提到29號避難所，怎麼可能不講到Harold？
這位仁兄經歷了Fallout 1、2、BOS、Van Buren、3的輝煌時期
他還不是像一代狗肉那樣，只是每代都會有條狗出來當彩蛋騙新手以為狗肉一直都沒死
Harold他老人家，在每代的出場不是擔任某個情結的要角，就是擔任關鍵情報提供者
最後還如字面意義的成神了
Fallout系列想當神的人不少，真的擁有神般的能力的也只有這位老兄而已......
別再說廢話了，趕快進入正題吧
正史：Fallout 1/2/3/New Vegas/4，以及所有衍生漫畫
半正史：Fallout Tactics、Fallout Warfare、Official Fallout Game Guides
非正史：上面沒提到的
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Harold (Fallout Everywhere)
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Harold
Harold (who goes by many names: The Lord, Him, The One Who Grows, Gives, and
Guides, and The Talking Tree) is an FEV mutant - originally a human from
Vault 29. He was born in 2072, five years before the Great War. During an
exploration of Mariposa Military Base, he was exposed to FEV. Initially, he
mutated into what appears to be an ordinary ghoul, but was later
distinguished by a tree growing out of his head some years later.
Harold（這老兄有一堆別名：君主、他、那個頭上長樹的、給予與指引、會說話的樹）是
一個FEV變種人。他原本是29號避難所的人類，於大戰前五年的2072年出生。在馬里波薩
軍事基地探險的時候，他被FEV感染，原本轉化後的外貌像屍鬼，但幾年後頭上就長了一
棵樹。
Harold left Vault 29 in 2090, and lived in the Hub around 2096, in its Old
Town around 2161, in Los around 2208, in Gecko in 2238, and in Oasis around
2277.
Harold在2090年離開29號避難所，在2096年附近住在The Hub，2161年附近待在Old Town
，在2208年附近窩在Los、2238年附近時住在Gecko，最後在2277年附近定居綠洲(Oasis)
By 2277, he is a gnarled face in a tree growing in the Oasis Grove. During
his many adventures, he has encountered such influential people as Richard
Grey (later the Master), the Vault Dweller, the Initiate, the Chosen One, and
the Lone Wanderer.
2277年時，他在綠洲的樹林中變成了一棵有張醜臉的樹。在他的各種冒險中，他遇到了許
多當時非常具有影響力的人，像是Richard Grey（之後的主宰）、流亡者、新兵、獲選者
、和101殺神。
Background 背景
Early life 早年生活
Harold was born in 2072 and was only five years old when the Great War began
(2077). He was forcibly locked in Vault 29 for protection.
Harold在大戰五年前的2072年出生，然後就被鎖在29號避難所內接受保護。
The following is based on Van Buren and has not been confirmed by canon sources
以下內容基於非正史的《Van Buren》
Harold's home, Vault 29, was initially populated by young children which were
brought up by Diana, a human brain connected to a supercomputer, who posed as
a goddess to the vault's inhabitants. In cases of population unrest, a test
subject would be chosen to be released from the vault early. The subject
would return and tell the vault dwellers the condition of the world outside,
and whether or not it was safe to leave the vault. Of course, the test
subjects would never return, and this fact would deter everyone from wanting
to leave again for a short time.
Harold的老家29號避難所，是個原本都只有小孩的地方，他們由Diana，一個與一台強大
電腦連結在一起的人類大腦扶養長大，她在避難所居民的心目中相當於女神。當居民開始
不安份時，Diana會挑一個人離開避難所，這個人理論上會回來告訴其他人外面的情況、
離開避難所是否安全，當然這個人永遠不會回來，而這個事實夠讓其他人在短時間內嚇到
不敢再吵了。
Harold was one such subject, selected in 2090. He was released from the
vault, stunned by the security system and picked up by a robot to be taken to
the Nursery, where Diana resided. At the Nursery he was given the choice of
staying with Diana or exploring the outside world. However, if he chose to
explore, she would have to 'condition' him, so that he could not reveal
anything about her, or the Nursery to the world.
