Editing Scion (section)

== Abilities and Powers ==
After sacrificing the majority of his [[shards]] to seek out hosts, Scion retains only his most essential shards.<ref>The entity has cast off all but the most essential parts of itself, distributing the shards throughout this reality.  More shards will shower on other realities in time, likely around the point the first have started fragmenting in greater numbers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> Even so, he has a vast array of powers that allow him to take on pretty much any threat<ref name=":0" /> and is considered the most powerful individual in the world.<ref name="8.5e1" /> Scion is capable of easily killing even the [[Endbringers]] if he puts his mind to it, and is practically invulnerable to all forms of attack.<ref name=":2" />

===Stilling===
Scion's primary ability is the power to negate any kind of wavelength using manifestations of golden light. This effect is ''extremely'' versatile; among its uses are the cancellation of heat and sound, the disintegration of molecular bonds, slowing or stopping motion, negating the effects of virtually any parahuman ability,<ref name=":0" /> and disruption of electronics.<ref name="24.ye1">When Scion uses his power it disturbs electronics.  Its why when he flies you can't track him unless its with your eyes. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/interlude-24-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.y]]</ref> At its deadliest, Scion's "stilling" can simply stop all bodily functions in a human, essentially killing them instantly.<ref>One strike of palm against palm, and the shockwave swept past us as if in slow motion, moving past every portal in the area that was still open.  It passed through flesh, and it ''stilled''.<br><br>It was the same effect he’d used to quiet Leviathan’s waves, the same effect that had frozen floodwaters in their tracks and the same ability that had given him so much presence.<br><br>Objects in motion ''stopped''.  Portals winked out, warm things plummeted in temperature, cell and neural activity was interrupted.  Blood stopped in people’s veins.<br><br>Every cape that had been touched by this ''stillness'' dropped to the ground, lifeless. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> Scion's light can be fired as beams, orbs, or area bursts, and can be used as a force field or transmitted by touch; essentially, he can shape his light into any form he wishes.<ref name=":0" /> All of Scion's "stilling" effects are completely silent, including his movements and his attacks.<ref>Scion turned away from Eidolon to focus on the enemy once more. He blasted the Endbringer again. Floated up and moved past Bitch and me faster than I could see, to strike the Endbringer a fraction of a second after the blast of light struck, stopping there in midair to blast Leviathan a second time as the Endbringer was still flying through the air at the punch’s impact. Everything about Scion and his actions was utterly silent. His movements or attacks didn’t even stir the air. Only the effects, Leviathan striking the water, the breaking of ice, generated any movement, shudders or sounds. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17 Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref> 

