I enjoyed finding some of the TES Easter eggs around the world. The nirn root looking plants on the Prydwen was a nice touch. It got me to thinking about the Cabot House quests. Is it just me or is there anyone else that thinks the Cabot's belief in pre-human races and the artifact his father is wearing is another TES reference Easter Egg?

Nope, it felt more like a reference to alien life.


Edit: Now that AwesomePossum mentioned Lovecraft below, yeah it's definitely a Lovecraft reference, not TES.

mmmh, ancient (alien or not) civilisations from before the time of men, i do like the ring of this...

and i'm looking forward a big lot to the presumable dlc featuring said lost ancient city in arabia (recalled of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra in a way, though that's not exactly "before men") mentioned in lorenzo's diary

Jaxck Cabot is a reference to Lovecraft

>There is a HP Lovecraft story called "Out of the Aeons", which features the Cabot Museum of Archaeology, housed in a private mansion, and located in Boston's Beacon Hill district.

>The Cabot House in Fallout 4 is a private mansion located in the Beacon Hill district of Boston.


>The first curator of the museum in Lovecraft's tale was a man named Pickman. This connects to another Lovecraft story called "Pickman's Model", which tells of a Bostonian artist who drew such terrible imagery he got thrown out of his art club.

>Just up the street from Cabot House in Fallout 4 is a place called Pickman's Gallery, a place were a serial killer named Pickman makes painting depicting varius horrible things, as well as using raiders and others he has killed for human art.


>Pickman's art galley in the Lovecraft story was located in Boston's North End district.

>Pickman's gallery in Fallout 4 is located in Boston's North End district.

That is awesome. I figured that Cabot was a Lovecraft reference (just had that vibe to it) but I never knew the details, nor about Pickman!

I really need to read me some Lovecraft.