Editing Trigger Event (section)

==Underlying Mechanics==
{{Spoiler}}After an [[Entity]] has finished preparing a [[shard]], it will cast the shard off, plot its trajectory, and determine the location it will arrive in with its potential host. Once the shard has arrived at its target reality, the shard will lock onto a desired host, get a grasp of the host's personality and subsequently allow that portion of itself to burn out to form the [[Corona Pollentia]]. It will then sit dormant for a time until a trigger event occurs.

When a trigger event happens, the shard recognizes the event from the state of the host, the surrounding context, and the flood of stress responses. It then reads the host to find out who they are and how they respond to situations before reading the situation for itself and assessing what form the danger takes.

The shard then discards everything it doesn't need, distilling itself down to one efficient, case-specific task suited to the host. Where the shard isn't already programmed with [[Manton Effect|inherent safeties and limitations]], it will use the host's stored knowledge to generate a grasp of what it needs to do.

If there are additional hosts present during the host's trigger event, and they are actively using their powers, then the shard can "ping" off the others and exchange information. This generally allows the host to gain some kind of additional aspect to their powers that they would not have had otherwise.{{Cite}}<!--WB recently infodumped about group triggers find and use that-->
===Age Range===
Most trigger events occur within the age-range of twelve to thirty; there are some outliers, though those tend to be on the younger end of the scale.<ref name="II9.12">A reality with parahumans was that most who triggered were young – people as young as twelve could trigger, with the upper range being thirty.  There was a possibility for a few years of leeway, trending more toward the rare parahuman being younger than a parahuman being older. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/02 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.12]]</ref>

Dismissing clients of Cauldron (and later, [[Broken Trigger]]s) new parahumans are generally teenagers, although elderly capes exist.<ref name="I21c1">The elderly are hard to fit in, here. Trigger events tend to hit in the teens, so even the oldest parahuman’s liable to be only middle aged (a la Kaiser, Number Man). There’s some Cauldron users, but even they aren’t -old-.<br><br>I have one character in mind that’s elderly, but not 100% decided. Have to see how the next bit flows. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/interlude-21/#comment-20554 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 21.y]]</ref><ref name="R1" />