Horizon

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Dear Dr. Mary Somers, You don’t know what it meant to me to hear his voice again. Well, that was daft… Of course you know what it meant. I dinnae know what I can say to you that you don’t already know, but maybe some things have faded with time. For that, I can offer a wee refresher… I had so much doubt. I’ve been goin’ full tilt for so long—solving an energy crisis, escaping a black hole, fighting my way to the Apex Games—that doubt rarely had time to seed. Being a bloody genius doesn’t hurt much either. But I felt it not but a week ago. What if I don’t make it back? Then I heard your message — and the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. But you knew that too, didn’t you? I hope to do you and him proud, you brilliant lassie. Til we meet again. Sincerely, Dr. Mary Somers.

Horizon
Gravitational Manipulator
Details
Real Name	Dr. Mary Somers
Gender	Female
Age	37
Home World	Psamathe
Gameplay
Legend Type	Offensive
Tactical Ability	Gravity Lift
Passive Ability	Spacewalk
Ultimate Ability	Black Hole
Real-world Info
Voice Actor	Elle Newlands

Horizon is a Legend released in Season 7 that is locked from the base game. She can be unlocked by using digital currency; either 12,000 or 750, or by buying the Champion Edition.

Horizon is an Offensive Legend who is useful for directing her teammates or enemies toward a certain location. Her Gravity Lift tactical can be used to help herself and her squad reach higher places, while her Spacewalk passive allows her to start moving earlier after a long fall and turn faster midair, and her Black Hole ultimate can cause nearby enemies to be pulled toward its center.

Biography

Almost a century ago, the Outlands were dangling on the edge of a cataclysmic energy crisis. Dr. Mary Somers, a charmingly eccentric astrophysicist, was hired to find a solution. Mary moved her family to the scientific research station on Olympus and set to work.

With the help of her apprentice, Dr. Reid, Mary discovered Branthium - an element she was convinced could be the key to limitless energy. But Branthium can be found only on the accretion disk of a black hole, so Mary and Dr. Reid departed on a dangerous mission to prove her theory right.

Mary promised her son Newton she’d return safe and sound. But Dr. Reid betrayed her, stealing the Branthium and sending her shuttle into the black hole’s orbit. Using her wits, Mary modified her robotic vacuum companion N.E.W.T. to escape. But time moves differently on the outskirts of a black hole, and she was 87 years too late.

Now Mary is determined to fund her research to find a way to go back in time and be with her son. She joins the Apex Games as Horizon, master of gravity, just in time for the next season to debut on Olympus - where her old life once was and where she had promised to return.

Abilities

Gravity Lift

	Tactical	Q//
	Gravity Lift
	Description	Reverses the flow of gravity, lifting players upward and boosting them outward when they exit.
	Cooldown	15 seconds

• Lifts players to a maximum of 30 meters off the ground.
• Stays active for 10 seconds.
• Cooldown starts after 10 seconds. (If the Gravity Lift is immediately activated, the cooldown starts when the ability ends.)

• Can be destroyed by Wattson’s Interception Pylon.
• Can also lift Tridents.
• Can bend the trajectory of ordnances, causing them to be lifted as well.

• Aside from helping your squad reach high ground, you can also use it to disorient enemies by throwing it under their feet.
• Gravity Lift can block off doorways and corridors. Make sure not to block off yourself or your teammates.
• You can use Gravity Lift to Launch your knocked teammates to safer locations. Make sure to toss your Gravity Lift away from your knocked teammate so they don't go in an unintended direction.
• You can also use it when you need to use a healing item, especially ones such as a Shield Battery or Med Kit, as you can strafe left and right faster than on the ground.

• It can stick to the top of Gibraltar’s Dome of Protection.
• Not destroyed by Interception Pylons even though it is supposed to.

Spacewalk

	Passive
	Spacewalk
	Description	Increase air control and reduce fall impacts with Horizon’s custom spacesuit.
	Cooldown	N/A

• When landing after a fall from a high place, Horizon can start moving sooner than every other legend.
• Horizon makes quicker turns in mid-air.

• Spacewalk combines with Octane's Launch Pad.

• Unlike other legends, if you are falling down a shaft with a zipline, Horizon does not have to grab the zipline to avoid a fall stun.

