His name had been Ó Gadhra at the time. He was just a wanderer — a vagabond travelling alone from place to place. But when he came upon a sickly baby in a sea of corpses and ruined wagons, Cathal’s life changed.

He didn’t take to fatherhood immediately. The child was strange, and Cathal liked his solitude. Kept trying to abandon the child with other people, but he always ended up feeling off about it and going back for him. It was about four years before he finally accepted that they were stuck with one another and he gave the kid a name. Alasdair Ó Gadhra.

Having a child to raise, Cathal gradually shifted from wandering and trying to settle down where they weren’t welcome to giving up on being good and robbing their way across the country. They made a name for themselves as father and son bandits. Tall tales were told about them with strange truths twisted into legends. Eventually, a fateful shootout in California led to the world believing the Ó Gadhra bandits had been killed, so Cathal and Alasdair fled to New Mexico to start a new life in the town of Never.

They changed their name to Keary. They joined a gang of train robbers there, though Cathal’s injuries from the shootout leave him mostly bound to town where he operates the Buffalo Heart Gambling house.