Sigmund

## Ability

* Level 1: Deals 300% damage to the target and has a 50% chance to restore 100% mana, up to two times each turn.
- Level 2: Damage +32%
- Level 3: Damage +32%
- Level 4: Damage +32%
- Level 5: Damage +32%
- Level 6: Damage +32%
- Level 7: Damage +32%

* Passive: After Ranger allies cast skills, Sigmund restores 50% mana.

## Unique Weapon

Lv 1: ???

Lv 2: Has a 33% chance to increase critical damage by 63% (for Sigmund, 94%) for 2 turns when each turn begins.

Lv 3: ???

## Story

**I.** Sigmund was a very late bloomer. He is at least in his teens yet hasn't gained the stature of a kid just starting school. The fact he's timid and couldn't resist hiding in his mother's arms after a few words into a sentence makes guessing his age an impossible task. His adorability quickly arouses the maternal instinct of ladies from old grandmothers to young twenty-somethings, compelling in them the urge to cuddle him and pinch his cheeks. Sigmund seems to exist solely to be protected his whole life.

**II.** Sigmund is an expert puppetmaker. The puppets he creates are exquisitely crafted and are even capable of sentience. They are treated as treasures by countless puppeteers, thus Sigmund has earned a lot of gold. Many vaudeville troupes coveted Sigmund as their golden goose and frequently visited his treehouse home by Port Idrith, where he lived alone, but on one's ever successfully recruited him to date. The mystique around him only grew in recent years, as passersby circulated rumors of spotting an older woman in his house or visitors who never came back out... The stories just kept getting taller and blurrier, evolving into the latest version - that Sigmund's mother eats all those who visit him!

**III.** The wild accounts have drastically reduced Sigmund's visitors. Now only the truly fearless would dare enter his home. But Sigmund is, of course, never as terrifying as in the tales. He would indeed rebuke the evil, though never threatened anyone's life. Any patron who sought him out and could afford the price, he would make puppets for. Mr. Carrots once asked him to preserve his cursed, immobile brother as a puppet, and the attempt was very successful. But not every customer walked away happy. A pirate ordered a scarecrow named Hooke to tragic consequences.

**IV.** If you've been one of Sigmund's customers, your impression is one of creepiness rather than pity. As the door opened you would see him leaning into a puppet, which he named Linnie and called "Mother". He would not talk to you directly but mimic a female voice with ventriloquism to have Mother speak. Some patrons asked if Sigmund could imbue soul into puppets, why is Mother just an ordinary doll? If would baffle Sigmund because he adamantly believed the puppet IS his Mother, so why wouldn't she have a soul?

**V.** A widespread conjecture why Sigmund created a "Mother" is that he had a tragic childhood and lost his mother early. It wasn't until someone met a woman closely resembling the puppet and has the same name Linnie, who turned out to be Sigmund's birth mother. He has a mother, just that he loathed her domineering and harsh personality, so her crafted his proudest creation according to his idea of a perfect mom while "removing" his real mother from his mind.

## Tips

* Zach, despite being a three star hero, is an excellent companion to Sigmund due to his very fast skill charge. Repeated use of Zach's skill move restores Sigmund's mana rapidly.
* Sigmund's ability to restore mana makes him one of the most formidable heroes in PVP.

## Trivia

* Sigmund is currently available through hero summons, until the 24th of April.
* Sigmund's creation Hooke was designed to care for his customer's mother, but an unspecified incident occurred. Hooke is now a member of the Dark Force.
* It is not clear why Sigmund's race is listed as 'Artifact', as he is presumably human and only controls an artifact.
* New players often assume Sigmund is Mother, possibly due to the fact that his race is listed as Artifact.
* It is not clear why his exclusive weapon, Soul of the Puppet, is described as his Mother when it bears no resemblance to the doll in his profile picture

## Images

The announcement of Sigmund's return, April 2022. Source: Official CoA TwitterSigmund's Museum entry.Sigmund's Hero card. Source: Official CoA Facebook.Sigmund unlocked!