The Provost?

[Luigi Mangione]

I'm in the Rail Nomad Camp and I've got some weird NPC following me named "The Provost". He keeps speaking Latin. Is this some kind of pop culture reference or something?

[Jivebot]

In an interview one of the game developers pretty much said the Provost exists purely as a mind screw, to make people try and figure out what he means when he means absolutely nothing. Interesting sidenote. At some point in my Arizona journeys, the Provost just vanished. Killed? Stopped following me? I dunno. Long before I took the chopper to Cali, he was gone. And then he just randomly showed up shortly after i turned in all the cat litter for my first radiation upgrade in cali in that scrapyard where the guy wants you to find his two missing dogs.

[Complete Muppet]

Yep same happened to me although I did find a .50 cal sniper in a pile of junk he was sitting on. I put that down to luck though.

[Jivebot]

Definitely luck. You lucky bastard.

[lameradze]

Originally posted by TheRedFear:

In an interview one of the game developers pretty much said the Provost exists purely as a mind screw, to make people try and figure out what he means when he means absolutely nothing. Interesting sidenote. At some point in my Arizona journeys, the Provost just vanished. Killed? Stopped following me? I dunno. Long before I took the chopper to Cali, he was gone. And then he just randomly showed up shortly after i turned in all the cat litter for my first radiation upgrade in cali in that scrapyard where the guy wants you to find his two missing dogs.

At some point right after a battle with rail thieves he turned into a store... however i was unable to check it as i decided to reload due to one of my guys being killed. Never happened to me again though... Maybe just a bug

[Echo]

If he gets the last shot in combat then goes into overwatch he gets a permanent overwatch icon above his head. That's probably what you saw.. looks similar to the shop icon. You have to reload before combat starts again though or the game will hang.

[FlashXAron ☕ (Alex)]

Met him now in the other map, there I had to free two dogs, which is a side quest ... he even followed me to some locations, but died somewhere ! So he dropped that amulet also !

[ZeroEffekt]

Came across him in the RNC, he ended up dying. I think from friendly fire, because he got all kinds of in my way.

However, he popped up in Lost Alamitos but is hostile. I can't proceed further into the zone without him auto-combating me. When he dies, he drops the Owl of Minerva as per usual; but I can't loot it without the robots becoming hostile for daring to loot any of resources in the area.

[Vita, Mortis, Careo]

For me the Provost died while I was shooting up God's Militia. Spiritus and Sancti were too much for him.

[dwringer]

Well the owl of minerva is a symbol of wisdom and perception, and the guy's latin quotes are a poem about man's striving for greatness, an homage in the face of abject failure - a testament to the godlike power wielded by man's harnessing of atomic physics, and the utter failure realized in nuclear apocalypse. I think it's a pretty awesome reference, I miss games like this :(

[Romulus]

The Provost in my game got stuck in the house of Katy Bowling. Guess after I killed off Pitbull, he wanted to make his move...

[Sai Kyouji]

Guy got out of nowhere and shot my secret of nimh rat by accident.
He better behaves himself or im pumping him full of slugs

[Caravan Master]

Originally posted by TheRedFear:

In an interview one of the game developers pretty much said the Provost exists purely as a mind screw, to make people try and figure out what he means when he means absolutely nothing. Interesting sidenote. At some point in my Arizona journeys, the Provost just vanished. Killed? Stopped following me? I dunno. Long before I took the chopper to Cali, he was gone. And then he just randomly showed up shortly after i turned in all the cat litter for my first radiation upgrade in cali in that scrapyard where the guy wants you to find his two missing dogs.

Similar thing happened to me, except I didn't turn in any Cat Litter yet and he appeared in the scrapyard. I suppose he's just meant to pop up there again?

[voosbros]

Originally posted by MackDaddy:

I'm in the Rail Nomad Camp and I've got some weird NPC following me named "The Provost". He keeps speaking Latin. Is this some kind of pop culture reference or something?

Here Phaethon lies who in the sun-god's chariot fared.
And though greatly he failed, more greatly he dared.


--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton

[Cosmic_NippleTwist]

I may have an answer to him.
The medallion he drops is called, "the owl of MInerva"
This is the OFFICIAL mark of the order of the illuminati. (Even though the eye of providence is in the game) and an interesting fact was that the illuminati was made in Bavaria in the 1700s and a man named Johan Adam weishaupt ran away from Bavaria before the fall of the order in 1785 and went to America.... However he was never seen off again. Sooooo maybe.. Easter egg?

[Kuki]

Originally posted by Repulzer63:

I may have an answer to him.[...]

Thats nothing new. The question is if there is any interaction with him if kept alive.