Gareth

Gareth is Charity's partner, and mark. She invited him back to Penda's Slake explicity so that he could be hunted and killed.

Description
Gareth is broadly self-absorbed and self-important in the short time we know him. He shows a tendency to make assumptions, and then to refuse to listen to others- first confronting Carpenter about 'her dog', then repeatedly accusing her of having a dog, despite both Charity asking him to not confront Carpenter thrice, and Carpenter stating 'I dont have a dog' twice. If we are being generous, then it can be seen more of a result of being in Marcel's Crossing, which is a frankly miserable little town which was just coming of the back of a quintuple murder, and being at the haunt of a god, both potentially throwing his nerve a little.

That said, Charity later states that 'he liked it when I forgot my glasses, it gave him a reason to be firm with me', so I wouldn't give him too much slack. He also disregard's Carpenter's warnings about the prescence of a god twice, the first, when he goes to check the map for the prescence of an illegal god, and the second, when he ignores her to walk into the chapel of The God of Penda's Slake. In the transcript he is described as 'attempting to take charge. He isn't very good at it.'

Transfiguration and Death
Warning: Contains graphic bodily harm description.

Gareth walks into the chapel and begins to read the prayer marks of the God of Penda's Slake, eventually being compelled to repeat the line, there's them that lead and them that chase. He has a brief moment of coming back into himself, raising a hand to Carpenter and Charity, before he turns, messily, into an skeletal elk. His skin goes red and purple with blood, screaming, as he develops hooves protruding out of his hands, antlers out of his cheeks, and the skull out of his mouth, effectivly sloughing the skin on his face. He seems to be still able to move his hands, and it's implied the eyes of the elk are a transformed version of his own. There is a question of how much of himself remains, as Stanton's monologue proves that saints do experience a form of conciousness.

He is then summarilly attacked and killed by the snare dogs, and then his bones turn into a birch tree and ivy grows from his blood.