Hermes T. Haight

 Hermes T Haight is one of the main villains of the 2004 horror videogame ''The Suffering. ''A former executioner at Abbott State Penitentiary on Carnate Island, Hermes was notorious for his long and obsessive reign over the gas chamber, his favourite means of execution. Though he committed suicide several years before the events of the game, he returns in the present as a ghost of toxic gas, determined to once again indulge himself in killing; however, he also regards protagonist Torque with considerable interest, regarding him as a possible rival for the role of Abbott's most prolific murderer - and also a possible successor.

He was voiced by John Patrick Lowrie.

Appearance
No photographic records of Hermes prior to his death remain, so it remains to be seen just how accurately his ghostly form captures his appearance. In any event, his ghost is little more than a transparent wraith in the shape of a tall, thin human figure, comprised entirely of sickly green gas; completely bald, sunken-eyed and gaunt-featured, he is dressed only in a pair of uniform pants and shoes - both of which only become noticeable in the event that he manifests a body below his waist. Easily the least human of all the ghosts on the island, he appears cadaverous to the point of almost appearing decayed, an impression only worsened by his transparent form and green coloration.

Though he primarily manifests as a human, he can take the form of billowing clouds of gas long before manifesting his humanoid shape, travelling through gratings and pipes in this fashion; he can even appear as diffused gas in the air. Indeed, this also makes Hermes the stealthiest of all the supernatural threats on the island next to the Nooseman, for he can make himself effectively invisible in certain areas until he chooses to strike: in one guard tower, Torque can end up stumbling into a fatal cloud of Hermes' substance and not even know it until the ghost himself speaks and the gas begins to coalesce.

Hermes speaks in a low-pitched monotone, enunciating slowly, drawing out certain words and rarely speaking at any volume above a languid whisper. In a further nod to his favorite means of execution and his chosen means of suicide, he punctuates his speech with long, slow breaths, as if he is savoring the taste of his own toxic gas.

PERSONALITY
Cold, remorseless, lacking in empathy, and obsessively dedicated to the extinguishing of human life, Hermes T Haight is a consumate executioner.