The Skull Merchant builds

Your prayers invoke a dark power that meddles with the Survivors' chances of survival.

• At the start of the Trial, the 3 Generators located farthest from you are blocked by The Entity for 80/100/120 seconds.

Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State.

"It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7)

Overwhelming pain reverberates outwards.

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

"Resist as they might, time marches on, and your master plan comes closer to fruition."

After hooking a Survivor, for 40/50/60 seconds, press the Active Ability button to make a target generator within 20 meters explode, lose -10 % progress, and start regressing.

"Nothing will happen to you... Nothing that you don't deserve!" — Henry Creel

Damaging a Generator makes it regress +2 % faster for each Charge it has.

This perk has a cool-down of 55/50/45 seconds after damaging a Generator.

"They built hypercomputers and skyscrapers and quantum networks, but all of those things trembled and fell under the power of Judgment’s light." — (Witness to Koenrad, ch. 8)

An additional process in the Drone's programming more accurately predicts the weaknesses of potential prey.

• Increases the strength of the Hindered Status Effect for Claw-Trapped Survivors when detected by Drones by -2 %.

A high-frequency noise blaster that fills the sonic spectrum with disorienting sounds, making it impossible for observers to pick out more important noises.

• Reduces the duration of the immunity to consecutive Scan-Line Hits for Survivors to 90 % of its default value.

"Kick your competitors when they're down. Never let them regain lost ground."

Whenever a Survivor performs an Unhook action, they suffer from the following effect for 60 seconds:

• Reduces their Healing speeds by 20/25/30 %.

"You are the bringer of sweet pain."

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.

Each time a Survivor is unhooked from a Scourge Hook, the following effects apply:

• Causes that Survivor to suffer from the Haemorrhage Status Effect for 90 seconds.

After the first time that Survivor is healed back to full health, they suffer from the following effect until they are injured again by any means:

• Reduces their Action speeds for Healing and Repairing by 10/13/16 %.

Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability:

• The Auras of Survivors being healed or healing themselves are revealed to you within 28/30/32 metres.

"Still attached to the fragments of her past life, she is drawn to those in need of help."

"Your great strength allows you to shred through your prey's defences."

While performing the Break or Damage action on Breakable Walls, Pallets, or Generators, Brutal Strength triggers its effect:

• Increases the Action speed by 10/15/20 %.

The Drone takes account of the surrounding area and casts lights in a bewildering manner that obscures movement.

• Increases the duration of the Undetectable Status Effect by +20 % to 9.6 seconds.

A high-frequency noise blaster that fills the sonic spectrum with disorienting sounds, making it impossible for observers to pick out more important noises.

• Reduces the duration of the immunity to consecutive Scan-Line Hits for Survivors to 90 % of its default value.