“Severance” S2E4: Kier Eagan’s secrets revealed.

The mystery surrounding Kier Eagan deepens in Severance Season 2, Episode 4. Secrecy has always surrounded the Lumon founder’s past. However, new revelations from an ancient text offer strange insights into his life.

A Strange Test and a Forbidden Text

The MDR team finds themselves lost in a snowy wilderness. They discover an old TV, where Milchick delivers a message. He explains that their current task will help them understand Lumon’s enigmatic founder, Kier Eagan.

Eagan’s book, Compliance, has always guided Lumon employees. However, before his death, Kier dictated a fourth appendix hidden from the severed floor. The team travels to retrieve it from a place called Scissor Cave.Legends say Kier tamed his Four Tempers—Woe, Frolic, Dread, and Malice—in this cave.

What the team learns in Woe’s Hollow changes everything.

Kier Had a Twin Brother

In Scissor Cave, the team uncovers the lost appendix. The dedication page reveals a shocking detail—Kier had a twin brother named Dieter. The text describes them as sharing “the lodgings of my mother’s womb.”

Dieter’s existence challenges the known history of Kier’s early life. Previously, people believed he was born to closely related parents, which led to childhood illness. The painting Youthful Convalescence of Kier, seen in Season 1, depicted this.

Kier claims Dieter led him into sin. But what he does next is even more disturbing.

Kier Killed His Brother for Masturbating

The fourth appendix reveals a dark truth. Kier describes how he “had no choice but to listen as he spilt his lineage upon the soil.” This phrase suggests that Kier caught Dieter in an act of self-pleasure.

Kier saw this as an unforgivable sin. He then drowned his brother under a waterfall in Woe’s Hollow, using the sound of rushing water to mask the struggle. Kier’s retelling claims that Dieter did not die but instead transformed into a tree.

The text spins this horrifying act into a moral lesson. But the truth is clear—Kier murdered his own twin.

Kier’s Encounter with the Woe Temper

After Dieter’s death, Kier describes meeting the Woe Temper. This entity appears as “a gaunt bride, half the height of a natural woman.”

The appendix includes an eerie drawing of Woe—a frail woman with long, thin hair standing by the waterfall. She speaks not with words but with her eyes. She tells Kier, ‘This is your doing. You suffered his wantonness, now he is no one’s brother—only chaos’s whore.’

This suggests that Kier may have felt guilt, but instead of facing it, he turned his crime into a religious myth. This pattern of self-justification will probably continue in his subsequent interactions with the other Three Tempers—Frolic, Dread, and Malice.

The More Comprehensive View

Kier Eagan is portrayed in an unsettling light by these fresh information. It’s possible that his mythology in Lumon is based on fabrications and half-truths. Being a staunch supporter of the business, Milchick informs Irving, “The Handbook enhances our work with stories of the Founder’s life.” All of the statements are accurate.

But it is harder to trust with every new revelation.