Legate Lanius

Legate Lanius is the military commander of Caesar's Legion. Referred to as the Monster of the East or Terror of the East, he replaced Joshua Graham in this role after the Legion's defeat during the First Battle of Hoover Dam. Lanius subsequently led a campaign of expansion to the East, but is recalled by Caesar to assist in the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.

Background


Quests

 * Veni, Vidi, Vici: Legate Lanius will be the one who gives the final order to the Courier, and also the one who congratulates them after the battle.
 * No Gods, No Masters, All or Nothing, Eureka!: At the battle of Hoover Dam, Lanius can be convinced into retreating with Barter and Speech checks, respectively 55, 65, 75, 85 and 100.
 * If the Speech or Barter checks cannot be passed, or the wrong dialogue is selected, he will prepare to engage combat, and unique good or evil Karma dialogue options will become available.

Final Battle

 * When Lanius' health drops below 60%, he will use his healing powder, causing him to regenerate 8 hit points every second for 27 seconds. He has 5 doses of healing powder.
 * When Lanius' health drops below 40%, he will run off and hide to regenerate health. While doing this, he temporarily ceases hostility, causing allies to stop targeting him. This also causes all his limbs to be restored to 100% condition. After several seconds, he will run to his original starting position and then resume his attack.

Attributes

 * Lanius is 80% faster than a normal non-player character.
 * Lanius has 910 fatigue points.
 * Lanius cannot be disarmed or reverse pickpocketed.
 * Lanius' Blade of the East has a 15% knockdown chance.

Effects of player's actions
If the Courier sides with the Legion and allows Caesar to die because of his brain tumor, Lanius will become the new leader of the Legion. He is far more ruthless than Caesar, and handles several things differently than Caesar would have if victorious. For example, he would have Arcade Gannon crucified rather than keeping him on-hand as a doctor, slaughter the people of the Strip upon arrival at the gates of Vegas, have Chief Hanlon crucified with the other NCR Rangers rather than grant him a swift death out of respect, exterminate the Followers of the Apocalypse rather than give them safe passage out of the Mojave Wasteland, and pursue the Enclave remnants rather than recognize it as a lost cause.

Appearances
Lanius appears in Fallout: New Vegas and in Fallout: Wasteland Warfare.

Behind the scenes

 * Lanius was designed by John Gonzalez and Chris Avellone. Avellone wrote the character's dialogue.
 * The voice actor for Lanius, Mitch Lewis, would later reprise his role as Lanius in the Fallout fan film Fallout: Lanius.
 * According to Joshua Sawyer, Lanius and Joshua Graham's models are unscarred due to engine related limitations.