Thus Scion's offensive blasts can range greatly in power, from pencil-thin cutting beams<ref>A pencil-thin beam lanced out from his fingertips.  A sweep of his hand, waist-level, and it cut through the crowd.  Cut through thighs, knees, calves, feet. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/21 Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.2]]</ref> to continent-destroying blasts.<ref>He came out swinging, obliterating two continents on two different worlds before he found ''us''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> He has practically infinite range as he can shoot across oceans;<ref>It gathered its power, then aimed at the nearest, largest population center. Kevin Norton’s birthplace.<br><br>The golden light speared forth, and the island shattered, folding, parts of it rising from the ocean. Crumpled like paper in a fist.<br><br>The entity did not eliminate the smoke or the waves that followed. It simply let the aftermath occur.<br><br>The simulated human mind within the entity felt a glimmer of something at that. Pleasure? Relief? Satisfaction?<br><br>Something deeper inside, something primal, tied to memories back in the beginning, before the beginning, responded in a very similar fashion.<br><br>The entity extended its perceptions outward, felt the reaction, the outcry. It turned words around in its head, as if it were broadcasting to itself.<br>[...]<br>The entity opened fire once again, and this time it struck out at the coastline on the opposite side of the ocean. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> his blasts can track targets by curving in mid-air.<ref>Eidolon froze the water around Leviathan’s four claws, giving Scion the opportunity to land another blast. Leviathan turned, raised a spraying wall of water to cover his retreat. Scion sent out one blast of his golden light to strike the wave, following up with a second blast before the first even made contact with the water.<br><br>Seeing the second blast coming, Leviathan leaped to one side. No use – the blast of light curved in the air to head unerringly for him, struck him down. Edges of the Endbringer’s wounds glowed golden yellow, drifted away into the air like flecks of burning paper caught in the updraft of hot air. A fist imprint near the base of Leviathan’s throat glowed with edges of the same light, the wound continuing to spread and burn as I watched. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17 Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref><ref>Scion attacked again, picking different targets.  King of Cups created more phantom limbs, an array of twelve or so arms of varying size that spread out from his shoulders, and caught a teammate’s hand.  He was pulled out of the way, but the sphere swerved in the air, drifting his way.  It crashed into one of his shoulders, and dashed the arms to smithereens. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/venom-29-2/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.2]]</ref> The detrimental effects of Scion's light lingers, continuing to eat away at any damaged targets.<ref>Right hand gone.  Blood, fragments of golden light eating away at stump, making the bleeding worse. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/24 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.5]]</ref> This lingering effect can kill a man all on its own.<ref>He caught his target around the throat.<br><br>Didn’t squeeze.<br><br>But the golden light began to eat into the target’s body and costume.  Scion let the man drop.<br><br>Not a scream.  Only twitching, frantic thrashing as the golden light continued to consume. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/19 Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.1]]</ref> Scion can also use his power defensively, using it to create physical barriers or cancel out the effects of offensive powers.<ref name=":0" /> His stilling can also close portals and even stop the [[Simurgh]]'s song.<ref>Scion held back on shooting again, instead charging himself with power. When he released it, it manifested as a slow radiance, a sphere of light that expanded from him in slow motion. The tear in reality dissipated, and everything the light touched stopped. Shifting clouds went still, objects that were flying through the air ceased moving and simply fell, and the ambient noises of destruction, fire and fighting was replaced by an all-too brief silence. Even the Simurgh’s song, Krouse realized, had momentarily stopped. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/10 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.3]]</ref> Finally, Scion's light can have healing abilities, such as when Scion cures a man of cancer<ref name="I1" /> or when he uses his light to heal the capes around him upon his arrival in the [[Behemoth vs New Delhi|battle against Behemoth]].<ref>Scion lowered himself to nearly ground level.  His golden hair moved in the wind as he gazed over the battlefield.  His white bodysuit was smudged here or there on the sleeves, but otherwise seemed so pristine that it seemed to ''glow'' in the gloom.<br><br>No, part of that glow was real.  The faint light touched Chevalier, and he could feel his breathing ease.  It was reaching out to everyone present.<br><br>''A consolation prize?  A bit of healing?  Maybe a helping hand against the radiation, for the others?''<br><br>He managed a soft laugh.  The glow was making the pain easier to handle.  He could almost breathe, now.<br><br>He closed his eyes, and he felt a tear roll down from the corner of his eye.  He suspected he wouldn’t have been able to tear up without the healing. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref>

===Flight===
Scion can fly at immense speeds as an application of his aura of golden light.<ref name="24.ye1" /> At his fastest, he was able to fly to the other side of the world in less than a minute.<ref name="27.4">[[Extinction 27.4]]</ref> When flying, he leaves a brief golden trail in the air.<ref name=":6" />

===Senses===
Scion can sense everything around him, even when his senses are being deliberately obfuscated.<ref>Her subjects formed a thick cloud, blocking the entity’s vision.  No matter.  It could still perceive the world. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> He appears to have control over the range of his senses, and can see into other universes if he chooses.<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref> He can also use the senses of parahumans, since they carry his shards.<ref>He viewed the scene, as he viewed all of the scenes, through the senses of the fragments that had gone ahead, of fragments that had arrived after he had.  They were embedded in hosts, which meant he viewed things through the eyes of the host, and through the abilities the hosts expressed. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/venom-29-2/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.2]]</ref>

