What happened to The Lone Wanderer of Fallout 3?

[Big Poppa Foxy]

Fallout 4 takes roughly 10 years after the events of Fallout 3. There are returning characters from Fallout 3 like Macready, Dr. Li,and Elder Maxon. We know Bethesda stuck with the good Karma story and you start the purifier and defeat the Enclave. But the Lone Wanderer was only 19 when he/she left the Vault. Also TLW was technically the most powerful and most decorated BoS Paladin/Knight/Sentinel they ever had. If any of you played it like I did I'm sure you were pretty much a walking Apocalypse and the only thing that killed you was gravity. I mean if a sim of the battle for Anchorage, the raiders in the Pitt, the Enclave, having part of your brain removed in Point Lookout, and being abducted by aliens couldn't kill you then where are you?
You didn't start a tribe like The Vault Dweller in the first game or save the tribe like in the second to have a story on the whereabouts of what happened to you.
10 years later means that TLW is 29 years old, and if he/she is the God you made it to be, then you are not dead, so where is he/she? There is no mention of TLW just that the BoS defeated the Enclave and that's it.
So where is the closing story for the game? I want to know what happened. I mean did our character just stand by as Maxon took over as a Tyrant of the BoS, our loyalty was to Elder Lyons and Sarah Lyons, we chose the good path. We could had easily overthrown Maxon and been Elder due to our rank and service to the BoS. Or did Maxon shoot us in the back and became Elder because he knew we were ages more powerful than he ever wished he was?
It's like we never existed in Fallout 3, because there is never any mention of us that I can recall. So what happened to us, where is our true ending story for The Lone Wanderer, the hero and liberator of the Capital Wasteland.
Please share your thoughts.

[CursedPanther]

I bet he/she is still fighting hard for the stability of the Capital area. When the news of having unlimited clean water spreads, you can bet every crazy f*cker on the East Coast is gonna come and crash the party.

[Big Poppa Foxy]

CursedPanther eredeti hozzászólása:

I bet he/she is still fighting hard for the stability of the Capital area. When the news of having unlimited clean water spreads, you can bet every crazy f*cker on the East Coast is gonna come and crash the party.

Still The Lone Wanderer was and maybe still is a powerful character who takes on Behemoths and Deathclaw packs without flinching. Can't imagine the BoS not taking him/her along with them, I mean TLW could easily ♥♥♥♥♥ slap Maxon. Maxon took down a Deathclaw single handedly and got his "famous" scar? Let's see him survive in Old Olney alone on his own haha or take on a Behemoth, Talon Company and Super Mutants on his own in the Capital Building. He's a loser compared to TLW. Wish they would had gave us a closing story.

[Mech-HAN]

The thing about those god-like protagnists in video game is... they are only god-like when they are protagnists, just look the fine example of Diablo, as the protagnists in Diablo 1 are all killed by the protagnists in Diablo 2...

Still, the fate of Lone Wanderer is still a intresting thing to think about, although I'm more curious about what happened to 3dog...

[pike]

he's a fat old man spaced out on jet , broke and broken because his manager split to new vegas with all his caps .
so now he's sitting on a bar stool in mojave outpost waiting for moira to cough up the residuals on the book so he can get a small place in the commonwealth where it isn't so hot all the time .
but the courier is overdue , hasn't been heard from since he left goodsprings

[binakalgo]

pike eredeti hozzászólása:

he's a fat old man spaced out on jet , broke and broken because his manager split to new vegas with all his caps .
so now he's sitting on a bar stool in mojave outpost waiting for moira to cough up the residuals on the book so he can get a small place in the commonwealth where it isn't so hot all the time .
but the courier is overdue , hasn't been heard from since he left goodsprings

Hahaha, sounds plausible.

I don't think Bethesda even wanted to give him a closure. Heck, they "revived" Sara Lyons in the Add-on to kill her again in FO4, what happened with Paladin Cross? She was like the second in command when Lyons died, right? Did Maxon really killed everyone?

In my imagination maybe the TLW got back to Vault 101 to live happily with Amata ever after or maybe he rebelled against Maxon and it's figting a guerilla war or maybe he traveled back to the Pitt to gather forces.

Then again, he/she had a fricking alien space ship to travel to any place on the galaxy, why to stay on the Capital Wasteland if it was already "saved"?

[Mithrals]

TLW had no reason to stay in the CW, he left after he fulfilled his fathers dream and cleaned up the place. Now he is currently fighting alien oppression in the universe in his spaceship.

