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“Those who got a close look at it all agreed on the basic points. It was gray, apparently featherless, as large—or larger—than a
big man, had a wingspread of about ten feet, took off straight up like a helicopter, and did not flap its wings in flight. Its face was a puzzle. No one could describe it. The two red eyes dominated it.”— The Mothman Prophecies
The basic mothman NPC appears as part of a random encounter. If approached or attacked, "mothman" will fly off and disappear. In actuality, the mothman is not a singular entity, and there are many mothmen with various eye colors and characteristics. Hostile mothmen can be encountered quite regularly by visiting cultist locations at night, though they occasionally spawn elsewhere and observe humans from a distance.
Most of these creatures are believed to be interchangeable animals--even by their worshippers, who consider them divine heralds of a higher power. However, a sect calling themselves the Enlightened exclusively revere the purple-eyed Wise Mothman, which they believe to be a unique, sentient, mortal creature who somehow existed before the Great War.[1]
Prior to the Great War, the "Mothman" was a mythical creature in local Appalachian folklore described as a terrifying half-man, half-moth who stalked Point Pleasant.[2] It was considered a harbinger of great danger due to its historic tendency to appear before deadly disasters in the area.
The story of the Mothman was sensational enough to create a wide following, ranging from cryptid hobbyists to aggressive conspiracy theorists hellbent on uncovering the deeper mystery of the creature. The Mothman's legend led to a number of tourist attractions, such as the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant. Stories featuring the Mothman and other popular fiction were sold here as books and novelty holotapes.
The Mothman was seen as unworthy of study by the scientific community, but enjoyed enduring popularity as local folklore.[3] At some point, a clandestine church of devotees formed in Point Pleasant, the mysterious Cult of the Mothman. Its followers were fervent in their worship of the Mothman as a divine being. They organized rituals in secret at the chapel beneath the Mothman Museum.
As the nuclear holocaust loomed on the horizon, the cult attempted to summon the creature to benefit from its cosmic wisdom and earn protection from the nuclear fire soon to rain from the skies.[8] The summoning was successful on October 22, 2077. Just one of their number, Brother Charles, claimed to have seen the Mothman in a glimpse, who warned of a flood to come on the following day. The faithful took it as a signal to gather on the rooftops to avoid the deluge and prove their faith to the Mothman.[9]
The deluge came in the form of nuclear fallout. The cultists ultimately survived through the apocalypse by traveling to the Lucky Hole Mine, across the state, nestled into the cliffs overlooking Watoga.
Pre-Plague period
As the cult remained in the safety of the mine, the Charleston Emergency Government formed to the north, where people were disturbed by frequent sightings of the Mothman.[10] The creature was also documented by the Appalachian Enclave at some point.[11]
The cult ultimately split into two groups. The Enlightened emerged from the Mine early (with the prophet who would come to be known as Wise Charles the Forewarned) and fled the state. They came to serve the unique purple-eyed Wise Mothman, a mortal creature, to whom they attribute Charles' vision on the eve of the War.[1][12] The Followers of the Winged One continued to dwell in the Lucky Hole Mine, until they eventually spread out in a series of crusades, establishing footholds in surrounding territories. On the surface, they directly worshipped the numerous red-eyed mutant moths collectively as manifestations of the "Holy" Mothman, a god of Light.
Current history
Like all other humans on the surface, the cultists had all fled or died by 2102. In the aftermath of the plague, feral Mothmen stalked the ruins in silence. When the Vault Dwellers emerged on Reclamation Day, evidence of unspeakable occultic sacrifice littered Appalachia.
In 2103, the Followers of the Winged One returned to their former settlements and built new ones. To this day, they can be seen communing with Mothman in the woods at night. These violent cultists have even been known to protect the creatures' nests and care for their young. In 2105, the cultists abandoned Ingram Mansion, and large mothman nests were cleared from the area.
These rare creatures like to stalk humans, only to flee or defend themselves when confronted. They may also stand on a perch in the ruins or wilderness, watching over a specific area. However, they do not attack opportunistically, and must be threatened or startled into combat. If approached from a distance, they generally acknowledge and warn enemies before resorting to violence. Adult mothmen are typically solitary creatures unless congregating at a site of worship or nesting ground.
When idle and alone, they tend to sit with their wings wrapped around themselves like a shroud. At a glance, they could be mistaken for a huddled, cloaked figure, were it not for their piercing eyes. Their silhouette is further distinguished by segmented antenna, evoking small antlers or furrowed brows.
