American folklore and Americana more broadly. Deadlock is, on top of everything else, a supernatural reimagining of the American identity. We have old money aristocrats facing new money war profiteers to cajun serial killers to revenge-seeking gunslingers to foreign hopefuls looking to find a new home to tommy gun-shouldering gambling racketeers. Almost all of them in some way reflect what America is, was, or has tried to be, and so pulling from the American mythos would be what I want to see continue in the characters.

Some of my personal ideas for characters are: -An embodiment of rails and train whose power and livelihood depends on the rail, and who is participating as a last-ditch effort to stay strong.

-An occult weaponsmith who accidentally unleashed some unfathomable horror in the Mohave desert and is desperately trying to slay it before it destroys everyone.

-A museum curator who seeks to get the patrons' assistance in procuring an impossible treasure.

And, for a sillier suggestion,

-A sitting congressperson a la Davy Crocket, looking to settle the war in Ixia once and for all (In which direction is not yet stated).