Fallout Bible Part One
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ค. 2021
- Here we explore the content of the Fallout Bible to peer into the state of the lore in the early days of the franchise and how it has changed. If you have never read the bible, here is your chance to become familiar!
This is a long video, so here are time stamps!
1:43 Beginning of Bible document
5:59 The questions three that Chris answers in-depth
16:01 All known vaults and their descriptions
21:30 The Fallout timeline
45:26 Comment highlights
Check out this awesome series on the creation documents of Interplay's Fallout 3 AKA Van Buren:
• Fallout: Van Buren
Malcom Holmes just randomly appearing on the Helios tower is peak fallout NV. And you blasted his brains out. Good
You will come to embrace our Lord Holmes soon enough
Just casually tosses Malcolm chunks off the railing...
There is only one proper way to deal with him.
He would show up in the middle of a fight, once with super mutants on the way to Utobitha and once outside of the quarry when I was getting hassled by deathclaws, they of course ignored him because they knew that he would be my downfall
As a greedy money grubber, I can not believe you did not take his hat and coat.
But throwing him over the rail, Serves him right.
First time I ever saw him I was on a wing tip surrounded by Rad Scorpions.
Praise be to Atom, for his light brings us more RadKing Episodes.
I do it all for Atom’s glory.
*The Light!*
Glory to Atom
I just realized that followers of Atom and space Marines are all heretics.
Praise be to Atom , for he is a cool dude as the young folks would say .
I love how each fallout lore channels present lore.
RadKing takes external sources and references in real life to rationalize and explain fallout concepts into real life concepts, as well as staying on a more modern general topic. Synonymous presents lore in terms of fallout lore and explains the lore as a neat and easily understandable presentation.
Oxhorn presents episodes of lore and divides aspects of the game into separate episodes and deconstructs and digests them for the viewer to intake.
There are of course other fallout lore channels, but I only really main these (ones listed above) three channels.
It's been a long time since I've watched Oxhorn. Though i enjoyed the way he approached the scene and let it tells us the story by breaking it down to its details. It always reminded me of a archaeology
You should try the storyteller :3
The storyteller is the best
fuck oxhorn, did the storyteller start making videos again?
@@PresidentMikeJohnson bro did oxhorn do something to you? Please calm down
I played Fallout 2 for an embarrassingly long time looking for the Holy Hand Grenade before reading the Bible and learning that it won't spawn without a patch.
Haha those were different times!
HOW do I get fallout 2?
@@anonymousf.a.p7940 it's like 5 bucks on steam
@@anonymousf.a.p7940 steam...God I hate steam but at least they have a lot of old games
@@coreypaynter4011 Im surprised to see someone against steam. To me and many others steam is the definitive platform for pc games. I’m curious, where do you get your games? GOG?
I really love Chris’s enthusiasm and acknowledgement of fanfiction, role-playing, and individual interpretations of the text in these Bible entries. I think it’s wonderful that he finds so much joy in the creativity of the fans of the series!
Actually vault 68 and 69 have been mentioned in the "one man and a crate of puppets" web comic meant for hyping up fallout 3
is that comic even apart of the canon though?? or just some side promo?
@@sadluck420 the web comic was referenced in fallout 3 at paradise falls if that makes it canon I don't know
Yeah every TH-camr I’ve watched go over the vaults has ignored them being mentioned in one man and a crate of puppets
Ah you beat me to it.
@@Shocky19 that's cause nobody cares about Todd Howard's fallout
Damn! Malcolm is really committed to tell you about the star bottle caps! 😂
Thanks for this, I have never read the "Bible" though I have seen countless references to it.
The more I discover about the original creators of Fallout, the more I Like them.
They had an idea, they worked hard to make it a reality, and made a game I loved the moment i saw it.
I wonder what we would have today if they had been allowed to continue?
Super hard to know, but it makes me happy to see others looking back at what started it all and gaining and appreciation.
Unfortunately, the bible gives a false impression that Black Isle had it all figured out.
