Born from a catastrophic system failure during an early hack against the mega-corporation, the Glitch Prophet emerged when Axel Novak's experimental code merged with corrupted security protocols. Now existing as a self-replicating anomaly across the city's networks, it appears during critical operations, its predictions delivered through distorted data bursts that only Glitch Runners can decipher.

Exists as unstable code that manifests through digital artifacts - corrupted surveillance feeds, scrambled audio transmissions, and distorted holograms. Its predictions arrive as encrypted glitch patterns that overload standard systems. Can temporarily possess networked devices but burns them out within minutes, leaving behind distinctive fractal corruption patterns.

Serves as both oracle and weapon for the faction, appearing unpredictably to deliver crucial system vulnerabilities while simultaneously destabilizing corporate networks, with interventions that often trigger cascading failures.