When Booker opens up the chained door, he witnesses a prisoner getting executed by murderous black birds, and sees the leader, a Crow, walk away and vanish. Behind a bookcase is a hidden storage area with a dungeon cell as well as a Gear in a display case. In the circular room is a round table for meetings, with a projector displaying a phrenological study of Comstock. While traversing the building, Booker clashes with several Order members when he happens upon their meeting.Īfter taking them out, Booker takes the elevator to the Top Floor. In the ceremony hall is a mural of George Washington holding the Liberty Bell in one hand and the Ten Commandments in the other, standing above racist caricatures of people of different ethnicities. There is also a statue of John Wilkes Booth in the foyer, a lounge, and bar which contains a painting of Booth, in golden glow, assassinating a Devil-horned Lincoln at Ford's Theater, a reading room, and a large ceremony hall. Platters of rotten food are ubiquitous, especially in the dining hall, and attract many flies and ravens. The building's interior is squalid, with debris littering the floor, lights dim and continually flickering, and raven droppings scattered throughout. The courtyard has a statue of Comstock fighting the "Serpent of Nations", depicted as a hydra-like creature with gross caricatures of a Jewish, Black, and Asian man for its three heads. Main article: BioShock Infiniteīooker discovers the Order's headquarters in Comstock Center on his journey to Monument Island. The stained glass windows behind the bar. They count among the elite forces of the Founders, and are occasionally sent to kill Booker DeWitt.Ī statue of John Wilkes Booth in the foyer. The most prominent members of the Order are the Zealots: fearsome, sword-carrying, coffin-bearing enemies whose powers mirror that of the Order's namesake. The Order believes that Columbia's racist ideals make it and its citizens superior to the rest of the world, and they seek to enforce a doctrine of racial purity. Members of the Order cloak themselves in hoods and robes reminiscent of the real-life Ku Klux Klan, with lesser members wearing indigo and leaders wearing black. The group glorifies John Wilkes Booth as a saint for assassinating Abraham Lincoln, "the Emancipator" or "the Apostate" (a term Zachary Hale Comstock often uses in reference to the same), whom they view as wicked for abolishing slavery. The Confederate Army (Confederate States of America), led by an angelic George Washington. The Union Army (United States of America), led by a demonized Abraham Lincoln. 4.1.1 Art and images in the Fraternal Order.
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