Dulonkk
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I do not have a cool character design in mind, just the idea of the character lore and their abilities. But I've imagined him wearing a vestment robe (see picture) as a cape over more traditional priest clothes.
Basic Lore: Father Ignacio is, or was rather, a well-respected priest from East Harlem. Father Ignacio was active in the community and many confided in him as a representative of God. He preached his religion in a Catholic church in the same neighborhood that Ivy originated from, however, he was secretly corrupt and was loyal to the Mendoza Syndicate. While he preached morals and teachings stipulated by the Catholic Church, he did not practice what he preached and used his position as a respected priest to protect and work alongside the Mendoza Syndicate. Upon its dismantlement by Ivy, his peers around him were arrested or slain. Father Ignacio only avoided jail time due to his reputation as a priest, however, his community shunned him and he was forced to leave his church. After this, his motivations shifted away from serving God: he now seeks revenge against a certain gargoyle that effectively excommunicated him from his own church.
Ability 1: Holy Hand Grenade
Father Ignacio launches a bottle of holy water that targets similarly to the Bebop bomb. This ability can target allies and enemies. If casted upon an ally, the ally will take 200 damage, but they will negate 100% of incoming spirit damage and heal at an accelerated regeneration rate for 4 seconds. If casted upon an enemy, the enemy will take 200 damage, become disarmed, and receive burn damage for 4 seconds. Think of this as like Oracle's Purifying Flames and Fates Edict as a single ability. The damage scales with levels/upgrades placed into the ability. Initially an 8 second cooldown.
Ability 2: Cross Toss
Father Ignacio tosses his cross towards enemies and then calls it to return, similar to Beastmaster from DOTA 2. The cross can only hit a single enemy, but it works similarly to Lady Geist's knives in the sense that each hit of the cross stacks on the enemy. Each hit slows the enemy and the slows stack on each consecutive hit up to 5 stacks of slowness. The stacks also provide a bullet resistance reduction for each stack. Initially a 6 second cooldown.
Ability 3 (Passive): Venerate
Father Ignacio has the option to select a saint to venerate and pray to. Every saint produces a different AOE aura similar to the Dynamo heal in size. He can choose between the following 4 saints to pray to:
St. Valentine: Produces martyr aura, which amplifies incoming healing and health regeneration for all surrounding allies. Not sure how much healing regeneration or incoming healing should be amplified.
St. Michael: Produces archangel aura, which amplifies all outgoing damage for all surrounding allies. I'm not sure how much outgoing damage should be amplified either.
St. Nicholas: Produces wonder worker aura, which reduces the outgoing damage of all surrounding enemy creeps or heroes. Not sure how much this reduction could be.
St. John Macias: Produces rosary aura, which "redirects and relieves the souls stuck in purgatory." Or, in other words, the rate of souls received per last hit increases for all surrounding allies. Not sure by how much though.
He can swap his aura every 30 seconds, but he cannot pray to the same saint twice in a row.
Ability 4 (Ultimate): Repent
Father Ignacio selects an enemy hero and casts a channel on them with his Bible. Father Ignacio and the enemy are placed into a confession chamber, where the enemy will confess their sins to him for a maximum of 5 seconds. While in this state, they will experience "Judgement" in the eyes of God: while in the confession chamber, Father Ignacio's teammates can shoot the chamber to deal incoming damage to kill the enemy, while the enemy's teammates can heal them while in the confession chamber to save them. If any incoming damage is outhealed by the enemy team, then the enemy in Father Ignacio's ultimate will survive. Initial cooldown of 2 minutes (120 seconds).
Main Weapon: Guardian Angel of the Mendoza, a stylized M1911-like pistol that starts with 7 bullets and with stats similar to Lady Geist's revolver. My mental image of the pistol was some sort of mix between Maria from Fallout: New Vegas, A Light in Shining Darkness from Fallout: New Vegas, Hick's Pistol from the movie Priest, and the Hellsing ARMS Casull from Hellsing Ultimate. I really like the idea of a priest having a stylized engraved M1911, but with a cross for an iron sight.
