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The Chained Choir
Full Name: The Chained Choir, The Hummingbirds (Hummingbirds path), The Empyrean Domain (Hummingbirds - West Oklahoma unification)
Ideology: Elites, People (Hummingbirds path)
- The Ageless: The FEV strain injected into them has turned the First Chorister and her Choir immortal unless killed.
- Brainwashed: Psykers can bend normal wastelanders to their will, turning them into perfectly obedient, mindless thralls. The practice will end if V and the Choir reject the Putrescent Mother and reform into the Hummingbirds.
- The Magocracy: The Chained Choir is ruled by a Psychic Council consisting of dozens of the most powerful psykers.
- Pet the Dog: If the Choir rejects the influence of the Putrescent Mother, the newly rechristened Hummingbirds can reach out to and make amends with the remnants of the Last Patrol following the Choir's conquest of their lands, inviting them to come back to their former territory and getting a few divisions of the Patrol's National Guardsmen to join the Hummingbirds' army.
- Please Select New City Name: In the Hummingbirds path they eventually rename Fort Supply to Fort Hope (as it becomes the site of Project ACAPELLA's psychic amplifier device).
- Psychic Powers: The psykers of the Chained Choir are the result of the Choir Experiments, a pre-war study into unlocking the hidden powers of the human mind and body.
V
Hummingbirds V
Ideology: Elites, People (Hummingbirds path)
- The Atoner: After destroying the Putrescent Mother, V will dedicate herself and the Choir to making up for the evil they've committed in the Mother's name. Starting by providing restitution to the surviving members of the Last Patrol and their people following the Choir's conquest of their lands and culminating in her giving her life so that Project ACAPELLA can work.
- Evil Costume Switch: Inverted in the Hummingbirds Path, she goes from wearing a dark bodysuit to wearing brighter, looser, hippy-esque clothing and a floral necklace.
- Heel–Face Turn: Should V reject the influence of the Putrescent Mother in favor of listening to Dawn and Celestina, she will end the practice of enthralling people and reforms the elitist Chained Choir into the far more benevolent Hummingbirds.
- Heroic Sacrifice: V volunteers to be the Living Battery that Project ACAPELLA requires to work, effectively killing her as she's placed into a coma and permanently interfaced with the machine, and removing her from it is not an option without killing her.
- Name Amnesia: V had spent most of her life as a number that she had forgotten her own name.
- Nature Hero: In the Hummingbirds path she will embrace environmentalism as a guiding principle for the Hummingbirds under the guidance of Dawn and Celestina.
- Pro-Human Transhuman: In the Hummingbirds path, she goes from mentally dominating ordinary humans and ghouls to doing what she can to help them and provide for them.
- Redemption Equals Death: Invoked by her insistence on being the one to power Project ACAPELLA, as she genuinely believes that she needs to do it in order to properly atone for her actions under the Putrescent Mother's influence.
- World-Healing Wave: What Project ACAPELLA can do, essentially a stationary, psyker-powered, GECK-esque machine that works more gradually and over a much greater distance. Too bad it requires a powerful psyker be permanently interfaced with the machine in order to work and V isn't going to let anyone else volunteer. It works and Western Oklahoma is gradually purified of radiation and becomes a more fertile land.
- You Are Number 6: V's name was taken from the Roman numeral on her cell's floor.
The Putrescent Mother
- The Corruptor: Her influence on the Choir is the reason they became the mind-dominating psychic warlord state they are at the start of the game.
- The Power of Hate: Mother was the first to perish from the Choir Experiments, but her unbridled hatred kept her bound to the material world, clinging to the soil and concrete they buried her under.
- Plot-Triggering Death: In the Hummingbirds path, V will rally the Choir in using their psychic powers to destroy the Mother completely, in so doing, they accidentally uncover a sealed off wing of the research facility where their experiments took place, allowing V to learn about Project ACAPELLA and setting off the rest of the Hummingbirds' story.
- Sorcerous Overlord: The Mother is a foul psychic spirit who, in the Chained Choir's evil path, rules from a putrid palace made of gore and mindbending psychic ooze, all draped over whatever opulence can be salvaged from the fallen world. Her decrees are many, every one of them more wicked than the last. She will not stop until the world has come to bear the brunt of her cruelty.
Celestina
Ideology: People
- Morality Pet: For V, alongside Dawn, and catalyst for V's potential Heel–Face Turn.
- You Are in Command Now: Should the Hummingbirds succeed in implementing Project ACAPELLA and V is interfaced with it, she will assume leadership of the Hummingbirds and carry on from where V left off.
The Last Patrol
Full Name: Oklahoman Defence Force, State of Oklahoma (Oklahoma unification)
Ideology: People
Built out of what survived of the Oklahoman National Guard in the years following the Great War, the Last Patrol are a group of hardy, well trained and vicious soldiers with a duty of care. They originally went under a different name, the Oklahoman Defence Force, but they suffered immense losses in 2179 and were reduced down to a single division. Although their organisation bounced back, much of their lost territory was never recovered, and the awe-inspiring and infamous moniker of the "Last Patrol" stuck.- Back from the Brink: The Last Patrol could not only recover from its horrendous losses, but it could potentially reunite and restore the State of Oklahoma.
