Hope you make a fan theory series, limitless ideas galore!

A fan theory series would be rad honestly. I'd love to see a theory video on the mysterious stranger.

A short series of all the characters you believe are synths. I’m of the opinion he might be one of them

Possibly... Haven't been watching your videos in a while because I was depressed... But I'm fine now...

@@TorturedMongoose2003 glad you’re better…

Childrens from fallout 1 and 2 wouldnt agree with you about their immortality lol

@@Nighttimeqt1skill issue

​@@Banjohhdamn💀

No, that's just a flat out lie. You can kill children in Fallout.

imagine if it was little lamplight though that was the "tribe" lmao

Prestonius Garveii, the most feared member of the legion

And that kids, is why I max Charisma :D

@@Raymations Damn, but what if i wanted to Rizz him up, tho ?

​@@coffee-with-spratsCharisma is useless in New Vegas lol

@@TheCapitalWanderer Hypothetical scenario, unrelated.

Because it's facts and logic?

To be fair this is the same series where you can convince two bad guys to kill themselves if your speech and intelligence are high enough, so….

Canon wise his mask was found at the dam courier did not use speech to defeat him.

@@HarpVv There is no confirmed canon ending so that point is moot.

Or by the finger of God.... or maybe an alien blaster.

Caesar building another myth

I think the game makes it clear that while Lanius doesn’t care about the Legion, he does care about winning. The Legion has sizable power that they can pull back with and preserve, if they stay and fight, they will undoubtedly be slaughtered. Lanius doesn’t care about the rest of the Legion, he cares about winning, and because of that, if you can convince him that he’s fighting a battle that would inevitably lead to his failure, he doesn’t fight. Because while he is physically imposing, he isn’t a brute, he’s a smart, capable man, who wins not simply by taking others lives, but by knowing how to strike in ways his enemies can’t stop. That’s the very reason the 2nd Battle is such a slaughter, because he figured out a weakness that the NCR didn’t think about. That’s why some people are told by others that Lanius was part of the Legion from birth. Because he’s as brutal as the Legion, and as intelligent as their best. The problem is that he isn’t part of the Legion, he’s just here because it’s convenient for him. So the Legion tells stories of a man so capable he rose through the ranks at an impossible pace, to make up for the fact that he represents the figure head of their ship, yet doesn’t care about the Legion’s beliefs or principles. He just cares about winning. You can’t talk in him down because he’s weak, you can talk him down because he fears being made weak, and having his strength, the one thing he really thinks he has, lost in a way that would shatter his image. Or I don’t know, maybe I’m just making stuff up.

​@@Satellaview1889 Too long, didn't read

@@iLoveBigKnockers Lanius is smart, and his own true background is one that was built off of pure brutality rather than anything to do with the Legion. That leads to someone who doesn’t care about causes, and only cares about wether or not they can win, and how to preserve that self image of a brilliant and unstoppable force, with no ties to any source.

@@Satellaview1889 Dude you actually took the time to shorten it

While I agree that it is probably just an oversight, you can see the Legate's face in game, very easily. If you take the helmet off his corpse it's there, plain as day. Granted if you don't kill him, or if you kill him so much that he's just a puddle of gore, you won't see it.

But you *can* take Lanius’ helmet if you defeat him.

​@@phoenx8435game over though unless you modded it for play after ending

Obsidian specifically confirmed that it was technical issues that prevented them from scaring those faces, and that the Legate would canonically have scars

@@solaviryuvia8953 you can still see his face tho that’s the point

> speechchecking 5 cazadores in a suit

Ah cazadores, the bane/saviour of my knife-only playthrough

Bees……my god…..

Nah, it's actually a Cazaclaw

If he lived up to the legend, he'd be 1 human sized legendary alpha male CazaRawr.

Damn Smoothskin.

Graham's face is pretty scarred through his bandages.

​@@xxlCortezIf you remove his bandages from his character model, he's indistinguishable from a regular character. Like if you placed him in a lineup and gave him a different outfit and put him side by side with other masked NPCs unmasked in outfits dissimilar from their original, you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference, though that could just be because it's a bethesda-based game And so the character modeling and creation system's a little funky sometimes

@@YeetSpace like how Ullyses can't blink because his face isn't actually his face. It's a mask.

