Editing Omen (section)

==Varieties==
Omens are omens whatever incarnation they derive from, however, the specific circumstances of their creation and interaction with Other s can create specific varieties.
===Bodement===
Hypothesized the be futures shucked off by innocents bereft of opportunities now looking for a way to carry out their purpose.<ref>Bodements are a form of Omen.  To many, they appear as shadows, but as they draw closer to a target, they gain more definition.  Believed to be the offshoots of prophecies and endings that were unable to come to pass, often because the target died first (drawing power from said death), a bodement could even arise as a consequence of non-practice, non-Other matters, when enough people are on their way to a horrible end and do not reach the consequences.<br><br>The Bodement stalks its often undeserving prey, choosing that prey by some combination of physical traits, an invitation to balance the scales, and karma- a flirtation with the Other and a step toward Awareness in combination with having a vague similarity to the person the Bodement's bad end was normally for.  As they draw closer to a target, they gain clarity.  They will appear in reflections, dreams, whispers, and speak through noise- the interstitial channels while rapidly flipping through channels or when dialing through radio stations.  A voice that, when you go back, has no root.<br><br>The endings they bring about are often more sad than tragic.  Especially common in areas where the Innocent civilian populace neglects a lower class, at the borders between upper and lower class.  A daughter of a rich family is seized by a Bodement and largely through her inability to empathize or face down the reality that came from literally two blocks away, she is chased down and seized by a Bodement.  A store manager who runs a high-end jewelry business, in his anger as he chases off the homeless, resembles someone, and a Bodement latches onto him.  The Bodements give them different endings than one would expect.  The daughter looks to have fun and the safety net behind her suddenly no longer exists, and she becomes an addict, scraping by, with no family.  The store manager is baited to go too far in his anger and kills someone, and ends up jobless, an ex-felon, drunk, alone, and poor.  Another may go mad, or get ill. - Wildbow on Discord</ref>
===Doom===
A '''Doom''' or '''''[[Wikipedia:Moirai|Moira]]'''''<ref>“We’re meant ta go left, here,” Alpeana said.<br><br>Verona knocked on the window.<br><br>“What!?” Matthew called back.<br><br>“Left turn!”<br><br>He turned.<br><br>“Are you scared of him?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Scared o’ tha ''Moira'', a wee bit closer to tha surface.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref><ref>''Moíra'', Doom, was the loudest of them all, shouting after her, rather than whispering, to tell her that this could so easily end badly for everyone involved.  Herself in particular. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]</ref> (Greek for what we would now recognize as 'Fate') is a hostile Other, along the lines of an [[Omen]] or lesser [[Incarnation]] of Doom.

Seemingly interchangeable with Omen though it seems to be in a refined state where it targets a specific person, wearing thir face specifically which means things in Practice.
===Portents===
A fusion with a compatible [[Echo]] that settles into a stable configuration, theirs is a cyclical existence drawing power from events related to their Echo and Omen constituent parts.<ref>Portentum "a sign, token, omen; monster, monstrosity".  An Echo looks to the past, but omens mark future events.  Between, if echo and omen find equilibrium, there is room for something to be held.  Big, horrific events.  Spirits, other echoes or splinters of the original echo may fill the space, or an elemental may settle in - usually less sapient or sentient forces, who value the hallow formed more than they mind the monotony of that particular existence.  Most are tortured or put through the wringer as the echo and omen twist them and put them through the same events over and over again.<br><br>In practice, the *Portentum* marks a future event, and wanders or clarifies as it draws power and finds loose connections.  Key figures who line up nicely for the event to happen may see themselves in the Portentum, or see the Portentum itself.  A man sees himself burning as he's slated to do, his mirror self whispering a date.  A nurse sees a school's worth of dead children in reflections behind her, her own expression in the reflection something emotionally tortured, with a seven-league stare.  It's not easy, but the Portentum can be unraveled, challenged, or averted, by figuring it out or targeting the connections that tie it to reality, and this gets easier but higher-stakes as the event draws nearer.  Most don't succeed in stopping it. - Wildbow on Discord</ref> Very hard to unwind.