Epic

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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. When Epics die, mitochondrial mutation occurs in their bodies.

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 other weapons. He 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. He has incredible strength, can command the winds, and fly with perfect control

Firefight

Conflux

Very little was known about Conflux. He ran Enforcement. He is a "gifter" or a transference Epic. He can give two of his powers to others. He isn't known to have any immortality powers. One of his powers is that he can create enormous stores of energy from his body. Conflux is used to power Newcago's electricity.

Nightwielder

Nightwielder causes perpetual darkness. He is a physically shadowy figure with an incorporeal form. He can move through solid objects and control darkness. He is immune to gunfire or any type of weapon. He can control the mist of darkness he creates and solidify it. UV waves weaken him and make hum corporeal. He has Asian features and black shoulder-length hair. The smell of phosphorous is a sign of him using his powers. He rarely speaks during business interactions.

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.

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.

Daystorm

Daystorm was trapped and killed by the Reckoners.

Calling War

The Reckoners attempted to kill Calling War, but failed and barely managed to escape using tensors.

Strongtower

Strongtower shows an ability like one Steelheart has.

Obliteration

Night's Sorrow

Ides Hatred

Ides Hatred went to Newcago to challenge Steelheart. They destroyed an entire city block in the battle. Steelheart was victorious.

Redleaf

Redleaf was an Epic in Canada who was killed by the Reckoners when Prof jumped from a helicopter and shot him.

Absence

Absence was an Epic killed by the Reckoners a year before Steelheart, the book.

Regalia

Regalia was the ruler of New York. She will be featured in Firefight.

Lesser Epics

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 class B personal invisibility powers. She skilled and able to create pretty 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 shot her when David called Refractionary's mobile, causing her to vibrate.

Epics of Unknown Status

The Coven

The Coven is a group of six Epics who rule in the South. Two of them are twins.

German Epic

An Epic in Germany who could only be hurt by someone who was thirty-seven years old exactly.

Crossmark

Crossmark is an Epic in Mexico who can only be hurt when five people are trying to kill her at once.

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.

Pink Pinkness

Epic Powers

Illusionists

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.

There are two types of illusionists: mental illusionists and photon-manipulators.

Photon-manipulators create actual changes in the way light behaves, crafting illusions with photons. They are similar to electricity-manipulation Epics.

Mental illusionists affect the brains of other people around them. They create hallucinations, not true illusions. They are similar to other mentalists.

Mentalists

Hypnotists

Mind-Control

Transference Epics

Transference Epics can give others their powers.

Kinetic Energy Epics

Epic Weaknesses

An Epic's Weakness can be just about anything. Some epics, upon seeing a specific pattern or symbol, lost their powers for a few moments. Some become weak when they think certain thoughts, not earring certain foods, or eating the wrong food. Specific numbers can make an Epic weak as well.

Notes

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