Editing Endbringers (section)

===Physiology===
According to [[Tattletale#Abilities and Powers|Tattletale's power]], the Endbringers have irregular biology, were never human, and have no conventional organs.<ref name="8.y e3">''Another try.''<br>
:''Durable layers to body, no conventional organs, irregular biology: Tissues mend from the inside out, layers expanding to fill wounds and integrating into surrounding structures.  Not human.''
''Knew that much.''<br>
:''Not human: Never was human.''
That gave her pause. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-8-extermination/8-x-bonus-interlude/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref> Despite their alien physiology, the [[Manton Effect]] treats them in the same way as other biological living entities.<ref name="8.5d1">He can’t be teleported. Too dense for most people who teleport living things. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/#comment-59978 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref><ref name="8.4d1">Re: Panacea, the problem with that is that Panacea couldn’t affect Leviathan while he’s under the effect of Clockblocker’s powers; nothing can. So she’d have to wait until Leviathan moved, and when you consider that knitting bones together and such took her a few minutes back in Interlude 2, and that Leviathan doesn’t have any major weaknesses or organs, there’s a limit to the amount of damage she could do. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/extermination-8-4/#comment-1291 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> Note that Endbringers being nonhuman effectively gives them immunity to powers such as [[Regent]]<ref>'''natsugo:''' '''Do Regents powers work on nonhumans?'''<br><br>His power works by taking control of an organisms nervous system, so can he do that to animals?<br><br>'''Wildbow:'''  No. His power maps to his own body, which is why feedback happens. Those closer to his own physique/physiology are faster to take over and slightly easier to control, for much this reason. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/16692028 --><ref name="8.y e1">“Educated guess says your power doesn’t work so hot on him,” she told Regent, as the two of them backed away.<br><br>“Fuck, no.  If I can do something, my power’s probably gonna backfire like crazy, and I think that bastard’s quick enough that he’s not about to fall flat on his face.”<br><br>Tattletale glanced at where Skitter was hurrying to assist one of the wounded.  Even knowing Taylor was out of earshot, she was careful to lower her voice, “And I guess your secret weapon isn’t going to work either?”<br><br>“Take two or three times as long, probably, if it worked at all,” Regent grumbled.  “Fuck, I’m useless.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-8-extermination/8-x-bonus-interlude/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref><ref>“Regent couldn’t use his power against Leviathan.  Can you imagine him getting Leviathan under control?”<br><br>“I’d rather not,” I admitted.  “There’s a sweet spot as far as rep goes.  Having a pet Endbringer puts us in the ‘too scary to be allowed to live’ category.”<br><br>“We’d have to do what the Slaughterhouse Nine do, win frequently enough against high odds that people can’t afford the losses.”<br><br>“Would mean we have to go mobile,” I said.  “So we have time to recuperate while the enemy tries to track us down.  Anyways, enough ‘what if’.  Let’s get back on topic.” - [[Queen 18.4]]</ref> and [[Imp]].<ref>Her entire team, ''her'' subdivision of the broader Undersiders team, at least, consisted of capes who couldn’t fight Titans.  The Heartbroken targeted people.  Her own power affected humans, and even if she could move around without a Titan realizing she was there, too many of them were dangerous enough that they could kill her without even recognizing her existence. - [[Interlude 19.f II]]</ref><ref>'''The White Duke:''' I think Imp would possibly immediately destroy Jessie. Having something worm its way into her memory, which is designed to not forget anything, and start tearing things out might just bring the whole house of cards tumbling down.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' You could argue Imp's shard developed a specific interpretation of memory from the 'all the fish we know of on earth' type scan, and Jessie's structure is inherently alien.<br><br>'''The White Duke:''' Ooh, that's pretty cool. Ashton would presumably also be immune. - Conversation with Wildbow on the Parahumans Discord</ref><ref>And, inexplicably, he continued his lightning strike, carrying over to the far end of the street.<br><br>There was a yelp, and I could see Imp, all at once, sheltered by a wall that was shrinking in size with every second the blast continued.  She held the Yàngbǎn member who’d strayed too far away from our main group in her arms.<br><br>He’d seen her.  Sensed her.  And now, behind a wall no more than three feet high, she had nowhere to run. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref>

