Eternity Mines

Eternity Mines is a fictional abandoned mineshaft located within the St. Francois Mountains region of the Ozark Mountains of southeastern Missouri, U.S.A.. It will be featured in The Outlaw's Saga - Red Dead Revolution II.
== Description ==
Eternity Mines is an abandoned mineshaft that was subsequently abandoned following chilling rumors of the mines. It is located within the St. Francois Mountains region of the Ozark Mountains, somewhere in southeastern Missouri. The mines were abandoned for decades until its eventual destruction, merging with the terrain.
== History ==
=== Discovery ===
Eternity Mines was originally a cave system, which was initially discovered by the Cahokia Native Americans, who lived around southeastern Missouri before colonists had come and moved onto the lands. The caves were initially used as shelter for travelers before a supposed curse often chased travelers and investigators away.
=== Conversion into a mine ===
Around the mid 1880's, the caves were founded by miners, who wished to find ores or coal within the caves and began to establish the cave systems as a mining shaft, dubbing it "Eternity Mines" as a reference to how finding gold is like finding Heaven. Sure enough, however, a curse of some kind did occur within the mines - collapsing rocks within the mines often killed the workers as well as poisonous gasses that would affect the workers and often kill them when off-duty. As a result, the mines were abandoned and boarded up, never to be touched again for half a century.
=== Shootings in Eternity Mines and Destruction ===
In 1936, nearly fifty years later after Eternity Mines' closing, the Lasting Lighters discovered the old mine and used it as a hideout in Missouri. Around December, the Lasting Lighters kidnapped gunslingers and vigilantes, Jon "The Reaper" Wallace and Sam "The Jaguar" Wallace. The Lasting Lighters intended to torture and kill Jon while they attempt to convert Sam into their religion, and execute him if he resisted. However, the two escaped from their captives and went deeper into the mines. However, around that same time, the curses began to take effect. Explosions caused by abandoned dynamite crates randomly exploded, nearly maiming and/or killing Sam, and poisonous gasses seeping into the mines caused by collapses. Unfortunately, Jon breathed in some of the gasses, effectively poisoning him. Realizing this, Jon continually searched for a way out of the mines and found a ladder leading to the surface. Jon tracked down Sam and led him to the ladder, ordering him to climb up while he secured their escape. Sam was hesitant but complied, unaware that their embrace would be their final one. In a final act, Jon fought off the Lasting Lighters until he noticed a dynamite crate. After being shot in the chest, he took aim at the crate and after giving one last smirk, he fired his gun at the dynamite crate, detonating it and killing everyone inside of the mine, including himself. Sam was able to climb out of the mine before it finally collapsed from within. With this, Sam realized that Jon was dead.
=== Aftermath ===
After Sam recovered in the nearby city of Farmington, Sam had decided to recover Jon's body from the collapsed mines. He miraculously succeeded and sent Jon's body in a casket back to Ambarino. The mines were officially destroyed, the curse lifted.
== Trivia ==
* Although Eternity Mines was named as a reference to comparing the finding of gold to finding Heaven, the name itself is ironic as many people died in the mines before it was closed and later destroyed. One of them, Jon Wallace, met his demise here, further referencing how those who enter the mines may never come out alive. The only known person to have made it out alive was Sam Wallace, who avoided eternity in the mines.
* The Annesburg Mines were used as the setting in-game. Coincidentally, the mines are located in Roanoke Ridge, New Hanover, which is based off of the Ozark Mountains region of Missouri.
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