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Ghoul Frontier

Written By: TheKaizoku

Fiction
Paladin Ryan Vills was one of the few, if not only member of the Brotherhood of Steel to be a ghoul. Born in 2250 in the Citadel, Ryan only became a ghoul when he was thirty in 2280, when he was a Knight Sergeant. Ryan and his squad of Knights were investigating a Raider hideout in the Capital Wasteland when one of the Raiders fired a Fat Man mini nuke at the squad of Knights. Ryan was the only one of the squad who made it out alive.

Normally the Brotherhood of Steel did not accept ghouls into their organisation, but Ryan was one of its most loyal and bravest members, even being a friend to the Lyons family, a prominent family in the Brotherhood. Thus they allowed Ryan to stay in the Brotherhood, though over the first few years Knight Sergeant Vills only embarked on solo missions.

Over the next ten years, Ryan ascended from Knight Sergeant to the rank of Paladin. He was now a part of the East Coast chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel, spending most of his time aboard the Prydwen when he was not out on miss