Deathblow is a ghoul who has been enslaved during Caesar’s conquest of New Mexico, where he lived in a ghoul-supremacist community who were powerful but cruel, and the many of the surrounding residents of the desert welcomed the arrival of Caesar as it signalled an end to their hegemony. The Legion’s conflict with Resurrection has been long and arduous, in the process captives have been taken by both sides and among them was a ghoul known as Arthur.

Arthur was eventually sold to fight in the gladiatorial pits of Flagstaff where he was given a new name and, after several years, sold once more to an enterprising prospector out of Utah named Lindley A. Whitlock. Lindley, a gambling addict, has made a pilgrimage to the New Vegas Strip with his slave-bodyguard in tow and lost all his money, he’s hoping to make it home and is willing to wager Deathblow himself on a game of caravan with the player.