Psykers | Fallout Lore
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- In a world with Ghouls, Ghosts and Gary’s there seems to be no limit to the strange and seemingly paranormal encounters for us to find. But every now and then you see something that appears to be genuine magic when in reality is simply a clever trick, and then we have Psykers, real world sorcerers and magicians. But what is a Psyker, how are they made, and who out there has the abilities to be considered one?
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A little overdue, but hopefully worth the wait!
Notes:
Goris merely has an intuitive feeling, also known as "animal instinct" when his clan is destroyed, which to me doesn't make him a Psyker.
Keeng Rat is a rat that communicates with other rats and thanks to the FEV is able to speak to humans, once again not a Psyker. Also, all protagonists can be considered Psykers with the animal friend perk, which is pretty cool! As for Oswald bringing dead feral ghouls back to life, this is something all glowing ghouls can do and is more of a physical side effect of becoming a glowing one, rather than a psychic ability, but feel free to try and change my mind, enjoy! :D
Always worth the wait for your vids. 🙏🏼
I was so hoping for this after hearing you talk about psykers in other videos. Hype!
hmmm.... i'm wondering what you prepared for us next, keep up the good work :3
Although "semi canonical", what's your opinion on the Beastmasters from Fallout: Tactics? Given its described origin in the game, I vote psykers.
@@korbyynbear5592 I have yet to play tactics but do enjoy the thought of beastlords 😊👍
"Harold's infection wasn't as drastic" **Harold looks at the screen with suicidal intent**
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“How are Psykers made?”
Well…when a mother and father Psyker love each other very much….
Daddy, but how synths are made? Or supermutants?
@@GlaDi02 ask your mother when she gets back from cigarette shopping. Though seven months is a long time…
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@@GlaDi02 the vault dweller talking to the master circa 2162
Are you a boy or a girl?
Boys and girls have different parts… right? And went a boy and a girl love each-other…
the nightkin your supposed to kill in novac that keeps killing brahmin can be heard talking about your companions if you hang around him during the day when hes invisible tho he just says vague things about them but stuff he shouldnt really know
Link?
Link?
@@weebishusername9288 mmmmm animr girl
@Something Mildly Homophobic what? are you ok man
@engineer gaming go do it then
". . . Teleportation . . . " How very mysterious. . . Strange, even. I suppose that anyone that does it might be called a mysterious stranger. . .
the player can also teleport, using melee in vats
@@guerra_dos_bichos
Pshaw, git up on outta here with your facts and logic, we're theorizin'!
@@guerra_dos_bichos Or, they could just be moving really, really fast which makes sense given that time doesn't actually slow down in-canon when using VATs.
You made a small mistake with mama murphy, her powers didn’t come from the chems, she always had them, if you talk to her you can learn that she had them but when they freaked out a lover she would suppress them until eventually she needed the chems to release them again,
Great video though! :)
It may also have damaged her power. Before drugs, she could maybe predict exactly when and where to shoot a death claw?
@@mikeemmons1079 so she has magical VATS?
Sorry for the late reply, but do we know how exactly Mama Murphy "suppressed" her abilities?
@@juliaturk7054
Could simply be simple mental trauma or psychology
@@KalashVodka175 Doubtful. There's other Psykers who I guarantee had a much more traumatic life, but they couldn't suppress their abilities. There's only one Psyker that I'm aware of that was successful at doing this. I forgot his name (I think Lowry?), but there was a kid in New Vegas that had a "Crown" as he called it, that helped him suppress them.
I completed the quest "Crazy, Crazy, Crazy" by repairing Rhonda, and the Nightkin were friendly (this was on PS3 so I don't know if it's only on console)
They said:
"Head voices say silver chair flies east."
"Chip is slippery, more slippery than the chair thinks."
"Chip goes when broken man calls!"
"Shiny screens brighter. Why so bright?" "Shiny screens brighter. Don't let them flicker at me!"
"Head voices say Mars angry."
"Head voices say new meat will rot in the sun."
"When Mars calls, we run?"
And depending of your companions:
"Head voices say someone close. Someone like us." with Lily
"Head voices say smart man also metal man. Don't like metal men." with Arcade
"Head voices say quiet man knows more than he says about the horns." with Boone
"Head voices say they knew flower girl's father." with Cass
"Book girl has hard decision to make." with Veronica
"Head voices say they know smelly ghoul. He old and good with guns." with Raul
"Head voices speak of doggy with squishy brain." with Rex
"Funny robot make blinky sounds." with Ed-e
i always believed Mama murphy's stories for one reason: shes still alive. you dont see many elderly in the wasteland for a reason. clearly, she knew what she was doing.
