"I relied on others to protect me once and I lost everything. Never again."

This issue covers everything released in Midchapter 8.1.0 including Lara Croft, 2v8, Tome 20, various Collections, and more. We also feature interviews with content creators Mish and Kayleighlaub, delving into their personal and creative journeys. Additionally, we highlight the contributions of community artists and enthusiasts, showcasing their dedication to Dead by Daylight. In Edition 1, the High Priestess herself has handpicked a special figure for the spotlight: The occult investigator, Elodie Rakoto! Various community artists and lore enthusiasts pay homage to her throughout the newsletter.

Eyrie of Crows

A small selection of some amazing art made by the community! Picked by the inky hands of the Artist herself.

Be sure to send them some love!

By @Adeloo_Art

By @BodyofaPig

By @ticoslayed and
@Zadtwt

Alongside their interviews, both Mish and Kayleigh were given a speed

round of WOULD YOU RATHER questions. What will they choose? Let's find out!

BE TRAPPED IN MIDWICH ELEMENTARY or TOBA LANDING?
MISH: "Midwich for sure. Have you seen the creepy crawly things in Toba?"
KAYLEIGH: "Toba Landing! As someone who was bullied, school is a much scarier experience than being in a weird realm."

BE CHASED BY THE HUNTRESS or THE DEATHSLINGER?
MISH: "Definitely Huntress. Deathslinger would probably spit on me."
KAYLEIGH: "Huntress for gay reasons"

HAVE FENG MIN or HADDIE KAUR AS A TEAMMATE?
MISH: "This is a tough one. I feel like they’re both hit or miss. But if I had to choose… I think Feng Min. They usually have a little personality to them and sometimes that’s all you need to have a good match."
KAYLEIGH: "Haddie, if you’re in the universe, a survivalist or a person who specializes in this sort of weird shit is a better chance of living"

HAVE THE POWER OF BALANCED LANDING or LITHE?
MISH: "Balanced landing for me! I am a certified Lithe hater and Nea’s my girl, so of course I have to go for Balanced."
KAYLEIGH: "BALANCED LANDING IS MY LIFE."

GO SWIMMING WITH SADAKO or PAINTING WITH CARMINA?
MISH: "That’s easy! Painting with Carmina. I love Carmina, that’s my girl. I also love art even though I’m not very good at it."
KAYLEIGH: "Painting with bird mommy! I love her so much, I hope she paints with her cute lil' feet."

We got in touch with one of the community's greatest perk icon artists, @wheatdraws , to find out more about his process and how he makes game-matching icons come to life!

The goal of the Perk Pack Series has always been to explore “How does this character learn this perk?”, “How do they interpret its abilities and effects?”, “Is it similar to an experience they’ve already had?”.

For Élodie, Boon: Dark Theory shows her delving deeper into the mystery with The Pariah’s, using the spider fang statue compared to the original icon depicting a mysterious moment within the cursed tape. Detective’s Hunch depicts her going over various notes and connections relating to the Black Veil and other small details hidden within the icon that usually goes unnoticed.

Sometimes, it’s difficult to notice the references in the perks, whether they’re a deep cut part of lore, or just a strange, abstract visual that might not resonate in someone’s mind. In those instances, I try to make sure there’s some moment of “I wonder what this is about?” and hope it brings people into wanting to learn about the characters. Élodie’s recovery of the spider fang statue in her lore being part of a few icons, or the appearance of Felix Richter in some designs hopefully causing people to go “Wait, how are they connected?”. Then to find out by exploring these characters we all love and find endlessly interesting, thus creating more appreciation for them through these small gestures and connections.

I originally published Élodie’s Perk Pack in late 2021 and have recently updated with new icons and visual updates. I’m glad I have the ability to do so and improve upon my previous work, and improve in places to make sure I’m favourably showing characters, regardless if I personally like them or not. Everyone is someone’s favourite, and I want to make sure someone’s favourite looks good! The first step I always take with a perk icon is drawing the character’s head-on portrait, which is used on many basic reskins. This helps me figure out how they look, how they’ll be depicted in my style of perks, and try and evoke some of their base personality through the icon. This is especially when I create the Unbreakable variant - which is usually them all bloodied and beaten up - but still undeterred from surviving and making it out alive. As a joke, I play in my mind that gif of Markiplier flying at the camera with a punch as part of my process of making Unbreakable icons.

Perks and you

To me, Élodie Rakoto is one of the more fascinating Survivors from Dead By Daylight, especially considering with her she furthered the plotline of the Black Veil and The Pariahs, which I am gladly awaiting any new iterations and expansions upon it. She also explores one of my favourite character tropes in writing;

The ways an individual deals with grief or loss. I think it is very telling of a character’s headspace and lets many people with either similar or adjacent experiences relate or understand these characters more significantly.While the Perk Pack Series will likely never be finished or see a true end to a pack for a character, I find it incredibly rewarding to dig deep into characters like Élodie and her story; creating visual representations of it that you can use in-game, and then come back however long later and relive that fascination again and again. She’s not the only character I’ve had that joy with, and it makes appreciating all the Dead by Daylight Killers and Survivors even more rewarding as time goes on and the Perk Pack Series expands. I hope others feel that sense of reward that I do when someone recognizes a story element in an icon’s design.

IN COLLABORATION with BALANCED BY DAYLIGHT
We thank Balanced by Daylight for their support and help with the Perk sections! Additionally, here are some words from Kyle, the creator and developer!

WHAT IS BALANCED BY DAYLIGHT?
"BALANCED BY DAYLIGHT is a website born from a problem within competitive Dead by Daylight. For the uninitiated, many tournaments place strict rulesets per-killer when playing in tournaments in an effort to make the game as skill-focused as possible. However, this means that you have to make sure your builds follow those rules and not only that, but referees for these tournaments also have to double check. Before Balanced by Daylight this was incredibly time consuming unless you were always watching the balance changes."

HOW DOES IT WORK?
The purpose of the site is to simplify that process, you simply go on, pick your tournament league (or apply your own balancing for one!), and make a build for either Killer or Survivor! The site will tell you if there’s a ruleset issue, and where it’s located.

Not only that, but you can generate an image of your build to share in team Discord servers and share a direct link to loadouts you’ve made, allowing for easy collaboration!

This site has been an incredible success and wouldn’t be possible without contributors like Floliroy (who also helps behind the scenes with the popular organization DBDLeague!). It has fundamentally changed how folks improve loadouts in tournament play and has made competitive Dead by Daylight even more accessible to anyone who wishes to compete.

If you’d like to keep up to date, you may join the Discord server here (www.discord.gg/8kNEq2gAKw) and feel free to check out the website at www.balancedbydaylight.com!

That's all for now!

Thank you so much for reading the first edition of The Tabloid of Adiris. It means a lot to us.

Please let us know if there is anything we could include or do better!

Next edition is planned for September 1st.

If you would like your work featured within this newsletter, do not hesitate to drop us an email or a message! We would love to showcase all types of fan creativity.