Keep in mind it wasn't written until after both games had been completed. There were many retcons between games, both in 2 and on the forums and they had retconned a bunch more info for both games on their forum site after 2 was released.
The bible was written when they were "done" retconning. I say "done" because they(members of BL that joined Obsidian) retconned some more stuff in NV.
The most interesting part is how much isn’t said and you have to pick up on its written so well like super mutant sterility, the Geck, subconscious fear of others finding your home (mostly in 1, kind of subverted in 2 for gameplay but still present)
I like to have videos playing on my other monitor for casual viewing, but mostly listening as I game. This was so well presented and put together that I ended up pausing my game, making coffee and giving this my full attention.
You have the perfect story-telling voice, so don't think otherwise.
Thank you for the video. :)
Wow thank you. I personally don’t think that is my strong suit but it makes me happy to hear when my content makes an impact, and there’s a lot more to come!
I cannot wait for Part 2, or any other future part to this series. Reminds me of waiting for Fallout 4….almost makes your wish for a nuclear winter.
It’s coming after this weeks video!
@@Rad_King that made my night lol!
Yet another great vid man! I’ve always loved the fallout bible so it was great hearing you discuss it.
There is a lot more to come general, this is just the first one to establish the series.
I always find odd that in fallout they never talk about how much oil Canada has
America annexed candida I'm sure they left that out because its insinuating they just took all there stuff
I’ve always right there should be a video version of the Fallout Bible, good work on this.
Thank you- this is the clearest and easiest timeline of the universe to understand that i’ve seen in a video so far, and I watch a LOT of fallout lore videos!! I haven’t gotten around to reading the full fallout bible yet, so thank you for giving such a well organized and comprehensive breakdown of it!! :)
When I was 10 or 11 or so, my older brother gave me my first copies of Fallout 1 and 2, though I had played 2 a little already. I was obsessed with it for years and at some time between 11-12 I read and played everything I could find on Fallout, which included the Fallout Bible in it's entirety, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and even Van Buren, but that was before any of the restoration stuff, so VB was just like 2 locations and a guy with dialogue or something.
You’ve come far man, remember when I told you you should start posting more when you blew up? You’ve become my favorite youtube and inspired me to start making content. I’ll comment again under this channel on your next video to let you know where it goes :)
That honestly makes me very happy to hear! You old guard have a special place in my radioactive heart 💚
I just found him two days ago. I am shocked he doesn't have more subscribers
Great content, I’m a fallout fan but never dove deep into the lore. I really appreciate you making this video and making expanding my fallout knowledge. I look forward to the next video!
Just on the subject of birds in Fallout, I love how in 4 all the birds are Institute cameras
Great work mate. I love your videos - can’t wait for you to continue the bible series
I loved this video. This was recommended to me on my front page and I can't wait to see more videos and for your channel to grow.
Your content is always so awesome man, hope you keep it up
Thank you, and that is definitely the plan!
this is AWESOME. so glad i found your channel, already subbed and excited to see future work by you.
Just a point about reactors. If a reactor "goes critical" that just means it's operational. Even "super critical" just means that it's operating at a high level. Doesn't mean it's going to meltdown.
just discovered your channel a couple days ago man I really enjoy your stuff! great work!
Truly, TRULY incredible content as always. Thank you.
LoL! Malcolm Holmes showing up at the top of Helios 1 (11:35). That dude will show up anywhere.
0:00 - 5:58 The beginning Aurther comments
6:00 Chris's Q&A and vaults
21:30 Timeline
45:03 The final notes
very excited for this series! i could talk about fallout lore all day, and often do
Yay thank you for making this series
I keep my Fallout Bible in my right hand and my *The Terrible Shotgun dmg 80 DPS 120* in my left!
Ahh, a south paw I see. :P
@@jessebates2884 Omni-Paw
Ambidextrous, Nice! Now that's a valuable mutation to have :P
Prefer the unbreakable shotgun from operation anchorage, but can’t argue with the raw power
Can’t wait for the next installation of this series thanks for the content!
It’ll come after this weeks video!
Glad your channel is growing man, you deserve it!
Thank you!
