Eric (The Dark Pictures)

Eric King is one of the five main protagonists in The Dark Pictures Anthology - House of Ashes. He is a US Air Force Officer who designed the program Caelus, which identified the House of Ashes as an underground weapons silo and set off the events of the game.
== Biography ==
Eric is first seen arriving at Camp Slayer and debriefing the team on the underground weapons silo that his satellite program, Caelus, picked up on. He is then seen at the shepherds' houses, examining the area for the weapons silo but instead finds that the shepherds are actually drug lords, selling heroin. A few minutes later, the team is attacked by a group of Iraqis and an earthquake suddenly starts, sucking both military teams underground through sinkholes. 
Both teams end up in the House of Ashes, which is what Caelus mistook as the underground weapons silo. He is united with Rachel and the duo set off to explore the caverns, entering the temple and examining the area. However, the duo are attacked by Dar. They run away and Rachel ends up falling into a chasm, with Eric possibly falling in and being impaled on a stalactite. He is then reunited with Jason, Nick and possibly Merwin and the survivors return to the temple, arming it. Later on, after Nick and Salim kill one of the vampires, Eric takes the corpse back to the temple to examine it, possibly taking Salim along as a hostage. If Salim has knowledge about the creatures' weakness to sunlight, Eric will use his UV lamp to examine the corpse and set it ablaze. Later, Salim escapes and Eric mets up with Jason and Nick, who had found a radio. If Merwin is still alive, he will fix the radio and the group will be able to call for air support. They will then be attacked by Dar and Merwin will be killed. The trio rush back to the temple and Rachel arrives just as the group closes the door and the vampires attack. The Anericans retreat into the catacombs and met up with Dar and Salim. They form an alliance when they must survive an assault against the vampires and the Ancient One. 
After the assault, Eric will meet up with Rachel and Nick if they are still alive and will reunite with Jason and Salim in the underground vampire lair, crawling into the Star Chamber. There, they will learn that the vampires are alien parasites and they set out to destroy the cocoon vault. After the motherlode is blown up, the survivors will escape on an elevator and climb to make it back to the surface. Once on the surface, the group are endangered once more when an eclipse starts and they must hold out for 6 minutes against the Vampires and possibly the Ancient One until the eclipse ends. If still alive, after the eclipse ends, Eric will be rescued alongside whoever is still alive, and he will be interrogated back at Camp Slayer about the events that transpired.
== Personality ==
Being a lieutenant and colonel, Eric is commanding and confident. Sometimes Eric abuses his status as colonel to get everyone to do what he wants and will remind the other protagonists about who is in charge. Eric is also intelligent and tech savvy, as he created the Caelus program. 
== Trivia ==
Eric shown to dislike horror movies due to a dialogue line with Rachel in the game when he finds a miniature statue of Pazuzu. Eric is also shown to be atheist, not believing in God.
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