With the possible exception of [[the Simurgh]] (i.e., much of her body is hollow<ref name="II20.6 eHollow">She barely seemed to notice me as I flew in, driving my forcefield into the criss-cross patchwork at her shoulder, where her body was revealed to be hollow, a criss-cross latticework of feathers  forming the shape of a thin, sculpted shoulder.  Some of that lattice was broken, and I dug in, tearing it open wider. - [[Last 20.6]]</ref><ref name="II20.a eHollow">She was already healing.  Missing wings were growing back, and her lower body existed as a series of feathers, touching end to end, or end to middle.  Like she was the thinnest of lace, formed of feathers harder than steel.  It gave her legs, and suggested she was hollow, where Behemoth had had a skeleton and a core. - [[Last 20.a]]</ref><ref>Chevalier, nowhere nearby, fired his cannon again.  The Simurgh flew back, her shoulder torn open, the interior revealed to be hollow, the edges of the wound frayed and lace-like.<br><br>I’d seen injuries like that in the re-enactments and recreations too. - [[Last 20.1]]</ref><ref name="II20.7 e2" /><ref name="28.4 e1">The feathers were surprisingly tough and dense, the edges capable of scoring steel.<br><br>Not that she really fought in close quarters, where she could help it. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref> and her human body is a decoy and relatively fragile<ref name="24.x e3" />), the Endbringers' bodies are made up of onion-like layers of tissue.<ref name="24.x e2">She showed him the phone as he lay there, panting.<br>
:he still at full strength.  shouldn’t be.  he’s an onion, inner rings progressively tougher.  next 15% way tougher than rest combined.
“I know this,” he gasped out the words. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref><ref name="25.4 e3">Now he stood still, weathering attacks with the same durability the other Endbringers had.  Damage to his flesh exposed silver, and damage to the belly or other silver parts showed ebon black.  The onionlike layers Tattletale had described, plain to see. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> [[Tattletale]] inferred that [[Leviathan]]'s main body and limbs have around 200 and 33 layers, respectively.<ref name="8.y e2">She hunkered down to to watch the fight, mentally opening those doors that let more information flow.<br>
:''Leviathan, nonstandard cardiac, nervous systems: irregular biology.  No standard organs or weak points.  No brain, heart or center of operations for rest of his body.<br />Irregular biology, no vulnerable organs: body divided into layers, extending down to hyperdurable core body, each layer down is slightly more than twice as durable as previous. Exterior skin is hard as aluminum alloy, but flexible, lets him move.  3% deeper in toward core of arms, legs, claws, tail, or .5% in toward core of head, trunk, neck, tissues are hard as steel.  6% in toward core of extremities or 1% toward core of main body/head, tissues strong as tungsten.  9% toward core of extremities, 1.5% toward core of main body, head, tissues strong as boron.  12%-''
She had to stop, start again. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-8-extermination/8-x-bonus-interlude/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref> Located at the center of these concentric layers is a "core", a [[portal|lens]] that essentially projects the Endbringer's mass into reality.<ref name="Rjla e7">If one threw an Endbringer into the sun, though, given what the core is, both in immensity and that it's essentially a doorway into multiple realities, a lens to make the Endbringer projections manfest as reality , they might risk putting out the sun, or at least disturbing it to the point that Earth was gravely affected. - [https://redd.it/2sju2u Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Each successive layer leading down to the core roughly doubles in durability from the one above it; in the case of Leviathan, the outermost layer is as hard as aluminum alloy.<ref name="8.y e2" /> 