Harold就是其中一個被挑到的人，他在2090年離開避難所，被安保系統打暈，被一台機器
人拎到Diana居住的「托育所」裡。在此處，Diana給他兩個選擇：跟Diana待在一起或探
索外面世界。不過如果他選擇出去探索，那Diana必須給他加上「制約」以避免他洩漏
Diana或托育所的存在。
Harold agreed to stay with Diana, but managed to escape. During his travels
he kept the Nursery a secret because he felt it was his duty to the world to
keep such a future 'gift' intact until the world was ready for it.
Harold選擇跟Diana待在一起，但偷偷溜出去了。在旅程中他從不提起托育所的相關事情
，因為他覺得他有責任在世界準備好之前繼續保持這個未來的「禮物」的完整。
以上內容基於非正史的《Van Buren》
End of information based on Van Buren.
Merchant career 商人生涯
After leaving his home vault when it opened and its inhabitants made their
way out into the wasteland, Harold began a successful career as a merchant,
venturing across the wastes. Eventually he became an important player in the
Hub. He began to notice the increasing frequency of mutant animals attacking
his caravans. Frustrated, he decided to deal with this by leading an
expedition to Mariposa.
在離開避難所後，Harold在廢土上成為一名成功的雲遊商人，最後成為the Hub的要角，
並開始注意變種生物攻擊他的商隊的頻率越來越高，為此感到煩躁的他決定率領一支探查
隊前往馬里波薩。
Expedition to Mariposa 馬里波薩的探查
In the year 2102 when Harold was 30 years old, he and a group of other
adventurers— among them a man named Richard Grey, who was a doctor living in
the Hub who was equally perplexed by the strange mutants— tracked the mutant
population and eventually found its source: an old military base that seemed
to be spawning mutant creatures.
2102年時，三十歲的Harold和一群冒險者─其中一人名為Richard Grey，他是住在the
Hub的醫生，同樣對奇怪的變種生物感到困惑─追蹤變種生物的蹤跡並最後找到其來源：
一個老舊的軍事基地。
Inside, most of them were killed by the mutants that littered the base as
well as by its automated security systems. Harold, Richard and a few others
made it fairly deep into the base, where they found immense vats filled with
a strange thick, green solution (FEV) that seemed to be mutating the animals.
A large robotic arm knocked Grey into a vat, where Harold assumed he died
(when actually, he became the Master). Harold himself was knocked
unconscious. He awoke some time later out in the desert, already starting to
mutate. A caravan eventually found him and brought him back to the Hub, where
he settled into a destitute existence.
探查過程中，大部分的人被住在基地裡的變種生物和自動防衛系統所殺，而Harold、
Richard和其他一些人則到達基地的深處，他們在此發現許多巨大的桶子，裝滿了奇怪的
黏稠綠色藥水，似乎就是使動物變種的原因。一個巨大的機械手臂把Grey抓起來丟進一個
桶子裡，Harold以為他死了（但他後來變成了主宰），然後他自己也不小心被抓到。一陣
子後他在沙漠中醒來，並開始突變。最後他被一支商隊發現並帶回the Hub，成為一個身
無分文的人。
A mutant down on his luck 倒運的變種人
He is now very old, sick, and he tends to ramble on a lot. Some of his
information may be out of date. He can be cranky at times, but he likes to
tell stories.
他現在又老又病，還很喜歡到處漫談。他的有些資訊可能過時了，他有時會胡言亂語，但
他很喜歡講故事。
The Vault Dweller first meets him in the Old Town section of the Hub, where
Harold makes a living begging for spare change. In exchange for some money,
Harold provides the Vault Dweller with a great deal of information, mostly
dealing with the Mariposa Military Base, and Richard Grey, as well as some
tactical information on the deathclaw that lives near the Hub, which Butch
Harris, leader of the Far Go Traders, requests the Vault Dweller to deal
with, as he is losing his caravans to it.
