Answers for July 9, 2026

The Houndmaster

Portia Maye lost her father to the pirate Tariq, and served his head to Mad Molak at the feast that followed. She hunts with her dog Snug, and Scent of Blood sends him out ahead to run a survivor down and hold them until she arrives.

The Knight

Tarhos Kovács was enslaved and trained by the Guardia Compagnia under Kadir Hakam, and later locked Vittorio Toscano in the dungeons of Portoscuro to get at the Lapis Paradisus. His power sends that same company after you one guard at a time, and Nowhere to Hide exposes anyone lingering near a kicked generator.

The Hag

Lisa Sherwood was held in a flooded swamp cellar by cannibals who tortured their prisoners, and she pulled free of her shackles to daub ritual symbols in blood on the floor. Those marks became the Blackened Catalyst, and her totems still carry Hex: Ruin and Hex: Devour Hope.

Jonah Vasquez

Jonah Vasquez is a CIA codebreaker who was given a card of numbers for his sixteenth birthday that turned out to be coordinates to a Chilean graveyard. Overcome stretches a hit into a longer sprint, and Boon: Exponential gets his team off the ground.

Yoichi Asakawa

Yoichi Asakawa lost his parents to an inexplicable curse as a child and became a marine biologist, until two of his students vanished researching at Izu Oshima. Empathic Connection shows the wounded where he is, and Boon: Dark Theory speeds up everyone inside it.

Lampkin Lane

Lampkin Lane is the suburban street of Haddonfield, jungle gym included, held in the dark by the Entity. The house with the jack-o'-lantern on the porch is Michael Myers's.