While chasing Blake through the poorly lit cavern, Val wielded a burning torch.

After her encounter in the mines, Val is seen fully nude and smeared from head to toe in mud like the rest of the Heretics, with a crown of thorns and branches placed on her head. In her first appearance, she wears a black priest uniform similar to Knoth's with a cross necklace and black boots. Val is a slim, well-groomed, androgynous-looking trans woman with short blonde hair and icy blue eyes. The fact that Val starts hearing something different than Knoth may also show different reactions to the frequencies. The voice that Val hears is the radio frequency.

She notes that the voice is not God, but something physical like her and she desires it more than anything. Val wants to consummate her relationships with the voice that she hears. Val also violently abhors Knoth and the Testament's views, and (very hypocritically) insults him for being a rapist and child-killer, although she does not see it as hatred, more so an embarrassment to God and what inspired her to make the Heretics. Val sees her own monstrous actions as 'the sharing of love,' and refers to her underlings as 'my loves.' Val is lascivious and never tries to hide it. Val also lecherously licks Lynn's body after choking her out, making it very likely she does not differentiate between genders. Val boasts about her wet-dreams of her infant children being gruesomely murdered, and also sexually preys upon Blake every chance she gets, at one point raping him. Val is a proudly psychotic and perverse sexual predator whose life mission is to assist in the birth of the Anti-Christ to revel in its bloody, apocalyptic rampage. The Testament, ratted out hours earlier by Josiah, raid the mines, and presumably kill every last Heretic around including Val, ending and winning their civil war. A sudden tremor gives Blake a chance to escape, however, Val chases him throughout the mines with a torch in hand.Р”В«lake finally stumbles across the ritual where Lynn is kept, surrounded by the entire Heretic cult participating in a blood orgy that Val forces him to participate in, raping him. Val shows him her 'true face' by smothering her naked body in mud and donning a crown of thorns, distorting her appearance. Blake follows, constantly hunted by the feral Heretics, and is eventually captured and taken to Val, who's shown as having a lustful, predatory obsession with him. The Heretics recapture Lynn, whose womb is rumored to house the Anti-Christ, and set up a ritual down in their mines to stage her birth. Val and the Heretics are first seen after Blake and Lynn Langermann escape from the Testament. Val and the Heretics adopted a new lifestyle and took shelter within a tunnel system in the mines. In her journals, it is said Val is like a membrane awaiting penetration she wants the voice of whomever she is hearing to consume them. These eventually inspire Val to split off from the Testament and form the Heretics, aiming to assistР’В the birth of the Anti-Christ rather than prevent it like the Testament, due to her love for the chaos and death the Anti-Christ and its apocalypse would bring. But nothing holy.' Val then digs a tunnel in a remote area on the outskirts of town where she meets up with Testament followers like her who wish to discuss their dreams. She says ' I feel increasingly this is a message. But it was wetness of my own making.' These emissions make her question the beliefs of the cult. I woke this morning thinking I was wetted with the blood of a child's slit throat.

And I wake laughing, and aroused, and often wet with the involuntary lust of sleep. But my dreams are nothing but the murder of my children. She begins to have vivid nocturnal emissions of the Testament's monstrous bloodshed, writing ' Our sins find us in our dreams. Knoth forces her to kill countless of them for pragmatic reasons, however. Initially, Val was the foster parent of Temple Gate's ill children whom she sympathized with in her journals. Val started out as the chief deacon of Knoth. The outskirts of Temple Gate are littered with notes written through the perspective of Val telling her gradualР’В rift in views between herself and Sullivan Knoth.

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