@@DMAN99 bingo

Oh cool you do that too!? Man that’s so fun. sometimes I would use Chance’s Knife or just go crazy with the Ranger sequoia lol 😂

I cleared out all the legionairies that spawn with him using a minigun then decapitated him with the ballistic fist, I have seen geckos put up more of a fight.

Damn you for giving me another reason to play New Vegas again lol

I always wanted to go to lonesome road and collect the helmet and the armor that look like his, then grad the blade of the west before fighting him, I never end up doing it though even after gathering all the items.

I finished him off with my first .357 magnum that my Courier had the entire playthrough.

Literally my thoughts exactly.

His skills are entirely irrelevant compared to his entirely artificial mythos. And I would consider his mythos artificial since no one can seem to get it straight. Caeser found himself a trained monster out east and decided to create a suitable propaganda tool out of it. Probably bought him for a dozen caps and some spare ammo.

If all you need to do is sit back and train until needed, you'd be stacked too.

That being said, his origins and accomplishments being heavily embellished is very much on point for the legion methinks

@@clothar23 The fact that people have different stories about a guy who probably doesn’t talk a lot isnt a surprise. fallout is one of those series that is known for unreliable narrators. And people not recognizing this causing problems. For example many debates have been had over Myron inventing jet or not. The game gives several obvious hints that Myron is a liar and even allows you to use speech to call him out. I don’t think there’s such an option for Lanius or anyone regarding Lanius this just seems like it’s a “fan theory” That never really fully got contained in that sphere and just expanded into a bad reading of new Vegas

I don’t know bro, two rangers with butter knifes vs a fucking sword made from an aircraft isn’t really a good counterpoint

​@@OudobHe can take a legendary death claw in melee? Id think he was a demigod. Imagine facing even a young deathclaw in rl

@@Oudobhis stats speak for themselves

Counter point, Patrol Rangers and Veteran Rangers are different, as explained by Hanlon

@@herrdoctor2895 cope

Great Joke 😂

Genius

fken lol best comment here

I will not correct any grammar issues, as I'm a Grammar Fascist, Not a Grammar Nazi.

@oliverpohlproductions8291 I don't care if you correct it. English is a tough language and I have been speaking it all my life.

Yeah, because this fan theory is for idiots.

Ncr troopers are made of paper dude it takes 1 to 2 swings normally

Apparently in canon, Lanius can easily slice a BoS paladin in half.

I mean the emaciated ghouls of the divide carry around the blade of the west and I doubt a feral ghoul could could craft 1 so that implies at the very least it’s something the ncr teaches it’s soldiers two make and you wouldn’t teach someone how two make a weapon they couldn’t wield

Bear in mind that the courier can make skulls explode with his bare fists?

He’s not wrong though 😂

Facts. 😂

There were definitely parts of Lanius’ story embellished out of proportion such as him being a completely barbaric animalistic brute. I’m sure he had a cruel streak but you couldn’t rise up in the legion so fast without at least having enough sense and logic to know when not to die in a Pyrrhic fashion when bigger victories can be obtained later.

According to Joshua Graham, after killing Ceaser (Edward Sallow) that only 'Ceaser can lead the Legion'. While Lanius can lead the Legion, he wouldn't last. Brutality can only carry you so far, and without support from cities like Vegas... Lanius would have a Civil War or insurrection on his hands.

@@someguy9293 I'm well aware of this, but I still don't doubt Lanius will try to finish the job even to his own detriment at that point.

LMAO

In Majin Buu's voice.

​@notgeorge8387 This supposed to be a Fallout 4 quote from the start of the game.

​@@notgeorge8387 Buu really really hate you!

Where is that said?

@@ReplicantBattymaneither Joshua Graham or Ulysses iirc

It’s entirety possible. Nobody’s seen what he looks like under that mask. The original could’ve died on a solo mission and Caesar could’ve easily replaced him with another skilled soldier, and had him sworn to secrecy to keep up the legend of Lanius as this insanely tough warrior

So a Dread Pirate Robert.

@@imitationpitaya Ah yeah I think its Graham if I remember right

It's mentioned in the game that legate lanius could basically just be a title that the best soldier in the legion at any point in time adopts

@@jonathanpilcher337 well then that contradicts what Joshua graham says

@@bruhbruk4568 there are so many differing accounts that we just don't know the real truth. It's pretty realistic in that regard

Dude’s probably just injected himself with a ton of Chems 🤪

@@jonathanpilcher337that’s the most realistic theory, every “legate lanius” who dies the next person in the chain of command becomes lanius , basically lanius is just a tittle not one person

Or, he sprouted early and was already 6'5" at the age of 12.

