Katie is made the focal point of the Network and it goes back up. Katie is once again in Praetor Tilman's grip as she stands entranced as a psychic antenna to reactivate the network. Though Vanessa hates to see Katie in the state, it was necessary to reactivate the Seer Network to prevent the Apparitions from possessing anyone else and filtering out the corrupting signal of the Talons of Vengeance. Going back to Midnight Master reveals a treasure trove of information. The Talons of Vengeance are emissaries of The Furies - the goddesses of vengeance in myth and legend.
The Furies' anger only arises enough to create Talons of Vengeance in the world when sacred oaths have been broken and divine power is abused - as Emperor Cole has been abusing the Well of the Furies for petty political power along with Diabolique forsaking her oaths to the Midnighters and Ravenwing Cabal it appears the treachery of the Praetors has brought the Talon of Vengeance into being in Praetoria - focused on the First Ward.
The mystical energies in the First Ward the result of the summoning. Midnight Master also tells the players and Vanessa that Serene intends to use Diabolique as sacrifice to grant her to full power of the Furies and if summoning them was enough to create the vortex, having their full power would likely widen it to obliterate all the the First Ward as it's new nexus point, rather than simply above it.
When asking how to kill Diabolique to prevent the sacrifice, Midnight Master says nothing can kill her, not unless they had the talisman her father used to summon her, but it was in possession of Emperor Cole. Vanessa DeVore sends the players to the still enthralled Katie Douglas to use her astral projection to send them into Emperor Cole's palace at the center of Praetoria to get the Talisman. Dominatrix has the Talisman and offers it to the players freely, but they need to attack her first - if she is beaten-up she can manipulate her grandfather into reassigning her superior officer, Praetor White, leaving her and only her as the head of security in the city.
After beating Dominatrix half-to-death she tosses the players Diabolique's amulet and waves them farewell, as Praetor White is hear charging in, it become apparent they players will not have the opportunity to finish Dominatrix off anyway. Finally with the First Ward secured, the Apparitions and Talons of Vengeance unable to continue to possess and brainwash it's citizens, the true nature of nearly all parties revealed and the talisman used to make Diabolique a ghost in the first place, Vanessa DeVore and the players are ready to end the feud between Sorceress Serene and Diabolque once and for all, before it destroys the First Ward entirely.
The Talisman is given to Midnight Master but he had given it to Sorceress Serene - apparently working with her the whole time, half to flirt with her, but mainly to give him power over his captured true love, Diabolique. When encountered Midnight Master attacks the players while Sorceress Serene gets away.
Though arrogant at first, Midnight Master ends up pleading for his life and spared as player have more important affairs, getting back the talisman and stopping Sorceress Serene. Vanessa and the players hunt down Talons of Vengeance to get to their source.
And eventually the ritual sight is revealed as being held in a cavern beneath the southern crags. At the ritual site, Sorceress Serene is using the Talisman to completely obliterate Diabolique and send the remnants of her soul to the Furies.
At ritual Midnight Master returns and throws himself between Sorceress Serene and Diabolique to save her. Diabolique's bindings are destroyed in the explosion and she is free. Diabloquie and the players will team-up to kill Sorecress Serene once and for all. Though Sorceress Serene is dead, as is Midnight Master and her army of enthralled Apparitions, Diabolique has what she wanted all-along, she is free of Cole's hold.
But she does not intend to move on-to the afterlife, or live a quite existence, now free of any restrictions she reaches out to the Talons of Vengeance. The Talons are gathering for the awakening of a terrible God in Primal Earth, intent on visiting vengeance upon it for escaping it's binding and rebelling against the goddess who banished it's brethren.
Diabolique uses the vortex to travel from Praetoria to Primal Earth. There she meets and ultimately aligns with the God the Furies had gathered to exorcise, Mot. Villains Wiki. Villains Wiki Explore. Top Content. Jester of Chaos BeholderofStuff Valkerone. TimeShade TyA.
Pure Evil Terms. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Diabolique City of Heroes. View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? When the attack came, the fence held them back at first, but eventually they came from the ground up and devastated the city with massive tentacles.
The save the few citizens that survived, the fence would be turned in on the ground which would produce a catastrophic frequency loop and it worked. Years later the First Ward is a ghost town where the spirits of the dead linger and is filled with magical forces. Is it just mean or does building a fence never work? They always seem to get you from underneath these days. City of Heroes Issue Shades of G..
Choose Your Language:. It is a abandoned, forgotten place, and a home for those who are now forgotten and abandoned. First Ward was to be the seed from which the city of Praetoria would blossom. Fate, it seems, has other plans. Requires a VIP subscription. Main Article: The Seed of Hamidon. The Seed of Hamidon roams the warped skies of First Ward. This giant flying monster was dispatched by Hamidon to infest First Ward and transform it into a haven for the Devouring Earth.
Face off against the Seed of Hamidon during massive zone events, earning rare rewards if you defeat it. When the Devouring Earth struck First Ward the attack came suddenly and without warning. Thousands lost their lives on that terrible day. Though they knew they would likely never return to First Ward, the survivors laid the victims to rest in the Mercyview Cemetery believing the dead would wish to be close to the city they helped build.
The survivors believed too that one day they would return and reclaim First Ward in the name of the fallen. Mystical energies seethe and whirl overhead; hypnotizing in its terrible beauty. Standing this close to it one feels a charge in the air: the skin tingles with barely contained energy, the teeth ache to its harmonic vibration, the mind contemplates alien thoughts. You may feel as though you could fall upwards into it, be absorbed into it, become one with the vortex. You have penetrated the heart of the D.
Ranger facility, a breach in security that the rangers will be spending many long hours analyzing, pondering, and adjusting procedures over. Heads will roll. You represent what they fear the most: a dedicated, powerful, fearless insurgent who penetrates their defenses and wreaks havoc.
First Ward is a terrifying, dangerous place, but there is no other location within the ruins that can evoke such powerful feelings of fear and dread. Here, on an island left undisturbed by any of the forces vying for control, is the shell of a defeated Seed of Hamidon. As a gentle breeze blows across the island from the nearby sunken city, one could be left feeling cold and alone, staring at the corpse of an alien monster that is a harbinger of a vastly more powerful creature waiting just beyond the walls The homes and business of the people of First Ward turned into a death trap as hundreds of tons of steel and concrete were pulled down upon the city's residents.
Their city became their tomb, and its defenders, deployed along First Ward's perimeter, could only watch in horror as the city was destroyed from within.
The attack was Cole's first no-win scenario as Emperor. Most of his aides informed him that nuclear weapons were the only answer. But one aide promised him another solution, one that would not kill everyone in the city and offered a chance for some to survive. Praetor Keyes, inventor of the sonic fencing, had seen the flaw in his system and found a way to plug the hole.
He would turn the sonic fencing in on the city, causing a catastrophic frequency loop. This solution would leave everything in the center of the city dead, but unlike nuclear weapons, it offered a chance of survival to those outside of the city's center.
Cole approved the operation.
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