To deter Scion from tracing their activities, [[Cauldron]] scattered around [[deviant]]s in their [[Cauldron_Compound|headquarters]] and on [[Earth Bet]] to act as a kind of smokescreen against Scion.<ref>“Mm hmm,” he responded, nonchalant.  “So Cauldron uses these deviants as a particularly strong source of our metaphorical ‘smell’.  They scatter them across the world where Cauldron is most active, the world Scion occupies, and he loses the ability to sniff them out.  Of course, this only works when the deviant isn’t going to draw undue attention.  Either they’re calm and inclined to keep to their own, by nature, or so dangerous that they remove witnesses by default.” - [[Venom 29.6]]</ref><ref>“Not even my old name, from before you wiped my memory.  Tell me the name you gave me, after you sent me to the fourth floor.  Because you do that for the ones you think are worth studying, right?  Or tell me the name I took after you released me into the wild, as some kind of ''smokescreen'' for Scion.  It starts with ‘S’, if that helps.” - [[Venom 29.7]]</ref> Deviants were an asset to Cauldron as Scion would instinctively turn away from them.<ref>“''There'' we go,” Satyr said.  “And if you care to, you can infer further.  ''Why''?  Scion is the supposed source of powers, yes?  Then what are the deviants to ''him''?  If we see them as distorted ''people'', then he sees them as…”<br><br>“Distorted powers?”  Cuff answered.  “Or… whatever they are to him.  Distorted spawn?”<br><br>“Something foul,” Shadow Stalker spoke for the first time since we’d split up to escape the cell.  “Broken, wrong, loathsome.  ''Damaged''.  And no parent wants to face the fact that their kids came out less than perfect.” - [[Venom 29.6]]</ref><ref>“Cauldron capes have, according to reports, gotten responses from Scion.  A pause, a momentary break in pattern, even, some say, a ''feeling'' of aversion.  Powerful Cauldron capes achieve better results, deviants even more so… and if the effect scales up as Cauldron thinks it might, the ''extreme'' deviants will get an even greater result, while having powers that may have some effect on him.” - [[Venom 29.6]]</ref> As Scion was a blind spot to [[Contessa]], she used deviants as distractions to help constrain him.<ref>“How do blind spots factor in?”<br><br>“For my metaphor?  Bodies of water?  I don’t know.  I’m ass-pulling, as Imp would put it.  But the idea applies.  The lava pools up and around, it builds… walls, peaks, accumulations.  She sets up stuff in the periphery or vicinity that impact or constrain the blind spot in question.  For Scion, it was case fifty-threes, it was specific teams of specific power levels in various Earths, stuff hidden out of sight and stuff in plain sight.  The PRT.  It was distractions, it was delays and it was encouragement for him.  To get him where they needed him and when.” - [[Sundown 17.10]]</ref>

===Super Strength ===
Scion has superhuman strength, sufficient to lift [[Behemoth]] several hundred feet into the air.<ref name="24.x">[[Interlude 24.x]]</ref>

===Regeneration===
Scion's body is only an extension of a vastly larger being, and so cannot sustain any meaningful damage. Any damaged tissue is replaced within a fraction of a second with a practically unlimited supply of undamaged tissue from the main body. This happens so fast, it is almost impossible to tell that he was ever injured.<ref>Eidolon used his matter creation power.  As with the Faerie Queen's monster of steel, this was derived from a single point, an expanding creation of matter.  In this case, however, it was an ''explosion''.  Carbon unfolded from a single point.  Eidolon chose Scion's right ear canal as the center point.<br /><br />The carbon expanded as a sphere, and there was a glimmer of Scion's reaction as the orb expanded until it was a hundred feet across.  A distortion, golden flesh stretching.<br /><br />Blood?<br /><br />The sphere dropped towards the ocean like a comically large cannonball, and Scion advanced.  Intact, unhurt. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/interlude-27/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 27.x|27.x (Interlude, Eidolon)]]</ref><ref>"Because we aren't hurting him," I spoke my thoughts aloud.  ''We haven't touched him''.<br /><br />"We're hurting him," she said.  "Kind of like how people hurt Gavel.  He's… he's got a defense, not making him invincible, but making him a living portal.  So you hurt him, and faster than you can do anything, he just swaps out the damaged material for material from… this bottomless well." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/venom-29-2/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.2]]</ref> This is an intentional design of Scion's body, one meant to demoralize his opponents.<ref>Yet Scion appeared untouched.  He was ''cleaner'', even.  Scoured of the blood and dirt.  Pristine.<br><br>“A bottomless well,” I said.<br><br>“Bottomless enough to matter,” Tattletale said.  “We take out pounds of flesh, but it’s really only removing a drop from the bucket at a time.  Then the ‘water’ flows out, high pressure, filling the gaps.”<br><br>“And morale plunges,” I said, staring out at the capes who were hanging back, staring at the scene rather than participating.<br><br>“Psychological,” Tattletale said.  “Just like Endbringers.  He crafted that body for a reason.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/venom-29-2/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.2]]</ref>

