Editing Omen (section)

===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.