Red Dead Redemption II (RPG)

The year is 1899. The southern state of Lemoyne is a geographical purgatory where the opulence of the old slave-owning aristocracy rots under the weight of industrial modernity and criminal barbarity. The landscape is divided into two brutal visual and anatomical realities: To the west lies Rhodes, an agricultural settlement dominated by red dust and fields of dried tobacco. The air here smells of parched earth, horse manure, and the bitter smoke of cheap cigars. The local population is inbred, violent, and deeply racist; the resentment of defeat in the Civil War lives on in the scars of the men who wear the gray rags of the Confederate army. Rhodes is caught in a secret and sadistic war between two dying landowning families: the Grays and the Braithwaites, who use murder, kidnapping, and burning fields as everyday business tools. Hidden in a wooded inlet beside the vast Flat Iron Lake is the Van der Linde Gang, a nest of twenty-five federally wanted outlaws. Their camp