Os New Canaanites acreditam que a tribo Dead Horses se originou de um lugar chamado Res, a leste do Grand Canyon. Eles são descendentes dos habitantes pré-guerra do local, bem como turistas que os visitavam quando a Grande Guerra eclodiu. Com o tempo, as línguas dos dois grupos se fundiram em um crioulo, tornando-se a principal língua da tribo, embora alguns membros mantivessem inglês suficiente para se comunicar efetivamente com pessoas de fora.[2] Eventualmente, eles deixaram Res, indo para o oeste até chegarem às margens do rio Colorado em Dead Horse Point, que eles fariam sua casa.[3]
Depois de viver lá por muitas gerações, os Dead Horses foram visitados por Joshua Graham, o Legado Malpais da Legião de César. Ele procurou prepará-los para a assimilação na Legião, como várias tribos antes, e começou a treiná-los nos métodos de guerra. Ele os ensinou como caçar com mais eficiência e como manter seus raros equipamentos pré-guerra.[4] No entanto, antes que eles estivessem prontos para se juntar à Legião, Joshua foi chamado para liderar os exércitos de César na Primeira Batalha de Hoover Dam, uma batalha da qual ele retornaria um homem muito diferente.
Com a partida de Joshua, os Dead Horses não corriam mais o risco de assimilação eminente, embora mantivessem um profundo nível de reverência tanto por Graham quanto pelo homem a quem servia.[5] Eles começaram a colocar em prática os ensinamentos de Joshua e começaram a invadir e atacar as pessoas ao seu redor. Eles acabaram sendo retaliados, expulsando os Dead Horses de sua casa e indo para o sul até Zion. Eles perderam muito e foram aproveitados por muitas das tribos do vale.[3] Seria aqui que Joshua encontrou os Dead Horses, tendo sobrevivido à sua execução e retornado à sua casa em New Cannan.[6] Desta vez, ele levaria a tribo em uma direção diferente. Ele os levou para longe de César, explicando o que a Legião teria feito com eles.[5] Ele os ensinou a se defender, proteger e manter seu território.[7] Graham tornou-se seu chefe de guerra interino,[8] e sob sua orientação os Dead Horses retomariam o Dead Horse Point.
Após a destruição de New Canaan, um grupo de sobreviventes liderados por Daniel foi para Zion, onde Joshua se encontrou com eles.[9] Para ajudar a proteger seu povo, ele pediu a alguns dos Dead Horses que voltassem a Zion, para ajudar a defendê-los e às outras tribos do vale contra os White Legs.[4] Se eles os ajudam a escapar do vale ou expulsam os invasores, a tribo retorna para sua casa depois.[10][11]
Sociedade[]
Sua tribo está localizada em Dead Horse Point, no rio Colorado. Muitos dos Dead Horses são designados como batedores. Os batedores de pleno direito deixam murais de giz e pictogramas para orientar os menos experientes durante o reconhecimento ou para levar os guerreiros a bons campos de caça.[12]
Os Dead Horses são individualistas na maneira como governam suas vidas pessoais. Eles são democráticos em questões relativas à tribo como um todo. Normalmente, as únicas decisões tomadas autocraticamente são aquelas relativas a conflitos com grupos externos. Nesta esfera, Joshua Graham recebeu autoridade completa para ditar as ações dos guerreiros tribais em tempos de guerra.[1] Joshua afirmou que desejava pouco a ver com a maneira como a tribo conduzia seus assuntos pessoais, acreditando que pode haver homens melhores cujo exemplo deve ser seguido do que o seu.[13]
Depois que os Sorrows perderam um dos seus membros para uma armadilha deixada por Randall Clark, eles pararam de entrar nas cavernas de Zion, que acabou sendo incorporada à sua religião. Quando os Dead Horses chegaram ao vale, os Sorrows contaram-lhes histórias dos espíritos que vivem lá dentro, assustando-os o suficiente para que a maioria também evitasse as cavernas e construções pré-guerra do vale.[14] Alguns membros continuam dispostos a entrar nesses lugares tabus, como Follows-Chalk, mas ainda estão nervosos.[15][16][17] Eles caçam bighorners por comida, marcando-se com tatuagens para comemorar quando caçam e ocasiões especiais, como se um jovem for em sua primeira caçada ou se um caçador matar presas grandes,[18] mas estão muito atentos ao meio ambiente e aos animais de Zion, sabendo não caçar demais nenhuma presa.[19]
Embora os Dead Horses mantenham capacidades ofensivas e defensivas coletivamente, não se pode dizer que eles possuam uma força de guerra designada. Embora a tribo tenha guerreiros especificamente armados e treinados para fins de combate, eles agem principalmente como caçadores. A tribo também tem um ramo separado de batedores, mas, novamente, seus talentos (embora amplamente aplicáveis) são mais frequentemente utilizados para as questões mais práticas de exploração e localização de caça. Esses batedores podem ser encontrados em todo o Zion Canyon, e geralmente em pares. Os Dead Horses usam pistolas automáticas .45 como arma de fogo padrão, embora muitos estejam armados com War Clubs[20]que são decorados com cápsulas de calibre .45 em reverência a Joshua Graham.[21] Quando Courier chega a Zion Canyon, Joshua Graham está pronto para liderar os Dead Horses no extermínio dos White Legs, apesar de Daniel, que expressa sua preocupação com o destino, bem como a relativa inocência das tribos.