Their leathery wings are usually drawn back in the presence of people. They pull themselves forwards on four undulating legs, with a pair of forelegs held close to the face. As they amble over land, their wings drag behind them like overlong coattails. This reduces stress on the abdomen, their center of gravity, which must be dragged across the ground. The top and back of the body is protected by a heavy brown mane, somewhat resembling the mantle of a fur cloak.
Though they may chaotically slam around the environment when defending themselves, they are not known to bite, scratch, sting, wrestle, or otherwise attempt to physically strike their foes.
Sounds
Mothmen can defend themselves sonically by chittering intensely while hovering. They are also capable of releasing a very large blue shockwave to repulse their foes, but the specific nature of this ability is unspecified by the text.
They make subtle chirping noises typical of giant insects. Their voices are softer than those of giant ants, and slightly rattled or distorted by comparison.
Shadows
Shadowy clouds seem to pour from their bodies at most times. Additionally, small black specks rise from their bodies and fade away. This phenomenon may be related to the powdery neurotoxin which dusts their wings.
When startled, mothmen vanish in an abrupt liftoff, apparently dissolving into a wisp of smoke. Aggressive mothmen will reappear in a similar manner, slamming onto the ground disruptively. When visiting cultist locations at sunset, the creatures appear to their worshippers in this dramatic fashion.
Cultists and nesting
They can routinely be seen visiting most major cultist settlements at night, and occasionally grace the smaller camps. Most cultist architecture features some sort of central perch, where mothmen may land at night. The Followers offer handcuffed or caged human victims to the Holy Mothman,[13] though there is no direct evidence of the creatures eating people. Holy Mothmen accompany the Followers in attacking the heretic Equinox festival.
They lay out clutches of eggs across surfaces, sometimes carpeting entire rooms or running up walls. Mothmen prefer to nest among jagged roots overtaking pre-War structures, and exclusively leave their eggs in the care of cultists since their return to the state in 2103. One stagnant, overgrown room within Clancy Manor contains several mattresses, and a clutch of eggs rests next to each.
Both sects construct ritual troughs, which they fill with offerings of albino radstag blood, believed to attract the creatures with its metallic aroma. One trough located behind the historic Mothman statue, called the Cradle of the Pretenders, is full of mothman eggs.
They are generally protected by cultists, who monitor egg clutches until they hatch. The cultists also extract a holy oil from "the Bright One's eggs," for the anointment of ceremonial blades.[14] Cultist high priests may carry an individual "perfect mothman egg" in their packs.
Hatchlings
Hatchlings have orange eyes, and are paler than most mature specimens. The events of the Equinox might imply they emerge from their eggs as tiny fully-formed mothmen, or grow to physical maturity very quickly.[15] They are not known to attack cultists, who keep hundreds of eggs at most of their settlements, and deploy swarms of newborn mothmen in small skirmishes throughout the region.[16]
Allegedly, a member of the Enlightened named Jelle once attempted to clone the Wise Mothman, and was eaten by the hatchlings.[17]
Remains and neurotoxicity
Upon death, mothmen almost always begin thrashing and disintegrating. It is very rare, but not unheard of, for a mothman's body to remain intact after death. Torn mothman wings may be broken down for acid and ballistic fiber. Neurotoxic dust, a powerful hallucinogenic compound, may be harvested from their remains for ritual use.
The neurotoxic dust gathered from a mothman's body can produce sensory hallucinations and unusual thought patterns.[18] The Enlightened seek to experience this altered state of consciousness as deeply as possible,[19][18] though the voices tell them this may be harmful.[20]
During the Equinox festival, the Enlightened disperse massive amounts of this substance into the air with industrial fans.[21] This causes the sky to appear purple and sunless, shortly before the high priests arrive with deathclaws under their command.[22]Brother Scarberry casts doubt on the events of the Equinox due to the excess of ambient moth dust.[23] Due to this factor, mothmen may be chemically hallucinogenic by proximity.
Eye colors
Hatchlings have orange eyes, which may represent the species in its basic, uninfluenced form.[Non-game 1] Some orange-eyed adults have light grey wings, also resembling hatchlings.
Orange eyes are not known to be of spiritual significance to either sect.[Non-game 1]
However, the Followers still kneel when these "vengeful mothmen" visit their camps.
The same is true of green-eyed glowing mothmen, produced by exposure to radiation.
Mothmen affected by the Scorched plague also have green eyes, but are not known to peacefully engage with cultists.
