The Scribe

The Scribe is a randomly encountered character in the Commonwealth in 2287.

Background
The Scribe is a former member of the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, now wandering the Commonwealth repairing and selling armor. If the Sole Survivor asks what his story is, he says he was a Brotherhood of Steel scribe back in the Capital Wasteland under Elder Lyons.

He claims to have left the Brotherhood when Elder Maxson took over that chapter of the Brotherhood, because under Maxson the Brotherhood stopped using its resources to help the people and also mentions knowing Maxson back when he was still "Squire Maxson", who was a little boy that could be encountered at the Citadel in Fallout 3.

Encounter locations

 * On a road east of Dark Hollow Pond (Same road as the one in front of General Atomics Galleria)
 * East of Cambridge Police Station
 * On the road near a train bridge east of Boston Police rationing site. To locate this area, fast travel to the site, then go south for a short distance until you locate the train tracks. Follow the tracks east until you find a road going underneath them. Jump down and look in both directions (you don't have to move far in either direction to see an approaching character, and sometimes characters can be spotted from the bridge using V.A.T.S.). Other NPCs and random encounters can be also found here.
 * On a small square between Greenetech Genetics and Cambridge crater
 * On the street right outside of Med-Tek Research. Fast travel to the location, turn left, and walk down the street. An NPC should be visible as you approach a three-way intersection, and enemy forces up to and including a Deathclaw, can materialize behind you. NOTE: Players wishing to farm this site for merchants, need to avoid ALL encounters, NPC or enemy forces, who appear here if they are not who or what the player is seeking; reload the nearest Autosave or Quick Save and try again. Clearing the various encounters here by taking any relevant action (dialogue, fighting, etc.) will cause this area to "dry up," meaning no further encounters of any sort will happen again.
 * Near Revere Satellite Array
 * Near the front of Hesters Consumer Robotics
 * Behind the Cambridge Polymer Labs building. To trigger random encounter, fast travel to the location and go south, then turn west and go down the road along the river until  you reach the broken Red Rocket billboard. Then turn around  and go back. Alternatively, travel to Cambridge Police Station and go down the same road to Cambridge Polymer Labs.
 * South of Concord, near where Trashcan Carla is first encountered.

Appearances
The Scribe appears only in Fallout 4.

Bugs
Patch 1.4 partly fixes the Scribe, he shows up in the settlement and does not disappear anymore. But even if assigned to level 3 armor store, he still says that his selection is "limited right now", while it`s not limited and you can buy legendary pieces from him.