Monday, July 16, 2007

The Riddler





            Edward Nygma, AKA The Riddler, was envisioned as a rogue member of the Technocracy. Nygma had been a programmer for Iteration X for a few years. He had been writing problem solving programs for H.I.T. Marks. He showed so much promise that he was given a promotion to field work. The infiltration of a Sons of Ether Chantry located somewhere around Gotham University. Nygma is a former student of Dr. Black's from Gotham U.
            Nygma's Souvenir:
            The first field test of Nygma's problem solving programs had proven successful. A friendly field agent gives Nygma a Garou Fetish with a Wyldling spirit bound in it: A Tarot deck that Edward carries with him.

            Edward was rubbish at being sneaky, but the members of the department (including Victor Von Fries, AKA Mr. Freeze) took him into their confidences. The Sons were aware of Edward’s agenda, but decided to take a chance on him in spite of that. They attempted to indoctrinate him into the True Science, as they call their magick. Once they filled his mind with these wonders, they allowed him to return to his superiors. They sent back a time-bomb.
            A group of Void Engineers take a Qui La Machinae to a Sons of Ether Sanctum near Gotham University. They use a Pattern Disrupter on a few of the Sons. Nygma, Tarot deck still in his pocket, is there. The Void Engineer’s disrupt Nygma's pattern. They realize who he was and "Beam him back". In their attempt to reconstitute his pattern, they combine his dynamic energy with that of the Wyldling spirit bound into the cards. Edward’s mind is awash in questions.
            Above all, Riddler values intelligence, intellect. He finds the fact that the Technocracy want to keep the Masses ignorant repellant. Riddler’s master plan was to shatter the gauntlet that separates our reality from the infinite worlds of spirit and mind that exist beyond the Horizon.
            While the other villains threatened the city, Riddler threatened reality itself.
            …and he had a plan…

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