The Brotherhood of Steel Explained: Technology, Rituals, and History Unveiled 

About Clerics, Clerics were never mentioned in the previous games, but in the show, it’s true that Quintus said that he got his orders from the “highest Clerics in the Commonwealth”. His name in the show is “Elder Cleric Quintus”, so the Elder role was not eliminated with the show and replaced by the Cleric. Rather, it looks like the terms, in this case, can be used interchangeably, as the highest Cleric would be the Elder Cleric. In Fallout 4, Arthur Maxson ruled the Brotherhood by himself. He did not answer to a quorum or council of Clerics or Elders. However, in Fallout 1, John Maxson, the grandson of founder Roger Maxson, was only one of many Elders who ran Lost Hills (he was the High Elder though). So by this standard, chapters should be run by councils of Elders, not one solitary High Elder. It’s possible, then, that after the events of Fallout 4, with the Brotherhood reigning supreme (or at least at peace with the Minutemen), Arthur Maxson re-established the council of Elders, as was tradition with the west coast chapters. And in fact, we have to believe that he did. Before we can conclude that there is a continuity error (or a retcon), we need to exhaust all other possibilities. We can explain away Quintus referring to the “highest Clerics in the Commonwealth” by: A) Assuming that by “Cleric” he meant “Elder Cleric”, and that “Elder” and “Cleric” are interchangeable. B) That Arthur Maxson re-convened the council of Elders, establishing himself as High Elder, as his forefathers were before him And so since this explanation resolves the issue, it must then be the truth. Of course, any other explanations that successfully resolve the “Cleric” issue could also be the truth, and we’d need clarification from the showrunners to know which one is accurate. The existence of an Elder Cleric does infer that there is a non-Elder Cleric, or a “lesser Cleric”. This would be new to the franchise. It’s possible, but highly unlikely, that “lesser Clerics” had always existed in the Brotherhood; we just never saw them in any of the games. As for the Brotherhood existing before the war, I’m technically wrong in this video. After massacring the scientists at Mariposa, Maxson led his soldiers on a months’-long “exodus” to Lost Hills where he settled and there, in November, he officially founded the Brotherhood of Steel. But what exactly were they between October 20th and November 2077? They had seceded by October 20th, making them traitors, but then the nation fell-and you can’t be traitors to a nation that doesn’t exist. So while the Brotherhood did not form in name until November of 2077, I believe they formed in spirit on October 20th 2077. But again, I am technically wrong on this date. Arthur Maxson actually didn’t leave with Lyons in search of the midwestern chapter. He was dispatched years later, after Lyons had already settled the Citadel in the Capital Wastelands. I combined two expeditions there, my bad. So there were a total of five expeditions from the west to the east that we know of: 1) Paladin Rahmani and Knight Shin, arriving in West Virginia around 25 years after the bombs dropped, in search of Taggardy’s Thunder, 2) The midwestern expedition to Chicago, 3) Lyon’s expedition to find the missing Chicago expedition, 4) Arthur Maxson’s expedition to meet Lyons at the Citadel, and 5) Elder Elijah’s expedition to the Hoover Dam. It’s true that the Brotherhood could have vertibirds for a variety of reasons, not just the one I listed in the video. In addition to having vertibirds because they got the plans during Fallout 2, they could have been gifted vertibirds from Lyons after Broken Steel, or from Maxson after Fallout 4. We don’t really know.

i feel like its important to remember that the BoS isn't a unified organization and that it has separate chapters with separate traditions, just because we see one group doing one thing, doesn't mean ALL of them do that thing.

I love the idea of the Brotherhood adopting more and more pre-war traditions as they discover and learn more. Them learning Latin could've easily been explained as something they recently discovered and implemented

The Maxson family are akin to royalty to the BoS so switching HQ to the east coast wouldn't be surprising, im sure it would ruffle a few feathers at the same time

Jonah Nolan and Todd Howard should make you an official lore consultant for the show.

Super mutants in Fallout 4’s Commonwealth would oftentimes scream at the player saying, “You humans made us. Now suffer for your arrogance!” Another physical manifestation of the human hubris.

