Summary
The Casting of Frank Stoneis one of Supermassive’s most ambitious narratives yet. Weaving its plot with the established mythology ofDead by Daylight, the game takes you through parallel universes and across multiple timelines of 1963, 1980, and 2024 in a story about a horror film that has supernatural forces behind it and can unleash great evil into the world.
With all the elements the game introduces, of multiple timelines that have alternate versions of characters within them, things can sometimes get very complex and puzzling, especially how it all ends. These are the burning questions The Casting of Frank Stone may leave you with, even after you complete all the branching paths.
Major story spoilers for The Casting of Frank Stone are ahead! Turn back now, or have your Fate Sealed!
One of the most pressing questions you might have once the game ends, is who’s coming to Dead by Daylight from The Casting of Frank Stone? The finale felt like a teaser for a future Dead by Daylight chapter that could feature Frank Stone, or ‘The Champion,’ as a Killer, also consideringhe was the final Rellik doll to collect, and you get to play as him should all the characters in your playthrough die.
As for which side characters and playable protagonists from The Casting of Frank Stone, if any, are to make it into Dead by Daylight, that remains to be seen. There are over 200 branching paths featuring many points where characters can be killed off in the story, and how many make it to The Entity’s dimension to await their trial at the campfire rests entirely on your choices throughout.
2Why Did Frank Stone Kill Augustine Lieber And Sacrifice Her To The Entity?
In a surprise ending to her story, Augustine Lieber gets cleaved in the neck by Frank Stone and then sacrificed to The Entity as one of its legs stabs her and turns her into dust. Good riddance to Augustine and all her villainy that created Frank Stone and unleashed The Entity into all the timelines, but it seems a rather sudden betrayal for her to go out like that knowing what you know about her.
You learn Augustine is actually Dr. Augustine Lieber, a psychiatrist who had groomed her patient Frank Stone into being one of the best killers The Entity would ever receive, her “Champion”, an “Enkidu” as he was referred to in the game.
Frank Stone and Augustine were a team, andshe did it all to serve The Entity, a devout acolyte helping forge Stone into an eternal being across multiple realities to deliver him for the trials, yet she was killed instead of rising to be an even bigger villain alongside The Entity.
3How Is Another Augustine Lieber Able To Emerge From The Horologium’s Sarcophagus In The End?
After the credits roll, you have one more scene to view before returning to the main menu and testing the now-unlocked Cutting Room Floor feature. You’re back in Gerant Manor’s Horologium and the green particles and machine rings start up again to reveal Augustine Lieber coming out of the sarcophagus portal, who looks the same as the one just killed in 2024.
Awaiting the new Augustine is a much older version of herself donned in a black cloak like she previously had on in the 1963 timelinewhen Frank was sacrificing the child. This cloaked, elderly Augustine appears to be the one who emerged from the Horologium’s portal when Madi rescued Chris in an earlier chapter.
So, is this still happening in the same 2024 version of Gerant Manor, or an entirely different dimension? And what does it mean?
4Were The 1963 And 1980 Timelines Also Parallel Universes Part Of The Bigger Omniverse?
When the twist of Frank Stone’s ghost killing Bonnie in 1980 arrives, it sets in stone that what’s happening in 1980 Cedar Hills isn’t the same as what happened to the lives of the same characters in 2024. Madi Rivera is Bonnie’s daughter, meaning her mom had to be alive for a lot longer than 1980 for her to exist.
Linda also doesn’t recall filming Bonnie getting impaled on a hook when watching the 1980 timeline version of Murder Mill down in the archives of the manor. When Sam shows up in 2024, he reveals that he’s from a different reality, so he might not even be the one you played in 1963 and 1980.
Although it seems like the spot where Frank Stone was killed by Sam and sacrificed to The Entity remains the same in the 1980 version of the Cedar Steel Mill and Sam’s injuries (were he to sustain them in the prologue) also carry over, 1963 and 1980 could still be in two separate universes.
