From the ideas carried over from Black Isle Studios' Van Buren to Fallout: New Vegas, there were two specific characters that made their way into New Vegas: Arcade Gannon and Joshua Graham. In Van Buren, both were recruitable companions for The Prisoner. Arcade has barely anything about him written, suggesting that he was written in only a short time before the project was cancelled, but Joshua Graham-- then called "The Hanged Man", was much more fleshed out. He was to be first encountered in Fort Abandon as a man completely wrapped in bandages and being hung by the neck from a pole, and was described as being one of the most evil characters in the game. With Graham's appearance in Honest Hearts, it seems that The Hanged Man's personality in Van Buren is what inspired Graham's particularly atrocious behavior as the Malpais Legate in his backstory.