Glowing and scorched mothmen have many glowing spots around the thorax.
Whatever might 'influence' so-called Holy Mothmen to develop red eyes is not understood.[Non-game 1] All skittish mothmen have red eyes, but Holy Mothmen are otherwise functionally identical to vengeful and glowing mothmen.
In pre-War pulp iconography, the Mothman of urban legend is overwhelmingly depicted with red eyes.
The Holy Mothman as worshipped by the Followers of the Winged One is always depicted with red or fiery eyes. They hold this variant to be the most sacred.
The Enlightened abhor these creatures, and believe pre-War cultists were mistaken for serving a Mothman with red eyes.[1] They also use the term "holy Mothman" in reference to this "false idol," but more commonly dismiss it as the "Red-Eyed Pretender."[25][26]
The Enlightened claim the magenta-eyedWise Mothman is a unique pre-War being. They revere it, but do not worship it. They believe it communicates with them through nonverbal means and grants them visions.[27][28][29]
The Followers dismiss the Wise One as a "purple liar" and "butterfly," and condemn its students as apostates.[30][31]
Some Enlightened attempt to sacrifice humans to the Wise Mothman.[28][32] However, the creature is not known to react positively to this gesture.[32][33]
Gameplay attributes
Mothmen encountered in the wild may only spawn during the evening at specific random encounter locations, and never appear during the day. They may also appear at any "Travel" type random encounter location. Mothmen have a large detection radius, and will typically observe players until they get too close. They may remain still even as their name turns red, indicating they have become hostile to the player. If the player continues to advance, or startles the mothman, it will flee or attack.
Highly evasive by nature, a mothman that feels directly threatened will chaotically reposition by vanishing every several seconds for as long as it senses danger. Skittish mothmen may be turned into the aggressive Scorched or glowing variants by a scorchbeast or nuke. If a mothman is skittish, or if a player successfully enters stealth after provoking it, it will flee by abruptly bolting upwards and simply vanishing, leaving behind only a shadowy wisp which is quickly dispersed by the wind. The scorched mothman at Enclave Research Site J is an exception; once alerted, it will ruthlessly hunt the player character.
They attack by aggressive vocalizations, releasing directional sonic waves that cause physical damage. Mothmen also wrap themselves in their wings before unleashing a powerful shockwave against targets too close to them, which causes staggering and blurred vision.
In the event of a mothman successfully killing a player character, it will not always disappear. Instead, it may walk back to its chosen perch, where it can be challenged again. Mothmen tend not to engage in combat with most creatures other than player characters, and may stare indifferently as their cultists fend off an attack.
Upon death, they disintegrate into a pile of ash similar to the ash piles resulting from laser weaponry kills. Because of this, challenges that involve taking a photograph of a mothman should be completed when they are still alive, as the ash pile that's left after its death cannot be photographed for challenge credit.
Variants
Mothman
A timid mothman that permanently vanishes when approached or attacked. It is invulnerable.
The stalking mothman will follow any player in proximity. It isn't aggressive, but will defend itself if attacked. They only appear as the red-eyed variant.
The vengeful mothman may spawn with one of 3 textures. The black variant ranges between levels 20-50, the gray between levels 25-50 and the red between levels 30-75. Most have orange eyes, but they may occasionally spawn with red eyes. This mothman is aggressive and will always be hostile.
The Scorched mothman has been infected by the Scorched Plague. It is one of the rarest creatures in the game, only encountered after a mothman has been Scorched by a scorchbeast. Alternatively, one may be found in Enclave research facility.
A hostile mothman may spawn at most cultist locations approached at night, especially those which have built spires for them to perch upon. Mothmen usually keep their wings drawn back during these visitations, and always stand motionless at their appearance spot, unless the camp is disturbed by Vault Dwellers specifically.
After sunset, the Mothman has a 20% chance[verification needed] to appear at the following locations:
Small chance to appear at any unmarked cultist camp, including those generated at random encounter spots at night. These mothmen will stay very close to their worshippers and pace, usually with their wings wrapped around themselves.
Mothman would previously appear to its followers in the courtyard of Ingram Mansion, like other cultist locations, but this scenario was deactivated at an unknown point prior to the Expeditions: Atlantic City update.[35] In Atlantic City, the cultists abandoned the location altogether.
The Wise Mothman previously appeared in the Wise Mothman! random encounter, which has been removed from the game. It was scripted to grant Wisdom of the Mothman when interacted with, but due to a bug, the buff would not be applied.