A subtle hint was the camera focusing on a poster in Tom’s office advertising a Cedar Lakes bait shop. In 1963, the ad read: “Lure ‘Em In!” In 1980, it changed to: “Keep ‘Em Hooked!”
5Why Did The Entity Appear In Madi’s Nightmare To Take Her Mom Away? Is Bonnie’s Soul Trapped Inside Frank?
When you meet Madi in The Casting of Frank Stone, it happens in a nightmare. She wakes up in her bed in the middle of the night and follows a figure that’s seemingly her mom from room to room in a loop, with her mom’s face becoming more and more scratched out from a photograph. Once Madi goes outside, she finds her mother sitting there in the woods, but her eyes are black and empty and The Entity’s spider-like appendage quickly stabs her and takes her away into the void.
Since Madi has no prior connection to The Entity (nor is it summoned yet) and she finds out about Murder Mill later in the chapter, how can The Entity just manifest in her nightmare? And if Madi gets consumed by Frank Stone in the end, she becomes a part of his body, just as with all his victims, but Madi interestingly yells out: “Mom! Help Me!,” as though she’s in there with her.
So, has Bonnie been consumed by Frank Stone? Is that what Madi’s nightmare meant?
In this same nightmare, you can also interact with a glass cup in Madi’s bedroom that looks exactly like the one Augustine pours her drink in at Gerant Manor, giving Madi a sense of déjà vu when she drinks from it. That’s also very strange and left unexplained as to how the glass appeared in her nightmare before she even saw it in real-life.
Murder Mill screenings erupting in violence was believed to be an urban legend in the game spread by Stan, and that it got so bad all copies of the film had to be destroyed. However, later in the story, these accounts are proven truevia some artifact collectibles. There’s an old news report you can listen to that details some of what was happening and then a review of the movie and a newspaper mentioning the same thing.
There’s never really any explanation for why this might’ve occurred, other than it tying into the greater Lovecraftian themes at play. And since it’s been well established that Frank Stone was trapped inside the movie because of its supernatural properties, which can also release him back into the world, wouldn’t that have happened first when they screened the movie in theaters?
Why only now in Gerant Manor? Do different Murder Mill films lead to different outcomes across the omniverse?
7What Is The History Behind Gerant Manor And The Horologium’s Interdimensional Portal?
Gerant Manor isone of the best Lovecraftian settings in gamingand one of Supermassive’s most mysterious and atmospheric, heavily inspired by the likes of Alone in the Dark, Clive Barker’s Undying, and Color Out of Space. You understand it’s a place of occult worship for The Entity, with lore text, paintings, stained-glass windows featuring The Entity’s razor-sharp legs, and the Horologium room all being major clues.
But, disappointingly, that’s about all that’s explained. Every room and hallway intrigues you with lore. There are so many historical portraits displayed everywhere (one which resembles Augustine), and you havetons of Easter eggs for Dead by Daylight Killersfrom other universes appearing in paintings and antiquities.
How is this all here? How does the mansion get its name? How does the interdimensional time-traveling portal in the Horologium chamber even exist to begin with?
8How Was Linda Castle Able To Have A Successful Film Career After Murder Mill?
The Linda Castle in 2024 became a famed director of horror films and gained a cult following, so much so that an actual cult is after her cursed 1980 movie. But that’s precisely the question. How was this Linda able to find such success and go on to make as many horror films as she did in her career when Murder Mill turned into a project that should’ve derailed her career before it even started?
And why would she even want to continue making more horror films, given what happened?
It seems the realities bleed into each other, so what happens to the main characters in each one should be similar. 1980s Linda showed skill as a director while filming with Chris Gordon, demonstrating excellent work behind the camera on Murder Mill, but the movie was a disaster of otherwordly proportions and cost lives, so what launched her career?
Then again, Linda could’ve let all the blame fall on Chris since itwasher movie and she wasn’t able to have much of a say in it.
