Calm Water

Calm Water.

Calm Water, originally known as Running River, was a former Apache Chieftain and the father of Seeing Farther.

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

Calm Water, who was known as Running River during this time, decides to start a war with the whites and orders his son, Seeing Farther, to help him do so by having him travel with The McCall brothers and Juarez. He makes a deal to trade Juarez the medallion for 100 rifles to start his war but when he meets Juarez again with the brothers he threatens them claiming that the rifles do not work. Just as he is about to give an order to kill them, Juarez offers his mistress Marisa to them to spare their lives in which Running River agrees to. He lets the brothers stay in the tribe but after Seeing Farther leave with the medallion and him taking William and Marisa with him to obtain the gold of Juarez the tribe is attacked by Colonel Barnsby and his men. He and the MCall brothers manage to take them down but learn that Seeing Farther has been taken captive. Running River, with both Ray and Thomas go to save his son at an abandoned town occupied by Barnsby's men. As the brothers are about to get to Barnsby in an abandoned building his suborinate Sergeant O'Donnell challenges the brothers to a duel and the brother chosen by the player accepts his challenge, but Running River shows up and spots a henchman hiding, waiting to kill one of the brothers and kills him to make it a fair game. After the brother kills O'Donnell, Barnby shoots Seeing Farther, mortally wounding him. Running River stays with his son and the brothers attack and defeat Barnsby, tying him up and taking him to Running River. As his son is dying he tells Running River that he helped the brothers to look for the medallion and Juarez was the one who captured him but kept William and Marisa. His father realises that his son was a true Apache and that he has been a fool all along. After his son dies he pulls out a knife and walks toward Barnsby, prompting the brothers to leave them and go after Juarez. Running River narrates saying that many of his people were killed and forced out their homes and after got revenge killing everyone except for one woman who soon fell in love with him and had a child with him called Seeing Farther. As Seeing Farther was growing up Running River was cruel towards him as he was what Running River hated so much but now realised that he has been wrong and decided to change from Running River to Calm Water and claim that he has one more thing to do and approached Barnsby. In the game's ending credits, narration by Ray reveals that Barnby was freed by Calm Water which is why he was still alive until the brothers defeated him and Calm Water let go of all his anger and hatred.

Call of Juarez

Calm Water found and rescued Billy Candle after he was shot by Ray McCall and lost to the river. After conversing with William about his cowardly ways, he assigned him a task: hunt and retrieve three rabbits using only a bow and Calm Water's horse. Feeling obligated, as the Apache had saved his life Billy agreed, and after returning was sent on a second errand, to climb a nearby mountain and retrieve feathers from an eagle's nest, which he succeeded in. Tom Manson had found the Apache shortly before Billy returned, and killed him, then taking Billy prisoner and bringing him to Juarez.

Appearance

Calm Water was an Apache who had long dark hair which turned white due to ageing. He wears no shirt, having markings on his torso and wears trousers with no shoes.

Personality

In Bound in Blood Running River was a very aggressive individual who greatly hated the "whites" for killing many of his loved ones. Because of this hatred his he often treated his second son with cruelty and forced him to try and start war with the whites. Later in the game, when his son dies, he feels remorse and regret for how he had treated him and realised that he had been a fool all along and his son was a true Apache. This event made Running River decide to stop fighting and become Calm Water.

In Call of Juarez, which takes place 20 years in the future, he has let go of his hatred and saved the life of Billy Candle. He has also become more wiser and spiritual helping to teach Billy to become stronger and to stop running from his battles and face them which encourages Billy to fight Juarez and save Molly and Reverend Ray.

Trivia

• Calm Water is the third character who survived Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood to die in Call of Juarez.