Difference between revisions of "Epic"

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: Firefight is a member of Steelheart's elite three and his bodyguard. He is supposed to be a Fire Epic. David figured out that he is actually an illusion created by the real "Firefight" whose power is later revealed to actually be bringing different realities into the one he is in. i.e., Firefight being a fire-based Epic in a different dimension, and the Firefight in the book bringing a shadow of that alternate reality into his own dimension. Firefight was revealed to be [[Megan Tarash]]. She has reincarnation powers. Her weakness is fire, meaning if she is killed by fire, she will not reincarnate.{{{{book ref|firefight|7}}

: Fortuity has precognition powers. He can sense the future and danger. He also has secondary superhuman reflexes and dexterity. He was a moderately high-ranking Epic. He had a long face and hawkish nose. His weakness is that his danger sense is weakened in the presence of those he is attracted to. He was killed by [[Megan Tarash|Megan]], who shot him at both sides of Fortuity while he was in the air.{{book ref|Steelheart|4}}{{book ref|Steelheart|5}}{{book ref|Steelheart|1}}

: Serves [[Regalia]]. Has a secondary power of increased speed. Unknown if she has a primary power, or if increased speed is her only one (which would make it her primary ability). Primary invincibility granted by protective fields which reflect any impact with equal force.{{book ref|firefight|20}} As shown, this ability could also be used in a way that increased speed of transport, as when she jumps from building to building, the field bounces her back up, allowing for facilitated transport. Her weakness is being complimented, which disables her ability to reflect any impact.{{book ref|firefight|46}}

: Jonathan Phaedrus, otherwise known as Prof, was revealed to be an Epic in [[Steelheart]].{{book ref|steelheart|41}} He has two defensive abilities, both of which alone would classify him as High Epic. The first ability is regeneration, which allows rapid healing of any wound.{{book ref|steelheart|41}} The second defensive ability is forcefields, which can be formed at seemingly any size, and could have size regulated once already formed.{{book ref|firefight|39}} The forcefields are impenetrable to anything, and can also be used to fly when stood on. His final ability is an offensive power, which allows him to dissolve and tunnel into solid objects.{{book ref|steelheart|14}} Prof is a [[Gifter]] Epic, and as a result can lend his abilities to Reckoners, which he disguises as technologies which he has created.{{book ref|steelheart|14}}{{book ref|steelheart|15}} Also known as [[Jonathan Phaedrus|Limelight]].{{book ref|Calamity|13}} His weakness is a fear of failure.{{book ref|calamity|46}}

:Dawnslight is an [[Epic]] in the city of [[Babilar]] who feeds the people by making fruits grow faster. He also caused the spraypaint in the city to glow and radios to run without batteries. In reality, Dawnslight is a permanently bedridden invalid. While very young, and before obtaining his powers, he fell into a life-long coma. He seems to be exempt from Calamity’s corruption-inducement.{{book ref|firefight|10}}

; [[Curveball]]: Donny was a minor epicEpic with the single power of being able to never run out of bullets while firing a handgun.{{book ref|steelheart|1}}

: Glimmer is an Epic who had accelerated speed abilities.{{book ref|Lux|26}}

: Stormwind is an Epic in [[Ildithia]]. She can make it rain, and her rain causes crops to grow in only 10ten days.{{book ref|calamity|14}}

: An epic with extremely strong telekinesis, strong enough to stop bullets midflight. She is responsible for keeping the floating city of [[Lux (city)|Lux]] afloat.{{book ref|lux|2}}

: Can teleport short distances.{{book ref|Lux|9}}

: Lesser illusionists sometimes have trouble maintaining an exact illusion. Illusionists can't see if they turn themselves completely invisible. Light still needs to strike their irises. A skilled illusionist can make their eyes match the color of their surroundings. A powerful Illusionist can create sounds along with their images. {{book ref|steelheart|12}}

* 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.{{book ref|steelheart|41}}

Power duality is when an Epic has two second-tier abilities that meld into a first-tier one. An example of this would be the Epic Faultline. Faultline actually had two separate abilities regarding shifting earth, but combined both of them to have the power to make the ground loose, push objects into it, and re-solidify the ground.{{book ref|steelheart|12}}