If his body is hit by certain powers such as [[Foil]], it will turn him into a portal that leaves his main body vulnerable to a more devastating follow-up.<ref>I discovered why he was concerned about the power.<br><br>It kept things from being ''contained''.  I got a glimpse, a flash of a look into the world beyond him, a world he’d shut off, to which his body was the only conduit.<br><br>The beam tore into him and into the well.<br><br>I moved the portals, and the beam turned to scour more of the landscape beyond Scion. - [[Speck 30.6]]</ref><ref>'''DragonConfident:''' I understand he had Path to Victory, teleportation, precognition, and a lot of others powers to warn him and let him dodge any Sting projectiles, but why risk someone figuring out that a specific parahuman can kill you permanently, why is essentially what ended up happening?<br><br>'''Wildbow:'''
:So typically, it's not a problem because whoever would be attached to that shard wouldn't have any way of getting to them to attack in the first place.
This basically answers OP's question. And it doesn't quite kill him. It just leaves him more vulnerable to more devastating follow-up. - Conversation with Wildbow [https://redd.it/t1azj8 on Reddit]</ref> Many other powers with an interdimensional component exist that can do the same as Foil and the [[Subway Cluster]].<ref>'''Whispersilk:''' Bow, would it have been possible for someone other than Foil and her multitrigger partner to access Scion's personal reality? There was conversation a while ago about Gold Morning if Taylor had died to Leviathan, and as I was thinking through the problems that needed to be solved to beat Scion, Foil appeared to be the only "linchpin", if you will, whose role couldn't be filled by somebody else. It makes sense for victory not to be reliant on her (and her partner) alone, and it also makes sense for some other power or combination of powers (perhaps involving Cauldron capes?) to be able to fill her role. Is that the case?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Foil is by far not the only edge case in the interdimensional fuckery, Whisp - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/37024231 archived on Spacebattles]</ref><ref>'''MugaSofer:''' Phir Se would have better odds opening a portal in Scion's head than blasting him, I think. (Which probably would still not work.)<br><br>'''XV:''' the portal cut would do... not nothing, but nothing significant<br><br>'''MugaSofer:''' might cause weird dimensional feedback, like the scrub+labyrinth combo<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Even getting into the dimension doesn't necessarily break scion or disrupt much. - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/37024231 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>

