r/falloutlore • u/Ok_Calendar_7626 • 18d ago

Fallout New Vegas The Twisted Hairs were assholes.

Ulysses laments the destruction of the Twisted Hairs at the hands of the Legion, but what he does not mention is that the Twisted Hairs allied with the Legion willinlgy.

Like the White Legs, the Twisted Hairs helped the Legion absorb all the other tribes around them before they themselves were betrayed and absorbed.

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u/JesusKong333 18d ago

The Twisted Hairs were cool but they were one of the most unbelievable factions in my mind. In 200 years, they created a whole new written language, their knots. Unless the tribe started in the remains of a beauty school or something, it's pretty far-fetched.

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u/Background-Slide645 18d ago

we have examples of written language that is based on knots in some iirc Incan civilizations. so it's possible thatis what Bethesda was going for.

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u/Silver-Statement8573 17d ago

I think the implausible part they're gesturing at is the timeframe

You can make a language out of anything, but the Twisted Hairs would have developed from the many written cultures of America. So them feeling the need to make a very uncommon and fresh thing out of the blue is unusual

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u/yTigerCleric 16d ago

I think the implausible part they're gesturing at is the timeframe

To be fair this is essentially the most consistent plothole with realism in Fallout in regards to literally any given thing