Henry Casdin

Protector Henry Casdin is the leader of the Brotherhood Outcasts in the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3.

Background
Level headed and professional, Protector Casdin was once one of the most accomplished soldiers of Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel, fighting with the Elder side-by-side during the Scourge of the Pitt. However, he broke ties with the Elder during the Schism. It was a result of dissatisfaction with Lyons' focus on protecting the wastes by killing super mutants. A part of Lyons' contingent perceived it as an ineffectual waste of men and resources that would ultimately destroy the Brotherhood. The situation deteriorated, finally tipping when Elder Lyons ignored their repeated requests to recover tech from Fort Independence, a pre-War scientific military base. The dissenters rallied behind Casdin, abandoned Lyons' command and left the Citadel, taking a large part of its weapons and equipment stockpiles with them. The loss of men and materiel had a significant negative impact on the combat performance of Lyons' chapter, greatly reducing its ability to project power throughout the Capital Wasteland.

Under Casdin's command, they seized Fort Independence, where they pushed back the indigenous raider groups and adapted the former military base for use as their headquarters. Termed "Outcasts" by their angered former brothers and sisters, the renegade soldiers adopted the name as a badge of honor, painting their armor red and black to distinguish themselves from the organization they no longer served. They have also reorganized their rank system and decentralized their operations, to make tech retrieval and long range patrols easier to organize.

Since then Casdin has led them with a steady hand, attempting to reestablish communications with the West. He considers Lyons a traitor who abandoned his mission. He believes that once they reconnect with the Brotherhood proper, the Outcasts will be vindicated and Lyons placed where he belongs: in front of a firing squad.

Daily schedule
Protector Casdin can be found standing at the entrance to Fort Independence, the Brotherhood Outcasts headquarters. He holds one of several keys to Fort Independence.

Quests

 * The Outcast Collection Agent: You can trade pieces of power armor, energy weapons, sensor modules, and scrap metal to Casdin in return for various loot and, eventually, entrance to Fort Independence. Since transferring items is done via script, all technology given to him will spawn at 100% condition. Casdin will also immediately equip any items better than his armor or weapons (if he has the ammunition for them), as standard AI behavior.

Effects of player actions

 * If you possess Outcast power armor when encountering Protector Casdin for the first time, he will confiscate it, even if you are wearing it.
 * Upon first meeting Protector Casdin, if you tell him that you are in the Brotherhood of Steel, it will turn him and all nearby Outcasts hostile.
 * Killing Casdin will make all Outcasts permanently hostile, including patrols, for the rest of the game.

Inventory
* Henry will replace his armor with a set of Enclave power armor but will replace that armor with the Tesla armor but not the helmet, when you trade the armor for supplies in the unmarked quest, The Outcast Collection Agent.

Behind the scenes

 * Casdin's voice actor was replaced sometime during production; the audio log in Fort Independence has an entirely unique voice actor speaking Casdin's lines.

Bugs

 * Casdin may enter Fort Independence and never exit. Verified
 * Casdin's dialog refers the 5.56mm rounds as ".556" rounds. Verified
 * Casdin does not accept Tesla helmets in trade, despite accepting Tesla armor. Verified

Appearances
Henry Casdin appears only in Fallout 3.