The Lore Behind The Perks! | Roblox Decaying Winter Theory 

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Fun fact: Jericho from holdout doesnt just have immolator's ability, they can also arbiter longshot, meaning he was possibly an extremely high rank because of him combining two abilities.

My man sounds depressed like me after getting a 2.5 gpa

This isn’t about the perks, but I thought it would be worth mentioning. The woman that Yosef hangs is most likely the agent Valorie. (I think I spelt it wrong but you get the point) In the quartermaster, the description about the skull bandana says something about an agent calling out the skull bandana as tacky, mentioning the person wearing it was an agent named Valorie. The echo playback shows a person resembling Yosef hanging two people. The first one is probably important, but I think the second one is Valorie. The two sin cultists that escaped the lab probably used the two bodies hanging from the execution for a ritual, half the body for the blood that might’ve been used to make the ritual, which would explain how they made one without anything to use, and the other half as the subject for the actual ritual. It might not of worked at first, so they tossed the body into the mountains to cover it up, then maybe the hatred from the betrayal as well as the ritual attempt caused them to resurrect as a being hatred, wanting to have others feel what they felt. In fact, maybe the lords in hell or something idk had to use the hatred and agony of others to resurrect them for a purpose. This could explain why sicklers are always crying, maybe navies their hatred took place as a tragedy, or why skinners are always yelling after shedding their disguise, maybe feeling anger after the knowledge of a false hope of some sorts, and maybe the hidden’s parents left him lol so he turned invisible. Maybe the the apostle’s agony was left long behind him, and as vengeance from the demons are whatever, as you said, he will have to bleed to through the pain, because maybe that’s how he feels his agony.

My theory on the Executioner. This theory talks about the posibility that the Executioner and the Vagabond were Mercenaries that the Agency hired. But with your theory of the Vagabond, I decided that it was irrelevant and the theory behind the Executioner is the only valid one. The Executioner is there to hunt criminals who have a bounty on their heads, but his goggles seem to be self-made. The goggles that he is using is a modified ANVIS10 Panoramic NVGs, which by the time of DW, is extremly outdated, being replaced by integral helmet night vision. So i theroise that the Executioner modified an old set of the goggles to scan through criminal databases and claim their bounties to gain scrap and also invigorates him to get more bounties, therefore when you stack kills with Executioner, you deal more damage with the more kills.

Crosslink lore was about people being curious how capable agents are and what can they do, Thus the agency made the crosslinks to dance of wires to show how good their agents agility and dexterity is

It's worth taking a look at the dialogue for getting mastery on each perk, Tickspider mentions them being a part of Paragon, and mentions something about deities. I think that they're some sort of member from a cult organization, but either defected or are merely working with the agency as part of an alliance.

Fun fact damned is a agent who failed to pay his debt

The majority of agents should be survivalist besides specific perks, like Yosef not having any perks what so ever. Canonically it would be impossible to be apostle, most have a backstory that is kinda revealed when you complete the challenge from them. It would be cool if archexmius added like a passage about each agent after you beat the challenge for each agent’s perk

Executioner was likely a sole mercanary who did the dirty work for cash.

Sovereign is thought to be associated with the Apostle, due to the fact of their similar abilities and expertise in ritual and paranormal situations.

The Apostle’s description on its mastery challenge shows that they were “Rejected by the denizens of below” before clawing their way back. I believe that the Apostle was sacrificed or something by the cult that took over the hidden agency base, and somehow, they not only survived but managed to return to reality of some sorts. I think they might have made a pact with the rulers of whatever place they were sent to and were bound to it’s will, hints Theourgia’s Hand, maybe they’re appeasing some kind of deity through spilling blood with the weapon. And perhaps this entity is lending The Apostle the ability to raise Rekigon, who may have been people like The Apostle who didn’t bargain with the thing.

i usually thought of damned to be a survivor from the winter, then some random scav snuck behind him, threw some unbreakable cuffs, and made him watch everything he loved die [ i also thought of the scav as the annoying slegdehammer scav ] and then threw him back where he found him and walked away like nothing happend. thats what i think the description is refuring to, he lost his friends, stuff, heck he even lost his own combat capabilitys.

Some of my theory about Apostle:

SOF IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLANRY FROM DW HOW MANY TIMES

man i have always wanted more info on the lore of perks, thanks for making this, also i like the idea that each perk is a different person.

I definitely think the Artillerist's ability (the gun you use) was used by the Commander since in the description of one of his armor pieces it talks about how he fought through the horde by killing each person with one clean shot between the eyes, and the Artillerist's ability rewards you for making consistent headshots

ok so on the Reikgon they are experiments due to some rival organization of Ulacyon or the Agency. Also the Hidden is one of the originals due to its dna being implemented into random scavs or test subjects turning them into skinners after death. Also the hanger is a female who basically causing people to

Drifter apostle and crosslink were all hired during the events of decaying winter if you look in the challenges for unlocking then it says stuff like "a individual is wanting you to prove you can [blank]" I believe all of them were persons of interest before joining for example apostle was defently a cultist of some kind before betraying the others and eventually joining the agency

I think blitzer mastery name says allot "Rolling Thunder". It was an United advocacy group that seeks to bring full accountability for prisoners of war(The organization) . There also was the Rolling Thunder military operation. It was a frequently interrupted bombing campaign that began on 24 February 1965 and lasted until the end of October 1968. During this period U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft engaged in a bombing campaign designed to force Ho Chi Minh to abandon his ambition to take over South Vietnam.