Raul Tejada Raul Alfonso Tejada is a Mexican ghoul mechanic and gunslinger living in the prison building at the top of Black Mountain in 2281 . Background . Born in 2047 , Raul has had a long and storied history . Before the Great War , Raul grew up on Hidalgo Ranch just outside of Mexico City . He was a marksman and mechanic , both of which occasionally got him in trouble with the law . During the war , the ranch he lived on was spared from atomic destruction due to being located in a remote area . Raul also witnessed Mr . House ' s missile defense system protecting most of Las Vegas from an impressive amount of distance . Soon , the ranch was beset by refugees seeking food and shelter . The Tejada family was as accommodating as they could be , but the amount of refugees was too much for them to handle . Raul ' s father was forced to turn down any more unfortunates seeking help , due to their resources becoming scarce . At one point , Raul and his father even had to drive off the remaining refugees , as things became violent . Later that night , about two dozen men returned and set fire to the ranch house , barring the doors from the outside to prevent any escape . Raul awoke to the smell of smoke and was able to sneak himself and his sister , Rafaela Tejada out a window , receiving burns across his body in the process . The rest of his family , consisting of his mother , father , grandmother , two brothers , and two sisters , perished in the flames . As they escaped , a few of the men pursued them . Raul killed the pursuers , and left the rest to live , since he did not want to throw away his life in revenge ; he still had a sister to take care of . The pair traveled to the radioactive ruin of Mexico City to begin anew , amidst the large number of looters in the city . They both scraped by as scavengers , constantly looking for food , and medicine to treat Raul ' s burns . The intense radiation of their surroundings soon started affecting Raul , commencing the first stages of his ghoulification . It was also there that Raul found a novelty costume shop , where he found a Vaquero outfit in good condition while searching for cloth to wrap his wounds . Raul took the outfit , and wore it as he returned to his sister . For the first time since the bombs fell , Rafaela laughed . Soon , Raul became a legend ; his sharp eye and top - notch gunslinging always meant the end for glory seekers who were looking to prove themselves . Even though this kept Raul and his sister safe from trouble , it always created more . Suffering from radiation poisoning , Raul eventually became too ill to scavenge with his sister . As such , she was left to provide for the two on her own . One day , after she failed to return from a market where she had been scavenging for food , Raul went in search of her only to find her brutally murdered , her corpse violated so horribly that she was only identifiable by a tiny scar on her knee from when she was a little girl . Fueled by anger , Raul tracked down the raiders responsible and killed them to the very last man . He salvaged what was left of the raider gang ' s possessions and left Mexico City , now the lone survivor of his family . Leaving every aspect of his former life behind , including , as Raul says , his " face , " he wandered to the Gulf Coast and inhabited an unclaimed Petró - Chico refinery . There , he spent a long time thinking about his life . He realized that his gunslinging hadn ' t given him anything ; he discarded his guns and took off his old vaquero outfit . He put on a Petró - Chico jumpsuit that he found , and took the name " Miguel " ; the name found on the jumpsuit ' s nametag . Bearing a new identity , he eventually arrived in the Arizona town of Tucson , now known as Two Sun . He settled there , becoming a mechanic and a general handyman , his guns stashed away where they could do no further harm , although he still kept them oiled out of professional pride . After seventy - five years of relative peace , he met ; a prostitute working in a local brothel who bore a striking resemblance to Rafaela . Spurred by this reminder of what he lost , he took the time to look out for her , though for obvious reasons never visited her . This peace was not to last . Arizona was overrun with raiders and tribals before the rise of Caesar ' s Legion brought stability to that region ; the conditions brought " Dirty Dave " and his six brothers to town looking for ammunition . Raul sold it to them , hoping they would leave now that they had what they wanted . Instead , they decided to take their edge off in the brothel . They massacred the place and took Claudia as a prisoner when they left . Enraged , Raul pursued the gang . They had a head - start , and slept nights ; Raul didn ' t . After three days of continuous pursuit , he finally caught up with them . By the time he found Claudia , she was already dead . This ignited a familiar feeling in Raul ; the vengefulness he ' d felt at Rafaela ' s death . In a state of fury , Raul charged head - on into the middle of the camp , and kept shooting his guns until Dirty Dave and his gang were all dead . Youth wasn ' t on his side anymore ; the battle left Raul severely injured and nearly lifeless . After days of gathering his energy to carry his injured body , Raul returned back to town . Dejected , Raul has wandered west to the Mojave Wasteland . He swore to himself that he was done with the gunslinging life , since he is starting to feel his age . While there , he stumbled upon the signal of the Black Mountain Radio , and started listening to it to pass time . One day , he lost the signal being transmitted and decided to have a look . He ended up meeting a nightkin named Tabitha , the radio ' s broadcaster and supreme ruler of Black Mountain . Raul fulfilled his purpose and fixed the radio ' s transmitter , but much to his dismay , Tabitha decided to keep him ; after all , he couldn ' t disagree with a super mutant twice his size . Raul was then turned into Black Mountain ' s handyman , fixing toasters and things the super mutants wanted fixed . He has also been tasked with the repair of Rhonda , Tabitha ' s robot and best friend , in which he has been unsuccessful . To guarantee his cooperation , Raul is imprisoned in a building near the mountain ' s broadcast station to which he later claims he was held against his will for years . If freed from captivity , he will join the Courier out of gratitude . A new taste of adventure reminds Raul of his tumultuous past , prompting him to consider whether he should embrace his old gunslinging ways . In this case , he will be forced to decide between two different ways of life . When compared to the other human companions of the Wasteland , Raul is perhaps the most tolerant towards the Legion when compared to everyone else who would suffer under their rule . He is not affected by the Legion ' s presence in the wasteland and admires the security and order they bring , although he wouldn ' t be able to join them due to their hatred towards all forms of mutants . He also has quite an insightful amount of knowledge about Mr . House , as Raul has lived long enough to remember his pre - War exploits . Appearances . Raul Tejada appears only in " " .