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Oybek Nabazov (Also known as "The Doomsayer") is the primary antagonist of the HITMAN™ campaign Patient Zero, and one of Agent 47's targets in The Source. He is the leader of the doomsday cult Liberation.

Background[]

Oybek Nabazov is an Uzbek artist, and new-age guru. He is best known for his controversial art exhibition "Liberation", that highlights the intersection of life, death and rebirth as told through the lens of cult activity over the past half-century. In reality, Nabazov is what could be described as a serial cult leader. ICA analysts have linked him conclusively with seven mass cult suicides or atrocities over the past three decades. He has been the last man standing each time, leaving the ruins of the cult behind him, and going on to built a new cult and lead it to the tragic end.

Charismatic and convincing, Nabazov does not have the necessary organizational skills to coordinate of this complexity. Potentially related: analysis of his financial indicate a series of payments to apparently unrelated offshore companies for "consulting services." The ICA has been unable to determine the ownership of these companies.
― In-Game Briefing

Routes[]

Oybek Nabazov begins going around the hotel's queen suite, which he has turned into a ritual exhibit. As he roams around, he will be accompanied by three bodyguards, named Ansar, Akmal, and Akram (who eventually appears as a target in The Author). He will be doing rituals around the room, and will be waving his incense wand, as he prays to one of the cult's victims, portrayed in the exhibition's projector screen.

After he roams around the exhibition room, he will be going to talk with Sister Yulduz, during which both of them can be sniped together in the Two Birds with One Sniper Rifle challenge. As their conversation ends, they will be both going upstairs to the roof garden, where a private ritual ceremony, along with the other cult members are gathered. Oybek will be washing his face from time to time in a basin near one of the rooms, and after that, he will also be doing his ritual intervention His fire seance can be sabotaged by placing vodka on it, which will complete the Divine Intervention challenge in the game.

During a Target Lockdown, Oybek will begin meditating, which is unlike most targets, who will be cowering around with guard NPCs. He will walk, instead of run, either towards the suite's office or into the rooftop's master bedroom.

Personality[]

Oybek Nabazov is known to be the leader of the doomsday cult Liberation. He is effortlessly charismatic and extremely intelligent, able to use his insecurities to lure countless people into his cult. His complete disregard for anyone's safety, even his own, makes him an extremely dangerous opponent. Despite being a callous cult leader, he treats his second-in-command, Sister Yulduz, like an important asset in the cult, even if she does not show total interest in being part of it.

Oybek loves to tell stories, all of which carry messages of death and self-sacrifice. His speech is soft-spoken and suave, which hides the sadistic nature of his actions. He never loses his cool, for instances, whenever he begs for his life being held at gunpoint and is threatened with death, he just acts calm and steady.

Because of his genocidal schemes and selfish hypocrisy about death worshiping cult, he is considered to be the one of the evilest characters in the whole series along with Wade & The Censor. Oybek's presence in the cult, his actions, and modus operandi may be inspired by that of Shoko Asahara, leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, who were responsible for the 1995 Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack.

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Trivia[]

  • Oybek Nabazov has book that can be found on a shelf in Richard Wilson's bedroom in Another Life and the keep library in The Ark Society in HITMAN™ 2.
  • Oybek, along with Brother Akram and other two followers, were meant to be Elusive Targets in Bangkok (at the Club 27 setting) while keeping the doomsday cult vibes. Eventually, his arc, along with Craig Black, Bradley Paine and Owen Cage was built to create the Patient Zero DLC along with new targets.
  • According to his unused Elusive Target briefing, the cults Oybek Nabazov previously led were the Gamil Cult in 1982, The Celestial Revelation in 1989, Unity Gate in 1993, The Nation of Nineteen in 2002, and Way of the Beneficent Patriarch in 2013.
  • Eliminating Oybek, as well as Sister Yulduz, has caused sleeper agents of Liberation to be active, which 47 and Diana have underestimated during the events of the mission.
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