Who is VIGO? The Most Mysterious Character in DbD 

Finally, a new chapter of my "Mysteries of the Fog" series! This time, we will talk about Vigo: A character that is super important to the lore of Dead By Daylight, but also one of the most mysterious characters ever added. He was the creator of The Hatch, as hinted by the developers during a lore stream, and he was the reason Blight became the monster he is now. Also, I am so sorry. I did clickbait with the thumbnail. The man that appears there is The Alchemist, AKA The Blight AKA Talbot Grimes. It's not Vigo, I just thought the thumbnail looked hard 🔥 On my defense, I didn't put any arrows pointing towards him so technically, I didn't specify that Blight was the man who created the hatch! 🤓

every time i hear the devs talking about the deep game lore i cant stop thinking they are improvising everything

I prefer the idea that Vigo was able to escape via the void. The Entity does need to feel incredibly powerful, but if it were to be literally unbeatable it would suck the fun and excitement out of the lore since you would always know that no matter what the survivors would always lose. Vigo being able to escape also adds to my theory that survivors with some sort of power can actually survive and escape the trials. Vigo with his unnaturally high intellegence and adaptability and Alan Wake with his typewriter. These characters add a sense of plausible conflict which keeps the lore interesting.

I swear mintskull is in my walls, literally 20 mins ago I happened to look at the new dbd shop and notice the claudette skin "Vigo's apprentice" and think: "who tf is Vigo tho?"

Vigo canonically confirmed to sound like MintSkull

Wow I can't believe Mr Mintskull got Nicolas Cage in on his video

"The journal of a man who claimed to have returned from the void" "In a wasteland of forgotten dreams and endless routine, a man with a way out is God." - According to vigo's journal addon description, Vigo himself claims to have escaped and Talbot believed him about having a way out of the realm

I also think Vittorio's tome has been overlooked by the community, the reason Vittorio has his tattoos might genuinely be related to Vigo as he was attacked in the fog by a group of people if I remember correctly that placed something on his skin, the tattoos are something that Vittorio is suppoaed to decypher and his tome was also related to the hatch itself!

Three theories that are possible regarding Vigo's fate are essentially he escaped the realm via his Refined Serum but can come and go as he pleases (which I dont know why he'd do), he is somehow transformed into a killer by the Entity due to his abilty to enter the Void dubbing him "The Voidwalker" or as MintSkull states, he ends up trapped in the Void by the Entity, never to be seen or heard from again. Man its still mind boggling seeing all this interesting lore hidden behind an absolute mess of a game like DbD, and i've been playing since early 2018.

Since the entity feeds off dying hope, I think he saw Vigo make the hatch and thought "I'll allow it."

yeah, vigo and benedict were the pioneers of the lore since the start from the game, yet im so sad that devs only up to this date remember and only remembers Vigo via halloween skins and some addons for blight and yet they didn't even cared that after Clowns chapter release Benedict just... dissappeared. plus devs for some reason stopped doing Lore streams, probably because they shifted it onto archives. This would be an amazing thing if you will dig up some new lore entries for benedict, because this man deserves more love - he literally told us not only how basic stuff works in entity's realm like bloodweb and teachable perks, but also told us how really survivors/killers behaved in the fog.

I like how the perks of survivors that ARE NOT in the fog with us anymore like for example Hope make so much sense, technically speaking when Stranger things left the fog all the perks from that DLC became free as if they ceased to exist and everyone could learn those skills now because no one could teach them anymore... obviously this is not what happened in reality, but I like how it can be explained lorewise

