Sandra Attwood

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## Sandra Attwood

* Close Up
* Corpse

### Affiliation

Order of the Second Death
Umbilical Cord Demon

## Biographical information

### Date of death

Anytime between Sept 22nd and Sept 27th, 1987

## Physical description

### Eye color

White

**Sandra Attwood** is a minor character that only appears in Chapter II. Alongside Angel Nogales and Troy Ingles, she was a low-ranking cult member (who are titled as "thralls") a part of the Eternal Order of the Second Death, a satanic cult primarily functioning in Sterling, Connecticut.

For reasons unclear, she and the other thralls were brutally murdered by their cult for some kind of ritual. A newspaper article was published about the gory crime scene shortly before Chapter II begins. Sandra's death and publishment was significant enough for John Ward to dream about the thralls and walking around the murder scene.

## Appearance

Not much is known about Angel, Sandra, and Troy. From what little information we can gather, Sandra was a female cult member, which is notable because the vast majority of thralls are male (we can tell because every close-up view of a thrall in the series are naked, which makes it pretty obvious that they're not female). Note #18 in Chapter II reveals that they were all young adults, so Sandra was likely in her 20s or early 30s before she was killed.

## Biography

### Unknown Time

We start Sandra's biography with the short story of Note #8 from Chapter II, where we're assuming that the woman detailed there is Sandra herself. Sandra recounts when she unexpectedly became pregnant. Nobody was thrilled or excited for her, and she even suspects that her doctor was silently judging her. Every time she would leave her doctor's office, she'd notice a strange woman giving her a warming smile from across the street, which made the office visits a bit more bearable.

Sandra continues that she lost the baby, it's unclear if it was a miscarriage or abortion. She spots the strange woman giving her a big smile after a doctor visit, but it wasn't warming or friendly as before. The note ends that, yesterday (this is undated), she was walking around and came across the strange woman in the middle of a path, who is now pregnant. The woman beckoned her into the woodland. Sandra followed her and came across a man named Gary.

Gary is in fact a cult leader in charge of the Eternal Order of the Second Death. Note #6 essentially provides a small backstory to Sandra's life before joining the cult. The reasoning from this note alone isn't clear, but as Chapter II begins and we take quotes from a demon in consideration, it's implied that Sandra was sexually assaulted by somebody, and her community judged her for the sudden pregnancy as if it was her fault. She was coerced into joining Gary's cult, which would soon become her doomed fate.

### Between September 22nd to 27th, 1987

It's heavily implied that the locations John will eventually explore in his dream/Chapter II, Gallup Cemetery, Snake Meadow Hill Church, and the Candy Tunnels, were affected by murders and disappearances that were published on the newspaper and loosely corelate to the cult. Taking consideration that Chapter II takes place a week after Chapter I, we can surmise that all of this occurs between September 22nd to 27th of 1987. This is a reminder that all of this is undated, it could've taken place in February or some other month for all we know.

Flashing forward an undetermined amount of time from Note #8, Sandra is a young adult in September of 1987. In between the 22nd to 27th, Sandra, a cult member named Troy Ingles, and another named Angel Nogales, were chosen to be sacrificially killed for an unknown purpose nearby a cemetery, aptly called Gallup Cemetery. We can speculate that Gary commanded this to happen considering that he's their leader, but this is uncertain as he never brings it up in Chapter III. It's implied that the trio were congregating within a tomb, named Save Family Tomb because it was built by an affluent group a part of the cult called Save Family, before they were gruesomely stabbed multiple times by their fellow cult members. Their corpses were dragged into the nearby woods, leaving a trail of blood. Once they've reached their destination, cult members laced the bodies in a ritualistic circle and decapitated each of them. For some unknown reason, two of the bodies were burned while the other was left alone, and all of them were left behind to rot.

Shortly thereafter, the Sterling Police Department discovered the bodies, identified them, and investigated the area for any evidence on what happened to them. A newspaper article titled "*THREE MURDERED IN LATEST WAVE OF RITUALISTIC KILLINGS*" was published to the community of Sterling, Connecticut the next day (or several days later or on the morning of the 28th, the publishment is undated) about their report, stating that three young adults named Angel Nogales, Sandra Attwood, and Troy Ingles respectively were found deceased a couple miles off of Gallup Cemetery.

Authorities and investigators a part of the Police Department suspect that the victims were stabbed multiple times and decapitated before ultimately killed in what they believe is a paganistic ritual. They note two of the bodies were partially burnt, but authorities aren't reporting who specifically was burned. The article continues that the residents of Sterling found a desecrated tomb and blood trail leading off into the woods, but investigators are not commenting whether these two incidents are related.

