ZOmek/Suits

ZOmek/Suits/Inspirations
General build:
* F - Movements
* 1 - single target
* 2 - ability
* 3- ability
* 4- "ult"
* V - melee ability slot
* E - extra ability slot
* passive
= Released =
== Kuzu (NB) ==
Etymology: kudzu
Themes: Root/vine/ivy, plant resistance, plant takeover, weeds, Ghillie suit
Inspirations: Viet Cong, Poison Ivy (DC Comics), Swamp-Thing (DC Comics), Foggy Swamp swampbenders (ATLA), Ivara (Warframe)
Kit:
* Passive - Spread your leaves as you move. Standing in your leaves can poison enemies over time.
* 1. Triproots - Ensnare enemies in your roots. Roots deal increased damage to enemy constructs and vehicles. Enemies have a 50% chance to be held in place and suffer a strangle effect or simply knocked back. (IMPACT dmg)
* 2 Wall Bloom - Create a spore on the wall that will occasionally pulse and release a toxic cloud. This cloud will provide you some evasion while poisoning enemies. (TOXIC dmg)
* 3 Strangle-Sap - Encase enemy (or enemy constructs/vehicles) in roots that gradually saps their health and ammunition, dispensing it out to your team. (IMPACT dmg)
* 4 Subgrowth - Sink into your growth, trading a good portion of mobility for increased dmg evasion as well as innate poison damage to all of your weapon shots.
LORE: The Kuzu model Zetamech was mass-produced for the purposes of terraforming barren planets with hostiles (MOZU MOON). However, many Kuzus were stolen by insurgents and used against the Levempire. 
How to obtain: Killing enemies on planet Mozu Moon. 
== Ogul (M) ==
Etymology: ogre + azul + ghoul
Themes: blue oni, lightning
Inspiration: Grohk (Paladins), lightningbending (ATLA)
Kit:
* 1 - Charge up and strike with lightning. Subsequent strikes require less charge-time. SHOCK dmg.
* 2 Thunder Clap - SOUND dmg - Clap your hands, causing all enemies to STUMBLE. Also imbues your other abilities with IMPACT damage for the next few seconds.
* 3 Thunderstomp - Stomp the ground, ausing electricity to radiate in an AOE of where you struck. Lingering SHOCK dmg.
* 4 - Weatherforce - Meditate in place and absorb damage. The more damage you absorb enchants you and your teammate's damage output with SHOCK.
* F - Enchant your next lightning bolt (1) with the ability to teleport there. When you do use it, you also immediately activate your 3.
* Ult - Storm Reign - Meditate and reach a calmer enlightenment in the eye of the storm. Functions like Grohk's ultimate in Paladins - you gain limited levitation as you fly around, leaving your physical body behind but vulnerable. You automatically strike nearby enemies (SHOCK dmg) but gain near unlimited use of your 1.
* Passive: All Impact damage has a chance to apply SHOCK damage as well.
Obtained: Salvaging in space
== STARTER - Vann (M/F) ==
Etymology: vanguard
Themes: vanguard, soldiers
Inspirations: Master Chief (Halo), Ash (Paladins), Roland (Borderlands)
Kit:
* F - Launch forward and plant a flag-beacon. Proximity to the flag-beacon grants + dmg and + dmg reduction.
* 1 - Briefly supercharges your fire-rate and attack speed.
* 2 - Drops a slow-moving shield that moves forward. Enemies that make direct contact with the shield are knocked back.
* 3 - Reloads all your ammunition and grenades.
* 4 - Rolling Thunder - The ability to summon air raid strikes. If indoors/no clear path to the sky, it instead becomes cluster grenades and homing rounds for your primary weapon
* Passive - Roll to automatically reload active magazine.
How to obtain: starter
= Ready for Release =
before we release, we should aim to have analogs to all eight original warframes - Ash, Ember, Trinity, Rhino, Loki, Excalibur, Mag, and Volt. or at least just 8 frames.
== Havea (F) ==
Etymology: haven
Themes: Lifeguard, beach party, support
Inspiration:
Kit:
* 1 - Resurrect or provide a brief period of invuln to allies from afar.
* 2 - Throw a life Preserva. Preservas slow enemies and provide status immunity to nearby allies. Allies can also interact with the Preserva to receive a massive jump boost.
* 3 - Flotosphere - Deploy a bouncing Flotosphere. Flotospheres capture the attention of nearby enemies and can be activated with your 1 to expload, afflicitng enemies in the radius with Pitch.
* 4 - Lather - Surge Lather onto all of your abilities and drop an additional Preserva at your location. Enemies that come within range of your constructs have Pitch applied, as well as providing auto Pitch to your team's melee attacks. Also briefly heals all allies.
* F - Surge forward on a wave. Enemies under the wave have Pitch applied, whereas allies receive a brief heal.
* Passive:
How to obtain: Distress beacons
== Irei (F) ==
Etymology: Iris (Greek god of rainbows)
Themes: Rainbows, crystal healing, crystal prisms, light spectrum
Inspiration: Iris (Greek mythology), Emily (Stardew Valley), Chromastone (Ben 10), Diancie and Carbink (Pokemon), Ying (Paladins), Botania (Minecraft mod)
Kit:
* F - Briefly surf forward on your rainbow
* 1 - Readjust your crystal focus to change the elemental damage you and your crystal beams do.
* 2 - Spawn a crystal. The crystal projects lasers that heal your allies and damage enemies with elemental damage. You can use your 1 to drag beams between crystals.
* 3 - Turn a crystal into a portal. Use your 1 to connect portals together.
* 4 - Unleash a surge of light that blinds enemies and provides healing shields to allies. The surge comes not just from you, but from your constructs as well.