In general, the other Endbringers have similar amounts of durability as [[Leviathan]].<ref name="Rjla e3">She's small, but has the same overall toughness as the others. She defends Bohu.<br>[...]<br>She's largely immobile, forming a massive tower-like body from the surrounding terrain, slowly granting it the Endbringer qualities noted below. - [http://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/2sju2u/the_endbringers_worm_vs_the_justice_league/cnqkz88 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Without taking advantage of their [[Endbringers#Vulnerabilities|vulnerabilities]], a conventional attacker would effectively have to dig through a galaxy's equivalent of matter to reach their core.<ref name="Rjla e5" /> Although the main body of an Endbringer is only present in one reality,<ref>Only one set of Alexandria/Scion/Endbringers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/migration-17-3/#comment-8902 Comment by] Wildbow on [[Migration 17.3]]</ref> their bodies use spatial warping<ref name="28.I">“Then go get Ingenue.  Let’s get this started.”<br><br>As Legend departed, Chevalier’s eyes didn’t leave the objects.<br><br>One of the Simurgh’s severed wings.  The largest wing, since regrown.<br><br>Behemoth’s severed leg.<br><br>They warped space for optimal density, were unbreakable with conventional means.  Scion had taken ''seconds'' to obliterate Behemoth.<br><br>Hopefully he could assign the same properties to his sword and armor. - [[Interlude 28]]</ref> and dimensional layering via 1.5 space<ref>If we're in world 1 and she [Labyrinth] taps into world 2 to bring a fountain into being, then what she's doing is positioning the fountain at 1.5 (or 1.25 or 1.75).<br><br>Said fountain may be more fragile as a consequence of not being wholly ''here''.<br><br>If her power's working really well, then she can reach out, touch you, and pull/push you a little bit away from where the fountain is in the interspace, and now as far as you're concerned it's only 10% there, or .0025% there.<br><br>Now, in reality it's a little more complicated and coordinates vary on a whole two other axes, as she pulls stuff from multiple worlds and sets them at different positions. Depending on where she's at in the wax/wane of her power, she's not always deciding what gets pulled in or where stuff gets positioned, but the analogy should serve to help wrap your head around it. - Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/33614386 archived on Spacebattles]</ref> so that the effective amount of matter surrounding the core does not correlate with the actual mass of the Endbringer in its current dimension;<ref name="SB eIceberg">'''Sutherbear:''' WOG says they weigh an absurd amount, and throwing them into the sun would put out the sun before it puts down an endbringer. So why don't they cause massive gravitational fields around themselves? Like earth-rending gravitational fields...<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' WoG isn't that they weigh an absurd amount but that they have an absurd amount of equivalent mass to have to get through to reach their core.<br><br>But they don't exist wholly in our reality any more than scion does. You're seeing the tip of the iceberg, and only that tip is in our world and dealing with our rules. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/56646103 archived on Spacebattles]</ref> for example, Leviathan only weighs around nine tons.<ref>Getting hit by something [Leviathan] that weighed nearly nine tons sent men, women, boys and girls in costume flying, if it didn't kill them outright. - [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref><ref>'''Leviathan''' is the middle child. He's fast enough that he can run on the surface of water, despite weighing something like 9 tons, and beneath the water's surface he's so fast as to essentially be a teleporter (assume faster than Superman, slower than the Flash on level terrain). - [http://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/2sju2u/the_endbringers_worm_vs_the_justice_league/cnqkz88 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Endbringers are not immovable objects as they can be pushed around by external forces.<ref>The timing proved to be lucky for me.  As strong as Triumph was, a strike at the right moment could still knock him off-balance.  I’d seen Alexandria do something like that to Leviathan, knocking something as big and horribly strong as the Endbringer to the ground. - [[Colony 15.9]]</ref><ref>In the hands of someone more clever, equipped, or practiced, Skidmark's power could have repeatedly knocked Levi/Behemoth on their asses.<br><br>There's a lot you can do with a general 'I create treadmill fields, can stack effect to increase the push/drag' - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/35365744 --><ref name="II20.7 e2">Solarstare’s power gushed into the open lattice and filled the hollow of the Simurgh’s body, right on target, until Chevalier’s second shot hit and jolted her, sending her flying back a good fifteen feet. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref><ref name="II20.a eFlung">Dauntless’s spear moved again, and this time, Defiant simply held the button down.  When the spear’s disruption overrode the Simurgh’s signal, the signal got through.<br><br>Simurgh, Titan Skadi, Custodian, and Dauntless were all flung back.  The Marduk ripped in half from the strain of firing- - [[Last 20.a]]</ref><!--
