut up, severed hand of the cannibal village butcher.
The trapped life essence within unlocks tremendous potential in The Hag’s power.

  • Grants collision with Survivors to both Phantasm Traps and the Mud Phantasms.
  • Grants +300 % bonus Bloodpoints in the Deviousness Category.
  • Disables your ability to teleport to tripped Phantasm Traps.

Scarred Hand trumps all other Add-ons.

 

“…” — The Butcher

Three frail willow branches attached to form a triangular wreath.

  • The Auras of Survivors tripping Phantasm Traps are revealed to you for 5 seconds.

Anti-Loop
“No Way Out... Literally”

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, Hex: Blood Favour triggers its effect:

  • Blocks all upright Pallets within 24/28/32 metres of that Survivor’s location at the time for 15 seconds.
    • Blocked Pallets cannot be dropped.

All Hex Effects persist until their associated Hex Totem is either 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

Clown Perk

You benefit from the following permanent effect:

  • Increases your Vaulting speed by 5/10/15 %.

Whenever you vault a Window, Bamboozle calls upon The Entity for the following effect:

  • Blocks it to all Survivors for 8/12/16 seconds.
    • Vaulting it again within that time resets the timer.
    • Vaulting a different one transfers the effect to it instead.

Bamboozle does not extend its effects to vaulting a dropped Pallet.

Hillbilly Perk

“You are resilient to pain.”

You benefit from the following effect:

  • Reduces the duration of Pallet Stuns by 40/45/50 %.
    • This effect does not apply when stunned while carrying a Survivor.
“He stops at nothing.”

Darklord Perk

You see your victim from afar and resolve to prolong their suffering.

After a Generator is completed, Hex: Wretched Fate activates and lights a random Dull Totem, cursing the Obsession:

  • Reduces their Repair speed by 27/30/33 %.
  • The Aura of the Hex Totem is revealed to them within 12 metres.

 

“So toil, mortal, toil! Your effort will be for naught!” — Dracula

Add-ons

Shackles once used to hold prisoners and carcasses in the cannibal village cellar.
The trapped life essence within unlocks tremendous potential in The Hag’s power.

  • Suppresses any indication to Survivors that they tripped Phantasm Traps.
  • Suppresses the creation of Mud Phantasms.

A rigid ornament worn around the neck made from dead plants adorned with withered orchid petals and leaves.

  • Increases the Setting speed of Phantasm Traps by +20 %.

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