* 5 - Unleash a massive beam of elemental energy, like a prolonged version of your V. It deals additional damage for each refraction off a crystal or through a portal. 
* V - Blast a shot of light (dealing elemental damage from your 1) forward. If it kills an enemy or hits a crystal, it bounces.
A potential future augment/upgraded version could see her select two elements; one that she deals damage with and another that she can become immune to?
How to obtain: 
== Vauron (NB) ==
Etymology: barren + Sauron
Themes: cultist, sacrifice, demonic possession
Inspiration: Lunatic Cultist (Terraria), Melisandre and shadowbinders (Game of Thrones), Taz (Looney Tunes)
Switch to be an Omech?
Kit:
* 1 - Conjure knives that home in on enemies.
* 2 - Cut down on your own HP to increase the damage you and your allies do.
* 3 - Leech Seed - Toss your leeches at enemies. Leeches weaken your enemies over time. When their host is killed, the leeches emerge, producing a few health orbs before seeking out a new victim.
* 4 - Shadow Birth - 
** Launch a Shade from your mouth that spawns
** At max Blood, you can hold to turn yourself into one of your Shades, entering a rampaging state with high evasion and mobility but only melee damage.
*V - Reach out and grab some health from your enemies in melee range to increase your own HP directly.
* Passive - You have a "Blood" meter that's increased by taking damage. High Blood increases your damage.
= In Development =
== Aeolan ==
Etymology: aether
Themes: Olympus, clouds, ambrosia
Inspiration: Aether (Minecraft mod) + Flying Nimbus (Dragon Ball)
== Areynes (F) ==
Etymology: arachnid/arana
Themes: spider, drider
Inspiration:
Kit:
*Ult - go into full drider mode
*passive - Killing enemies with afflicted status effects drops a health pickup.
== Arrus (M) ==
Subtitle: ARRIS, the MANY-HANDED
Etymology: Ares + arm
Themes: hands, phantom limbs
Inspiration: Tomura Shigaraki (My Hero Academia), Ghost Devil (Chainsaw Man), Wallmasters (Legend of Zelda)
Lore: The original Arris was converted from a man in an Iron Lung, with the Levempire trying to see if they could rehabilitate a total vegetable cripple. Then experiment proved a success, leading successive Arris units to gain more limbs in an experiment to see how much dexterity one Zetamech unit could handle. 
Kit:
* 1 - Send an arm forth to grab an enemy, holding them in place. 
* 2 - Summon a stationary hand. You can grant the Hand a weapon, allowing it to act as a turret. 
* guiding hand - points in the direction of nearby enemies. killing the enemy grants increased reload speed/melee?
* hands increase reload speed/melee
* gunzerking?
== Bazilosh ==
Etymology: basileus
Themes: "born in the purple", emperor, purple (Murex snail?) and gold
Inspirations
Kit:
* "elevate"/crown another frame
== Baston ==
Etymology: Bastion
Themes: castles, walls, rooks, masonry
== Batté ==
Etymology: battle
Themes: grapnel gun, kinetic/potential energy, flechette/shrapnel, rapier/fencing
Inspiration: ODM Gear (Attack on Titan)
== Balora ==
Etymology: botany + flora
Themes: "flower power", sunflowers, flowers in bloom, support-class
Inspirations: Botania mod (Minecraft), Sunflower (Plants vs Zombies)
Kit:
* establish an Energy Bloom that grants bonuses, maybe can be used to chain together lasers
== Boreor ==
Etymology: borealis + warrior + berserker
Themes: berserker, Thor, viking
Inspirations: Thor (Norse myth), draugr (The Elder Scrolls)
== Carnova ==
Etymology: Casanova + carnation
Themes: deadly flower, rose's thorns
Inspirations: Roserade (Pokemon), Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Kit:
* 1. Thorn Whip - Raise your roots from the ground and have them slash at targets in front of you. (PUNCTURE dmg)
* 4. Petal Storm - Create a whirlwind of petals that inflict slash-damage and cause enemies to flinch. (SLASH dmg)
== Ermos ==
rename to Erivar? like deliver
The Courier
Etymology: Hermes
Themes: courier, mailman
Inspirations: Hermes (Greek Mythology), Courier (Fallout: New Vegas)
== Ezo ==
Etymology: Ezio (Assassin's Creed) + edo Japanese period
Themes: shinobi
Inspirations: Assassin's Creed, Ash (Warframe), Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
Kit:
* scorpion GET OVER HERE
Lore: One of Apheck's favorite Zetamechs. 
== Finay ==
Etymology: dolphin/fin + Pinay
Themes: School of fish, dolphin, manta ray
Inspirations: Aquaman (DC Comics), Wishiwashi and Palafin (Pokemon), Yareli (Warframe), Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin (Yugioh), 
F - Surge forth on a stingray
== Fogos ==
Etymology: fog
Themes: fog/mist
Inspirations: Spectre (DC Comics), Hash-slinging Slasher (Spongebob), Man Door Hand Hook Car Door, 
== Geolus (M) ==
Etymology: geode + Jordas Golem (Warframe)
Themes: living crystal, rock candy
Inspirations: Diamondhead (Ben 10), Emma Frost (Marvel Comics), Jennamite (ATLA)
== Girael ==
Etymology: gilded + Holy Grail
Themes: Gold, transmutation, molten gold
Inspiration: King Midas (Greek mythology), Viserys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Kit:
* kintsugi healing allies?
== Gloxana ==
Subtitle: GLOXANA, the ICE QUEEN
Etymology: glacon (French for ice cube) + oxana (Ukrainian name)
Themes: ice queen, winter
Inspiration: Glacia (Pokemon)
Kit:
* 1 - blast of winter air?
