Editing Endbringers (section)

===Drives===
[[Eidolon]] created the Endbringers with a fundamental drive to go to war against him.<ref name="II19.z e6">She had other drives.  To go to war against her creator.  To these ends, she created a nemesis.  She made him better.  He freed people, upset the system, disrupted the process, and in that, he created the chaos that would keep her simulation from being too sterile. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> However, because he unwittingly built them from structures derived from [[Eden]]'s<ref name="reddEndbringerLite" /><ref name="SB eNoVials" /> pool of emergency resources,<ref name="II19.z e4" /> the Endbringers also have other drives which give each Endbringer its own paradigm and purpose:
* [[Behemoth]] has a drive to break stasis.<ref name="II19.z e4">Her creator was an administrator of the highest order, and she had been selected out of a pool of emergency resources.  All of her kind had.  Behemoth had been created to break stasis, Leviathan to take away resources in space and land, forcing communities into conflict as they were made to relocate. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> For example, France has a long insistence on using nuclear power as its largest source of electricity; he attacked Lyon twice as it has many nuclear plants in its vicinity.<ref>'''Asmora:''' Just thought I’d point this out, since no one else has mentioned it: Lyon was attacked twice. Is this an editing error on Wildbow’s part, attributable to the fact that he was rushed in writing this monstrously huge (and yet it felt like one of the shorter reads to me) chapter? I sincerely doubt it, given that Lyon is the last entry. Thus, we require WMG as to what the deal is there. Was there something in Lyon that interested Behemoth, but he was driven off before he got it on the first trip, so he came back for it? Did he decimate the city the first time, then get upset because they rebuilt it too quickly and thoroughly?<br><br>'''wildbow:''' Lyon is an area with a great many nuclear plants in the vicinity. - Wildbow in [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/#comment-29217 -->
* [[Leviathan]] has a drive to take away resources necessary for survival, and thus force relocating communities into conflict.<ref name="II19.z e4" /> For example, his attack on [[Kyushu]] started a refugee crisis and some 'small' wars.<ref name="15.5 c1" />
* [[The Simurgh]] has [[The_Simurgh#Her_Drives|a drive]] to collect, consolidate, and sort information<ref name="II19.z e5">She was built out of greater structures intended to salvage a situation where the species eliminated itself.  Future-looking, she would create a forced simulation.  It was worse than an organically emergent simulation, but in a process that saw the planet revolve three hundred times around its star, it could be necessary in the final years, consolidating and sorting information, forcibly exploring the resources the planet had to offer.<br><br>That was her drive, as much as water and food were necessary for this life she farmed out and put to task in a greater system. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> produced by [[parahuman]]s and humanity in a world of conflict.<ref name="II20.8 plan">This whole plan, the idea was to give them exactly what they wanted.  The Simurgh wanted a fight, wanted conflict, everyone on the planet pushing themselves to the limit, testing a system she’d set in motion.<br><br>Well, she’d got that.  Contained to this one facility.  With ''her'' as our primary enemy, more than each other.<br><br>Now Fortuna wanted to end the world.  We needed to help her do that.  If we balked, if we stopped… we lost.  Hesitation when parrying an incoming strike was death.  My early sparring with Manpower had taught me that much.  It was especially true when your opponent was a hundred times stronger than you, if not stronger. - [[Last 20.8]]</ref><ref name="II19.z e8">Three or four billion years would pass before one of the entities returned to this world.  In the interim, she would keep this world alive, and she would glean all knowledge that the minds of this world could produce.  Every means of suffering, every desperate solution, every invention and inspiration. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> 
* Although the other drives of [[Khonsu]], [[Bohu]], and [[Tohu]] are unknown, they are different from the first three Endbringers.<ref name="Rjla e2" />
All these drives are just as fundamental to them as water and food are for humans.<ref name="II19.z e5" />

