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The '''Epics''' are a group of magical beings on [[Earth (Reckoners)|Earth]]. They start appearing around the same time as the satellite [[Calamity (Epic)|Calamity]]. Every Epic has a weakness that invalidates their powers. When Epics gain their powers, they go through a period called the Rending, where they feel an overwhelming urge to destroy.{{book ref|Firefight|41}} When Epics die, mitochondrial mutation occurs in their bodies.{{cite}} When an Epic uses their powers, it corrupts them and turns them evil unless they can overcome their greatest fear.
== High Epics ==
; [[Absence]]
: Absence was an Epic killed by the Reckoners around a year before they killed [[Steelheart (Epic)|Steelheart]]
; [[Calamity (Epic)|Calamity]]
: Calamity is the highest of Epics. He has all the powers, and knows each intricately. Calamity also is a gifter, which allows him to gift some of his powers to people, creating Epics.
; [[Calling War]]
: The Reckoners attempted to kill Calling War, but failed and barely managed to escape using [[tensors]]. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Clapper]]
; [[Daystorm]]
: Daystorm was trapped and killed by the Reckoners. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Dead Drop]]
: Dead Drop could create decoys with the same consciousness and powers. When a decoy dies, the main host is unaffected, making Dead Drop a High Epic.
; [[Earless]]
: Earless was killed by the Reckoners. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Firefight (Epic)|Firefight]]
; [[Gyro]]
: Gyro was killed by the Reckoners. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Hawkham]]
: Hawkham has force redirection powers, much like [[Newton]]'s. However, when he redirects bullets, they are ripped apart because of the change in momentum.
; [[Ides Hatred]]
: Ides Hatred went to Newcago to challenge Steelheart. They destroyed an entire city block in the battle. Steelheart was victorious. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Lightning]]
: Lightning is a Epic in Snowfall's band in Sacramento. He was also a possible planned target of the Reckoners. Powers unknown, though it likely has to do with electricity or enhanced speed.
; [[Loophole]]
: Loophole is an Epic in Ildithia. She worked for Prof. Her power is size manipulation, which enabled her to shrink or grow anything she touched at will. Her weakness is sneezing. Although she is commonly thought of as a lesser Epic, David reconsidered her as a High Epic because of the way she shrunk bullets, preventing her from being too injured.
; [[Mitosis (Epic)|Mitosis]]
: Mitosis, or Lawrence Robert, was able to make exact copies of himself. He split into two, each clone able to replicate itself. There is not a known limit of how many copies of himself he could make. If any copies of Mitosis exist, then he can still live. All the clones are connected and if one is killed they all know it. They can't share memories until they recombine. It was thought that the more copies that were made, the dumber they would get. That was proved false. When a copy was killed, the corpses decomposed into goo. The more clones that were created, the weaker their molecular structure holds together. Music from his
; [[Newton]]
; [[Night's Sorrow]]
: Considered to be as feared as Steelheart and Obliteration. Their powers are unknown.
; [[Nightwielder]]
; [[Obliteration]]
: Serves [[Regalia]]. Obliteration is a high epic described as wearing a long, black trench coat, spectacles, and having a goatee. Obliteration's primary power is absorbing heat from sunlight or objects (living or inanimate.) He then stores this heat and is able to release it in a powerful burst. An example of him using this power is when he reportedly sat bare chested in the middle of the city of Houston for several days storing energy. He then proceeded to destroy the entire city by releasing all the heat at once in a single burst. A secondary power is enhanced strength. His primary invincibility is danger sense combined with teleportation. Frequently recites scripture, considering himself one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
; [[Jonathan Phaedrus|Prof]]
; [[Redleaf]]
: Redleaf was an Epic in Canada who was killed by the Reckoners when [[Jonathan Phaedrus|Prof]] jumped from a helicopter and shot him. His powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Shadowblight]]
: Shadowblight was killed by the Reckoners. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Sourcefield]]
== Lesser Epics ==
Any Epic who does not have Prime Invincibility is considered a Lesser Epic, although the term is not used in the books.