===Power Cancellation===
Scion is immune, or can make himself immune, to multiple parahuman abilities with exceptions for "[[perfect]]" abilities. His actions cannot be predicted by [[Precognitive]]s (future sight)<ref name="26a c1">“Blue.  I’m-  My power’s getting fuzzier.”<br><br>''Scion''.<br><br>He looked up at the sky.  Weaver with her swarm was there, forming a great wall across the sky, as if to draw attention to herself.  Scion was approaching, a ray of golden light streaking across the overcast sky above.<br><br>Scion shut down precog abilities. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/interlude-26a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26a]]</ref><ref>"The first way, you've got to be basically immune to powers.  Scion is.  He's immune to precognition, throws everything out the window when he shows up.  I saw it when he fought the Simurgh.  She couldn't automatically dodge his stuff, because she either couldn't read his mind or she couldn't see the attacks before they happened.  So he hit her, a bunch of times.  I saw it." - [[Migration 17.8]]</ref> or clairvoyance (far seeing or remote viewing),<ref>The awareness continued to extend.  A whole planet.  Not perfect, but the civilized world, largely below the equator, had a different attitude, prizing self-sufficiency.  The rest of the world was war-torn.<br><br>It was in one of the war-torn regions that it first appeared.  A streak of golden light.<br><br>Destruction.  Tearing through a region, then a whole continent.<br><br>His presence blinded, dark.  Blurring the images.<br><br>''Can’t see.  Can’t-''<br><br>''Moving on.'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/interlude-28/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 28]]</ref> his powers are not subject to most [[trump]] interference, and he is immune to emotion-affecting powers.<ref>“Right,” I said.  “He can be affected emotionally.  Not by emotion-affecting ''powers'', I don’t think, but he’s influenced by his feelings.  That’s good.  That’s something we can use.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/venom-29-9/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.9]]</ref> In addition, his multiple senses make him very difficult to blind or mislead for any period of time.<ref>Scion emerged, but he didn’t emerge into a world any of my forces occupied.<br /><br />''He- he lost the scent trail,'' I thought.<br /><br />It didn’t take him long to find it again.  He went straight through into the world where I’d stationed Glaistig Uaine. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>

With stilling, Scion can "tune" his defenses to negate specific powers. He destroyed some of [[Glaistig Uaine]]'s shadows<ref>Some came back, used powers in different variations. The ones Scion destroyed, though, they didn’t recur. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/extinction-27-5/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.5]]</ref> to such a degree that they were still mending six months after [[Gold Morning]].<ref>[[Teneral e.1]]</ref> He can block teleportation.<ref>“…can’t teleport them, blocking my power…” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/venom-29-2/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.2]]</ref>

===Precognition===
Scion can look forward in time to observe countless possible futures.<ref>The shards retained memories, motivated, pushed.<br><br>The entity looked to the future, looked to possible worlds, and it saw the ways this could have unfolded. It burned a year off of the entity’s life, but he had thousands to spare anyways.<br><br>There was a scene where the entity stood over the broadcaster’s corpse and ruminated on what had driven the male to such extremes. The shard wasn’t a particularly aggressive one.<br><br>A scene where the man died, and years passed, the entity slowly coming to the same conclusions as it observed the rest of the species. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> He can learn what actions he must take to achieve a specific future or goal, similar to [[Contessa]]. Unlike Contessa, he can use this power in any situation,<ref>“Scion sees the path to victory?”<br><br>“Or something close.”<br><br>“You’re sure?”<br><br>“The evidence, his attitude, as far as he has any attitude at all… yeah.  None of the limitations like Contessa has, I don’t think.  No blind spots.  Just… yeah.” - [[Cockroaches 28.6]]</ref> but it drains from his lifespan, so he uses it sparingly.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="29.2">[[Venom 29.2]]</ref>

[[Khepri]] believed that although his use of [[Precognitive|precognition]] lacked imagination compared with [[Contessa]]'s, he set up contingencies to automatically dodge physical threats such as [[Foil]]'s charged projectiles.<ref>I was already moving the group to safety when Scion evaded the incoming projectile.<br><br>His future sight power wasn’t like Contessa’s.  Narrower, lacking imagination, but he’d set up ''contingencies''.  If X happened, then the power would automatically kick in.<br><br>Apparently the cost of being hit by Foil’s power was worse than whatever it cost him to use that power.<br><br>Not a magic bullet, but it was a good fucking thing to know.  Could I break it?  Abuse it? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref><ref>Why had ''this'' barrage worked when the others didn’t?<br><br>Had to buy time, make space.  I opened doorways, siccing capes on Scion, driving him out of the building.<br><br>What was different?  I hadn’t added anything to the group.<br><br>I ''had'' taken something away.<br><br>I looked at Foil. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> However, he has no contingencies against psychological threats; humanity employed a successful and effective short-term psychological warfare campaign to bully him to death.<ref>So Gold Morning doesn't happen because Scion doesn't throw a tantrum. His lack of motivation and vulnerable, undeveloped humanity are his biggest weaknesses and the introduction of Superman to the setting counteracts those. Scion as an Eden-less entity as a mirror to a family-less Superman should get the input and reference points he needs to develop more as a human being and figure out how to manage being bullied to death, and having a Superman around gives him a job to do. - Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/77707099 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>

