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The Epics were a group of magical beings on Earth. They started appearing around the same time as the satellite Calamity.

Every Epic has a weakness that invalidates their powers.

High Epics

High Epics are Epics that have a prime invicibility. A prime invincibility is a power that makes conventional assassination methods useless. Some examples are regeneration, impervious skin, precognition, and self-reincarnation.

Known High Epics

Steelheart
Steelheart is described as having an inhumanly large and strong chest. He was nearly seven feet tall with jet-black hair. He is impervious to bullets and can release yellow-white energy from his hand that vaporizes. When he is angry, he can transform inanimate things around him into steel. This does not affect living things.
Fortuity
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 if he is attracted to you. He was killed by Megan, she killed him by shooting at both sides of Fortuity while he was in the air.
Firefight
Conflux
Nightwielder
Nightwielder causes perpetual darkness. He is a physically shadowy figure with an incorporeal form. He is immune to gunfire or any type of weapon. He becomes solid in sunlight. It is supposed that it is the UV waves in the sunlight that weaken him.
Armsman
Armsman is in Omaha. The Reckoners were possibly planning to kill him.
Lightning
Lightning is a Epic in Snowfall's band in Sacramento. he was also a possible planned target of the Reckoners.
Gyro
Gyro was killed by the Reckoners.
Shadowblight
Shadowblight was killed by the Reckoners.
Earless
Earless was killed by the Reckoners.

Known Lesser Epics

Faultline
Faultline had the power to move the earth. She worked for Steelheart but later rebelled against him but lost and was murdered.
Deathpoint
Deathpoint is a known Epic that was killed by David's father on the Day of Annexation. He had the ability to disintegrate living things by pointing at them. He was tall and lean, but solid. He was muscled and toned in a way that could be seen through his clothes.
Donny "Curveball" Harrison
Donny was a minor epic with the singe power of being able to never run out of bullets.
[[Refractionary]
Refractionary is a class C illusionist Epic with personal invisibility powers. She skilled and able to create pretty complex visual manifestations.


Epic Powers

Illusionists
Lesser illusionists sometimes have trouble maintaining an exact illusion.

Notes

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