Relações com o exterior[]
A maioria da tribo Dead Horse não deseja explorar o resto da wasteland, e eles tendem a ficar longe dos edifícios "tabu" pré-guerra. A Legião de César chegou a Zion Canyon antes da Primeira Batalha de Hoover Dam e tentou cortejar sua tribo, sob ordens de Joshua Graham. Eles permaneceram aqui até que Joshua Graham voltou de Hoover Dam e se tornou o chefe de guerra interino de sua tribo. Enquanto eles estão em bons termos com a tribo Sorrows, eles estão atualmente em desacordo com os White Legs, que estão tentando exterminar tanto os Sorrows quanto os Dead Horses.[19]
A Happy Trails Caravan Company tentou fazer contato com os mórmons em New Canaan passando pelo Zion Canyon. os Dead Horses sabem pouco sobre os New Canaanites além dos poucos missionários que eles enviam.[22] A certa altura, o Lonesome Drifter chegou a Zion e contou à tribo Dead Horse sobre a wasteland fora de Zion.[23] Fora isso, a tribo Dead Horse é bastante reclusa e tende a ser cautelosa com estranhos.
Quando encontrados vagando pelo Vale de Zion, os Dead Horses não são atacados nem atacam criaturas mutantes como yao guai ou Geckos verdes.
Mesmo que o personagem do jogador ajude os Dead Horses a erradicar as White Legs e trabalhe com Joshua Graham para completar Honest Hearts, os Dead Horses podem ser hostis no retorno do personagem do jogador a Zion Canyon.
[H]ow the DLC shipped was not how it was planned. The tribes in Zion are descendants of a mix of North American native people as well as other American citizens and European (of various non-native ethnicities) tourists/campers. This survives in the language of the Dead Horses, for example, who use a large number of German-derived words.
In the first design docs for HH, every tribe was supposed to have members from all of the F3/FNV ethnic groups. However, there was a complicating factor: body art. The various tattoos and body paints we needed to texture the bodies multiplied the number of required textures. They couldn’t simply be layered on (as they can in F4), but were entirely new body textures that dramatically increased the amount of texture memory being used. For that reason, each tribe wound up having only one body texture per sex. This compressed their ethnicities into homogenized blends, with Dead Horses being a darker tan, Sorrows a light tan, and White Legs (under the body paint) fairly pale.
As a minor point, Daniel was specifically supposed to be (and was, in data, for most of development) Asian. I don’t know when, how, or why he was switched to Caucasian, but that’s how he shipped.
It’s frustrating, because those changes slot Joshua and Daniel as white guys among (mostly) brown folk when 1) they weren’t supposed to be white guys and 2) the tribes were specifically called out as ethnically and culturally mixed without any real-world analogues.
Regarding the “natives as aesthetic” criticism, the patterns we used for the three tribes’ body art are not based on any current or historical native American body art (AFAIK). There are in-fiction explanations for each tribe’s specific choices. The White Legs initially colored themselves white to blend into the Great Salt Lake (where they are from) and they dread their hair out of reverence for Ulysses. The Sorrows use the river pattern to reflect their suffering and their connection to the Virgin River in Zion. The Dead Horses mark various accomplishments on their skin and decorate their clubs with .45 shells out of their respect for Joshua Graham.