流亡者在the Hub的Old Town第一次遇見Harold，他當時正在乞討。他提供流亡者一堆重
大情報好換取一些錢，主要是跟馬里波薩軍事基地和Richard Grey有關，還有一些對付
the Hub附近死亡爪的方法，因為Far Go貿易商的頭頭Butch Harris在那一代失去了商隊
，請求流亡者去處理。
Sometime between 2162 and 2241, a small tree (which he calls Bob, although he
likes to joke that his name is Herbert) began to grow out of the side of
Harold's head. It is an entirely new species of tree - unique and special,
just like Harold.
大概在2162到2241年之間，Harold頭上長出了一棵小樹（他叫它Bob，但通常開玩笑說叫
Herbert）。這是完全新種的樹─獨特又特別，就跟Harold一樣。
The following is based on Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and has not been
confirmed by canon sources.
以下內容基於非正史的《Fallout:BOS》
Traveler of the Wasteland 廢土的旅行者
After the destruction of the Master's Army, Harold left the Hub and became a
traveler who visited various places around the wasteland. It's known that he
traveled in Texas to Carbon where he had a sexual encounter with Carbon's
prostitute, Ruby, and the ghoul-city of Los around 2208. He wanted to have a
good time in Los after leaving Carbon but the arrival of super mutants and
the loss of his hand, his toe and his eye in the city changed the deal. The
Initiate helped Harold to recover his parts so he could leave the city before
its destruction. Harold's travels ended in Gecko in 2238.
在主宰的軍隊毀滅後，Harold離開the Hub成為一個旅行者，踏足廢土各地。可以知道的
是他曾經到過德州的Carbon，並曾去找那邊的妓女Ruby買春。他還在2208年附近去過屍鬼
城Los，在離開Carbon後他想在Los過一段好日子，但超級變種人跑來打Los，這期間他失
去了一支手、一根腳趾和一個眼睛。新兵幫助他讓這些器官都復原，好在城市毀滅前離開
。Harold的旅程於2238年在Gecko結束。
以上內容基於非正史的《Fallout:BOS》
End of information based on Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
Leader of Gecko Gecko的領導者
In 2241, Harold is a very old but still spry-looking ghoul. The Chosen One
runs into Harold in Gecko, the ghoul town not far from Vault City. After the
destruction of the Necropolis following Fallout, most of the ghoul population
of the town migrated far to the north to form a settlement around an old
nuclear power plant built by Poseidon Oil before the Great War. Anyone else
would likely be killed by long term exposure to radiation, but the ghouls
just find it pleasant. When Harold arrived, the plant was being run
dangerously and stupidly. Harold quickly took over from the well-meaning but
inept leaders of Gecko and got the reactor into some kind of working order.
When the Chosen One arrives in Gecko, Harold asks him to help powerplant
problem.
2241年，Harold已經非常老了，但看起來還像個活蹦亂跳的屍鬼。獲選者在離地下掩體市
不遠的屍鬼鎮Gecko遇到Harold。在大墓地毀滅後，大部分住在那的的屍鬼千里迢迢往北
遷徙，最後在一個大戰前由波賽頓石油建造的老舊核電廠旁建立居住區。其他人可能會因
長期暴露在輻射之下而死，但屍鬼只覺得像在曬太陽。當Harold抵達時，這個電廠開始變
得危險又常故障。Harold很快就從原本善良卻無能的領導手中接過Gecko的領導權，並讓
反應爐的運作情況變得好一些。當獲選者來到Gecko時，Harold請他幫忙解決發電廠的問
題。
The Chosen One still heard mention of Harold from time to time. Apparently,
the tree growing from his head has gotten larger, and if rumors are to be
believed, fruit is growing from it. The seeds are said to be remarkably
tough, and several of them have taken root even in the most barren stretches
of the wasteland.
獲選者還一直聽到有關Harold的傳聞，顯然在他頭上的那棵樹長得更大了，而正如謠傳所
說的，還開始結果了。據說果實內的種子非常之強韌，有些甚至能在最荒蕪的廢土邊緣紮
根。
The following is based on Van Buren and has not been confirmed by canon sources
以下內容基於非正史的《Van Buren》
Back home 返家
By the 2250s, Harold was ill. The tree in his head developed an unknown
disease and was dying. Much to his surprise, Harold found himself affected as
well. He didn't think he was going to die, but, he just didn't feel right in
the head.