Your videos are the best part of my week
That makes me really happy to hear. I have no plan to stop!
Been a while, So glad to see you at 20k my friend.
Excellent work sir. 👏
Thank you 🙂
Thank you for uploading this!!!! ❤️
Hi. I think we're on the same algorithm. 2nd time I've seen you today. Have a great night
Great video dude. I love fallout lore. Subscribed.
Great video looking forward to part 2
love the vids man keep it up id love to see more
I am loving your videos excited for you to cover external weapons of fallout
Thank you so much, please make more of these!
Don’t worry, we will do every bible entry and likely an ending summary video.
This is my favorite aspect of the games. I can only hope future gamess capture the larger aspects of the. The fact that a place like Bakersfield is in Fallout is hilarious to me because its already filled with ghouls in 2024! Hearing people possibly fled here makes some sense considering the mountains offer protection into the valley from fallout nearer to the coast, however, lots of oil in Bakersfield so it would obviously be a strategic target as well and could have a future Fallout title where we can see Necropolis in 3D. Moreover, it would be a perfect excuse to bring back that Dark Ambient sound-scape of the California wasteland.
Thank for making this. I am doing research into criticism of Fallout 3 so I am looking into the lore for some world building point. I've been aware of the Fallout Bible for awhile now and only getting into looking into it recently. Having this video will make easy to comb through the content much easier and might give me addtion context to the entries around them.
Good video!
Great Content as always.
I've been aware of the Bible for a long time but never found the time to read it.
This audio version is perfect, thank you !
You are very welcome!
Awesome this is going to be a great series !
Thanks! I’m glad you are excited for it, it’s going to be pretty interesting imo
Hey I just found your channel and am a huge fan of the original fallouts. Subscribed and I am excited to see your work!
AAAAHHHH I NEEDED THIS i need fallout lore content as i need 40k lore, star wars lore, SCP and you are like Atlas becuz the entire lore world of FO its on your back, and like other 4 lore creators... (i mean not so many competiton makes it more dificult) and im sure its difficult to make it, so i appreciate the effort my lovely scribe!
Happy to help you get your fix!
I’ve wanted to read the fallout bible for forever but never could be fucked to read that much so this is perfect lmao
Well aren’t you lucky :)
Fallout 4 better be in there
@Zachary Losch no
@Zachary Losch yes
@Zachary Losch maybe
This is about to become my favorite series
Thank You for your hard work.
I never had the time to review the Bible; This is easy to digest.
Oh heck yeah, I've been meaning to read this for years now.
Also I think Vault 69 was in those old Fallout 3 Penny Arcade web comics, I'm not 100% sure they're cannon but they're referenced in game.
I’m dying for part 2, great video 👍
It’s coming after this weeks video!
This mad lad is actually doing it... Respect!
Thank you for doing lore coverage on the Fallout Bible! Glory to Atom.
Me in public: "I'm not really religious"
Me online:
It be like that
LMAO this got a good laugh out of me.
Lol it's true Irl I'm not a religious person, but with games I'm like. "oooo... this game has a paladin class" I even tend to gravitate to warrior builds because heavy armor looks the coolest to me. In Tes and find my self saying "Talos is a god, it's the nine Devines not eight!"
So when the BoS are referred to as a techno-religious cult-like military order, I'm all in baby! I know it was added after Bethesda started making fallout, but who dosen't love Liberty Prime.
Always was wondering what the Fallout bible was but never had the time to read it. Nice video
I love your channel. 😎 keep it up!!
great video man keep it up
Oh my god I've combed through the falloyt bible religiously and loved it, but my god is it going to be rad to have an approachable video series exploring all the quirks therein
Big props for the way you plugged your fellow TH-camr who was the inspiration for this video.
I can't believe it took me this long to find this channel.
