Val (Outlast)

"I watched my father f--k your God to death!"

- Val voicing her contempt about Knoth's actions

Val is one of the two main antagonists (along with Sullivan Knoth) in the 2017 videogame Outlast 2.

Past
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. Val managed to round up several others who shared their beliefs and openly betrayed Knoth, founding the group that came to be known as the Heretics. Over the years, the Testament and the Heretics clashed openly multiple times. However, Knoth never found out where Val's main base was located; abandoned mines a few miles away from Temple Gate.

Outlast 2
Val and the Heretics are first encountered after Blake Langermann finds Lynn and escapes from the Testament. The Heretics capture Lynn, whose womb is rumored to house the Anti-Christ, and set up a ritual down in their mines to stage her birth. Blake follows the Heretics, until he gets captured and taken to Val. Val shows him her "true face" by smothering her naked body in mud and donning a large crown of thorns, distorting her appearance. Due to a tremor in the mines, Blake manages to escape, however, Val and the Heretics relentlessly chase him throughout the mines.

Blake finally stumbles across the ritual where Lynn is kept, surrounded by the entire Heretic cult participating in a graphic blood orgy that Val forces him to participate in, raping him. The Testament manages to raid the mines due to being sold out by Josiah, they had a blood bath, and presumably kill every last Heretic including Val, ending and winning their civil war.

Trivia

 * Although Val is depicted female in the game, all notes about Val claim that Val is a man.