I personally like the theory that the chapter featured in the TV show are recruited heavily from the remnants of Caesar's Legion (most likely after Caesar died from the brain cancer featured in NV, likely resulting in the Legion descending into civil war)... It would explain why they are so much more zealous, along with the use of Latin names, having brought those attitudes and traditions with them, but it's some of the remarks made by the Elder that is the biggest hint... He makes the statement... "We once ruled these lands"... but the West Coast Brotherhood have never ruled over any territory, and were always the underdogs, where as Caesar's Legion did rule significant territory... He also remarks... "Power is taken, not given..." in response to Maximus killing Titus, which is a very Caesar's Legion view on "promotion"...

It has to be the Prydwen because Knight Titus distinctively has a Boston Ascent

I was playing Fallout 3 today, and when I was aiding some brotherhood soldiers fight the enclave post game, one of them shouted out, "For Eden!"

BOS is one of my favorite Fallout Factions

Side notes...In the earliest Welsh mythology (the origins of King Arthur,) one character is Macsen Wledig, which is probably where Roger Maxson's name came from. Prydwen was the name of the ship that brought King Arthur to the Otherworld.

My favorite theory about the Brotherhood in the Show is that after Caesar died, some of the Legion joined with the Western Brotherhood and perhaps if “Elder Cleric Quintus” is actually a former Legate. By working together It’s how they got so strong on West Coast again. It’s how they have a Base on the Utah Salt Flats (Legion Territory) and when you think about it, the NCR really isn’t really isn’t the “Antithesis” of the Legion. In fact they have many similarities, such as Imperialism. The Brotherhood is. Their exact opposite. As the BoS they remove advanced technology from everyone else, they are forced to adapt or die. The Red and Gold BoS Banners, the Latin names…the Cultish Clerics. Quintus even calls his forces a “Legion” not a Chapter. When Elder Cleric Quintus says “we used to rule the Wasteland” he is talking about Caesar’s Legion. The “New Brotherhood” he talks about making? It’s the fulfillment of Caesar’s dreams. *A synthesized Legion.* The 88th Tribe. With Cold Fusion now in their possession, California shall be their Rome.

Fun fact. They filmed the brotherhood base scenes in my hometown of Wendover at the Wendover Airbase. Which is where they did several nuclear bomb testings during WW2 and is where the Enola Gay ran test flights and left off of to go drop the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a huge fan of the video games I’m glad this little nod go recognized in my home town.

If the airship is actually the Prydwen, I hope we get to see Maxson in the next season and maybe even a hint of the Sole Survivor saving Boston from the Institute.

I think you are correct. As it stands at the conclusion of Season 1, the BoS airship is the Prydwin. The elder-guy mentions the clerics of the Commonwealth, and Knight Titus has a Boston accent. Not to mention, the surprise and awe of the recruits at the arrival of the airship.

There was a line in the NCR and BOS cooperation ending in New Vegas that said there were other chapters that still fought the NCR. So there are more than two chapters on the west coast.

It's entirely possible that the religious elements of the Brotherhood we see in the show are just that, the half remembered traditions of Maxson's old unit chaplain. The Brotherhood are basically 1950s US Army crossed with medieval crusader order. I like the idea that they have continued and adapted what they know of religion from a US military chaplaincy corps, which would include a number of old world religious traditions including Catholicism.

23:27 Maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't part of the lore in FO4 that Arthur Maxon reunited the eastern chapter with the west after the deaths of Elder and Sarah Lyons? If so, it would make sense that they could/would send the Prydwen to where it was needed, and have orders come from Maxon's chapter.

I like to think that the toaster oven that Knight. Thaddeus talking about was the little toaster in The Big Mt

Seems strange that the elder would oppose Arthur Maxon, he says the brotherhood has gotten weak but if we know anything about Maxon he'd surely improve the west coast since his order is more akin to the original values of the brotherhood

I’m gonna be disappointed if the Brotherhood doesn’t make some awesome tech from Cold Fusion, like Infinite-Charge Cold Fusion Cores for Power Armor, or Infinite-Ammo Blue Laser Rifles, or Cold Fusion powered Robots, a City built on Los Angeles…they are probably going to go for the smallest impact possible, because the Nolan Brothers don’t like making CGI-Heavy Cool Sci-Fi Tech stuff 😢 if it turns out that way, it will remind me all too much of the implications of Fallout 3 Broken Steel - in that Epilogue the BoS acts so excited to begin salvaging and reverse-Engineering Enclave tech far past just the Virtibirds. You can see a Scribe tinkering on Enclave Power Armor, another Scribe made a Scrambler that can turn Enclave Mind-Controlled Deathclaws over to their side, they started to use more Plasma Rifles….all of that is gone by Fallout 4. 😭

