Cthulhu, The Old One

**Cthulhu**, or **The Great Old One** is a public domain killer that could be featured in **Dead by Daylight**.

Cthulhu would be featured in the Lovecraft Chapter. Cthulhu originates from "*The Call of Cthulhu*", a short story by H.P. Lovecraft.

## Overview

**The Great Old One** is a debilitating Killer, able to punish survivors that look at it by using its Power, **Horrifying Revelation**. This power causes survivors to scream and hallucinate.

Its personal Perks, Eldritch Gateway, Weak Knees, and Fifth-Dimensional Intelligence, impact the environment close to Generators and affect nearby Survivors in unexpected ways.

Difficulty rating: **Easy**

## Lore

*Little is known is about the Great Old Ones. The few earthlings that are even aware of their existence or manage to get a glimpse of one and live to tell the tale become mad lunatics that get institutionalized immediately. The few things their mad ravings have in common is that their exist extraterrestial and extradimensional beings that spread death cults on other planets and cause time and space itself to twist and warp as they get near. Such extradimensional beings care little for human notions like mortality or kindness, these beings have brought ruin to countless creatures by sheer accident and callousness. How the Entity has convinced a high priest of The Great Old Ones themselves to join it in its service is a grand mystery. Then again, the Great Old Ones never obeyed human notions of sense to begin with.*

## Load-out

### Unique Perks

Great Old One Perks
When there is one survivor left, two fake hatches spawn in addition to the real hatch. A survivor that enters a fake hatch is automatically sacrificed to the Entity.
* The fake hatches automatically close after **70/90/110** seconds.
* The auras of the fake hatches are revealed to the killer and they cannot be closed by the killer.

Survivors within your Terror Radius turn **15%/20%/25%** slower. This only affects character models and not camera speeds.
* The auras of all other survivors within **5/10/15** meters of a hooked survivor are revealed to you. The aura is lost as soon as a survivor begins the unhooking process.

*"I feel as if I'm being watched by a million eyes."*

### Teachable Perks

Progressing through **The Great Old One's** *Bloodweb* would spawn their **Teachable Variant** at specific Levels:

* **Level 30**: Eldritch Gateway
* **Level 35**: Weak Knees
* **Level 40**: Fifth-Dimensional Intelligence

Obtaining the **Teachable Perks** would unlock them to spawn in the Bloodwebs of all other Killers.

### Weapon: Mouth Tendrils

The **Mouth Tendrils** is the Primary Weapon of **Cthulhu**.
The gargantuan jaws of the Great Old Ones.
It is rumored that they torture and disintegrate their victims before destroying their entire mind, body, and soul.

### Power: Horrifying Revelation

*"There are not only some things man was never meant to know; there are some things that is outright ruinous for the human brain to even fathom. Once the Entity-infused Old Ones show their true face, mankind realizes that they aren't at the top of the food chain. Man is nothing but a meat puppet to be abused and discarded as the powerful beings from beyond time and space see fit. The only possible reaction after realizing that is to scream with horror and let go of reality."*

**HORRIFYING REVELATION**:

Press and hold the Power Button to activate Horrifying Revelation. While active, Cthulhu slows down to 110% Movement Speed and reveals his true otherworldly form to terrify survivors. The Red Stain is hidden while Horrifying Revelation is active. If a survivor's camera and/or character model within 40 meters of Cthulhu is facing Cthulhu for more than 2 seconds: the following happens:

* The survivor screams and the killer receives a Loud Noise Notification.
* The survivor becomes *Exposed* for 30 seconds.
* The survivor becomes *Insane* for 200 seconds. Insane survivors start seeing fake generators, fake totems, fake tool chests, fake lockers, fake windows, fake exit gates, and fake doors. If a survivor works on a fake generator, totem, exit gate, or chest for more than 3 seconds, it seem to violently combust. The survivor's aura is revealed to the killer for 4 seconds and the survivor suffers from the *Blindness* and *Oblivious* status effect for 40 seconds. If a survivor tries to go through a fake door, enter a fake locker, or vault through a fake window, the fake object disappears and the survivor is stunned for 3.5 seconds.

Survivors can purge the Insane status effect early by fully repairing a genuine generator. Horrifying Revelation has no cooldown but it takes 1 second to use the power and 1 second to stop using it. Survivors that are already insane are not affected by Horrifying Revelation. Survivors that are in the Dying State, Hooked State, or inside a locker are not affected by Horrifying Revelation.

Whenever a survivor unhooks another survivor, the unhooker survivor is affected by *dumbstruck* for 75 seconds. Dumbstruck survivors cannot vault windows, vault pallets, pull down pallets, use flashlights, or enter lockers. A survivor can purge this *dumbstruck* effect early by failing a healing or repairing skill check.

#### Power Trivia

**Movement Speeds:**

* Channelling *Horrifying Revelation*: **4.40 m/s**

**Real vs Fake Props**:

* Fake generators do not have flashing lights.
* Fake totems have red flames.
* Fake chests do not have locks on them but still need to be unlocked.
* Fake lockers have blood on their roofs.
* Fake windows and doors whisper "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" to Insane survivors within 8 meters of them.
* Fake hatches whisper "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" to all survivors within 6 meters of them.

### Add-ons for Of Cthulhu

Great Old One Add-Ons
At the beginning of the Trial, one survivor chosen at random becomes your *Obsession*.
While a survivor is Insane, other survivors more than 20 meters away from them appear to be **The Great Old One** that is channeling Horrifying Revelation.

## DLC

**The Great Old One** is part of the following DLCs:

* **CHAPTER: Lovecraft**

## Memento Mori

**The Great Old One** screams at the downed survivor and suddenly their limbs and head start to glow green before suddenly disappearing, leaving nothing but a bloody torso left.

## Change Log

### Patch X

* ***Quality of Life:*** The Great Old One Killer is added to game.

## Trivia

* **The Great Old One** is a deity that could be featured in *Dead By Daylight*.