White Entity

"I HEAR THEE."

This mysterious entity, fan named as the **White Entity**, file named as **Angel**, and revealed to be **Satan** in a game developer interview, only makes an appearance during a flashback of John Ward's first failed exorcism in Chapter III. John unknowingly made a deal with this entity where he gets to leave the Martin House alive in exchange for Amy Martin's fate "being sealed". A year after the botched exorcism, John can open up to his companion Father Garcia in "A New Journey" Ending and claim that he met The Devil and was tricked into making a deal.

## Appearance

The entity is completely white, tall, has a stocky build, and looks humanoid. It appears to be standing straight up, with its (presumably) nonexistent arms bound at its sides. Whenever it speaks, it wiggles its head and the aberration effect is stronger than usual (if the visual effect is set to aberration or another one that has aberration, that is).

## Personality

This entity does not have a personality. The only remarkable detail to mention here is that it primarily uses Shakespearean English, a trait that is noticeably shared by the UNSPEAKBLE. Even though it speaks, we're only shown its dialogue box because its real voice is intentionally muffled, to the point where you can't discern what its saying.

## Biography

This entity's backstory is unknown, so we're just going to cut to when it's relevant.

### September 21st, 1986

(Everything detailed below is a rundown of every nightmare sequence in Chapter III and credified by John's notes in Chapter I)

On this date, an experienced exorcist named Father Allred takes his associate, John Ward, to the Martin House in the middle of the night to exorcise a teenager named Amy Martin, by the request of her parents Bob and Cindy Martin. However, everything goes left when Amy's parents accidentally interrupted John from completing his prayer of exorcism. After relocating Bob and Cindy to the kitchen, John walks back down to the basement and sees Allred incapacitated. Before collapsing in exhaustion, Allred wrote "Take it" and "Save her" with his own blood and let go of his crucifix. John picks up Allred's crucifix and sets off to look for Amy.

John searches up and down on the First Floor for Amy, Bob and Cindy have strangely disappeared. Investigating the Second Foor, he spots her motionlessly standing in the attic. He tries to coax Amy to go back downstairs to complete the exorcism, but the demon possessing her mocks him by mentioning his deceased mother. John tries to call for Father Allred and Bob to assist him, but the demon mockingly says that nobody is coming to rescue him. With no other choice, John slowly raises his crucifix and attempts to retry the exorcism all by himself.

Amy's demon was far too powerful, she knocks out John after a brief struggle and flees. John awakens and sets out to look for her. As he does so, he comes across the strangled and gutted remains of Bob and Cindy. While he was unconscious, Amy retaliated against her parents and killed them. Although John is beyond terrified, he ventures back down to the basement to check on Father Allred's condition considering that he was merely knocked out.

Investigating the area, he hears Father Allred shouting from a distance, "Everything will be alright, Father Ward. Please come quickly!" John follows his voice and notices that Allred's body was tampered and has hollow eye sockets. Allred begins to speak again, but suddenly, Amy appears and has his head on her lap. She opens Allred's sockets, and they begin to bleed, so it's likely that she killed him while John was knocked out in the attic.

She continues to manipulate Allred's body to ask for John's help. Afterwards, she stands up and crawls on all fours to rush John to finish him off.

Shortly before he gets ambushed, the lights suddenly cut off on their own, and the entire house goes dark.

Alone and terrified, John has reached his breaking point and freaks out wondering if he will never escape the house alive. Seeing the corpses of her parents, her raw demonic power, and mimicking Father Allred's voice was all too much to bear. He prays for God to come rescue him. With no response, he then pleads for anybody else to come. Suddenly, a mysterious white entity manifests before him.

Using Shakespearean English, the entity says that it hears him asks what he wishes. John breaks down to it and says that everything he just dealt with is too much for him, he's very afraid, and just wants to escape the house alive. The entity questions about the girl, but John pleads that he just wants to go home. The entity gives him a disclaimer that, if it leads him to safety, then the girl's fate will be sealed, implying that the demon possessing her will have a stronger restraint on her and will likely never be exorcised. Exhausted, John repeats himself that he just wants to go home. The entity forces him to swear on it and John obliges.

John inadvertently doomed Amy by making a deal to who he thought was a holy figure. There were signs that this entity is not what it seems, but John was too afraid and mentally drained to comprehend the gravity of his situation. With this deal done, he's able to walk out of the house alive without getting ambushed and staggers towards paramedics and the police outside.

Apparently, the entity used its divine power to contact emergency services. There's no other hint that Father Allred, Amy, her parents, or John contacted them.

