Last i heard he moved to Vegas, took a life as a mailman and played dumb for a few years

Than who's the actual leader.

I don't see why my LW would be a BoS Elder, she helped them (read: did all their work) but she wasn't part of them. I imagine she stayed in the Capital to watch over her dad's Project. When Maxson got in charge and the Brotherhood turned into jerks she'd have kicked them out, which would be why they're in the Commonwealth now.

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It says on the Prydwen that Maxson unfortunately reigns supreme in the capital wasteland.

Well that's contradictory, I suppose she left DC then, or he would be goo.

Which is how it should be. You can have an NPC recount that a person called The Lone Wanderer did some things, but to keep them in the next game would be just a big mess to a lot of players. Keep it like TES, keep them in the lore but out of the succeeding games.

Unless they come back as some God of Madness.

It's mentioned that some members deserted the main group in protest. That is a very likely explanation for their whereabouts, it could also explain where some other members are like Lyon's pride and star paladin cross.

It is also mentioned that Maxson brought the Outcasts back into the Brotherhood. My Lone Wanderer wouldn't let Maxson do what he has done to the Brotherhood. They are worse than the Enclave in this game. A shame really. As Lyons actually had an interesting way of looking at the Brotherhoods new role in society. Veronica mentions this in New Vegas aswell. They have to change to fit the new world, and Lyons was doing just that. So i could see my Lone Wanderer leading a group that split form Maxson's Brotherhood and want to start a new Civil War at some point.

It amuses me how for years we've heard complaining about how horrid Lyon's "kinder, gentler" Brotherhood was and now that gamesas seems to have listened nobody seems to like that either.

I haven't gotten far into their Quest line so I could be wrong, but Maxon's Brotherhood has a strong medieval vibe to me. They remind me of one of the Militant Orders of the Crusades, like the Templars or Hospitalers....who also inspired Games Workshop's 40K Space Marines, whom Maxon's Brotherhood also brings to my mind. The relationship they seem to prefer with the Wastelanders around them is not unlike feudalism...the Wastelanders supply them with food and other raw materials so that they can concentrate on hoovering up "Bad Tech" and eradicating Ferals and Mutants, and any Raiders who threaten those Wastelanders the Brotherhood has (or seeks) a relation with.

Rather than a puppet, Maxon seems to be on a steady path to becoming High Elder, and assuming control of the entire Brotherhood by acclamation. To the Western Brotherhood, facing annihilation at the hands of the NCR, his martial exploits and impeccable bloodline make him a natural to lead them out of the deep hole they are stuck in. I suspect this idea didn't occur to Todd and Co until after FO3, hence the hard sell to make him a child prodigy to paper over the fact he's only 20. Or perhaps they intended to make him the Alexander the Great of the 23rd Century.

There does seem to be some historical revisionism going on....Danse's comments about the Enclave, the biography of Maxon, ect seems to leave a lot out, or are flat out wrong. It's also weird that no named member of Lyon's Brotherhood or the former Outcasts seems to still be around. I kind of have a sneaking suspicion that Maxon has knowingly recruited at least some former Enclave personnel...given how the "historical record" seems to be singularly uninterested in them, unlike out West where the NCR is ruthlessly hunting down even the descendants of Enclave members.

No spoilers, please, but has anyone gotten Macready to talk about his youth in the CW?

My LW left DC to travel and help others when needed with Dogmeat and Fawkes.

I like the Fallout 4 Brotherhood, and most of the people I know who criticized the Brotherhood of Fallout 3 like the Fallout 4 Brotherhood.

In regard to the Lone Wanderer... I imagine they're wandering. Maybe they didn't like the direction Maxson was taking the Brotherhood and left the organization entirely. They were never a full time member of the Brotherhood in the first place.

BoS becomes more caring - People complain

BoS reverts to becoming more militant - Other People complain

Yea for cannot win!!!

All I know is that in my Fallout 4 the BoS dropped the ball and the Minutemen destroyed the Institute. Thus ensuring that the Commonwealth is self governed and the BoS is relegated to only 1 base as a friendly power. And... I have more then enough artillery to bomb them to kingdom come if they attack any of the Commonwealth settlements.