| “ | A tough old trapper and hermit. Lives alone in the wilderness of Mystery Lake. Doesn't seem to like people much. In-game description
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Jeremiah is the primary non-player character in Episode 2: Luminance Fugue of Wintermute.
Episode 1[]
At the end of Episode 1, Will Mackenzie enters Mystery Lake and encounters Jeremiah being disarmed and attacked by the Old Bear. While The Old Bear mauls him, Will arms himself with Jeremiah's hunting rifle and shoots the beast, then rescues and stabilizes the trapper in his nearby cabin.
Episode 2[]
During Episode 2 of Wintermute, Jeremiah regains consciousness to find himself being cared for by Will inside Trapper's Homestead, but is delirious from an infection from the bear attack. To save Jeremiah's life, Will retrieves antibiotics from Carter Hydro Dam, however The Old Bear follows Will, who barely manages to escape. Jeremiah stabilizes but is too ill for travel. He and Will agree to radio Perseverance Mills, however Jeremiah's radio was damaged by The First Flare and requires replacement parts, and The Old Bear is still stalking them both.
Jeremiah relays a tale during Great Bear Island's settling days, of a neigh-invincible "demon bear" and the settler from Forlorn Muskeg who slew it with a Bear Spear. He then details his own efforts to kill the Old Bear they face has survived many of his own efforts to kill it. He suggests Will find this spear to defend himself while collecting the radio parts. Will survives another encounter with The Old Bear, and meets Methuselah again, this time during an active aurora along with aurora wolves. Finding and repairing the Bear Spear, Will defends himself and collects the radio components. But before he can escape, he is attacked and mauled by The Old Bear and dragged off to its cave.
Will awakes inside The Old Bear's cave, kills it, and returns to Jeremiah with the radio components. Jeremiah repairs the radio, allowing Will the honors of reaching Perseverance Mills in search of his ex-wife. Mackenzie tries to contact the Mills the aurora overloads and destroys the radio, and Jeremiah can not send his own message out along with it. With no means to contact Perseverance Mills, and Jeremiah still too ill for travel, he insists that Will travel in his stead to deliver the message "Wintermute" to a women named Atwood at the Mills.
Episode 4[]
Jeremiah does not appear in the episode, but his voice is heard in the intro recap regarding Atwood and the message Wintermute.
Possible military background[]
Jeremiah indicates having a military background from conversations about his technical expertise, model of radio, and the mysterious relay towers in Forlorn Muskeg. However he refuses to elaborate on his out of place knowledge, revealing that he hides more to his background than he lets on.
- Based on his location in a remote island in Canada and his Enfield-style rifle, he may have been a member of the Canadian Rangers, but this can't be confirmed.
- Jeremiah's voice actor is David Hayter, most famous for his role as Solid Snake from the Metal Gear franchise. Similarly to Jeremiah, after the events of Metal Gear 2, Solid Snake retires from his duty to the Arctic, though he retreats to Alaska and raises sled dogs instead.
- He happens to own a military grade shortwave radio as well as military cartography maps of Great Bear Island, with Mackenzie noticing this and Jeremiah constantly deflecting these facts.
- He often uses the term "clicks" instead of kilometers, a common military term (though Jace also uses "clicks").
- Jeremiah states that there's no reason to stay on Great Bear Island after The Collapse, and that the only reason people would stay is to hide from something. Mackenzie asks what Jeremiah is doing on the Island then, with the Trapper only responding with "I have my reasons".
- Jeremiah originally had a hideout bunker all to himself before it was cut in the Redux version.
- Despite being a supposedly lonely trapper that spends most of his time trapping and drying furs, Jeremiah seems to have connections and frequent conversations with other individuals. (ex. Atwood, Jeremiah's Papers before they were cut)
Trivia[]
- The iconic Trapper's Homestead of Mystery Lake seems to be Jeremiah's home, suggesting his profession to be a fur trapper, as well as his fur-based attire. A list of his belongings include:
- Jeremiah's Broken Rifle (cut)
- Jeremiah's Repaired Rifle (cut)
- Jeremiah's Hunting Rifle (Redux)
- Jeremiah's Knife (cut)
- Jeremiah's Hideout and Jeremiah's Papers (cut)
- Jeremiah's Bearskin Coat (cut item but he still wears one in Redux at the end of Episode 1)
- Deerskin Boots
- A shortwave radio
- A geological cartography survey map of Great Bear Island
- Jeremiah seems to enjoy Pork and Beans, with his cabin being filled with them and the fact that his Trust can be raised by donating some to him in the Predux version of Episode 2. Several other places across the region, the Camp Office and Lookout (Mystery Lake location) specifically, have been frequented by him and are littered with empty Pork and Beans cans.
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Predux Episode 2[]
Redux Episode 2[]
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