As a footnote here, everything above except for the White Entity's appearance is mentioned and verified by John's notes in Chapter I. You could assume that this figure is something exclusive in nightmare sequences of Chapter III, but this is ruled out in the "October 31st Ending I" Section.

#### Aftermath

John staggers out of the house and feels disoriented on what he's been through. Amy seemingly settled down and the two get arrested when the police find the bodies of the deceased. A note found in Chapter II suggests that the police currently suspect that John was the culprit behind the murders, probably because they find it unlikely a teenage girl like Amy can overpower three adults. However, John's a mental wreck and doesn't provide a straight narrative on what he's encountered and is fixated on what he dealt with in the attic.

To keep a long story short, the pair were admitted to Yale Psychiatric Institute, assumingly because they're too mentally unstable to be incarcerated or stand trial. After a little over a month of counseling, John is officially released and free to return back into society. It's unknown if a consensus was made that Amy was the murderer nor if Bob & Cindy's deaths were ruled an accident or homicide, but Amy currently resides in another mental institute for the time being. John was denounced as a priest by the Catholic Church for an unknown reason, presumably because they don't want the public to know that possessions are real and capable of overpowering priests, it would make the organization look incompetent and cause mass hysteria. Now back home, John marries a woman named Molly and tries to move on as to what happened inside the Martin House, but he knows that Amy is still possessed out there.

### October 30th, 1987 (Chapter III)

We cut greatly to nearly a year and a month later when this entity becomes relevant. From September 21st, 1986, to this date, John formed alliances with another priest named Father Garcia to stop a cult, called the Eternal Order of the Second Death, from using Amy's twin brothers, Nate & Jason Martin, to summon a great demon named Malphas. For the past two days, Garcia has been sending letters to John's home, instructing him to explore locations where he suspects that it'll be the site for Malphas' summoning or where the Martin Twins reside. Every time John returns home after his fruitless search, he experiences vivid nightmares where he relives his first exorcism. It's very important to state here that John fully believes that anything occurring within these nightmares are factual, as this unreliable narrating becomes important in one of the endings.

Now flashing forward to today, October 30th, John receives another letter from Father Garcia, instructing him to investigate a Daycare Center because he's getting strange reports of children exhibiting bizarre behavior. To cut another long story short, John comes face-to-face with the cult leader, Gary Miller, below a makeshift tunnel system file named as Garyland.

After Gary greets John and remarks how good it is to finally meet him, we, the player, are shown a flashback of when John made a deal with the White Entity.

### October 31st, 1987 (Ending I "A New Purpose")

Although the entity doesn't appear from here on out, it's referenced by John.

In this ending, John failed to banish all three demons that acted as triggers to neutralize a seal covering the entrance to the Crucible, an underground chamber where every demonic activity originates from (and where Gary fled to). John had no choice but to purify a floating slab hovering over the entrance to at least temporarily block it, however Gary escaped scot-free.

John and Father Garcia stumble out of the Daycare Center and rests at Garcia's car. John solemnly sits down to recollect this recent failure and Garcia lights a cigarrete to decompress.

Father Garcia congratulates him for sealing up the demonic force. John asks if it's over, but Garcia replies that Gary and his Unholy Trinity were not truly defeated, so sooner or later they will return. He continues that until they come back, he swears to go to war against the UNSPEAKABLE, a demonic deity worshipped by the cult. Garcia requests that he needs spiritual warriors like him to do the deed. John feels discombobulated that he let Gary get away and has a lot on his mind, so he decides to open up to Garcia.

He recounts that a year ago (back in September of 86'/First Failed Exorcism of Amy) he saw the Devil and was tricked by him. John becomes overwhelmed and says that he doesn't know if he'll ever be freed of Amy nor if his faith will be as strong as before. Garcia tries to cheer him up and replies that he doesn't think that's true, continuing that since he knows the Devil is real then the Lord is real as well, ending that true faith looks forwards not backwards. Garcia gears up and says that his journey is just beginning and that he'll be his teacher. John stands up and the two shake hands in compliance. Garcia drives John to an unknown destination.