Look for "TLW" next time you play Star Citizen.

[chinese_hackers]

I like to imagine my LW retiring with Sydney to their Megaton shack.

[Blue Flaming Wings]

I like to imagine that the Lone Wanderer is "wandering" - they broke off from the Brotherhood of Steel following Sarah and Elder Lyons deaths and now is no longer attached to that place. I mean their dad is dead, Amata has kicked them out of the Vault and now the Lyons are gone. I expect them to continue exploring the CW, move on, or even travel the stars.

I think the Lone Wanderer is not mentioned because no one has any idea where they are.

Edit: And, apparently, this is canon. This Afterword ( http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Afterword ) by Moira Brown speaks don't know/remember anything about the Lone Wanderer anymore - even their gender. On one hand, on a meta level, this is clearly a cop out by Bethesda but on the other hand this could easily be Mothership Zeta shenanigans and so is ripe fanfic/mod/dlc fuel.

[troy_cummings]

If I remember corrctly, in the closing slideshow of FO3, it states that the Lone Wanderer leaves the Capital Wasteland because their business in the CW is over. I always wonder where they went, though.

Maybe they went West. Maybe they heard about the events of (former) Las Vegas and the events going on there and went to check it out. Maybe they decided to try to find somewhere not destroyed by bombs.

I would pay good money for Fallout book series.

[thorgaard]

The Lone Wanderer died at his birthday party and never left the vault. Ask McCready: he will tell you that he doesn't remember any "lone wanderer". Ask whats-her-name, the NukaCola collector/ enthusiast; she will say the same thing.

[Flippy]

troy_cummings eredeti hozzászólása:

If I remember corrctly, in the closing slideshow of FO3, it states that the Lone Wanderer leaves the Capital Wasteland because their business in the CW is over. I always wonder where they went, though.

Maybe they went West. Maybe they heard about the events of (former) Las Vegas and the events going on there and went to check it out. Maybe they decided to try to find somewhere not destroyed by bombs.

I would pay good money for Fallout book series.

I would get Fallout books to. Real books though. A movie would be great to.

As for the Lone Wanderer, anything is possible.

[GoreTiger]

For all we know, The Lone wanderer never existed at all.

We know the Vault driller existed in F1 because you're his child in F2. We know the Chosen one existed in F2 because Markus talks about him in NV. We know The Courier existed because he's confirmed to have visited the enclave oil rig and responsible for delivering the detonator that blew up the divide.

But so far I haven't seen anything in F4 that mentions or suggests the Lone Wanderer actually existed in the CW.

For all we know, The events of Fallout 3 all just kind of happened on their own accord.

But if he's real, He probably is off floating around in space aboard Mothership Zeta.

[WildCat]

Yeah, it's really weird. Lone wanderer met Dr. Li in Rivet City, Maxson in The Citadel, could've met Danse in Citadel or during the assault on Adams Air Force Base, met McCready in Lamplight Caverns and Sierra in Girdershade. None of these people remember the Lone Wanderer as if such person never existed.

[GoreTiger]

WildCat eredeti hozzászólása:

Yeah, it's really weird. Lone wanderer met Dr. Li in Rivet City, Maxson in The Citadel, could've met Danse in Citadel or during the assault on Adams Air Force Base, met McCready in Lamplight Caverns and Sierra in Girdershade. None of those people remember the Lone Wanderer as if such person never existed.

Yep.

Dr Li doesn't even mention the lone wanderer's father. Danse would of been just a mere recruit during the events of F3, But he would surely mention the Lone Wanderer as an example of what an Outsider can do for the brotherhood when trying to convince you to join.


If I had to guess, I'd say the Canon story of Fallout 3 is that it was Dr Li's group from Rivet city who built the purrifier and got the brotherhood Involved. The Lone wanderer and His Father probably never existed at all. Or they never left the vault.

Edit: Where is Sierra in F4? Haven't ran into her yet I don't think.

[Joe Coffee]

CursedPanther eredeti hozzászólása:

I bet he/she is still fighting hard for the stability of the Capital area. When the news of having unlimited clean water spreads, you can bet every crazy f*cker on the East Coast is gonna come and crash the party.

Depends on what route you took in FO3. There's a good but depressing ending and a "lessons-earned but, hey, F* everyone" ending if you cop out.

If you took the former, without spoiling, you won't see the LW. If you took the latter, well...anything is possible.