Agnes Dowd is a character in the Red Dead series, appearing as a minor character and a point of interest featured in Red Dead Redemption 2.
History[]
Background[]
According to the cries of her spectral form, Agnes fell in love with a man that her parents did not approve of, and would meet him by an old tree in Bluewater Marsh for secret trysts. After he impregnated Agnes with a baby boy, he abandoned her for another woman, exposing her relationship to her family, much to their disgrace, and leaving her unwanted by other male suitors.[1] Although Agnes was eventually able to dissuade her lover from following his other relationship, she was unable to convince her mother and father that he was worthy of her. This ultimately resulted in the elder Dowd drawing a weapon and killing her love, to Agnes' horror.[1]
The course and conclusion of this violent confrontation are unknown, though it is implied that following this event, Agnes had a mental breakdown and murdered her father in revenge (and possibly her mother, son, and/or others), before finally hanging herself from the tree she used to meet her lover at, hoping he would find her there in death.[1] A simple tombstone bearing her name, age and alleged crimes stands among others in the Shady Belle private graveyard.
Events of Red Dead Redemption 2[]
Agnes can be seen as a ghost in Bluewater Marsh between 9pm and 3am, usually during foggy weather. She can be encountered 16 times and will disappear if the player character comes too close to her. At each encounter, she will re-live the events of her life story which led to her death, which shall be in random order.[1]
In the last encounter, she will address the player character, telling him that she knew she had been watched, and invite him to come to the tree from which she hanged herself. In his diary, Arthur will write the following beneath his drawing of Agnes: "I cannot believe I am writing this, but there's something mighty strange in that swamp."
Trivia[]
- Agnes Dowd is very similar to the ghost of Jolene Cranley-Evans from Grand Theft Auto V, another title by Rockstar Games, as they both are ghosts of women who died tragically and who only appear at night and disappear when approached by the player.
- In Chapter 4, Reverend Swanson, visibly spooked and disturbed, shall approach other gang members saying that he has seen ghosts, and when interacted with, he will claim to have seen "the ghost of a young lady, a woman in white" around the marsh.
- The description used by Swanson for her ("woman in white") may be a reference to a Hispanic American folkloric legend about a woman who killed herself out of love, named La Llorona in Hispanic America and Woman in White in the United States. Many versions of what drove her into suicide exists, the most famous being the one which she murdered her children after being abandoned by her husband.
- A gravestone bearing her name can be found just behind Shady Belle, among a group of tombstones. It reads: Agnes Dowd, aged 19, tragically took her life and others. It is unknown which other people Dowd killed, if it's just a metaphor, or whether this account of events is true.
- The date of her death - September 4th, 1883 - is two weeks before the massacre that killed the residents of Pleasance.
- A lockbox and gallows noose can be found at the tree next to which her ghost appears.
- In the last encounter, a Ghost Orchid may spawn near the tree from which she hanged herself.
- She can be encountered by either Arthur or John.
- Madam Nazar is aware of Agnes and, due to her mediumship, has gone to Bluewater Marsh to "keep her company" out of sympathy for her, but states that from the tortured Agnes's perspective, she is "not who she wants", alluding to Agnes's deceased lover.
- It's actually possible to kill Agnes' ghost if the player throws a tomahawk at her. Looting her will give the player some money and her wedding ring, as well as no Honor loss.[2]
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