Also wanted to add, i have killed many a deathclaw with a single well placed BB to the eye
Well she does also give you the reset code for the courser as well
@@beowylfen wait what
@@lildemon666.2 The courser that you have to kill to enter the institute. You can go to Mama Murphy before you go to kill them, and she'll give you the Courser's shutdown code that you can use against the Courser to skip the fight.
Hitting that jet like a bawss lmao
Turns out, you have to complete 'Crazy, Crazy, Crazy' by repairing Rhonda in order for the nightkin to be non-hostile in Black Rock Cave. Looks like I'm gonna have to start ANOTHER playthrough to confirm this. Darn...
I had, I even had Boone with me but the Nightkin were hostile and didn't say anything that suggested Psychic abilities. Maybe you'll have more luck than I did! 😀👍
I fixed Rhonda on several play through and never heard them speak. I couldn't find a vid of it either.
@@MillieBlackRose I guess I just needed a good excuse to play it again lol
Best of wishes upon your journey.
@@TheSavybanna ya never know. You may be the first one to see it. 😉 you should probably try several times though..just to be sure.
Psykers you say? This confirms it, the Fallout series takes place in Pre-Unification Wars Terra.
Looks like we're in for a wild ride.
Imagine fighing against the forces of Mr. House in the name of the Emperor.
Be cool to fight The Thunder Warriors.
The Brotherhood of Steel = Men of Iron?
Wanamingo aliens = early Tyranid strain
The original 4 psykers in Fallout 1 were possibly a reference to the children in Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira
There is also a resemblance to an even older Philip K Dick story.
It's a shame that the Psykers are less present in Fallout games, they are definitely some of the more interestting individuals within the Fallout series.
The older the games get in the timeline the less we see cool shit. They need to have a west coast early game like if 76 was on the west we probably could have seen more fev shit and enclave and bos but this time it wouldve been lore friendly
@@SlightlyInactive Yeah. In fact, I really like the idea of a Fallout 76 style game taking place on the west coast, shortly after the Great War. That'd be a very interesting concept. Perhaps (if they wanted a new area) they could make it in post-war Washington (state) or something.
Ironically, you could justify the inclusion of more Psykers than you could Supermutants. Yet one is forgotten by most, and the other is everywhere.
But it's probably also an idea, like the weird-tales supernatural parts or space-alien elements, that's better hinted at than fully explored. These suggestions of other paranormal aspects beyond the core Atomic-Age-mad-science of the series tend to be used more effectively at the fringes, or else you end up with something as disappointing as _Mothership Zeta._ Fans at large seem to have forgotten the principle of "less is more" and where it applies, but that's a bigger topic.
@@SlightlyInactive I don’t think the time period is the issue… I think west coast fallout is just more interesting than east cost
Anyone remember when Mama Murphy was shown in concept art to have once had a flying wheelchair made from a Mr. Handy?
That's so much cooler than just a dumb green chair.
Bethesda had THE SIGHT! They saw $$$
Honestly I'm glad they didn't do that lol, it would have looked goofy as hell. That's just my opinion though
@@CarlM But Fallout IS goofy.
There was also the wheelchair with robobrain tracks that I think would have looked cooler. In my opinion, Bethesda likely had trouble modelling either of those in game, and decided to devote the time spent working out those issues to flesh out other parts of the game instead. I'm almost certain her robot wheelchairs were cut for logistics/game-engine reasons, because there's still the big fuss about building her a chair, only for it to be a silly armchair.
@@eclipseslayer98 Not originally.
One can argue that the player characters from Fallout 1, 3, NV, and 4 are Psykers as those games contain the "Animal Friend" perk that turns creatures non-hostile. And in some cases, are able to command said creatures into aiding the player.
Also in the 3D games you have short range telekinesis with the grab key. /half joking.
