Paladin Leila Rahmani is the leader of the Brotherhood of Steel First Expeditionary Force send to Appalachia from New California in the online RPG Fallout 76, introduced in the Steel Dawn update and further expanded on in the Steel Reign update.
Biography
In the year 2103, Elder Maxson, having been concerned about contact with Paladin Elizabeth Taggerdy and her Brotherhood chapter in Appalachia being broken for some time, sends Paladin Rahmani and her Expeditionary Force to investigate Taggerdy's status. As they make their way across the devastated Wasteland that was the United States, Rahmani's team are attacked by Raiders.
A settlement they tried to help against Raider attacks by arming a local militia with Brotherhood weaponry in the form of Hellstorm missile launchers ends up still being wiped out, with the Raiders gaining possession of the Hellstorms loaned to the militia, and as a result, Knight Daniel Shin wanted to see her stand trial against Elder Maxson and the Council of Elders for her actions, even if it meant the entire force was stripped of their titles and other Brotherhood benefits as a punishment. As for the Council of Elders, they believed when contact was lost with Rahmani after she crossed the Rockies, she had deserted, but Maxson refused to believe it.
After some time, Rahmani, with Knight Shin and Scribe Odessa Valdez, arrived in Appalachia. Russell Dorsey, a local resident of Appalachia with military experience, had been preparing for her arrival with fortifying ATLAS Observatory as the new Brotherhood base of operations, Fort Atlas, since Taggerdy's former bases in Camp Venture and Fort Defiance were no longer of use in their dilapidated states and having been overrun by all manner of mutated creatures in feral ghouls and Scorched.
Once moving into Fort Atlas, inducting Russell into the Brotherhood, among other hopefuls and initiates, Rahmani began working to reestablish contact with Lost Hills and Elder Maxson. She also has her Brotherhood inoculated with the Scorched Plague vaccine that the Vault 76 Residents had developed to protect everyone coming into Appalachia from becoming more of the Scorchbeast Queen's minions.
However, Rahmani and Shin were still at odds with each other because of the earlier incident, and resurgence of the Hellstorms from that incident, coupled with a Super Mutant attack on Fort Atlas, forces Rahmani to destroy their long-range transmitter, to Shin and Valdez's shock and anger as she intentionally severs ties with Elder Maxson and Lost Hills, deciding to form a new chapter of the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel instead, independent of the original body, convinced that the Elders' paranoia about securing dangerous technology to avoid another apocalypse like the Great War/World War III is driving the Brotherhood away from their duty with protecting humanity as they rebuilt civilization in the Wasteland.
The Super Mutant attack also manages to temporarily mend things between Rahmani and Shin as well. However, by 2104, a year after arriving in Appalachia, there is still tension between Rahmani and Shin over what their Brotherhood's main objective should be from now on: Protecting the people who have moved back to Appalachia, which Rahmani is steadfast on doing, or continue to secure pre-War technology to ensure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands or is lost forever so past mistakes can possibly be repeated, like the Great War/World War III, which Shin remains ironclad to. The residents of Vault 76 will have to help decide what will be Rahmani's Brotherhood's main objective from now on, but this follows after further investigation into the Super Mutant attack on Fort Atlas reveals that one of the people who had come asking for the Brotherhood's help, Dr. Edgar Blackburn, had been kidnapping people from all over Appalachia, be they Settlers, Raiders, or travelers with the Blue Ridge Caravan Company, to use as guinea pigs in his research with the Forced Evolutionary Virus (F.E.V.), thus breeding more Super Mutants. Despite efforts to stop him, he had managed to perfect the F.E.V. and Rahmani and her forces are tasked with dealing with the results and him before Appalachia is safe from further Super Mutant threats because of Blackburn's efforts. This leads to where the Vault 76 resident(s) helping Rahmani and Shin face a difficult dilemma following having to kill Blackburn after he has the F.E.V. tested on himself at the Appalachian West Tek Research Center and mutates into a Super Mutant Behemoth that they have to kill before confronting his fellow scientists: Side with Rahmani and spare Blackburn's associates, or side with Shin and execute them for having effectively played God when it came to the virus, which was against everything the Elders and Brotherhood wanted to prevent.
- If the residents side with Rahmani, Shin is outraged, threatening to leave and go straight back to Elder Maxson and the other Elders to tell them of what's happened and hope Rahmani is punished for her actions with stripping her and the new Appalachian branch of the Brotherhood of their titles and privileges, branding her a traitor to the Brotherhood, forcing Rahmani and the residents to either let him go, or kill him to preserve their secrets from the Elders. If Shin is permitted to leave, Rahmani exchanges some final, bitter words with him before he departs to retrieve his Initiates from Fort Atlas and begin the long trek back to New California, Mariposa, and Lost Hills to debrief Elder Maxson and the other Elders on what's happened since the First Expeditionary Force left some time ago under orders to see what became of the original Appalachian chapter under Paladin Elizabeth Taggerdy after Maxson lost contact with her when the satellites failed.
- If the residents side with Shin, Rahmani is disappointed that she couldn't turn him away from his ironclad loyalty to the Elders and their primary goal of securing dangerous technology first and foremost and will have to try again to reestablish a Brotherhood chapter that will follow her ideals somewhere else. Shin brands her a traitor, and the residents and Shin have to either let her go, or kill her for her treason to the Elders. If she is permitted to leave, she exchanges some final, bitter words with Shin before leaving at once, not staying to see the execution of Farha, Jain, and Nellie by the residents and Shin. Shin later reports that she has gone into exile, with her whereabouts unknown to him or anyone else since she departed.
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Trivia
- According to Bethesda, when players reached the point of making a choice on who to side with at the end of the Steel Reign quest line with the final quest, "The Catalyst", 82% of players chose to side with Rahmani, while only 18% sided with Shin.
