As Edward began to build a following, the blood bath was yet to begin and Edward needed a way to usher in a new age. Convincing many leaders of smaller organisations to join him at first...but as his power grew and so did his ambition. He converted the court of Owls, he killed their leaders. Making them an example, he needn't lift a finger. All he had to do was expose their hatred for one and another, the talons were unleashed...and those who remained easily believed in his power. Edward truly was begging to take over the underworld of Gotham.

A cult began to form, worshipping the end times Edward used this as an advantage and proved to them that he was the Devil...when in fact he was just a man, taken hostage by a malicious entity that would not let him go...whether it was the Devil or not nobody knew but its powers grow stronger and stronger with every being it caused to created chaos. The cult erected a statue in his name, and by 2023 the church of Drake was founded in his name. He was becoming an icon, and if someone was to kill him...he would be martyred. Remembered by the people as a saint of destruction, walking this world of dull impure spite as he rained upon this world a power of destruction like no other...humanities true violent animalistic nature....


Of course there was resistance, many tried to fight the conversion and they would all meet the same fate...an early grave. Edward was willing to use his elite 'Eye' to execute anybody he needed, and with the power given to him...he bestowed upon these men and women the ability to change their face. To remain anonymous amongst society, to watch and prey and to report anything they deemed suspicious or note worthy...he didn't want to run society...he wanted to destroy it...

Name: Edward Liam Drake (also known as The influencer, the faceless evil. Mastermind of a million deaths and the founder of the Ceaseless society)

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Appearance: Short brown hair, Green eyes that glow orange when he is using his powers. Wears a light blue suit and grey pants with black shoes. He has no distinctive marks or tattoos and honestly just looks like an ordinary businessman.

Weapons: none, Edward does not need to use weapons being a metahuman and all. However in the rare case he needs to defend himself, he can and will use increased strength and speed to his advantage

Abilities: Edward was the ability to harness the power of an ancient deity that has been trapped for centuries in a tomb. These abilities include the ability to cause anyones deepest darkest thoughts into manifestation, for example. If he walks past someone and he senses chaotic or violent intent in them...he can cause them to act upon their thoughts. Capable of causing mass hysteria and turning whole crowds of people into deluded freaks with intense violent and sexual urges. Edward also has the ability to directly control one individual at a time, but the catch? He doesn't even need to be near the person. If he has a name or location of someone, they will fall prey to his will.

Bio: Edward was born in Gotham to a wealthy family. He was raised much in the same way Bruce Wayne was up until the murder party of course. When Edward grew up and got a major in Archaeology, he travelled the world going to the most famous monuments on this planet...but one day when he was on an expedition in...Everything went wrong for Edward and his team. The funding from Bruce Wayne had been cut off and they were stuck in the jungle of a mysterious land...what where they to do? As they entered deeper and deeper into the jungle...Edward knew there was something not right and decided to make camp.

When he woke up, several of his team had gone missing...no trace and even their gear was left behind. The group continued on without them and discovered a large entrance to a cave...what they found within would be their demise...and the birth of a demon amongst men...

Edward would proceed to use his newly found powers to influence some of the most powerful villains in Gotham, triggering perhaps the bloodiest blood bath in Gotham history...nobody is free from his eye. The influencers eye watches all, he is the walking manifestation of violence. With no more heroes...and no more support who will save us now?

Quotes:

Edward: walks into Wayne Manor "Yes I think this will do. I'll take this, that and that please"

Edward: "Do you want the freedom to be as violent as possible? I know you do...and you know it to. After all it is just nature"

Edward: "Gotham will be the ground zeros for the beginning of a golden age of violence"

Name: Elijah Woodrow

Age: 28 (when burned) 42 (currently)

Gender: Male

Nationality: Contested, has evidence of several nationality's but has no real evidence...his family is long gone

Appearance: In photo (pre burnt. for burnt see Joshua Graham from Fallout New Vegas for reference

Profession: Bounty Hunter

Weapons: Sawn off shotgun, .45 magnum revolver and several knives and other items used to bounty hunt

Equipment: Black Motorcycle, branding long since removed and stripped as it has been repainted and modified. He also has bear traps and other traps to help him catch his prey...