The paranormal stuff that pops up in Fallout has always been some of my favorites
In Steel Reign, you can read about how the experimenters inside Vault 96 made some psyker animals that had the same abilities as the Master's psykers in Fallout 1
Probably how the enclave made psychic deathclaws
Courier Six could be a Psyker too. This idea coming from my headcanon of when you pick Wild Wasteland. Where due to the damage caused by the gunshot wounds Courier Six took from Benny's assassination attempt, their weak/dormant Psyker powers to begin going out of control - thus causing all the brain damage-induced hallucinations they experience through their travels in the Mojave to become real.
that’s actually an insanely cool theory
I'd argue the curriers power is stronger than is given credit for due to Terrifying Presence
I think a video going over aliens would be fun. Stuff like what they want, their involvement pre the great war, any aliens other than the Zetans, the big squid man from 76 that I don't remember the name of, etc
He's limited to what information the game or extended lore gives out. Its not like he has access to lore no one else knows. So it's probably info in the zetans you already know about
@@FuckTard-dd1ee You can say that about literally every lore video lol
@@milliondollarmistake alltho I like the idea my advise would be to wait for longer to do this since f76 will have a free addon coming regarding aliens i believe :)
Thay big squid man is called the "interloper"
@@cyriell No one plays F76 lol.
Do they ever use the term "Psyker" after Fallout 2? I guess it is rare enough that the term hasn't spread as far.
In Fallout Tactics there was also a tribe of raiders which had a few members capable of controlling some local fauna.
A ray of light during my not-so-great-day. Thanks man, we all appreciate you.
I kinda hope Psykers get more of a spotlight in the next fallout game. I don't want a Skyrim "You're the dragonborn" situation going on where theres a series of psychic powers you can unlock by going to specific spots, but I would love like, maybe one companion with those types of powers.
Or make it you can choose a psycher trait which based on the perk path you follow for developing your powers has side effects, like becoming an empath causing emotional instability that makes combat harder since you feel the pain and hear the dying regrets of your enemies, or gaining pre-cognition causing migranes and drug dependency due to the excess information entering your brain from the future, or telepathy giving schizophrenia symptoms. make it clear that your brain didn't evolve to handle this.
Me being a 40K fan: **hmmmm**
Can't believe gw are okay with this tbh
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD 🩸
Every single fallout protagonist is actually the Man emperor of mankind
Me liking both universes *MmMmMMmmMmMmMmMMMmmMm*
@@daveg7516 hahaha don't worry the wolves are coming
It would be awesome to be a psyker in a future fallout game. Have some cool perks to go along with it.
I wish we could use phyker powers in fallout. Imagine being able to make peoples heads explode like with the mezmatron
Lame. Not everyone needs to be a lesbian super saiyan with a huge d*ck.
Wasn't this a perk in New Vegas: Old World Blues? Where a dialogue option would often appear that can make someone's head explode but only if you have higher INT than them, if you don't then your head gets crippled instead.
@@Goose_BW What?
There’s a mod for this in Fallout 4, which including the head exploding attack.
Check out the review for Underrail. SsethTzeentach reviews it and its gameplay is similar to fallout.
I’d love to see a lore video on the Think Tank from Old World Blues.
I'd love Psyker options for the PC in Fallout 5, which should center around the cosmic/eldritch lore from the Cabot quests just like 4 was centered around the institute lore from the Harkness quest in Fallout 3. 3 was centered around the Vault-Tec experiments hinted in Fallout 2, which was centered around U.S. Government shenanigans hinted at in Fallout 1.
I always thought Mama Murphy's earrings looked strangling similar to Lorenzo's headpiece.
Honestly I love magic in Fallout, it's just kinda there. Not really common at all and usually the result of FEV (Honestly I love FEV too, it's just the 'a wizard did it' of Fallout) but it's undeniably there.
Allows for freaky moments in an otherwise "mundane" world.
In a world where aliens and eldritch beings are true, magic isn't far iff.
Correction, the plant in Harold's head is named Herbert, he calls him Bob to annoy him
Can you do a video on Tunnelers from the divide pls? They are the biggest threat to the mojave
40k fans : *I've seen this one before*
Fuk yeah love some fallout lore second I wake up .
Fallout 1 and 2, and even tactics a little bit had such amazing and in depth worlds. All the small details and interesting characters. NV and 3 really solidified the factions and their dynamic whereas 4 and 76 polished the system and combat. If only we could bring together all the developers from all the games and just have them make one perfect fallout with a modern engine and modding capabilities; it would be amazing.
it would be interesting if we could become a psyker of some kind
11:14 I love that voice acting.