Michael Myers type shii

Both stories are propaganda, while Lanius and Maxson are both powerful characters making people believe tall tales about them grants them more authority and respect from others.

Or it could be because of unreliable narrators

​@@tonybayer2546to ne fair a trible a Mutant and a few homelessdudes deafeated the Most advanced Military in Fallout so its not that crazy to belive

Yhea, I mean, sounds like a bunch of bull. The man can be strong but like, y'know, greatly exagerated exploits or some straight up lies with some truths makes it impossible to know wich is real and wich is not. Specially since both of them are dead now.

Was Christianity a thing then

@@olliewakefield226 Attila was born like 400 years after Christianity started so yeah.

@@olliewakefield226 Just out of curiosity, what time period did you think Atilla was from?

​@limpnormal4219 was gonna correct you but I looked it up to check the exact date and boy was I wrong in when I thought Atilla the Hun was around lol.

​@@zc8211Two thousand years is a surprisingly long ass time, and the amount of advancements we've made in the past century or so is insane. Ghengis Khan, The Byzantine Empire, The Aztecs, The Viking Invasion of England, all of these happened after the death of Christ and the advent lf Christianity. The Roman Empire was only around thirty years old when Jesus was born, though to be completely fair the Roman Republic and Kingdom came before. Say what you want about it but religion brought aboht A LOT of advancement. Compare the last 2000 years to the other three thousand before that.

Exactly

Final boss armor (much stronger and more spongy than plot armor)

I killed him with a chainsaw I dunno what y’all are struggling with

the propaganda is insane

He was probably drunk on power during that. Think about it from his perspective you've lived most of your adult life as a prop a simple propaganda piece having no real power. Then all of a sudden you're thrust to the very top of the legions hierarchy thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of slaves practically worship you and would die for you without a second thought. Who are you to deny them the legend of the monster of the east? And what better way to cement that legend and your control over the legion the burning Vegas the jewel of the west to the ground.

@@drakeevans3066 he already was geared and worshiped

Charisma is seen as a dump stat…..but with a high Charisma and Speech, you can convince anyone to do anything. Why kill the bad guys when you can convince them to off themselves, why get involved in a standoff between two factions when you can play both sides and pick off the stragglers, and why do anything dangerous when you can convince some poor Schmuck to do it for you. “Hmmm……I really need to explore this raider base but I’m not sure if they put landmines in front of the door. Hey! Jerry! I heard there’s some really sweet loot inside this building. I’ll pay you 60 caps to go in first!” *BOOOOM* “Huh. Guess there WERE landmines. Thanks J…….oh. Oh he dead”

​@@CyborgCharlottehonestly that makes the game boring as fuck

MFW be like "tAlk nO JutsU1!!!" when they realise 90% of NV endings even good endings require anything besides speech to get. Also most side quests can also be done without speech, speech is mostly flavour text for xp

@@CyborgCharlotte Charisma is dump stat in NV because it has almost no charisma checks to talk down ppl, you dont need charisma for pacifist or diplomat playthrough go check out videos showcasing all Charisma checks, theres almost none of them. Though Charisma in NV is still better then in Fallout one, in NV charisma buffs companions dmg and defence while in first fallout charisma is literally useless

**Proceeds to beat Lanius to death with a stick**

So uncivilized.

@@theguybehindyou4762 Unga Bunga lmao

But Hey That’s Just A THEORY

And he was a good friend

Tactical retreat There’s only so much you can do two make a multi phase boss battle in fallout though

Thats because most of what you hear about him is BS. Propaganda from both the Legion and the NCR.

@@DeadManSinging1 Yeah because the guy who is 7 feet tall and as strong as a supermutant is totally propaganda, right?

If I remember correctly he is supposed to retreat, heal himself then come back to fight but his ai is buggy

@@azurewraith2585 oh i didn't know that. he never gets too far once he starts running.

Yh it’s your classic foundation type myth where you were always pre-destined for greatness bc of your made up backstory. Everything about the Romans was embellished by themselves down to their very conception being turned into the battle of brothers raised by a wolf, after they ripped off the entire Odyssey. Guess you get to write the histories when you win all the battles

I’m leaning into that, prolific legion members seem to have some myth behind them, including Joshua and Ulysses

He's hardly normal, tho. He's 7 feet tall, superhumanly strong, and a master statesman. It's more likely he was never in the legion as a kid and ceaser found him perhaps as a mercenary or otherwise and began grooming him as a successor

​@@bigbeau1758Point still kinda stands though. If Lanius truly grew up in the legion and just happened to be tall. Then it would make sense that Caesar or someone high ranking would notice him, due to his height and strength of course.