Interestingly, the article points out that the arrangement of the bodies in a ritualistic pattern and the writings of certain symbols in blood matches the style of several murders within the Sterling community, which has been occurring within the area ever since 1986. This signifies that Angel and the other thralls' deaths were not the first, and Gary has been allowing his cult members to perform these rituals for an unknown purpose. Considering that these rituals have been happening since 86', we can best speculate that this ties to Gary losing contact with his "perfect vessel", a teenager named Amy Martin, after a failed exorcism that got her sent to a mental institution (check Amy's wiki page for further details because this will not be explained here). The article ends that investigators and authorities are urging the Sterling community to report any findings regarding this case towards the Police Department.

### September 28th, 1987 (Chapter II)

A week passed ever since John failed his second attempt of exorcising Amy. He falls asleep in his bed and experiences his worst nightmare yet.

The dream begins with John standing in the middle of five pebbles, around the outskirts of Gallup Cemetery. He wanders aimlessly and unlocks the front gate to the cemetery. In the middle of the area lies Save Family Tomb. All the other gates are locked, so he has no choice but to explore inside.

#### enter the spirit house

Inside the cramp tomb has Sandra, Angel, and Troy sitting motionlessly on benches. Satanic symbols are tattooed on their bodies, and they blankly stare at John, either because of his priestly clothing or they're dead.

There's a lone mirror at the end of the tomb. John slowly opens his eyes and smiles at himself in the mirror while presenting a key.

Spirits exit the thralls' bodies, and they scatter throughout the area. Four purple skulls mounted on the wall light up for some inexplicable reason. John exits the tomb and has to track down the spirits in order to gain access beyond the cemetery.

Walking to the right and purifying a purple skull, a gate nearby unlocks, and John explores the open area. A demon hiding behind a nearby tree stretches a fleshy appendage and makes its presence known, "I'M AN ANGEL!"

After making a beeline towards John, it teleports to a different location and moves up and down in a wave-like pattern to kill him.

John bests the demon, who calls him a, "VIOLATER!" before exploding into a pool of blood. It drops Note #8. If John investigates Save Family Tomb before dealing with the other two demons, Sandra is nowhere in sight. Taking the Umbilical Cord Demon's quotes and its somewhat phallic appendage into account of Note #8, it's implied that Sandra was in fact sexually assaulted, which would explain why she would be ostracized by her community. The 80s weren't as open and welcoming to sexual assault victims compared to how they are today. Her abuse and sudden loss of her baby (whether it was intentional or not) greatly influenced her reasoning to join Gary's cult and seep into satanic activity. The only lingering question is who the strange woman is (check the Trivia section for a small theory).

#### darkness surrounds thee

We flashforward to John exiting a lone shed connecting to the basement of Snake Meadow Hill Church. Now in the middle of nowhere in the dense woods, John meanders and comes across the bodies of Angel, Troy, and Sandra. They're all beheaded and there's visible stab wounds. In the middle of the ritualistic circle lies a newspaper article. With nothing better to do, John picks it up and reads it.

The article is almost the same as detailed from prior. There's a notable difference, however, that signifies that some demonic force is attached to the newspaper. It randomly contains the words, "Pandemonium Regnant" while detailing the murders of the thralls. It erroneously states that this recent spike of ritualistic murders may be connected to last week's killing of Amy Martin (this is where we got confirmation that Chapter II takes place a week after Chapter I), a 17-year-old girl that was lured into the woods nearby her home by John himself. He impersonated a priest to lure her into a false sense of security and shot her in the stomach.

The article derails as it states that the Sterling community should not mourn the victims because, "after all, they were degenerate devil-worshipping thugs who were hooked on crack cocaine and hated their parents." This tone shift starts to communicate to John directly, stating that that's what he wants the police to think about the victim and wonders why they even conducted an investigation at all, they got what they deserved.

The article continues as if he was the one who killed them, affirming that he caught the victims getting high inside Save Family Tomb and tracked them down one-by-one. He stabbed their bodies while they plead for help and decapitated them because, apparently, everyone knows that's how you would kill a snake. The tone shift becomes more aggressive, telling him that he did not kill the snake and cannot kill what can't be killed. Interestingly, Amy is referenced and blames John for being unable to kill her and destroy it's works because, "FOR THEY ARE THE WORKS OF THE ETERNAL DRAGON." The article mentions Amy one more time, cryptically stating that she is at some door, her hands is on his throat, but he's unable to see her. It'll have her soul because it's, "T H E G O D O F T H I S W O R L D".

