Earle Williams

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Earle Williams is a unique wendigo colossus located inside the Monongah Mine in Appalachia.

Background[]

Earle Williams worked at a local mine just outside Monongah before the Great War. He was a single father to Maggie after his wife left early on.^[1] Hornwright Industrial bought the rights to the mine in April 2075, replacing the workers with Auto-Miners.^[2][3][4] At first, this seemed like a blessing to the town which was plagued by financial hardship.^[5] The Auto-Miners quickly and efficiently extracted all coal from the mine, fully exhausting every vein in January 2076.

As Hornwright Industrial prepared to leave the mine that January,^[6][7] Williams and some other townsfolk drunkenly decided to steal some supplies from the mine before everything was taken away. Shortly thereafter, supervisor Deke Sykes blew up the entrance with everyone still inside.^[8] Though Maggie tried to dig her father out with her bare hands, she was pulled away by others from Monongah and lied to that he and the others had simply skipped town. She didn't believe them and reasoned they were either paid off by the Hornwrights or were unwilling to pay for a rescue mission.^[9]

Meanwhile, in the mine, Williams and the others were facing a difficult decision: there was no food in the mine, but one of the miners, James, died from injuries sustained from the entrance collapsing. Several survivors agreed to cannibalize his corpse, including Williams, though others refused and stated they would rather die and be eaten than eat another person.^[10] At first, Williams questioned whether he should eat a corpse, saying it "didn't seem right to him." After some time, as he and the others continued to eat those who died of starvation, he felt his sanity slip away, in part due to the lack of a day and night cycle. Eventually, his hunger got the best of him and he found himself wanting to eat those not yet dead.^[11] Williams also left Maggie a holotape.

By 2103, Williams had mutated into a wendigo colossus.

Characteristics[]

• Creature · Cryptid · Wendigo colossus · Boss · Combat music type 4b

Name (Form ID)	Base Statistics	Behavior	Abilities	Items
"Earle Williams" Irradiated Wendigo Colossus 0059E02F EN06_LvlWendigoColossus_Nuked	LVL 90-110 PER 8 HP ? Dam.R 300-400 En.R 300-400 Rad.R Immune Pois.R 300-400 Fire.R 300-400 Cryo.R 300-400 XP ? Stats scale up to match player level	Aggr. Unaggressive: Will not initiate combat. Conf. Cowardly: Will always avoid combat/flee. Assis. Helps nobody: Will not help anyone.		See table

Resistances:

• Earle Williams has passive perk which reduces all incoming damage by 80%.^[12]

Level	Lvl
90	300	300	Immune	∞	300	300	300
110	400	400	Immune	∞	400	400	400

Attacks

• Earle will switch between ranged and melee combat styles once every 25-35 seconds.^{[verification needed]}
• Earle will summon wendigo spawns as he switches into melee combat style (30 second cooldown).^{[verification needed]}
• Although Earle will be more aggressive in his melee combat style,^[13] he is quite passive during his ranged attack patterns.^[14]

Melee: Unarmed	150-200 (pure damage[15])	Cooldown: 4.73 seconds; applies medium stagger
Projectile: Poison Vomit	50 - 90	Creates "Corrosive Bile" hazard (30 seconds)
Projectile: Rad Vomit	50 - 90	Creates "Poisonous Sludge" hazard (40 seconds)
Hazard: Corrosive Bile[16]	8-25 / second 8-25 / second	-50 DR, -50 ER, -50 RR, -50 FR, -50 PR
Hazard: Poisonous Sludge[17]	15-35 / second	-50% movement speed
Explosion: Scream[18]	125-175[verification needed]	Applies Uncontrollable Fear (4 seconds)
Summon: Wendigo spawn x4[19]
Restore Health: Cannibalism[20]

Body part multipliers:

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Interactions with the player character[]

Interactions overview[]

Interactions
	This character is always hostile with the player.
	This character is involved in quests.	Something Sentimental
	This character is involved in events.	A Colossal Problem

Quests[]

• Something Sentimental: Maggie Williams wants to know the fate of her father, and decides that the only way to know is for the mine's entrance to be cracked open with a nuke. Once A Colossal Problem is completed, Earle's pocket watch can be given to her and she can be either lied to or told the truth about her father.
• A Colossal Problem: After the mine is cracked open via nuclear missile, the mine can be entered and Earle Williams can finally be put to rest.

Drops[]

• Legendary item
• Stimpaks
• Caps
• Wendigo colossus vocal sac

Notes[]

• Earle will always spawn as a three-star legendary creature.
• Earle has red and black skin instead of the tan coloration of a generic wendigo colossus.

Appearances[]

Earle Williams appears only in Fallout 76, introduced in The Legendary Run update.

Behind the scenes[]

In writing the backstory for Earle Williams and his associated event, main quest designer Victoria McCreary stated that she was inspired by the existing story of Monongah, where Hornwright Industrial exploited the town and its mine for resources.^{[Non-game 1]}

Bugs[]

PC Xbox One Playstation 4 Earle is well-known for often falling through the floor after defeat, making it impossible for players to get his loot, even using the loot nearby bodies features.^[verified]

Gallery[]

Earle in the Summer Updates trailer

During A Colossal Problem

References[]

Non-game