Hiram Slate

> "A wise old man once told me, all you need to succeed is a good ol' smile and a six gun"
>
> -Hiram Slate

## Hiram Slate

Hiram Slate chilling at his camp in the bayous

### Family

Jeremiah Slate (father) Judith Slate (Mother)

William Slate (great great grand father)

Cornelius Cornwall (Adopted Son)

### Affiliation

Diamond Weed Jean "Fredrick" Astor (formerly)

The O'driscolls (formerly)

Guarma Rebels (later on)

### Occupation

Outlaw Guard (temporarily)

Sailor (later on)

### Weapons

Two M1899 Pistols,Evans repeater, Repeating shotgun, Navy revolver, Rolling block rifle

## Biographical information

### Relationships

Javi Escuella (His very very good friend and they have nothing going between them at all)

## Physical description

### Nationality

American (Scottish descent)

Hiram Slate is a former O'driscoll who then became the lead enforcer of the Diamond Weed Posse from Red Dead Online.

## Background

In Oregon On December 15 1860, Hiram Slate was born to Jeremiah and Edith Slate. A few months after he was born the civil war started and his father left to fight for the union leaving Hiram to stay with his mother until it was all over. A few years had passed and his father came home missing his leg after it got blown off by a cannonball, Hiram looked up to his father as his father told him stories about how he fought in the war, and how hard the battle was, even telling him how he lost his leg. A year passed since his father had returned and the civil war ended in a victory for the union. Over the next few years Jeremiah took it upon himself to teach Hiram how to read and write, giving him basic academic knowledge for when he entered the real harsh world. Years later his father teaches him how to shoot a gun and gives him his old navy revolver that he used during the war, as a way to pass down a piece of himself to Hiram.

As Hiram grew older he stayed with his family and helped his parents on their farm, doing things to help as much as possible, he grew stronger and smarter, getting  more life experience to build on. Everything was going great for the Slate family until one day while his parents went on a walk together where they got ambushed by a group of ex-confederates who had tracked Jeremiah down and shot both of them fatally.

Months after mourning his parents deaths Hiram leaves Oregon and takes a train down south to a town called Valentine and takes out a loan to buy a house to attempt to settle down, after living there for a few months he  realized didn’t have enough money to finish paying off the debt, doing odd jobs and small things didn’t quite work well and he was starting to become desperate for a way to pay off the debt, so makes a deal with a gang called the O'driscolls lead by Colm O'Driscoll. They promised to absolve his debt to the bank in return that he had to join the gang, he agrees and the O'Driscoll’s solve his debt and was sent to go to hanging dog ranch, this now being his new life.

Once he arrives he's told to go into the barn and is assigned to guard duty seeing as he was quite the strong intimidating man, the O’driscolls deemed it reasonable that he be put on guard duty due to his strength, he is then given an Evans repeater and a Repeating shotgun as they barked orders at him to start guarding the ranch, as he’s leaving the barn he sees one of the other members taking care of some of the horses, Hiram waves at him and the gang member waves back timidly and goes back to brushing the horse. This was the start of something he would soon regret agreeing to do, and even he knew this too.