Black Hole

	Ultimate	Z/+/+
	Black Hole
	Description	Deploy N.E.W.T. to create a micro black hole that pulls players in towards it.
	Charge time	180 seconds

• Lasts 12 seconds.
• N.E.W.T. has 175 HP and can be destroyed.
• Takes 2 seconds to activate once landed.
• Enemies are highlighted if their position is behind the N.E.W.T.
• Pulls enemies even from behind obstacles such as walls and doors.

• Can be destroyed by Wattson's Interception Pylon and Crypto’s Drone EMP.
• Can change the speed and trajectory of Caustic's Nox Gas Grenade.

• Try to combine the black hole with area-of-effect attacks like Grenades, Caustic's Nox Gas Grenade, Revenant's Silence, and Fuse's The Motherlode.
• If you yourself are caught in the black hole, you can either use mobility abilities, such as Wraith's Into the Void, or destroy it to escape the black hole.

• Can destroy Wraith’s Dimensional Rift if at least one side of the portal is within range of N.E.W.T. This is maybe due to some geometry on Olympus.
• This ability is not destroyed by Interception Pylon when it is supposed to.
• In very rare cases, the ability can get deflected by Bloodhound's Eye of the Allfather, even though the scan should be a visual effect.

Cosmetic Items

Skins

There are a total of 46 Legend skins for Horizon; 5 Legendary, 6 Epic, 19 Rare and 16 Common.

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  Solaris
  1,200

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  Terra Nova
  1,200

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  Dark Matter
  1,200

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  Golden Boson
  1,200

• 

  Neon Stardust
  2,500

• 

  Hack the System
  400

• 

  Daemon Hunter
  400

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  User Friendly
  400

• 

  Heat Sync
  400

• 

  Fiber Optics
  400

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  Absolute Zero

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  Royal Decree
  60

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  Dire Wolf
  60

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  Brain Candy
  60

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  Death Adder
  60

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  Disruptor
  60

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  Field Trip
  60

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  Superunknown
  60

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  Woodland Warfare
  60

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  Racing Stripes
  60

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  Hypothesis
  60

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  Collider
  60

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  Sizzle Reel
  60

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  High Frequency
  60

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  Life Cycle
  60

• 

  Prowess
  60

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  Copper Constellation
  Level 01

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  Inverse Polarity
  November 2020

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  Flux Capacity

• 

  Heiroglyph Heroics

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  Original
  Default

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  Yellowjacket
  30

• 

  Arctic
  30

• 

  Cardinal
  30

• 

  Clearwater
  30

• 

  Evergreen
  30

• 

  Flamingo
  30

• 

  Hydro
  30

• 

  Limelight
  30

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  Mandarin
  30

• 

  Midnight
  30

• 

  Orchid
  30

• 

  Rage
  30

• 

  Sahara
  30

• 

  Skyward
  30

• 

  Vino
  30

Badges

See: Horizon/Badges

Finishers

Main article: Finisher

• All Charged Up
  Default

• Event Horizon
  1,200

• First Law
  1,200

Skydive Emotes

Main article: Skydive Emote

• Game Time
  Level 51

• Black Swan Dive
  Level 92

Holo-Sprays

Main article: Holo-Spray

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  There's Research Afoot
  1,200

• 

  Event Horizon
  400

• 

  Science Time!
  400

Music Packs

Main article: Music Pack

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  Horizon
  Level 08

Loading Screens

Main article: Loading Screen

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  Me, Myself & Regret
  Level 60

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  Timetravel is Money
  Level 81

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  A Matter of Time

Voice lines

See: Horizon/Voice lines

History

Patch notes

March 09, 2021 Patch

• Black Hole: Increased cooldown from 2 minutes to 3 minutes.
• Gravity Lift:
  • Fixed the Gravity Lift falling through the floor when used on the train tracks in Sorting Factory on World's Edge.
  • Using a zipline after a Gravity Lift will no longer increase accuracy.
• The All Charged Up finisher now has more frames, from 141 (4.21 seconds) to 180 (6.0 seconds), to be more in line with other finishers’ completion times.

February 02, 2021 Patch

• Gravity Lift: Increased effective cooldown from 21 seconds to 25 seconds. (The 15-second cooldown began 4 seconds later.)

