[There is a delay before Eleanor answers, trying to decide how to put it.]

His real name was Frank Fontaine. He was the second most powerful man in Rapture, after Andrew Ryan. His...his company was the one that brought plasmids out into the population. They...they started the little sister program and...

[A pause.]

Anyway. He and Ryan had a...war. Everyone thought Fontaine died, but he changed his identity and came back as Atlas. Nobody knew, not until he revealed himself after Ryan was killed. But he died a few days later. At least...that is what everyone says. I was...

I was asleep at the time.

Now, why do you want to know?