OVERWATCH LORE Index Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 Omnic Crisis and Overwatch’s creation ..................................................................................... 4 After the crisis ............................................................................................................................ 5 Overwatch’s fall ......................................................................................................................... 7 Overwatch’s original members .................................................................................................. 8 The present ................................................................................................................................. 9 Around the world ..................................................................................................................... 10 Adlersbrunn .......................................................................................................................... 10 Dorado .................................................................................................................................. 10 Ecopoint: Antartica ............................................................................................................... 10 Eichenwalde .......................................................................................................................... 10 Hanamura .............................................................................................................................. 11 Hollywood ............................................................................................................................ 11 Ilios ....................................................................................................................................... 11 King’s Row ........................................................................................................................... 11 Lijiang Tower ....................................................................................................................... 12 Nepal ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Numbani ............................................................................................................................... 12 Oasis ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Route 66 ................................................................................................................................ 13 Temple of Anubis ................................................................................................................. 13 Volskaya Industries .............................................................................................................. 13 Watchpoint: Gibraltar ........................................................................................................... 14 Characters ................................................................................................................................. 15 Overwatch, pre-Crisis members ........................................................................................... 15 Jack “Soldier: 76” Morrison ............................................................................................. 15 Ana Amari ......................................................................................................................... 15 Torbjörn Lindholm ............................................................................................................ 16 Reinhardt Wilhelm ............................................................................................................ 16 Golden Era Overwatch members .......................................................................................... 18 Lena “Tracer” Oxton ......................................................................................................... 18 Winston ............................................................................................................................. 18 Jesse McCree .................................................................................................................... 20 Mei-Ling “Mei” Zhou ....................................................................................................... 20 1 Angela “Mercy” Ziegler.................................................................................................... 21 Genji Shimada ................................................................................................................... 21 Talon affiliation .................................................................................................................... 22 Reaper (formerly Gabriel Reyes) ...................................................................................... 22 Widowmaker (formerly Amélie Lacroix) ......................................................................... 23 Sombra .............................................................................................................................. 24 Omnics .................................................................................................................................. 24 Orisa .................................................................................................................................. 24 Tekharta Zenyatta ............................................................................................................. 25 SST Laboratories Siege Automaton E54, “Bastion” ........................................................ 25 Other or none affiliation ....................................................................................................... 26 Hanzo Shimada ................................................................................................................. 26 Fareeha “Pharah” Amari ................................................................................................... 27 Mako “Roadhog” Rutledge ............................................................................................... 27 Jamison “Junkrat” Fawkes ................................................................................................ 28 Satya “Symmetra” Vaswani .............................................................................................. 28 Lúcio Correia dos Santos .................................................................................................. 29 Hana “D.VA” Song ........................................................................................................... 29 Aleksandra “Zarya” Zaryanova ........................................................................................ 30 References ................................................................................................................................ 32 Blog articles and Social Media ............................................................................................. 32 Character profiles ................................................................................................................. 33 Comics .................................................................................................................................. 34 Videos ................................................................................................................................... 34 Picture Index ............................................................................................................................ 36 Contact information .................................................................................................................. 37 2 Introduction My name is Lydia Millqvist. I’m a Swedish game development student at the University of Skövde but more importantly, in this case, a huge fan of Overwatch. I also very much enjoy lore in games. This document is a compilation of all the mayor Overwatch lore I could find. It started off with me copying the info text on all the characters from Overwatch’s website and suddenly I was scavenging the internet for any canon lore. Thus, practically everything written here has a source. If a paragraph doesn’t contain a footnote with a source the information in said paragraph was taken from the same place as the next mentioned footnote. If you find anything inconsistent, wrongly spelled, grammatically incorrect and so forth, don’t hesitate to contact me. My contact information is at the end of this document. 3 Omnic Crisis and Overwatch’s creation Over thirty years ago, Omnica Corporation revolutionized robotic manufacturing and it seemed the world was on the verge of entering an economic golden age.1 Their massive factories of automated construction machines and self-improving software algorithms were patented, marketed as “omniums,” and installed on every continent. After some time, the omniums began to break down. Independent analysis showed they would never come close to meeting the corporation’s promises of growth and output. Omnica was investigated and forcibly dissolved after evidence of fraud was uncovered, its omniums shut down. No one was prepared for the defunct, dismantled omniums to wake themselves back up and launch