Ithaqua

Probably the last thing you will ever see.

“*[...]I hear him coming. I cannot get out.*”
—Alan Finch's Journal

**Ithaqua** is ... something and someone in Fallout: FROST.

## Overview

First sighted by hunters, the brothers Corwin "Cor" Finch and Alan Finch out of Malden Center in July 2080, and described as nameless "figure tracking us", Corwin Finch nicknames their silent follower "Ithaqua: Wind-Talker".

Unbeknownst to the brothers, they met with what the once-renowned scholar of the School of Biosciences of the C.I.T., Dr. Earnest Flemmel had become, after being subject to joint experimentation by Dr. Richard Lerna and staff of the Parsons State Insane Asylym, while at the same time being a target of Lorenzo Cabot's telepathic manipulations.

It is unknown if Ithaqua actively sought out the hunters, but resorted to observation without direct interference, or if Ithaqua found they invaded his territory and thus decided to follow them. It is also possible that their encounters were purely circumstantial, with Ithaqua having no specific interest in the brothers.

Whatever the reason for Ithaqua being repeatedly in the vicinity of the hunters, Corwin seemed to believe that Ithaqua was deliberately interfering with their hunt for much-needed game and decided, against concerns of his brother Alan, to seek him out in an attempt to put an end to the disturbance.

Ithaqua, now targeted by the brothers, seemed to either have been unaware of their efforts, or deemed them to not be a threat, despite the fact that they manage to locate what Alan calls Ithaqua's feeding grounds.

Learning of Ithaqua's cannibalistic preference, the brothers each had a different reaction. Alan, horrified by what they discovered, was left behind by Corwin who set out to hunt down Ithaqua once and for all.

Lured by Corwin by unknown means, Ithaqua becomes trapped in Malden. The brothers wrongly assume that he will be unable to escape, but Ithaqua manages to break free and also to enter Malden Center, which the brothers sought to protect from him.

Without exposing any other sign of emotion than purportedly smiling under his mask, Ithaqua wreaks havoc in Malden Center, slaughtering its inhabitants. Corwin Finch tries to put the remaining survivors out of his reach by having them retreat deeper and deeper into the underground.

Ithaqua, continuing the massacre, inadvertently drives Alan Finch to descend into madness, deafening him to the last remaining voice of reason: his own brother, Corwin.

Still located in his new den between Malden Center and the Metro Federation's main underground settlement, Ithaqua is now considered to be a cleansing angel sent by Uq-Qualtoth to redeem the sins of the "Old World". The survivors of Malden Center transform under the leadership of a mentally-broken Alan Finch into an insane, cannibalistic tribe known as Maldenmen.

## Trivia

"Ithaqua" is a fictional character in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Some of the properties of Lovecraft's character are assumed to have originated, through several iterations in stories by different authors, from the "Wendigo", a mythological creature or evil spirit from the folklore of the First Nations Algonquin tribes