Driver Nephi

Driver Nephi is a leading member of the Fiends, living in the southwest corner of the Fiend compound around the South Vegas Ruins East Entrance in Fallout: New Vegas.

Background
This Fiend was not always a drug-addicted psychopath bent on caving in skulls with a golf driver. He was a New Canaan Mormon, friend of Elder Bert Gunnarsson. However, he fell in with a bad crowd: drug runners, raiders and worse, developed an addiction to chems and quite rapidly fell down the society's ladder, hitting every rung on the way down. His gang moved into the Mojave area from Utah about six months ago. Despite the relatively short time frame, Nephi "distinguished" himself as a particularly mean bastard, incredibly fast, tough to kill and utterly relentless with his golf club (or driver, which also gave him his nickname).

Due to Nephi's kill-count and status as a fiend leader (or the closest they have to one), Nephi is on Major Dhatri's hit list. Dhatri states that the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion had previously been sent to kill Nephi, but proved unsuccessful after multiple attempts, as Nephi tends to use his own men as meat-shields to protect himself, and is also tough enough to have managed to survive despite 1st Recon snipers having managed to land at least a couple confirmed shots on him. 

Location
Driver Nephi can be found alongside six other Fiends in a burned-out building north of the Samson Rock Crushing Plant, and south of the South Vegas Ruins East Entrance.

Quests

 * Three-Card Bounty: Driver Nephi is one of the Fiend leaders that Dhatri tasks the player with killing.

Effects of the player's actions

 * Bert Gunnarsson will comment on Driver Nephi's passing after his death, but will not elaborate further on any prior relationship he had to Nephi or the Followers of the Apocalypse.

Appearances
Driver Nephi appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes
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 * Driver Nephi's name may be a reference to Nephi (pronounced /ˈniːfaɪ/) which is the name of four prominent individuals in the Book of Mormon, the religious text read by the Mormons, and also the name of a city in Juab County, Utah. This may further suggest Driver Nephi's affiliation with the Mormons at New Canaan (mentioned in the cut dialogue found in the GECK).
 * Driver Nephi's dialog was unknowingly cut from the game.

Bugs

 * Driver Nephi is not marked as a respawning non-player character in the GECK, but scripting issues may rarely cause him to respawn some time after killing him.