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* F - Freeze yourself in a block of ice, preventing you from moving, casting new abilities, or using weapons, but granting you immunity to all forms of damage until you return to full health.
== Gorath ==
Subtitle: GORATH, the GROWING GIANT
Themes: giant, jack and the beanstalk
Inspirations: Giant-Man (Marvel), Titans (Attack on Titan)
== Gorgane ==
Etymology: gourd + gorge + Rogane + gorgon + Samhain
Themes: Pumpkins, growth
Inspiration: Smashing Pumpkins
== Greggar ==
Etymology: Gregor Clegane + St. George the Dragonslayer
Themes: Scottish highlander, dragonslayer
Inspirations: Braveheart (movie) + St. George and the Dragon
Kit:
* bagpipes to boost damage/dmg resistance or something?
== Groglug ==
Etymology: grog + glug
Themes: beer, tavern
Inspiration:
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== Ionice (M) ==
Etymology: Ice-9 (Kurt Vonnegut concept), ionize
Themes: Jack Frost, ice ninja, snowflake shuriken
Inspiration: Sub-Zero (Mortal Kombat)
Kit:
* frozen poison darts?
* ice shuriken that floats around?
* invisibility
* resurrect the last enemy you killed as a Frost Spirit? 
* Passive - Freezes anyone he attacks with a stealth attack.
Lore: Ionice was created by the Levempire as a part of their research into the Winter Crown and the substance Cryotine-9. Ionice was eventually discontinued for being too powerful.
== Iqxal ==
Etymology: Excal
Themes: Aztec, headdress, Obsidian blades
Inspiration: Excalibur (Warframe), Montezuma (Civ 5)
Kit:
* Obsidian Lashes - Enchant your melee weapons, allowing their blades to pierce and pass through enemies or other obstacles.
== Ixoté ==
Etymology: exotic + Don Quixote
Themes: Bengal tiger, Slash damage, swordsmanship, weaponsmaster
Inspiration: Tiberius (Paladins), Don Quixote, Sokka (ATLA)
Kit:
* F - Toss your blade forward, then cast again to slash forward to it. 
* lay caltrops? throw shuriken?
== Khitach (NB) ==
Etymology: chitin + attack
Themes: chitin, scorpio/scorpion, desert raider, rattlesnake?
Inspiration: Vora (Paladins), Wolverine's healing factor (Marvel Comics)
Kit:
* F - Molt - Shed your skin, reducing your armor but gaining massive HP regeneration.
== Kruslin (M) ==
Etymology: crustacean + violin
Themes: hermit crab, fiddler crab, lobster, music box?
Inspiration: Sebastian (The Little Mermaid), Burmy (Pokemon), Crabhammer/Clawitzer (Pokemon)
Kit:
* F - Use a bubble column to propel you upward. The columns remain for a while afterwards, allowing allies to use them as well. 
* unleash a torrent of bubbles from your claw, dealing Sound damage and stunning enemies who are hit
* Hermitation - Wrap your environment around you like a shell.
** Other Environments - Gain Atlantean chitinous armor
** Hot/Cold Environments - Gain a white fur coat, and a resistance to Heat/Frost damage. (Based off Yeti Crab)
** Metallic Environment - Wrap yourself in scrap metal, gaining a resistance to the physical damage types.
** Rocky Environments - Wrap yourself in rock, gaining a resistance to the physical damage types. 
** desert environments
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== Leahar (M) ==
Etymology: leo + lion-heart
Themes: lions, savannah, bravery
Inspiration: Brave Heart Lion (Carebears), Thundercats
Kit:
* Lion's Roar
== Lienrie ==
Etymology: literary + litany + Dante (Alighieri) + library + learning
Themes: Writer, library, poet, learning, scholar
Inspiration: Dante (Warframe), Myst
*has tomes that can "analyze" enemies and prime them to take more elemental damage
* movement involves saving locations and being able to teleport back to them?
* passive - deal more damage to the same types of enemies over time?
== Marbaum ==
Etymology: marble, embalm
Themes: Quarry, marble, statue, petrification, Roman cement
Inspirations: Concrete (Infamous: Second Son), Atlas (Warframe), Earthbenders
* brings up walls
* petrify enemies and temporarily turn them into statues
* "quarry" the ground?
* split into Marbaum and Rebom, with Rebom getting more petrification and building or something? idk
== Mephese ==
Etymology: MFFS (Minecraft mod)
Themes: Forcefield, hard light material, magi-tech, student mage
Inspirations: Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Marvel Comics), Modular Force Field System (Minecraft mod), Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10)
NOT: bubbles, Frost snowglobe (Warframe)
Kit: 
* F - hard light bridge/platform. cast again to have it move forward
* rune to prevent enemy movement or something? or maybe just a blinding explosive rune?
* invisibility field? 
* a toggle for how transparent your forcefields are - you can change them from no entry (basically a shield wall that enemies will attack) to intangible. if fully intangible they could wipe enemy buffs as they pass through the wall
* summon a forcefield - but you can change the shape of it. like there's a half-dome, a ring (like Gara from Warframe), maybe just a straight up wall
you obtain her after one of the quests with the king's daughter?
== Ogran ==
Etymology: ogre + green
Inspirations: Shrek, Toepick (Ben 10)
Kit:
* warts - can transmit to enemies like Saryn in Warframe?
