Edward Doss

Edward Doss

Sentient

Born in 1883 in Deadwood, South Dakota.

He was sentenced to death in the same city in 1913 for a crime he did not commit.

One night, Jack Steel — the son of Golden Eagle Mining founder Everett Steel, a man widely known as a violent psychopath — stormed into the home of Edward's family alongside several drunken friends.

At the time, Edward lived in Watertown.

Jack executed Edward's parents with gunshots to the forehead because Edward was the only man who did not fear him — or, as locals used to say, Edward was the only man Jack himself feared to death.

Once sober, Jack became terrified of Edward's revenge.

Using his father's influence, he had Edward arrested the very next day.

Edward was accused of stealing gold from the mine and, following a fabricated dispute with his parents, of murdering them as well.

He was sentenced to death.

Rumors spread across South Dakota that the Devil himself had returned Edward to the world of the living for revenge — and then forgot to take him back.

Because the day after his execution and burial, Edward climbed out of his grave.

He was first seen inside a bar asking for water.

What made the encounter horrifying was not only that he was supposed to be dead — but that he looked dead.

His eyes were white.

A rope scar circled his neck.

Every sentence spoken through his torn voice was preceded by a rasping inhale.

People claimed his breathing had stopped completely during the hanging, and that now he gathered air only when necessary to speak.

Because of this, Edward spoke slowly, with long pauses between words.

He drank a single glass of water.

Then he took the weapons from the men inside the bar and buried the entire Golden Eagle operation — Everett, Jack, and their private army included — beneath the earth.

As the years passed, Edward became a legend.

He now lives in Burghausen, where Elias brought him after the two met during the Second World War.

Because, as people say: despite the fact that Edward's heart no longer beats, it is made of gold — and he cannot stand the sight of dictators.