Callus
Callus is the horse Joel and Ellie ride from Jackson County to the University of Eastern Colorado and beyond. He first carries Joel when Ellie runs off in Tommy's Dam, and Ellie names him on the road to the university.
- Role
- Companion
- Affiliation
- Jackson
Found in
- JacksonJackson, Wyoming is the home of Tommy's community and covers both the town and the wider Jackson County, including the hydroelectric dam and the Hidden Pines Corral ranch. You visit it twice: in Tommy's Dam and in the short closing chapter, Jackson. It is the one safe, working settlement in Part I.
- Silver LakeSilver Lake is a snowbound Colorado resort town and the setting of the Lakeside Resort chapter, where Ellie is playable for most of the winter. A group led by David lives here. Its surroundings include an abandoned coal mine and the Whitefish Lake rest area.
Good to know
- Belonged to Tommy before Joel and Ellie kept him.
- Ellie picks the name because Tommy never told them his real one, and Joel thinks it is a strange name for a horse.
- Grows nervous near runners at the university, as if he has met infected before.
- Ellie rides him through the winter while hunting for food in Lakeside Resort.
- Also appears in Left Behind while Ellie searches the Colorado Mountain Plaza.
Tommy's Dam
When Ellie rides away from the dam, Joel takes this horse to chase her to the ranch house at Hidden Pines Corral. The two keep him for the trip to find the Fireflies.
The University
Callus waits outside the science building while Joel and Ellie search it. A man tries to steal him, and the pair use him to get away from the campus.
Left Behind
While Joel lies wounded at the Colorado Mountain Plaza, Callus stays with him. His noise draws the hostile survivors who followed them from the university, and Ellie has to fight them off. Callus then carries both of them to Silver Lake, where they shelter for the winter.
Lakeside Resort
Ellie ties him to a tree while she tracks a deer, and rides him again the next day to lead a search party away from Joel.
His deathSpoilerShow
During the chase in Lakeside Resort, the cannibals shoot Callus and he falls from a ledge, leaving Ellie distraught. David later taunts her that his group will eat the horse.
- Back in a FlashBack in a Flash is the first chapter of Left Behind. After a short flashback to Riley's surprise visit at Ellie's school in Boston, you play Ellie in the snowed-in Colorado Mountain Plaza, searching the mall for anything that can help Joel.
- Escape from Liberty GardensEscape from Liberty Gardens is the final chapter of Left Behind: Ellie and Riley run from a horde of runners through the Boston mall, climbing scaffolding to find a way out. It has no collectibles, and finishing it unlocks the gold trophy Don't Go.
- Tommy's DamTommy's Dam brings Joel and Ellie to Jackson County, Wyoming, months after Pittsburgh, where they find Joel's brother Tommy helping run a hydroelectric plant for his wife Maria's settlement. It is a short chapter built around a reunion and two fights with bandits, one at the dam and one at an old ranch house.
- The UniversityThe University sends Joel and Ellie on horseback across the University of Eastern Colorado near Boulder, looking for the science building where Tommy says the Fireflies are based. It mixes quiet exploration with a dorm full of infected and a fight against armed looters inside the lab building.
Lakeside ResortLakeside Resort jumps to winter and puts you in control of Ellie near Silver Lake, Colorado, hunting with a bow and searching for medicine. She runs into two strangers, David and James, and for part of the second half the game switches you back to Joel.
Related characters
- Protagonist
Joel Miller
Joel Miller is the man you play for almost all of The Last of Us Part I. A hardened smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, he takes a job escorting 14-year-old Ellie out of the city, and the drop-off turns into a year-long trip across the country to find the Fireflies.
- Protagonist
Ellie Williams
Ellie Williams is the 14-year-old girl Joel is hired to smuggle out of Boston, and your companion for most of The Last of Us Part I. She was bitten weeks earlier and never turned, so the Fireflies believe her immunity could lead to a vaccine. You play as her in the winter chapter and in the Left Behind DLC.
- Minor
Buckley
Buckley is the dog at Tommy's hydroelectric dam in Jackson County. You meet him in Tommy's Dam outside the generator building as Tommy walks Joel to his office, and Joel can stop to pet him.
- Supporting
Maria Miller
Maria Miller is Tommy's wife and the leader of the settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. You meet her at the hydroelectric dam in Tommy's Dam, where she first holds Joel and Ellie at gunpoint before learning Joel is her brother-in-law.