== Ogred ==
Etymology: ogre + red
Themes: red oni, cannibal, more animalistic depictures of orcs
Inspiration:
== Orgni ==
Etymology: gorge/gourmand + organ + kidney/Kirby
Themes: "guts", digestion, organs/stomach, stomach acid
Inspiration: Upchuck (Ben 10), Grendel (Warframe), Kirby (Nintendo) 
Kit:
* Bile Pile - Vomit a puddle of bile upon the floor. Enemies who step in your bile are slowed. Sap their health to add to your weapons' damage output.
== Oryis ==
Etymology: Orion + Artemis
Themes: moonlight, hunter, constellation
Inspirations: Dax archer (Warframe)
summon a bear companion? make him a beast tamer?
make enemy weakpoints shine or have munitions fly at the enemy?
Kit:
* F - Surge forth on a cosmic wave. (refeence to the moon controlling the tides)
* Starguided Sights - guided rounds?
* Astral Volley - hold to position, release to summon a barrage of star arrows falling on enemies. 
* light up enemies through walls?
== Pannaer ==
Etymology: Pan + satyr + Balor (Fomorian)
Themes: satyr, leprechaun
Inspirations: Oberon (Warframe),
Kit:
* passive - gain innate damage based on the terrain you're standing on? but also drop a pot of gold when you get downed lmao
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== Petor ==
Etymology: Petrify, saltpeter
Themes: Smoke, sulphur, stealth, ninja, demon
Inspirations: Nightcrawler (X-Men), Ash (Warframe)
Kit:
* Smoke Cloud - Toss a pellet that releases a smoke cloud and grants invisibility while you're standing within it. Channel the pellet to cause it to choke enemies.
* F - Dissipate in a cloud of smoke and teleport to where you're targeting.
* Passive - Enemy corpses you kill are immediately burned, preventing enemies from discovering them. 
=== Apheck's Petor ===
== Pexeda ==
Etymology: pixie + Magda (Marvel Comics)
Themes: dreams, sleep
Inspiration: Pesky Dust (Ben 10), 
Abilities involving luring enemies to sleep
Counterpart to a nightmare/Mephisto/Rumpelstiltskin frame? Or he's not a frame but a character in universe and she could have the nightmare aspects too.
Lore: Th Zetamech mother of Princess Janarus. She was drugged and experimented on to have a child and made a deal (with a Rumpelstiltskin ass guy) so her daughter could have a better life... the "life of a princess"
== Phaenic ==
Etymology: Phoenix
Themes: Phoenix, rebirth, sacred ash, Zoroastrianism
Inspirations: Furia (Paladins), Ember (Warframe), Phoenix (X-men)
Kit:
* 2 - Sacred Ash - Mark allies with sacred ash, granting them damage reduction. 
* 3 - Healing Pyre - Turn an enemy into a healing pyre, providing allies healing when in the area. 
* Passive - You or allies marked with Sacred Ash are instantaneously revived and receive a strong Fire damage boost along with a few seconds of limited flight capabilities.
== Pinten ==
Etymology: Pinkerton
Themes: anti-stealth, detective
Inspirations: Nick Valentine (Fallout), Batman (DC Comics), Rorschach (Watchmen)
LORE - make an actual detective in-universe you get this guy from? 
== Prydon ==
Etymology: Lion (pride)
Themes: lion
Inspirations: Thundercats, Brave Heart Lion (Carebears), Braveheart
gameplay - focuses on buffing allies (his "pride")
== Rohark ==
Etymology: Rohyde
Themes: pilfer, sapper, thief, rogue
Inspiration: Green Arrow (DC Comics), Robin Hood, Ivara (Warframe)
Kit:
* pilfer
* zipline arrow
Lore: Rohyde's personally modified Alphamech has been modified again, now for your use.
== Sahurl ==
Etymology: swirl
Themes: Sewers, sewer alligators, sea monsters, flushed down the drain
Inspirations: Toxic Avenger, Swamp-Thing (Marvel Comics), Man-Thing (DC Comics)
Kit:
* flush the magazine on your weapon?
* Death Roll - perform an alligator/croc death roll on one target, splashing nearby targets with a wave of toxic damage
* ult - flush the whole battlefield? create like a whirlpool?
== Sheeb ==
Etymology: Banshee, shebeen, queen of Sheba
Themes: Banshee, ghost
Inspirations: Banshee (Warframe), Silver Banshee (DC)
== Skraja ==
Etymology: scratch + raja
Themes: Scratch cat, crazy cat
Inspirations: Valkyr (Warframe), Ash (Warframe), Tazmanian Devil (Looney Tunes)
A mix of stealth and berserk,
Kit:
* F - Pounce
* Movement Sense - Toggleable. Gain the ability to see enemy movement through walls.
* Tangle Ball - Launch a ball of rope that can tangles enemy, binding them. (based off Imani from Paladins)
* Scratchstorm - Dissipate into a storm of claws, dealing Slash damage to enemies.
* Passive - When you die, instantly revive up to 9 times. Each death grants you a brief increase in attack rate and movement speed.
have a variant that's like a faux cat? like the Reynes of Castamere. could be a differentiation between a scratch cat (w/ viral damage) and then a stealthy prim/proper cat
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== Solara ==
Etymology: solar + corona
Themes: Solar winds, solar flare
Inspirations: Storm (X-Men)
Kit:
* fireball/comet/solar flare that deals EMP damage
* aurora borealis?
== Sototh ==
Etymology: "sawed-off"
Themes: Chainsaw, shotgun, demon hunting
Inspirations: Chainsaw Man, Ash vs Evil Dead, Ghost Rider
Kit:
* F - Kickback - Rev up and slash forward (SLASH dmg), while also letting loose a blast of fire (FLAME dmg) behind you. (modified Warframe slash dash)
* 1 - Cast a flaming chain whip out before you (PUNCTURE dmg), pulling you in range of enemies. 
