The Spectre

The Spectre is the textbook definition of a bloodthirsty psychopath, feeding on both the attention of his playerbase and the suffering of the survivors and killers, with "taking" being the only thing he knows how to do perfectly. This is something shown throughout the series, as while it does have a good understanding of morals, it is incapable of actually acting on it. For example, while it does seem to understand what is "right" and "wrong" and what makes people happy, it is incapable of feeling those emotions because it lacks any at all human traits, with him only being capable of kidnapping Noob and scaring them in Noob's time of need (or, when they were most desperate to see Guest 666 again).[6] Really, the only thing that The Spectre is truly good at is inducing fear, pain, and taking from others, something it does exceptionally well as Jane Doe states many times.

He is shown to be incredibly manipulative and deceiving in many ARGs, like when he lured Noob into the realm by impersonating Guest 666, implying he had been watching them and their friendship dissolve and waited for the right time to strike. While the developers of Forsaken state that he is devoid of any human traits, The Spectre is surprisingly charismatic enough to start his own fake religion with several servants such as Nosferatu, Azure, and Phosphorus, while also selling plushies outside of its game.

In-game, The Spectre takes great love and care in putting the survivors through hell. While not on-screen most of the time, he is shown to be the one controlling and buffing John Doe's powers on March 18th. However, there are many times where The Spectre is shown to be fair. While he feeds off of the despair of both survivors and killers, he remains completely unbiased on who wins a match, allowing the Survivors to win and teleporting them back to safety even if the round would've been an easy game for them with little to no suffering going on.

He can also be heard giving the player advice when trying to repair a generator or build a turret, telling them to "move back a little" and the works. Even though he has the ability to buff the killers, he does try and hold his vessels back, an example of this being him allowing John Doe to be stunned. The Spectre is also shown to allow Survivors to be happy from time to time as shown in the summer update, though it tends to take that happiness away not soon after.

The Spectre is also incredibly wrathful to random people for no reason, freezing the ocean and turning the ocean into blood just to spite a random NPC in the Lobby, the same NPC who would then be stuck in the ice for the entire Winter Update. In the current lore, despite having no difficulty in kidnapping Dusekkar he makes an effort to design the Halloween Event directly after him so that he would be traumatized.

The Spectre is shown to also be arrogant to its playerbase, although it does break character with them on several occasions, sometimes just mocking them on why they were trying to fix generators when they were dead. The developers confirm that The Spectre has no human traits, acting more like a "cryptid" or a beast.[7] This means that, no matter how hard it were to try, it can't feel anything like love, care, or affection, though interestingly enough it only appears to be able to feel wrath and savagery quite easily, one of the emotions of humans. Why it can only feel wrath is unclear, though it does appear to contradict several statements.

At many points in time, it's shown that he also doesn't communicate with the Players directly, as he is shown to use Vigenere ciphers to speak. However, this is only by choice, and The Spectre can be quite direct in his aggressive undertones.

This implies that The Spectre doesn't even care about his players in any regard, and only see them more as a food source for survival.

Appearance: The Spectre takes on no physical form; instead, its presence noticeably twists and distorts the environment it is present in—often signaled by a red-and-black sky or thick mist that appears moments before its unfortunate victims are damned/forsaken. However, as seen in its ROBLOX account (which may actually hold some canonicity), The Spectre appears to like fancy hats as its avatar wears one.

In the "Roadmap Showcase" video, The Spectre takes the form of a tidal wave. His figure is very similar (and possibly a reference) to his appearance in the painting of Demophon freeing Aithra in 470 BC. After the Jane Doe update, it's confirmed that we will be indeed getting more lore of The Spectre according to the Roadmap.

In the Jane Doe update, we see her describe The Spectre as a "fledgling," which interestingly enough not only pinpoints how he's learned, but symbolically portrays him as a bird (in the past). This is symbolically accurate to his appearances in the ARG where he simply flies around the maze in A Realization, and how he is literally the skybox.

It also implies the existence of other beings similar to The Spectre who have already grown before him. In the April Fools' update where The Actuality was introduced, this would be confirmed, though it's unclear at which point they were even born to begin with.

Land separated between 'Life' and 'Death'