Lorenzo Cabot

Lorenzo Cabot is an archaeologist, explorer, and patriarch of the Cabot family in Fallout 4/

Background
The imprisoned patriarch of the Cabot Clan, Lorenzo is a former daredevil adventurer and explorer, who constantly sought to push back the boundaries of the unknown. Due to his research, he believed that all of the earliest human civilizations shared some common parent that was unknown to history. In an 1894 expedition he found was he was looking for - Ubar, a lost city, buried beneath the sands of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian desert. He excavated a city which he dated to more than 4,000 years before the rise of any known human civilization. The structures and artifacts were... strange. Disturbing, even. Excavating between March and May, against hostile weather and ever more panicked diggers, Lorenzo managed to uncover buildings made of cyclopean stone blocks and discovered a sarcophagus with the remains of an ancient creature surrounded by jewelry and other strange, alien artifacts. Lorenzo removed a single one, a crown, then ordered the tomb sealed up to prevent looting. That night, he put the crown on his head, forever changing his life and that of his family. The dig site was buried to preserve it for his return, against the protests of Metternich, and Lorenzo returned to the United States.

The discovery of Ubar would have vindicated him in the eyes of his peers, who ridiculed him and his search for years. By 1894 he was widely regarded as a quack and pseudo-scientist, even by his own son, Jack Cabot. Though he had the means to restore his reputation, Lorenzo did not publish his findings and never made another expedition to Ubar despite his initial plans. The experimentation with the crown was the primary reason. He inadvertently caused it to fuse with his nervous system by extended use. In return, he gained various seemingly paranormal powers... and became increasingly irrational and violent, culminating in paranoia and homicidal rage. After a crime streak that surely would have put him on death row, he was finally apprehended.

To protect themselves and the public from him and him from himself, the Cabot clan elected to indefinitely confine him at Parsons State Insane Asylum in 1898, using their influence to shield him from a death sentence. In the course of Jack's attempts to cure him, he discovered that the artifact had introduced anomalies into his blood. The source of his insanity became the basis of a longevity serum that have prolonged all our lives. The same substance was also responsible for making Lorenzo such a threat. Anyone could handle an elderly man in an asylum, but an elderly man with enhanced strength, resistance to most kinds of physical damage, and local telekinesis projected by the artifact itself? That was too much. Kept under a dampening field, Lorenzo was in isolation for centuries as his son tried to find a cure for his father's madness in vain.

Convinced that his psychosis could be treated by removing the artifact Jack attempted countless treatments to remove it - only to discover that it fused too tightly with his nervous system. Nevertheless he keeps trying, enjoying the long life afforded his family at the patriarch's expense. After centuries of imprisonment and deterioration, Lorenzo became obsessed with one thing: Vengeance against his so-called family, following release from his bondage.

Quests

 * The Secret of Cabot House: Lorenzo is the ultimate adversary or ally, depending on the choice made when confronting him in the seclusion chamber. If siding with Jack, Lorenzo is killed and his clothes and artifact can be pilfered freely.

Appearances
Lorenzo Cabot appears only in Fallout 4.