大概在2250年代時，Harold生病了。他頭上的樹得了不知名的疾病而奄奄一息，Harold驚
訝的發現自己也受到影響，他不認為自己快死了，但覺得頭裡不舒服。
So, he set out on a quest for a cure. Naturally, he didn't have an easy time
of it either. People just didn't seem to want a mutant around anymore. But,
Harold didn't let that stop him. He persisted in his quest until he came upon
the Twin Mothers tribe, which originated from his home, Vault 29.
所以他開始尋找治療方法，很自然的他這段期間並不好過，人們似乎並不想要一個變種人
到處繞來繞去，但Harold並不因此裹足，他堅持詢問下去，直到他來到Twin Mothers部落
，而這原本是他的家，29號避難所。
Much to his surprise the tribe took him in and accepted him as he was. He
explained his quest to the tribal leaders and was told that they would
consult their goddess. Days later, Harold was approached by the tribal shaman
and given a potion to drink. It was a foul concoction, but it worked. Bob,
the tree, got better and was happy again.
令他驚訝的是，部落讓他進去並接納了他。他向部落的領導者解釋他的困難，並被告知他
們將請教他們的女神。幾天過後，部落中的薩滿給Harold一種藥劑讓他喝下，這個藥劑很
臭，但很有效。Bob，那棵樹，就這樣變得好多了，而且好像還很開心的樣子。
Harold couldn't let such a good deed go unrewarded, so he offered to help the
tribe in any way that he could. They smiled at him, and thanked him, but
declined his help. "The goddess will provide," they always said. Harold said
that he would like to pay his respects to the goddess, and was taken to the
tribal shrine to be granted a private audience. He wasn't really surprised
when the projected image of a woman appeared before him, but he was taken
aback when she told him where he could find her. His return to the Nursery
was a moment of joy for Diana and a 'new experience' to him, as much of his
early memories faded with age.
Harold不能這樣毫無回報的被人救助，所以他跟部落說讓他幫任何形式的忙都可以。部落
的人對他微笑，感謝他，但拒絕了他的幫忙。「等待女神的旨意」，他們總是這樣回答。
Harold說他想對女神表達謝意，然後被帶到部落的神社並拿到一個影像投射器。當一名女
性的身影出現在Harold面前時，他並沒有很驚訝，但卻被影像告知能找到女神的地點大吃
一驚。他回到了「托育所」，Diana很高興看到他的回來，而這對Harold是「全新的體驗
」，跟那隨著年紀而早已淡去的記憶一起湧現。
Harold traveled to the Nursery and spent considerable time there, He even
considered settling down and spending the remainder of his day in the
tranquility of the gardens. However, eventually he left and traveled even
further east.
Harold回到了托育所，在那度過了好一段時間，他甚至考慮就此定居並把用餘生在這寧靜
的花園生活。但最後他離開了，往遙遠的東方旅行。
If the Prisoner gives Diana the information on the FEV and the New Plague
from the Boulder ZAX, Diana will be able to create a cure to the New Plague
virus in the form of a small fruit, by genetically engineering it from
Harold's tree.
如果犯人把FEV的資料和從ZAX拿到的新型鼠疫資料拿給Diana，她就能利用Harold頭上的
樹的小果實做出鼠疫的解藥。
以上內容基於非正史的《Van Buren》
End of information based on Van Buren.
Oasis 綠洲
Harold eventually found himself overwhelmed by the growth of Bob, and he
became rooted to the ground during his travels in the northern Capital
Wasteland region. Here, he was discovered by several people who began to
worship him as a god, forming a small and exclusive cult, known as the
Treeminders. Bob began to blossom, and many plants grew in this area, which
became green with life. During this period, Harold developed a mutation which
enabled him to "see" the area around Oasis, through the very trees that came
from Bob's seeds.