An Endbringer's skin is as "hard as aluminum alloy, but flexible"; and its strength, toughness, and healing factor increase exponentially. 3% deeper in toward core of arms, legs, claws, tail, or .5% in toward core of head, trunk, neck, tissues are hard as steel. The [[Wikipedia:Ultimate tensile strength|tensile strength]] of the material roughly doubles with each layer, every 0.5% of the way towards the center of his body and every 3% of the way toward the center of their extremities; Wildbow has confirmed <ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/2s1gem/community_readthrough_discussion_thread_week_24/cnlb9yf Wildbow on reddit]</ref><ref>[http://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/2sju2u/the_endbringers_worm_vs_the_justice_league/cnqkz88 Wildbow on reddit (again)]</ref> that "extremities would take 30 trillion atmospheres of pressure to damage." The core of an Endbringer would require around five hundred and sixty novemdecillion<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/novemdecillion definition of novemdecillion]</ref> MPA of pressure; in practice, only parahumans capable of breaking the laws of physics can seriously harm an Endbringer.<ref>[http://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/2sju2u/the_endbringers_worm_vs_the_justice_league/cnqkz88 Who would Win?:JLA vs. Endbringers]</ref>
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Endbringer cores are not immune to the effects of parahuman powers;<ref name="Rcore e1">'''Superlative_ish:''' There's a common assumption that Endbringer cores cancel powers. There are exceptions, like Foil's Sting or Scion's everything, but powers in general. It comes up a lot in Siberian vs. Endbringer speculation, for instance, and a lot of fanfics. (I've used it myself. Awkward.)<br>[...]<br>What I'm saying is that it cancels ''only'' Chevalier's power, or a relatively narrow category including his.<br>[...]<br>It's not a defensive trump power, just an inconvenient interaction with the space-warping Chevalier uses.<br>[...]<br>So anyway, I say there is no power nullification. Just time and space wibbly-wobbliness that overwhelms powers relying on that kind of thing. And of course most powers just aren't destructive enough to do much. But there's no grounds to say that the core no-sells everything short of Sting like it did to Chevalier.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Yep - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/49zy9e/against_an_endbringer_core_theory_spoilers/ Conversation] with Wildbow on Reddit</ref> however, they employ space warping that can overwhelm the space warping that capes such as [[Chevalier]] use.<ref name="Rcore e2">'''natsugo:''' Hell, she [Foil] could have used her power on the blade of Chevaliers sword, then he could go 1v1 against an Endbringer.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Using her power on Chevalier's sword would have broken it, like the space warping around the Endbringer core did. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18058714 archived on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="24.x e7">Space and time distortion were supposed to protect it?  He’d fight fire with fire.<br><br>Flesh parted as the blade grew inside the wound.  He put his finger on the trigger, ready to fire.<br><br>Before he could, the sword’s tip touched the core, and everything went wrong.<br><br>His power abruptly ceased to take effect, and the blades came apart, in its three individual pieces.  They slid from the wound, falling down around him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> The core is generally present somewhere near the bulkiest part of the Endbringer.<ref name="8.y e4" /> [[Behemoth]]'s core is buried deep at the base of the throat between his shoulders,<ref name="24.x e4">“I don’t know why the hell not. Where’s his center?”<br><br>She pointed with two fingers, at her collarbone.  The base of the throat, between the shoulders.  Quite possibly the deepest set part of his body. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> [[Leviathan]]'s core is buried in the central part of his chest,<ref name="8.y e4">But she could imagine Grue shouting at her, “Something we can use!” and that was nudge enough to get her to focus her efforts.  “Weak points.”<br>
:''No vulnerable organs, hyperdurable tissues: simple organs exist at core of torso, where there is highest amount of surrounding tissues.  Optimal thickness of layer and narrowness of body part at upper arms, just before shoulder joint, and upper thighs, just below hip joint.''
