Complexity: 3

Summary & Strategy: 

Omen is an unusual support and damage hero, whose unconventional healing can provide significant sustain to her team - provided you're careful to modulate who receives it and when. Omen's core gimmick is one of shadowy subterfuge: whenever possible, she wants to be the hero with neither the highest nor lowest HP on the team so that she can lurk outside the typical attention of villainous adversaries while she operates. (Tip: Remember that ties in Sentinels are up to the players - so if Omen is tied for highest or lowest, it's your call to decide that she is or isn't!)

As a damage-dealer, Omen specializes in delivering small instances of irreducible toxic damage which coupled with cards like Potentia Sanguinis can help set targets up for a fall to her teammates. She is also very effective against villains and environments which frequently deploy new targets, and has access to powerful (if costly) removal options not typically found among other hero decks. Omen's greatest avenue of managing her team's HP is the combination of Wheel of Life and Strange Bedfellows, however -- turning each small instance of 1 HP that she would receive into 2 HP for another teammate when desired. 

Bio

1426 C.E. - oldest recollections with clear distinction. Before then, things get much blurrier. Ultimately irrelevant. Gilles de Moineau. Nobleman. French. Fear of mortality drives pursuit of immortality. Not entirely uncommon, but few had resources for pursuit. Hired scholars, academics, apothecaries. Druids, sorcerers. Alleged. Charlatans? Immaterial. Occult in aggregate. No money or manpower spared. Nor servants.

Moineau seeks famed doctor. Renault. Partnered with Grimhilt - nurse assistant. Human? Unusual traits. Dappled skin markings. Attractive to Moineau. Fit his parameters. Treachery later discovered - doctor paid, brought assistant for purpose. Motivation irrelevant - complicity pertinent.

Arrived under pretense of treating unusual maladies. Technically correct. Moineau obsessed with Grimhilt. Eccentric tastes. Bloodthirsty compulsions. Uncertain how many servants occupied catacombs - indeterminate, ultimately irrelevant. Psychopathy or sociopathy, take your pick.

Congregation of esoteric assistance produced alleged 'philosopher's stone.' Veracity unlikely for genuine article. Demonstrable results, but not as expected. Unclear where the mistake was made. Grimhilt received inoculation meant for Moineau. Changes ensued. Ironic success.

Moineau and paid thuggery attempted disposal. Violent escalation. No manner of implement or injury incapacitated Grimhilt for long. Regeneration of tissue and faculties with great alacrity - but came back different. Duress and circumstance offered no alternative to violent conclusions. Regret in retrospect. Would have preferred longer opportunity to question Moineau and counsel. Ultimately irrelevant.

Grimhilt was gone, whoever she was. What remained was an Omen.

Many years ago. Distant history, but relevant for biographical record. Many lifetimes. Many monikers. All disposable, ephemeral. Knowledge and skill accrued at length. That much time smears memory. Tapestry metaphor apropos - 'threads' of fate. Follow them forward, back. See things. Bleeds together.

Bleeding - common motif. Vitality does not resemble human norms in any capacity. Most study self-inflicted. Others during intermittent captivity and escape. High toxicity. Acidic qualities. Dangerous for others, unfiltered - but offers utility with preparations. 'If it bleeds, we can kill it.' Quote from cinema. Amusing. Incorrect.

I never sleep. Only trances, torpor. Experience visions then. Near future. Far. Enough to make preparations. Paradoxical utility: preparedness introduces deviations. Not reliable in specificity. Still useful. Modern soothsaying. 'Modern' is amusing. Matter of perspective. Also empirical. Ultimately irrelevant.

Current era offers clarity. Purpose. World is changing. Beings more than human. Mythology not entirely incorrect. Amusing, in that sense. Enough for an Omen to come out of hiding. Common ground. Cryptids. Lycanthropes. Mutants, allegedly. Not human. Neither am I. Never was? Previously irrelevant. Possibly pertinent with new information. Will investigate further.

Serve for justice, in defense of others. Bear the injuries in their stead. Declarations of ethics, scruples. Morals, codes. Always have conviction, but be prepared to change it. Seek answers. Find solutions. Villainy proliferates, macro and micro. Can't solve everything. Focus necessary.

Disadvantage of scale. Work with what I can, affect what I can. Teamwork advantageous. I recommend you try it. Relevant tangent. This city has need of an Omen. What I represent. 'Costumed vigilante' - amusing label, but technically accurate. Ultimately irrelevant.

Good? Evil? Subjective philosophy. Demonstrable cruelty, wickedness? Objective malevolence. I have seen their ilk. Generation by generation. Era by era. It is human. Flawed. Among them, villains. They think they are beyond reproach. Will not answer to others. Unassailable. Incorrect. I will demonstrate this. They will answer to me.

There. Now you have a record. Will I continue? Yes. Will I be remembered?

Ultimately irrelevant.