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{{Otheruses4|the zone|the organization|Menders of Ouroboros}}

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|Zone Name=Ouroboros
|Splash Image=Splash_Ouroboros_H.jpg
|Zone Map=Map_Ouroboros.jpg
|Type of Zone=Hero/Villain City Zone
|Level Range=14-50
|Trainer=''none''
|Task Force Contact=[[Mender Lazarus]],<br />[[Twilight's Son]],<br />[[Mender Tesseract]],<br />[[Mender Silos]]
|Event=''none''
|Exploration Badges={{BadgeLink|Chrononaut}}
|Plaques=''none''
|Day Jobs={{BadgeLink|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]]
|Lines=''none''
|VidiotMaps File=ouroboros
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== Overview ==
[[File:OuroborosBase1.jpg|350px]]

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 ==
* [[The Pilgrim]]
* [[Mender Lazarus]]
* [[Twilight's Son]] (Heroes Only)
* [[Mender Tesseract]] (Villains Only)
* [[Mender Silos]]
* [[Mender Ramiel]] (''[[Going Rogue]]'' only)
* [[Pillar of Ice and Flame]]
* [[Prometheus]]
* [[Astral Christy]]
* [[Empyrean Michael]]

== Neighborhoods ==
There are no neighborhoods explicitly marked on the Ouroboros map.  However, the following [[Media:Ouroboros_Ouroboros_loop.ogg|music]] will play in the background while in the zone.

== Exploration Badges ==
{{BadgeBox|Chrononaut}}

== Day Jobs ==
{{BadgeBox|Chronologist}}

== Stores ==
* [[Mender Roebuck]] sells inspirations.

== Transfer Points ==
* The only ways to get to Ouroboros are the [[Ouroboros Portal]] temporary power and the [[Mission Transporter]] [[Super Booster|booster power]], provided that someone on the team has a [[Door Mission]] in the zone.
* Heroes can leave through the exit portal to [[Atlas Park]], [[Founders' Falls]], [[Independence Port]], [[Peregrine Island]], or [[Talos Island]]. 
* The portal can also be used to enter some outdoor instance missions such as "Board Train". Using the portal to exit Ouroboros a player will get the normal selection of zones to travel to and one that places them inside that mission. 
** These do not need to be time travel missions and every player on a team can use this option not just the owner of the mission.
* Villains can exit to [[Cap au Diable]], [[Sharkhead Isle]], [[Nerva Archipelago]], [[St. Martial]], [[Grandville]].
* For heroes, the Ouroboros Echo Teleporter at the west end of the compound allows access to [[Echo: Galaxy City]].

== Trivia ==
* [[Flower Knight]] and an Ouroboros NPC can be found talking to each other in this zone. One such interchange includes the zone's pronunciation: "It's pronounced or-oh-boar-os."
* 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 Zone|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 [[Soldiers of Rularuu|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, it is possible that Earth's oceans rose to a point where the entire planet's surface was covered with water, with the Rularuu invasion having the effect of creating the asteroids around Ouroboros. Thus, the moon would still be affected by the Earth's gravitational pull, and the elements that appear to belong to the Shadow Shard would still be explained.
** Correction:  Contrary to the comments above, with the exception of the "floating rock islands", nothing about the Ouroboros zone is similar to the Shadow Shard.  It does not have the bizarre sky of the Shadow Shard (Ouroboros even has some cloud cover) and it has a large body of water lying under it (not to mention the only "water" in the Shadow Shard is red (cf. [[Cascade Archipelago]]).

== See Also == 
* [[Entrusted with the Secret Badge]]

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[[Category:Villain City Zones]]
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