The Characters

Self described frontier �philosopher� Phinaeus Franklin is famous for a number of memorable sayings. Perhaps the most well-known, �there is no God west of the Mississippi� found its way to The El Paso Times after the Doolan-Dalton Massacre of 1894. Franklin�s second most memorable quote, was in a similar vein, �Death�, he often said, �is the great social equalizer�. Chapter Twenty-Eight of the Darkwatch Regulator Training Manual explains at least one reason why Phinaeus Franklin was wrong.

Chapter Twenty-Eight is dedicated to the emergence of the Gunslinger at the turn of the 19th Century. The Gunslinger�s unpredictable behavior, combined with its aggressive attitude toward all other creatures, living or dead, place it on the outskirts of even the bizarre castes of the creatures of the night. When Franklin was musing about the equality of death, he couldn�t have possibly conceived of a creature like the Gunslinger with it unwillingness to follow orders, and inability to establish even the most temporary of alliances. Though Gunslingers travel in small packs, they are fiercely independent loners. They have been observed in the heat of battle to attack their own comrades just to steal a more effective weapon. They are sometimes known to blast their way into brothels, while frightened prostitutes cower behind locked doors. There is even one reported case in 1842 of a Gunslinger holding up a bank in Coffeyville, Kansas, though the undead have no documented need for gold.