Rathen Troy

**Rathen Troy** is the head of The Awakened, in the year 2097.

### S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Strength 7, Perception 4, Endurance 7, Charisma 8, Intelligence 6, Agility 3, Luck 5.

## **Background**

Rathen Troy used to be a priest of the Catholic Church, assigned to the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis in 2075 at the age of 28. During
 his time at the church, he was noted as being an effective speaker and
always achieved to do his best in the service of the church. In the year
 2077 when nuclear war loomed over the nation, Troy became a critic of
the church policies. Troy believed that the four horsemen of the
apocalypse had come to America and that the end was near. After seeing
the devastating effects of the New Plague, the Sino-American War, and
martial law, he was convinced that the horsemen had come to the america
in the forms of the horseman of war, pestilence, and famine. The only
horseman that hadn't come yet in his mind was death, and he knew that if
 the rest were here then death was not far behind. This lead Troy to
begin using his position in the church to recruit followers into his own
 personal sect who would follow him, and began using them to build a
bunker underneath the church to house him and his followers from the
apocalypse that was yet to come.

Over the course of 2077 leading
 up to October he had gathered a total of 60 followers and when the
nuclear sirens had begun to sound, his prediction had come true. He lead
 his followers into the bunker underneath the church and braced for the
nuclear war he had been planning for. As the bombs dropped, the outer
exterior of the church had been damaged rather bad and the bunker had
begun to experience leaks of radiation. This lead to him and his
followers turning into Ghouls, but managed to survive within the bunker
after the nuclear bombs had all but stopped. Over the next two years,
Troy had gathered a cult-like god status among his followers for his
vision and leadership that predicted what the church rejected, and soon
made him Pope of a new order they coined "The Awakened." In the year
2082, the group soon ventured out into the wastes from underneath the
church and witnessed the destruction that had been cast open the
old-world. Troy knew that as the new Pope, he would need to begin a
spiritual awakening for the wasteland in order to overcome the dangers
of this new world.

Over the next few years, rebuilding efforts
on the church took place, in relative peace due to the high levels of
radiation that prevented normal humans from starting raider gangs. In
the year 2091, the group had spent the years interpreting new religious
symbols and ideology, growing in size from the 60 to 130. The group had
raided local police stations for weapons and ammunition, allowing them
to maintain control of most of the downtown St. Louis area, and set up
complicated traps into the cities to kill any mutants that would try to
attack them. It was at this point, that Pope Troy decided to embark on
his first mission. He ordered a crusade into the neigborhoods of St.
Louis, attempting to capture any excess supplies and recruit anyone
willing to fight for the cause to bolster his ranks. This lead to the
group moving out of the downtown area and into the lower neighborhood
areas of St. Louis, gaining combat experience by fighting the mutants
that roamed their and also recruiting more ghouls to the cause. Over the
 years communities within St. Louis were made, with the Pope being seen
as a god by it's followers. Now with increased information coming in
about the state of the mid-western commonwealth, Pope Troy believes that
 the best hope humanity has is for every human and ghoul to join under a
 united theocracy, where everyone follows a common goal and believes in
concrete values of loyalty and duty to a supreme being with limited free
 thought, in order to bring peace on earth.