It's possible for the crashed satellite random encounter to occur near the bonfires south of Watoga. In this event, the cultists will abandon the bonfires to patrol near the satellite. If it is approached at night, there may be a mothman inspecting it. Like the cultists, the mothman will pace back and forth next to the satellite, periodically stopping to stare at it. The cultists may walk alongside the mothman as it paces.
If mothman appears here without the satellite, it will stand between the cultists and the bonfire. The cultists will be kneeling in their usual spots.
Although extremely rare (0.06%), it is possible to trigger adjacent spawns of the mothman and the Flatwoods monster, the latter of which may control the former if it strays too close.
If the Smiling Man is attacked, he will disappear in the same eruption of shadow as fleeing mothmen. His identity is implied to be Indrid Cold, a mysterious historical figure associated with the 1966-1967 Mothman sightings.
Misc
In certain regions of Appalachia, Beckett may complain of strange dreams or visions of the Mothman.[36]Scarberry also suffers from nightmares related to his faith.[37]
Brother Scarberry believes that the imperceptible "glow" of an irradiated person may attract Mothman, especially if that person were to climb a tall structure and "jump around."[38]
He also implies he can see ambient radiation as a glow, and describes Mothman as emitting a "warm glow" which seems incongruous with in-game visuals.[39]
Mothmen can be gibbed during their death animation, if subjected to an inordinate amount of damage. The gibs continue dissolving into ash as normal.
The remains of the Visitor emit smoky black particles, similar to a mothman. These particles are also emitted by a flayed corpse hidden in the tunnel directly in front of the Visitor. This flayed body asset is elsewise only found at sites of confirmed cultist activity, but there is no cultist paraphernalia in the Deep.
During the Equinox, the Holy Mothmen who attack Point Pleasant have the red aura of a high priest's influence, like the deathclaws.
Observer Errol casually refers to red-eyed mothmen as "the pretenders."[40] The blood trough behind the Mothman statue in Point Pleasant is called the Cradle of the Pretenders. Both sects also call their enemy's icon "the Pretender." [41][42]
Red Death is a mirelurk in Fallout 4: Far Harbor with searing red eyes that cut through fog, resembling a Holy Mothman in its distinctive silhouette.
Unlockable content
Various posters depicting the pre-War conception of the Mothman can be obtained.
Mothman is depicted in many items unlocked through the Atom Shop or Seasons, including but not limited to:
The Mothman power armor paint scheme includes a special red headlamp.
The buildable smoke machine projects two rotating mothman silhouettes.
The mothman cuckoo clock features a tiny animatronic Mothman and emits smoke when activated.
Players can build a replica of the iconic statue at Point Pleasant. When activated, it explodes into moths and reconstitutes.
A pennant depicting the red eyes of a Holy Mothman could be obtained by participating in the Public Test Server for Night of the Moth.
A cute smiling Mothman plushie can be obtained as a backpack or CAMP object.
The first activation of Fallout 1st unlocks the "Funky Mothman" dance emote, which involves flapping one's arms and hiding one's eyes while music plays.
The melody ends with a motif associated with Mothman. See Vats of Goo for more information on motifs in the series.
Apparent bugs
Hiding within a random encounter totem
Mothmen may spawn within a Towering Might world object present in a random encounter. They do not visually clip with the large totem, and will reposition as normal when alerted.
Very rarely, mothmen may fail to disintegrate upon death. The model has ragdoll physics, which would not be seen under normal circumstances.
The Mothman Equinox event uses the default wing texture for the Wise Mothman, rather than the unique texture seen at the Lighthouse. As a result, the Wise One has a different appearance depending on where it is summoned. In reruns of the annual festival, other minor bugs and oversights were corrected, but this discrepancy has not been adjusted.
Fixed bugs
A spawned mothmen could be ostensibly marked as a ghost NPC, intangible and unable to interact with anything. This bug was seen in other creatures in Fallout 76, but it was especially common with scripted mothmen at cultist settlements.
In the documentary The Making of Fallout 76, the Mothman is described as being a "winged beast with piercing red eyes that prey on those in the Point Pleasant area."[Non-game 2]
A Fallout-brand Funko Pop for the Mothman was released in 2019. A similar Mothman Funko Pop figurine also exists separate from Fallout branding.
The Wise Mothman is featured prominently in the Magic: The Gatheringcrossover card series.
