Lambent Grenadier

Lambent Grenadier
Biographical information
Homeland	Hollow
Date of death	Bloom, 17 A.E.
Physical description and appearance
Species	Lambent Locust Horde (Formerly)
Gender	Male
Height	6'8" ft.
Body color	Yellow Imulsion bioluminescent boils with Black charred skin
Eye color	Gold
Chronological and personal information
Rank(s)	Standard Infantry
Era(s)	Lambent War Locust War Lambent Pandemic
Weapons	Gnasher Shotgun Boltok Pistol
Affiliation	Lambent Locust Horde (Formerly)

"Let me get this shit straight. The regular Locust are fighting the glowin' Locust? I thought they were all on the same side."

—Augustus Cole, after seeing Lambent attacking Locust inside Nexus

The Lambent Grenadier was a Locust Grenadier which has endured a prolonged exposure to Imulsion. Despite the horrid mutations, the Grenadier's aggressive instincts and preference fro close-combat remains intact.

History

A dead Lambent Grenadier inside Nexus.

Civil War and Hollow Storm

As with all other Lambent lifeforms, the Lambent Grenadiers were engaged in a war against the Locust in the Nexus and were slowly prevailing.

By Frost 14 A.E, the Lambent were laying siege to the Nexus, the Horde's capital. Entering deep into the city, the Lambent was able to overcome many of the Horde's defenses. By chance, the COG invaded the Inner Hollow and was caught in a potential three-way war.

The COG Gears encountered many dead Locust and Lambent Grenadiers, wondering what had just happened. During Delta Squad's arrival at Nexus, they arrived via cable cars. Marcus, Dom, Baird and Cole saw fighting through a gate; Locust Drones were retreating from unknown assailants, which they knew were not COG as they had just began to land in the area around Nexus.

Later on, Delta Squad saw Locust forces retreating, and saw glowing Grenadiers chasing after them. After fighting their way through Locust defenses, they arrived at a battlefield where the Locust were victorious. Baird inspected several Lambent corpses before more Locust ambushed them. They fought their way out, and saw more Locust fighting the Lambent. After going down to the next battlefield, they saw more Locust and Lambent corpses strewn across the ground.

Delta Squad later fought a group of Locust that had arrived via lift. When they began to use the lift, the "glowing" Grenadiers returned. One of the Lambent Grenadiers attempted to board the lift, but was shot dead by Private Augustus Cole with a Gnasher Shotgun. The squad was surprised when the Imulsion from the dead Grenadier left the body and went back up where the rest of the Lambent Grenadiers were, who ceased their attempt to board the lift.

Lambent Pandemic

While Lambent Grenadiers did not appear in-game, it can be assumed that any Gnasher Shotgun/Boltok Pistol-wielding Drones were Lambent Grenadiers. They were all killed when Adam Fenix activated the Imulsion Countermeasure Weapon.

Lambent Grenadier Gallery

An early infected Lambent Grenadier

An early infected Lambent Grenadier Elite

A heavily mutated Lambent Grenadier

Multiplayer

• The Lambent Grenadier and Lambent Grenadier Elite were added to Gears of War 4 as multiplayer character skins that represent their Gears of War 2 debut appearances.
• A heavily mutated version of the Lambent Grenadier made it's series and multiplayer debut as selectable Multiplayer Character's in Gears 5 as part of the Lambent Pack Bundle during Operation 5 Hollow Storm.
• The heavily mutated Lambent Grenadier also made its debut as a Horde enemy type in Gears 5, they are equipped with Gnasher Shotgun's and have the ability to explode on death like the Lambent present in Gears of War 3.

Behind the scenes

• Lambent Grenadier (Action Figure) SDCC Exclusive 2009 was an exclusive action figure created in the likeness of the early infected Lambent Grenadier before it started to mutate.

Appearances

• Gears of War 2 (First appearance)
• Gears of War 4 (Multiplayer only)
• Gears 5 (Multiplayer only)