Silas Cole

Biography
Silas Cole was one of the founders of Contention and has been referenced many times, in particular various community buildings around the township are named after him or his wife. For example, the Silas Cole k-12 is the public school serving the local community. In episode 33, during the eulogy, a more detailed picture of Silas Cole is described as summarized by Discord user JHawkInc:"Silas Cole was a miner in the mine that employed the nearby town of Contention, he found the black goo in the mine, it was invisible but he could see it, he became an inventor, then made enough money to buy the mine, then used the mine to harvest the stuff, making more inventions, more money, and letting more black goo leak into town, he made his wife Mary Cole his partner, she could see it too, they called it Residue, but he was all paranoid that the townspeople could see it and would take advantage of it like he did, and so they started kidnapping people he was suspicious of, the town was suspicious of the disappearances but didn't care because bad people were going missing, then they got concerned because good people went missing (specific people were listed for both types), THEN the preacher went missing and the town flipped shit and 'hired a roaming cowboy named Cornelius Beans to kill their weird paranoid figurehead.'""then combat broke out for a bit, then Stan manages to say""'Silas and Mary Cole were never seen again, neither was Cornelius Beans, that WAS the history of Contention when his daughter's name was Mia or Leah or Micah or Ben, but her name is Ari forever now, and our history is different, mine is now definite'"

Episode Appearances
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