He still powers on, however, finally reaching a lift down into the mines where Lynn is being kept by the Heretics. By now, his hallucinations of his childhood grow incredibly vivid, nightmarish, and more intense, and by the end Blake has been driven completely insane by his guilt over Jessica's fate. Against all odds, Blake escapes both hazards and escapes the forest. Blake is anointed the 'Scalled Messiah', and Laird insists on 'rebirthing' Blake through crucifixion and being buried alive.

On his way there, Blake falls off a bridge and is abducted by a dwarf archer named Laird and his partner/mount named Nick, the two leaders of the Scalled outcasts. Blake is chased throughout the town into Temple Gate's main chapel, where he watches in secret the horrific interrogation of two Heretics who finally confess to Knoth that Lynn is being kept in the mines, giving Blake a new objective. Ethan kindly houses Blake, claiming to be too traumatized by the horrors of Temple Gate to keep the faith anymore, but is slain a few hours into Blake's rest by Knoth's enforcer Marta. It turns out that the pregnant woman who was murdered was the daughter of Ethan, a follower of Knoth, who was sexually abused and impregnated by the preacher. The resulting clash between two cults, one with Christian beliefs and the otherwith Satanic leanings, ends up with Lynn being taken away and Blake being left to find her and continue to investigate Temple Gate. Thus begins a town-wide manhunt to track down Lynn and kill her before the child can be born. Lynn has become entangled with the self-described prophet Sullivan Knoth, who insists that Lynn is pregnant with Blake's child, describing it as the Anti-Christ. A fleet of hostile villagers encroach on Blake and try to kill him before he's reunited with his wife. While looking for Lynn, Blake finds the helicopter pilot skinned, gutted and tied up at a tree limb, proving Blake and Lynn are in incredible danger. Blake is separated from Lynn and must find his way back to her, all the while exploring a village in a rural area where the residents are concerned that the end of days is finally upon them. The Jane Doe victim investigation ends up with the pair crash-landing in their helicopter in the Supai region of the Sonoran desert in Arizona.

The pair are investigating the murder of a young pregnant woman who has yet to be identified.

Blake returns upon hearing her scream, and finds her bloodied, mangled corpse on the stairs, neck broken. It's implied Loutermilch killed Jessica and forced Blake to keep quiet and help him cover it up as a suicide, crippling him with guilt for the rest of his life.ĭecades later, Blake is a cameraman who works alongside his journalist wife, Lynn. Blake has multiple flashbacks to his childhood, specifically one memory where he was playing hide and seek with Jessica after school, where they're caught by Father Loutermilch and Blake is forced to leave whilst Jessica is 'lectured'. Together with his wife Lynn, they go to investigate the murder of a pregnant woman in Supai, Arizona, with Blake acting as the cameraman and Lynn as the reporter.Īs a child, Blake Langermann attended a Catholic school with Lynn and Jessica Gray, both of whom he was very close to. Blake Langermann is the unseen protagonist of Outlast 2 and the first with a speaking role in the overall series.

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