Cultural context
“[...] the figure of a man with "wings like a bat," dressed in tight-fitting black clothes and surrounded by an eerie glow startled three people in Houston, Texas, on June 18, 1953. "I could see him plain and could see he had big wings folded at his shoulders," Mrs. Hilda Walker said. “He was about six and a half feet tall and was perched on the limb of a pecan tree. His halo of light slowly faded out and he vanished. Immediately afterward [...] we heard a loud swoosh over the housetops across the street. It was like the white flash of a torpedo-shaped object."
[Howard Phillips, another witness, declared:] "I may be nuts, but I saw it, whatever it was [...]"”— [The Mothman Prophecies]
In West Virginia folklore, the Mothman is a winged creature notable for a wave of reported sightings in the mid-1960s. The national press sensationalized the story across the United States. The Mothman has since become a famous cryptid in pop culture. In the region of Point Pleasant, it is considered a harbinger of doom, associated with several tragic events which occurred there. Most who saw it were gripped with terror. Some were temporarily struck blind.
Similar sightings had been sporadically reported across the South and the East Coast since the late 1800s.
During its historic rash of appearances between November 1966 and December 1967, it was believed to cause strange dreams among the folk of the area. This coincided with a flap of UFO sightings in the same time and place. Mothman has come to be strongly associated with UFOs.
It was commonly suggested that witnesses may have seen a mutant moth, possibly spawned from TNT which had been disposed of in the river.
The Mothman is thusly associated with pollution, explosives, mining, and the wrath of nature.
Cryptozoological, speculative biology-based explanations for the events in Point Pleasant - as opposed to skeptical explanations based in normal zoology, or Fortean explanations based in philosophy, anthropology, or metaphysics - are unpopular in modern times.
Skeptical zoology generally ascribes the sightings to owls. In Fallout 76, the creature superficially resembles an owl, and cultists commonly incorporate pre-War owl knick-knacks when decorating their shrines.
The legend was immortalized in the 1975 non-fiction book The Mothman Prophecies by eyewitness and Fortean philosopher John Keel.
Keel extensively speculated that the Mothman may have been a radioactive creature (or energy-being). He also believed that anomalies of genuine note tend to glow red or purple because those wavelengths are, definitionally, the edges of human perception.
The book also codified the urban legends of Indrid Cold and the Men in Black, inspirations for the Smiling Man and the Emissary, respectively.
The Emissary carries a key to one of the small bunkers at Black Mountain Ordnance Works. Black Mountain appears to be based on the famous "TNT Area" where Keel and others witnessed lights in the sky. Both conceal several subterranean concrete domes, likened to igloos. The location's lore concerns UFOs and Zetans.
Reports of sightings and strange dreams abruptly ceased after the collapse of the Silver Bridge. It was in the wake of this event that the Mothman came to be seen as a herald of disaster.
At least one claimed survivor of the collapse stated that they felt the Mothman protected them on that day. The survivor identified himself as a truck driver named Starling Perry.[Ext 1]
Fallout 76 introduces the Somnus Initiative, which parallels MKUltra, a real-world program of criminal human experimentation conducted by the CIA between 1953 and 1973. Both endeavored to reprogram humans as intelligence agents using various methods of mind control. Although MKUltra is a historical fact, the shadowy program is infamous for being attached to many "gonzo" conspiracy theories due to its scope and unusual nature. Fallout 76 lore implies that pre-War conspiracy theorists believed in a connection between the Somnus Initiative and Mothman, satirizing real-world attempts by fringe conspiracy theorists to connect the legend of the Mothman to MKUltra.
In the January issue of Cryptid Hunter Monthly, editor Julia H. Park speculates that the government "may be working with the Mothman to hypnotize doctors." Her theory appears to be outrageous and comically contrived.
The Somnus Initiative was conducted at Sugar Grove, a government blacksite. A large Sugar Grove insignia can be found within a display case at the Mothman Museum, suggesting pre-War cryptid enthusiasts commonly postulated a direct connection between Sugar Grove and the legend of the Mothman.
In the real world, it may be considered somewhat impolite to ask about the Mothman in Appalachia, especially among older folk. This is due to its association with incidents of mass death in recent history, the trauma associated with many paranormal encounters, and its cultural association with the local legend of Cornstalk's Curse, as well as the general cultural context of stereotypes and stigmas pertaining to Appalachian people.
↑Fallout 76 loading screens: "According to local folklore - as well as a statue and museum in Point Pleasant, West Virginia - the Mothman is a terrifying half-man, half-moth hybrid. Pray you never encounter it and learn the truth."