@Nick-yg5kg But he's not just tall and strong. He's superhuman. He's not 6 foot 5 or something, but 7 feet tall. Especially in a malnourished wasteland environment, that's exceptional. And he wields a sword meant mostly for supermutants. Allthewhile being a tactical genius with a brilliant grasp on stewardship. The odds of him being an incredibly strong giant genius who happened to be born in the legion at the right time are exceptionally low

Well that implies he was attacked at least

Legate...... but Lanius? Lol

​@@mjkrhif you ask legate lanius while doing the legion ending you can ask him what lanius means and he will tell you butcher which he earned from his battles

Yes, and title "President Joe Biden" is given to best president

@@f1shze4lot don't make this political

​@@f1shze4lotmake this political

I mean, Joshua fleed, I would not say they are lying about him, from Cesar's perspective he is dead, he most likely bever new he was survived And the tales from him perspective are just tales that soldiers do tell for some reason

@@Starving_indev Yeah not quite. The whole "dead to Caesar" thing IS possible, but not entirely genuine since he still sends scouts and assassins after him none of which return. He also suppresses any stories about "The Burned Man" amongst his people and becomes agitated if you mention him and even goes as far as to tell you not to do so.

@@khrashingphantom9632 ah, well, I somehow forgot about the assassins

I mean if you torched a guy and threw him into the grand canyon, I'd imagine you'd lie to your men that he's truly dead just so they're not shitting brix

@@ichabodthecrane Just goes to show Caesar isn’t truly the one to be feared from The Legion, but Graham even though he’s no longer apart of it. Torched and exiled the strongest among them for losing a battle of impossible odds. The kind of idiocy tracks pretty well for Caesar. Lol

Oh our greatest warrior failed us... nah man I got like, an even cooler warrior and he butchered his whole tribe single handedly at like twelve and like, is super roman, and carries a big ass word, and is super cool and scarred and shit... trust me guys he's real

I tought Caesar find Lanius after Graham's defeat, and even if it isn't Joshua was literally one of the founding father of Caesar's Legion and I think the lack of Romans in him is just to tell Edward how stupid his Roman's fantasy are...

​@@andraakmalmaulidani1793nah, the battle of Hoover Dam ocurred when Caesar had conquered every tribe he could, but for the second, they have been "integrated"

Because Joshua was smart, and an effective military strategist (until they were fighting an enemy of significant strategic might and logistical power) Lanius is just an individually great warrior. He is given a doctrine and executes it to the last drop of blood. Joshua retreated when it was clear they wouldn't survive further pressure across the other side of the dam, Lanius would have wiped out all of his own men and doomed the legion trying to maintain momentum.

​@@blackwoodsecurity531 I wouldn't call the NCR of Hoover Dam logistically equal to the Legion. The NCR would realistically roflstomp the Legion if they could bring their full might down. The I-15 is their big bottleneck, while the Legion has an easier situation since their rigid survival training for living off the land leads to needing less caravans filled with supplies, and they don't need to worry about the NCR infiltrating their backline and wrecking shit.

The Master is not a mythical brute with only a lust for blood, very different

Also he is still crazy strong, so it doesnt matter if you believe it or not: If you are not main character, you aint walking away from dude.

Legate Lanius was 11-12 when he wiped out his tribe, is still 12-13 now, (and since he's such a recent addition, that's where Joshua's lack of intel comes from), and just hops on the shoulders of another kid to look taller

LMAO muh Canon

@@rogerloger1935 But its true, wasn't added due to engine limitations

@@FriendlyGoblinWasTaken Show me,dont tell. Seem like a major cope.

He is, if FEV ever touches them we will have new Frank.

If you play as a Woman you're literally put on their Pantheon... but aight.

@Elizabean1984 yeah I've always found it really weird they'd publicly undermine their doctrine like that

@@jamesduffy7549 Caesar needs more bodies for the army. being a female warrior that won the entire war for them and saved their leader from certain death gets women some cred. It was also in Caesar's best interest to make you a "Daughter of Mars" as it paves the way for women to join the ranks.

