Liev

Agent **Liev** is one of the main playable characters in *Daymare: 1998.*

## Official description

There isn’t much info on the H.A.D.E.S. (Hexacore Advanced Division for Extraction and Search) special agent, codename Liev. Presumably he was born in the USSR and has a Russian military record. Follows orders and procedures without any care about their consequences or collateral damage. The mission is his creed. Perfectly trained in hand-to-hand, cold weapon and firearms combat.

## Biography

### Keen Sight incident

On August 19, 1998, Liev was assigned to investigate an incident at the Aegis facility on Northfall Islands and recover the Castor samples. While on his way in the helicopter, he makes insensitive jokes about H.A.F. pilot Raven's past trauma, which frustrates Major Sandman, Raven's mentor.

After receiving the mission briefing, Liev enters the facility only to discover piles of corpses of the staff members but locates one survivor, a security guard, who reveals an outbreak has occurred at the lab and the rest of the personnel are seemingly dead. After promising to come back for the guard, Liev kills him instead, explaining he's following a protocol. Sandman remarks that this reminds him of Groom Lake where Liev opened fire on "poor innocent people", while Liev argues he was only following orders. He discovers that the facility was in fact build above the remains of a Japanese submarine that was transporting hazardous materials in 1945 as an act of revenge for the Hiroshima nuclear attack. While on his way to restore power to the facility, Liev is ambushed by the Aegis employees who are revealed to be alive but transformed into zombie-like creatures due to them being exposed to Castor. After successfully securing the gas samples, Liev receives another order to recover the samples of Pollux, as team Epsilon who was responsible for the operation went missing. Liev discovers a body and an audio log of one of Epsilon's agents, revealing they were shot by an unknown assailant. Liev secures Pollux and makes his way to the server room to recover some data, where he discovers another survivor, a technician named John who reveals the outbreak was caused by one of Aegis' own employees who were bribed to steal the samples by an unknown company. Following the protocol, Liev terminates John and escapes the contaminated facility, completing his mission.

Back in the helicopter, he overhears a conversation between Raven and Sandman and reminds the latter of the Groom Lake, accusing the H.A.F Major of cowardice. After Sandman leaves to check on the gas containers, Raven hears a gunshot and discovers Liev holding the Major at gunpoint after breaking a vial of Pollux into his face. Liev then throws Raven out of the helicopter after the latter tried to attack him and shoots Sandman after informing him that he will be remembered as a traitor. However, Liev accidently shoots the helicopter's control panel causing it to crash in the nearby mountains, while Liev manages to escape and reach Keen Sight only to find that Castor already spread there claiming its first victims. Avoiding the infected residents, Liev finds shelter in the factory where he contacts HQ informing them of Sandman's betrayal. Liev realizes his gasmask didn't protect him from inhaling Castor but proceeds to the rendezvous point at Sacred Heart Hospital where the team Alpha will be waiting to pick him up.

Minutes before team Alpha's arrival, Liev is confronted by Sandman, who survived the helicopter crash, to Liev's surprise. He manages to apprehend Sandman and puts him on his knees, revealing he never forgave Sandman for what he did at the Groom Lake. However, the Major was bluffing and catches Liev off guard with his inhuman strength when he holds Liev by the neck and rips off his arm, presumably killing him. He then proceeds to eat a part of Liev's body, which is witnessed by Samuel, who later picks up Liev's Glock and D.I.D. Liev's body is left to be discovered by team Alpha and is then transported to the research facility at the lair dam to be further researched. Liev was revealed to be in early stages of mutation after being exposed to both Pollux and Castor and his body starts to regenerate, growing a set of tentacles in the place of his right arm. Liev eventually reawakens as a horrifying Abomination and proceeds to stalk the remaining survivors like his prey. Due to his head deforming, he lost the ability to speak and most of his human senses but preserved his human intelligence, which made him into an unstoppable killing machine motivated only by rage. He stalks Raven throughout the dam, but the latter manages to evade his attacks. The two meet for the final confrontation on the rooftop, where Raven manages to apprehend the Abomination once again, however, the latter keeps regenerating. Sandman, who is revealed to be infected with Pollux that turned him into a super soldier, steps up telling Raven to rest and promising to finish Liev for good. When Raven wakes up, he discovers a wounded Sandman, but neither Liev nor his remains are anywhere to be seen, leaving the former agent's fate ambiguous.

In the epilogue, it is shown through a surveillance footage that Sandman was the one who killed Crane and tried to steal the Pollux samples, revealing Liev was telling the truth all along.

## *H.A.D.E.S. Dead End*

He stars in a non-canon scenario where he has to complete several tasks throughout the infected Keen Sight.

## Gallery

### Concept art

* Promotional artwork
* Early biography
* Liev on the cover
* Mutated Liev ("The Abomination")

### *Daymare: 1998*

* Liev in the trailer
* Liev arriving at the dam (trailer)
* Liev starting his mission
* Liev recovers Pollux
* Liev without the helmet
* Liev's body
* Liev's mutated form
* Defeated

### Other

* Liev's D.I.D.
* Liev in the pre-alpha build
* Liev in In My Name music video
* Liev figurine in Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle

## Trivia

* He was inspired by Hunk from the *Resident Evil* franchise. He always wears his gasmask during the gameplay.
* "Liev" (meaning *"lion"* in Russian) is a Slavic variant of the name "Leon", which is a nod to Leon S. Kennedy, the protagonist of *Resident Evil 2.*
* A miniature statue resembling him can be found in the H.A.D.E.S. office in *Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle*.