The ultimate fate of Vigo is an interesting question, with many answers. I like to think that with his extensive knowledge of the realms, research of the Entity, and power of manifestation, he was able to free himself from the trials and escape into the real world. Obviously, he came and went before our playable survivors, but even so, we know that time works differently in the realms, so his escape likely didn't return him to his time, or the equivalent time period for all his years spent in the fog. I like to think that he was spat out into the past, armed with the knowledge of the Entity, its ways, and how to beat it. With the sightings of the Entity and its fog throughout history, as evidenced by the Greek Trials charm and the character stories, I think he convinced a handful of people of the Entity's existence and the necessity of destroying it. He told them how it had trapped people like himself in decades of torturous trials, and how he alone emerged victorious. With his notes, serum, and evidence, he educated these people and taught them how to fight back. But, as difficult as escaping the fog was, breaching it was even more difficult. So he dedicated himself and his followers to finding a way into the realms, saving those trapped inside, and destroying the Entity. They built strange weapons and occult tools, and fought back whenever they could find the Entity breaching their dimension. I believe Vigo escaped the fog, and founded the Imperriati and the Pariahs.

pls make one on baker, ive seen parts of lore from him, but id love to see a vid compiling it all

My headcannon is that the hatch is opened by vigo for the last survivor, he knew the entity was onto him, and so only opens the hatch when the match is over, trying to help current survivors as much as he can.

I know it's not true, but I have a head canon that the blight and Vigo is the same person but in a multiversal sense. I like to think that Vigo is rather a nickname since that would make him the only survivor without a last name, however the blight does have a last name. My theory is basically two versions of the same guy got taken into the entities realm and while one had a good ending possibly, the other became the blight and turned to the killer side. I also believe that the blight and Vigo could be the same person in a non multiversal sense, where the entity manipulated Vigo's own story and have it lead into the blights, I feel the entity could have done this to make it so survivors that read it think he escaped and gives them hope

I suspect that the longer you do not die in the realm the more powerful you become. The more powerful you become the more self aware you become of your impact upon the realm. Survive long enough and you can start to influence the realm first in small ways and later your impact upon the realm can be so great that even the entity is compelled to follow the rules you have created. Vigo in time managed to survive with a long term streak against the killers and thus started to reshape the realm to aid him. These impacts were at first not perceived by the entity but later it realized the truth so it manipulated survivors to steal from vigo and subsequently lose in the trials thus erasing the items. Eventually vigo ran out of items and had to do the trials resulting in a death that erased his memories of how to manipulate the realm. The entity then focused on putting him thru the trials while encouraging survivors to "find" the things he made so they could be destroyed. That is why the entity accepts items belonging to vigo as its eager to erase him. Sadly he probably exists in the void now having been eaten up and spat out by the entity to the point that nothing is left.

Thank you for bringing back this series! This was my favorites videos from you channel

I feel like we won't get any information on Vigo until the end of it's lifecycle when he would probably fight with the entity in some way.

Guessing Vigo might become a survivor near the game's life end or when a major plot shift is needed.

I remember that in one of the Halloween events the survivors were allowed to have a variant of the serum that is safe for whoever uses it, unlike the putrid serum (the accessory that is usable for the first aid kits) it would be interesting to know that the serum What is safe for the survivors is actually the serum that I believe Vigo, unlike the one Blight made in his laboratory It's a theory, something I thought of out of nowhere, but they had a chance to do that for the lore.

MintSkull is the Entity confirmed. I didn’t tell anyone I wanted a Vigo video, and then it happens days later.

I really hope we get more Lore and Story related content in the Game. Imagine how cool a Film about Vigo and the Entity would be 😍

Great watch! Thanks for the lore summary!

never thought id be so interested in lore for this game, really good watch.

Nice Zelda soundtrack, good video !

Currently we have Observer trying to escape through the Void in House of Arkham archives. So, perhaps, we will see a Vigo (or at least a reference to him) in these.

Vigo and Baker need to come back.

I absolutely love the mysteries of the fog series, awesome video!

I feel like I can watch Mint talking about dbd for hours, great video as always king ❤

This was awesome, I really enjoyed it.