Ox, I think you need to revisit the terminals on the Prydwen. Proctor Quinlan's terminal in particular states that the West Coast Elders appointed Maxon to the position of Elder of the East Coast chapter following his reunification with the Outcasts. Because Arthur is a Maxon, he outranks the West Coast Elders, especially after conquering the Institute

Caswennan was a red herring unfortunately. I really wish that they had built a second airship. Even if it was the second airship it still indicates that the Brotherhood was victorious in Fallout 4, or at minimal the Minutemen with them kept alive. Say it was a new ship that showed up completely. Number one, it would be extremely hard to recreate a model without having the other one to scale up to. Now I'm sure that they have blueprints so that's not really as much of a factor. Number two a new airship showing up doesn't confirm that the Prydwen was destroyed. The dialogue given by Elder cleric Quintus "these orders come from the highest clerics in the Commonwealth". This would insinuate that the Brotherhood is still active and even has some kind of command structure operating out of the Commonwealth.. which wouldn't be possible without BoS ending, or the Minutemen ending where they are kind of allied with them. But yeah, that kind of solidifies things in my opinion. Regardless of what the ship is they have a command structure in the Commonwealth...

That swirling incense is for praying to the smoking miniguns

I think people misunderstand Quintus as well. People are addicted to trying to see the bad within the Brotherhood and ignore the good. And he insinuated multiple things but I don't know why you only spoke about one. Because the dialogue he gives depicts that he is talking about the West Coast Brotherhood "a time where we used to rule the Wasteland", well they already rule the Wasteland on the East Coast more or less. So that doesn't really hold true for that side of the Brotherhood. I truly do believe he is talking about rebirthing the Western Brotherhood. He might try to take over but he has no name right to it. People are too loyal to Maxson. We know that there was issues with cults on the West Coast.

Favorite line was Elder Maxson noting that this was in fact a new dark age. Love that as it not only harkens the Brotherhood back to the monastic orders of that era whose job it was to record and collect knowledge, but it also validates their ranking system instead of it just “sounding cool”

The guys in Robes aren’t Scribes. I thought that at first that they were bringing back the older look, but the guys in the Robes are consistently referred to as *“Clerics”* not Scribes. The Leader of the Brotherhood in the Show? He is named *“Elder Cleric Quintus”* he himself in the first episode says that their mission comes from the “Highest Clerics in the Commonwealth” in fact i don’t think “Scribe” is ever mentioned in the Show. And why would the BoS make a Scribe an Elder? Consistently, the Robed members of the BoS are called “Clerics” not Scribes. All the Fallout Wikis refers to them as such, not Scribes. I was excited to see how Oxhorn thought the Clerics came about as a Rank. Most likely formed after Fallout 4, as I cordially dislike the explanation of “Oh, the Clerics always existed you just never saw them until now.”

Wish we see Elder Maxson in Season 2, if that's really the Prydwen.

26:41 I saw that scene and i was all, "well, they could try, but this is Arthur Maxon we're talking about" i highly doubt Arthur would ever let this slide, he'd probably realize what was happening and then proceed to take matters into his own hands and he'd start by discharging that western elder.

I have never seen the BOS display a murderous attitude toward Ghouls in any walkthrough. Given their past with FEV and how most Super Mutants turn out, it's unsurprising they don't give Marcus and Fawkes the benefit of the doubt. Honestly, the only BOS character I can actually call evil is Father Elijah, who's supposed to be a villain.

Maybe it's just me, But i can't help shake the feeling that the Show's western brotherhood has some Ceasar's Legion influence to it. The brutality of the knights towards squires, especially how Titus threatens maximus. The Coloring of the BoS sigil being a red background with Orange secondary color which i can't remember seeing them ever use before. Red with white, sure, blues and yellows, absolutely... Red and orange though? that's Legion colors. Might just be looking into things too much though

Something that's been forgotten is that the prewar USA created commonwealth out of groups of states. Its possible that the guy in charge of the base we see in the show was referring to the commonwealth they were in

i think the reason they never really say elder is because Maxson sort of centralized the brotherhood as much as he could, and that means he's the only elder. BUT because of the nature of how far the other chapters are, that there is still a recognized local authority, thus requiring a new rank. "Clerics" would be experienced, learned individuals (likely, former elders). In this way, there is unity, and administration within the BOS

There were some opinions,that tha BoS we see, it's the BoS , with The Legion implemented. So,the change from the original military,to the semi-religious one.

the Scribe is an underrated and overlooked rank of the BoS, if they were just Knights & Paladins the whole organisation would be aimless.

