[Hero Concept] - The Blight

[PinkyBowTie]

All skills are explain in more depth bellow, more art and images at the bottom too

==Preface==
This all started as a simple original character I wanted to make because I love the artstyle and the lore of deadlock and I felt like a lovecraftian horror would fit perfectly, but friends and people on on social media pushed me to expand the idea and post it here, I havent thought of upgrades for the skills yet. It's not perfect, think that all values could be reworked but I think as is the idea has potential since a lot of people seem to like him a lot, so thank you for everyone who helped me build him so far!

==Lore==
"One whish that will make me whole."

Blight is a god like the patrons, his main form and full strength has been sealed away for unkown reasons by other gods (probably because he is unhinged). He is currently partaking in the ritual to recover his full strength and get back at the people who wronged him. (In my head he is also linked to Abrams tome because I imagine it to be the Necronomicon from Lovecraft)

==Playstyle==
"Listen to the whispers of the deep, and let your mind fall appart."
-His massive size makes him a high health tank but leaves him with very poor movement and range options, his strength revolve around his passive and his ability to somewhat control the battlefield with his acid pools and ult.
-His playstyle relies on him disturbing enemies in team fights, he's not the greatest on his own so he thrives in chaos and long lasting fights, at the beginning of a fight a Blight not taken care of can have terrible outcomes in the long run.

==Abilities==
"You die or I die..."
[Gun]-Uncle Davy:
A old lever action shotgun, powerful upclose, less so from afar.
Blight found it in the ocean, since his full power got sealed away his is forced to use lesser means to fight.

[1]-Thrashing tendril:
Blight uses his tentacle arm and swipes it in a fan shape in front of him, knocking back enemies
The ability can be charged, it gives it more range and apply an upward knockback instead of a push.

[2]-Eldrich Bile:
Blight extends his tentacle arm and continuously spews for a set duration, acid leaves trails for a short time that damages anyone enemies who walk on it. You can cancel the ability at any time by pressing space.
The ability can be charged, it makes you lobs an acid ball that also leaves an acid pool when hitting the ground, but is hard to hit due to it's arch curve throw and somewhat slow projectile

[PASSIVE]-Old one's presence:
As an oponent, when Blight enters around the center of your vision madness stacks starts to build up on you, the closer you are to him the faster it builds (on average 1 stack per second)
Being far still applies madness but extremely slowly to the point where it has almost no effect outside of halting the decay of madness stacks.
Breaking line of sight slowly reduces madness overtime.(on average 1 stack removed per second when not looking at him, the more stacks you have the faster you lose them).
Depending on how many madness stacks you have applied on you, when looking at blight you will get a screen distortion effects, hear noises like whispers and blight will get a dark aura.

Reaching a certain ammount of stacks will debuff you in stages until you lose stacks

>10 stacks, stage 1
blight can see you through terrain and he heals himself by a portion of any damage he deals to you

>20 stacks, stage 2
lowers spirit resistance

>30 stacks, stage 3
lowers movement speed

>40 stacks, stage 4 (Third upgrade of the passive)
reduces healing received



[4]-Call of the deep:
When in range of an enemy Blight can hex them and isolate them with him in an parallel dimension for a duel. The arena is the same area where the ult was cast so its important as Blight to not cast it where terain could be working against you. When in this arena both you and your target are completly invisible to enemies and allies. A dark fog surrounds the arena and leaving it damages you. The effects stops when either you or your target dies or if the duration of the ability expires. If you succeed in killing your target you are rewarded with partial healing and your cooldowns being refreshed, except your ult.


==Bonus==
"Trust me if I could do this ritual on my own I would"
Blight has the quirk of not being able to use "thanks" commands (he's mean)

ABRAMS DO NOT TURN AROUND

 

[cruzeriv16]

This guy looks pretty cool i will say. I like the power concept as well.

 

[MyWifeLeftMe]

ok I'm a sucker for anything eldritch and Deepsea so this design and the abilities are right up my alley

 

[horatio_svetlana]

Old One's Presence is so fucking cool as an idea on its own that they could completely rework the kit and it'd still work.

Love the design too, it's like a Lovecraftian Mr X.

Having his gun be something he got from humans after being depowered is interesting. I don't believe the concept of an eldritch deity losing his power then having to assimilate into human company has really been explored before. Fits Deadlock perfectly. I like to imagine he's weirdly nice to mortals like they're dogs, we already have so many dick characters that one god character who is clearly evil but friendly would be fun.



Blight, "I heard you used to be a statue."
Ivy, "A gargoyle but yes."
Blight, "I used to be a god."
Ivy, "And?"
Blight chuckles, "I fall, statues rise, mortality isn't what it used to be."

 

[PinkyBowTie]

Old One's Presence is so fucking cool as an idea on its own that they could completely rework the kit and it'd still work.

Love the design too, it's like a Lovecraftian Mr X.

Having his gun be something he got from humans after being depowered is interesting. I don't believe the concept of an eldritch deity losing his power then having to assimilate into human company has really been explored before. Fits Deadlock perfectly. I like to imagine he's weirdly nice to mortals like they're dogs, we already have so many dick characters that one god character who is clearly evil but friendly would be fun.



Blight, "I heard you used to be a statue."
Ivy, "A gargoyle but yes."
Blight, "I used to be a god."
Ivy, "And?"
Blight chuckles, "I fall, statues rise, mortality isn't what it used to be."

This dialogue with Ivy goes HARD, but about the him being nice, for now I have the idea that he's the worst person in the whole cast and wants to kill absoluterly everyone and destroy everything, that's why he's physically unable to use the "thanks" command ! But honestly like you said I'd take any cuts if the passive and look of the character were to get in the game !