I love your videos, very well explained and entertaining! Keep going bro

I love the Forest Temple music you put on the last part of the video Edit: and the Water Temple music

uhhh fantastic video! Im still thinking, that theses old lore charas, Vigo, Benedickt and Talbot, but also Vittorio and the Observer now each other. I hope we will see or hear about these 5 Charas in the Movi and or in the Casting of Frank Stone Game

Really cool video about the game's lore. Thanks for sharing this!

DBD Lore will never cease to amaze me. More videos like this, please.

I love this series! Please keep going. :)

you're face, to face with the man who built the hatch

Games draw me in with their gameplay or cool factor, but keep me when they have interesting lore to back it all up!

THE MAN WHO CARED ABOUT DBD LORE: /s luv u minty

major plot twist imagine the entity is vigo from an alt timeline/uni and to stay alive it needs the killers to kill and also for the other version to be turned into the entity eventually

Great job honestly!

Honestly, I'd like to think that the oorignal survivors (the one who we theorize the general perks used to belong to) all escaped thanks to Vigo, which made the entity learn a bit, and therefore only allow some of their perks to be used, as well as nerfing items, buffing killers, etc.

i loved the video i hop youll do more lore videos like this :D

It would be cool if we got a map with vigo’s laboratory to learn more about this lore

Also, The Blight, as a survivor, legit captured killers. Bro is a maniac.

This is just beautiful man😢

As a lore enthusiast (especially blights lore) I’m a fan of this! Although it remains a mystery of Vigos fate his journal add on for blight hints to vigo possibly escaping as Talbot idolised vigo as a god because he had a way out of the realm (or it could just be hatch). We know that for Vigos fate it could be one of 2 things trapped in the void or he escaped

Wow this is amazing!

My theory is: after a while he made an escape from the realm(being the hatch after refining it) and after he escaped the entity changed it to be part of the realm as “an alternate escape”

Man just 1 hour ago i found a long forgotten picture of my great grandfathers friend group that was taken in 1942 and now this amazinggggg

03:04 Well, ackshually, the blood moon map is the strongest one since it also reveals the auras of injured survivors. Like a Tier0.5 Empathy

I’d love to see Vigo appear in game as a survivor who can influence the killer stuff like hooks or walls in contrast to the blight

He should be the dbd movie protag

the rift narrator has to be Vigo because he's sitting inside of a luxury Library and he tells us all about the entity and all of the survivors

This is a very interesting story, hopefully bhvr will do more! ❤

Vigo is a Carpathian who was a 16th/17th century tyrant. Known as a Warlock skilled in Black Magic.

I always found his story difficult to understand. Thanks for simplifying it.

Sort of related, I hope that we get more outfits of that purple variant of the putrid serum

I think there is something behind Vittorio Toscano. Just look at the perks like fogwise and especially potential energy, which allows the survivor to create a glyph. I defenitely think there is something behind that.

Another great video 🗣️

Imagine vigo is a new survivor and his perk tells him where the hatch is but exposes him and also telling the killer where he is for 10 sec

do more of these please I love them

Hit me with more of that sweet sweet lore.

Remember when brand new parts instantly repair a gens? I think that was an example of an original Vigo's invention and the entity of course nerfed it

Can anyone tell me what music is playing around in the background at 4:25? I’m having feelings of nostalgia but I can’t remember exactly where this came from

You should do a video on the Observer and Benedict. My head canon is that Vigo is the Observer, but id like to know what the community thinks about that. While we're talking about this, i wonder what happened to the original survivors from the general perk texts. And while we're asking that, do the survivors and killers we get already exist in the realm? Or are we just being introduced to them? So many questions.

Ive wanted more lore on vigo for likr 4 years now

It's the new character from TCM, coming to DBD - Virginity

I would like to see Vigo's skin for blight

Vigo for anniversary would be amazing altogether i feel like it’ll be a licensed chapter this year

I feel like vigos story will continue through the casting of frank stone

I always assumed Vigo was the guy in the chair over in the archives.

I hear that LoZ background music, hell yeah!

