Hunt: Showdown 1896 Cold Blooded

Hunt: Showdown 1896 Cold Blooded is a DLC containing one Hunter, two weapons and one Avatar: The Reptilian, Avarice (a Romero 77 Talon), Tooth to Tail (a Bomb Lance) and The Reptilian Avatar.

Keith Cowen’s story

Keith Cowen once hunted alligators in the Bayou alongside his mentor, the cruel and ambitious Frank Gravel. The pair prospered from the animals’ flesh and hides, leaving heaps of scales and bones behind. Then a corruption drove most of the alligators from the swamps, leaving the hunters without prospects.

When Cowen and Gravel tracked down one of the few alligators still there, Gravel drove Tooth to Tail through its hide. Overcome by greed, Cowen stabbed his mentor in the throat with Avarice and watched him bleed across the carcass. He then donned the beast’s skin, a mark of both victory and betrayal. Now Cowen works for the American Hunter’s Association, driven to kill the Bayou’s monstrous inhabitants.

Hunter and weapons

The Reptilian is Cowen, wearing an alligator’s skin as a testament to his persistence, skill and treachery. Avarice, his Romero 77 Talon, witnessed him murder his mentor; its thirst for blood reflects that of any Hunter who carries it. Tooth to Tail began as a harpoon used against sea monsters before reaching Louisiana and becoming Cowen’s instrument of death and deceit.

The Reptilian Avatar

The Reptilian Avatar tells Cowen’s story: his apprenticeship to Gravel, the disappearance of the alligators, and the killing that followed when desperation and greed took hold.