The article derails as it repeats the words, "PANDEMONIUM REGNANT" and shows an inverted crucifix in the form of "666". Way down the article has purple text from Amy: "I'M HERE, JOHN." John looks away from the newspaper and Amy's Demon shouts, "YOU ARE MINE, PRIEST!" Angel, Troy, and Sandra are standing up and their bodies are ablazed with fire. Cultists roam the background and Amy stares at John from underneath a tree.

For some inexplicable reason, John agonizingly melts and contorts into a Wretch, a gray, four-legged spider-like creature with two bright red eyes.

This is the last time Sandra and the other thralls are mentioned, which is surprising considering that this pivotal note is the only one that has to be acquired throughout the entire series. Analyzing the newspaper article is crucial because it sheds some light on John's personality and provides details that were left unanswered in Chapter I. To start things off, the tone shift in the note is most likely from the UNSPEAKABLE itself, an evil deity that the cult worship.

To keep things relevant for Sandra and the thralls (check the UNSPEAKABLE and Amy's wiki page for more explanation), the tone shift heavily suggests that John thinks very lowly of anybody who he considers a cult member or satanic worshipper. This also applies to drug addicts and people who don't follow the rules, hence why the article steeply declined where it stated that the thralls hated their parents and were addicted to cocaine (and why John still respects the Catholic Church/Vatican despite no longer being a minister affiliated with them). The article reveals how biased John is but attempts to hold holy values, but his more violent and destructive thoughts & feelings are enhanced by the UNSPEAKABLE's influence. This hatred is amplified in Chapter III when John gets injected with a mysterious substance and goes on a violent rampage against thralls because the drug is connected to the UNSPEAKABLE's immense power.

## Trivia

* The strange woman described in Note #8 may be the Mother demon.
	+ This theory is rather shallow considering that the Mother specifically chooses to stay behind a locked door within a Birthing Clinic in Chapter III, but since there's a theme of pregnancy behind all of this, it would probably fit with that demon. There's not a whole lot of evidence for this.
* Before entering the Candy Tunnels, there's three stick dolls on top of the entrance. These could be Sandra, Troy, and Angel.
	+ The Wretch and the stick dolls are very vague. Although background behind them won't be explained here, we can assume that they're husks of people who were involved with demonic activity.

* We don't know which thrall corpse is which in the ritualistic circle because they all look the same. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter too much.
* When you think about all of the thralls within the series, you would assume that Sandra is the only female among them all, but this is subtly proven false. Within the Candy Tunnels, after John banishes the Basement Demon and follows a fleeing thrall deeper within the sewage system, they shout, "HE IS HERE!" Every spoken dialogue within FAITH use S.A.M., an 80's text-to-speech program commonly used for Apple II and Atari computers. This program uses parameters to indicate the specific type of pitch and speed for the voice, including gender. You can recreate this specific thrall's quote by sliding the "Gender" parameter all the way to 255 (check the Voice Settings wiki page), which means that this thrall is female.
	+ The same "Gravelly Demonic Female" voice is used for the Spindly Lady and Miriam, which confirms that this thrall is a woman.
* If you look at the first letter of the first and last names of the three thralls in a specific order: **S**andra-**A**ngel-**T**roy, **A**ttwood-**N**ogales-**I**ngles, they spell out "**SATANI**". "SATANI" is Latin for "SATAN". Airdorf confirmed the intentionality of this Easter Egg in our FAITH Fan Community Discord Server.
* It's vague as to whether John truly killed Sandra and the other thralls. Since we can assume that the UNSPEAKABLE wrote the derailing newspaper article, we cannot trust it's claims that John tracked down and murdered them one-by-one because it erroneously states that John tricked Amy and shot her in the stomach. Chapter I's "When Faith Endures" Ending (where he decided not to shoot Amy and drove away) is canonical, so he never shot Amy at all. Additionally, their deaths are not brought up again beyond Chapter II, so it's very unlikely that John killed them.

## Gallery

John finds three dead thralls in the middle of the woods.The three thralls stand up and are on fire. Amy and other cultists draw near.
## Reference List

1. ↑ Ref. - Note #8 Ch II
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ref. - Note #18 Ch II
3. ↑ Ref. - Note #13 Ch II
4. ↑ Ref. - Note #19 Ch II
5. ↑ Ref. - "The Murderer" Note Ch I
6. ↑ Ref. - Airdorf Message "Satani" Easter Egg