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In General
- Cult: They've formed one dedicated to worshipping the worms.
- Half-Human Hybrid: They seem to have become half-devil worm thanks to the symbiosis that they formed with it.
- Institutional Apparel: They all wear orange prison jumpsuits, as they've made their base of operations the Kanowa County Jail.
- Malevolent Masked Men: And women. All the cult members wear masks made from metal and/or cloth.
Individual Members
Mother Of Worms
The unseen leader of the Children Of The Worm, the Mother can be heard preaching about how the worm will bring about paradise, and how non-believers must die.
- In the Hood: When she's finally seen, we see she wears a robe over her head, likely signifying her role as leader of the cult.
- The Leader: She leads the Children Of The Worm.
- The Unseen: She's never seen, but she can be heard in the prison. Subverted in Chapter 6, where she appears in cutscenes and on the arena Jombo-tron above The Harbinger.
Crone
Members of the Children Of The Worm, they wield bows and shoot arrows at the survivors.
- Action Girl: She's a member of the Children of the Worm who attacks by shooting arrows.
- The Straight and Arrow Path: Attacks with a bow and arrows, while others, including other members of the cult, wield guns, or claws, or bottles of bait.
Pusflinger
Members of the Children Of The Worm who carry jars of glowing green liquid (much like bait jars). They attack by throwing the jars at survivors. Getting covered in the contents attracts the Ridden.
- Gas Mask Mooks: They wear gas masks to the fight.
- Meaningful Name: They fling jars at you, hence the flinger part.
Slasher
Members of the Children of the Worm who wear clawed gloves. They attack by running at survivors and slashing them with the claws.
- The Big Guy: They have the biggest, stockiest physique of all the cult members.
- Meaningful Name: They slash people with their claws.
- Wolverine Claws: Thanks to their claw gloves.
Sniper
Members of the Children of the Worm, they hang out in high-up places with sniper rifles, and will shoot at anyone they see.
- Cold Sniper: Well, they are snipers.
- Meaningful Name: Snipers, since they snipe at survivors.
