Scholar's Nemesis Revealed (Spoilers?)

The Scholar was the first character I played and has endured as an extreme staple in many games. Progeny  in the podcastwas described as having many forms including an Ice one and was able to shift the battle mechanics by shifting forms. This pretty much gives the mechanics resemblance to suit being the scholars nemesis considering his elemental forms.

Also Progeny was described as the hardest villain in WotC and well as much as the Scholar has probably the crappiest superhero suit ever he always projects this feeling that he's only there when shit really hits the fan. This could also link up to the alchemical symbol on the box. Could it mean that the thing that kinda looks like a planet eater could be an alchemical Humonculous of epic proportions? I know it's wild speculations but the guesswork to get the story components is as much fun as the game itself.

That's what we're all here for - speculation, misdirection, and the occasional smoke bomb!

The knee jerk reaction would be to match Capt. Cosmic with Progeny but I like your connection with The Scholar.

Mod Voice:

Hey, Playtesters. Hands off this one. 

I think the green dude with the Dr. Doom face-mask that was shown being chased by Captain Cosmic in the "Preview of the Cosmic" topic is CC's nemesis. In fact, I think it is his lost twin brother who got touched by the same meteor energy as CC, but somehow his newfound power changed him.

Progeny being the Scholar's nemesis makes good sense, based on his described power-palette and I am certainly curious to see whether it is the big hulking silver dude that has been seen crawling out of the ground in Parse's deck.

I always wondered what a mod voice sounded like. Now I know, it’s bold.

You should know. You've talked with all the mods in person by now, right?

My thoughts exactly!

It's a question of whose alchemy is better?  In addition The Scholar has multiple damage types he is able to do from his cards and even if he doesn't have one of those in hand he just heal up instead.  

All of the Villains have awesome backstory and powers in this expansion, and there will be lots of speculation to go around.

I can't wait to see the artwork and quotes.

PTers don't get much backstory (if any at all) on new characters. I am just as pumped for the backstory on these characters (villains especially) as everyone else. The stuff about Deadline in that podcast was really really interesting, especially being kinda connected to the 2nd environment. I. Can't. Wait.

I was more concerned with specific nemeses, as that is PT knowledge.

Yeah, that podcast really set things off, I can't wait for more, but I will have to.  So I Will.

I have! It was great!

Yeah, yeah, I know that was directed at me.

Side note: I don’t think Nigel is Hugh’s twin. I thought Nigel was older.

Hmm. We don't have a paraplegic hero. Just a villain, right?

Which villain in SotM?

One of the Crackjaw Crew is in a floating wheelchair thingy

And one of the Underbosses in Tactics...

I feel like highbrow is as well, or maybe she’s just so smart she doesn’t need to use her legs.

Highbrow is seen standing in one of the cards from "The Sentinels" deck: "Blackout" (If I'm not mistaken)

But in Sentinel Tactics, she’s shown confined to a wheelchair, and looking pretty worse for wear.

What podcast are you talking about?  Also is there a podcast thread somewhere so that we can have links to each new one to hear about the game/speculate?

Giant fire breathing robot did a podcast interviewing Christopher. It happens only every so often so, no, unfortunately there is no central thread.