Holliday lore and story
An editorial guide to Holliday's background, motive for entering the Ritual, and possible wish from a Patron.
Who is Holliday?
There are people who spent their whole lives dreaming about moving to New York. Holliday isn't one of those people. Content with being a Sheriff in a small town, Holliday enjoyed a career where the only time she had to use her gun was when trick shooting at the county fair...then the murders started. Grisly and inhumane; the bodies were found with their ribcages ripped open... their innards picked apart as if by birds. Holliday tracked down the killer, a travelling folk musician that the media dubbed "The Troubadour", but when she confronted him he exploded into a murder of crows and flew away. That was 6 months ago, and while the murders in central Illinois have stopped, Holliday's investigation has not. She believes that The Troubadour is travelling to New York, and when she finds him she's going to kill that evil son of a bitch.
Holliday enters a Ritual in which six heroes aid a Patron against its rival. Victory matters beyond the match: the successful Patron can offer each ally a wish, turning every combatant's private motive into part of the city's larger occult crisis.
What would Holliday wish for?
The available in-game biography does not yet state Holliday's intended wish clearly. Lock Lab will keep this section marked as unresolved until dialogue or official material gives a reliable answer.
Not yet confirmed. Deadlock remains in development, so Lock Lab separates explicit canon from dialogue-based implication and editorial interpretation.Lock Lab reading
Holliday's story connects a personal problem to the larger struggle over the Amber Hand and Sapphire Flame. Holliday depends on her skills as a crack shot, shooting things she's bounced into the air. With good aim she can lay out heavy damage. Her movement skills let her isolate her enemies or beat a hasty retreat. is the gameplay expression; the lore asks what someone with that temperament would risk for a single supernatural bargain.
The Patron bargain makes this motive important: a wish is not simply a reward, but a test of what Holliday values and what price they may accept when an elder power controls the terms.
Holliday's relationships
Character dialogue reveals alliances, suspicions, and personal history that biographies leave unstated. These dossiers summarize the clearest interactions currently supported by voice lines.
Lock Lab has not found enough reliable, character-specific dialogue to publish a relationship dossier for Holliday yet. We will add connections only when the underlying exchange can be reviewed.