Editing Eidolon (section)

==Personality==
He's described as a quiet man, with a calm voice, brimming with the strength of his power, often making people around him feel intimidated.

His sole purpose in life is to help as many people as possible and help in the [[End of the World]] scenario - an event for which he is preparing his whole cape life, describing it as his legacy.<ref name="I27"/>
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He is religious, and had been known to talk to priests and others in order to receive blessings in his work.{{Cite}}
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===Reputation===
Eidolon has an overwhelming reputation given that he's generally reckoned to be the fifth most powerful being on the planet.<ref>Debating the relative strengths of various capes was common enough, in the schoolyard and elsewhere.  If Alexandria and Legend fought, who would win?  Would Boston’s Protectorate win against Brockton Bay’s team?  What if you removed Boston’s weakest members until the sides were even in number?<br/><br/>When the question inevitably got to who was the strongest, the ‘big five’ were generally ruled out, in the sense of ‘well, yeah, but besides ''them''‘.  Scion got counted as a part of that group because the powers he did have were head and shoulders above just about everyone else’s.  Eidolon was almost the opposite, because he had ''every power'', though he could only hold on to a handful at a time.  Then there were the Endbringers, because they mandated situations like this, where even Scion or Eidolon plus multiple teams of capes weren’t necessarily enough.<br/><br/>Sure, some loyal people might argue that Legend was better than Eidolon, or maybe even some other cape like Dragon or Alexandria.  Generally speaking, though?  Eidolon was a top dog. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/03 Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.1]]</ref> People tend to resent his personality, but his sheer power and past records earned him great respect.<ref>There were people who could enter a room, and everyone would stop talking, or the tone of conversation, at the very least, would shift.  [...] There were people who had impacted world-scale events who didn’t quite have that presence or clout. [...] There was another class, though.  Another type.  Eidolon, by all accounts, hadn’t had that underlying character.  A lot of people had instinctively disliked him, even.<br/>[...]<br/>But ''Eidolon''?  They came away from meetings with Eidolon feeling like they’d never be good enough, not wanting to see him again.  In some of the files I’d been given in the big file dump I’d negotiated for, I’d read that a lot of people with sensitive or shaky powers had felt like their powers didn’t like Eidolon.  Anecdotal evidence said Scion hadn’t, even.<br/><br/>Thing was, dislike or no, however instinctual or proud or resentful that dislike was, one couldn’t hold onto that after that one video of Eidolon, holding a bridge up during a disaster, too preoccupied to stop a building from falling down nearby… then shore up the bridge, reverse ''time'' to save the building and its occupants, shore up the building, and move on, like it was fucking ''nothing''.  Didn’t watch Eidolon taking one shot to execute a supervillain the Kings Men had been trying to keep occupied for an hour, not three seconds after appearing on the scene.  Most of that had been early in his career.  But it counted, he wore the deeds like some wore capes.<br/><br/>Dislike or no, you knew if the man was in the fucking ''building''. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/05 Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.2]]</ref>