Editing Endbringers (section)

==Original Plan==
If [[Cauldron]] desolved after killing [[Eden]], the Endbringers would not exist.<ref name="SB eNoVials">Assuming that Cauldron's operatives maybe killed Eden but then just sat on their hands/died, the Endbringers don't exist, the cauldron vials aren't spread out, and there's less of the really powerful parahumans here and there who're capable of acting decisively. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15024820 Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> Eden is not the creator of the Endbringers: she would not give her superweapons a drive to go to war against her.<ref name="II19.z e6" /><ref name="reddEndbringerLite" /> Indeed, [[the Simurgh]] uses male pronouns when referring to her [[Eidolon|creator]] and explicitly intends to recreate him;<ref name="II19.z e6" /> she guesses another [[entity]] will arrive in an estimated three or four billion years.<ref name="II19.z e8" />

Had [[Eden]] lived, she would order the [[shard network]] to produce "Endbringer Lites" that she would then direct at her targets (e.g., alliances of people too bothersome for her to sabotage).<ref name="reddEndbringerLite" /> Her simulation of an [[List of Possible Futures|ideal future]] included 'superweapons' implied to be these "Endbringer Lites". In the simulation, she attributed them to [[The Shepherds]], pretending to [[The Wardens]] that she would help defend against them, but in reality she was their source.<ref name="I29 2" /> There were twenty such superweapons in total<ref name="I29 1" />, including:
*A fifteen-foot tall lion-headed figure surrounded by crystal, who turned whatever the crystal touched into more crystal.
*A woman with a reptilian lower body, surrounded by clouds of steam which took the form of faces, claws, and other forms.
*A naked man, perched on top of a seemingly frozen ocean wave, with a 'too flexible' body that swayed with the wind.<ref>A figure, fifteen feet tall, pale, with a lion’s head, a mane of crystal.  Muscular, brutish, it was perched on a massive floating crystal, with more crystals floating about it. Here and there, the crystals touched ground.  They turned what they touched into more crystal, which soon uprooted themselves to join the storm around it.<br><br>A woman, even more brutish in appearance, had a reptilian lower body.  Steam rolled off her in billowing clouds, taking uncanny forms as it coiled and expanded through the area.  Faces, reaching claws and more.<br><br>And on the third monitor, flecked by static, was a naked man, beautiful and long-haired, his face touched with a macabre grin.  He perched on top of an ocean wave that was frozen in place, his body too flexible, moving with the wind as though he were light enough to be carried away. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref>
*Four superweapons at the 'Divide,' one to the north of the Wardens, and four others spread out around the world.<ref name="I29 1">“They’ve released three more of the superweapons,” Partisan said.  “But of course, you know this.”<br><br>“I do,” the entity responds.<br><br>“This makes nine.  Four are at the Divide.  We’ve got one to the far north, poised to flank us.  Four more spread out over the world.”<br><br>“Maybe more we don’t know about,” Arsenal speaks.<br><br>[...]<br><br>The entity responded, feigning emotion, “…There are eleven more.”<br><br>It could see the reaction among the gathered heroes of the Wardens.  Fear, alarm, a kind of dawning horror. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref>
For the most part, these superweapons remained inactive, acting only when they sensed vulnerability.<ref name="I29 2">“Stationed around the world, at the borders of the stronger nations,” the entity informed the Wardens.  “Like yours, they’re remaining more or less stationary, only attacking when they see weakness.”<br><br>“And you believe it is the Shepherds who are responsible?”<br><br>The entity shook its head.  “I can’t know.  You’ve seen for yourself, the powerful blocks they’ve put in place against powers.  But enough clues point to the Shepherds.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref>. The Wardens knew them to be projections, but otherwise information about their nature was unclear.<ref>“We know they’re projections,” Arsenal said, his eyes on the monitors.  “Someone or something is projecting them.  We cut off the head, the superweapons fall.”<br><br>“Yes,” the entity agreed.  It didn’t miss the curious glance Arsenal gave it. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref> In feigning ignorance about her involvement with the superweapons and promising to help the Wardens with a potential war against the Shepherds, Eden likely intended the Endbringers to be used to incite conflict to further the goals of the [[Cycle]].