Blaine Abel

Eerie, Cultist, Religious Demonologist. The official description for Blaine introduces: "Raised by a fire-and-brimstone pastor, Blaine sees Revival Day as his divine calling and will use the fear and chaos within Wausau to build and rally a militia of true believers against the Revivers."

As an adult, Blaine worked from his garage as a snowmobile repairman in Kronenwetter and described himself as his region's foremost religious demonologist. He told his clients that his work was blessed by the Catholic church and he had been trained by Jewish rabbis and Islamic clerics to handle entities from multiple religions. People laughed at him for years until the dead came to life on Revival Day. However, Blaine still got called to cast demons out of teenagers who faked possession for attention. In these cases, he threatened the teenager to feign recuperation and never tell anyone the truth.

After Revival Day, Blaine began hunting glowing creatures he believed to be demons. Blaine approached Mrs. Thang Vang to change her car's flat tire but attacked the elderly woman with a rake in her basement, where Mrs. Vang had built a trap to capture what she called the poj ntxoog. Blaine took the ring Mrs. Vang would use to attract the creature, and he intended to capture the demon with a containment circle. However, he left his cell phone in the basement, where May Tao found the wounded Mrs. Vang and the device with a picture of the creature. After May went to the police, Blaine kidnapped her to interrogate the journalist in his garage. Before Blaine could begin torturing May, he heard a commotion outside; Martha "Em" Cypress sought May after seeing the picture on the cell phone, and a glowing creature sought the ring because it belonged to a Reviver, Joe Myers. Once in the woods, Blaine saw the creature leaving Em and attacked her with a wrench, but she harmed him with a branch to his leg. Em went on to rescue May and destroyed the creature when it fell on a river, but soon Blaine hunted the two girls with a crossbow. To allow May to escape in a snowmobile, Em jumped to the one Blaine rode to crash it against a truck. Seeking redemption Blaine was admitted to the same hospital as Mrs. Vang and began recuperating from a coma." Noting that May did not report him to the police, Blaine piqued her curiosity by talking to her about current strange events whenever she visited Mrs. Vang. On one of these occasions, Blaine told May about his uncle,!" and she began to sympathize with him.

• Steven Ogg portrays Blaine in the Revival TV series.

• He is based on the character Blaine Abel

from the Revival comics.

• The official description for Blaine introduces:

"Raised by a fre-and-brimstone pastor, Blaine sees Revival Day as his divine calling and will use the fear and chaos within

Wausau to build and rally a militia of true believers against the Revivers.