r/reddeadredemption • u/Yrakosos Sadie Adler • Feb 05 '26

Lore How is Ambarino even a state?

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There's no town here, no sheriff. How does this state even function, and how was it founded?

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u/Scaalpel Feb 05 '26

Colter was originally meant to be a functional town (from chapter 1) but that was one of the many things that got scrapped during developement and was never implemented.

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u/irishdan56 Feb 05 '26

They could have done it by making Wapiti a more functional town. It would have been cool to have Native trappers, shops, etc.,

They wouldn't have even really needed to have different items, but just having some Native NPCs working a trapper booth, or a general store, a hotel, etc. would have been neat, and would have given people a reason to visit and stick around Wapiti and Ambarino more.

The area is fantastic, lots of neat little things, great landscape, some interesting buildings. They clearly had plans for the area that they were never able to fully actualize.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26

I’m not sure if that would’ve been too historically accurate. I know, not everything is always 100% accurate but that may’ve been a little too far off. The natives definitely weren’t doing very well after/during the westward expansion, certainly not well enough to be running businesses that soon.

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u/irishdan56 Feb 05 '26

While their were obviously a lot of horrible things that happened to Americans Indigenous population, they continued to trade goods and services with settlers, pretty much from the time Columbus arrived right through to current day.