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| “ | We must rise to face them! There is no innocence among the outsiders in our midts! Give them the knife, the club, the fist if it's all you got! God rejoices in the spilling of wicked blood! | „ |
| ~ Knoth ordering his followers to kill Blake and Lynn |
| “ | God in Heaven. That's... that's the child isn't it? My lord... I've taken care of my children. But yours... I am powerless against. The child's too strong already. You've murdered paradise. God has gone silent. Since the storm. The birth. Who will He have? If He destroys us all? Who will He have left to punish? I killed my children. All of them. Every last one. There's no more perfect faith than that. And still, God is silent. Kill that child if you can. If you love anything at all, crush its skull under your heel. I know God doesn't hear dead men. But I expect He answers them... | „ |
| ~ Knoth's final delusional monologue |
Sullivan Knoth is the main antagonist of Outlast 2.
He is the founder and leader of the Testament of the New Ezekiel, a cult of Christian fanatics who have made their home in Temple Gate, a remote town in the wilderness of Arizona. He is the arch-nemesis of Blake Langerman.
He was voiced by Vlastra Vrána.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- Even before being affected by Murkoff radio towers, Knoth was already shown to be delusional, believing that radio static from a late-night Evangelical radio station is the voice of God.
- He persuades his male followers to encourage their wives to have sex with Knoth, effectively making him a serial rapist as he does this with most of his female followers.
- It is said by Ethan one time that Knoth once raped his 15 year old daughter by "pressing himself" on her.
- When he created the Testament of the New Ezekiel and gathered many followers, he ordered them to kill every baby in Temple Gate in order to prevent the Anti-Christ from being born.
- He and his followers established Temple Gate in a remote part of the Havasupai Indian Reservation and forcibly displaced any indigenous people living in the area.
- He turned a woman named Marta into his personal executioner, and asked her to kill every sinner that she came across. This makes him responsible of what she has become, as she was so merciless that even Knoth's servants were afraid of her.
- He ordered the villagers to torture and kill every Heretic that opposed the Testament.
- He isolated the syphilitics into the mountains, making him responsible of the atrocities Laird Byron committed for his sake.
- The body of the helicopter pilot who flew the Langermanns into Temple Gate can be found mutilated and bound, probably the work of Knoth's followers.
- He orders his followers to kill Blake and Lynn, who were not members of the Heretics just because they would unknowingly give birth to the Anti-Christ.
- He has his men torture a man named Joshia and a woman named Mary to death in order to know where the Heretics took Lynn.
- When Lynn eventually gave birth to the Anti-Christ, he ordered all his men to commit suicide via cyanide because they had failed at preventing the apocalypse, which is ironic because suicide is seen wrong by Christian religion.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is too tragic and amoral to be NPE, as he was brought insane by the Murkoff radio signals, he thinks he is acting for the good of Temple Gate and that the Anti-Christ is an evil entity who will bring the apocalypse.
- While he was already delusional before being affected by the radio signals, all of his worst actions are done under the influence of the signals.
- The reason he became so delusional was because he was a shoe salesman in a financially desperate position and he listened to the radio station for solace.
- He has moral agency issues because Murkoff's radio signals drove him crazy.
- Although, very much in his own way, he cared for his lackey and servants.
- Even if he isolated the Scalled, he cared about them as the letters show he had contact with Laird and often sent them food and other supplies for them.
- His death is played by sympathy, especially when he wonders if God will answers his doubt before comitting suicide.
External Links[]
- Sullivan Knoth on the Villains Wiki
- Sullivan Knoth on the Outlast Wiki