Worm

by John Mccrae Wildbow

  Eidolon - Third member of the Protectorate’s ‘Triumvirate’. Eidolon has the ability to use any power he needs at a given point in time, maintaining a set of two to four powers at a time. Adopting a new power is not immediate, but after minutes, his abilities with that power grow to the point they rival or surpass veteran users of the same abilities.

  Dragon – Heralded as the most skilled and powerful Tinker in this reality, this superhero deploys to every incident with a new and original suit of armor. Manages the Birdcage, the top security prison for supervillains based in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, all of the computer systems for the Protectorate, and has designed much of the equipment used by the PRT. A member of the ‘Guild’, a Canadian superteam that focuses primarily on threats of an international scale, and an honorary member of the Protectorate.

  Defiant, Colin – Dragon’s partner, Defiant is Armsmaster.

  Narwhal – Leader of both ‘The Guild’ and of the Protectorate station in Toronto, Ontario. Narwhal is an unparalleled wielder of forcefields.

  Major Villains Outside of Brockton Bay

  The Endbringers - According to Tattletale’s power, they were never human. Rather, they are monsters (in every sense of the word) who take turns attacking locations around the globe, aiming to cause as much damage as possible. Apparently unkillable, they retreat to their respective domains when they have sustained sufficient damage and heal, only to attack again months later. Their arrival is almost always followed by devastation, including dead capes, massive civilian losses (sometimes ranging into the millions), catastrophic damage to cities and/or large scale damage to landscapes.

  ■ Behemoth, originally called Hadhayosh, is a forty-five foot tall horned brute with incredible strength and durability, regeneration and dynakinesis; the ability to manipulate energy in all its forms. Creates shockwaves, lightning, thunder and delivers massive impacts, and can ignore the Manton effect within a radius of about thirty feet, allowing him to roast capes from the inside-out. He has racked up the most cape kills during the fights, and is consequently nicknamed ‘Herokiller’.

  ■ Leviathan is a thirty-foot tall monstrosity with enhanced speed, enhanced strength, a watery afterimage that follows after his every movement and macrohydrokinesis. He killed forty six parahumans during his attack on Brockton Bay, leaving many others wounded or crippled. Most see him as the weakest of the three. Has shattered islands and coastlines in the course of his attacks.

  ■ The Simurgh is shorter than her brothers, and sports a large number of asymmetrical wings. She possesses telekinesis, clairvoyance, precognition and a perpetual psychic scream. Seen as the most cunning and intelligent of the three, the Simurgh uses her precognition to employ long term schemes, each with Rube-Goldberg sequences of events, culminating in grave disasters and tragedies.

  Nilbog – A crazed lunatic, Nilbog gained the power to create life, collecting raw biological material and using it to fashion minions. With this power, he has settled in a small town and depopulated it to repopulate it with his own creations.

  The Lost

  They have no team they could be listed under, and they’re either dead or gone in some sense of the word.

  Kaiser (Deceased) - Was leader of Empire Eighty-Eight. Real name: Max Anders. Could summon metal objects from solid surfaces – blades, beams, bludgeons, spears and needles. Ripped in half by Leviathan.

  Oni Lee (Deceased) - Lieutenant of Lung. Real name not given. Could teleport, leaving duplicates of himself that would continue to fight for several seconds before exploding into a cloud of carbon ash. Was scouted for the Slaughterhouse Nine by Jack Slash, failed his test, and was made into an artificial siamese twin by Bonesaw, melding him with Hatchet Face to become ‘Hack Job’.

  Bakuda (Deceased) - Lieutenant of Lung. Half-asian tinker, member and once-temporary-leader of the ABB. Specialty in advanced bombs, including gravity, time-stop, physical distortion, cryogenic and flesh-to-glass transmutation effects. Imprisoned in Birdcage and summarily killed by Lung. Resurrected as Glaistig Uaine’s puppet.

  Skidmark (Deceased) - Leader of the Merchants, Skidmark was a meth addict in a serious state of physical decline and ill health. Capable of creating an effect that coated an area and pushed things in one direction. Killed by the Nine.

  Squealer (Deceased) - Skidmark’s girlfriend, classified as a Tinker and a Mover. Her abilities allowed her to create advanced vehicles. Killed by the Nine.

  Mush (Deceased) - Classified as a Shifter, Mush could form amorphous or vaguely humanoid bodies out of trash, mud, dirt and sand. Killed by the Nine.

  Trainwreck (Deceased) - Few details have been provided, but Trainwreck has a mechanized suit or mechanized body with enhanced strength. Was working undercover in the Merchants on Coil’s behalf before being killed by the Nine.

  Coil (Deceased) - Coil had the ability to create a concurrent reality and make different decisions in each, with each of his selves remaining aware of ongoing events in the other reality. He could then choose a reality and cause the other to fade away, enabling a fresh use of this power. Using this ability, he became exceedingly wealthy and generated more positive outcomes for his various teams and forces. His aspirations to have complete control over Brockton Bay were cut short by the Undersiders.

  Dinah Alcott (Alive and Well)- Kidnapped by Coil with the unwitting assistance of the Undersiders during the Agitation Arc, Dinah is a parahuman with the ability to calculate the chances of a particular event occurring. Was kept docile by a regimen of drugs administered by one of Coil’s assistants, recently freed.

  Circus (Missing) – A burglar with a varied powerset. Has enhanced balance, spatial sense, a mild pyrokinesis requiring existing flame to work with and the ability to insert or withdraw objects from thin air. Disappeared after working with Coil.

  Über and Leet (Missing) - A thinker with the ability to be a master at anything he tries, and a tinker with the ability to build anything, the two only barely managed to be b-list supervillains with a video game theme. Disappeared after working with Coil.

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