- Defector from Decadence: The National Guardsmen who formed the Oklahoman Defence Force and titular Last Patrol could not care less about potentially committing treason against the US government, or what's left of it. Their concern was, and remains, the survival of their home state.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Over the generations, the "citizens" under the Last Patrol's protection have not only come to respect their guardians but willingly volunteer to join their ranks. Coincidentally, the animosity between ghouls and regular humans seen elsewhere in the wasteland, except for the likes of the NCR, is almost entirely absent.
- Mythology Gag: From their description and overall style, it's not hard to see them as what the Responders in Appalachia would have turned into had they survived long enough.
- Last of Their Kind: The Last Patrol is almost like an army of ghosts, seeing itself as the last surviving remnant of the National Guard.
- The Remnant: In addition to being a remnant of the US National Guard, the Last Patrol is all that's left of the Oklahoman Defence Force.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Despite being all but abandoned by the US Government during the Great War, the local National Guardsmen deployed in Oklahoma continued doing their duty to save as many of their countrymen as they could, despite every opportunity to desert.
- Still Wearing the Old Colors: It still has some ghoulified US National Guard troops among its ranks, equipped with the same uniforms and guns they had when the Great War happened.
Adjutant General Harrison
- Cincinnatus: Regardless if the Last Patrol succeeds in reconstituting the State of Oklahoma, Harrison will retire, be it by handing command over to a trusted subordinate or stepping down for proper elections to take place.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Time has made Harrison weary, jaded, and a little bit unhinged. His love of country, even if it's long dead, and his commitment to the original mission of protecting the innocent, however, remain intact.
- You Are in Command Now: He was just a rank-and-file guardsman in 2077. Over the centuries, he's not only one of the handful of ghouls in the Last Patrol from before the Great War still alive, but is also "promoted" to "Adjutant General" for being the most senior and competent one left.
Chickasaw-Muskogee Coalition
Full Name: Chickasaw-Muskogee Coalition, State of Sequoyah (Oklahoma unification)
- The Mafia: A somewhat organised criminal underground has been constantly active in the Chickasaw-Muskogee Coalition. Depending on the taken political path, they can be suppressed or take over the nation.
- Native American Casino: The Chickasaw-Muskogee Coalition is known for its myriad casinos and glistening lights, echoing the distant glitz of New Vegas. These enterprises, however, are under the control of powerful families, many of which also happen to be tied to organized crime.
- Protection Racket: Crime syndicates promise they will 'protect' casinos, hotels and other businesses from all manner of accidents that may happen, just for a small regular payment.
- Totalitarian Gangsterism: If Lushanya Harjo chooses not to deal with them, the biggest gangs and criminal syndicates will grow strong enough to take over the Chickasaw-Muskogee Coalition itself.
Lushanya Harjo
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: If Lushanya Harjo is overthrown by criminals, they keep her around as their bird in a cage, doing exactly as they tell her to.
- Criminal Craves Legitimacy: While the head of one of the Chickasaw-Muskogee Coalition's most prominent casino families, she's actively findings ways of not only going legitimate but moving her people away from relying on organized crime. She also has more pragmatic reasons, given the threat posed by the Chained Choir.
- The Puppet Cuts His Strings: Organised crime's hold over Lushanya Harjo cannot last long. Even if they manage to destroy her power base and force her to do their bidding, she's soon manage to escape with the help of her newfound allies in the Tubeheads.
Cherokee Nation
Full Name: Cherokee Nation, State of Sequoyah (Oklahoma unification)
- Anti-Magic: The Cherokee have found records of psychic nullifiers from Brotherhood of Steel documents, which might prove useful against the Chained Choir.
- Emperor Scientist: The Cherokee Nation is governed by a Council for Applied Science and Engineering.
- The Federation: The Cherokee are the leading people in the "Great Plains Federation", a coalition of Native Americans in what had once been Oklahoma. Depending on what choices are made, they can wind up unifying said coalition into the State of Sequoyah, with themselves as first among equals.
- Mad Scientist: How to deal with ethics and morals in the process of scientific endeavour has been a long standing question among the Council for Applied Science and Engineering, who can decide that the ethical and moral compass is simply a rough guideline that can be followed at will.
- Magical Native American: Defied. The Cherokee people have long embraced scientific advancement and innovation as part of their culture. Without their foresight and technological prowess, neither the shining lights of the Chickasaw-Muskogee Coalition's casinos, nor the Choctaw Nation's lofty ambitions to build a library to survive the ages would be possible.
Standhope Shadow Mountain
Choctaw Nation
Full Name: Choctaw Nation, State of Sequoyah (Oklahoma unification)
- Fling a Light into the Future: The Choctaw Nation aims to complete a grand library to preserve its culture and knowledge for future generations.
- Good Old Ways: The Choctaw people are famous for there seers and shamans, who tell the stories of their ancestors and their victories in their past.
- Magical Native American: Subverted. While the Choctaw Nation is more traditionalist and spiritual compared to its neighbors, it's otherwise organized like most actual Native American tribal governments. That said, it does treat ghouls with a shaman-like reverence due to their long experience and stories making them well-positioned to guide younger generations.
- The Storyteller: The stories that shaped Choctaw culture have been passed down from person to person over generations, since long before the Great War. People have added bits to them, changed parts, adapted them to current situations.