=== Known Lesser Epics ===
; [[Donny Harrison|Donny "Curveball" Harrison]]: Donny was a minor epic with the single power of being able to never run out of bullets while firing a handgun.
; [[Dynamo]]
: Dynamo had the power to amplify his and other people's voices, making him his own PA system.
; [[Faultline]]
: Faultline had the power to move the earth. She worked for Steelheart, but later rebelled against him, lost, and was murdered. She had two second-tier abilities--moving softer earth and turning earth and stone into sand--which combined into her first-tier ability to create apparent earthquakes with great control. She would soften the ground and then pulling that earth back to form a crack in the earth. She was powerful, but fragile. While her first-tier power classifies her as a first-tier Epic under [[Tia]]'s system, her lack of a Prime Invincibility excludes her from the list of High Epics.{{book ref|steelheart|25}}
; [[Helium]]
: Helium is a minor Epic in [[Ildithia]], possessing levitation powers. She helps makes the room at the top of [[Sharp Tower]] rotate, to create a revolving restaurant for Epics to party. She apparently works for Loophole.
; [[Inshallah]]
: Inshallah is a linguistic Epic. They have the power to force someone to speak in rhyme. They died Prof's fight with [[Tavi]].
; [[Knoxx]]
: Knoxx is a lesser Epic created by Regalia and Calamity. He was stated to have not had powers for years after Calamity rose up, and seemed to have recently obtained his powers in the book Firefight. He is a minor Transformation Epic, with his known transformations being a pigeon and a large black dog.
; [[Puños de Fuego]]
: Puños is said to have enhanced strength and durability. Val killed him by shooting him with a damaged tank before the events of the Steelheart series. It is mentioned that although he has increased durability, he is not a High Epic and can be killed by any powerful means (such as a tank).
; [[Stormwind (Epic)|Stormwind]]
: Stormwind is an Epic in [[Ildithia]]. She can make it rain, and her rain causes crops to grow in only 10 days.
; [[Refractionary]]
: Refractionary is a class C illusionist Epic with class B personal invisibility powers. She is skilled and able to create fairly complex visual manifestations. She is not very powerful and her illusions usually shimmer as if light is reflecting off of them. Her weakness is smoke. [[Megan Tarash|Megan]] shot and killed her when [[David]] called
; [[Regalia]]:
; The [[
: The Thaub is a linguistic Epic. They have the power speak in any made-up language anyone anywhere has imagined. The Thaub died during Prof's fight with Tavi.
; [[The Wooden Soul]]
: An animator epic capable of controlling marionettes with her mind. She presumably lived in Northern India and was killed ten years before the events of [[Calamity]].
; [[Wiper]]
: The Wiper has the ability to temporarily disrupt other Epic's powers. She has no immortality benefits, and is thus easily killed by David with a bullet.
== Epics of Unknown Status ==
; [[Amala]]: Amala was the wife of [[Dean Knighthawk]], and part of the would-be superheroes with [[Jonathan Phaedrus]], [[Abigail Reed]], and [[Lincoln]]. Phaedrus was forced to kill her. Her powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Armsman]]
: Armsman was an Epic in Omaha. The Reckoners were possibly planning to kill him. It is highly unlikely (but possible) that he was a [[High Epic]]. His powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Backbreaker]]
: Backbreaker was capable of destroying entire cities, much like Obliteration was.
; [[Bastion]]
: Bastion was Conflux's first owner. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Brainstorm]]
: Brainstorm had the power to conjure whatever she wished, if it were below a certain size or mass level.
; [[Creer boys]]
: Hanjah and the Mad Pen are twins, and known as the Creer boys. They are part of the [[Coven]]. They have air pressure control, pain manipulation, and precognition. It is likely, but unconfirmed, that they are High Epics.