Bio: Elijah Woodrow was a poor soul caught in a blast of flame. He was a police officer but when his convoy was ambushed by terrorists, an explosion caused his vehicle to set a blaze and his attempt to escape the vehicle was thwarted by his comrades burning to death...

When recovered from the blaze, Elijah's personality had all but disintegrated...he had lost hope in himself. Blamed the deaths on himself and he had no other way of being happy but accepting that he was a murderer...so once the surgery was done. Elijah turned to a life of alcohol and abuse, he knew nothing else and by the time he found the Lord...the world had already ended.

In our current world, Elijah roams the wastes of post apocalyptic America protecting those from the darkness who need it in...and in the darkest hour when there is no light...maybe you might just find that little inkling of hope...

Joshua Graham (known formerly as the Malpais Legate, and in folk legends as the Burned Man) is a Mormon missionary, co-founder of Caesar's Legion, and its first Legate.

Graham led Caesar's troops to a humiliating defeat in the First Battle of Hoover Dam. Afterward, Caesar, showing that failure was unacceptable regardless of rank, had Graham executed, having ordered him to be coated in pitch, lit on fire and tossed into the Grand Canyon. He survived, however, and left Caesar's Legion behind him. He is the acting leader of the Dead Horses in 2281


Biography
race
Human, Caucasian
sex
Male
affiliation
Mormons
Caesar's Legion (formerly)
Dead Horses
Courier (optional)
role
Missionary (formerly)
Co-founder of Caesar's Legion
Temporary companion
Warchief of Dead Horses
rank
Legate (formerly)
location
Angel cave
Sorrows camp
Fort Abandon Gametitle-VB
age
Late 50s/Early 60s[1]
Physical Traits
hair color
Dark brown
eye color
Blue
hair style
HairBase
head add ons
EyebrowM
height
1.00
Gameplay
appearances
Honest Hearts
Van Buren
mentioned in
Fallout: New Vegas
Dead Money
Lonesome Road
quests
Arrival at Zion
Chaos in Zion
Crush the White Legs
Flight from Zion
Gone Fishin'
Roadside Attraction
Tourist Trap
The Grand Staircase
Civilized Man's Burden
Statistics
level
10→50 (Player level x 1.2)
base SPECIAL
6 ST, 7 PE, 10 EN, 7 CH, 7 IN, 8 AG, 5 LK
derived stats
Hit Points: 240→440
Critical Chance: 6%
Poison Resist.: 45%
Rad. Resist.: 18%
Carry Weight: 210 lbs
Dam. Threshold: 50 (75)
karma
Good
Evil (as Legate)
tag skills
Barter: 73→100
Guns: 75→100
Repair: 73→100
perks
The Way of the Canaanite
Behavior
aggression
Aggressive
confidence
Foolhardy
assistance
Helps friends and allies
Technical
factions
NVDLC02DeadHorseFaction
NVDLC02TrapFaction
class
NVDLC02DestroyingAngel
combat style
NVDLC02CSNCRTrooper
GECK race
CaucasianRaider
Caucasian (as Legate)
Additional info
voice actor
Keith Szarabajka
designer
Joshua Sawyer
base id
xx008a39 (burned)
xx010947 (non-burned)
ref id
xx0093be (burned)
dialogue
NVDLC02Joshua.txt

Background

Joshua Graham was born in New Canaan, a Mormon community established in what remained of the city of Ogden, Utah. He grew up in peaceful times, learning the trade of a missionary and an interpreter, due to his natural aptitude for languages. In 2246, Graham received the mission call for his sacred service, to spread the good news to the people of the wasteland. By the time he left his home, he was already fluent in several tribal dialects. His knowledge made him a natural choice when the Followers of the Apocalypse asked for assistance in their expedition to the Grand Canyon. Graham departed Canaan, following the Long 15 and Highway 89 south towards Arizona, meeting Calhoun and Sallow on the way, sent by the Followers to provide education to local tribes and study their dialects.[2]

Around 2247, the Blackfoots were their first stop in the Canyon. Joshua proved to be a capable interpreter, though eventually the hospitality of their hosts was replaced with hostility. Whether it was an error in translation that Joshua made or some unrelated misunderstanding, the Blackfoots decided to hold the entire expedition for ransom.[3][4] This was a problematic situation, as the Blackfoots were at war with seven other tribes in the Grand Canyon, and were clearly losing. Against Calhoun's objections, Sallow decided to take charge of the situation: He taught the tribes how to care for their weapons, make explosives, work as a combat unit, with Graham continuing to serve as an interpreter and the first war leader of the Legion. Graham was indispensable to Sallow's plan, who turned the disorganized tribe into a capable fighting force, trained in small unit tactics, weapon use and maintenance, and the manufacture of arms and weapons.[5]