Initially you would assume that "The Devil" is a general term for a demonic enemy because, if John accidentally killed his childhood best friend named Lisa Pearson under possession by a demon named Alu, he would shout that The Devil made him do it. Additionally, the nightmare sequence on October 30th can vary depending on what you, the player, can do after walking down from the Martin House's attic. If you were to walk out of the building, you'll see a special cutscene where Amy turns off the lights. If you checked on Father Allred in the basement, you'll see a different cinematic where Amy toys with Allred's corpse. Ending III "A New Vessel" establishes that this "Devil" character is the White Entity and John checking on Father Allred in the basement is canonical (it's very easy to falsely believe what happened back in 86' because we primarily learn the events from nightmares and John is an unreliable narrator).

As a minor footnote, John only mentions this "Devil" character in the Good Variant of Ending I. In the Bad Variant, John interrupts Father Garcia from finishing his request that he needs spiritual warriors like him.

### October 31st, 1987 (Ending II "A New Vessel")

In this alternate route, John wussies out from investigating the Daycare Center and cowardly heads back home to sleep. Now the 31st, John awakens from another nightmare in the middle of the night and senses that the atmosphere in his house is off.

Seeing a silhouette of Amy floating by from his bedroom window, John feels an impending sense of doom and decides to open his filing room one last time to recollect on psychiatric notes back during his time at Yale Psychiatric Institute. Avoiding getting shanked by raiding thralls (low-ranking cult members) and evading a centipede-like demon from gnawing his body, John retrieves a key in his basement and unlocks the filing room. Besides a scattered filing cabinet and a misplaced psychiatric note, the rest of the room is not what it seems. The room nearly looks identical to the Martin House's attic besides a crudely drawn attic window and Amy is blankly staring at nothing. Everything in here is nothing more than an illusion, but either falling or accepting it, John approaches Amy and kneels down.

John questions her what they (the thralls/cult) want from him and why she's tormenting him like this. Amy stands completely still and doesn't react. He says that he doesn't know she ended up in here. Before John pleads for this nightmare to end (he believes this entire sequence is another nightmare, which is debatable we're not sure either), Amy cuts him off and a human hand emerges from her mouth to grab his face. She shouts, "UNFORGIVABLE."

The screen cuts to John seemingly transported into the outskirts of The Forest. Walking around a well and catching a brief glimpse of a "Chupacabra" named Michael Davies, John comes across the Martin House. Seeing the dilapidated version of this house puts him in an emotional state where he begins to recollect his failed exorcisms (September of 86' and 87'/Chapter I), so he heads inside.

If John treks down to the basement and stands around where the original exorcism started, he monologues to himself that he met The Devil in this very room.

At the end of this route, John walks into the Martin Twin's room and kneels in defeat in front of a pair of broken mannequins. As he raises his arms, Amy and Michael fade into scene and holds his arms steady. Everything besides John disappears and a red demonic hand with sharp nails manifests and grabs him. When the hand shrouds back into darkness, we cut to outside, but the Martin House and everything else inside vanished. The series ends.

#### Interpretation

Before we go into details as to what the White Entity is, we need to go over who the "Devil" is. By ruling out every possible character who was within the house back during 86', we can accurately claim that the "Devil" is the White Entity. The fact that John monologues that he met this character in that very room establishes that it's canonical he mustered determination and checked on Father Allred's status in the basement. Additionally, if you piece the two last nightmare sequences together on October 30th, you'll notice that transitioning between Amy nearly butchering John in the basement after watching her toy with Allred's corpse to speaking with the White Entity in the darkness is more fluid and natural than the other sequence you would get if you attempted to walk out. It wouldn't make sense that John would pray for anybody to help him in the darkness considering that he was very close to the front door and can easily leave. This potential inconsistency here provides more evidence that, besides a few conflicting details, all the nightmare sequences are grounded in reality. We just have to discern which detail is not accurate.

Cutting back to the White Entity specifically, it's more than likely demonic in nature. It preyed on John's vulnerability & fear and wanted to make a deal with him to ensure Amy's Demon will never be exorcised. Besides, if it truly was a holy figure or even the Lord, they do not directly communicate or appear before anybody. Additionally, there are many depictions of Satan where he's a bright, white light (which is where the name "Lucifer" deviates from). It is common in some Christian/Catholic circles to warn people to be wary of any entity claiming to be "an angel of light" as they say it's actually Satan trying to trick them. If we look into the files of FAITH, we'll see that the White Entity is filenamed as "Angel", which is a Biblical reference to when Satan was an archangel before he and his army of rebelling angels were cast out of Heaven after attempting to compete against God.