This guy just earned a New Subscriber.
good video keep these coming there great
I been watching for a little while and thought to myself hey this guy is not bad good content like oxhorn and synonymous
Equal tiers in my mind, each has their special qualities but all fantastic content to watch
Better than Oxhorn in my estimation
Oxhorn isn’t even that good, he was ok back in 2016-2017 but now he’s terrible
@@weirdwalrus5757 that’s cause he ran out of fallout to cover
@@theiconicprodigy1736 also that he uses way too many game changing mods (e.g. the time he pointed out a big massive texture oversight that only happened because of his texture pack.) Also he takes it way too seriously, like we don’t really need to be told what faction or ending is right and which is wrong for the 1000th time
down for this series indeed
Love video I really hope going to do more I really enjoyed it :-)
More are coming!
Fantastic overview of the fallout bible, I read parts of it here and there years ago. In this format with added context, but low on tangents made it extremely digestible.
I have a theory about FEV mutations in humans, and I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this. It relates to a documentary I watched on the black plague and genetic markers. Simplified it says that people that were immune to catching the black plague had a double copy of a genetic marker, and people who had a single copy of this genetic marker could catch it but had a high chance of survival. For people with without a double or single copy of this genetic marker catching the black plague was completely fatal.
The Fallout "New Plague" probably was a FEV influenced version of a preexisting virus like the black plague. My theory is that people that can become ghouls had a single copy of the genetic marker that allowed them or their ancestors to catch but survive the new plague. Also people that serve becoming super mutants have a double copy of this genetic marker, meaning they or their ancestors never could catch the new plague thus the FEV influenced virus never altered their DNA leaving them a clean slate for pure FEV manipulation.
(Edited for spelling mistakes)
Man here I was thinking that FEV turned you dumb or normal mutants if you had been exposed to radiation your entire life or not
I could be wrong... it only covers why super mutants are so rare, considering most people that get "dipped" dont actually result in a successful super mutant.
My theory doesn't take into account the form/strain of FEV used to make super mutants seems by observation to attack and alter the X chromosome. There are no female super mutants to that case there are no male super mutants either. All super mutants probably have YY chromosomes. When it comes to the role radiation plays, it is my belief that FEV is the changing force and radiation is drastically accelerating the process.
I honestly think this is a great theory. I am interested to see if Bethesda gives us anymore info on the ghoulification process!
@@jessebates2884 there are a couple examples of female super mutants, however I believe they were part of the Master’s Super Mutant army, as in Fallout: New Vegas, they’re Nightkin, super mutants changed from Stealth Boy use.
These examples are Tabitha and Lily, with Tabitha being an encounter on Black Mountain, and Lily being a possible travel companion from Jacobstown
very detailed video, thank you :)
Keep up the good work man
Thanks! Any future content you would like to see?
@@Rad_King explosive guns of fallout
The birds chirping is a reference to “Them!”
Being someone who is currently working on a role playing campaign set in the fallout universe, this resource is incredibly helpful for setting up a deeper lore setting. I thank you sir! You've gained a new subscriber.
Very cool to hear! Let me know some details, I like hearing peoples ideas for the Fallout Universe.
@@Rad_King I've been working on a campaign that's set in Seattle. They've started in a vault that is built into Mt. Rainier
I haven’t even watched the video yet saw you made this and I hope Radking you see this but finally thank you some one make a gawd damn fallout bible video 👏
Good f ing job bro, Salute
Great video, thank you
Timeline starts @ 21:49
Indeed. I dropped the times in the description but don’t know if people saw that or not.
Can’t wait for part 2
It’ll be coming after my next video!
@@Rad_King look forward to it man thank you for makeing great videos love listening to your videos while gaming
Don't know how i missed this series, love it! 👍🏻
I was psyched right up until I saw this was posted a week ago. Now I have to wait for more. Fuck man.
Sorry mate. I have a rotational schedule between a ____ of fallout video, a weapon video and then a video essay which this falls under. It’ll be a bit of time to get the whole series out there but it’s coming.
Now my top 3 favorite fallout channel like oxhorn and mikeburnfire
Thank you! That’s a very nice compliment.
Excellent video as always . Is fall out 76 functioning yet and interesting?
Always liked your videos also radking you missed a vault, vault 77 and it was confirmed in fallout 3 in Paradise falls
"Scared new world"
Good writing there.