↑"Once again, the powers-that-be fail to allow speech to flow freely in the public square. Noted Mothman experts Professor Angus Dykstra was denied the ability to speak on college campuses throughout the state, despite other researchers having their travel and bookings be fully re-reimbursed by the state. The state decided that their research was non-scientific and not worth pursuing DESPITE not giving it the chance to be peer reviewed. TRUE SCIENTISTS OF BIOLOGY know that the Mothman is worth pursuing and will yield meaningful results DESPITE the best efforts of the state." (KMAX Transmission terminal entries)
↑At the Whitesprings Bunker, anatomical depictions of nearly every enemy in the game can be seen on a series of displays in a certain room. Mothman can be seen as part of a small miscellaneous group with three other uncategorized cryptids.
↑There are handcuffs on the perch at Moth-Home, and a dead cultist can sometimes be found lying on it. Additionally, there are human-sized cages at Blake's Offering and Johnson's Acre.
↑Mothman hatchlings are encountered during any cultist incursion in Daily Ops.
↑Observer Johanna: "My brother Jelle, he tried to clone him, you know? So foolish. His wisdom was not his at birth. The little ones, they eat poor Jelle." (Observer Johanna's dialogue)
↑ 18.018.1Interpreter Clarence (distorted): "See the world now through his eyes, children. Let the dust and flames and fumes fill you; let it soak into your throats. Let it show you the Truth!" (Clarence's dialogue)
↑Observer Johanna: "They say the dust may harm us if we breathe it too long. Who said so? Observer Marlon. Well, THEY told him. They told him, he told me." (Johanna's dialogue)
↑Interpreter Clarence: "Do not fear what you see. It is but their true form. The darkness that surrounds them is the influence of the pretenders. The false ones." (Clarence's dialogue)
↑A Vault Dweller: "There was some 'Moth Dust' and then I remember fighting some weird glowing cultists." Steven Scarberry: "Ha. I hope you were not fooled by such a 'display'. It's obvious that was merely some kind of mind-altering substance. Why would the True Followers need to invade Point Pleasant, their home? Exactly. They wouldn't." (Steven Scarberry's dialogue)
↑"Look for eyes that glow. They believe themselves to be the pretenders incarnate. Rip those silly glasses from their skulls." "The ritual cannot begin if they still live. Hunt them." "Their deaths please me. This pyre will burn brightly now." (Observer Errol's dialogue)
↑"The Dim Ones believe the red-eyed animals are harbingers of the "holy" Mothman... Some kind of otherworldly god. A false idol." (Clarence's dialogue)
↑"Long may The Lantern shine against the ignorance of the world, and never may the Dim Ones and the falsehoods of the Red-Eyed Pretender snuff out its beacon." -Exodus
↑ 28.028.1Observer Errol: ""I am ready, Wise One, show me. Show me who is next..."" Observer Errol: ""I must feast, Wise One, please, show me..."" (Observer Errol's dialogue)
↑Observer Errol: "The Wise One is the only one who understands. The only one who can show me what I must see. Who I must see." (Observer Errol's dialogue)
↑A Vault Dweller: "There was an abundance of Albino Radstags." Steven Scarberry: "I wonder how they were able to find them. Usually I need to... Wait, do you mean to tell me that they have left the Light but still use His teachings for rituals? It seems that there is the need for another Crusade of Light." (Steven Scarberry's dialogue)
↑ 32.032.1Observer Errol: "The Wise One always leaves when they begin to scream. Why? Does he not find them worthy? Or me? Surely not." (Observer Errol's dialogue)
↑"Look for eyes that glow. They believe themselves to be the pretenders incarnate. Rip those silly glasses from their skulls." "The ritual cannot begin if they still live. Hunt them." "Their deaths please me. This pyre will burn brightly now." (Observer Errol's dialogue)
↑"Our benighted brethren among the Dim Ones, even in their misguided worship of the Pretender, seek to know their false god better by increasing their understanding of him as a natural phenomenon. They make of him a supernal being, yet they have clamored and scrabbled for the writings of those who, like us, study the physical reality of the Mothman." (Wise Martin the Bearded, On the Thesis of Doctor Wallace)
Non-game
↑ 1.01.11.2"The orange-eyed mothman can be seen hunting in the forests of Appalachia, without a place in the theology of either cult, and shares an eye color with mothman hatchlings. This mothman may represent the species in its natural, uninfluenced form." (Wanderer's Guide Book, p. 174)
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