Akim The Revelator

Overview

Affiliations: The Cult of Papa

Status: Unknown

Akim the Revelator was a Disciple of the deity known as Papa, who brought relief and comfort to those by demanding human sacrifices and creating more suffering. As the leader of the Cult of Papa, Akim had a pivotal role in expanding the power of the Cult and recruiting new members. Due to the power he was able to obtain and the madness he created in Chernarus, Akim is often considered one of the most feared person ever to grace South Zagoria.

Origins

Akim was first known as Tomáš, and lived with his single mother. His mother kept him at home a lot to work and help around the house. This resulted in him having a very close and very strange relationship with his mother. Tomáš joined the Chedaki rebel military group and killed his first-person, a 17-year-old American, choking him with his bare hands to death. After many months Tomáš left the rebels to be near his mother again. His mother was both proud and outraged with Tomáš, this confused him.

“She cursed him for leaving. She praised him for spilling the blood.”

Tomáš grew up in a family that glorified violence, was it through the rebel war or his mother’s abuse will always be unknown. This life Tomáš had, began to lead him to find comfort in torture and mutilation. A woman came into his life, Izabella, and she took away all of his tension and pain whenever she was around him. However, Izabella was in a tragic accident and fell to her untimely death; Tomáš tries to hide this by keeping Izabella’s dead body in a trunk in their attic.

Actions

Eventually, Tomáš' mother died of old age and Tomáš became distraught. Despite all the violence and abuse his mother brought into his life, after her death, Tomáš was never the same. That same summer Tomáš collapsed in a field and died...but was then brought back to life by Bog Petrov who stood over him.

“Petrov took the lost boy and nursed him to health, but the voices never left. When Petrov asked his name the voices screamed, "Akim!". Bog Petrov determined that this was the voices of the great and terrible Papa.”

From then on, Tomáš became a believer in Papa and the Twelve Sacrifices, which is demanded from the Father. Akim starts recruiting other followers for Papa including Markov the Mad, Ivanov the Depraved, Kazimir the Forsaken, and Fredrik the Holy. They went out killing and sacrificing people for Papa across the world of Chernarus. This quickly came to the attention to the other factions and groups of the land. Five sacrifices were made, but their progress was not quick enough. Therefore, the Cult of Papa called upon others in Chernarus to give them up for sacrifice., culminating in the Black Mass, where the Cult was to obtain seven more sacrifices while the rest of Chernarus continued to hunt them down.

Where are they now?

In the end, the cultists were defeated at the Black Mass and Akim the Revelator was killed. All members of the cult except Kazimir and Bog Petrov were killed, effectively ending the Cult of Papa’s reign of terror...for now.