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Ouroboros

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This article is about the zone. For the organization, see Menders of Ouroboros.
Ouroboros
Map Ouroboros.jpg

Hero/Villain City Zone (25-50)

Trainers: none
TF Contacts: Mender Lazarus,
Twilight's Son,
Mender Tesseract,
Mender Silos
Events: none
Exploration Badges: Chrononaut
Plaques: none
Day Jobs: Chronologist
Enemies: none
Connecting Zones: Atlas Park, Founders' Falls, Independence Port, Peregrine Island, Talos Island

Cap au Diable, Sharkhead Isle, Nerva Archipelago, St. Martial, Grandville

Transits: none


Overview

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The headquarters of the mysterious Menders of Ouroboros. Heroes and villains can both visit this zone, but they appear in different instances, with differences in contacts and missions. There are missions and Task Forces here, as well as the Flashback system.

An Ouroboros is the symbol of the dragon eating its own tail, which has existed for centuries throughout Norse, Greek, African, Hindu, and many other systems of mythology. It is also a central image throughout the novel "The Worm Ouroboros" by E.R. Eddison.

Contacts

Neighborhoods

There are no neighborhoods explicitly marked on the Ouroboros map. However, the following music will play in the background while in the zone.

Exploration Badges

The following exploration badge can be found in Ouroboros:

File:Badge tourist 01.pngFile:V badge TourismBadge.png Chrononaut

Welcome to Ouroboros. You have a feeling as if there is a lot of work that needs to be done.

Day Jobs

File:Badge DayJob Mender.png Chronologist

You have spent a great deal of time working with the agents of Ouroboros earning you the Chronologist Day Job. Logging out in Ouroboros will earn you a bonus enhancement recipe, when you log back in, each time you complete a mission for a short time.

Stores

Transfer Points

Trivia

  • You can sometimes see the moon around the sky. However, apart from that, everything looks to be a part of the Shadow Shard. It would also be physically impossible for the Moon to continue to orbit the Earth if the Earth was shattered. What exactly this means about Ouroboros is unknown at this time.
  • Theory: Since the Ouroboros zone has features of both the Shadow Shard and Primal Earth, it is possible the "Coming Storm" is a successful Rularuu invasion. Perhaps part of Rularuu's escape from the Shadow Shard involves "bleeding" the two worlds together. Though this doesn't necessarily explain the Shivans, which are supposedly heralds of the invasion. This could mean that the Shivan meteors are from the Shadow Shard, but a point that Portal Corp hasn't gotten to yet (thus is not yet known).
  • Theory: If the above theory is true, then it is possible that Earth's bodies of water (oceans, rivers, lakes, etc.) covered up the land and rose to the point where the whole planet was a water one, with the Rularuu invasion having the effect of creating the asteroids around Ouroboros. Thus the moon would still have a gravitational pull, and the Shadow Shard would still have an effect.