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+Base it off the Warrior enitiy page shown below
+{{Spoiler}}{{Incomplete}}
+{{Template:Worm Wiki: Character Template
+| name = Eden
+|Image=Flesh_Garden_by_Lonsheep.jpg
+|imagecaption = Image by [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7gp3hb/arc_29_illustration_a_girl_woke_from_a_dream/ lonsheep on Reddit].
+| gender = Female
+| web serial =[[Venom 29.8]]
+| family = [[Zion]] (Parent/Mate/Sibling/Offspring)
+}}
+'''Eden, '''as an [[Entity]], [[Zion]]'s counterpart and the source of half of the [[Shard|superpowers]] granted to mankind.
+==Personality==
+Not much is known of Eden's personality, and it is difficult to describe the personality of an entity given the alien and transcendent nature of their being.
+However, we do know that Eden is relatively more creative and constructive than her counterpart entity, The Warrior.
+==Abilities and Powers==
+Eden effectively has the same abilities as The Warrior due to "multiple parallels" in their bodies and intelligence. A key difference was that Eden was also '''The Thinker'''. It was largely her role to understand, emulate and manipulate the lives of the Humans on the multiple versions of planet [[Earths|Earth]].
+Unlike her silent counterpart, she would have been able to perfectly mimic a human.
+== History ==
+===Background===
+The [[Entity|Entities]] first arose on a grey, silty world, which they destroyed and rode the explosion out to new worlds.
+The early ancestor of The Warrior first landed on a world with caustic acid rain, filled with plant life, as did another Entity. The two parasitized the plant life to survive and reproduce, and experimented, using their abilities to nourish and protect the plants and seeing which ones survived.
+The two devoured the plants and took back their shards, forming once again into two singular entities. The second entity suggested to the ancestor that the two attack each other, in small, measured ways, and then recombine their shards and attack each other again so that they might find the combinations that survived and discard the rest. After experimenting like that as well for a time, they destroyed that world as well, sending out countless fragments of themselves to other worlds.
+The Warrior's ancestor landed on a world with advanced technology. The entities learned of gravity-warping technology, and were studied in turn by the species. Some of them sought to rule; those they had bonded with lost the war, and the entities were rooted out. They formed three larger Entities, who destroyed the planet and fled, offspring scattering in every direction. This time, they controlled their paths with gravity and warped space.
+The cycle repeated over three thousand times, and they grew more powerful each time. At some point, The Warrior's ancestors divided themselves into two entities, [[Warrior Entity|Warrior]] and Thinker, who would travel in pairs together. Each had slightly different attitudes and capabilities, so that they could compare different ways of doing things.<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref>
+===Approaching Earth===
+As Eden began to approach Earth, she drew towards Scion before they began to pick out various sub-worlds for themselves and their shards. She felt that Scion's constant communications were distracting as she was using her powers to begin mapping out their actions after their arrival. She started to reform herself for a deeper simulation when she noticed a third broadcast. Recognizing that it was a broadcast from another Entity, Eden hesitated before sending a broadcast signaling her location.
+The third Entity sent a garbled reply and Eden spent time analyzing it. She was then met by the [[Abaddon|third Entity]] who rammed against her in an ancient tradition meant to exchange shards. She worked to salvage key shards and give ones she could afford to lose on to the other Entity. Eden and the third Entity broke apart before Scion broadcasted his concern.
+Eden sent a confident response back and allowed Scion to take over some of her duties before she looked through her new shards. After looking through them, she began to form a simulacrum of the host species, set out criteria for an optimal future, and then looked for a future that matched that optimal future.
+Scion interrupts the simulation, asking about their destination, and Eden absently agrees. She think on the future she had seen and starts to refine it. She reorganizes herself as she approaches their destination and sends Scion a confident reply when he expresses concern. Eden continues to work on her reorganization until she hits the ground.
+On the way down, Eden alters one of the third Entities' shards, replacing her own ability to find the optimal future. She realizes that she has made a mistake too late to fix it and hits the ground hard at one world's version of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast Cote D'ivoire, Africa].<ref>Cote D'ivoire, early 1980s, alternate earth with doors to Contessa's world and to Doctor Mother's. They limited access to the doors and later built the complex around her. - [https://redd.it/4plwx6 Wildbow's comment on Reddit]</ref>
+Later, Eden starts to pull herself together. She starts to experiment as she works to create a humanoid avatar. After some time, she raises her head and opened her eyes to see [[Fortuna]] standing before her. She realizes that Fortuna possessed the shard she had discarded and restricted it - rendering her and others like her immune to the shard's future-seeing power. Eden then dismissed Fortuna before it continued to create her avatar and bent over.
+[[Doctor Mother]] drove a knife into her neck - severing a connection when she was most vulnerable. Eden struggled to form itself and failed. Eden died.
+===Legacy===
+Following her death, Eden's body was used by [[Cauldron]] as a source of serums to give people powers, i.e. to connect them to Eden's shards; although there are some natural triggers with Eden shards, e.g. [[Leet]].
+===[[Gold Morning]]===
+[[Scion|Zion]] found her body; [[Taylor Hebert|Taylor]] speculated that he had used his path-to-victory ability to find a world where he would meet his partner again, unaware that she would be brain dead. He began destroying her body, however the PRT Strike team led by Taylor was able to use the body one more time to psychologically wound Zion.<ref name="29.8">He looked for futures where he’d find his counterpart, I thought.  This was one of them… just not what he wanted or expected.  Probably not even something he thought was possible. [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/venom-29-8/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.8]]</ref>
+==Trivia==
+*The name "Eden" is not used in the text - it was invented in a comment by a fan and then used as a character tag on the Interlude.
+== Fanart Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+Death of Eden.png|[[Contessa]] sees a vision of [[the Cycle]].
