Quien es Sombra?

For months now Sombra's name has been hinted by Blizzard. Thanks to some information mined from hardcore fans and Blizzard we now know a bit about one of Overwatch's heroes Sombra. Blizzard has left lots of clues in game about her, something we call args (alternate reality games). That's when developers leave clues in game about characters and future updates and leave it up to the community to make of it what they will. It really brings the community together. Blizzard has had a ton of args with Overwatch so far. 

In Ana's origin story video a code quickly flashed on-screen. This was deciphered to read "She who has the information has the power". In the past few days we got a new clue. At the end of Jeff Kaplan's update video about Ana there was this strange few seconds at the end of the video. It looked like tv transference or possibly a mistake but it was actually a hidden message.

The lines in the image were translated into a bar code-which spat out a binary code, which was then turned into black and white pixels, which leads to a qr code. The qr code displays this message in Spanish: "Estuvo eso facilito? Ahora que tengo su atencion, dejenme se las pongos mas deficil." Which translates to "Was that easy? Well, now that I have your attention allow me to make things much more difficult." This aig hints that there's going to be more difficult clues in the future.

But the clues don't end there. People also found a mysterious image at the end of in game ability videos. A lot of people are saying its a distorted image of Sombra.

Sombra translates in Spanish to Shadow. This suggests that she's going to be Overwatch's first stealth hero. There's a bunch of ptr character voice-lines that suggest that Sombra's a stealth character-similar to characters yelling out spy! in team fortress. It's pretty obvious that the voice-lines are hinting at some invisible hero but it doesn't make a specific reference or say Sombra's name. This leads us to think that maybe Sombra has an ability that can make allies invisible or camouflaged. One could only hope. 

We also know that Sombra is a villain and probably a member of Talon-the Overwatch baddies club that Reaper and Widowmaker are apart of. Reaper has a voice-line (triggered only on Dorado) that suggests this. "Where's Sombra when you need her?" Sombra has a strong presence on Dorado with a bunch of terminals saying access not authorized Sombra protocol. There's also a bunch of classified files with her name on them.

So she's a Spanish stealth-based member of Talon who is associated with the map Dorado. We might see Sombra's debut at Gamecom (which is in a month). That's a short time frame to show the next new hero but Blizzard has a massive presence and they always make big announcements for their titles there.

Honestly there were so many clues hinting at Sombra for the longest time that I thought she was going to be the first post-launch hero. But they gave us Ana instead. The idea of a stealth-based hero in a fps game reminds me of the spy from Team Fortress. Once she's revealed the hype train will be strong-possibly stronger than it was for Ana. Hopefully she has a cool melee weapon or knife like the spy. It would be great to backstab people in Overwatch for the lols. We'll have to wait and see if anything is announced at Gamescom next month for more information.