After [[Eidolon]]'s death, the Endbringers begin behaving in an erratic manner.<ref name="28.2 eStrangeBehavior1" /><ref name="28.2 eStrangeBehavior2" /> [[Tattletale]] speculates that Eidolon may have inadvertently created them as a way to use his abilities to their fullest and make a unique difference;<ref name="28.4 e2">"Let's face the facts, Simurgh.  Ziz.  Israfel.  Ulama.  Whatever you want to go by.  You started acting funny pretty much right away, after Eidolon bit it.  Maybe that's mourning.  Maybe you respected him as an enemy, 'cause he was one of only two individuals who could really give you guys a run for your money.  Or maybe you had a different relationship."<br><br>Tattletale let the words hang in the air.<br><br>"Maybe a parent-child relationship?  Maybe he created you.<br>[...]<br>“They say loneliness breeds the best masters, and it’s awfully lonely at the top,” Tattletale said.  "Nobody that can really put up a fight, no excuse to flex his abilities to their fullest, nothing that can really give the man any real ''stature'', next to Legend, who had all the face time with the media.  No real role to play, compared to Alexandria, who was managing the PRT.  Odd man out." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref> [[Scion]] killing Eidolon denied the Endbringers their purpose.<ref>“…Do it for the psychological impact, leave a mark.  Or do it because Scion killed Behemoth, your brother, and some part of you is programmed with a sense of kinship or whatever.  But above all else, I’m hoping you’ll help us murder that golden alien motherfucker because he killed Eidolon, and he stripped you of your ''purpose''.”<br><br>''Sixty percent sure'', I thought.  Tattletale had revised her number.  How confident was she now?<br><br>The speech had no meat to it if Eidolon hadn’t made the Endbringers.<br><br>Very little if he ''had''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref> She claimed to be 60% sure of this conclusion,<ref name="28.4 e3">"He's really their creator?"  Defiant asked.  "Eidolon?"<br><br>"…Sixty percent sure.  Eidolon's some kind of exception, on a lot of levels.  His power works by different vectors, the innate limits aren't there… something broke, and I'm betting the Endbringers are tied to it.  Like, this entity is fissioning off into countless fragments that impregnate hosts and somehow a little extra gets tacked on.  Or Cauldron's method of replicating the fragments gets that little extra." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref> but grew increasingly confident about it when she met [[the Simurgh]].<ref>“Seventy,” Tattletale said.<br><br>“Hm?” I asked.<br><br>“I said I was sixty-five percent sure before.  I’m revising it to seventy.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref><ref>“You’re seventy percent sure.”<br><br>“Seventy percent, yes.  If I’m ''wrong'', then I’ll be approaching this entire conversation from the wrong angle, and we might wind up siccing an otherwise passive Endbringer on humanity.”<br><br>“Let’s hope you’re right, then,” I said.<br><br>She nodded. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref>

After [[Gold Morning]], the surviving Endbringers except for [[the Simurgh]] went dormant.<ref name="E.end eDormantEB" /><ref name="II10.x e1">There were other things.  News.  Status of Class-S threats…
:''Sleeper; active''
:''Machine Army; 4.83% growth since last check, active''
:''Endbringers; one dormant, one active, others dead or unknown locations.''
Active Endbringer.  She zeroed in on that.  A few mouse clicks brought her to a site that tracked the Simurgh.<br/><br/>The activity was only a renewed cluster of sightings.  Not an attack.  The Simurgh was somewhere near Bet’s [[Indonesia]].  Not flying as she’d once done, either.  Floating around.  Facilities and factories in the area had been repurposed into accommodations.  People in the area were hunkered down, enduring life on new Bet instead of moving on to new places, leaning on some risky non-tinker tech advances.  Going the sci-fi route in tackling what Bet was going through.  Those same people were responsible for the flurry of reports about the Simurgh, which had led to her being flagged ‘active’. - [[Interlude 10.x II]]</ref> Although the Simurgh unsuccessfully tried cloning [[Eidolon]],<ref>“Actually, no.  I had suspicions, but the Endbringer making a baby wasn’t one of them.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref><ref name="E.5 eProtectProject" /><ref name="E.5 eDestroyClone">The light caught the glass, at first, obscuring the contents.<br><br>A baby.  Male.  With large ears and a large round nose.  Not attractive, as babies went.<br>[...]<br>Lung touched a burning hand to the glass, melting it.  Water steamed on contact with his claw.<br>[...]<br>The water was crimson and boiling by the time Lung withdrew his claw. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref> she still explicitly intends to recreate him later.<ref name="II19.z e6" /> According to [[Titan Fortuna]], the Simurgh can only command [[Khonsu]], [[Bohu]], and [[Tohu]] by successfully merging with her and then using an Eidolon shade via [[Valkyrie|Titan Valkyrie]];<ref>A great, long-fingered hand of silver with bone-white nails reached out.  The shadow of Eidolon stepped down onto the fingertip.<br><br>Titans appeared from clouds of darkness, arranging themselves in a formation around their new center and commander.<br><br>''Other'' things stepped out of clouds of darkness.<br><br>Not Titans, but scary enough in their own way.  Especially considering what all of this ''meant''.<br><br>Endbringers.  One tall and narrow, of a size to rival any Titan.  One small, a knot of formlessness, with faces periodically flashing out.  One with a great chrome orb for a midsection, a black, whiskered head, arms, and feet mounted at different positions around that orb.  There were other shapes that stood in the dark clouds, but they didn’t emerge or seem consistent.  Still taking shape. - [[Infrared 19.9]]</ref> the Simurgh-Fortuna amalgamation would then use the other Endbringers as bodyguards.<ref name="II19.10 e1">“Let’s assume they have clear goals.  The Simurgh wants… ''that''.  Whatever that was.  Humanity under her sway, her with Titans, Endbringers, and an army of capes brought back from the dead to protect her.  Titan Fortuna wants to bring about the end of our world so their species can try their hand at replicating.  Both have similar endpoints.  But those are just that.  Endpoints.  What happens after the end?”<br><br>“The world is enslaved, or the world blows up,” Byron said.<br><br>“Immediately?”<br><br>“The slavery, it seems like.  The world blowing up… don’t know.” - [[Infrared 19.10]]</ref>