Marta

"God don't hear dead men! Be still! Take your penance! God loves you! God loves you..."

- Marta while murdering Ethan

Marta is a villain in the 2017 horror game Outlast 2.

Past
Marta is a feared member of the Testament of the New Ezekiel. She wields a modified pickaxe.

Outlast 2
When the helicopter of Blake and Lynn Langerman crashes near Temple Gate, Lynn is captured by the Testament but Blake is not found. When Blake wakes up hours later, he stumbles towards Temple Gate. Eventually, he hears a croaking voice muttering some prayers. Upon coming closer, he is suddenly attacked by Marta but manages to evade her.

Eventually, Knoth himself learns of the arrival of Blake and Lynn and sends the entire community to hunt them down. Marta seems to make it her utmost priority to find and kill Blake.

Blake escapes the chaos and is taken in by Ethan, a former cultist who secretly swore off Knoth when Knoth forced him to kill the unborn child of his daughter. Ethan leads Blake to a hidden cellar in which he can recover but when Blake wakes up again, he hears noises upstairs. Blake hears that Marta has arrived at Ethan's house. Although Ethan claims that he does not know where the outsider is and that he is loyal to Knoth, Marta replies that Knoth would not need Ethan's help in finding the outsider. She states, however, that Ethan has betrayed Knoth when he let his daughter escape with the unborn child. Refering to Ethan's actions as sins, she attacks Ethan and gruesomely murders him. She then leaves Ethan's shed, continuing her hunt for Blake.

Blake leaves the shed as well. While he is sneaking through a cornfield, he witnesses Marta dragging the corpse of a heretic behind her, impaled on her pickaxe. Blake is later forced to activate a generator in one of the communities of Temple Gate in order to activate an elevator. After he has activated the generator, the people of the town seem to flee from something. Blake remains in town and witnesses Marta turning up at the town gates. When she sees Blake, she immediately tries to kill him but Blake escapes into the elevator.