January 05, 2021 Patch

• Gravity Lift: Increased effective cooldown from 16 seconds to 21 seconds. (The 15-second cooldown began 5 seconds later.)
• Black Hole: (Undocumented) Cooldown now starts when N.E.W.T. disappears.
• Fixed an issue with Horizon’s abilities not affecting Lifeline’s DOC and Crypto’s drone.

November 04, 2020 Patch

• Introduced.

Development

• Originally, Horizon was a character named Downfall (subtitle: "Populist Pyromaniac"), who was an evil genius CEO-type similar to Lex Luthor, and had abilities based around fire. Her design and story drastically changed over the course of development.
• Horizon's character was created by the Respawn writer Sam Gill who wrote all her dialogue. Her short "Promise" was written by Amanda Doiron, and it was one of the first things she wrote when she started at Respawn.
• Horizon is named after Mary Somerville.

Teasers

• In "The Broken Ghost" quest, Ash recites some lines from Horizon. Lifeline comments Ash "tried to be a 'wee bit' Scottish."
• At the end of the Season 6 gameplay trailer, Kuben Blisk says "Something big is on the horizon."
• On October 13, 2020, the first set of gravity lifts, that were placed around Kings Canyon and World's Edge at the start of Season 6, began to activate. Horizon asks the player to meet her in the Firing Range to do some tests for her. After completing the "A Wee Experiment" challenges, Horizon introduces herself as Dr. Mary Somers, a.k.a. Horizon. The player is given the Horizon's Test Subject badge.
  • On the same day, the Apex Legends Champion Edition Trailer was released which teases a new Legend for Season 7 and Horizon's silhouette. When the trailer promotes that the Edition unlocks "9 Legends," Horizon can be seen to the right of the banners in the background, between Rampart and Revenant's heads.
• On October 19th, 2020, the Apex Legends Twitter account tweeted a transmission from Horizon of her saying "branthium" (which was also mentioned by Ash at the end of "The Broken Ghost").
• On October 21st, 2020, the Apex Legends Twitter account tweeted another transmission from Horizon. This time she says "...a wee bit of betrayal...eh, dearie? I was so daft." (These lines were said by Ash at the end of "The Broken Ghost")
• On October 23rd, 2020, the Apex Legends Twitter account tweeted a third transmission from Horizon. She reveals that she is on a ship and has been off-world for 5 months but is scared to do the math for how long that would mean back home (due to time dilation). She is working on how to fuse the branthium without critical mass. She also wonders what "he" is doing.
• On October 26th, 2020, "Promise" was released.
• On October 28th, 2020, the Season 7 Launch Trailer was released.
• On October 30th, 2020, the Season 7 Gameplay Trailer was released.

Speculation

• In "The First Ship" quest, Kuben Blisk tells Ash that an old friend of hers is back, which is speculated to be Horizon given that Ash knows Horizon.

Trivia

• Horizon is Scottish.
• Horizon was cast off in the ergosphere of a black hole for at least 87 Olympus years, but for her, it was only 246 days.
• Horizon authored an academic writing named "Utilization of Hyperdense Matter Extracted from Black Hole Ergosphere". A page of it can be partially seen on Wattson's desk.
• Horizon's black hole ability is similar to the Gravity Star from Titanfall 2.
• Horizon's drone NEWT is seemingly named after her son Newton. She sometimes talks to her drone as if it is her son.
• Horizon's voice actor, Elle Newlands, confirmed that Horizon has ADHD.
• Horizon's name could be attributed to the event horizon of a black hole, where nothing can escape the tug of the black hole.
• At the end of Season 7, players who played Horizon were able to re-route the Phase Runner by activating the panel at Hammond Labs. It would take them to a secret inaccessible area at Bonsai Plaza, to hear a message from Newton, as well as earn some free rewards. Upon completion of the message, the Phase Runner would take the player to Rift Aftermath as normal. (This can only be done once per match by anyone.)
• Her All Charged Up finisher is the only finisher to have ever been changed, as, in the March 09, 2021 Patch, the time to complete the finisher was increased from 4.21 seconds to 6 seconds and added a little more animation in the beginning. This is because the finisher was faster than other legends’ finishers before the change, even Pathfinder's Hi-5 finisher, the current fastest finisher in the game, making it one of the most powerful finishers in the game.

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