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Taurie Cain

Q: What are Taurie Cain's perks?

Taurie Cain teaches Clean Break, Invocation: Treacherous Crows, Shoulder the Burden. Try them in Build Creator.

Survivor • 3 unique perks • All survivors · Survivor tier list

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Unique perks — 3

Teachable on any survivor once unlocked

Clean Break

"At the end of the day, everyone has to look out for themselves."

After completing a Healing action on another Survivor, Clean Break activates.
Press the Active Ability button while being healed by another Survivor to trigger the following effects:

Suffer from the Broken Status Effect.

You are automatically healed 1 Health State after 75/60/45 seconds.
- This effect is cancelled prematurely if you enter the Dying State.

Clean Break does not activate if you already suffer from Broken.
Clean Break deactivates after healing you.

"I'll be fine! Don't stick your neck out for me." — Taurie Cain

Invocation: Treacherous Crows

"One with arcane knowledge has no reason to fear those watchful birds."

When in the Basement near the circle, press the Active Ability button to begin the Invocation, which takes 60 seconds to complete.
During an Invocation, your Aura is revealed to all other Survivors and they can join in, accelerating the process by +100 %, if they too have an Invocation Perk equipped, or by +50 %, if they have not.

Once the Invocation is completed, the following effects apply:

Whenever the Killer scares a Crow while a Survivor is inside their Terror Radius, their Aura is revealed to all Survivors for 1/1.5/2 seconds.

You automatically enter the Injured State from any previous Health State, and suffer from the Broken Status Effect for the remainder of the Trial.

"Remember your training. They taught you all about the crows." — Taurie Cain

Shoulder the Burden

"Born to be a disciple. Ready to submit to a greater cause. This is your calling."

Once per Trial, and while you are not on Death Hook, press the Active Ability button while standing in front of a Hooked Survivor to unhook them and trigger the following effects: