Ambarino

Ambarino, officially known as the Ambarino Territory or the State of Ambarino, is a fictional state in the United States of America. It serves as a setting for the first two entires of The Outlaw’s Saga, Red Dead Revolution and Red Dead Revolution II, but appears in a comic entry for Grand Theft Auto: Renegade.
== Description ==
Ambarino is one of the five fictional states depicted in Red Dead Redemption, but is one of many states to appear in The Outlaw’s Saga. It is meant to represent a northwestern state, where there are mountains and freezing temperatures.
Ambarino is depicted in the saga’s canon as being located as a small state in southern Arizona. It is located north of New Hanover, northeast of West Elizabeth, east of North Elizabeth, and south of Arizona.
It is the most remote state by the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century, mostly inhabited by wildlife.
== Geography/Influences ==
=== Geography ===
Ambarino is the highest-elevated territory in the area, with the highest peak, Mount Hagen, also being present in the territory. It consists of mountains across the entire state, home to the Grizzly Mountains and the Eastern Foothills.
* Grizzlies East has an alpine geography, with lots of trees and cliffsides as well as rocky hills. East of the Wapiti Indian Reservation is the Calumet Ravine, which has red rock cliffs. It also has a river that flows down a waterfall and ultimately leads into the Dakota River that gaps Ambarino and New Hanover. It also has a hot springs called Cotorra Springs that has hot water baths and water jets that come out of water geysers.
* Grizzlies West has a peaky and snowy geography, having tall cliffs and hills around the southern area, and snow-covered hills and mountains to the north that leads all the way up into the Grizzly Mountain Range that goes through this region. It is also home to the tallest peak in the valley: Mount Hagen.
* The out of bounds areas have highland plains completely covered in snow in northern Grizzlies West, and rocky highlands and plains across northern Grizzlies West and western Grizzlies West.
*It can be noted that Arizona is directly north of Ambarino, which does not share the same geography as the former state is mostly desert while Ambarino is mostly mountains and alpines. But one should take into consideration that the area that Ambarino is set in was modified to be any geography.
=== Influences ===
Ambarino shares details with other real-life states, such as Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, and Idaho.
* Grizzlies West is highly reminiscent of the Medicine Bow Range and Arapaho National Forest areas of Wyoming and Colorado respectively. A lot of the area looks a lot like the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, which composes of Idaho, western Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. The valleys to the south are similar to the areas of northwest Colorado and western Wyoming.
* Grizzlies East appears to look very similar to the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota, as well as the valleys of southwestern Montana and western Wyoming. The Calumet Ravine area has red rocks that look similar to southwest Colorado. The Cotorra Springs are highly reminiscent of the geysers at Yellowstone National Park in northern Wyoming and southern Montana.
* Overall, Ambarino’s geography roughly corresponds to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, notably the Continental Divide that spans throughout a majority of the Rocky Mountain states.
== The Outlaw's Saga ==
=== History ===
Whenever Ambarino was founded remains unclear, but it has been around before 1884.
=== 1880 ===
Jonathan Wallace was born en-route to the Wapiti Indian Reservation while his mother was being transported there. He grew up on the reservation.
=== 1896 ===
Jon ran away from home with the help of his mother to escape the cruelty of the reservation, but his mother was forced to stay behind. He never reunited with her.
=== 1898 ===
TBA
=== 1899 ===
Around May, the Van der Linde gang were forced to flee into the Grizzlies after escaping Blackwater. The gang stop at an old mining town of Colter, which has been abandoned since 1884, but they have already lost quite a few people. Sometime before, Jake Adler, who knew Jon just a little under a year ago, was murdered by the O’Driscoll Boys. His wife, Sadie managed to hide. A few days later, outlaws Dutch Van der Linde and his gunmen, Arthur Morgan and Micah Bell arrived and dispatched the gang. Micah discovered her hiding and due to her trauma and fear, she attempted to stab Micah, which caused him to flip a table over and start a fire that burned the house. The three then take her back to their camp in Colter. Eventually, the gang dispatched more O’Driscolls and robbed a Leviticus Cornwall train near Granite Pass. They then fled down south to New Hanover.
Sometime later that year, the Van der Linde gang got involved with the Wapiti Indians and attempted to use them as a distraction so that they can rob a military supply train. However, Arthur Morgan tried helping them on the side with the army affairs.
After the train robbery and the gang’s ultimate downfall, Arthur later returned with John Marston to escape the pursuing Pinkertons and remainders of the gang. The two managed to climb a cliff on the eastern state border, only for Arthur to remain behind due to his tuberculosis he received before and fight off the Pinkertons. However, although Arthur survived the ambush, he was attacked by Micah and the two fought brutally on the ridge. Although Arthur almost grabbed Micah’s gun to kill him, Dutch stopped him. After realizing Micah was the gang’s rat, Dutch left both of them behind, with Micah storming off, leaving Arthur to die peacefully on the ridge overlooking the sunrise. His body was found and buried atop a mountain north of Bacchus Station in Grizzlies East by Charles Smith, overlooking the southwestern valleys.
=== 1907 ===
Eight years later, John Marston, Sadie Adler, and Charles Smith rode into Grizzlies West, en route to Mount Hagen, where Micah was reportedly hiding out to get vengeance for Arthur and the gang’s demise. John was successful thanks to the help of Dutch Van der Linde and killed Micah. However, days later, Pinkerton agents Edgar Ross and Archer Fordham discovered Bell’s body and traced his murder back to John Marston, which eventually led to his inevitable demise four years later in West Elizabeth.
=== 1907 - 1914 ===
Around this time, Jon Wallace returned from hiding in Mexico and resettled in Ambarino, drifting and hunting along the Grizzlies. He eventually met and wedded a female traveler, who became pregnant with Jon’s first son, Samuel.
The two settled in a cabin in southern Grizzlies West known as Chez Porter, where Sam was born. In 1909, their second child and son, Hagen, was born. In 1914, Jon’s wife became pregnant with a daughter. However, although Jon wanted to stay and witness the birth, he was found and forced into action by the U.S. Government to answer for his actions and sent south as a spy. Jon was gone for most of the year, and when he eventually returned, he had missed the birth of his daughter, Valentine.
=== 1932 ===
In February of 1932, Jon still resided in Ambarino with his family, but this tranquility quickly ended when former members of the Seventh Generation, now known as the Lasting Lighters, intruded and slaughtered his entire family, except for his surviving and eldest son, Sam, who happened to be out hunting with Jon at the time. Since then, the family was buried near the house of the Wallace farm and the two set out to find the killers.
=== 1936 ===
In the end of his journey, Sam returned to Chez Porter to say his goodbyes to the graves of his family and gather his belongings before making his move east to Liberty City. Sam never returned.
=== After 1936 ===
Chez Porter was abandoned permanently, with tales of it being haunted keeping wary travelers away due to how much bloodshed occurred within the farm, from the former family of Chez Porter in 1899 to the Wallace family in 1932.
== Locations ==
=== Western Grizzlies ===
* Crenshaw Hill
* Unnamed Capitol
=== Grizzlies West ===
* Colter
* Barrow Lagoon
* Chez Porter/Wallace Homestead
* Granite Pass
* Spider Gorge
* Adler Ranch
* Window Rock
* Moonstone Pond
=== Grizzlies East ===
* O’Creagh’s Run
* Veteran’s Homestead
* Calumet Ravine
* Wapiti Indian Reservation
* Cotorra Springs
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* Ambarino is the least populated state in the five fictional states that appear.
* Ambarino, West Elizabeth, North Elizabeth, and New Hanover are the only states to draw inspiration from South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.
* In the Rockstar canon, it is unknown what states borders Ambarino to the north. In the MinneEagle canon, it is bordered by Arizona and North Elizabeth as the area’s geography places it around southern Arizona, in a large valley.
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