Colt

**Colt** is a supporting antagonist in the *Divine Comedy*.

He is one of the many powerful Overlords in Hell and controls a large sector of Sin City which he consolidated with fellow Overlord Carmilla Carmine. Colt is in charge of supplying and distributing firearms across the Inferno to some of the most dangerous sinners and demons. Alongside Carmilla, he manages Azazel's private business where they sell angelic weapons on the black market to the highest bidder.

## History

### Background

Since Colt is a sinner he was once a human in life. Much of his early life is unknown but what is known about him through the snippets and bits of information extracted by himself or his associates, he was once one of the largest industry magnates in America and Britain during the late 1800s where he excelled in selling some of the latest in high-end pieces of firearms and ammunition to military forces. On the other side however, Colt was also involving in illegal arms-dealing with militias and even gangsters, showing that his reach extended internationally as well. Colt's firearms were even utilized by some of the most notorious assassins in the criminal underworld.

In the end, Colt would end up losing his life in 1935 when the FBI raided one of his armories and cornered him. He attempted to defend himself only to be shot in the end by an FBI agent using one of his own weapons against him. The sparks emitted from gun's ignition landed on a cart of gunpowder which set the armory ablaze with Colt still inside and being caught in the fires.

### Arrival in Hell

After his death, Colt would be condemned to Hell and placed within the Sloth and Wrath Circles. In Hell, Colt discovered that sinners would make use of his firearms to carry out wars and territorial conflicts with one another which only served to empower him with great strength over his influence of arms dealing. He rebuilt his empire from scratch in Hell, eventually ascending to the ranks of an Overlord where his appliances would be bought and used by some of the most influential sinners and warmongering demons in Hell.

Colt's talents would eventually be recognized by Azazel himself, a fallen angel who introduced weaponry to humanity. Azazel offered him a seat in his business by having his company be consolidated with Azazel's to become the largest conglomerate of firearms in the Nine Circles while also getting into the business of illegally selling angelic weapons. Colt accepted but not before Azazel wanted the man to prove himself first. Colt did so by being one of the first to distribute the divine substance Aether, diluting it from an Exterminators spear and mixing it with the gunpowder to create explosively powerful weapons. Colt's seat on the board was earned when a third of Sin City's district was destroyed due to a worker mishandling the siphoning of the the Aether. Colt became a captain of the Scapegoats, partnering up with Carmilla Carmine who was the lieutenant.

## Trivia

* Colt's name is derived from a single-action revolver handgun known as the Colt Single Action Army designed for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1872.
* Colt is inspired by the real-life historical figure Samuel Colt who was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now Colt's Manufacturing Company) and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.