Lets remember that Lanius haves 100 skill in guns...

No im sorry, strong or not, theres simply no way a 12 year old bested his entire tribe of largely adults lol thats ridiculous

@@technicallyafox not gonna use a example because that would be Bad for everyone

@@flaggy185 har har but we were talking raw strength here lol

@@Raymations In a tribal society, 12 year old Lanius would definitely be experienced with a weapon at that point. As for size and strength, when I was 7 years old there was this huge Samoan kid in my class in the same age range as me named Bradley that was as tall as the teacher, and Lanius is a massive guy, so I could see Lanius being able to overpower a few wounded adult warriors after the battle was over assuming he was still a pretty large guy at that age.

(100 speech) Is not a high bar to Do.

Lol, this is the most lefty comment I've ever heard. Lanius is 7 feet tall, how many 7 feet men of massive frame in your life do you know? What's more likely is that Casear created the myth around Lanius himself intentionally to be more "legendary", he's a literal representation of Mars on earth to the legion, even Casear obscures his own history to make him see more mythic. Lanius as a character is a brute first and foremost, he shows no mercy especially not to failure and will lash out in rage when he deems necessary I.e cutting the traders brahmin in half for getting in his way, decimating the legion for underperfoming, making human sacrifices to Mars before the hoover damm. But he's also known for being an exceptional commander who has never lost a singe battle and has a great mind for warfare, deeply understands logistics, and is very eloquent in his speech despite being a characterised as a brute. Also, the legion don't need to "buy into their own hype" when they're the most prosperous faction in the region , assimilated 87th tribes in warfare, without the courier's intervention they beat the NCR with ease, the same NCR who can barely achieve anything themselves and solely rely on you the player character to remotely get themselves a chance of winning. At least understand the game before you start inserting your political agenda into things.

​@@wasabcwasabcyou complain about a "lefty" and then write the most insecure bitch comment known to man

​@@wasabcwasabcthey are not most prosperous faction bro. I dont know where you get such ridicilous idea. The mere safety of trade routs is not an argument

@@Raymations 20% of people? Top technology of Mighty Caesar himself is half broken autodoc. While NCR elites can have hecking vertibird rides

@@vaevictis2789 They're the most prosperous in terms of long term stability in the REGION. The NCR in comparison is extremly decadent with their collapsing currency, the elite have a monopoly on the most prosperous forms of business. Maybe they Legion has less overalls wealth but are they more prosperous? Certainly.

The devs have confirmed its technical reasons

as someone the devs have said they wanted to put scars but couldn’t due to hardware limitations

You can take him helmet? Why I never knew?

You're reading too far into it.

Yeah and the fact that the legion ending has him just being a monster in the Mojave detracts from the “actor” theory. I agree with your version of the ending

@@ramiromen6595 Hey thanks! I can’t take full credit for this because another Fallout fan helped me come up with this idea. We pretty much combined our ideas. Which was pretty fun Lol 😂

@@ramiromen6595 Plus I do have one more idea that would give Lanius a little more connection to the Courier. Do you remember the slaughter of Nipton? Well I think Lanius should’ve been the one to attack the town not Vulpes. Then he would give you this terrifying threat(in a very mocking voice. Because he has the power). “Go ahead try and stop me. It would be entertaining for me but vicious for you. Or be our errand boy and spread the news of the destruction of Nipton”(which would start the quest cold cold heart). Now that would have been a terrifying introduction to the main villain(kind of like Vaas from Far Cry 3). I think this idea would encourage the player to know that we have to prepare for the final battle because this guy is no joke.

I kinda viewed it as an interesting twist. The supposedly intellectual and intelligent leader being too nlinded by his ego to consider defeat or retreat, whereas the one who's hyped up as a brute time and time again is revealed to think more tactically and logically. However I do see how that can kinda be a bit odd

@@written_and_recited Well the thing is we do learn that Lanius is a genius on the battlefield. We know that he isn’t a brainless warrior. But we do know that he completely hates failure(the name Joshua Graham just brings the worst out of Lanius and Caesar) and he doesn’t back down from a challenge. That’s why I mentioned this ending idea. I Think it falls in line with both characters. Plus another example is how both characters handled chief Hanlon & the Enclave . Lanius crucified him but Caesar lets him live. Lanius chooses to waste manpower on pursuing the enclave but Caesar decides to not pursue them. You do see key differences In both characters with these small details.