Willem Clark

Dr. Willem Clark is the leader of the ghouls at the Reservation in 2253.

Background
Seeing himself as a Messianic figure, he founded the Reservation and more or less became its God.

Before the war, he was a gifted nuclear physicist. He worked at the Reservation as chief scientist in the nuclear research and developmental department on Sub-Level 3. Even then, he commanded a loyal following of fellow scientists in a fashion, almost like a cult. When the bomb fell, he took charge and kept the survivors alive, with the hope that they would once be able to start a new life on the surface.

Unfortunately, not everyone survived. After ten years, the ghoul survivors resurfaced and ventured out, looking for other ghouls but found few of them for a while.

After their odyssey into the wasteland, they returned home. The entire group had long since been given up for dead by those who lived in the Reservation, however, to their surprise, they returned with four times their number and dubbed himself and his followers as 'the children of the wastes.'

For the best part of two hundred years after that, WIllem took in every ghoul that came across the Reservation. Most ghouls preferred it there, to the harsh, hateful world of the Four Corners Region.

Willem eventually was worshipped as a saviour, a deity, to the point that it went entirely to his head. He has since removed himself from the populace, residing in his Sub-Level 3 inner sanctum, with his inner circle, only communicating through the use of the intercom system and monitors.

He speaks of himself in the third person and speaks in a biblical structure. Due to his high intelligence (and pig headedness) nobody was able to convince him that he was not this godlike figure, he perceived himself to be. He will lead his people to prosperity, until his dying day, assuming that an immortal God could die.