“These new inhabitants... not natives... most of them. Came with duty, purpose... ready to kill each other. The Divide was stronger. Left marks on them, too. Not Bear, not Bull - now... radiation's marked them, made them equal in history's eyes.”— Ulysses
Marked Men are characters in the Divide in the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Lonesome Road.
Background[edit]
Marked Men are the remnants of New California Republic forces and Legion Frumentarii and Scouts located in the Divide.[1] The violent storms in the Divide damaged their flesh, while the radiation causes them to undergo mutation.[2][3] Rumors of Marked Men spread throughout the West Coast wasteland similar to the legends of the Sierra Madre and Big Empty.[4]
According to Ulysses, "radiation's marked them, made them equal in history's eyes."[5][6] Some soldiers crafted versions of Legate Lanius' helmet called "Marked Beast Tribal Helmets." Ulysses describes the masks and blades they carry as "shaped from Divide metal, not with care and strength, but with hate," and serve as "distant mirrors of their Legate" as a symbol they can hold on to.[7][8] They continue to wear old NCR and Legion armor[9] that has been damaged over time and then patched together with road signs, license plates and other scrap metal.
Gameplay[edit]
Marked Men level with the player character, and carry a variety of melee and ranged weapons, and at higher levels (above level 40). They use Stealth Boys. When near sources of radiation, they regenerate health.
Locations[edit]
- Dry Wells
- Long 15
- Marked Men Base
- Marked Men Camp
- Marked Men Guard Outpost
- Marked Men Supply Outpost
Variants[edit]
Named[edit]
- Blister - Former NCR ranger residing near the Marked Men base, carrying a Flamer.
- Beast - In a camp near the High Road Entrance. He carries a Shoulder Mounted Machine Gun.
- Bonesaw - Former legionary wearing a nearly intact Legate helmet, wielding a Chainsaw. He can be found in a makeshift camp slightly southeast of the Ashton Silo Control Station.
- Blade - A former legionary who guards the entrance to Ulysses' Temple. He wields a Blade of the West, and is hidden by a Stealth Boy.
- Gaius Magnus - A centurion located in Dry Wells.
- Colonel Royez - A member of the NCR army stationed on Long 15.
Notes[edit]
- The Marked Men that appear during the final battle will explode after being killed.
- The Marked Men are some of the few enemies in the game that will use special ammunition against the Courier.
- Former NCR Marked Men have no dogtags.
Appearances[edit]
Marked Men appear in the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Lonesome Road.
Bugs[edit]
Marked Men who carry Plasma Defenders are given the incorrect ammunition, Microfusion Cell, Over Charge rather than the correct Energy Cell, Over Charge. This renders them unable to use the weapon entirely.
Gallery[edit]
Ravager
A group of Marked Men
Closer look
Featuring a Plasma Caster and Marked Man
References[edit]
- ↑ Courier: "[NCR] Those bodies in the silo were NCR soldiers... some special forces."
Ulysses: "Might have been. Once. To the Divide they came... in the Divide, they rest."
Courier: "[Legion] The dead in the silo, some were Legion Frumentarii, scouts. Assassins."
Ulysses: "Might have been. Once. To the Divide they came... in the Divide, they rest."
(Ulysses/Dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "I've never seen corpses mutilated like that."
Ulysses: "Even as the fires here burned them from within... the winds of the Divide tore their skin, exposed them... screaming... to the sky. And just as the Divide tears at them, so they tear at each other, for sport - like some tribal scarification. Falling back to their history, maybe. No matter what they suffer... the radiation, fire of the Divide, sustains them. Makes them stronger."
(Ulysses/Dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "Radiation may keep them alive in areas so physically punishing, it would kill others - even ghouls."
Courier: "If they've become ghouls, the radiation would strengthen them. Heal their wounds - not the scars."
Ulysses: "[SUCCEEDED] There's truth in your words, in what I've seen of their tactics, movements - recovery. Those wounds - they couldn't live otherwise. The Divide winds have torn the skin from many of them - may be the radiation is the only thing keeping them walking. Make camp near silos... warheads. No way to cleanse the radiation - makes them hard to kill there, have to draw them out."
(Ulysses/Dialogue) - ↑ Dead Money loading screens: "The Sierra Madre is a legend, like the Big Empty, the Burned Man, and the rumors of survivors from the Divide."
- ↑ Courier: "Some of the flayed Hopeville soldiers looked like NCR... but fought beside others in Legion armor."
Ulysses: "Pain makes for strange allies... the hate the Bear and Bull shared across the battlefield, now turned against the Divide. Few survived... intact. Many NCR were already here when the destruction happened. Keeping the route East open, in fear of Caesar. Fear of the Legion."
(Ulysses/Dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "Inhabitants? It doesn't look like anyone's alive down there."
Ulysses: "These new inhabitants... not natives... most of them. Came with duty, purpose... ready to kill each other. The Divide was stronger. Left marks on them, too. Not Bear, not Bull - now... radiation's marked them, made them equal in history's eyes. As vicious as the storms are, these shadows of Legion, of NCR - silhouettes of things to come."
(Ulysses/Dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "Those Marked Men in Hopeville - some had strange masks and blades I'd never seen before."
Ulysses: "They bear false versions of Legate Lanius' mask, the one Caesar fashioned for him. Thought it was an insult at first.... know better now. It's shaped from Divide metal, not with care and strength, but with hate. Keeps them anchored. Crude, effective - like the blades they carry, distant mirrors of their Legate. A symbol they can hold on to - while the Divide tears at them."
(Ulysses/Dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "Other Marked Men had NCR gear - and they weren't carrying masks or blades."
Ulysses: "For the two-headed Bear... NCR... they don't have symbols in the same way Legion does. They revere their mines and explosives, guns... that is their religion - death from afar, take pride in it."
(Ulysses/Dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "[NCR] Those soldiers in Hopeville... were once NCR, I'm sure of it. Why were they with the Legion?"
Ulysses: "You see true. Not scavengers... it's what they wore before this all happened."
(Ulysses/Dialogue)
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