Cultists

The Cult is a secondary antagonistic faction that is fought by Task Force 27. They appear to have close ties to Horizon Corporation, as Dr. Richard Kramer, Horizon's CSO, was assigned to assist them in research. They also supply Horizon with "unknown goods" in exchange for weapons and other supplies.
Not much is known about the Cult's history before the Patriarch took over; there is even no officially known name. However, it is known that they have a violent and xenophobic outlook towards the outside world. Within their base of operations, Jorvik Castle, they maintain a highly disciplined cult where each and every member is trained in the use of firearms and making of fire bombs, as well as how to maintain crops and to purify water. They also perform raids on neighboring locations to obtain food, water, and medicine. Despite this violent attitude, the Cult seems to have no trouble recruiting members, as they pull from those without purpose or fulfillment.
Cult members wear simple clothes and, distinctly, a metal mask that is stated to be nailed onto their face. Underneath their mask, the Cultists are shown to have heavily scarred, malformed, and mutated faces; this is most noticeable with the suicide bombers, whose faces have nearly been overtaken whole by their mouths. Theoretically, this happened to them in the simultaneous outcome of the sacrificial rituals they perform at the cost of disfiguring them.
==Members==
The Cult has a small and consolidated power structure, with only a few high-ranking members. However, the Patriarch and Enforcer seem to be the ones who hold the Cult together, as after their deaths, the Cult separates into much smaller splinter groups.
*The Patriarch, the Cult's current leader
*The Enforcer, the Cult's military instructor and the Patriarch's second-in-command
*Clark "Archivist" Wilkins, the Cult's historian and preserver of knowledge
*Dr. Alexander "Alchemist" Wildman, the Cult's healer and alchemist
*The Chaplain, the Cult's lead raid captain and leader of the largest post-Patriarch splinter faction.
== Trivia ==
* Their mutated faces is also coincidental to the analog horror series called Greylock, where an eldritch/extraterrestrial virus that lingers both outside and inside the mountain, which turned innocent people visiting there, into insane Cronenberg monsters.
* In the post-game start menu, we are able to hear a female cultist speaking to her brothers and sisters. She is called the "Matriarch" in the ingame files.
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