I played the BoS in my first few playthroughs, then realized they were nothing more than powerful raiders. From the show, I see BoS more as being like the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne, etc.

The only problem I had with the show's depiction of the Brotherhood was that all the initiates were uneducated idiots and bullies. Love them or hate them in all the Fallout games I played in the Brotherhood had always highly educated their initiates.

I love where the BoS is at in the show. I think the show runners brought the BoS far closer to what they originally were meant to be, than any of the games since 2.

You forgot to mention the Montana Brotherhood that Lyons mentions.

Don't forget the "infamous" line spoken in anger by various Brotherhood Members in Fallout 4, during and after curtain combat sequences. "GODLESS FREAKS!" It's definitely meant to be a derogatory statement toward non humans. Edit Why wouldn't or couldn't "Eden" mean anything other than what most would think it refers to? A place of beauty and/or tranquility. Maximus may not fully comprehend it's meaning ("..or whatever".), but it doesn't mean he hasn't overheard someone talking about or even "preaching" about it, during his tenure. This would also fit in with people's assumptions that this "new" depiction of the Brotherhood is more on the religious side. Furthermore, Bethesda (Todd) was ok with it and therefore it's now canon. Perhaps they've always wanted this to be part of the lore, but couldn't put it into the recent games, for various (obvious) reasons.

Ad Victoriam brothers and sisters. May not be a paragon of good, but we seek to preserve and maintain humanity at whatever cost. Ad Victorium.

I would also surmise that because of the time jump and, assuming, the BOS ending of Fallout 4, it’s likely that Arthur became the High Elder. He could’ve been majority voted to that position or he could’ve taken it. Either way, I could see the Fallout show Elder being bitter, especially in the former and wanting to break off from Maxson.

In here you mention that Maxon never studied Christian mythology. He may have. As a former soldier I can tell you that to become an officer in the US Military you need to have a college degree. He could have studied any number of different things during his pursuit of a degree.

I've always just kinda assumed the minutemen ending for FO4 was Canon. It's the most open for possibilities and kinda the "good ending" which is the one that Bethesda and most games tend to look at as canon

I love these guides to the lore of all the Fallout factions! Here's hoping for a lore guide on The Enclave soon. You have earned a new subscriber. Love your videos.

Fellow Paladins, Knights, Scribes, Squires and Initiates! Remember, regardless of propaganda never stray from the path of steel. And for those of you who oppose us and our goals... There will come a day where you'll wish you had done a little evil... For a greater good. Human kind must march on... To glorious salvation... No matter what!!! Ad Victoriam ~Sentinel Edwards - East Coast Brotherhood of Steel

Sounds like we’re gonna need an Elder Maxson appearance, but who would play him ??? Can’t screw this up.

A very well thought out evaluation of all things BoS. I enjoy your thorough history and factoids. Very well done. Please continue!! God bless you for sharing!

The brotherhood probably activated a GECK somewhere and are protecting the location or want to make such a location

man i love the BOS, they remind of the space marines in warhammer 40k❤❤

Hello, Oxhorn. I still consider "Red Snappah" as your finest video. Regarding "Brotherhoon of Steel use of Latin in Fallout" = While Latin is considered the official language of Vatican City, it is heavily used in English vocabulary in theology, the sciences, medicine, and law. It would be vital to identify pre-war technology.

Wow this video cleared up so much confusion I had after watching the TV show. Thanks 😊

Titus does say what kind of remnants. It’s literally the same type of fetch quest they send you on in fallout 4. They’re sending him on mission to retrieve remnants of past technology and it usually ends up being a toaster. Stop looking for a deeper meaning to what he said there is none.

Man I love Oxhorn 😤

They didn't beat the NCR it was a mad woman on a hill. The NCR just abandoned the area.

Brotherhood might be the reason why wasteland is still a wasteland even though 200 years has passed.

