Totems (2024)

Completing a Healing action on another Survivor grants them the following benefits until they receive damage again:

• Increases their Action speeds in Healing, Unlocking, Cleansing, and Blessing by 12/14/16 %.

Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a Boon Totem.
Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 24 metres.

All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:

• Increases Altruistic Healing speeds by 50/75/100 % when not using a Med-Kit.
• If a Survivor is injured, their Aura will be revealed to all other Survivors.

Only one Totem can be blessed by your Boon Perks at a time and all of their effects are active on the same Boon Totem.

"Try this, it is better than anything you'll find in a pharmacy." — Mikaela Reid

Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a Boon Totem.
Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 24 metres.

All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:

• Grants a +2% Haste Status Effect.
  • This effect lingers for 2/3/4 seconds after leaving the Boon Totem's range.

Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a Boon Totem.
Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 24 metres.

All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:

• 90/95/100 % bonus to the Recovery speed.
• Unlocks the Self-Recovery ability, allowing you to fully recover from the Dying State.

"It is not our time to die... probably." — Jonah Vasquez

Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a Boon Totem.
Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 24 metres.

All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:

• The Auras of all Chests and Generators are revealed to you in blue.

Survivors can only be affected by one instance of Boon: Illumination at a time.

Only one Totem can be blessed by your Boon Perks at a time and all of their effects are active on the same Boon Totem.

"A shift in reality. Heavy with hidden meanings." — Return

Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a Boon Totem.
Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 24 metres.

All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:

• Scratch Marks are suppressed.
• Auras are hidden from The Killer.
  • Both effects linger for 2/3/4 seconds after leaving the Boon Totem's range.

"Stick to the shadows and cover your tracks." — Mikaela Reid

Whenever you cleanse or bless a Totem, Clairvoyance activates:

• When empty-handed, press and hold the Ability button to unlock your full Aura-reading potential, allowing you to see the Auras of the Exit Gate Switches, Generators, Hooks, Chests, and the Hatch within 64 metres for 8/9/10 seconds.

You cleanse Totems 20% faster.

• Gain another, stack-able 20% Cleansing Speed bonus per cleansed Totem.
• After cleansing a Totem, the Aura of the Totem farthest from you is revealed to you for 2/3/4 seconds.

"I don't mind a little detective work." — Jill Valentine

Each time a Generator is completed, the Auras of any Generators, Chests, and Totemswithin 32/48/64 metres are revealed to you for 10 seconds.

• If you are holding a Map, any objects revealed by Detective's Hunch will automatically be tracked by it.

"Are you able to tell us where you were last night?" — Detective David Tapp

After unlocking a Chest and either blessing or cleansing a Totem, Hardened activates:

• Suppresses the urge to scream from any cause and instead causes the Aura of the Killer to be revealed to you for 3/4/5 seconds.

Each time you cleanse a Totem, Inner Strength activates:

• You are automatically healed 1 Health State while hiding inside a Locker for 10/9/8 seconds when injured or suffering from the Deep Wound Status Effect.

Broken

"All this time I've been trying so hard to pretend like everything's fine, but it's not." — Nancy Wheeler

After repairing Generators for a total of 50%, Mirrored Illusion activates:

• Press the Active Ability button when next to either a Chest, Exit Gate, Generator, or a Totem to spawn a Static Illusion that lasts for 100/110/120 seconds.

"Just... stay there... perfect!" — Baermar

After cleansing or blessing a Totem, Overzealous activates:

• Dull Totem: Increases your Repair speed by 8/9/10 %.
• Hex Totem: Increases your Repair speed by 16/18/20 %.

"The Ravage senses us. We need to work fast." — Haddie Kaur, Ravages of the Abyss Episode 9

• Receive an auditory warning upon looking in the direction of Totems in a 45 ° cone within 8/10/12 metres.

Small Game has a cool-down of 14/12/10 seconds each time it activates.

For each Dull or Hex Totem cleansed by any Player, Small Game is automatically granted 1 Token:

• Each Token reduces the Detection cone's angle by 5 °, down to a minimum of 20 °.

"Nope." — Andy, The Lost Tapes

• Whenever a Survivor loses a Health State by any means and thus enters the Injured State or the Dying State, Hex: Blood Favour calls upon The Entity to block all Pallets within 24/28/32 metres of that Survivor's location from being pulled down for the next 15 seconds.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"It would be no leap of the imagination to suggest that the Trials are a biological response of sorts." — Journal of Talbot Grimes

Whenever a Survivor performs a Rush Vault action, Hex: Crowd Control triggers its effect:

• Blocks the vaulted Window to every Survivor for the next 40/50/60 seconds.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"You have no control. People like you never did." — Ji-Woon Hak

The false hope of Survivors ignites your hunger.

Each time a Survivor is rescued from a Hook while you are at least 24 metres away, Hex: Devour Hope receives 1 Token, up to a maximum of 5 Tokens:

• 2 Tokens: 10 seconds after hooking a Survivor, gain a 3/4/5 % Haste Status Effect for the next 10 seconds.
• 3 Tokens: all Survivors suffer from a permanent Exposed Status Effect.
• 5 Tokens: grants the ability to kill all Survivors by your own hand.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"If you do nothing, you have their blood on your hands. If you save them, her hunger grows."

Whenever you injure a Survivor by any means, if there is still a Dull Totem remaining on the Map, Hex: Face the Darkness activates and lights it, cursing that Survivor:

• Causes all other Survivors to scream every 35/30/25 seconds, if they are outside of the Terror Radius, revealing their Auras for 2 seconds each time.

Hex: Face the Darkness deactivates once the Cursed Survivor either enters the Dying State or is fully healed, which extinguishes the Totem.

Hex: Face the Darkness is disabled for the remainder of the Trial, if a Survivor manages to cleanse its Hex Totem.