* cut your health to massively increase damage? set yourself ablaze?
* Incinirev - increase your fire dmg?
* set yourself on fire
* V - Spark enemies before you, causing them to ignite (FLAME dmg).
* Passive: Taking damage causes you to leak Pitch onto the battlefield. 
=== Apheck's Sototh ===
* fire sawblades?
== Stoard ==
Etymology: Steward
Themes: castle stewards, medieval servants, feudalism + early capitalism
Inspiration: Kingdom (game)
== Sumarin ==
Etymology: Submarine, Namor the Sub-mariner
Themes: Atlantean warrior, trident, spearfishing
Inspiration: Namor (Marvel)
Kit:
* Surge forth with water, knocking down the enemies before you and entangling them in a net.
* Sea Winglets - Allows you to fly effortlessly through the 
== Torad ==
Etymology: Toreador, minotaur
Themes: Minotaur, bull
Inspiration:
maybe make it an Alphamech instead of a Zetamech?
Kit:
* F - Begin charging forward, knocking away or impaling things in your path. Press F again to stop.
* throws his nose ring?
* fire breath?
== Tuge ==
Etymology: tortuga + dude
Themes: turtle
Inspiration: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Terraspin (Ben 10)
Kit:
* drop your plating for increased melee/speed? (TMNT)
* high amounts of armor
== Urobor ==
name DEFINITELY needs redone. Arbaugh? like arbor + bough 
Etymology: arbor
Themes: tree, ent
Inspiration: Grover (Paladins), Twilight Forest (Minecraft mod), House Forrester (ASoIaF), Oberon (Warframe), Harold (Fallout)
Kit:
* Ironbark - root and gain high damage resist?
* root and restore health?
* Orchard Drop - Raise enemies into the sky and drop the down. (Oberon's 4th ability lmao). IMPACT damage. Killed enemies drop Health pickups. 
** basd off of Isaac Newton gravity.
Make into an A-mech instead?
== Vakiro ==
Etymology: vaquero
Themes: cowboy, western
Inspiration: Mesa (Warframe)
Kit:
* whip?
* Tumblaspurs - Release your slow-moving tumblaspurs that will either deal SLASH dmg to enemies in their path or can be used as ricochet shots. 
* release tumbleweed that can be used for ricochet shots
Passive: Kills with revolver pistols reload the pistol. Subsequent shots with revolver pistols increase damage.
== Xores ==
Etymology: Xerox, Xiphos (Warframe)
Themes: copier, clones
Inspiration: Lady Redundant Woman (Word Girl), Loki (Warframe), Ying (Paladins)
Kit:
* 1- Duplicate - Clone yourself, albeit producing a weaker copy. The more copies you produce, the weaker your copies get. 
** Duplicates explode on death. 
* 2 - Issue commands to your clones, such as Stay, Follow, Go There, or Surround Me. 
* clone self? but they're weak clones
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* clone others?
* briefly empower your clones?
* F - Switch places with your own Clone.
* passive - If you die with an active clone
Lore: Xores were produced in hopes that their overwhelming numbers would lead to victory. However, the fragility of their clones led to the model being retired. 
We should probably release him alongside the mask/spy frame, just so we don't get the two conflated power-wise. 
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== Yldar ==
Etymology: eldar, Yggdrasil, cedar
Themes: redwood, ent
Inspiration: Godswood (Game of Thrones)
== Zira ==
Etymology: zero G
Themes: zero gravity, space
Inspiration: Nova (Warframe), Mag (Warframe), Ocacho Uraraka (My Hero Academia)
Intended to be a quick at-release Zetamech. 
Kit: 
* Detritus Belt - Crush some of the rubble in the room and bring it close to your orbit, using it as a makeshift forcefield. Cast again to fire it out like bullets. 
* levitate enemies?
* create a zero gravity field for enemies + self?
* tracking rounds like Mag?
* passive - Lesser gravity (decreased fall speed, increased jump height).
== Zorea ==
Etymology: Zoroaster + scoria
Themes: Living fire, wildfire
Inspiration: Flame Atronach (Elder Scrolls), Ember (Warframe), Heatblast (Ben 10)
Kit:
* Flame Whirl - summon spinning fire tornadoes 
* passive - has a flame meter? the higher the flame, imbues you with innate fire damage and maybe passives like fireballs. flame is reduced by taking damage and possibly increased by dealing damage/setting enemies on fire. 
make an Amech instead? or give her an Amech form/older sister based off of Sol from Smite?
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= Alphamechs (In Development) =
== Astrick ==
Etymology: astro + (Star) Trek
Themes: space race, shuttle, rocket
Inspirations: Astro-Boy, Rocket Red (DC Comics)
Kit:
flight with a fuel based system? like he charges up how much fuel he can take on the ground and then flies. maybe generates more fuel with aerial kills
== Bluet's grandpa ==
name in progress
Themes: soldier, shield
Inspiration: Captain America, Soldier Boy (The Boys), Athena (Borderlands)
Kit: 
* store up damage with your shield and then throw it. maybe has warframe-style shields in addition to a physical buckler built into his kit
* Amechs Assemble - Thrust your melee weapon into the air, granting + DMG and + MOVEMENT SPEED to your allies.
LORE: 
Was used as an inspiration for a later Nova Roman hoplite/centurion Zetamech.
== Bregha ==
Etymology: La Brea
Themes: Bog bodies, tar pits
Inspirations: Swamp-Thing, Man-Thing
== Bugeto ==
Etymology: Karate bugman + Agito
Themes: Grasshopper
Inspirations: Kamen Rider
Kit:
* 1/F? - rider kick
* built in motorcycle?