I'm surprised Bethesda didn't try to have the main villain of any of their games try and forcefully psychically ascend humanity. We've covered biological ascension with the super mutants, we have a technological ascension with the synths.
Imagine if the master put more focus into psykers. If super mutants can’t breed, they certainly could and with his knowledge collected he could have easily grown and schooled them in their power to aid in his efforts.
Gotta say, you have a pretty good thing going on here. I didn't come around to crap on other peoples' channels- but I'd just about thrown in the towel as far as Fallout lore on yt was concerned, for whatever reason. Been diving in to your backlog since you've been recommended to me, and I really like what you've accomplished. I prefer the longer-form content myself, but that's not a knock on your shorter videos; I have an understanding of the amount of work that must go into the research, not to mention the recording/editing/uploading, etc. That, and not every talking point deserves thirty-plus minutes, either. Keep up the good work, and I can't wait to see what you have for us next. In the meantime, I've got some more of your videos to keep me entertained. Thanks for your time.
While talking about Mama Murphy you forgot about her son Jared, who also has abilities. His was just that he could feel his mothers energy, like how she could feel Shaun's.
Damn, I've never paid this much attention to this topic aside from Master and his experiments in FO1. Keep up the good work!
Would be quite neat if the next Fallout game had some way to unlock either of these abilities. Always more toys to mess with in end-game.
I am absolutely loving your fallout content. I hope you keep it up
this channel is so underrate bro u make great lore content
Thank you 😁👍
I love this video. I thought I knew everything about psykers in Fallout, but this had new takes on the topic that I hadn't considered. 10/10!
Teleportation? Sole Survivor Specced into Blitz has ya covered. Along with psychic blasts whenever the game can't be arsed to path you to the enemy.
I always imagined psykers in fallout games "connect" in some kind of way with radio waves and static and for that reason they spoke cryptic like in doctor,s handwrite language.... i remember the fallout 3 morse radio towers and old soviet spy broadcastings from the cold war... and thats how i explained myself why them talk so weirdly.
Idk I this guy counts but I'm pretty sure the raider boss at Corvega in Fallout 4 also has "the sight". I know he witnessed Mama Murphy use it and desired the ability for himself, he began taking so many chems that it made his Raiders worry about his mental and physical health. He also sent Gristle and his men after Preston and the gang because Mama Murphy was with them. However I don't remember if he did fully develop "The Sight".
Oh i thought the nightkin dialog is to imply that this particular nightkin has actually stealthed in the shadows at the edge of your camp, completely unbeknownst to you
Psykers all have comic book hero disease, they're mostly orphans; Wayne, Parker, Stark, Kel-Al, and so many others.
A very interesting Topic in the Fallout Franchise
Great Video as Always 👌
Please keep the lore videos coming. Absolute fire 🔥
Psykers are good at channeling the magic of the w- oh wrong series.
I love listening to your videos when I’m driving to college! Thank you
You're welcome 😁 good luck with your studies!
thanks buddy still haven't played fo1 or 2 where this topic is more explored but i'm thankful for the info
And the brain of the courrier in OWB have develloped hability to speak
Finally been waiting for new ones
Mama Murphy also knows when you are sleeping, and knows when your awake!
I would add Beastlords from Fallout Tactics to the psykers' list if Fallout Tactics was considered cannon.
From Fallout Wiki (and personal experience) “The nightkin inside [Black Rock Cave] may be friendly to the Courier if the quest Crazy, Crazy, Crazy is completed by repairing Rhonda. These nightkin will have varied dialogue based on the Courier's progress in the main storyline or which companions accompany them. However, they will not talk directly to the player character.”
Yeah I had repaired Rhonda and had Boone with me but they were hostile. Even with console commands they wouldn't say a single word 🤷♂️
Huh...i didn't know W40K and Fallout where in the same universe.
Well, we don’t know what happened on Terra from M3 to M14, so Fallout can nicely fit in-between
@@stolyartoad8640 its described that Terra was never really that healthy a planet even before the fall and the dark age just describes that it was dependent on resources from other planets.
Perhaps being completely destroyed during the early 3rd Millennium is why.
i wonder if the shaman leader is responsible for the visions you see in Dunwich Building and Dunwich Borers
[THE EMPERORS MOST HOLY INQUISITION WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION]
Damn Psyker Mama Murphy reading my half de-frosted mind…..
