Oracle

The Oracle is the main antagonist of Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy, and the one who sets the story in motion by possessing the plot's protagonist, Lucas Kane, and using his body to murder John Winston in the restroom of Doc's Diner.
==Role in the plot==
===Character background===
The Mayan civilization, with which the Oracle shares its origins, spanned over 3500 years, across different periods, each with the human sacrifice and jaguar-worship peculiarities, before falling to Spanish conquest.
The Oracle was thus born between early–20th century BC to early–15th century AD. As the plot of Fahrenheit is set in 2009, this would make the Oracle between 500 to 4000 years old.
It is implied that for most of his existence, the Oracle has served the Orange Clan in its search for the prophesied Indigo Child to give his masters unlimited powers. This research has kept him busy for centuries at least.
To locate the Child, the Oracle must perform ritualistic Mayan sacrifices, murdering seven people every seven years. However, the Oracle must not soil his own hands and thus appoints both a random executor and victim. Before the sacrifice, the Oracle takes mind control over the appointed executor, through possession, controlling and forcing him to carve a two-headed snake on each of his forearms. Subsequently, the victim is attacked, and its arteries severed with three stabs, using absolute precision. The sacrifice ends with the executor's suicide.
The more ritual sacrifices are committed, going forward in the centuries, the more the Oracle will be able to make clear when and where the Indigo Child could be found.
===Events prior to 2009===
One of the documented killings involving the Oracle is a November 1928 murder case in New York City: a man killed an innocent victim with several stabs to the heart during daylight, resembling a Mayan ritual in all its peculiarities. Almost identical, but more recent, was the Alan Kirsten murder case in 1988. The executor appointed by the Oracle, in this case, was Anton Janos.
In both cases, the two executors survived although they should have died, as instead originally planned. Instead, the surviving executors remained linked to the Oracle, and thus could see the Oracle's rituals, and the visions of Indigo Child.
===Events in 2009===
In January 2009, the Oracle opens a new season of human sacrifices. The first of these is the Doc's Diner murder case, on January 27, involving Lucas Kane as the executor and John Winston as the sacrificial victim. However, as happened with the executors in 1928 and 1988, Kane survives and starts digging for answers to the conspiracy hatched by the Orange Clan.
The Oracle continues the chain of sacrificial murders: an appointed executor, Jose Lopez, murders a victim, Anita Martinez, then kills himself as planned. However, Kane's rising supernatural powers, ability to escape the law – which seeks him as a wanted murderer – and his stubborn determination attract the attention of the Oracle. The Oracle attempts to kill Kane in different ways, eventually succeeding on January 31 at the Fun Fair. 
However, Kane is not dead for long. He receives unexpected help which allows him to be resuscitated and remain "alive", despite being technically dead. Still linked to the Oracle, Kane uses the most recent vision to finally locate The Indigo Child at St. Thomas Orphanage. With his abilities growing stronger, Kane beats the Oracle and escapes with The Indigo Child. On February 28, Kane learns, from the Invisibles, a humanist faction, the truth about the conspiracy hatched by the Orange Clan. Determined to defeat the Oracle, he heads to the Wishita Military Base for the final battle.
===Epilogue===
If, at the end, the Oracle is the one to receive unlimited power by Jade, the Indigo Child, the world will revert to normal. The cold will disappear, and climate will go back to normal, with no apparent changes to the social status quo. Personally, Lucas isn't sure what's going to happen after that. He and his wife, Carla Valenti, are trying to lead normal lives, as though nothing had ever happened. Lucas still sees through the eyes of the Oracle from time to time.
Lucas thinks that what he went through was just the beginning.
Alternatively, the Oracle can die when he is killed by Lucas, who knocks him into the Artifact, by Carla, when he attempts to take her hostage, or if he's beaten by The A.I.
==Powers and abilities==
The Oracle possesses powers similar to Lucas Kane's, except he is more versatile, creative and at ease in using them due having centuries of practice. He displays abilities of telekinesis, telepathy, mental control and amnesia induction. He is also capable of levitation, as well as using teleportation, thus moving to other locations without walking movement and turning invisible to peoples' eyes.
He is an expert in hand-to-hand combat and owns an enhanced physical condition, exercising super strength, speed and agility.
==Victims==
*Unnamed 1928 man (executor, survived)
*Unnamed 1928 man (sacrifice)
*Anton Janos (executor, survived)
*Alan Kirsten (sacrifice)
*Lucas Kane (executor, survived)
*John Winston (sacrifice)
*Jose Lopez (executor, died by suicide)
*Anita Martinez (sacrifice)
*Tiffany Harper
*Markus Kane (player determined)
*Orphanage Nun
*Jade (player determined)
==Trivia==
*An early version of the Oracle had him wearing a black scarf.
*The Oracle and John Winston are both voiced by Christian Erikson.
**Erikson also voiced in Omikron: The Nomad Soul, another Quantic Dream game.
**He also voiced in Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain as a number of different characters.
== Gallery ==
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