Editing Endbringers (section)

==Impact==
The Endbringers have killed countless people in their attacks; having caused demographic and political shifts and environmental degradation on a scale not seen outside natural disasters. For example, attacks on port cities by [[Leviathan]] (and to a lesser extent the other Endbringers) hurt the shipping industry, though it did not extinguish it,<ref name="SB eShipping">Shipping wasn't hurt because of boats - Leviathan tended to have periods of activity where he'd attack a city, then retreat to deep water. Boats weren't really hurt, except incidentally.<br><br>Shipping was hurt because ports in target cities and port cities near the targets were left devastated. (Also port cities visited by Simurgh/Behemoth/Tohu Bohu/Khonsu) Shipping still is a thing in the Wormverse. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14754477 Comment by] Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref> alone he has precipitated a [[Wikipedia:Water scarcity|water crisis]].<ref name="15.5 c1" /><ref>Way I see it, having a local team of superheroes is like having a sports team.  Everyone's rooting for them, they make for great media that isn't about wars or the water crisis or whatever - [[Agitation 3.6]]</ref> In addition to the physical damage and loss of civilian lives, their attacks have had the effect of killing or otherwise removing parahumans who served as luminaries and leaders willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good, perhaps contributing to more prevalent cynicism and hopelessness in the general population.<ref name="15.5 c1">Fantastic question, and one I’m not sure I can give a fantastic answer to.<br><br>Why is that? Well, primarily, there’s the issue of trying to quantify ‘damage’. As stated in Legend’s pre-battle speech (early in arc 8) there’s almost always grievous losses but they aren’t always the same sort of losses.<br><br>You have the events that left the world reeling: Lausanne, Hawaii, Kyushu, Newfoundland, Moscow, Sydney. The attacks that left major areas uninhabitable or unrecoverable, with wide-reaching effects on the rest of the country/region/world. In this setting, for example, Japan isn’t a world power and it’s still dependent on international assistance 12 years after Leviathan’s visit to Kyushu.<br><br>But even there, where do you say, “Ok, that’s the sum total of the damage done”? The disaster at Kyushu, the number of refugees seeking living space/work and the pressures on the rest of Asia’s pacific border might have led to some more unrest and tension. Some friction, some ‘small’ wars, infighting and intermingling. Refugees and immigrants. Many settle in major cities across America because President Bradley’s Preservation Act gives them a hand in getting on their feet.<br><br>Do you factor that last point into the damage as well? Lung comes to Brockton Bay in part because of the booming population of Asian immigrants (which hasn’t yet set down roots). Bakuda was born to a Westerner mother and Immigrant father. Do you count the damage they’ve done? Ditto for Mannequin and the Simurgh.<br><br>But that’s only the major hits, the broad strokes of the brush and all the repercussions/spatter that follows from that. Attacks end in other ways, for example. Legend mentions mass loss of life. There’s economic damage that follows from that, disease and explosions in the population of vermin when a quarter million people die in a concentrated area.<br><br>There’s the deaths of countless heroes, and how that biases things further towards the general villain population. If the selfless throw their lives away for the greater good and it’s primarily the selfish (or the very powerful) who are left, how does that skew things?<br><br>And I should stress that weak points aren’t necessarily just areas which are geographically vulnerable. There’s places where there’s ongoing conflict (like we might point to the middle east over the past decade), places where it takes little effort on the part of the Endbringer to deal maximum devastation (ie. a nuclear power plant, military bases) and spots where a great many resources are invested (be they great minds collected in one place or major projects like Dr. Gramme’s major projects in trying to save the world). Did anyone else catch the mention of the water crisis? Leviathan isn’t always attacking cities, and the world has only so much accessible freshwater.<br><br>I digress.<br><br>To answer your question in the general sense? Relatively few places have been hit as hard as the major examples listed above. But figure this has been going on for 20ish years. Behemoth shows up in the early 90’s, attacking once a year, roughly (twice in 1994), Leviathan shows up in the mid 90’s (now we’re up to 2-3 Endbringer attacks a year), and Simurgh comes in just after the turn of the century (now 3-4).<br><br>I mentioned in a comment during the Endbringer arc, but I said something like ‘Behemoth is the cape-killer and Leviathan levels cities’. Figure each Endbringer has attacked 16 to 20 times so far, account for the bias towards killing capes (Behemoth) vs. wiping out landscapes (Leviathan) and that Brockton Bay is pretty middle-of-the-road for the kind of aftermath you see, and maybe you can make an estimate.<br><br>Ballparking it? 8 or 9 Endbringer attacks in America over 20 years. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/colony-15-5/#comment-5639 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Colony 15.5]]</ref>

Conversely, without the Endbringers there would be fewer parahumans organizations than there would otherwise be, and much of the coordination in the Cape community is because of the need to repel Endbringer attacks.<ref>'''Pandemonious Ivy''' [...] 9) Are there any internationally known capes of the beneficent variety, besides Scion, that aren’t affiliated with a group?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' [...] 9) Not really, unless you count, say, a European cape in a geographical region with lots of individual, smaller countries as being ‘internationally known’. It’s a result of the Endbringers, related but not directly linked to the Protectorate. It’s not feasible/economical/efficient to contact a bunch of big-name solo operatives in a time of crisis and arrange to bring them to a specific location, so they either band together/gather others under them and fall in line with the basic preparations that have been set in place, or they fall by the wayside. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/imago-21-1/#comment-17887 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Imago 21.1]]</ref><ref>[[Shadow 5.10]]</ref><ref name="II12.x">[[Heavens 12.x]]</ref>
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The Endbringers and their multiple attacks against stationary targets, rather then being border guards between nations as originally planned. attack patterns  over being  and occasional attackers as originally planned,

[[The Fallen]] rose. Thanks to their coordination with each other the Endbringers are able to maximize their impact.<ref name="Rfav e2" /><!--DM interlude of reading the Simurgh, who talks about coordinating with her fellows.-->