I am onto you,WITCH!!!!!!
I think even the player character can develop psychic powers via Animal Friends perks. Allowing you to Tame Animals within seconds.
Already said in the pinned comment, thanks for sharing though! 😁👍
The nightkin in black rock are able to communicate with the master even after the destruction of his body, OR they have omnipresent premonitions while daydreaming all the time, because they will know about your companions even if they have never been introduced.
The nightkin are an insane group of super elite stealth agents. You have no idea how much they have explored and learned in the wasteland while entirely unseen.
Pretty sure Bethesda didn't even know what pyskers were when they created mama Murphy or any of their shit for that matter.
Piece of info: mama Murphy has, BY FAR, the highest strenght stat in the game, having 19 str
Ok at this point I’m convinced fallout is the prequel to Warhammer 40k and the Emperor is actually Atom returned
There is so many warhammer nods in fallout. The power armor alone.
Fallout is such a great blend of science fiction and mysticism. This all isn’t even mentioning the various cybernetic or supernatural enhancements the player can get, like getting an ant-based enhancement serum from a scientist or becoming a cyborg in New Vegas.
I would like to see some lore on the tribals of Fallout Nv
Chuck can also increase your Luck stat with his powers
I always thought the chosen one was just a schizo
"Ghouls, Ghosts and Gary's"
There's a list I thought I'd never hear :)
Gary?
@@Jtoob-z5n Gaaaarry!
@@MistahBryan ha ha haa gary!
You're out exploring an old enclave bunker, descending into the darkness... And after a while, you hear something running at you in the dark coming closer, screaming at the top of their lung:
*"WITNESS YER DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM"*
"I will split your thoughts open! WITNESS YOUR DOOM!"
Absolutely out of the park as usual, mate. Give your back a pat. Your unbiased, cannon take on the lore of Fallout is an absolute joy with the other many sensationalist idiots making content 'from their perspective'
I heard Alligators are ornery because of FEV shots to their Medulla Oblongata.
I'm putting this on a shirt
I remember thinking that mama murphy gave a clue that she didnt NEED the chems, I forget what it was she had said. Pretty sure she just wanted a fix lol.
Everyone in the wasteland was effected by the FEV which means there is potential for Psykers everywhere.
That's only in California 👍
Oooh I thought that was everywhere cause Eden said the people of the Capitol Wasteland were mutants.
NIGHTKIN SCHIZOPHRENIA IS JUST NIGHTKIN HEARING EVERYONE ELSES THOUGHTS... but only when they focus their attention on the nightkin
Well, Psykers are clearly attuned individuals to the warp…right?
Suffer not the mutant to live purge them in the name of the all Father
Do you think if the master won he would of made more psykers. That or he might of tried to cure the super mutants lack of reproduction.
Mama Murphy has 10 strength buddy. I wouldn't mess with her
mama murphy is the one who knows dogs true name, he is just dog before you first talk to her
07:00 that child sounds similar to the catalyst from ME3
Let's make a petition for Bethesda to make a "Pre War" Fallout game XD
That would be cool it would be a prequel game though.
The psyched thing could explain some of the telikenesis that the player characters can use in game lol
The Nightkin at novac
The attacking the animals said something only the lines of
... Know more than he lets on...
Most likely talking about Boone who was with me and how he hasn't told me he's killed his wife
Do we think a hypothetical fallout 5 with a Psyker protagonist would ruin the mystique of Psykers in fallout?
I like the idea of actually being able to run a mage-equivalent in a fallout game, and it feels like it could very well be the main theme of an upcoming game, similar to how synths were the core story basis for 4.
I hope you'll mention the other paranormal encounters in the game, like that one wizard and the Tardis.
I would really like to have a fallout game based around these psychers and possibly having the player character having some psycher powers
Could you do something on the Mothman Cultists next?
I may be misremembering, but the kid/Forecaster is near a crossroads where traders go past a lot (he's set up under the bridge where they pass)... so it's more than likely he just found it in a trader's stock one day and found that wearing it just helps him.
The Virgin Bethesda Psykers vs the Chad Interplay/Obsidian Psykers
Awesome video!!
I wish we could get some mole miners lore some day from Bethesda so you could cover it!!
been a fallout fan for 5 years and never fucking heard of these guys
Could include Oswald the outrageous somewhere on here