↑ 1,01,1Courier: "Do you run the show around here?" Joshua Graham: "I wouldn't say that. I am the acting war chief for the Dead Horses. They look up to me for such matters, but I only have the authority they give me. Daniel is the spiritual leader and main link of the New Canaanites to the Sorrows. He's up in the Narrows right now." (Diálogo de Joshua Graham)
↑Courier: "Do they speak... our language?" Joshua Graham: "Most don't. It's been hundreds of years since the war. They've developed their own languages. Take the Dead Horses. We think they were originally refugees from a place called "Res," east of the Grand Canyon. They speak a combination of Res and a language spoken by travelers who were visiting Res when the bombs fell. Over time, the two languages blended. I was a translator years ago, but it's hard to keep up with all of the tribal variations." (Diálogo de Joshua Graham)
↑ 3,03,1Courier: "Tell me about your tribe." Follows-Chalk: "We came up in the Land of the Dead Horse, though why the Back When folks called it that I got no hint. We raided, we fought... we lost. Our enemies drove us back into Zion, and we would have died if it hadn't been for Joshua. Joshua, and his Caesar." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑ 4,04,1Courier: "Does the valley belong to the Dead Horses?" Joshua Graham: "The valley belongs to God, but no. The Dead Horses live at Dead Horse Point, up the Colorado River. They came here because I asked them to. Before I... returned to the fold, I visited them years earlier. I looked much different then, but I left an impression on them. I taught them how to hunt more efficiently, how to maintain their weapons and Pre-War equipment. When I returned, they showed their appreciation." (Diálogo de Joshua Graham)
↑ 5,05,1Courier: "Wait, what about Caesar?" Follows-Chalk: "When Joshua first came to us, he was servant to a man he called Caesar. He led his master's armies, and we were ready to follow him into war. Then he lost his master's army to a tribe called Enseeyar, the Sunset People. When he returned, he was as you saw him - burned, broken, but changed. He led us away from Caesar, led us to our own destiny in Zion." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "Do you remember anything about Joshua from before he became your leader?" Follows-Chalk: "Only a little - I was very young. He was... different. Prouder, yes, but harder, crueler, more driven. Really, I was terrified of him. We all were. When he came back, I almost didn't believe he was the same man. He was humbler. He wanted to protect, not destroy." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "What did Joshua do for you?" Follows-Chalk: "If it wasn't for Joshua, the Dead Horses would still be the whipping boys of the Zion Valley. He taught us how to hold our territory, to protect ourselves. He guided us away from Caesar, and showed us how Caesar would have destroyed us." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "Tell me more about Joshua Graham." Follows-Chalk: "He's been the chief of our tribe since he came back to the Valley. He went off to the civilized world years ago, to fight a war. That didn't go well." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "Wait, what? New Canaan was wiped out? How?" Follows-Chalk: "That's what Joshua said. White Legs came down from Great Salt Lake in force - fell on New Canaan before they could mount a defense. Joshua found some of the survivors led by a man named Daniel. Most of them have fled the valley, but Daniel stayed on with the Sorrows tribe. He and Joshua have been arguing over whether to stand and fight the White Legs or take the Sorrows and the Dead Horses out of the valley." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Finais do Honest Hearts, Dead Horses: "Having helped Daniel and the Sorrows escape from Zion, the Dead Horses returned to their home at Dead Horse Point. The tribe continued to learn from the New Canaanites, and over many years built a flourishing community along the banks of the Colorado. Though the tribes' bond would endure, it was Joshua Graham's legend the Dead Horses would revere, not the tenets of New Canaan's faith."
↑Finais do Honest Hearts, Dead Horses: "Having helped eradicate the White Legs from Zion, the Dead Horses returned to Dead Horse Point in triumph. They remained neutral toward the Sorrows, but as years went on, there were periods of competitive friction, even violence, between the tribes. The New Canaanites - Daniel especially - intervened regularly as mediators, but found it difficult to reconcile the tribes' conflicts."