; [[Crossmark]]
: Crossmark is an Epic in Mexico who can only be hurt when five people are trying to kill her at once. Her powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Darkness Infinity]]
: Darkness Infinity had the power to teleport in between shadows. She died in Prof's fight with Tavi.
; [[Dialas]]
: Dialas was an Epic in Detroit who angered Steelheart by cutting off some of his food supplies. His powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Digzone]]
: Digzone was a transference Epic who could gift his digging power to others. The [[Diggers]] were gifted these powers to carve out the understreets.
; [[Dragdown]]
: Dragdown became a member of [[Prof]]'s crew in [[Ildithia]]. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Duskwatch]]
: Duskwatch is presumed to be an Epic because of his name. His powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[El Brass Bullish Dude]]
: El Brass Bullish Dude was from inner LA. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Fabergé]]
: Fabergé became a member of Prof's crew in Ildithia. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; German Epic
: An Epic in Germany who could only be hurt by someone who was thirty-seven years old exactly.
; [[Inkwell (Epic)|Inkwell]]
: Inkwell became a member of Prof's crew in Ildithia. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Instabam]]
: An epic killed by the Reckoners with potato-based powers.
; [[Insulation]]
: Insulation bought Conflux from Bastion. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Lifeline]]
: Lifeline died during Prof's attack with Tavi. Their powers are minor electricity powers and telepathy.
; [[Murkwood]]
: Murkwood is an epic who was originally a part of the group that Prof and Regalia were members of. Original name was Lincoln. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Night's Whisper]]
: A powerful Epic in the west coast. Their powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Pink Pinkness]]
: Pink Pinkness is an Epic who really likes the color pink. She is remarkable because she apparently published her epic name without ever having said it out loud.
; [[Powder]]
: Powder can make unstable objects like gunpowder explode simply by looking at them. He killed [[Abraham]]'s whole team in Canada.
; [[Revokation]]
: Revokation is an Epic, likely from the Great Falls. One of her surgeons moved to Babilar, and helped Dawnslight and Regalia. Her powers and weaknesses are unknown.
; [[Rick O'Shea]]
: Rick O'Shea is an Irish Epic who can throw bullets at people. He makes objects unstable by touching them. They then explode when subjected to any significant impact. He is a kinetic energy Epic.
; [[Rtich_(Epic)|Rtich]]
: A Russian epic who could control mercury telekinetically, forming it into shields, stairs, walls and rods. Had other powers that were not mentioned in the books.
; [[Snowfall]]
: Snowfall is the ruler of Sacramento. He likely has snow-related powers. The Epic Lightning is in his group.
; [[Terms]]
: Terms is the ruler of a nomadic group called the UTC. She has time-manipulation powers. She is likely a High Epic, though it is unconfirmed.
; [[Georgi|Waterlog]]
: An Epic who was killed by the Reckoners whose DNA was harvested to make the [[Georgi#Spyril|Spyril]]. Based on the abilities of the Spyril, It can be presumed they were able to teleport water to themselves.
== Types of Epic ==
; Illusionists
; Dimensionalists
* Dimensionalist Epics commonly possess the power of Essokinesis, or
; Transference Epics
* Transference Epics can give others their powers. These Epics are also known as Gifters.{{book ref|steelheart|13}} Gifter Epics are able to give a portion of their powers to people within a certain range of them and for a limited time. The power they give away is not affected by their weakness. While gifting powers to others, Gifter Epics lose some of the corruption and desire to do evil that is associated with Epics. The more power that an epic is gifting (the more people being gifted to), the greater the reduction in evil intent. Gifters cannot give their powers to another Epic.
; Kinetic Energy Epics
; Animator Epics
* Standard animator Epics can control inanimate objects with their mind. It is unknown if the objects in question have to be in human shape.
; Linguistic Epics
* Linguistic Epics can manipulate language, through making others speak in rhymes, or speaking any language, among others. The majority of them are lesser Epics.
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