== Goheng ==
Etymology: Gobleki Tepe + Stonehenge
Themes: Ancient monument
Inspirations: Stonjourner (Pokemon) 
Kit:
== Hyperan ==
Etymology: hyperion, Krypton, hype, Superman
Themes: classic superhero
Inspirations: Homelander (The Boys), Superman (DC Comics)
Lore:
Encountered in the "Never Meet Your Heroes" quest. 
== Moffem ==
Etymology: moth, moth-man, Gotham
Themes: moth
Inspirations: Mothman, Sasquatch
Kit:
* "mothballs"
* eats light/electricity/shields?
Lore: Was one of the first bio-Alphamechs, adapted from some sort of strange fauna. Potentially was an early Exequ missionary that was captured and dissected for military use.
== Narmon ==
Etymology: Narmer (Egyptian king)
Themes: Pharaoh, sphinx, ex nihilo
Inspirations: Inaros (Warframe), Ozymandias (poem) 
NOT: a sandstorm, desert themed frame 
Kit:
* Rising Flood Plains - Turn the ground into quicksand, slowly sinking enemies but not damaging them. Enemies who perish in quicksand will grant you and your allies increased ability strength.
* builds sands over time?
* can use sand to repair himself
* builds sphinx as pets?
* maybe can build sand castles? or enshrines his builds some other way? 
* build obelisks to provide shielding or something?
== Orchette ==
Etymology: orchard + coquette
Themes: poisoned apple, magical girl
Inspirations: Snow White, Ymir the Founder (Attack on Titan)
LORE: The first Alphamech?
Kit: 
* passive - When you pick up a health pickup, apply Poison to nearby enemies.
== Pannad ==
Etymology: pan- (all), panda, clannad
Themes: Panda, four elements
Inspirations: Po (Kungfu Panda)
ok maybe instead of being an elemental warrior, it's about being zen and tao? like it could be about speeding up the slow of battle versus speeding it up (action vs inaction). 
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== Revilis ==
Etymology: reviled, revived
Themes: Skeletons, boneyard, necromancy
Inspirations: Necramech (Warframe)
can reconstitute himself with bones of enemies
== Saliman ==
Etymology: Solomon, Saruman (LotR)
Themes: Ancient wizard, good vs bad wizard
Inspirations: Gandalf and Saruman, Dumbledore, Torvald (Paladins)
Kit:
* PASSIVE - Moral Alignment - Helping allies grants Good alignment, while hurting enemies deals Evil alignment.
** With Good alignment:
** With Evil alignment: Increases squad melee damage.
* drain enemies and put their magic in your orb?
* magic missile - homing attack that can heal allies or deal damage to enemies
** with evil, upgrades into fireball?
* rune shield bubble like Torvald
* 2 (or 3)
** (GOOD) - Unpassing - (Based off Gandalf you shall not pass) - Channel to immobilize enemies. 
** (EVIL) - Chain Lightning
== Shi-Nan ==
Etymology: chi + Chiaotzu + Shonen + Shaolin
Kit:
* F - Surprising Fist - Teleport to an enemy and punch them, knocking them back.
* 1 - Begin charging up Chi. Tap to hold in place and generate chi. Begin with 100% DR that quickly fades over time, though damage converted converts to Chi.
* 2 - Energy Fist - Expel Chi as a blast. The longer you hold, the bigger the blast.
* unique fists:
** can learn various "Fist" moves from different places across the map, and slot them into this ability slot like it's a Pokemon move? 
** Drunken Fist - While active, melee attacks of your teammates stagger enemies and apply PITCH. 
** Shotgun Fist - Fires a fist that then fires other fists at enemies in a chain reaction.
** Crane Fist - Brings an enemy to you.
** Earthen Fist - Mold the earth to yourself, increasing your Damage Reduction at the cost of movement speed. Attacking sends out rock-fists that deal IMPACT damage. 
** Thunder Fist - Your melee attacks create ELECTRIC shocks that chain through enemies.
*V - Second slot for a fist 
* 4/Ult - Chi Bomb - Charge up your chi, before unleashing it on the battlefield to blow up your enemies.
* Passive - Chi meter. Chi can be expended . 2x chi gain if you don't use
== Termasko ==
Etymology: thermos, Suomenusko
Themes: Reindeer, hot spring/sauna, thermal winds, geyser 
Inspiration: Imani (Paladins), Kraaho (Ben 10), Oberon (Warframe)
Kit:
* F -
* Switch between heat and cold damage
* - Create thermal springs that allow your allies to fly, as well as providing minor regeneration.
* 4 - geyser eruption
== Trixes ==
Etymology: tricks
Themes: bow and arrow, trick arrows
Inspiration: Hawkeye (Marvel)
Kit: 
= Omechs (In Development) =
* psionic/telekinetic based off of Nyx (Warframe), Eleven (Stranger THings)
== Algur ==
Etymology: Algernon (Flowers for Algernon) + augur
Themes: Lab rat, hamster wheel, electroshock therapy
Inspirations: 
Kit:
* Tesla coil?
* an ability to place "cheese" or something that attracts enemies?
* unleash a hamster wheel
== Gerro ==
Etymology: zero + Dr Gero (Dragon Ball) + geronimo
Kit:
* hitscan mode and an alternative heatseeking mode?
* stealth mode like the Predator?
LORE: Successor to the Vann Zetamech. 
You encounter it in a mission and after that, they're mass-produced to be the shock troops of the Levempire.
== Gena and Genos ==
Etymology: genome + Jenos (Paladins) + Gemini
Themes: twins, star children, Gemini
Inspiration: Wukong's Celestial Twin (Warframe), Equinox (Warframe)
Kit:
Design both around possibility for co-op (i.e., two players playing each half) and just a single-player switching between the both of them.
