Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3 of โThe Last of Us,โ which aired April 27.
โThe Last of Usโ Season 2 has already introduced new characters, with more on their way.
The third episode of the post-apocalyptic drama based on the popular video game featured a new group of people that viewers havenโt seen before: the Seraphites.
โYou do see them briefly in this episode,โ Tati Gabrielle, who portrays Nora, told TODAY.com during a Max and Complex special screening of the showโs third episode.
The scene includes a man with a shaved head sending a message to another group by whistling. He then asks a young red-headed girl what the whistle means.
โNo one following, all clear, keep moving,โ she replies, before asking why canโt she know where they are headed.
โBecause we donโt know yet,โ the man replies. โI told you the reason weโre going.โ
โI know,โ the girl says, adding, โWhy canโt she just keep us safe?โ
The man, however, tells the girl, who viewers find out is named Constance, that the โprophetโ has been dead 10 years and they wouldnโt count on her to keep them safe.
Constance also mentions a man named Ezra, who is a supporter of the prophet, and noted that the prophet is โeternal.โ
โA prophet isnโt magic. Theyโre just people that see truths hidden from others and share that truth no matter what the cost,โ the man says. โSo it was with our Prophet, and thatโs how we keep her spirit alive, follow her words, we obey her teachings, but we keep ourselves safe.โ
A whistle then indicates danger and the Seraphites take cover. When Constance asks if the threats are โdemons,โ the man replies, โwolves.โ
However, he means the WLF, theย Washington Liberation Front, known as wolves, and the militant paramilitary organization that Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and her crew form part of.
By the end of the episode, the group, along with Constance and the man, are dead.
Who are the Seraphites?
Seraphites make an appearance in the โThe Last of Us Part IIโ video game and are a primitivist cult and antagonistic faction. They are at conflict with the WLF.
The group follows their prophet’s teachings, who, according to the game’s Wiki, believed the Cordycepsย brain infection was a punishment for mankindโs sins.
Gabrielle, who plays the video games that inspired the show, tells TODAY that Seraphites โhave their own practices and their own belief system that they follow.โ
The actor said it is interesting to see what different groups within this world “will lean into to make sure that they survive.”
โDo you lean into faith? Do you lean into militia and order? Do you lean into family life like you see in Jackson?โ Gabrielle said. โWith the Seraphites, itโs a very different perspective or way of going about (life).โ
While Season 1 only showed the community of Jackson, Wyoming and Fireflies, Gabrielle said, introducing a new group into the show โexpands the world and expands your mind.โ
โI think it makes the show in this reality even more grounded because in the world we donโt have just one kind of person or one kind of belief system,โ Gabrielle said.
โSo to be introduced toย the Seraphites, youโll see that they have a very particular look about them. You very much know upon seeing them, this is not any other group that weโve seen before.โ
One can only assume that their history will be further explained in the upcoming episodes.