Im sure the true powerful being in the realm isnt the entity but the realm itself, the entity simply mastered how to shape the realm to one's will

Vigo made insta-blind flashlights and the entity took em

My theory is, that Vigo created the entity, and then introduced the salty lips and hatch as a way to give survivors more of a chance. The salty lips could be from sacrificed survivors.

My fav intro sound 😊 Most of PS2 player might find relatable ❤

16:00 could be that Talbot's an addict, while Vigo isn't. You know, Green Goblin also made an unrefined super serum

Can u make a video on how most of Hawkins lights are broken ever since they re-added the map? Previously, all hallway lights were off with the exception of those that are close to generators, the same issue is also for the computer lights around the map, and the exit gate red lights as well. I feel like no one noticed this could just be me.

I really love these lore videos!! I realize that there’s a limited amount of known DBD lore, so if you’re interested, I’d love to hear your own theories about the lore and DBD in general. Ex. Why do certain maps appear, why does the entity allow annual events? Etc. lol. :) just for fun!!

I would love to see a video on the alchemists lore

First time viewer, long time Dbd person. Neat loredump, i've been playing since launch so it's interesting to actually know who he is.

I think Vigo is the friends we made along the way

This video was really good if only we had more like it to me it was a great history lesson 👍🏽

You said at the end that Vigo could be the only person to escape, this is 100% false. Tomas a character mentioned in Tome 12 came back from the realm (and the trials) but went crazy. (You could speculate that Tomas is Vigo but this is not confirmed) So if they are 2 seperate people we know that Vigo is not the only one that escaped if he did. And we know that Talbot also once went into a part of the Entitys realm and came back.

I hate being early because now I can't binge any more of his lore videos cause I already binged them all

Honestly i think it would be cool if the entity did infact catch Vigo in the act of escaping and actually trapped him not turning him into a killer but instead it finds him to interesting to do so so instead it keeps him away in the Void somewhere and eventually the survivors gain more knowledge of the Realm with the Witches Alan Vigos Journal and the potential of even more knowledgeable Survivors in the future they figure out a way to save Vigo and free him from the Void making him a playable Survivor that would be incredible so much potential

10/10 great voice acting for the reading man, genuinely very good!

I will point out one thing, the devs talk about him in mostly present tense, other then him having been a survivor. Vigo is still around, just not a survivor now.

I cant quite put my finger on why, but Vigo sounds so familiar

love the new vid

I think in the end Vigo probably turned into a monster. I think every time he took his serum and used it to delve into the void he lost a little of his humanity. I think this is the reason he tore out the recipe, he realized at the end that it was too dangerous to use, and took one last trip into the Void in a desperate attempt to return to his reality. If fate were particularly cruel perhaps he did, but mutated into a monster like The Dredge that the Entity ends up recapturing and using as one of its killers.

theory: based on the similarity in voice could mint skull be Vigo?

Mint skull back at it again with the most unique content in the dbd. Community, so much of dbds content is the same “looping for 5 gens” “toxic survs get stomped” it gets boring but ur content is always unique and interesting

Vigga was the friends we made along the way

You should've also mentioned Yoichi's Outfit Vigo's Scientist which may canonically be Vigo's outfit

i need a benedict baker vid as only us lore people remember him as the devs have forgotten him

Honestly I’ve always thought Vigo was apart of the entity’s trap. He gives these little tastes of hope for survivors and seemingly knows intimate details on how to warp and even flat out break the rules but also is seemingly such a goober that he didn’t realize the entity would take his tools? His journal also is seemingly so detailed on the fact he did escape but not how which seems like the exact opposite of what a journal is for? I do think there’s a way to escape the entity’s realm and even a way to pass through it freely but I don’t believe that some dude who can’t even properly describe how he does things is the one who did it. Vigo seems so much more like a red herring to distract survivors from ACTUAL ways to escape

I would love to see a video dedicated to the Benedict Baker. Hopefully more people will see this video. I just love the dbd lore. Thanks for showing it to us MintSkull!! Love ya! 😁