Malpais LegateEdit
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The Legate rallies his legionaries

With his teachings and Graham's skills, the Blackfoots prevailed over the other tribes, becoming the nucleus of the Legion. Graham became a commander, training the forces of the fledgling army and leading them in battle. His leadership position soon entailed retaliatory raids and terrorizing local tribes prior to assimilation into the Legion. When Sallow crowned himself Caesar, Graham became his first Legate, the Malpais Legate.[6][7] For thirty years he helped Caesar conquer the tribes of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, forging the Legion. Though he was neither a particularly brilliant strategist nor tactically flexible, his menace and brutality were infamous. The atrocities he committed made him feared by friend and foe alike. He was dangerous, unpredictable, and above all else legendary for being impossible to kill, even by NCR Rangers. But all great men eventually end. For Graham, the end came at the First Battle of Hoover Dam.[8]

Caesar's obsession with uniting the wasteland under the banner of his Legion resulted in him attacking the New California Republic in 2277. After a series of skirmishes east of the Colorado, Caesar's 68[9] attacked the Dam. Graham's tenacity was legendary at this point: Despite efforts by both the NCR Rangers and 1st Recon east of the Colorado River and five kill reports on Graham, the Legate remained a menace at large.[10] However, Graham underestimated the enemy while overestimating his own skill as a commander. He deployed his legionaries in the usual fashion, trying to defeat the Republic as he fought the tribes out east. Chief Hanlon anticipated this move, drawing the legionaries into a trap.[11] As General Lee Oliver's soldiers held the line, Rangers and Army sharpshooters targeted their commanders, sowing chaos in Legion ranks. When the Legate ordered his elite forces to punch through and pursue Rangers decimating his officers and sowing chaos in the ranks, the Rangers and 1st Recon sharpshooters retreated into Boulder City. Elements of the Army and Rangers kept the Legion engaged long enough to allow the most experienced legionaries to enter the city. When they did, the Republic's forces pulled out of the city. Once most of them were safe (soldiers and Rangers trapped behind Legion lines had to be abandoned), they triggered explosives packed into the buildings in advance. Chief Hanlon's plan went off without a hitch: The exploding buildings acted as giant fragmentation bombs, killing and maiming most of the legionaries and leaving the rest in a state of shock. The Army and Rangers followed the detonation with a counter-attack, destroying the Legion on the western side of the Colorado River and forcing the Malpais Legate to retreat from the dam. Flanking attacks at Camp Golf and other camps in the Mojave were similarly repulsed.[12]

The Malpais Legate returned to Caesar in shame. To demonstrate that failure is not tolerated, even at the highest of ranks, Caesar ordered Graham to be burned alive. The former Legate was covered in pitch, lit on fire, and thrown into the Grand Canyon, for leading the Legion into its worst defeat in Legion's history.[13]

Prodigal sonEdit
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The birth of the Burned Man

“
I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me.
”
Graham survived the fall. He woke up the following day, burned, broken, but alive. Eventually, the fallen Legate crawled out of the northern edge of the Grand Canyon and began his journey home. It took him three months to reach New Canaan, three months of suffering. Graham's immunity to modern medicine made it impossible for him to dull the pain and he had to replace the bandages covering his burned, twisted skin each day to prevent infection. But he persevered and upon reaching New Canaan, he was welcomed like one of their own, like a prodigal son returning home. In his eyes, his second baptism at the hands of the Legion and subsequent survival transformed him, rekindled his faith and removed his pride and vanity; and the thirty years of separation, atrocities, and shame, were irrelevant to his family.[14][15] Legends of the Burned Man stalking the wastelands began to spread and eventually reached the ears of Caesar. He forbade legionaries from speaking Graham's true name under threat of death (Damnatio memoriae), only enhancing the myth of the Burned Man,[16] and issued a kill order to his frumentarii. Wherever he was, his agents would find and destroy him.[17] For his part, Graham decided to forgive Caesar, in keeping with the idea that you hate the sin, but love the sinner.[18] Graham is acutely aware of Caesar's desire to see him dead, thanks to the sheer number of frumentarii and assassins that came looking for him.[19]