↑Courier: "Why are you called Follows-Chalk?" Follows-Chalk: "Our advance scouts leave chalk signs to mark places rich with game. I'm not a full scout yet, so I follow the marks and guide the hunters." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "Fine by me. I prefer the wilderness." Joshua Graham: "Then let him know. Follows-Chalk needs more guidance in his life. I'd prefer it not come from me. If people want to look to me for how to fight, I will show them how. I believe God put me on this Earth for that very reason. But to live like me, think like me... no. There are better people for them to look to for such things." (Diálogo de Joshua Graham)
↑The Courier: "Taboo?" Joshua Graham: "The Sorrows believe in a spirit that lives in the caves, say the spirit punished them once for trespassing. They put special marks around the cave entrances to keep people out. It doesn't work on the White Legs, of course, but the Dead Horses are spooked." (Diálogo de Joshua Graham)
↑Courier: "What taboo places?" Follows-Chalk: "Lots of them around the valley - places built by the folk from Back When. You'll know them when you see them - scouts mark them with hand prints. The hand prints are a warning to keep out - angry ghosts live inside. Not that I believe in angry ghosts. They're just spooky old places. Right?" (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "I'll see what I can do." Joshua Graham: "Thank you. Follows-Chalk can help you find your way around the valley. He's inexperienced, but he knows enough of our language to ignore the taboos about Pre-War buildings." (Diálogo de Joshua Graham)
↑Follows-Chalk: "See those handprints? Dead Horses and Sorrows mark them on taboo places, places from Back When. Good thing for you I don't buy into that stuff." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "What are all those tattoos?" Follows-Chalk: "Dead Horses mark ourselves to commemorate our hunts. When a hunter takes a great beast, or when a youth goes on his first hunt, he gets a tattoo." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑ 19,019,1Courier: "Why is it so important that we fight the White Legs?" Follows-Chalk: "Well... because they're our enemies. What else would we do? They take our land, they kill our scouts, they poach our hunting grounds." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "Nice guns." Joshua Graham: "In the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, all tribes are known for a specific weapon. White Legs are known for their big submachine guns, "storm drums." They broke into an armory near Spanish Fork and have been using them for years. Of course, the Dead Horses have their wooden war clubs and even the Sorrows have their Yao Guai gauntlets. This type of .45 Automatic pistol was designed by one of my tribe almost four hundred years ago. Learning its use is a New Canaanite rite of passage." (Diálogo de Joshua Graham)
↑Courier: "What's with the shell casings in your club?" Follows-Chalk: "We decorate our clubs with them to honor Joshua Graham. They were the weapons of his old tribe, so now they are ours. Can't say they seem that dangerous to me, but Joshua says they "won the West."" (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "What do you know about the New Canaanites?" Follows-Chalk: "Little bit. I met some of their missionaries a few times, but I've never been to their city. Joshua could tell you more - or Daniel, I imagine." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
↑Courier: "What's with this obsession you seem to have with "civilization?"" Follows-Chalk: "Let me tell you a story. When I was a boy, a man came through the valley with one of the caravans. Tall man, big mustache, carried a guitar. I asked what he did for his living, and the interpreter told me he was a singer. What is that? I asked. The man explained that he went from place to place and sang for people, who gave him food and shelter and care in return. I couldn't believe that there was a place in this world where a man could do that. I promised myself then that one day I'd explore that world myself." (Diálogo de Follows-Chalk)
Fora de jogo
↑Question: "Trate de preguntar en español? OK. ¿Qué idioma es el idioma de los Dead Horses basada en? La idioma de los Sorrows se basada en español, por supuesto. Pero no puedo entender qué idioma de los Dead Horses se basada en." (English translation: "Can I try to ask in Spanish? OK. What language is the language of the Dead Horses based on? The Sorrows' language is based on Spanish, of course. But I can't understand what language the Dead Horses is based on." Joshua Sawyer: "El idioma de los Dead Horses se basada en alemán, inglés, y navajo, pero la morfología del navajo es irreconocible." (English translation: "The Dead Horses language is based on German, English, and Navajo, but Navajo morphology is unrecognizable." Joshua Sawyer Spring.me
↑Question: "Is It correct that the tribals are descended from vacationers at the time of the Great War? I swear I hear a little German in the Dead Horses and Spanish in the Sorrows, but I also hear another language(s) mixed in and spoken by either tribe as well." Joshua Sawyer: "Yes. Joshua Graham explains that they speak languages from a place he calls "Res" mixed with languages from people who were vacationing in Utah." (Joshua Sawyer Formspring post 19 May 11)
↑Joshua Sawyer: "Some of the original Dead Horses were Native Americans, but the group overall is supposed to be a mix of NAs, European tourists, and random American citizens." (Joshua Sawyer at forums.somethingawful.com)