Something she – everyone – could use. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-8-extermination/8-x-bonus-interlude/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref><ref name="28.5 e1">The Simurgh had both feet pressed against Leviathan’s stomach, one hand reaching up to grip his face, the other hand holding the gladius she’d made, buried so deep in Leviathan’s sternum that only a little bit of the handle stuck out.<br><br>She’d hit his ''core''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/cockroaches-28-5/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref><ref name="30.6 e1">Scion was killing the serpent-Endbringer… ''Leviathan''.  Pummeling his chest, shattering it.  Cracks radiated from the wound, glowing gold.  Scion’s face was twisted in fury, his fury was that of a berserker.  The blows were heavy enough that they drove Leviathan into the shattered earth below.  Water was flowing in around them, Leviathan’s element, but the attack continued, the glowing wounds creating ''mountains'' of steam around them.<br>[...]<br>Scion merely shifted his orientation in the air.  Not even shaking himself, not pausing to find his balance.  He was roaring, screaming, and in his thrashing movements, his blind fury, I nearly missed it.  In the moment he returned to an upright position, he flung out a sphere of golden light.<br><br>The light curved in the air, and punched into Leviathan’s open chest cavity.<br><br>The Endbringer fell.  The color went out of Leviathan, his flesh breaking up, like clay overbaked in a kiln.  The fins were the first thing to crumble, the rest of his body following suit. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/speck-30-6/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.6]]</ref> and [[the Simurgh]]'s core is probably in one of the joints of her largest wing.<ref name="24.x e3" /><ref>“Hit the wing!” Narwhal called out.  “You know the weak points!” - [[Last 20.7]]</ref> [[Khonsu]]'s core is presumably buried deep within his spherical central body;<ref name="25.4 e2">And at the center of it all, quite literally, there was a perfect sphere of that same material, a marble or a crystal ball, his body perched on the upper half and his legs attached to the lower half. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> the core locations for [[Tohu]] and [[Bohu]] are unknown.

Because of their composition, a typical Endbringer is variably hyperdense<ref name="reddit eLeviathanSuperman">Standard superman could probably drive Leviathan into submission. Maybe not kill, and hurling Leviathan is harder than one might imagine with the water echo materializing matter between the grip and the giant, variably hyperdense scaled beast, but for all intents and purposes the end result is the same: the fight might go worse initially, especially if Superman tries frost breath, but Leviathan is down and out, Brockton Bay doesn't take a fraction of the damage it did in-story. - Wildbow on Reddit, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/77707099 archived on Spacebattles]</ref> as layers closer to the core have higher density.<ref name="18.3 eDensity">“She’s as strong as Leviathan, physically,” Tattletale said, “She’s not as tough, based on what I’ve seen.  Have you read the notes on what I told Alexandria after Leviathan’s attack?  About the density of Leviathan’s body?”<br><br>Miss Militia nodded.  “Higher density as you penetrate deeper to the core, to the point that it bends the rules of how molecules and atoms should work.  It makes sense.  Armsmaster had a molecule-severing weapon that couldn’t cut through all of Leviathan’s hand, and it explains why nearly all the damage we do is so superficial.” - [[Queen 18.3]]</ref> Due to their density, they are immune to most capes who teleport living things.<ref name="8.5d1" /> However, Endbringers can travel through large enough [[portal]]s,<ref name="24.4 ePortalClose">He lurched, and dropped several feet, the ground shaking.  The light show marked the geyser spraying up around his leg, apparently having sunken into a portal.<br><br>''Close it'', I thought.  ''Sever it''.<br><br>But she didn’t.  Not an option, it seemed. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref><ref name="28.4 e5">Earth Tav, barely two million people spread out across the globe, with this being the largest population center, based around the portal that Faultline, Labyrinth and Scrub had erected.<br>[...]<br>The Simurgh followed behind the Dragonfly, moving each wing until it was pointed straight behind her as she sailed through the narrow, oddly-shaped portal. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref><ref name="29.1 e2">The Simurgh reached the portal.  I was reminded of Leviathan breaking into the shelter beneath the library as I saw her put one hand on each side of the portal.  She wasn’t quite as large as he was, until you added up the wings and wingspan.  Put all the wings together, and her mass was probably equivalent to her older brother’s.