The Top 50 Things You Never Knew About Fallout, Pt. 1

14. So what is the deal with the Dunwich Building out in the Capital Wastelands? The obelisk in the basement seems to hold a strange power, and later in the game, the Lone Wanderer returns a mysterious book called the Krivbeknih to the area in order to destroy it.

What’s going on here? Apparently the location is a reference to HP Lovecraft lore, as is the Krivbeknih, which is likely meant to be the Necronomicon. Jaime, a Ghoul who visits the ruins in hopes of tracking down the book, can be heard chanting “Alhazred”, the author of the Necronomicron, on an audio tape he left behind. The obelisk must have been unearthed by the former owners of the building, Dunwich Borers LLC. They probably abandoned the building once they unearthed the obelisk or shortly after it started causing trouble.