Who is the Master and what is the Cathedral?

[Charlemagne]

I played most of the game following a tutorial, i got the story of every character and location that i visited but i missed the part about the master/cathedral.

After returning the water chip, i started looking for the mutant lab. I found the brotherhood of steel and i decided to scout the region. After i found the military base, i destroyed it and then i was prompted to go the cathedral to kill the master but i have no idea when i was meant to hear about him or his base. Everything in the game made sense until that point.

Can anyone explain it to me? I don't mean a lore dump, just when i was meant to hear about him in game

[Vex Hilarius]

Go south from Adytum and you'll know

[Charlemagne]

Vex Hilarius님이 먼저 게시:

Go south from Adytum and you'll know

You mean south of the boneyard? I already found the Cathedral and i just killed everyone there. Are you meant to meet the Master without build up?

[ureaditwrong]

You can learn a little bit more about the Master and the Unity if you get captured by the mutants or disguise yourself as a cathedral member. But yeah, if you just killed everyone at the base and cathedral, there's definitely not going to be much build up beyond a few NPCs and holotapes. But in a way, it's intentional because his true form is basically the big reveal.

[kud1]

You need to get to the underground of the cathedral. The entrance is in the basement camouflaged as a wall. You need a special key that Morpheus had.
Unless you killed everyone there too, but if so, you should see the end credits because it's end game.
And you can learn about the Master from the computers in the military base, as well as from Harold, and from some npcs when you use the "tell me about..." option.

[Charlemagne]

kud1님이 먼저 게시:

You need to get to the underground of the cathedral. The entrance is in the basement camouflaged as a wall. You need a special key that Morpheus had.
Unless you killed everyone there too, but if so, you should see the end credits because it's end game.
And you can learn about the Master from the computers in the military base, as well as from Harold, and from some npcs when you use the "tell me about..." option.

That feels weird, the game was all about the water chip, then it was all about mutants, the final act should be all about the master. Feels like the ending was rushed

[kud1]

Your task is to find the person behind the creation of mutants. This person is the Master. Destroying the military base and killing the Lieutenant is only half the job. A Lieutenant is a subordinate of the Master.

[REDSHADOW]

Have Fun learning the truth.. welcome to Fallout.

[REDSHADOW]

Omnissiah님이 먼저 게시:

kud1님이 먼저 게시:

You need to get to the underground of the cathedral. The entrance is in the basement camouflaged as a wall. You need a special key that Morpheus had.
Unless you killed everyone there too, but if so, you should see the end credits because it's end game.
And you can learn about the Master from the computers in the military base, as well as from Harold, and from some npcs when you use the "tell me about..." option.

That feels weird, the game was all about the water chip, then it was all about mutants, the final act should be all about the master. Feels like the ending was rushed

I mean have you watched the Fallout tv show?

It was first, I got to find my dad that the raiders kidnapped. Then it was, I got to take this guy that is important to meet Moldaver to rescue my dad. Then it was he is going to die and he wants me to cut off his head to give to Moldaver. Then the head became important and EVERYONE wanted it. Next thing we know One of the vaults close by is holding people in cryo sleep. Then it was, "YOOO THIS VAULT IS EXPERIMENTING ON PEOPLE?! WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥!" Then it was this Ghoul that wont ♥♥♥♥ off. Then it was, " My dad and his Boss caused ALL THIS?!?!?!?!"

It goes from 1 to a million Very fast. That is fallout in a nutshell and its a wild fun ride.

[Kuruseida]

And this is what happens when a guide plays by you instead of yourself.-

[orgyfan]

Master was Harold's friend. Also there is a holodisk at the military base with a master's story.

[ULTRA]

Yeah, you hear about the Master first when you follow the trail to the Hub and they suggest that you talk to Harold about old technology, and he brings up how Grey Joker/Twofaced himself when they went to search Mariposa.

[no1schmo]

Omnissiah님이 먼저 게시:

kud1님이 먼저 게시:

You need to get to the underground of the cathedral. The entrance is in the basement camouflaged as a wall. You need a special key that Morpheus had.
Unless you killed everyone there too, but if so, you should see the end credits because it's end game.
And you can learn about the Master from the computers in the military base, as well as from Harold, and from some npcs when you use the "tell me about..." option.

That feels weird, the game was all about the water chip, then it was all about mutants, the final act should be all about the master. Feels like the ending was rushed

That would be fair except the game is not structured that one; part one is waterchip, part two is the mutants. That's it. Taking out the base AND the Master are BOTH part of the same second-half of the story. You can do either one first.

[Malagon]

REDSHADOW님이 먼저 게시:

Omnissiah님이 먼저 게시:

That feels weird, the game was all about the water chip, then it was all about mutants, the final act should be all about the master. Feels like the ending was rushed

I mean have you watched the Fallout tv show?

It was first, I got to find my dad that the raiders kidnapped. Then it was, I got to take this guy that is important to meet Moldaver to rescue my dad. Then it was he is going to die and he wants me to cut off his head to give to Moldaver. Then the head became important and EVERYONE wanted it. Next thing we know One of the vaults close by is holding people in cryo sleep. Then it was, "YOOO THIS VAULT IS EXPERIMENTING ON PEOPLE?! WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥!" Then it was this Ghoul that wont ♥♥♥♥ off. Then it was, " My dad and his Boss caused ALL THIS?!?!?!?!"

It goes from 1 to a million Very fast. That is fallout in a nutshell and its a wild fun ride.

The TV show is garbage.

[REDSHADOW]

Malagon님이 먼저 게시:

REDSHADOW님이 먼저 게시:

I mean have you watched the Fallout tv show?

It was first, I got to find my dad that the raiders kidnapped. Then it was, I got to take this guy that is important to meet Moldaver to rescue my dad. Then it was he is going to die and he wants me to cut off his head to give to Moldaver. Then the head became important and EVERYONE wanted it. Next thing we know One of the vaults close by is holding people in cryo sleep. Then it was, "YOOO THIS VAULT IS EXPERIMENTING ON PEOPLE?! WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥!" Then it was this Ghoul that wont ♥♥♥♥ off. Then it was, " My dad and his Boss caused ALL THIS?!?!?!?!"

It goes from 1 to a million Very fast. That is fallout in a nutshell and its a wild fun ride.

The TV show is garbage.

"And that's like.. your opinion man"

[no1schmo]

REDSHADOW님이 먼저 게시:

Malagon님이 먼저 게시:

The TV show is garbage.

"And that's like.. your opinion man"

It's objectively poorly written and lore-breaking, but you're free to like it.