Fort Riggs is an abandoned holding camp in Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online, in the Big Valley region of the West Elizabeth.
History[]
Background[]
The fort was abandoned at some point and only its wooden structures remain partially intact. Several dilapidated tepees sit within the decaying walls and a mass gravesite is located adjacent on the lower portion of the hill.
Events of Red Dead Online[]
The fort is the location of Yukon Nik, a legendary bounty target.
Events of Red Dead Redemption 2[]
During the game, the player can meet with a drunk stranger. If the player gives the stranger a bottle of whiskey, the stranger will then tell the player his story.
The stranger is a U.S. Army veteran who used to be stationed at Fort Riggs. He tells the player that a lot of Native Americans were suppressed and held in captivity in the Fort. He also states the U.S. Army ended up killing a lot of Indians in the Fort.
In the central building of the fort, players can find a letter that contains the correct spelling of a variety of English words. This is code. When one takes the first letter of each word, the following poem emerges:
Waziya comes with winter breath
His trees stand guard whispering all night that we sleep in our grave
Father fought and died so quickly
Mother dies slow
Layout[]
Fort Riggs consists of a decrepit wooden fence surrounding several abandoned teepees and a single ruined wooden cabin. There is a graveyard along the fence, and wooden crate are stacked near the cabin.
Trivia[]
- The geography and layout of the location bears resemblance to the Lakota encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota that would become the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, in which the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment massacred over 250 Hunkpapa and Miniconjou Lakota people.
- In Red Dead Online, when used as a gang hideout, Lemoyne Raiders can often spawn as the enemies.
- It is also the hideout of bounty target Yukon Nik.
- There is a random encounter that can spawn that involves a retired, and depressed war veteran who used to be a soldier stationed at Fort Riggs. He will tell the player of the horrors that happened there before passing out drunk. Once he does so, you can loot him, and find a Native American ring on him. After he passes out, something very strange happens as suddenly there will be a new unique location marker for Fort Riggs on the game's map and Location HUD that will be labeled "FT Riggs Holding Camp".[1] If the player then travels, and enters Fort Riggs, the new marker, and label will suddenly disappear. It is currently unknown as to why this all happens, and what it was all supposed to be for, if anything.
- There is an unmarked grave to the southwest[2] of the location that is decorated with twisted branches, bones, feathers, and a skull upon which an eagle, and owl can sometimes be found perched.[3] The significance of the grave, and who it is supposed to belong to is still currently unknown.
- Waziya, as referred to in the cryptic message, is a figure in Lakota mythology that takes the form of a giant guarding the north bringing famine and disease.[4]
- The cheat code "RUN! RUN! RUN!" can be found written on a chalkboard in the main building.
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