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Every hero. Every threat. Every take our artists have put to paper, and the music underneath it all. Tap any piece to see it full size.

The star: Panacea
The changed: Outliers
Their gifts: Variants
The city: Prism City

File 01 — The Protector

IdentityErik Turner — engineer
VariantTelekinesis
EpithetThe Unrivaled Apex

An engineer’s mind and a will that moves anything he can see, violet where it lands. A vow that order is not a thing you are given. It is a weight you carry. He holds the line against chaos because someone must. He is not alone.

Apex braced in violet lightning over shattered ground

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File 02 — The Keeper

IdentityDr. Zhalianna “Zhali” Azikiwe — psychotherapist
VariantEmpathic elemental selves
StatusActive — Volume One

She holds them all: separate selves, each tied to an emotion, each an element wearing her resolve. The discipline is real. The wound never closes. She is the keeper, not the spark.

FuryFire
MelancholyWater
JoyWind
PrideLightning

Aspect erupting with flame and lightning

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File 03 — The team

The Fold

DesignationHero team — Prism City
FinancierThe Midasian — Mark Armstrum

Not every hero in Prism City works alone. The Fold is a team, led by a former marine with a seemingly limitless supply of energy and bankrolled by a billionaire whose touch turns anything to gold.

The Fold assembled — The Midasian, Power Force, Limitless, Rush and Update

Limitless Capt. Henry Mathis Limitless energy discharge from hands, eyes, even mouth
Power Force Victoria Summers Flight, super strength, durability, and pushing 70
Update Classified A body of nanites; generates weaponry, integrates with any tech
The Midasian Mark Armstrum Transmutes himself and anything he touches to gold
Rush Classified Super-speed: velocity, momentum strikes, speed-trails

The Opposition — File 04

InsPyre

The whisper. The fire.

“I don’t pull the trigger, I just plant the thread.”

“The Architect” — villain theme

A flawless suit, a model citizen, and no past anyone can find. His power is inspiration. He gets into your head and moves you where he wants you.

He never does the deed. He lights the spark, you build the throne. Whatever you become, that was always you.

InsPyre — a flawless suit, a head wreathed in magenta fire, over Prism City

The rogues

The threats Prism City’s heroes were forged against.

Killstreak

The speedster with the growing body count. Kills for coin and for the love of the game.
Death Mime

Mute mercenary. Pantomimes anything he understands into invisible, lethal existence.
Smoke Hazard

A walking gas chamber who believes he’s the hero. Irredeemable.
Tie-Die

Empathic paint given form. Every color he wears is somebody’s mood.
Ice Cold Twins

Elena and Melor Moroz. Heat-siphoning ice vampires, frozen in time since the ’50s.
Defect

The mercenary. Point him at anything.
Polterheist

Nathan Crowe. The ghost you never see rob you.
Horde

A tragic villain who multiplies, and everything acidic that comes with him.