Keeping the relation between the White Entity and Satan in mind, this connection also establishes that this entity is another alias or alter-ego of the UNSPEAKABLE. To keep everything brief here, Note #18 in Chapter II drops a narrative bombshell as to what kind of deity the UNSPEAKABLE is. It claimed itself as the "God of this World" near the end of the derailing newspaper article, a title that is only claimed by Satan himself. The UNSPEAKABLE is capable of having many disguises or alternative forms, such as Amy's Demon (we learn this from the very same note) and the Red Demon for example, so it would make sense that it's capable of transforming into "an angel of light". Lastly, you'll notice that in the same note, the UNSPEAKABLE uses Shakespearean English. The White Entity uses Shakespearean English as well. No other character in the series besides these two share that same variation of language. In fact, Shakespearean English in this series is a big indicator that the UNSPEAKABLE is writing or speaking, because the vast majority of enemies use English (or, more rarely, Latin).

## Dialogue

* (John stands in the darkness)
* John: "Lord, help me."
* "Somebody, please help me."
* (A white entity manifests before him)
* Entity: "I HEAR THEE."
* "JOHN, SON OF MAN, WHAT DOST THOU WISH?"
* John: "This is too much for me."
* "I'm so afraid. Please let me escape this place."
* Entity: "AND THE GIRL?"
* John: "I just want to go home."
* Entity: "IF I LEADEST THOU TO SAFETY... HER FATE SHALL BE SEALED UPON THINE HEAD."
* John: "I'll do whatever you want. Just take me away from here."
* Entity: "SWEAR IT."
* John: "I swear it."
* (The screen fades to John stumbling towards emergency services outside the Martin House)

## Trivia

* "White Entity" is just a fan-name because, at the time of making this wiki page, we were not able to decompile FAITH and view every asset. Some enemies within the series are not named or referenced at all in game, the biggest examples being Blind Ones, Malphas Acolytes, Peekaboo Demon, and The Wretch. All credit goes to laine, MacG, and Madz from the FAITH Fan Community Discord for leaking the assets used in the series, it really helped to clear up some loose threads.
* As you can see, the White Entity is completely white. In this series, the color yellow/gold is generally associated with faith, seen with John's yellow crucifix in Chapter I and his eyes turning yellow after getting hit enough times by Super Miriam in Chapter III. The entity being white should've been clear indication to John that it's not the Lord, let alone an angel or holy figure.
* From a Twitter Q&A, Airdorf referenced 2nd Corinthians 11:14, a Bible verse that states Satan can turn into an angel of light for decievery, as inspiration when questioned about the figure.
	+ Also, Airdorf confirmed during an interview with Wendigoon, a YouTube creator, that this figure is Satan.
* Interestingly, when John becomes possessed by Alu and tries to kill Lisa, white speechless text in all caps will appear, telling him to fight his urges. The only character that shares this speaking trait is this entity.
	+ We have no clue why this happens and conflicts the connection between the White Entity and Satan. It wouldn't make sense for the figure to route for John, especially during a moment where he can mercilessly kill somebody. Maybe we'll get more answers in Chapter IV? Probably not...
	+ When John mentions that The Devil made him do it/kill Lisa, maybe he's referring to the White Entity? Not sure.
* The White Entity and the Antichrist are the only two characters within the series that don't have an overworld sprite, only appearing in rotoscope cinematics.

## Gallery

### Other

White, flashing, full caps text telling John to fight his possession. It's unclear who's saying this.A still of the entity standing.
## Reference List

1. ↑ Ref. - Note #8 Ch I
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ref. - Note #17 Ch I
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ref. - Note #14 Ch I
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ref. - Note #18 Ch I
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Ref. - Note #9 Ch II
6. ↑ Ref. - Note #16 Ch II
7. ↑ Ref. - Note #26 Ch II
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ref. - "The Murderer" Note Ch I
9. ↑ Ref. - Airdorf Comment on Molly/John's Wife (indirectly confirming that she's his wife and not a partner or friend or something else)
10. ↑ Ref. - Note #2 Ch III
11. ↑ Ref. - Note #4 & #9 Ch III
12. ↑ Ref. - Note #29 Ch III
13. ↑ Ref. - "Finding the Crucible" Dialogue
14. ↑ Ref. - "Killing Lisa During Alu Fight" Dialogue
15. ↑ Ref. - Note #43 Ch III
16. ↑ Ref. - When you defeat Miriam in Chapter II, she evaporates into the Red Demon, who transforms into the UNSPEAKABLE. Also, this was confirmed in a teaser trailer for Chapter II.
17. ↑ Ref. - Airdorf's response to a question about the figure
18. ↑ Ref. - Airdorf Interview with Wendigoon