The Omen

"Broken hearts, Torn dilemma, Insurgence. Light revelation. Omen return." - The Gardener
The Omen are a mysterious race whom appeared seemingly out of nowhere and have a presence in almost every story.
==Appearance==
The Omen are portrayed as stone-like humanoid figures in armor. Their faces (which are just T shaped helmet holes) and cracks have a cyan wispy glow and magic trickling out of it. Most Omen use some form of stone weaponry, with the Templars being special in that they can use weaponry of other variants.
Important Omen tend to have special markings on their chest or back. Such can be seen with the Pursuer and Prosecutor, who both have massive emblems on their backs.
==Biology ==
While somewhat living, the Omen are completely biologically unknown. It is thought by many Torn scientists that the Omen are simply magical beings, animated. Omen are also able to somehow move despite being stone. The "stone" they are composed of is incredibly hard, much like Obsidian. Notably in their biology, Omen excrete oxygen and nitrogen, both key components for plant growth. Gardeners in specific grow plants and other lush growths around their travels. While usually within average height or greater of a human, some special types, such as the Gardener can reach up to 80 feet. The Defendant was several planets tall, and the Prosecutor and Pursuer are both roughly the size of a Winterfel Praetorian, 10-12 feet. Even Templars can be slightly larger than Omen. Size is usually denotative of strength and high importance.
==Culture==
The Omen have a very weak culture that only manifests itself in Eden.
===Feudalism===
The Omen have a strict hierarchy. Gardeners are amongst the top of the hierarchy, being the controlling minds and lords of all of the Omen. Gardeners divide Eden and their Pantheons (in reality temples) to their Templars. Templars are devout disciples serving the Gardeners. Unlike the Jury, Templars have free thought and are not mindless subordinates. Most Templars are considered students or gods of specific crafts, traits, or elements. They are Omen variants of Elementals. On the bottom is the Jury, which are the commonfolk of the Omen. There are almost an infinite amount of these Jury, and they serve their Templars and Gardeners with undying subordination.
===Architecture===
Omen resemble Roman and solarpunk architecture heavily. Whilst lacking tech in all manners, their buildings and temples are always overrun by plants and moss.
==History==
The Omen's history is mostly unknown, however it can be drawn down to a very simplistic three-point table.
What is known for fact now is that the Omen originate from Eden.
 History
Event 	Time	Events
The Defendant's Subjugation 	????	The Defendant is met with deliberate force from Nezerath and is vanquished before killing Osiris.
The Omen Invade 	????	The Omen rapidly, as if an infection, spread across all universes and realities, plaguing them heavily.
The First Gardener's Collapse	????	The Deathbringers put an end to the First Gardener in Eden.
==Special Notes==
===Spread Theory: Winterfel===
The Winterfel believe that the Omen can spread through the method of using Spores. These "Spores" are actually Strange Quarks that will fester the matter around it until it forms into an Omen, or rather a Pantheon.
===Adaptability===
Omen have, much like humans, a high sense of adaptability. Omen for this reason, depending on climate and surrounding energy types, can become dark, light, fiery, or watery. Light Omen made of marble can be usually seen when summoned by Lightbearers such as Stasia or Nezerath.
===The Defendant===
The Defendant was a massive several-planet sized Omen which wielded a hammer. It traversed reality and began to smash worlds and galaxies until Osiris attempted to put a stop to it. He was unfortunately unable to, and had to acquire the assistance of the Light God Nezerath. The Earth is said to be formed by the Defendant's body.
===The Prosecutor===
The Prosecutor is a warden of Eden and its towns. It is noted for following the Deathbringers around Eden like a hawk, attemping to kill them. The Prosecutors believe that Omen are pure, and any others in Eden do not belong. They look like regular Omen, however are incredibly bulky and wield a giant axe. They also, unlike other Omen, have 0 magical energy.
=== The Witnesses===
Omen Witnesses are usually incredibly mighty Templars who have graduated beyond the dependence of a Gardener, and can create their own Pantheons and Juries as they wish. There is a society of roughly 13 Witnesses, nicknamed the High Witness Table by Braksniov, the First Witness. Witnesses have varying appearances.
===The Sounders===
Sounders are incredibly special Omen. They resemble stone cats, with the same cyan magic flow. While for Omen, Sounders are a commanding force of the Juries when Templars are unable, for other races, Sounders are immensely powerful and their sonic screeches (used to command Omen) can rupture a creature's head and level buildings. However, they are intrinsically curious and know the might of their own voice, so they only use it when necessary or bored.
===The Pursuer===
The Pursuer is a very powerful Omen-Ashen hybrid created by Ascendant Septum on Ascendancy. He haunts the ship and waits for the Deathbringers to arrive. He is one of the hardest, if not the hardest boss-fight in A Torn World: Beyond due to his incredibly high health (1,500 HP) compared to Ascendant Septum & Terrir's 950 HP. He is the final fight leading up to Septum. He appears like an Omen who is on fire.
=== Relationship with Scourge===
The Scourge, uncharacteristically, is not very effective on Omen. However, it does make them lash out and go berserk, strengthening them to incredible heights. Soron had tested long experiments with Omen and Scourge. Omen who are under the affliction of Scourge are denoted as Wrathborn, and have purple magic flowing through them instead of the cyan.
==Appearances==
Story 	Appearances
A Torn World 	Omen would regularly begin to appear as of the So Below mission, afterwards being a general nuisance up until the final mission.
A Torn World: Garden of Eden	Omen are literally everywhere. It's their expansion. Duh!
A Torn World: Lost Worlds 	Intriguingly, Omen tend to appear in Aryta, however they for.. whatever reason are peaceful. This is most likely the caused by the Discarded's Resonance Fields.
Darkspore 	Vitritov is fought by Stasia and Lumina in the Nightfallen Crucible. Vitritov is then inevitably destroyed.
New World 	While attempting to stop Olympus from being reanimated, Snowflake and Tungsten Warrior come across Orion's Belt, a pesky Omen Templar who is too curious for his own good.
==Trivia==
*Omen were originally going to be named "The Infection"
*Omen Pursuers are the most recently added type of Omen.
* Omen were originally going to be more similar to the Vex from Destiny 2.
*Originally, Omen's true intentions were to spread Nature as they had immense disdain for the Winterfel and Siege ruining it. However, Omen's intentions had been changed to rather infect yet another planet and add it to their colonization.
*Omen came from Eden and communicate natively through whistles and music.
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