Mother Curie III

Mother Curie III is the leader of the Apostles of the Eternal Light, living in the Holy Light Monastery in Springvale in 2277.

Background
Curie is a former Child of Atom and Megaton resident who left the church following disagreements with Confessor Cromwell's teachings regarding the great division. She encountered a Brotherhood of Steel patrol in Springvale, who gave her Megaton's Aqua Pura shipment upon learning she was from the settlement. She began irradiating and distributing it as "holy water" to fulfill her religious calling to spread radiation.

In the Springvale basement she resides, she preaches to a pair of ghouls, and in the lower part of the basement, she stores vast amounts of Aqua Pura along with a pair of tame feral ghouls: a feral ghoul reaver named Atom's Champion and a glowing one named Sun of Atom.

Quests

 * Holy Water: The Lone Wanderer has the choice of persuading Curie to stop distributing the holy water to others, or stopping her by killing her and her followers.

Effects of player's actions

 * Mother Curie III appears as a hostile feral ghoul reaver if Megaton is blown up after starting the Holy Water quest.
 * Although armed with a weapon, Mother Curie III is a peaceful character and does not become hostile if one kills Brother Gerard in order to enter the Monastery, or by way of antagonizing speech options. If threatened, she states that she expected some form of religious persecution and that she refuses to respond to violence with violence. If the Lone Wanderer initiates combat against the Holy Light cult, Curie will simply cower and flee. Her feral ghoul reaver and glowing one followers will attack.

Appearances
Mother Curie III appears only in the Broken Steel add-on for Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes
Mother Curie III's name is a reference to Dr. Marie Curie, the discoverer of radiation and two radioactive elements, who eventually died of radiation poisoning.