Realms
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“ | I awoke to find myself in this strange place. I have no memory of how I came here. | „ |
~ Benedict Baker |
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“ | Every place feels mysterious, yet is somehow the same. Every time I wake up I shiver with fear for what new nightmare awaits. Each departure from the campfire is into confusion. Slowly I learn the different places, recognising features and buildings but I never really understand the pattern. As if some powerful force is shuffling the world as if we were a deck of cards. Maybe we are just pawns on a scrabble board? | „ |
~ Benedict Baker's Journal |
The Realms are semi-procedural locations within the World of The Entity . Each Realm was the site of a violent tragedy in the past and they now serve as the Arenas for The Entity's trials.
Contents
Overview[edit | edit source]
The location of the trial is chosen by The Entity. Players can influence The Entity's choice by burning certain Offerings .
Trial locations have certain fixed landmarks, but elements such as player starting locations, Generators , Chests
Lockers
, Totems
and Exit Gates
are placed to The Entity's whims. Even the terrain itself shifts from trial to trial.
There are currently 13 Realms and 33 Maps featured in Dead by Daylight .
Lore[edit | edit source]
The Realms are pockets within The Entity, who constructs everything from itself except for the Killers and the Survivors. The Realms do not co-exist at all times, but are rather created whenever needed. The location of The Campfire is also located within such a pocket. The Woods and Fog beyond the Trial grounds represent the boundaries of the pocket and are just a façade.
Realms & Maps[edit | edit source]
MacMillan Estate[edit | edit source]
Autohaven Wreckers[edit | edit source]
Coldwind Farm[edit | edit source]
Crotus Prenn Asylum[edit | edit source]
Haddonfield[edit | edit source]
Backwater Swamp[edit | edit source]
Léry's Memorial Institute[edit | edit source]
Red Forest[edit | edit source]
Springwood[edit | edit source]
Gideon Meat Plant[edit | edit source]
Yamaoka Estate[edit | edit source]
Ormond[edit | edit source]
Hawkins National Laboratory[edit | edit source]
Recurring Locations[edit | edit source]
Basement | Killer Shack |
Sub-Realms[edit | edit source]
Sub-Realms are usually different planes of existence within the Realm of The Entity. There are currently 6 known Sub-Realms:
Map Sizes & Ranking[edit | edit source]
Rank | Map | Size in square Tiles | Size in m2 |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Mother's Dwelling | 188 | 12,032 |
2 | Rotten Fields | 176 | 11,264 |
Shelter Woods | |||
3 | Disturbed Ward | 172 | 11,008 |
The Temple of Purgation | |||
4 | Azarov's Resting Place | 168 | 10,752 |
Blood Lodge | |||
Fractured Cowshed | |||
Grim Pantry | |||
Lampkin Lane | |||
Torment Creek | |||
5 | Gas Heaven | 164 | 10,496 |
Wretched Shop | |||
6 | The Pale Rose | 161 | 10,304 |
7 | Ironworks of Misery | 160 | 10,240 |
Suffocation Pit | |||
The Thompson House | |||
8 | Family Residence | 156 | 9,984 |
Sanctum of Wrath | |||
Groaning Storehouse | |||
Mount Ormond Resort | |||
9 | Badham Preschools I-V | 144 | 9,216 |
Wreckers' Yard | |||
10 | The Game | 142 | 9,088 |
11 | Father Campbell's Chapel | 140 | 8,960 |
12 | Rancid Abattoir | 136 | 8,704 |
13 | Coal Tower | 132 | 8,448 |
14 | Treatment Theatre | 116 | 7,424 |
12-13* | The Underground Complex | 74.5* | 4,765* |
Unreleased Maps[edit | edit source]
There are currently at least 5 unreleased Maps belonging to several Realms, that can be found in the Game files:
- Mini (MacMillan Estate)
- Seb's Dream (MacMillan Estate)
- Infinite Gym (Crotus Prenn Asylum)
- Dead Lake (Backwater Swamp)
- Grim Gully (Backwater Swamp)
Tiles[edit | edit source]
- The square Tiles used for measuring reference are actually 8x8 sub-tiles, making up the larger tile assets used to construct the Maps with.
- The Game uses 3 combinations of (Master) Tiles: 16x16, 16x32 or 32x32 metres / 4, 8 or 16 squared Tiles.
- Even though each Map's Tiles change their orientation and sometimes their location from trial to trial, the outer walls and thus the Map's size remain the same.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The average Map has a size of 159 square Tiles.
- The outer walls are composed of single and double wall segments with a length of 8 metres for the single and 16 metres for the double segments.
- This allows a calculation of a Map's size, with Mother's Dwelling being the largest Map with 188 and Treatment Theatre being the smallest Map with 116 square Tiles.
- Even though The Underground Complex is technically the Map covering the smallest surface area, with its numerous catwalks its actual playable surface is considerably larger and could be ranked similarly to Coal Tower or Rancid Abattoir.