History Characters / Deadlands

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* WhipItGood: As with basically all the women involved with Black River, she has and knows how to use a whip.

Part-owner of Dixie Rails, having inherited his share from his uncle General Robert E. Lee - he makes all the business decisions, anyway. Dixie Rails is the closest the Confederacy has to an official railroad.

Owner of the Iron Dragon railroad, which is going the opposite direction from the rest - that is, it started in California and is trying to go East.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: Early books explicitly had the Agency as the Pinkerton Detective Agency, hired out by the Union, before it came to the writers' attention that [[CriticalResearchFailure the Pinkertons still existed as a security agency, and had trademarked their name.]] Subsequent books make it clear that in-universe, the Pinkertons are no longer a distinct group, and their historical (non-trademarked) influence is still discussed.

* TheBaroness: Her true personality under her SouthernBelle persona; there's a reason her WeaponOfChoice is a magically infused bullwhip, after all.

* VengefulWidow: Her husband was murdered because he rejected a buyout offer from a rival railroad company, the Tennessee Central. It no longer exists. The executives, major stockholders, people who were paid to lie on the witness stand at the murder trial, defense attorneys, and assorted family members thereof are all dead; she bought the company after people started refusing to have anything to do with it for fear of being next. The assassin is still alive over ten years later - she keeps him in the basement and lets the girls she's teaching magic use him to practice on.

* ILoveNuclearPower: In fact they worship it.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Is revealed to actually be [[spoiler: [[Myth/KingArthur Mordred]], and the mother he wants to resurrect is Morgan Le Fey.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: "That [[https://dtdb.co/web/bundles/dtdbcards/images/cards/en/18008.jpg monkey's]] drunk half this town under the table. S'good thing I don't make drinkin' a competition." -Ulysses Marks

* VoodooZombie: [=LaCroix=] is not a zombie, but he uses them for a lot of his manual labor - they don't get tired or need to be paid, after all.

* OurLichesAreDifferent: Disembodied alien minds who possess anouks, originally having been the magocrats of a civilization of {{GalacticConquerer}}s.

* NotSoDifferent: From the Texas Rangers, their Confederate counterpart. The Rangers' primary differences from the Agency are political, though the Rangers are also much less likely to kill harrowed outright if recruitment's an option.

* FightLikeACardPlayer: The faction that focuses on Hucksters. They have the most and the best.

* EasyEvangelism: Convert or die of hunger.

* DarkSecret: What is it that lets those automatons he builds act so independently? [[spoiler: Brains.]]

* HollywoodVoodoo: Stated to have almost nothing to do with real voodoo, but it's using the trappings.

* BlackMagicianGirl: She's an evil version, and she trains others as her personal hit squad.

* HotWitch: She's quite pretty, and she knows it. She even trains them.

* UnholyMatrimony: She and Miles really did love each other. As it turns out, he was a CorruptCorporateExcutive and found her own greed familiar.

* YellowPeril: Sinister Asian businessman with mystical powers. No beautiful yet evil daughter is mentioned, but his beautiful yet evil granddaughter Mingzhu is a major power in the Shan Fan of the ''Deadlands Noir'' setting.

Owner of the Black River railroad, out of Memphis, Tennessee; she inherited it after her husband Miles was assassinated by a rival company.

* UnholyMatrimony: She and Miles really did love each other.