<br><br>She passed through with little effort, dropping almost to her knees to get her head through.  The wings followed, each wing stretched all the way behind her.  The feathers rasped against the boundaries of the portal as she floated forward.<br><br>The outer edges wavered a fraction, as if the stress threatened to bring the portal down entirely.<br><br>Then she was through.  She flexed her wings, then folded them around herself.  The halo came through in pieces.<br><br>“That answers that,” Tattletale said.  She added a very unenthusiastic, “Yay.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/venom-29-1/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.1]]</ref> though [[Ligeia]] could not portal-cut [[Behemoth]].<ref name="24.4 ePortalClose" /> [[The Simurgh]] can pass through [[Doormaker]]'s portal, though the outer edges of the portal started to waver when her feathers rasped against the boundaries.<ref name="29.1 e2" />  

Endbringers do not explode when killed.<ref name="24.x e8" /><ref name="30.6 e1" /> Severed body parts still persist after their death and also retain their durability.<ref name="28.I" /> Note that Endbringers, as well as their severed body parts, give off strange electromagnetic signals<ref>The Machine Army was entering the trench, scurrying into the trench, into the dust, where his sensors struggled to read things with the ten kinds of background radiation and-<br><br>And strange signals not unlike those he had picked up from Chevalier, when Chevalier had waded into battle.<br><br>“They’re going after the pieces of the Simurgh!  She gave them pieces of herself!” - [[Last 20.a]]</ref> and can even scramble a transmission to a satellite should their bodies intercept its path.<ref>Sixty-two miles above the surface of the Earth, the Simurgh changed the course of her flight.<br><br>Following protocol for when Dragon was deployed on a mission, the system routed the message to one of Dragon’s satellite systems.  The resulting message was scrambled by the dense signature of the Endbringer en route to Dragon.<br><br>Receiving the garbled transmission from the satellite, a subsystem of the Dragon A.I. proceeded to sort it.  A scan of the message by a further subroutine saw it classified as non-pertinent, and a snarl in the code from Defiant’s improvised adjustments to her programming saw the message skip past several additional safeties and subroutines.  The message was compartmentalized alongside other notes and data that included flares of atmospheric radiation and stray signals from the planet below; background noise at best. - [[Interlude 16.z]]</ref>

After examining tissue from [[Behemoth]], [[Leviathan]], and [[the Simurgh]] under a microscope, [[Blasto]] determined the Endbringers are made out of some type of crystalline material.<ref>He returned to the computer and started working with the Simurgh’s tissue.  It was hard to cut, and harder still to slice to the point that he could look at it under a microscope.<br><br>“Crystalline,” he murmured, as he focused on it. - [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> He could not see any individual cells and determined the crystals were barely differentiated from one another.<ref>Leviathan’s blood was the same as the feather.  Crystals, dense and so opaque that light wouldn’t pass through them.<br><br>There were more tissues.  Flesh.  More blood.  Hair.  Damaged tissues and intact ones.  He went through each.<br><br>All of it, the same.  Crystals.  No individual cells.  Even the crystals barely differentiated from one another. - [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> However, Blasto did discover more differences in crystals collected from deeper inside an Endbringer than crystals collected from different parts of the Endbringer's body.<ref>Truth was, there was more difference in crystals collected from deeper inside the Endbringer than there was in crystals that had come from different parts of the Endbringer’s body; hair as opposed to blood. - [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> Both Leviathan<ref name="8.3">A dumpster hit Leviathan in the upper body with the speed of a bullet, and he folded backward, his shoulders hitting the ground while his legs and feet were still held against the ground by a mess of razor blade forcefields.  Narwhal sent another forcefield flying into his neck, and it cut as deep as any attack had yet.  Blood spilled down from the opened wound, thick, more like ichor than anything I was used to seeing. - [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> and Behemoth<ref name="24.4 eBehemothEighty">Phir Sē’s light faded, and the barrier collapsed.<br><br>Dust continued to fill the area, plumes of it.<br><br>Behemoth lurched forward.<br><br>Not quite ''Behemoth'', but a skeleton, something like a skeleton.  