Talk:Omen/@comment-35175563-20180401181813

Omen, The Shadow Plague

Abilities Omen enters the game with an extra health bar, set before a significantly smaller one. When this health bar reaches ZERO, Omen will burst into a cloud of smoke and reduces sight range of nearby champions. Omen also transforms into its smaller true body and gets a short burst of movement speed. Omen will lose access to certain abilities as well as having some of its abilities change, as well as have significatnly lower stats (health, resistances, damage output, etc..). In order to return to Omen's bigger form, Omen must get 100 stacks or go back to the fountain (via recall or death). Minion kills = 10 stacks, Large monsters and siege minions = 20 stacks, Epic monsters = 50 stacks, Assists = 70 stacks, Champion kills = 100 stacks. Omen travels directly through jungle terrain, using up the life essence from the area. Omen cannot go through that terrain again until the life essence returns. This has little to no cooldown, allowing it to be used in succession. Omen cannot use this ability in its smaller form, however, Omen can now become invisible if standing next to terrain after a few seconds. As long as the terrain has life essence. This can be broken by Omen and other Champions. Passively, Omen generates an energy ring around it outside of combat, which grows bigger every few seconds outside of combat (maximum of two size increases). When activated, Omen will suck the life from the earth within the energy ring, healing Omen for a large amount. This will render the earth within the ring unusable (Ivern cannot grow bushes here, Taliyah cannot cannot grab more than one rock here, etc..). If this ability was activated inside a bush, the bush dies and will not return for a series of seconds. If used in an empty jungle camp, the camp will not respawn until the life essence returns to the camp. If there are any jungle plants within the ring, they will not reflourish in that spot until life essence returns to the area. If any champion or creature is within the ring when upon activation, Omen will instead deal magic damage and heal for a smaller amount. Omen can use this ability in its smaller form, however the ring is smaller. Life essence returns much sooner to the land and this will no longer deal any damage, ignoring creatures and champions all together. Omen's next four auto attacks shoot out spikes in a cone in front of it damaging the first thing(s) hit. In Omen's smaller form, Soul Spike fires a single spike from its back to hit a singe target. This has a significantly longer cooldown. If this last hits anything, the stacks acquired are doubled. A champion killed this way has their repsawn time increased this round. Omen takes the form of a giant shadow creature, surrounding itself with a ring of smoke that reduces the vision of all enemies inside it while also dealing small amounts of damage over time. Omen cannot be targeted by anything outside the ring but can still be damaged effected by things. All land and terrain within the ring becomes drained and unusable. This happens as Omen moves, however life essence drained this way will return within a couple seconds after Omen's ring leaves the area. Omen cannot use this ability in its smaller form.
 * Passive - Form of the Beast
 * Q - Sink into Abyss
 * W - Strip the Plains
 * E - Soul Spike
 * R - Tyrant of Shadows

Lore and In Game Persona Omen is actually a small reptilian that was caught out during the creation of the shadow aisles. Being mostly transformed into a darkened/evil creature, its size never changed. It remained a small creature until it attempted to drink some water by a creek, discovering it no longer had a mouth. The creature went into a panic and began thrashing about until it collided into a tree. The creature's anger was exerted outward in the form of life essence which combined with the tree. The creature, still tied to its own essence, pulled it back into itself along with the tree's life essence. The tree shriveled away instantly and the creature never felt so refreshed since its transformation. It was wasn't long after the creature learned how to do this at will and when it reached it's maximum energy intake, it decided it needed take on a bigger form so that could consume as much as it wants and a form that would help it consume animals as well, to protect itself from predators. It was then that 'Omen' came to be, equipped with spiky projectiles on its back and tail. The creature even gave itself a mouth in this form so that both of these qualities could be used to harvest life essence from living creatures now. Omen swam across oceans to explores more lands with abundant amounts of life. Omen sucks the life from ALL life forms... from animals, to plants, to the very dirt you take for granted. This is what gives him power and even after being captured and tossed into the RIFT, his thirst never subsided. However, his massive form can only exist when he focuses huge amounts of gathered life essence together. If Omen ever loses control, he will revert back to his tiny mutated body.

Backstory (in a nutshell) After the Shadow Aisles came to be, there had been various instances where it seemed to be spreading to other lands along ocean borders. Vegetation was rotting, rivers and creeks would fog up and even the animals would seemingly disappear overnight. These reports were ignored for centuries because these "Plagues" would leave shortly after they came and they only occurred during the winter. However, when it began to happen during other seasons of the year, brave villagers went out to find out exactly what was happening. Month after month, villagers, adventurers, warriors, hunters, all of them went missing. Anyone who dared investigate these small plagues were never seen from again. The name 'Omen' was givin to this phenomenon and this caught the attention of the summoners. A small group was dispatched to investigate these occurrences (Dermaw, Kyllis and Lyn), in hopes of not spreading further panic across the lands and t capture whatever was causing them. When the three approached the most recent sighting, it was like every plague before it. No animals. Dead plants. Poisoned water. Until, they heard a rustle from... the bush. Dermaw held his spear strong, pointing it at the bush and standing between it and his allies. The three looked hard into the shadows and saw two glowing eyes along with a terrifying smile. Then, smoke surrounded them. The beast from the bush began to attack them but they couldn't see through the smoke surrounding them. All they could make out was an enormous silhouette and that demonic glowing smile. Dermaw fought hard, but every strike he made seem to pass through the silhouette. Kyllis was focusing his magic from afar but each spell also seemingly went through the silhouette, causing no damage. Lyn was doing her best to clear the smoke and when she was finally successful in clearing a small part of it from her area, she looked up in terror as the demon was right in front of her. Spikes shot from his back, piercing Lyn's chest. Her screams cleared the smoke and the others looked in horror as Lyn's very life essence was absorbed into the creature. This left Kyllis frozen but Dermaw saw his opportunity to strike and took it. He leaped as high as he could and drove his spear into the center of the beast. The beast let out a piercing screech and it burst into coud ashes and smoke, blinding Dermaw and Kyllis once more. All that remained was a pile of ash and brimstone... and Dermaw's spear, which had dark red blood on one side of the bladed tip. Dermaw proclaimed 'Omen' dead after that and every summoner believed his story, except for Kyllis. He was not as close to the beast as Dermaw was but Kyllis never saw the beast explode and he distinctly remembers the ear piercing screech to happen after the second smoke eruption happened, not during. Then there was the matter of the bloody spear... why was there blood on Dermaw's spear if the pile of burning ash was in fact the dead 'Omen'? Kyllis spent years investigating his theories, even after everyone forgot. It consumed and the other summoners let the incident, along with Kyllis, fade into the pages of history.. as if it never happened. Until, Kyllis found patterns... identical to the ones 'Omen' used to cause years ago, but on a smaller scale that they went practically unnoticed. Until now. Kyllis, pretty much excommunicated at this point, had only a handful of followers and allies. He took all of them to where he believed the occurrence would happen. Kyllis, to his pleasure, was right. He had found the beast once more and with the help he brought with him and his knowledge of his last encounter, capturing the beast was executed perfectly. As he stared into the eyes of the fallen demon, Kyllis aproached it and whispered "Welcome to the ranks... Omen."