The Artist
Power — Birds of Torment
SPECIAL ABILITY: BIRDS OF TORMENT
The Artist starts the Trial with 3 Tokens.
Press the Power button to charge Birds of Torment and visualise a Flight Path in front of her.
Press the Attack button to consume -1 Token to summon a Dire Crow that faces in the direction of the Flight Path.
Press it again to summon another Dire Crow for each remaining Token.
SPECIAL ATTACK: DIRE CROWS
Dire Crows can stay idling for up to 10 seconds, before they dissolve.
The timer is reset each time a new Dire Crow is summoned.
The Auras
of all Dire Crows are revealed to The Artist at all times.
Survivors coming into contact with idling Dire Crows are damaged, but cause them to dissolve instantly.
Press the Secondary Power button to launch all available Dire Crows in the direction of their individual Flight Paths.
While travelling on their Flight Path of 7.5 metres, Dire Crows can damage Survivors coming into contact with them.
Once a Dire Crow flies past its Flight Path or collides with an obstacle in the environment while still on it, it transforms into a Swarm.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: SWARM
Swarms continue travelling across the environment, while passing through any environmental obstacles.
The Auras of travelling Swarms are revealed to all Players at all times.
Swarms trigger Killer Instinct for 3 seconds on all Survivors too close to their path while travelling past them.
When a Swarm collides with a Survivor, it starts swarming them with a Murder of Crows.
The Auras of Murder of Crows are revealed to The Artist at all times, unless the Swarmed Survivors start repelling them, causing it to be hidden after 2.5 seconds.
When a Swarm collides with a Swarmed Survivor, they are damaged.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: REPELLING
Swarmed Survivors can perform the Repel interaction for 8 second to remove the Murder of Crows.
They can also instantly remove it by entering a Locker
.
If Swarmed Survivors collide with an idling Dire Crow while performing the Repel interaction, the action is reset.
Unique perks — 3
Teachable on any killer once unlocked
Each time a Survivor is hooked for the first time, Grim Embrace gains +1 Token and activates once you are at least 16 metres away from the Hook:
- 1-3 Tokens: Blocks all Generators for 6/8/10 seconds.
- 4 Tokens: Blocks all Generators for 40 seconds and the Aura of the Obsession is revealed to you for 6 seconds.
"Are we nothing but prisoners to our sorrow?" — Carmina Mora
Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability:
- The Auras of cleansed Totems are revealed to you in white.
Press the Interaction button over the remains of a cleansed Totem to resurrect it as a Rekindled Totem.
For each Rekindled Totem, Hex: Pentimento gains +1 Token, up to a maximum of 5 Tokens:
- 1 Token: Reduces the Action speeds for Healing and Repairing by -20 %.
- 2 to 5 Tokens: Increase the strength of the Action Speed penalty by a stackable 1/2/3 % per Token, up to a maximum of 24/28/32 %.
- Survivors cursed by Hex: Pentimento see the Auras of Rekindled Totems within 16 metres.
Once Hex: Pentimento has reached its limit of 5 Tokens, it calls upon The Entity for the following effect:
- Blocks all Rekindled Totems for the remainder of the Trial.
Totems may only be rekindled once per Trial, with The Entity consuming the remains of Rekindled Totems once they are cleansed.
The Hex Effects persist until the Hex Totem is either blessed or cleansed by a Survivor, disabling it for the remainder of the Trial.
"Though a pentimento is an inherently concealed piece of art, there is something to be said of the desire to discover that which is beyond." — A Guide to Art & Process (1961)
At the start of the Trial, 4 Hooks in the environment are changed into Scourge Hooks:
- The Auras of these Scourge Hooks are highlighted in white.
Start the Trial with 4 Token.
Whenever a Survivor is hooked onto a Scourge Hook for the first time, Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance consumes -1 Token and applies the following effects:
- Causes the Generator with the most progression to explode, damaging it.
- Instantly regresses the Damaged Generator by 10/15/20 % of its total Progression.
- Causes the Damaged Generator to start regressing afterwards.
- Causes all Survivors repairing the Damaged Generator to scream.
- This does not trigger a Loud Noise Notification.
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
Release & tier
- Introduced
- Portrait of a Murder2021 · $7.99
- Tier
- A
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