Reverend Silas Lodge

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Reverend Silas Lodge is the founder of Mount Absalom. He lives in The Burning Woods with his two dogs Abbadon and Moloch, also sometimes called Don and Molly.

## Description

Silas is a white man with pale skin and bright white hair. He often dresses in black.

## History

According to a letter sent by Hezekiah Bennington, one of the original settlers of the town, Silas Lodge was originally found surrounded by around fifty bodies. The bodies had no marks on them, and appeared to have died from cholera.

While the other founders of Mount Absalom welcomed the presence of ghosts, Silas saw them as a harbinger of doom. He anointed himself the Revelator, and, as he gained followers, caused chaos as he rebelled against the town. The other founders formed the Delphic Order and, aided by the ritual and grace of the town, cast the reverend out beyond the borders of the town.

Official records state that Silas died trying to save people in the fire of 1896. However, records in the library's 'special collection' contradict both his actions and his supposed death.

Silas's chapel is buried under Chapel Hill, underneath the observatory.

Silas wishes to gain control of Fenwood House.

At the beginning of season four, Silas is able to cross the border into Mount Absalom, and now lives in the town.

## Stories

Silas has told several stories (previously his sermons) over the episodes, which stand in as possible allegories for other characters.

### The Little Girl in the Woods

There is a young girl who gets lost in the woods. She spends days trying and failing to find a way out. As she sits praying, she looks up and notices that the nearby trees all have one single branch pointing in the same direction. The girl remembers that her father is a woodcutter, who must have left the branches as a way to lead him out of the forest, so the girl follows the branches home.

### The Woodcutter in the Woods

One day, the woodcutter's daughter got lost in the woods. He searches for her for days, going deeper and deeper into the woods, before finally giving up in despair. An old wolf takes pity on the woodcutter, telling him that the woods, who hate the woodcutter, have taken his daughter as revenge for the woodcutter's years of cutting and hacking the trees. The woodcutter pleads for his daughter's safety, and the wolf says that if the woodcutter takes the daughter's place, she will be returned. The woodcutter agrees, and the daughter exits the forest the next day, following the branches. The woodcutter was never seen again, but sometimes, his daughter could hear his screams in the forest.

### The Miller's Cat

(Trigger warning for animal injury and death.)

There was a cat that lived with a miller. The cat was much appreciated by the miller for keeping the grain safe from mice. Because of this, the cat was allowed to roam everywhere, except for the windmill. But the cat was curious. It thought that there might be lots of mice in the windmill, thought that the miller would be proud of it for catching them all, and snuck in the door one evening as the miller was leaving. The cat thought itself clever, and jumped up onto the mill stone in order to have a good view. Then the wind began to blow; the wind blew against the windmill sails, turning the axles and the grinding stone, which moved over the cat's tail, trapping the cat. The cat tried to free itself to no avail. As the wind continued to blow, the grinding stone moved up the cat's body, slowly crushing it. Before the cat perished, it cried out a message for all its future kin: “There are some places cats shouldn't go.”

## Trivia

Before the reveal of his name in The Broken Moat, he was previously credited as 'an old man on the edge of town', or as static.

## Episode Appearances

* 12: Lost in the Woods

**Season 2**
* 1: The Burning Woods
* 3: Hay Ride
* 6: The Graveyard Shuffle
* 12: The Broken Moat

**Season 3**
* 3: Chapel Hill
* 6. The Truthteller
* 7. A Space Within The Walls
* 8. Celerity

**Season 4**
* Hold On