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Joshua Graham making his way to New Canaan after killing several assassins of Caesar's Legion

By 2281, Graham's past finally caught up with the fallen Legate. The White Legs, whipped into a frenzy and equipped by Ulysses, attacked New Canaan while Joshua was away from the city, in a bid to ingratiate themselves with the Legion by destroying the tribe of Canaan and Graham along with it. Survivors scattered into the wilderness, with the bulk of them escaping into Zion Canyon. In order to defend them and the tribes that made their home in the canyon, Graham assumed the position of acting war chief among the Dead Horses, while Daniel, another missionary and survivor from New Canaan, joined up with the Sorrows.[20]

While Daniel would have Graham fight a delaying action to allow the Sorrows and Dead Horses to safely evacuate Zion and lose White Legs in the wilderness, Graham desires nothing more than bringing God's justice to those who would bring harm to others. The desire for vengeance on those who butchered his people, killing all who could not run away fast enough - the elderly, the ill, children, those who stopped to help - burns within him, a fire stoked further by his own personal demons and desire for redemption.[21] It is only fitting that he breaks them in Zion, in a natural temple and monument to the glory of his god.[22]

PersonalityEdit
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Joshua Graham inspecting .45 Auto pistols for use against the White Legs

“
I pray for the safety of all good people who come to Zion, even Gentiles, but we can't expect God to do all the work.
”
— Joshua Graham and his two sides
Joshua Graham is a conflicted man. Originally a Mormon missionary from Ogden, he steadily betrayed everything he held dear in service to Caesar. Caught up in maintenance of a brutal, nomadic army of reconditioned tribals, and the conquests out East, Graham slowly became a monster. Small compromises turned increasingly sinister and brutal, with Graham rationalizing them as making the best of a bad situation and doing what needed to be done. In the end, however, he and Caesar had built a society on a foundation of fear and brutality, with Graham turned into a monster by three decades of warfare and atrocities. Joshua eventually believed his own lies and rationalizations, but when the defeat at Hoover Dam came, he lost all momentum. Abandoned by Caesar and his people, the fallen Legate was forced to reflect on his life and face the monster that he became. Unlike most, Joshua chose not to blame Caesar, but himself, and journeyed to seek forgiveness from the people he abandoned three decades prior.[23][24]

Their acceptance rekindled Graham's faith in God, creating a devoted militant plagued by uncertainty as to the nature of the fire burning inside him, whether it illuminates or destroys. The destruction of New Canaan and war with the White Legs have done little to help Graham come to terms with his paths, instead it has fueled his drive to aggressively fight back against his enemies, as well as act on the worst impulses he developed during his time with the Legion. His thirst for vengeance and extermination puts him at odds with Daniel, who fears what the long term consequences of stoking this kind of flame could be: Graham unwittingly creating a war cult not too dissimilar from the Legion, clothed in the guise of Christian faith, but entirely devoid of its principles.[25]

Opinions of factionsEdit
Despite his former allegiance to Caesar's Legion, the Burned Man does not hold any ill will towards any allies of the NCR. To him, the NCR is still redeemable in his eyes, stating that the greed of man is what led to the Great War and that only through faith in God and prayer and genuine acts of kindness can humanity hope to prevent history from repeating itself.

He also has a dim opinion of Mr. House, seeing him as another Caesar; a man who rallied together his own set of tribes using his own methods to assume domination over others.

His hatred towards the Legion stems not just from the fact he was made an example by Caesar, but also Caesar's belief that his will alone will unite the wasteland under the Legion's banner and his refusal to let anything stop him. Ultimately his greatest enmity is for himself - for letting himself get swept up in Caesar's rise to power, for falling in line as his Legate and for willfully perpetuating the innumerable atrocities that helped establish his rule. What he believed may have been the start of a society of equals under one banner has become a totalitarian culture dominated by one man.

"And when heavenly blue sky tear us apart. As blood fall asunder, our sacred ground stained red as we shall remember the dead. Forget not why they have fallen but how they have instead...for no matter the warriors death. They will not be forgotten"