Comstock refers to his stolen child as the "Seed of the Prophet" who is destined to take his throne and destroy the "Sodom Below."īefore gaining access to the city, Booker is required to receive a baptism by Preacher Witting, but nearly drowns from it and passes out. During his venture, he learns of the city's leader Zachary Comstock, but, because of the effects of Tear-jumping, he does not recognize him despite making the deal twenty years prior.
Upon arriving at the lighthouse with information and supplies given by Rosalind, DeWitt enters the Pilgrim's Rocket and ascends to Columbia through the Welcome Center. While traveling to the lighthouse, Booker is tasked by the Lutece Twins to enter the city of Columbia, reach Monument Tower, retrieve a girl named Elizabeth, and bring her to New York City unharmed in order to clear his debts. Booker confused the sale of his daughter twenty years previous with the task at hand, " Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt." Robert and Rosalind Lutece then took DeWitt to a lighthouse on the coast of Maine.Ġ9 October 2013 BioShock Infinite Main article: BioShock Infinite Reaching Columbia Robert Lutece theorized that this effect was Booker's mind creating new memories from old ones. As he entered, he suffered the effects of "transfusing" into another dimension. He agreed and they opened a Tear for Booker to enter. Comstock succeeded in pulling her through the Tear but as the Tear closed, the tip of Anna's pinky finger was severed.īooker fell further into depression and later branded his right hand with Anna's initials, "A.D." Nearly twenty years later, in 1912, Robert and Rosalind Lutece returned once more, offering another deal. As the men and the baby entered the Tear, DeWitt struggled with Comstock to get Anna back. Booker arrived as the three were about to enter a Tear to another dimension with Rosalind Lutece.
Wrought with guilt, he immediately pursued the men to retrieve Anna. Desperate, DeWitt sold her to Lutece and Comstock. Comstock offered to wipe out of all of Booker's debt in exchange for Anna. In October 1893, Robert Lutece came to his office, representing Father Comstock. He turned to alcohol and gambling, which drove him far into debt.īooker later became a private investigator (though he preferred to refer to himself as an independent contractor), but his debts persisted. She died while giving birth to a daughter, Anna. Around this time, he married a woman named Annabelle Watson, who became pregnant shortly after. While working as a Pinkerton, Booker garnered a reputation for ending labor strikes using extreme violence. In January 1892, Booker became an employee of the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. At the last second, Booker rejected his baptism, thinking that his sins could not be washed away by a "dunk in the river." After the battle, Booker, fraught with guilt, attended a river baptism led by Preacher Witting to be reborn as a new man and be absolved of his past actions. Īlthough he was seen as a hero to his fellow soldiers, Booker felt shame and regret for his part in the massacre. Booker was ultimately awarded a Medal of Honor and ranked as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Due to his gruesome actions, other members of his regiment, including Cornelius Slate, gave him the nickname "The White Injun," because of his taking trophies from his victims. To avoid being stigmatized by his comrades, he scalped Native American victims and burned teepees with men, women, and children still inside. At Wounded Knee, a sergeant had accused him of having Native American lineage in front of the men in his unit. At the age of sixteen, he was a member of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army and took part in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Booker DeWitt is a man of partial Native American descent, who was born on April 19, 1874.
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