Harold發現自己已經不堪逐漸長大的Bob的重負，最後在北方的首都廢土旅行時，他在某
處的地上紮根了。他被一些人發現並被尊之為神，這群人組成了一個小而排外的組織：護
樹者。Bob開始開花，許多植物在此生長，此處開始充滿綠色生命。這段期間，Harold的
變異，使他能夠透過由Bob的種子長出來的樹，「看」到整個由它創造的綠洲周遭的事物
He would use his new found ability to bring in wanderers, all the while
hoping one of them would put an end to his troubles- unfortunately, the
Treeminders' strange ways, and insistence on using an intoxicating,
potentially poisonous "sap" (as a "purification" ceremony) drove off most of
the wanderers, many in worse mental shape than they were prior. His
persistence may pay off should the Lone Wanderer come into view. On Harold's
orders, the Treeminders can allow the Wanderer safe passage into Oasis.
他一直用他的新能力帶路過的旅人進來，希望其中一個能解決他的麻煩─很不幸的，護樹
者們奇怪的舉動，以及堅持用一種會令人醉倒，還可能有毒的「樹液」（作為「淨化」儀
式），嚇跑大部分的旅人，許多人還帶著心裡創傷離開。他的堅持在101殺神到來後終於
有機會開花結果，在Harold的命令下，護樹者讓101殺神安全的進入綠洲。
If the Lone Wanderer meets Harold, he reveals his true identity and begs for
a merciful death after being stuck in the same position for decades. Although
commanding the Treeminders to perform questionable deeds for his own
amusement provided some entertainment, it did not last. The other dwellers of
Oasis either ignore or misinterpret Harold's wishes as a moral and spiritual
test, much to Harold's chagrin. Thus, his only recourse is to ask the Lone
Wanderer to take his life. However, two members of the Treeminders (namely,
the leader of the cult and his wife) can be found arguing about Harold. The
leader of the cult wishes for Harold's gift of plant life to be kept safe and
confined to Oasis, while his wife wishes for Harold's gift to be shared and
spread throughout the wasteland.
如果101殺神見到Harold，他會告知他的真實身分，並希望101殺神能替他安樂死，解除數
十年來都被定在此處的痛苦。雖然命令那些護樹者做出一些奇形怪狀的舉動給了他一些娛
樂，但無法持久。綠洲的其他居民不是忽視就是曲解Harold的希望，把其視為心靈和精神
上的試煉，讓他非常懊惱，因此他唯一的希望就是請101殺神結束他的生命。不過護樹者
的兩名成員（就是領導者和他的妻子）對Harold有異議，領導者希望Harold的禮物：綠色
生命能在綠洲的範圍內繼續保持安全，而他太太希望Harold的禮物能分享並散佈到整個廢
土上。
They could ask the Lone Wanderer to accomplish their own wishes, and the Lone
Wanderer can decide whether to carry out Harold's wish of death, the cult
leader's wish of keeping Harold's spreading growth confined to just the Oasis
or the wife's wish to spreading his glory across the wasteland. Through
granting Harold's wish, the Lone Wanderer's skin will be as hard as Harold's.
If the Wanderer chooses to keep Harold alive, they can tell Harold that he
has been given a gift and must stay alive to save the lives of others.
Harold, finding a new reason to live, replies that he was selfish to want to
kill himself, and then asks Bob if he agrees. Harold finally says that he is
at peace with himself and, for the first time in a long time, Harold is
finally happy.
他們會請101殺神完成他們的希望，而他能決定要完成Harold的心願使其死亡、完成領導
的心願使Harold的禮物只在綠洲生長、或完成領導妻子的心願使Harold的光輝散佈到廢土
中。完成Harold的心願後，101殺神的皮膚將會變得跟Harold一樣堅硬。而如果他選擇讓
Harold繼續活著，他能告訴Harold說他早已獲得了一份禮物，而他必須活著以保護其他人
的生命。Harold在找到了活下去的新意義後，會回答說他以前只是自私的想要自殺，並問
Bob是否同意他。Harold最後說他自己已經找到了平靜，而且長久以來第一次，Harold終
於感到快樂了。
Nature of Harold Harold的天性
To the untrained eye, Harold appears to be an ordinary ghoul. This is not so,
however. Ghouls are the result of massive and/or long-term radiation damage
to a human body; Harold is a product of the Forced Evolutionary Virus. Unlike
most people who are exposed to FEV, Harold did not become a super mutant, but
is the result of a unique combination of radiation damage from constant
low-level environmental exposure, indirect exposure to FEV (it is unclear how
Harold was infected with FEV as he blacked out for a while during his
exploration of Mariposa) and a fair amount of random chance. Thus he's not a
ghoul, and certainly not a super mutant. To quote Tim Cain, "Harold is
special."