* Swaptag - Swap places with one another. 
* create a laser between the two of you?
== Glizzear ==
Etymology: glacier
Themes: absolute zero (i.e., zero movement of particles), blizzard/extreme winter weather
Inspiration: White Walkers
Kit:
* maybe some liquid nitrogen across the floor?
* raise fallen enemies as Frost Spirits? 
* disarm enemies?
* create a snowstorm that's so dense enemies can't fire through it?
* Passive - Enemy enemies that are in range of Glizzear are Frozen. 
LORE: Following the Freehart's revival of Ionice, the Levempire recreates him as Glizzear. 
== Rozet (F) ==
Sky Bluet frame
Inspirations: DVa (Overwatch), Skye (Paladins)
* Passive - Explode and enter a nervous system run around mode
== Salan ==
Etymology: salient + salad + soylent
Themes: Canned food, cannibalism, hidden ingredients
Inspirations: Soylent Green, Perfectly Generic Object (Homestuck), Pipe Game
Kit:
* "can" enemies - lke, literally condense them into cans
* turn enemies into a nutrient paste... maybe its bouncy like gelatin?
* boost to companion health/dmg? basically referencing animal feed
* Passive - METER SYSTEM - Killing enemies generates stacks of Nutrient Paste, which is used for your other abilities.
== Zaffar ==
Etymology: Jafar (Aladin) + Colonel Zaroff + safari
Themes: Safari, dogcatcher, poacher
Inspiration: Kraven (Spider-Man), Predator (Alien vs Predator)
Kit:
* throw a boomerang that catches enemy attention? press it again and it'll return to you, turning their attention to you
* catch/release enemies like a pokemon trainer. there's an augment or an ability that causes them to deal damage? or maybe his passive is that he's immune to animal damage?
* get a stealth mode with an "elephant gun" like the Predators? when you're in stealth you get the option to expel your whole ammo as one bullet. or just a really powerful melee attack. 
LORE: General Zaffar's personalized Gerro Omech. 
== Omega Hyperan ==
Inspiration: Doomfist (Overwatch), All Might (My Hero Academia), Homelander (The Boys)
Kit: same as Hyperan's, maybe with a few minor mods like a more windup Doomfist comet punch
= Wingmechs (In Decelopment) =
== Bechon ==
Etymology: beckon + echo
Themes: bat wings, vampire thralls
Inspiration:
== Drapex ==
Etymology: dragon fly + apex
Themes: dragonfly, flash-step
Inspiration:
Kit:
* passive - more dodges/blink movements?
* teleport and melee attack an enemy, regaining health if you kill them?
* one ability that gives you teleporting when sustaining fatal damage while active?
== Shryker ==
Etymology: shrike + striker
Themes: loggerhead shrike
Inspiration:
= Gameplay Mechanic Ideas =
* certain frames can be taken into aquatic missions or have aerial forms... maybe they get an additional form though. just like for example Vann and then (Aquatic) Vann and then (Aerial) Vann or (Astral) Ven? or something. idk lol
*
= Unnamed =
*lion/lionhearted, master of the pride
*spy/mask
**based off Spy from TF2/Faceless Men/Bolt-On Boltons, Agent 47
**you rip faces off enemies, run around posing as them, maybe even go invisible
**can drop your mask and summon clones/visages of them, and maybe convince them to self-destruct?
**name:
***Ventra? (from venti) gives an italian flair
*demoman
*heavy
*field medic
*werewolf
*fungus
*positive "flower power" healer
*literal shock trooper
*solar priest
* lady of the lake/atlantean support
** hide away in clam/under the water?
*hunter. more of a Siberian/American hunter than kraven safari hunter, that can be its own frame
**mark targets and get rewards for killing them
*Metal spike punk
*Cyberpunk neon. Like Volt but with more ultraviolet ultraviolence. A mix of Volt, Neon and Video from Infamous Second Son - super speed, gas attacks, and maybe the ability to bring motion to life 
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*master vampire
*kung fu
**surprising fist
**drunken fist
**venomous fist
*force field - maybe just an energy field? 
*samurai
*magnet applications
**i.e. railgun, bullet train super speed
*train engine
*arms manufacturer?
**toss guns instead of reloading like Tediore in Borderlands
*ninja/shinobi/sapper
*foxy robin hood archer
*mimic
*frankenstein
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*santa
**passive - bestow random buffs on your teammates
*banshee
**rewarded from the Old Man and the Wail?
*keyholder
*mantis
*doctor poison/chemical mixer/chemical warfare
*djinn
**F - Swirl around in purple dust to keep you elevated (like a magic carpet hovering mount)
**1 - Enchant objects on the map to explode when enemies interact
**4 - ()'s Boon - Prompt your allies with the ability to choose between a bonus in damage, health, or skills
*surfer
*dragon
*eruption, based off of napalm
**sticky magma
**clouds of pewter
**volcanic rounds. kills with these produce more magma on the battlefield?
**magma eventually cools into rock which can then be broken
*volcanic
**based off Raum
*dwarf
*spaceman
*Magneto
*UFO
*rave
*disco
*neon
*sakura/cherry blossom
**make it a magical girl?
**levels up and gets multiple transformations?
**she has a brother/protector, the bamboo/bonsai knight
*bamboo/bonsai
**Bamu?
**sand rake? zen garden?
**1 - Slam the ground and cause bamboo shoots to rise, impaling enemies. These bamboo shoots take a while to decompose - only being destoryed by enemeis - so they also function as a wall. 
