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Heroes & Villains of the Realm

Meet the key characters shaping Showdown at Sunset. Vote to keep fan favorites, spotlight underdogs, and influence who drives the next chapter.

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Sheriff Jake "Iron" Morgan

Jake earned the 'Iron' twenty years ago in a story he never tells to the same way twice, which suggests either the truth is worse than any version or better than all of them. He is fifty-one, still fast, and tired in the way a man gets tired when he's been right about things for long enough that he stopped enjoying it. He came to Red Mesa to wind down. The town, apparently, didn't get that message.

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Deputy Rosa Vega

Rosa is twenty-six and has been deputy for eighteen months, which is long enough to know that Jake's instincts are good and short enough to still argue about why. She's the faster rider, the better shot at distance, and the one who went to Tucson to verify the rumor when Jake said it was probably nothing. She was right. He was wrong. She has not made a large production of this.

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Barkeep and Sometime Informant
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Eli Bransen

Eli has been running the Long Rail saloon for eleven years and has a practiced gift for knowing things without being asked and saying them without being pushed. He served the Holloway gang once, in a different town, in a different life. He doesn't talk about that. He does, occasionally, talk around it.

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Gang Patriarch
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Old Man Holloway

Cornelius Holloway is sixty-three and runs his outfit the way he runs everything—with the patient certainty of a man who has outlived everyone who ever tried to stop him. He is not, technically, the most dangerous member of his own gang. He is, however, the one who decides when to leave and what to leave behind.

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