Marked Men

Marked men are creatures found in the Divide in 2281.

Background
Marked men are the remnants of the NCR and Caesar's Legion soldiers that were in the Divide when some warheads detonated during the First Battle of Hoover Dam in 2277, creating great earthquakes and storms. The violent storms skinned them alive while the intense radiation caused a unique variant of ghoulification. The ghoulification kept them alive and in incredible pain from their wounds. In dialogue between the Courier and Ulysses, the Courier can confirm that such injuries and radiation would have killed ordinary ghouls. The marked men are only kept alive by the radiation of the Divide, which now heals their particular forms.

Despite they were in completely different groups with different ideology when they were humans, the pain unite them in a unified group. Their hate for the NCR or the Caesar's Legion were turned against the Divide and its intruder. Some former Caesar's legionaries have crafted crude versions of Lanius helmet, shaped from Divide metal, not with care and strength, but with hate, keeping them anchored. Some other shaped crude blades like distant mirrors of their new and unknown Legate, like a symbol they can hold on to, while the Divide tears them. They also wear old NCR and Caesar's Legion armors damaged over time, patched together with road signs, license plates and other scrap metal.

Biology
Ghoulification as well as the storms has peeled their skin off, leaving behind only muscle. The radiation of the Divide may be the only thing keeping them alive.

Appearances
Marked men appear in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

Behind the scenes

 * Marked man seems to have been inspired by the first ghoul concept for Fallout named "blood man".

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