Crytek has published a new Hunt: Showdown 1896 lore entry titled “Mythos | Bloodskin.” The entry went up on the game’s Steam news hub and on the official lore page at huntshowdown.com on 27 September 2026. It adds to the Blood Testament event, which launched on 8 September 2026 alongside Update 2.9.
The Steam announcement opens with two lines: “He was promised hope. He was given a curse.” It describes Warren Russett as a desperate father who trusted Lynch’s promises and became the foundation of Blood Testament’s most horrifying creations, and asks how far Lynch will go and who she will sacrifice next.
Warren Russett’s transformation
According to the lore page, Bloodskin was once a man named Warren Russett. His wife Lily was taken by the Corruption, leaving him with their children Rebecca and Arthur. He described Lynch as like a ghost or a shadow, a woman with a white braid and a cold face. She offered him an experimental blood serum, telling him there was no hope for Lily but that the serum could make him strong enough to protect his children.
The serum worked at first. Russett wrote that he stood three inches taller and could crush a grunt’s skull with his hand. It then produced an unquenchable thirst for blood, and he wrote that the hot blood of hunters stopped the cravings briefly.
A journal attributed to Sophie Laurent describes how she and Lynch withheld the serum and experimented on Russett. In that account, Lynch brought in a surgeon to explore new possibilities while Russett believed a transfusion would cure him.
Researcher’s report and surgical signature
A researcher’s report describes Bloodskin’s body in detail. The blood showed perfect health, with red blood cells and unfamiliar enzymes that point to a faster metabolism. The heart’s ventricles exceed the number usually present, and the atrium and aorta appear to have been enlarged manually. Keloid scars surround the joints. The abdomen is secured with fleshy appendages that contain working veins, arteries and muscle, and an organic growth is anchored around the ribcage.
The same report notes T-shaped stitches found on both Bloodskin and Scrapbeak, and a similar pattern with Ursa Mortis. The researcher reads this as a possible surgical signature, and notes that the work was not performed by a medical professional.
