Promethean Watcher

The Promethean Watcher is a Forerunner Sentinel variant. Like other Promethean constructs, the Watcher was designed as a countermeasure against the Flood. Numerous Watchers were encountered on the shield world Requiem in summer 2557.

Overview

Watchers are typically deployed from the armored carapace of their Promethean Knight commanders, assisting them with aerial combat screening and often forcing opponents to engage the Sentinel first. The Watcher is capable of healing and augmenting damaged allies, providing them with hard light shields, and can catch and return enemy ordnance, such as grenades, with a gravity-displacement field. They are also capable of summoning Promethean Crawlers to the battlefield by conjuring the Crawlers' forms from raw material in the ground. They are armed with a Boltshot, apparently built-in. The Watchers also can resurrect Knights killed in combat.

Unlike the angular, blue-lit appearance of most Sentinels, Watchers have curving carapaces with orange lights. They have a number of appendages, including what appear to be legs hanging below the midsection and two large disks on both sides. Most of these segments lack physical joints and are held together by energy fields. Above the midsection there appears to be a head with stylized facial features.

Trivia

• The Watcher, along with the Promethean Crawler, was first seen in a leaked image from McFarlane Toys. However, it was first mentioned several months earlier in Halo: The Essential Visual Guide.
• An outline of the Reclaimer symbol, in reality the Marathon logo, appears on the Watcher's midsection despite Bungie owning the rights to the Marathon franchise.

Gallery

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  A SPARTAN-IV engaging a Knight being shielded by a Watcher.

List of appearances

• Reclaimer Trilogy
  • Halo 4 (First appearance)