With the commonwealth on the brink of war, the sole survivor finds himself incapable of deciding who to side with. So he distracts himself with anything else he can find. The mechanist, Far harbor, Nuka world, anything to get him away from the central issues within the commonwealth. Now though, he and his companion Dogmeat get stranded in the world of remnant, stuck teaching.

The ashen one expected to be consumed with the rest of the world when the darkness came. Now however he and the Firekeepr must find their way through a corrupted and rotting world. Even throughout the ages, the darkness of man's heart will always remain the same.