Thanks for the hard work and dedication to the Fallout Universe. Love the uploads Ox

We also don't know why the Brotherhood was in the ruins. They most likely as you said send a team to figure out what happened. But I also do believe that a crime against humanity that large would be taken seriously by them. They probably were also looking for survivors, or they wouldn't have been willing to take them in. As it is not their inside the borders of their objective (if they truly are there just to scavenge as you say)

I'm surprised Oxhorn doesn't realize those aren't actually the only two possible canonical endings from fallout 4. There's a number of reasons that isn't necessarily true. For example the prydwen we saw may not have been the same one we got in fallout 4. In fact there is a very real possibility that it could have been destroyed and the one we saw was a newly rebuilt prydwen.

11:14 I don’t think Maximus here is saying that the Great War happened when he was a kid, but that the only bombs that dropped that mattered to him, or rather the one that ended his world and past life, dropped when he was a kid, if anything this was for dramatic effect to add to the reveal that shady sands got nuked and he was there.

I still want fallout 5 be a BoS civil war between Midwest BoS and East coast BoS. Where mid west have super mutant and Ghoul members and basically is less fashy.

This is Institute propaganda.

Glad to finally be early to an Oxhorn video. :D

i hope you’re having a good day, and i hope you’re happy, ox.

I find it interesting that one of the fallout shows main points of interest is on cold fusion or limitless power. There are instances of this technology being used in falliut new vegas in the microfusion breeder technology. Recharge rifles and pistols are essentially using this tech, but it hasnt been scaled up to be useful for house snd home use. I know its a gimic item meant to give you a gun with no ammo needs but it introduces this concept that fallout has unlocked a form of this power producing frame already.

The thing about the Brotherhood is that it went wrong almost immediately. Roger Maxson rebelled against the US Government for ethical reasons. He was horrified not by the technology being used but by the use it was put to. He established the Brotherhood of Steel in order to create a command structure that was completely separate from the US Military. He chose Knights, Paladins and Scribes in order to create a structure that was somewhat similar to a military command, but which had an in-built expectation of honor and defense. The purpose of the Brotherhood was to collect and preserve technology FOR the people that would rebuild society. But very shortly after the formation of the Brotherhood, the Elders were created to "assist" Roger Maxson in leading the group. And almost immediately they began to add a religious element to the Brotherhood. And they perverted the purpose of the Brotherhood until it became their purpose to preserve technology FROM the people that would rebuild society. Elders like Lyons were much closer to the original goals of Roger Maxson than most of the Brotherhood. Arthur Maxson ended up going against the teachings of Elder Lyons. He followed the path of the Elders who twisted Roger's plans. And, it appears that the Commonwealth Brotherhood not only survived Fallout 4 it became the central authority of the Brotherhood of Steel. The mention of Clerics seems to indicate that he went even further into the quasi-religious nature of the Brotherhood. And the Elder shown in the show seems to be almost fanatical.

Oxhorn do you think we will see remnants of The Legion? Possibly fighting each other like a Roman Civil War assuming Caesar is dead and they lost the battle for Hoover Dam. I honestly cant wait to see whats next haha

Maybe Eden is the friends we make along the way

I wonder what they'll do with the Cold Fusion - they only ever use the pre-war tech to prevent other factions from using pre-war tech. And they mostly let them keep the trinkets and tech that are not too dangerous - meaning they mostly seek weapons or stuff that could be misused as weapons, so you don't really see them seek stuff like G.E.C.K. even though it's probably one of the most valuable tech in the Wasteland Cold Fusion might be similar - it's extremely useful but not really possible to misuse - so maybe they'll have finally found something that wil finally sway them away from their original goal for the greater goals. or maybe they have finally found a tech powerful enough to corrupt them.

The lone survivor could have taken over the East Coast brotherhood. After all they are also a general for the Minuteman...

The depiction in the Series of the Brotherhood is the most accurate so far.... it is actually how the history went after the Roman's left Britannia....the Arthurian history is fitting, because it too started out as a WARRIOR Society, that Later becomes More of a Holy War / Zealot like Society. We are also given a simplistic version of this with showing how little Actual History the Brotherhood actually knew... and how the history of the Brotherhood was through Word of Mouth, from those that Interpret it from Old Books left behind.

7:33 was the reason I didn't side with the BOS since I was following the minuteman path.