"I shall make an example of one. These mewling worms will never know peace." — Tarhos Kovács

• When either Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed, all Survivors suffer from the Exposed Status Effect for 40/50/60 seconds.
• The second Hex Totem will immediately turn into a Dull Totem.

"Her home become profane."

Your hunt is an irresistible song of dread which muddles your prey's attention.

• Survivors failing a Repair Skill Checkinstantly regress the Generator by 2/4/6 % of its maximum possible Progression in addition to the default Progression penalty.
• Survivors failing a Healing Skill Check instantly regress the Healing Action by 2/4/6 % of its maximum possible Progression in addition to the default Progression penalty.

Each time a Survivor is hooked, Hex: Huntress Lullaby grows in power and gains 1 Token, up to a maximum of 5 Tokens.
Each Token reduces the timer between the Skill Check Warning cue and the Skill Check appearing for both Repair and Healing Skill Checks:

• 1 Token: reduction of -14%.
• 2 Tokens: reduction of -28%.
• 3 Tokens: reduction of -42%.
• 4 Tokens: reduction of -56%.
• 5 Tokens: complete suppression of the Warning cue.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"That song, it drives me crazy!"

You are animated by the power of your Hex Totem when the Survivors are on the verge of escaping.

Once the Exit Gates are powered, if there is still a Dull Totem remaining on the Map, Hex: No One Escapes Death activates and lights it:

• Increases your Movement speed by 2/3/4 %.
• Survivors suffer from a permanent Exposed Status Effect.

Hex: No One Escapes Death remains inactive if no Dull Totems are available.

Once the Status Effect is revealed to Survivors, Hex: No One Escapes Death reveals the Aura of its Hex Totem to all Survivors within 4 metres and gradually expands that range to 24 metres over the course of 30 seconds.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"And the beast became faster and more powerful as if The Entity's shadowy whips were lashing at its back."

• You see the Auras of cleansed Totems.

You can perform a ritual on a cleansed Totem to resurrect it as a Rekindled Totem.
For each Rekindled Totem active at the same time, Hex: Pentimento gains an additional effect:

• 1 Totem: reduces all Survivors' Repair speed by 20/25/30 %.
• 2 Totems: reduces all Survivors' Healing speed by 20/25/30 %.
• 3 Totems: reduces all Survivors' Recovery speed from being downed by 20/25/30 %.
• 4 Totems: reduces all Survivors' Exit Gate Opening speed by 20/25/30 %.
• 5 Totems: all Totems are permanently blocked by The Entity.

When a Rekindled Totem is cleansed, its remains are consumed by The Entity and it cannot be rekindled.

"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)

If there is at least one Dull Totem remaining in the Trial Grounds, Hex: Plaything activates on a random Totem each time a Survivor is hooked for the first time:

• The hooked Survivor suffers from the Cursed and Oblivious Status Effects until Hex: Plaything is cleansed.
• For the first 90 seconds, only the Cursed Survivor is able to cleanse the Hex Totem.
• The Aura of Hex: Plaything's Hex Totem is revealed to the Cursed Survivor within 24/20/16 metres.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.
"We came. Now you must come with us. Taste our pleasure." — Pinhead

Those who cross you will be punished.

• Survivors cleansing or blessing any Totem suffer from the Oblivious Status Effect for 35/40/45 seconds.
• After cleansing or blessing a Hex Totem, the Auras of all Survivors are revealed to you for 15 seconds.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"Bloody fool, you pulled the trigger on yourself." — Caleb Quinn

• Whenever a Generator is not being repaired by a Survivor, it will immediately and automatically regress its Repair progress at 50/75/100 % of the normal Regression speed.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"A curse is upon you. It will cause your ruin."

The last 2/3/4 Survivors you hit with a Basic or Special Attack suffer permanently from the Blindness Status Effect.
All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"She touched your skin, you bear the witch's mark!"

The false hope of Survivors fills you with excitement and strengthens your Totems.

For each Totem remaining in the environment, Hex: Thrill of the Hunt is granted 1 Token.

• For each Token, all Survivors suffer from a stack-able 8/9/10 % Action Speed penalty to Cleansing and Blessing Totems, up to a maximum of 40/45/50 %.
• Grants a stack-able 10% bonus Bloodpoints for actions in the Hunter Category per Token, up to a maximum of 50%.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

Anytime you are stunned or blinded by any Survivor a total of 4/3/2 times, and if there is not yet a Hex Totem already associated with Hex: Two Can Play and there is at least one Dull Totem remaining in the Trial Grounds, Hex: Two Can Play activates on a random Totem:

• Blinds all Survivors who stun or blind you for 1.5 seconds.
  • This does not affect carried Survivors.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

"From now on, no more Mr Good Guy." — Chucky

The Auras of Survivors within 2/3/4 metres of any Dull Totem are revealed to you.

• When another Perk's Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed, its Hex is transferred to the Hex: Undying Totem, including any accumulated Tokens, disabling Hex: Undying instead.

All effects of the Hex Perk persist until its Hex Totem is cleansed or blessed.

• Instead of snuffing Boon Totems you destroy them.
• Destroying a Boon Totem this way reveals the Auras of all Survivors that were within its range at that moment for 6/7/8 seconds.

"Nothing is permanent here. Nothing except our endless perdition." — Unknown, Notebook

• Each injured, dying, or hooked Survivor afflicts Survivors with a stack-able 1/1.5/2 % Action Speed penalty to Repairing, Sabotaging, and Cleansing, up to a maximum of 4/6/8 %.
• Increases the Action Speed penalty by a further 12%, if there are 4 Survivors, who are either injured, dying, or hooked at the same time.

"She plays with us and revels in our pain."