"The Historian" Hero Concept

spacebear87

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The historian would be an entity similar to that of the doorman, mysteriously powerful and clearly not quite human.
I envision the Historian to look like a wise old man with a big beard, he studied history and philosophy once, but through rituals and magic he discovered more about this world then even the patrons understand.

He learned about what he called "The Eyes", an ever looming presence that watches over himself and a group of currently... 32 other individuals within the deadlock world, these people are the other playable heroes in deadlock, basically what I am saying is, the Historian is partially self aware that they are being watched by US players, looking through the eyes of the fellow heroes.

Now, a meta character like that wouldn't be too entirely interesting, but the reason I want him to be meta is to match his abilities.

His kit would allow him to interact with key parts of the map, predetermined points made by the devs of course, that allow him to temporarily role parts of the map back to earlier versions of the game.

Hear me out, him being able to bring back the teleporters on the side lanes or raise mid from the earth in an ultimate to turn it back into mid temple, brining back jumppads or the old shop etc.

Now, I'm not saying he LITERIALLY roles back the map, new assets that look similar to the old ones would of course need to be made to work in the modern map, but I'm asking you to get a little creative here.

I was thinking, BIG changes to the map, like raising mid temple from the ground would be his ult.

Minor changes, like unlocking pathways that have since been sealed off (Remember how every time a area is remove from deadlock, the devs leave a door in its place? imagine if he could open those back up briefly for an escape) would be 1/3 of his normal abilities, and maybe the cooldown could scale depending on the change he chooses.

Of course, this would reward players who have been here since the beta and know the old map gimmicks well, and yes of course this is a complex hero, but I think it has the chance to be one of the most advanced and impressive heroes in any heroshooter ever.

Anyways, that's the basic idea.


As I side note, he doesn't know he's in a game, he just thinks the "eyes" are a godlike entity stronger then the patrons themselves and he wants to learn more about them, the patrons think he is crazy, so does everyone else.

Winding back the map to earlier versions in key predetermined spots doesn't mean he knows the MAP is a game asset or anything like that, it just means in his studies altering that part of the city is something he learned to do along the way.

He doesn't understand anything, and yet he has a better grip on how his world works then most.

I'd imagine he looks like a magical version of Charles Darwin, that's kinda what I imagine in my head.
 
I had another idea for his kit, imagine he could apply a buff to one ally, restoring their character to their most powerful iteration within the games development (think bringing back Yam's old ult or bebops more powerful bomb stacks and better hook, or Calico's cat turrets), of course this would be a brief buff and wouldn't keep them in that state for anything longer then 20-30 seconds, but still!

I'd say that's something that he could do instead of his ult, like his ult could do two things, map changes or hero restoring (because I realized if they ever added a new map, he'd be useless till a years time from now when they have made enough changes for him to work with)

Also imagine if when he uses his ult in a lane, that lane's line on the map flickers purple? THAT would be so cool.


Also ALSO-
Imagine if when he uses his ult on a particular hero, that hero then gets the skin of whatever version of the game he's being reverted to... imagine if one of the heroes was at their strongest version back in neon prime? or maybe just the beta version we all know and love? that would be such a cool detail.
 
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