#38. Major Isaiah Marshall

Lore

The Specialist

"Slow down, Prime Minister. Are you saying 'terrorists' or 'werewolves'? You know what, nevermind. I'm sending a guy."

– President Coates on the Blue Phone in the Situation Room


"Listen up, folks. Mission briefing. Intelligence assesses twenty to thirty targets armed with automatic weapons or claws with supernatural strength. We'll be loading EMPs and silver. Insertion and exit is on the roof. 1900 hours is the extraction deadline; any later and we have to cancel taco night. Questions?"

– Isaiah Marshall, briefing room, OEL Op Command

As the story goes...

People with security clearance to know that the Office of Emergency Logistics existed also knew that it was Major Isaiah Marshall who made the OEL America’s first line of defense. When President Coates first took office, he was shocked to discover the sheer number of malevolent forces, both supernatural and mundane, menacing the nation he now led. The new President leaned heavily on the top-secret OEL and its resourceful commander to battle these threats.

Whether alien, monster, or homegrown menace, Isaiah took an ecumencial and practical approach to battling the scourges of the world. He resolved a crisis in Mumbai when he established at the last possible moment that Rakshasa’s invisibility does not extend to ultraviolet scopes. He determined that silvered ceramic is the best multi-purpose shell for penetrating narco-terrorist kevlar, Zhaktari powershields, and werewolf hide. When rappelling into interdimensional portals, he established the need for copper cable and sound belaying technique.

In Valhalla, Isaiah still loves to fight, but has also finally found time for slackline and guitar. He has put together a techno-fantasy euro pop band with Ada, Ulgrim, and Fait.

Connections

• (No mentions of Isaiah in other legends' lore pages have yet been found)

Context

Before he was given a name, Isaiah was called the "Soldier," and his lore and sigs makes it clear that he has an American military background (he uses modern weapons and cloaked drones and answers the American President Henry Coates, aka Sentinel).

Isaiah is probably slightly younger than Sentinel, who was likely born between 1945 and 1965 (similar in age to George W. Bush or Barack Obama). In any case, the timeframe for Isaiah and Sentinel is almost certainly "the present day" (meaning, the early 21st century, like the 2010s, when Sentinel and Isaiah were released in Brawlhalla).

Last line of Isaiah's lore was the first teaser for Fait, and this got people speculating for the longest time from Isaiah's release in March 7, 2018 until the end of January 2019 when Fait was finally released.

Blasters make sense for a modern soldier, since modern warfare is primarily ranged fighting now. Cannon, though? That is unorthodox indeed, but Isaiah's sigs show that the cannon shoots out small missiles and even acts as a machine gun. Perhaps it's not so much a cannon as it is a really big bazooka. His sigs also feature a cloaked (invisible), weaponized drone, which reflects the use of military drones today as well, although I'm not sure if they're quite advanced enough to be invisible (then again, who knows what the CIA are keeping from the public).