Val - Outlast 2

Val is a proudly psychotic and perverse sexual predator whose life mission is to assist in the birth of the Anti-Christ to revel in its bloody, apocalyptic rampage. In an entry in her journal where she writes about her thoughts and feelings as she goes from becoming one of Sullivan Knoth's most trusted followers to the founder of the Heretics, Val boasts about her wet dreams of her infant children being gruesomely murdered. These wet dreams were caused from the fact that her past leader, Knoth, made her kill all her own children, making her suffer trauma and her overall faith in God Knoth to be destroyed. This making her realize Knoth’s corruption ran deep, and in turn, that shook Val’s trust in him. Her rather violent sexual desires most likely being a trauma response to Knoths actions.

Val sees her own monstrous actions as "the sharing of love," and refers to her underlings as "my loves." Val is lascivious and never tries to hide it. Val also violently abhors Knoth and the Testament's views, and (very hypocritically) insults him for being a rapist and child-killer, although she does not see it as hatred, more so an embarrassment to God and what inspired her to make the Heretics.

Val wants to consummate her relationships with the voice that she hears. She notes that the voice is not God, but something physical like her and she desires it more than anything. The voice that Val hears is the radio frequency. The fact that Val starts hearing something different than Knoth may also show different reactions to the frequencies.

Before she became the founder of the heretics, and expressed this "shame" she had for Knoth, she followed the Testament of the New Ezekiel, led by Knoth himself as the reverend and often referred to by his followers by "Father Knoth" or "Papa Knoth". He and his followers would have to follow a gospel known as "The Gospel of Knoth", a biblical account of Sullivan Knoth's gospel that he claims holds guidance and enlightenment from God. Val was the highest-ranking Deacon of the Testament of the New Ezekiel and a close confidant to Sullivan Knoth. However, in contrast to Knoth Val eventually decided to forsake God and to actively worship the coming of the antichrist. Overall, Val leaves being a follower of Knoth because of her violent dreams that end up arousing her, making her question the beliefs of the cult. Val then digs a tunnel in a remote area on the outskirts of town where she meets up with Testament followers like her who wish to discuss their dreams, her eventually making the Heretics.

Val is a slim, well-groomed, androgynous-looking trans woman with short blonde hair and icy blue eyes. Normally, she wears a black priest uniform with a cross necklace and black boots. She lives with her large group of followers in a secluded, dilapidated town in the canyons of Arizona.

Her followers (The Heretics) are rather violent towards unfamiliar faces, even some being terrified of outsiders. In most, if not all instances where the Heretics are encountered, they are shown to be completely insane to the point of being almost animalistic. Despite their feral behavior, they are all shown to be completely loyal to their leader, Val. Heretics are heavily influenced by Val's words and don't see any wrong in it even how conspicuously morally non-right they are.

Cast out into the forest near the Temple Gate, you may encounter the Scalled. They were a part of the Testament of the New Ezekiel until they caught florid diseases. Though this was in fact syphilis and gonorrhea, Sullivan Knoth claimed that it was a "sickness of the soul". The Scalled are recognizable for being in a constant state of agony due to their diseases treated without medical attention and the incredibly poor living conditions. They are malnourished due to a lack of food and deathly thin. Most of them are covered in pus and bandages, some even have amputated arms and missing eyes.