Lady Geist

“

Sacrifices health then drains it back

Expending health to achieve devastating effects is the source of Lady Geist's power. When running low, she can drain the life out of her rivals.

An old-time socialite with a necromantic pact, Lady Geist is a terrifying foe that consumes her own health for her abilities while draining the life away from enemies. Sacrificing her life force to launch Essence Bombs and blood shards of Malice, Lady Geist can make up the lost health with a Life Drain tether to a nearby opponent. After being brought low by her own abilities or enemy attacks, she can conduct a Soul Exchange and swap health with her opponent, making them vulnerable to followup attacks from her revolver.

Lady Geist
Weapon: "Johann's Gift" BASE STATS
Weapon Stats
DPS:	56
Bullet Damage:	25+1.65
Ammo:	13
Bullets per sec:	2.22
Reload Time:	2.59s
Bullet Velocity:	828m/s
Light Melee:	63+2.67
Heavy Melee:	116+4.91
Falloff Range:	22m → 58m
Vitality Stats
Health:	650+41
Health Regen:	1
Move Speed:	6.3m/s
Sprint Speed:	1.5m/s
Stamina:	3

The Toast of the Town, Lady Geist was famed by all and invited to every ball and gala in the city... until her beauty faded in her old age and left her with only memories and stories of her glory. In desperation, she formed a pact with a powerful spirit and bound it by powerful wards until she was safe and young again. All she needs to do now is feed on the life force of her fellows to maintain her beauty... and hope desperately that the Oathkeeper will stay bound.

Abilities

Essence Bomb

7m

10.5s

Sacrifice some of your health to launch a bomb that deals damage after a brief arm time.
Self damage type is Spirit and can be mitigated.

x1.15

100

Damage

x1.97

30

Self Damage

0.5s  Arming Duration

1

+2m Radius

2

+60 Damage

5

Bombs leave a toxic mess on the ground, dealing 26% of the original damage per second, for 6s.

Life Drain

20m

2s

30s

Create a tether that drains enemy health over time and heals you. Target must be in line of sight and within max range to drain. You can shoot and use other abilities during the drain, but your move speed is reduced by half.
[Alt-Cast] to give health to friendly Heroes.
Press 2 to cancel.

x0.577

35

Damage Per Second

100%  Damage to Heal

30m  Max Tether Range

1

+20 Damage Per Second

2

+2s Duration

5

Enemy is Silenced while being Life Drained (requires line of sight)

Malice

6s

Sacrifice some of your health to launch blood shards that apply a stack of Malice. Each stack slows the victim and increases the damage they take from you. The slow effect decreases over time.

x0.721

32

Health To Damage

3  Blood Shards

5  Max Stacks

Effect Per Stack:

8%

Damage Amplification

Effect Per Stack:

15%

Movement Slow

9s  Debuff Duration

4s  Slow Duration

1

-3s Cooldown

2

+40 Health To Damage and +7% Damage Amp

5

+6 Blood Shards

Soul Exchange

7m

0.25s

170s

Swaps health levels with an enemy target. There is a minimum health percentage that enemies can be brought down to and a minimum amount of health received based on victims current health.

30%

Enemy Min Health

30%

Min Health Received

1

-38s Cooldown

2

-10% Enemy Min Health

5

On cast, +40% Fire Rate and +40% Spirit Resist for 8s.

Weapon

Weapon Stats	Falloff Range 22m - 58m 56 DPS
Johann's Gift
Medium Range Heavy Hitter

Background

“

Once, Lady Jeanne Geist was the toast of the town. But as time passed and her beauty faded she found herself further and further from her glory days in High Society until finally she was nothing more than a frail woman in a nursing home, telling stories of a glorious past. And that’s when Oathkeeper revealed himself. A powerful spirit from another plane, Oathkeeper offered her a path to reclaim her past glories… he could restore her youth; all she had to do was drain the essence of the living to sustain herself.

Geist was torn. Obviously murder was ghoulish business, and undoubtedly Oathkeeper was not an entity that could be trusted… but still, the thought of having a second chance of reliving her youth was too good to pass up. And so she concocted a plan; after making a pact with Oathkeeper she would bind and ward him, limiting his influence and pull over her. Oathkeeper would still get fed; but on her terms, not his.

However, as years have turned to decades; the strength of the Ward has weakened, and Oathkeeper hungers more than he ever has in the past...

— A FATE'S TALE

Update history

Main article: Update history

Update	Changes
October 24, 2024	Malice slow reduced from 20% to 15% Malice debuff duration reduced from 13s to 9s Malice Damage Amp reduced from 15% to 8% Malice T2 now also increases damage amp by 7% Malice no longer causes you to un-zoom on cast
October 10, 2024	Fixed a bug that could cause some units to take more damage than intended with Essence Bomb when multiple targets are hit. Life Drain can now be alternate-casted on allied heroes. Added double tap accidental protection for Life Drain to help against instant cancellations. Malice slow duration reduced from 6s to 4s. Malice amp duration reduced from 16s to 13s. You can now see how many Malice stacks you have on you as the opponent.
September 26, 2024	Life Drain cooldown reduced from 42s to 30s. Malice cooldown reduced from 6.25s to 6s. Malice T1 improved from -2.75s Cooldown to -3s. Fixed Life Drain not healing extra based on amplifications (like Soul Shredder and Malice stacks). Sprint increased from 1 to 1.5. Bots can now choose to play Lady Geist, Mirage, Shiv, and Warden. Fixed various projectiles going through bosses ( Wraith cards, Geist bombs, etc)

Visual Novel

Main Article: The Binding of Oathkeeper

Trivia

• Lady Geist seems to be the only left-handed hero in the roster, shooting her weapon with her left hand. Although this may be because of her ethereal-looking right arm.
• Lady Geist during Deadlock Pre-Alpha (Neon Prime) was named Ghost.
• Lady Geist, also known as Jeanne or "Oma" was born in 1815
• Lady Geist was married to a German artist named Johann Geist, with whom she had a son called Walter who in turn had a son that he named after his father Johann
• Lady Geist is French
• Lady Geist has the lowest health regen in the game at 1, Same as Abrams.

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