===Dimensional Travel===
Scion can freely move through alternate universes,<ref name="27.4" /> doing it as easily as a human might walk.<ref name="I27">Thunder clapped.<br><br>Scion was gone.<br><br>No. Not gone. He had slipped into another Earth, avoiding the affected area as easily as someone might avoid a thrown stone by stepping to the right. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/interlude-27/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 27.x|Interlude 27.x]] </ref> Barriers preventing travel between universes can be broken down by Scion in seconds.<ref>Scion emerged from the other world, having broken down the barrier we’d set. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> If necessary, he can attack objects in multiple universes simultaneously, such as obliterating cliff faces on two different Earths.<ref>The power was a familiar one.  One he’d used to curtail Leviathan’s movements in the Kyushu fight.  He reached into another Earth and pulled the cliff faces into this world.<br><br>Scion blasted the cliff faces, but his golden light only affected the cliff on ''this'' earth.  The moment he stopped, more emerged.<br><br>He stopped to strike again, this time obliterating the cliff faces on ''this'' Earth and the one in the other reality. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/interlude-27/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 27.x|27.x (Interlude, Eidolon)]]</ref>

[[Scapegoat]] claimed the multiverse is infinitely branching; he believed a seemingly infinite number of [[Earth Bet]] realities are branching off the main Earth Bet reality since it diverged from [[Earth Aleph]].<ref>As the golden man had made his descent, he had sorted out the universe, taking something infinitely branching and viewing it through a lens.  The Bet reality, which had been William’s before he’d left it for Gimel, was the point at the peak of the lens, the most ‘forward’, for lack of a better word.  In the eighties, the golden man had arrived.  Bet had cleaved off from Aleph.<br><br>‘Bet’ was, within the umbrella of the lens, a collection of realities, all of the derivative realities flowing from that point of cleaving, with the more far-flung being further away from ‘his’, harder to reach and see.  Accessible, despite common opinion, but only for power interactions, not for actual travel.  The golden man had been careful to limit that.  Careful enough that even after his death and the ruin of his insane designs, that separation was inviolable.<br><br>When William used his power, he made use of the ‘lens’ and its construction.  Earth Bet was a pool of William Gileses thirty years deep. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/08/18 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y II]]</ref> According to Scapegoat, when Scion's blasts devastated Earth Bet, his blasts also devastated every other Earth Bet that branched off this main Earth Bet reality.<ref>He’d joined the Fallen because all that selflessness and communication had amounted to nothing but whole universes of ruin- great golden beams that had cut through the lens, through the Earth Bet he knew and into the seemingly infinite Earths that were included in that package, that were used for predictions and simulations, for templates and data.  It was too vast to comprehend, so people didn’t bother comprehending.  Nothing meaningful had changed since that point. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/08/18 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y II]]</ref>

===Other Abilities===
Scion has a handful of other powers such as radiating his emotions to nearby individuals<ref name="8.5e1" /><ref name="29.8 eSadAura" /><ref name="Sad" /> and [[thinker]] abilities to understand languages and cultures,<ref>Study reveals worlds with dominant belief systems, peaceful worlds, worlds crowded with twelve billion individuals.  Worlds with almost none.<br><br>The entity pares through these, deciding.<br><br>It investigates, and in the doing, it prepares some shards for analysis and understanding of this particular society and culture.  Language, culture, patterns of behavior, patterns of society.  This is something the counterpart should be emphasizing.<br>[...]<br>The entity understood the Russian words as it understood all languages, through the knowledge it had scanned for and codified, prior to arriving. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> and a long list of other powers that aren't described in-story.<ref name=":0"/>