+Browbeat in Eden.jpg|[[Browbeat]] stands in the remains of [[Eden]]. Above, two Entities weave their way to a new destination.
+Entity fanart.png|The two Entities travel through space.
+</gallery>
+{{Reflist}}--{{spoilers}}
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+| type        = [[Entity]]
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+| inhabitants = [[Shard]]s
+| web serial = -- first appearance goes here --
+}}
+The '''Warrior''' was the [[Entity]] that granted most [[Trigger Event#Natural Trigger|Natural Triggers]] their [[parahuman]] abilities.
+== Description ==
+==Personality==
+The entity remembers the entire history of it's species, back to a time when they were confined to a single planet and ceaselessly fought each other for food. It had learned lessons from over three thousand successful cycles.
+The entity was most aware and focused during the portion of the cycle when it approached a new world, judging which reality to focus on.
+It took a subtly different stance to [[Eden]] during the cycle, with the pair taking on different roles as "attacker and defender, warrior and [[Thinker Entity|thinker]], builder and destroyer". This allowed them to compare and explore different possibilities and perspectives during the cycle. This entity was supposed to be the the warrior, the protector; [[the Counterpart]] was supposed to be the passive figure, the thinker, the planner.<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref>
+===Relationships===
+==Abilities and Powers==
+The Warrior Entity had slightly different capabilities to the [[Thinker Entity]], with a different focus. In general, however, they shared [[Entity#Abilities and Powers|the standard Entity abilities]].
+[[The Partner]] was supposed to focus on planning, including analyzing the host culture, but the Warrior was able to tune some of it's shards for this purpose instead. It picked out the [[Earth Bet|ideal world]] for them to focus on at the beginning, although they planned to eventually spread to every [[Earths|Earth]].
+==[[Shard]]s==
+The Warrior originally possessed the shards responsible for most [[Trigger Event#Natural Trigger|Natural Triggers]]. This included [[Imp]], [[Jack Slash]], [[Dinah Alcott]] and [[Taylor Hebert]].
+==History==
+===Background===
+The [[Entity|Entities]] first arose on a grey, silty world, which they destroyed and rode the explosion out to new worlds.
+The early ancestor of the Warrior first landed on a world with caustic acid rain, filled with plant life, as did another Entity. The two parasitized the plant life to survive and reproduce, and experimented, using their abilities to nourish and protect the plants and seeing which ones survived.
+The two devoured the plants and took back their shards, forming once again into two singular entities. The second entity suggested to the ancestor that the two attack each other, in small, measured ways, and then recombine their shards and attack each other again so that they might find the combinations that survived and discard the rest. After experimenting like that as well for a time, they destroyed that world as well, sending out countless fragments of themselves to other worlds.
+The Warrior's ancestor landed on a world with advanced technology. The entities learned of gravity-warping technology, and were studied in turn by the species. Some of them sought to rule; those they had bonded with lost the war, and the entities were rooted out. They formed three larger Entities, who destroyed the planet and fled, offspring scattering in every direction. This time, they controlled their paths with gravity and warped space.
+The cycle repeated over three thousand times, and they grew more powerful each time. At some point, the Warrior's ancestors divided themselves into two entities, Warrior and [[Thinker Entity|Thinker]], who would travel in pairs together. Each had slightly different attitudes and capabilities, so that they could compare different ways of doing things.<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref>
+===Approaching Earth===
+From outside it's galactic cluster, the Warrior reached out with clairvoyance and precognition to select [[Earths|a destination]] and communicated this information to [[Eden]]. The entity was concerned that it's partner seemed passive, distracted from this vital decision.  It analysed humanity and tuned it's shards so that they would operate effectively, not harming the hosts or otherwise spoiling the cycle.
+The process is interrupted with the arrival of another, third Entity. The Warrior realizes that this was what had distracted the Thinker and watched as it met with the Thinker. He then realizes that the Thinker has sacrificed too much and expressed his concern only for the Thinker to broadcast its confidence and plans for the future. He makes up for the Thinker's disability, devoting resources towards analyzing, and focuses on one reality.
+The Warrior and the Thinker work together to designate realities for their shards before the Warrior expands his focus and looks for likely hosts for their shards.
+He looks towards the future and, after seeing the shards murdering their hosts, adjusts their shards' innate safeguards so as to protect the hosts. He refines the process, limiting certain abilities, and broadcasts his suggestions and tips to the Thinker. The Warrior then breaks up a shard cluster, tunes it, then codes the effect into each and every shard so that the host species will forget the information they see within the shards.
+The entity then looks thirty-three years into the future, observing possible variations on  [[Imp]]'s [[trigger event]]. It sends her power to her father, but conceives the idea of having them jump to different hosts if they are in distress, conceiving the idea of having [[trigger Event|powers be acquired through traumatic events]].
+The Warrior shares this information with the Thinker and then begins shedding shards that it won't need. He notices the Thinker descending and hemorrhaging shards in clusters. He checks over the shards and sees they are technically correct, but expresses a warning. The Thinker sends a confident reply back and the Warrior focuses on his own destination and the next step of the cycle.
+When the Thinker and the Warrior reach the solar system, he sacrifices some of his shards to shore up the Thinker where he can. The Thinker expresses her gratitude before the Warrior turns his focus towards adapting. He briefly looks at the reality they have chosen, checking for any danger to the cycle, and is satisfied with the results. He breaks up its shard that allows him to see the future, recoded them, and sent one off while keeping the rest for himself. The Warrior discards and cripples a few more shards before finally descending onto a barren planet.
+The Warrior created a humanlike [[Scion|avatar]] for itself, with a human mind and emotions, and looked out at the world.
+{{Reflist}}
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