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|residence=Babylon Restored |
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|'ethnicity=[[Wikipedia: African American|African American]] |
|'ethnicity=[[Wikipedia: African American|African American]] |
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{{for|Abigail Casey|the member of the [[Reckoners]]}} |
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⚫ | She is an African-American woman in her seventies. She has white hair and is described as looking "distinguished". She is described as grandmotherly by some, at least in her physical appearence.{{book ref|Firefight|14}} When David discovers her real body, he finds her appearance to be more of sickly version of her projections.{{book ref|Firefight|49}} |
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== Appearance and Personality == |
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== Attributes and Abilities == |
== Attributes and Abilities == |
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=== Epic Abilities === |
=== Epic Abilities === |
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;Water Manipulation: The "Class B" ability to control massive amounts of water. She used this ability to flood the streets of Manhattan.{{book ref|Firefight|10}} |
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;Water Manipulation: |
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;Water Tendrils: The ability to control tendrils of water. She used this ability to attack David, as well as other people. These tendrils cannot feel, requiring light to be effective.{{book ref|Firefight|45}} |
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⚫ | ;Self-Projection: The "Class A" ability to project images of herself anywhere she wishes. She is able to see and interact through these images however she can not be injured through them. Due to this ability her true location is unknown. David assumed that she has a range that limits how far away she can be to create projections and manipulate water, and the Reckoners attempted to use this to their advantage in order to discern her location.{{book ref|Firefight|17}} However, it was later revealed that this was false as she appeared in the Reckoner's base in Babilar when David attempted to contact her.{{book ref|Firefight|41}} |
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;Water Tendrils: |
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⚫ | ;Seeing: The ability to both see and hear anything near an open body of water. Supposedly, this body of water needs to be at least two inches deep. Regalia looks into a dish of water, and can see out of any surface of water that touches air.{{book ref|Firefight|9}} This can be prevented by placing suds of soap on the top of the water.{{book ref|Firefight|14}} However, she is far from omniscient. She cannot see all bodies of water at once, nor can she scan or randomly find things.{{book ref|Firefight|9}} |
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The ability to control tendrils of water. She used this ability to attack David, as well as other people. These tendrils cannot feel, requiring light to be effective.{{book ref|Firefight|45}} |
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{{image|Regalia - Reckoners Board Game.jpg|side=left|height=250px|Regalia using her powers}} |
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;Self-Projection: |
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⚫ | The "Class A" ability to project images of herself anywhere she wishes. She is able to see and interact through these images however she can not be injured through them. Due to this ability her true location is unknown. David assumed that she has a range that limits how far away she can be to create projections and manipulate water, and the Reckoners attempted to use this to their advantage in order to discern her location.{{book ref|Firefight|17}} However, it was later revealed that this was false as she appeared in the Reckoner's base |
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;Seeing: |
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⚫ | The ability to both see and hear anything near an open body of water. Supposedly, this body of water needs to be at least two inches deep. Regalia looks into a dish of water, and can see out of any surface of water that touches air.{{book ref|Firefight|9}} This can be prevented by placing suds of soap on the top of the water.{{book ref|Firefight|14}} However, she is far from omniscient. She cannot see all bodies of water at once, nor can she scan or randomly find things.{{book ref|Firefight|9}} |
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;Prognostication: |
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=== Weakness === |
=== Weakness === |
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Regalia's weakness is being proven wrong.{{ |
While Regalia's weakness is never revealed explicitly in the series, her weakness is being proven wrong.{{ref|name=boom}} Her weakness is noticeably triggered at least twice. First, when David calls Regalia to the Reckoner base, it takes her a while to appear in water form.{{book ref|Firefight|41}} This is because she was looking for the Reckoners in the wrong location the whole time. When David summoned her, she realized she was wrong, and thus was unable to use her powers for a short time.{{ref|name=boom}} Second, when Regalia attempts to make David an Epic, he resists becoming an Epic, upon which Regalia's water form vanishes.{{book ref|Firefight|42}} Previously, she revealed she was absolutely certain [[Calamity_(Epic)|Calamity]] would be able to make David into an Epic.{{book ref|Firefight|41}} |
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== History == |
== History == |
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=== Before Calamity === |
=== Before Calamity === |
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Long before the arrival of |
Long before the arrival of Calamity she was an attorney, and later a judge. She did not serve very long as she quit to star in her own reality show, ''Judge Regalia'', which aired for six years. She then quit to join the ''Light of Heaven Television Ministry''. She eventually became known as "one of America's most controversial religious figures" because of her divisive preaching. {{cite}} |
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=== After Calamity === |
=== After Calamity === |
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Not long after the arrival of Calamity |
Not long after the arrival of Calamity she gained her Epic abilities while on air. After revealing a level of intolerance and brutality not seen before, she lost most of her followers. For reasons unknown she killed her remaining followers then went to New York City where she killed the reigning Epic. She then flooded the streets, renaming the city Babylon Restored. |
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=== Plans for a Successor === |
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⚫ | When the [[Reckoners]] |
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=== [[Firefight]] === |
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⚫ | When the [[Reckoners]] discover that Regalia had been sending Epics such as [[Mitosis (Epic)|Mitosis]] and [[Sourcefield]] to Newcago to engage with the team, they set their sights on Babilar to take down Abigail.{{book ref|Firefight|6}} She is served by the High Epics [[Newton]] and [[Obliteration]] in Babilar. Throughout the book, the Reckoners realize that she has some kind of connection to [[Prof]] and a plan involving their leader. Prof informs [[David Charleston]] that he had previously been a part of a team of Epics, including Abigail, that attempted to do good.{{book ref|Firefight|39}} She later reveals that she has a connection with the Epic, [[Calamity (Epic)|Calamity]], and tries to turn David into an Epic, but David rejects the influence of Calamity and seemingly fails to turn into an Epic. Later it is revealed that she planned to corrupt Prof so she could succeed her as it turns out that Regalia is actually terminally ill with cancer and is treated by a doctor who also takes care of [[Dawnslight]].{{book ref|Firefight|49}} The Reckoners find her and kill her before she she could succumb her disease. Although dead in the next book, her influence still remains as she is responsible for Prof's corruption and the creation of Epic-based technologies made from Obliteration's DNA.{{book ref|Calamity|34}} |
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Regalia's influence still remained, as she was responsible for Prof's corruption and the creation of Epic-based technologies made from Obliteration's DNA.{{book ref|Calamity|34}} Her plan was to use the powers of various other Epics to reach Calamity and absorb his own powers, thus becoming all-powerful. She lured Prof to Babilar for the express purpose of turning him so that he would fulfill the plan after her death. When the Reckoners, then led by David himself, tracked down Prof in [[Ildithia]], Tia risked her life to find files on Prof's computers that detailed Regalia's old plan. Just before Tia's death, [[Dean Knighthawk]] was able to copy the files from her mobile and send them to the rest of David's team.{{book ref|calamity|35}} |
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== Trivia == |
== Trivia == |
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* She is featured in a full-color Epic File found in the Books-a-Million special edition of [[Steelheart]].{{ |
* She is featured in a full-color Epic File found in the Books-a-Million special edition of [[Steelheart]].{{ref|name=bam}} |
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* Regalia's weakness is never publicly revealed in the Reckoners Series.{{wob ref|9056}} |
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== Notes == |
== Notes == |
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{{tweet ref|name=bam|385888238621036544|Tweet on Firefight|date=2013-10-03}} |
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{{reddit ref|name=boom|books|2ytg2h|crkq28t|text=Reddit AMA, March 12, 2015|date=2015-3-12}} |
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