I liked it I’m curious what happens next but I liked how they where showed off and it’s nice to see them from a none main character view get to see more of the craziness in them

@3:30 - yeah, but right there, in the clip you attach - the writers have a teacher telling cadets who have been there 10 years what their basic mission is, and then our intrepid hero, again after 10 years of study, doesn't know the difference between a rotor and a circuit board. I can think of a hundred ways to convey a sense for the brotherhoods basic mission, having members reminded as though they are too stupid to remember why they are there also treats the audience like they are stupid, we can't just observe how the brotherhood does their business and understand it. Or at least have maximus explain to lucy later, since an explanation to someone who hasn't been sitting there ten years actually makes sense. In a bigger picture, the brotherhood has been turned into the Legion, ordered by fear rather than mission. It's basically nihilist - people can't form a community on a principle and have mutual respect, each one needs to tear the other down in order to feel better about themselves. There is no such thing as dedication to mission, each knight will waste brotherhood resources whenever they "wanna kill something" , even as it seems their kind of power armor is unable to handle the common preditors of the environment they drop into (gently by cable instead of a power jump, so much for keeping the obvious high points of the game. Oh, but add hand jets while the iconic stance is holding a big gun because ??). I'll continue watching this video, but how can you show a clip of the brotherhood being treated like drooling morons and not comment?

I love the sarcastic rant he goes on about why the brotherhood can do no wrong and how they’re little more than tyrants

So I've been pondering on the role of cleric, and noticed there does not appear to meantion scribes or proctors, I think that those 2 roles melded to become clerics and field scribes and knights may have melded together under knights, whom may delegate tasks to their squires

Great analysis!

My wife and I are longtime fallout fans and even named my car Beth as she is the best car I have ever had and the same can be said of the developers of this franchise. That said you are hands down the best influencer my beloved Fallout franchise has ever had. I love the format and I appreciate your work from the bottom of my heart.

At the beginning of the video you describe how the brotherhood started and it is interesting to think that's the sole survivor and The ghoul would have been highly likely to join this army, both power armor trained American vets with new families, if the brotherhood had more time before the bombs dropped they could have reached a lot of people

I clicked as soon as I seen it

I'm sure they made the show with the intention of having oxhorn deciphering the show then just rolling with it 😂

My head cannon is that the Elder in the show we see might be a Enclave Remnant. He would be the right age to have been a young member of either east or west coast Enclave and probably would been easy to join up with the Westcoast BOS in its weakened state and raise up the ranks. That plus each Chapter being separate means that particular group might have more Enclave ideals as adverse to the Chapters seen in games.

Honestly, just Glad they didn't make Maximus like Fin and Rose like Rei. Where we get this storybook intro (which was fine if platonic BUT they were SUCH A CUTE COUPLE) but I'm still happy we got confirmed they actually cared for each other end of season 1 and I'm hoping we to see more AND a fun little turn around for Maximus and Rose raising Cooper's daughter OR grandaughter which THEY BECOME Shady Sands (from Fallout 1)

Hey. I have many audio tracks in my language, and each one has very interesting phrases related to Eden that sound different: 1) If I can help the Brotherhood make it better... on his way to paradise... 2) If I can help the Brotherhood make it better... make the world an Eden... 3) If I can help the Brotherhood make it better... build Eden... I think it's a GECK

One thing I’ve noticed is the dwindling number of Paladins and the slow merging of the Paladin and Knights into a single unit. At one point Paladins were said to be the ones who wore the power armor, but evidently over the years as more suits of armor have been recovered and paladins have slowly died off, knights have been taking their place. By Fallout 3 we see both knights and paladins in power armor. New Vegas shows us the west coast/mojave chapter still clings to traditions, with the paladins wearing the armor and knights acting a their support, however notably thanks to losses fighting the NCR, most of the paladins remaining in the order are inexperienced. Fallout 4 shows us only a handful of paladins, their distinctiveness from the knights completely stripped, by this point Paladins appear to be nothing more than senior knights with a command authority… something akin to a mix of an NCO and an officer for the other knights. The Fallout Show takes place another ten years after Fallout 4, well, 9 years. In the show we see exactly zero paladins. Even Knight Titus who appears to be a senior and experienced knight with some authority, is only a knight, not a Paladin. I don’t think this is an oversight. I think we’ve finally just seen the last stage of the extinction of the Brotherhood Paladin Corps. I don’t know if this is confirmed but I heard on social media that people were saying the Prydwen has been “rebuilt” some time between the end of 4 and the start of the show. If this is true I think we’re seeing clear evidence of the BOS taking serious losses in Boston, and this is possibly an alternative explanation for where Maxon is in the show. Presuming the Minutemen or Railroad destroyed the first Prydwen in 2287/88/89, this would mean most of the senior leadership of the eastern chapter went down with the ship, including their senior scribes, every officer, and presumably most if not every single surviving Paladin from the Fallout 3 era. Mention of the “clerics in the commonwealth” implies the Brotherhood not only survived in Boston but even maintains a permanent presence there now, which could be a perfectly adequate answer to where Maxon is, but still, I think the loss of their paladins is an intentional choice by the writers of the series. A simple and subtle way to communicate the Brotherhood is still around, but they haven’t come out of every battle unscathed… and after enough bloody battles in a row, eventually they’ve completely lost all of their most crucial and veteran soldiers.

