Madam Nazar is a travelling fortune teller and merchant in Red Dead Online. If the player stays with her long enough, she’ll begin to chat idly about the different places and people she’s encountered over the course of her time in America.
Many of the lines Madam Nazar delivers make reference to other NPCs, events, and locations in Red Dead Online and Red Dead’s story mode. Here’s every Madam Nazar story, and what each one relates to in Red Dead Redemption.
Madam Nazar will make reference to a nearby grave by a tree. “Have you seen the riven tree west of here? Do you know who lies in his grave next to it? No?” She’s referencing the Warped Tree and the man buried there. It’s unclear who he is, but another man visits the grave every day in Red Dead Online.
She’ll also make reference to the fire that burned down the town of Limpany. “Poor, little Limpany,” says Madam Nazar, “such a shame what happened there and so easily avoided.” It is heavily implied that Limpany was burned down in an act of arson because the town didn’t agree to do business with Leviticus Cornwall, a secondary villain in Red Dead 2’s story.
Madam Nazar also begins to show a penchant for predicting disasters: “Granite Pass. Every time a train passes along it, I think it’ll break. Perhaps one day it will.” If the player travels to Granite Pass, they can find a train at another nearby bridge nearby that derailed. Notably, Nazar is also aware of her rivals: “Do not believe all you hear about Madam Nazar. I was never in the circus. Those are vicious rumors spread to discredit me.” This is a reference to the circus wagon that players can find Madam Irene – a fortune teller machine – inside.
Players can also hear plenty about her friends – and enemies: “I once met a Canadian in the wilds north of here. An interesting man, quite immune to my charms.” This reference to the no-nonsense Trapper in Red Dead who claims to have “once tracked an ill-tempered moose four days across an ice sheet for a square meal.” Nazar can add: “Oh, before you ask, the little company outside Rhodes are no relations of mine. In fact, there is a wide river of bad blood between us.” This refers to a small settlement near Rhodes. Why they have bad blood, however, remains a mystery.
Madam Nazar isn’t always unsympathetic to those she meets: “My poor, little sculptor. He will labor so hard and she deserves so little.” This refers to a man in Grizzlies East who can be found hanging from the scaffolding by a mountain, where he’s been sculpting his wife’s face. His suicide note mentions her leaving him for a “French scribbler” – most likely Charles Chatenay from the stranger mission “The Artist’s Way.”
Nazar sometimes talks about her other customers: “Have you visited the ranch near here? I have dealings with one of them sometimes. What a nasty little man he is.” This is a reference to Eugene Wegner, where It’s implied that he shot his daughter’s lover before confining her to the house.
Sometimes, she’ll say, “I love this valley very much. I once bewitched a poet to come and live here.” This is a reference to Vetter’s Echo, a cabin in the West Elizabeth territory. If the player goes inside, they will find that a bear has killed the poet. Players can find two of his poems in his desk, as well as the Red Dead cheat code “you want punishment” that increases the player’s Wanted level.
When buying alcohol, Nazar will say “I sell these to a professor in Saint Denis. And no, you cannot have his name.” This is a reference to the stranger side mission “The Mercies of Knowledge,” where the player must get Andrew Bell the Third, a professor, moonshine to run a machine he’s working on.
“Do not ask me about the painting in the rock. Some things are not for even me to know” likely refer to rock carvings and paintings that reference aliens and DNA, which can be found all over the Red Dead map. Nazar likely either means the paintings at Window Rock or Mount Shann. She isn’t just in touch with the land, but the weather as well: “A great storm will come to this land. I have seen it. Before then I must go.” This is the snow storm that happens during Chapter 1 of RDR2‘s Story Mode, but Nazar cannot be found in story mode – she has already left.
Nazar also references contact with spirits: “Poor little Agnes, she is so sad. I keep her company but I am not who she wants.” This refers to the ghost of Agnes Dowd who kills herself after being left by her lover, but Agnes isn’t the only spirit Nazar is aware of: “To the south of here there is an arroyo. Jorge’s Gap. There are many spirits trapped there. I would stay away.” In Undead Nightmare, Jorge’s Gap is infested with more zombies than most other places.
She also seems to know General Harris, a local Lemoyne hero, “The battle here was very fierce; I can still smell the smoke. General Harris had such smooth hands.” This is a reference to the Battle of Bolger Glade. She also mentions a fort with “much sadness beneath its foundation. Much pain.” This is Fort Riggs, where a massacre of Native Americans took place in the backstory.
If the player gets lucky, Nazar will tell them the name of her caged birds. “Have I told you the names of my birds? Dunbar, Lambert, Freeman, and Malloy. Little sweethearts, though they sing in their sleep.” They’re named after lawmen. Dunbar is chief of the Blackwater police, Lambert is chief of the Saint Denis police, Freeman is the Tumbleweed sheriff, and Malloy is Valentine’s sheriff. She seems to have met them before: “Perhaps you wonder why the police never interfere with my work. It is simple. I stroke them under the chin and whisper sweetly in their ears and they give me all the peace I need.”
Madam Nazar will also reference a Red Dead Easter egg which spans both Red Dead games: “The oil drill down the road, I saw the spirit of dog there once, calling for his master.” She’s referring to the drill in Plainview. In both Red Dead games, players can stand by the oil drill and hear a dog bark, but there is no dog in the game for them to see.
Finally, Nazar makes reference to one of the most famously strange quests in Red Dead 2, “Have you heard of a man named Dragic? I knew him before he came to this land. Do not let the metal and sparks deceive you. He’s touched by the spirits like me.” This is Marko Dragic, a Tesla-inspired scientist who works with electricity. “Oh Marko,” she sometimes continues, “so clever and so foolish you are with your dreams of little metal men. You think you see into the dark, but the dark sees into you.” This is a reference to the stranger mission “A Bright Bouncing Boy,” where the player can help Dragic bring a robot to life, before it kills him and escapes. It’s never clear if Madam Nazar really knew his fate, but if the mysteries she reveals are anything to go by, Nazar may know far more than she ever lets on in Red Dead Redemption.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is available now on PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
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