一般人眼中的Harold跟普通的屍鬼沒兩樣，但屍鬼是人體受到高強度和/或長時間的輻射
傷害轉化而成，而Harold則是受FEV感染。不像大部分受FEV影響的人類，Harold並沒有變
成超級變種人。他的情況很獨特，受到持續性的低強度環境輻射所傷、間接接觸到FEV（
遊戲沒有講明他被FEV感染的過程，因為他在馬里波薩探索時被打昏了）和一堆神奇的遭
遇，讓他既不是屍鬼，也絕對不是超級變種人。就如Fallout之父Tim Cain所說，「
Harold是特別的」。
Furthermore, Tim Cain has this to say on the subject: "As for contact [with
FEV], any contact at all will infect the subject, but the amount of contact
determines the result. For example, I imagine Harold had some contact with
the virus, but he was not fully immersed in it, so he became a different
mutant than the Master's subjects. Full immersion, of course, is the
preferred method of infection, as it provides the virus a large surface area
for infection."
此外，Tim Cain還這樣說過Harold：「跟FEV的任何接觸都會感染那個東西，但感染結果
會因接觸量而不同。舉例來說，我覺得Harold可能有碰到一些病毒，但沒有整個人泡進去
，所以他跟主宰的變種人長得不一樣，完整浸泡當然是最好的感染方法，因為病毒有夠大
的面積能感染。」
Another similar FEV-created, ghoul-like mutant is Talius.
另外一個受FEV感染但長得像屍鬼的變種人是Talius。
Harold's unusual behavior is treating Bob as if the plant were actually
sentient. Although at no point does the plant indicate that it can convey
feelings, Harold certainly is not stupid, and perhaps only crazy in the
humorous sense— yet he still insists on hearing out the plant's opinions on
certain matters that he might otherwise take seriously. Given Harold's new
found ability to "see" through the trees that are descended from Bob through
the use of extreme concentration, it may not be much of a stretch to suggest
that both are deeply linked in some unknown way, almost certainly as a result
of FEV exposure. Because of his mutation, it is no surprise that Harold is
afraid of fire.
Harold有個不尋常的舉動，就是把Bob當成有情感的樹一樣對待。儘管沒有跡象表明這棵
樹會傳達情感，但Harold肯定不是笨蛋，也許只是種瘋狂的幽默感─但他仍堅持在特定場
合下聽取Bob的意見並嚴肅以對。後來Harold能藉著從Bob誕生的樹林，運用意象來「看」
到整個綠洲周遭，但這能力也頂多能說他們倆在有不知名的深度連結，歸因於FEV突變的
結果會更好。而因為Harold的突變，他會怕火並不意外。
Despite his appearance, Harold is a kind-hearted soul with a comical
personality. He has made many friends throughout his travels, potentially
including the Vault Dweller, the Chosen One and the Lone Wanderer. He is also
good with kids, as evidenced by his friendship with Sapling Yew in Oasis, of
whom he is particularly fond.
儘管Harold長成這副德性，但他是個有著好心腸和滑稽個性的人。他在旅途中交到許多朋
友，包括流亡者、獲選者和101殺神。他也跟小孩很好，像是綠洲裡的小女孩Sapling Yew
就和他成為朋友，而他非常喜歡這小女孩。
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上一篇Randle Clark邊翻邊哭，這篇Harold邊翻邊笑
可惜他沒有在四代出現，以地理位置來說四代主角至少比其他人近一些
請大家指正我的翻譯內容，感謝