Maxson: “YOU ARE A SYNTH! You’re not the real Danse, you’re an abomination! You are the institutes play thing!” Danse: “you are a sad, overzealous, crazy man and you have my pity. farewell” 😂. Also Awesome video Ox! 😎👍🏼

In my opinion, I think Lucy and Company are going to pursue Hank all the way to the East Coast, passing through locations from previous games along the way. Meanwhile, Maximus is having a crisis of faith with his ideals of the Brotherhood and the reality, supercharged with Quintus’ corrupting influence in the wake of capturing the cold fusion reactor. I suspect that Maximus will overthrow Quintus and establish his own chapter that aligns better with his ideals and his experiences with Lucy.

if the brotherhood is not religious then I'm Santa

The show has a potential to be so sick, the universe and lore of fallout is already so convoluted and extensive.. the whole first season serves as not even a set up but an intro. One monster one faction barely any conflict. What we know for sure is that its going to be a war over the cold fusion. Gunna be a great show in the coming years

I can imagine a Brotherhood civil war from the ideologies of lion against elder Maxson for the power of cold fusion as well as the enclave and NCR having some type of three way war

Hey ox can you do the same video but about enclave their current statuts where are they theorys and that stuff

I’m commenting early. But ox I hope you do a in depth video on the end of the fallout series with the last episode. Bc so much can be dissected from it. Only the tops Casino is advertised, the huge deathclaw skull inside the strip and it was huge compared to the NCR vertibird, the downed secrutrons, the strip being wide opened itself. Probably a good 15 min video at least. Just you guessing and us fans too.

They did not send Arthur with Elder Lyons. Arthur was not born. Sarah Lyons was born in DC she is years older than Arthur. Arthur was sent to Dc before the west coast cut the east coast off.

There are two theories in my mind about the airships wrong name. Either the BoS survived (so FO4 ended with the BoS or Minutemen ending) and they built a second airship using spare parts they had lying around, not bothering to paintnocer the name, OR the BoS got wiped out (Institute or Railroad ending) and the BoS from the capital waste land got what was left over of the Prydwen and built a new ship with the remaining scraps, either while reclaiming the Commonwealth or by bringing all the stuff back to washington.

the brother hood under maxons rule feels like an actual family/brotherhood, the brother hood in the show feels like an unified army where everyone dislikes eachother.

Is anyone else kind if annoyed that the cannon ending is basically the BOS or minuteman? I would have like to see the institute win because it shows that sometimes the good guys don't always win and that the commonwealth can be a dangerous place.

My out there theory is; this chapter of the brotherhood is the descents of caesars legion, it would explain their catholic/ roman rituals and their extreme treatment of members. It could be after the battle for hoover dam they were destroyed and the Mojave chapter absorbed them

As I would Interpret it, the Minute Men ending was the true ending, but the Vault 111 survivor, who remembers the prewar era, is helping Elder Maxon make the brotherhood better, more benevolent. And the Show's elder who's taking orders doesn't like the change and wants to keep the power for himself. That's why the Prydwen is on the west coast. Elder Maxon and the Survivor are there now to change the west coast and the current leader isn't having it.

One of my favourite mysteries with the Brotherhood is where is the Chicago expedition? We know Fallout Tactics is essentially non-canon now but the expedition being sent there is still canon as per lore from Fallout 3. I can see a future game definitely being set there, Brotherhood and Enclave the like are know to be in the area at some point.

If that really is the Prydwen. Then I assume they had to have brought Liberty Prime with them!