*mushroom - rotting but cute!
*glacier
**also a mountain?
*polar bear like the thing from Monsuno
*speedster
*statue
*camera/photographer
*sniper
*cop/riot police/enforcer
**lock down targets in place/doors?
**riot shields
**maybe also a security system? could produce drones and what not?
*patriot/super soldier
**fireworks
*van helsing
*jet (i.e. starscream from transformers)
*reggae
**steel drums
*doomguy
*dust bunny?
*portal 2 style portals and physics
*glam rock rockstar
*easter bunny/jackalope
*godzilla
*chef
**Sautee - cast a puddle onto the floor and gradually heat it up, dealing fire damage
**passive - chop enemies up to yield health orbs?
**grow ingredients?
**Bombastic Zest - add spices, making enemies more subsceptible to elemental damage + having them explode ("with flavor").
*water cycle
*fog/mist
*kill la kill stylist
*knitter?
*hydro-man/water elemental
*mummy/bandage/straightjacket
*rat king/rat catcher
**could be tied to Algur?
*bubbles
**bombardier beetle/water strider. also soap
**clean freak?
**is covered in a soapy film, so naturally applies Pitch?
*greek fire
*big band
*vocaloid hatsune miku - maybe also a siren?
*moth/mothman - eats light
*ink/tattoo
*roman general/strategist/athena
*roman engineer - marble, baths, concrete, etc.
*comet
*solar power - like maybe solar flares, solar winds, etc
*gravity
*dr jekyll/mr hyde - like a hulk type guy
*viking runestone
*sandstorm
*viking bezerker
**maybe include Thor here
*living electricity
*storm elemental
*soccer
*security system
*Van Helsing/plague doctor
**Stake - Launch a stake at an enemy, which then pins them down to the ground and turns them into a mine.
**imbue your weapons with silver?
**crows?
**Miasma - Create a cloud of poisonous gas that applies toxic damage to enemies while providing allies with damage reduction. 
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*LEGO plastics guy
*spy
**agent 47/tf2 spy/faceless men (game of thrones)
**limited stealth
**steal an enemy's face
*test rat/hamster wheel - Alger? (Algernon)
**maybe mix with some electric abilities, like BF Skinner testing ro something
**his mission comes bundled with a pikachu clone companion? Shoqu
*scottish highlander. could be a dragonslayer? or the green knight?
*acid rain
*mammoth/elephant
*solar priest
**Solar Truth - armor/shield strip
*Damaal - Mayan doomsday calendar. can summon asteroids and make animals go awry? can EMP?
*hermit crab
*pangolin
*haunted suit of knight armor?
*Gratheo - spraypaint/neon/cyberpunk video. make it an Omech?
**F - Color Run
*TRON - Gratheo's neon running counterpart. focused on melees and discs and running and maybe motorcycles
*marathon runner/Hermes/messenger
**bestow allies with packages?
*satyr/goat
**passive - gains status damage depending on what he's standing on? 
*cupid
*aging to dust
*sandstormer
**inspiration: Tuareg traders, Sandbenders (ATLA), the people of Tattooine
**salting enemies
*zenkai boost/All Might type guy
*liquid metal
*scarecrow - focused on harvest? maybe also a grim reaper?
*then an actual death grim reaper
*subwoofer/speaker
*cable guy
*white-sheet ghost with like ectoplasm and intangibility
*angel/valkyrior - like Furia
*asteroid belt
*mannequin/clones
*coal into diamonds
*loader bot (like from Risk of Rain)
*lab doctor (as opposed to a field doctor)
**immunize - grant immunity to the last damage type taken?
*storm trooper - highly inaccurate take on Vann
*bee queen
**Vespis Venom - enchant all of your squad's magazine with Poison damage
**construct a hive?
**honey?
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*kitsune
*cupid - charms and then crushes enemies with CC
*succubus - single-target pocket healer, maybe with whips and chains and stuff like Warframe's Khora
*living water - make an Omech? or just a Zetamech?
*dark lion/hyena - basically the Scar to lionheart
*ice queen - 
**Lore: was created, alongside Icion or whatever the sub-zero guy's name is, based on research into the Winter Crown
**snow globe!
**"winter winds"
**snowstorm that's so thick it negates some incoming fire? or is that kind of the same as snowglobe
*frosty the snowman alphamech
**like iceman
**summon snowdrifts for shielding yourself
**throwing snowballs! build a snowfort!
**passive - when an ally dies, create a copy of them as a Frost Spirit?
*Five Deadly Venoms
**toad
***cover yourself in poison like a dart frog. maybe also spikes?
**gecko/chameleon
**lizard
**snake
**scorpion - Khitan
*portal/wormhole - bit of a space theme overall
**can pull enemies into portals. maybe this is a separate ability that just sucks in enemies and can be placed in portals?
*superhero - make him an Amech or an Omech?
**passive: flight, 75% damage resistance to regular damage but 2x damage from elemental damage
**F - super punch
***if you hit the ground it causes the ground to "crater" and knocks enemies down
**laser vision
**cold breath
**super clap???
*Chinese dragon
*Welsh dragon
*A-mechs
** astro boy inspired?
** predecessor to the Vann
** biblical plagues
*** mostly locust/cicada inspired
* O-mechs
** combination of Xores and the spy frame - focused on synthesizing a whole squad from scratch
** patriot/seal team 6
*** fire a firework at a target that lights them up, killing that target gives you team buffs?
*other mechs - Cosmech and Aquamech 
* SIGMECH - some loser incel creates a faux Zetamech called the Sigmech, which he believes to be more powerful than even the Omechs. you track him down and it's just the worst fucking thing ever designed
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