Emaciated, a black-red frame dripping with ichor, it had all of the key features, the basic underlying structure with the horns and the gaping mouth, the claws and the way the shoulders were broad enough to host his bulky frame, but a good eighty percent of him had been torn away, shredded.  A skeleton covered in a veneer of meat. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref> leaked a thick ichor-like substance after taking sufficient damage, suggesting a nonstandard cardiac system for these Endbringers.<ref name="8.y e2" /> The Endbringer's nervous system is also nonstandard enough<ref>'''afifakhan2001:''' ps leviathian is an organism without a brain so can Taylor possibly control it ? remember the crab and what was said about her not only being able to control bugs but also things with simple brain..<br><br>'''wildbow:''' He doesn’t have a conventional brain, but his system isn’t so simple that Taylor can take it over. If she could have, her power would have detected & sensed him the way it usually does bugs. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/cell-9-1/#comment-1564 Conversation] with Wildbow on [[Sentinel 9.1]]</ref> to prevent body control powers such as [[Khepri]] from working.<ref>I passed beside the Simurgh as I flew.  Checking.<br><br>''No control''. - [[Speck 30.2]]</ref> [[Parahuman_Characters#Scanner | Scanner]] was capable of reading the Simurgh's thought patterns, however.<ref>And with ''Scanner'', she could read them.  Draw conclusions as to their thoughts, their brain patterns.<br><br>“Notepad,” she said.  Contessa would be nearby.  ''Need to take notes.  The Simurgh… I could read her.  Better than I should be able to.  She’s trying something.'' - [[Interlude 28]]</ref>

According to [[Tattletale]], the Endbringers' physiology is based on similar principles and uses the same material as the manifestations of [[shards]] in [[shardspace]],<ref>“The way you described that thing in the room.  Sounded familiar.”<br><br>“Yeah,” she said.  “Fair warning: it’s all educated guessing at this point.  Very educated, but no guarantees.”<br><br>“Sure,” I said.  I looked at the constantly replaying image of the thing emerging from the shadows.  “Is it an Endbringer?”<br><br>“Nah,” she said.  “Smaller in stature, more limited in scope.”<br><br>I realized I was holding my breath, and I didn’t release it.  I felt like there was a ‘but’ coming.<br><br>“It’s the same scaffolding.  Same construction material.  Similar principles,” Tattletale elaborated. - [[From Within 16.8]]</ref> and the [[Titans]], by extension.<ref name="19.7 eTitan">“This landscape added up once upon a time,” she said.  “Everything interconnected, it fed more easily.  Now it’s… a hundred hard drives crammed into one computer’s housing.  Each agent lays some claim to real estate, builds their houses.  But when information isn’t flowing freely, and some houses get built on broken or missing ground…”<br><br>“Broken triggers,” I said.<br><br>“And Titans, when there’s enough support from the system to keep them propped up.  Okay.  I can fill in the gaps.  The first place you didn’t know what it was?  You and your parent, Precipice and Mathers?” - [[Infrared 19.7]]</ref><ref>Love Lost stood on a ledge, looking out over the side.  One of the agents from within the system had felt what we’d done, much as the Titans had.<br><br>We’d hit them where it hurt ''all'' of them.<br><br>And in the doing, we’d thrown our own powers for a loop. - [[Infrared 19.2]]</ref> However, Endbringers can function outside shardspace, as [[Eidolon|their creator]] unknowingly took the time to build them for this purpose;<ref name="reddit eProduceNew">'''Medium-term consequence:''' the shard network begins producing Endbringers that Superman can't stop that Eidolon could. [...] Eidolon gets to be more of a hero with worthy opponents (but the power drain starts accelerating). - Wildbow on Reddit, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/77707099 archived on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="prtSquadMission e1">The rain starts to let up, and the static grows stronger, every computer system, even the radio, now reacting.<br>The source of the static becomes clear. Past the harbor, in the water, a figure or figures stand. Asymmetrical, carved from stone, joined at the shoulder, they're actively being built, with waves of energy and matter flowing out from a central point. As tall as a building.<br>You know, deep in your gut, that it's different from the bull. Not tinkering, not a simple mutation. You have a name for this sort of creature.<br>Endbringer. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JdWAsL7mrYPLz5_x5ns1eurZ6zaCC1y711OAfbmr0M8 PRT Squad Mission 1: Rift]</ref> the Titans can only do the same after [[Scion]]'s death and reality breaking enough for them to get shardspace support.<ref>The big golden asshole died, individual areas with individual focuses all got broken apart.  Or… when he was around there was something more active, bridging things here on a permission basis.  Dunno.” - [[From Within 16.12]]</ref><ref name="19.7 eTitan" />