I had no idea about bob and harold, so interesting!
First couple of minutes: My God, it's all happening ahead of schedule. Maybe I'll live long enough to see it after all.
Oh damn I did not expect to be in this video, thank you for noticing my comment on quite an obscure detail.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment!
There is no series that grabs my full attention like the fallout series. So much lore
Yooooooooo thank you 🔥🔥🔥
Imagine if Maxson and his men stayed in that base with those scientists for 11 years before starting the exodus?
Lol I’m so glad that got changed. Maxson and company leaving a few days after the bombing of 2077 is a lot better.
Vault 56, the vault with only Pauly Shore films in it 📽️
Blessed Retcon Raider shoutout.
I find it interesting how the Fallout Bible, along with Fallout Tactics, and elements from Van Buren exist in a state similar to Star Wars Legends; as in not explicitly canon until confirmed or contradicted.
Dude, the Fallout Bible was even like that *at the time*. Other people within Interplay didn't even agree with some stuff in the thing, and Avellone himself said that it wasn't explicitly canon, it was just his take on the lore.
@@senorsnout4417 Oh, so its just like the actual Bible.
Avellone is kind of a douchebag, from what I've seen. Like he thinks he's the king of any game he touches, no matter how small his contribution is, and is constantly talking over other devs even if the other dev definitely knows more about the subject. Interplay asked him not to publish it because it contracted things they had both planned for future games and already in-game, but he pretty much gave them the middle finger and did it anyway.
you know what might be cool? since Harold himself formed the first adventuring party, it's not hard to say he was a fallout protagonist himself, i'd love to see a game based around his adventures and the stuff he goes through, though i know it will never happen, it's still an interesting thought.
If Bethesda ever wanted to make a TV series based on this stuff I'm sure many people might be interested.
Heres my idea.
Basically each of the season one episodes would be themed after a different decade. At the end of the first season the bombs drop and season two focuses on the immediate aftermath of the war all the way up to Fallout 76.
Oh and it would be shot in black and white and each episode would be introduced by Vault Boy trying to emulate Rod Sterling.
Good thing is that at least some things from the Fallout Bible ended up in the main Canon (like the European Commonwealth-Middle East war, although it's only mentioned in a Capitol Post issue in Fallout 3)
I like how dark you're playing NV, I'm the same. U using an ENB?
"The first ever national quarantine is declared"
Well that didn't age particularly well, did it?
It’s truly fascinating how the lore changed overtime. Unfortunately this leads to a bunch of contradictions, but it also fleshed out the world. This makes me think of Bungie’s approach to Halo lore where they had multiple contradictory things be true, then later fleshed things out.
As a joke you should talk about the “lore” of Fallout Frontier, and how all the devs were a bunch of sickos😂
Wait is that the mod where some dude or some dudes were pedophiles? Or did I hear completely wrong
Yes that’s the one. They had this guy called Zu Skunk who made a bunch of the assets, and other things for the mod. After it’s release people looked into him, and they found out that he drew lots of cub yiff. Another guy made the thing where you can gaslight/emotionally manipulate an underaged girl into thinking that you are the only thing she has in life. She’ll then put on one of those explosive collars, and call you master. In the interview it’s very clear that she was supposed to just be a teenager (in game people will call her a kid, treat her like a kid, and freak out if you let the kid die), and they retroactively made her 21 after the backlash.
It was absolutely hilarious how the guy doing the interview was completely incompetent, and read every question. That livestream only made things worse for them😂
Lmao I’m pretty sure I have a restraining order against that mod.
It is absolutely hilarious how they spent SEVEN YEARS of on and off work on that thing. Then when it was released it was trashed, and a bunch of the devs jumped ship🤣
@@shreksnow1918 oh jesus wtf? 0.o that’s erm.. that’s insanely gross. what a sick fuck.
Thank you 👀👂🏻👂🏻👍🖖
The experiments of Vault 70 is fucking gold
*explores all dialogue options*
*shoots Malcolm*
"Holy shit don't sneak up on me!"