Basic Lore: Father Ignacio is, or was rather, a well-respected priest from East Harlem. Father Ignacio was active in the community and many confided in him as a representative of God. He preached his religion in a Catholic church in the same neighborhood that Ivy originated from, however, he was secretly corrupt and was loyal to the Mendoza Syndicate. While he preached morals and teachings stipulated by the Catholic Church, he did not practice what he preached and used his position as a respected priest to protect and work alongside the Mendoza Syndicate. Upon its dismantlement by Ivy, his peers around him were arrested or slain. Father Ignacio only avoided jail time due to his reputation as a priest, however, his community shunned him and he was forced to leave his church. After this, his motivations shifted away from serving God: he now seeks revenge against a certain gargoyle that effectively excommunicated him from his own church.
Ability 1: Holy Hand Grenade
Father Ignacio launches a bottle of holy water that targets similarly to the Bebop bomb. This ability can target allies and enemies. If casted upon an ally, the ally will take 200 damage, but they will negate 100% of incoming spirit damage and heal at an accelerated regeneration rate for 4 seconds. If casted upon an enemy, the enemy will take 200 damage, become disarmed, and receive burn damage for 4 seconds. Think of this as like Oracle's Purifying Flames and Fates Edict as a single ability. The damage scales with levels/upgrades placed into the ability. Initially an 8 second cooldown.
Ability 2: Cross Toss
Father Ignacio tosses his cross towards enemies and then calls it to return, similar to Beastmaster from DOTA 2. The cross can only hit a single enemy, but it works similarly to Lady Geist's knives in the sense that each hit of the cross stacks on the enemy. Each hit slows the enemy and the slows stack on each consecutive hit up to 5 stacks of slowness. The stacks also provide a bullet resistance reduction for each stack. Initially a 6 second cooldown.
Ability 3 (Passive): Venerate
Father Ignacio has the option to select a saint to venerate and pray to. Every saint produces a different AOE aura similar to the Dynamo heal in size. He can choose between the following 4 saints to pray to:
St. Valentine: Produces martyr aura, which amplifies incoming healing and health regeneration for all surrounding allies. Not sure how much healing regeneration or incoming healing should be amplified.
St. Michael: Produces archangel aura, which amplifies all outgoing damage for all surrounding allies. I'm not sure how much outgoing damage should be amplified either.
St. Nicholas: Produces wonder worker aura, which reduces the outgoing damage of all surrounding enemy creeps or heroes. Not sure how much this reduction could be.
St. John Macias: Produces rosary aura, which "redirects and relieves the souls stuck in purgatory." Or, in other words, the rate of souls received per last hit increases for all surrounding allies. Not sure by how much though.
He can swap his aura every 30 seconds, but he cannot pray to the same saint twice in a row.
Ability 4 (Ultimate): Repent
Father Ignacio selects an enemy hero and casts a channel on them with his Bible. Father Ignacio and the enemy are placed into a confession chamber, where the enemy will confess their sins to him for a maximum of 5 seconds. While in this state, they will experience "Judgement" in the eyes of God: while in the confession chamber, Father Ignacio's teammates can shoot the chamber to deal incoming damage to kill the enemy, while the enemy's teammates can heal them while in the confession chamber to save them. If any incoming damage is outhealed by the enemy team, then the enemy in Father Ignacio's ultimate will survive. Initial cooldown of 2 minutes (120 seconds).
Main Weapon: Guardian Angel of the Mendoza, a stylized M1911-like pistol that starts with 7 bullets and with stats similar to Lady Geist's revolver. My mental image of the pistol was some sort of mix between Maria from Fallout: New Vegas, A Light in Shining Darkness from Fallout: New Vegas, Hick's Pistol from the movie Priest, and the Hellsing ARMS Casull from Hellsing Ultimate. I really like the idea of a priest having a stylized engraved M1911, but with a cross for an iron sight.
