Editing Cinereal (section)

==History==
===Background===
She joined the [[Wards]] eight years ago.<ref name="IRC-1.5"/> During her Ward years and before re-branding, she was known as Ash Phoenix.<ref name="IRC-1.2"/> She was likely one of the [[PRT]]'s 'success stories' with regards to raising tough Wards into good heroes.<ref name="10.11 3">I could imagine all of the angriest, most fucked up corporate capes and Wards I’d run into over the course of my adolescence.  The kids who’d been angry and frustrated, got powers, joined a team, and got worse, not better.  I knew that they got second chances, they were coddled to, and inordinate resources were spent on them.<br/><br/>Seeing the natural resting bitch face, the posture, and the natural menace, I was pretty sure that Cinereal was one of the PRT’s success stories, when it came to transforming the tougher Wards into good heroes.  She’d never been meant to be a leader, much less of a major city like Atlanta, but her predecessors had died, she’d taken up the position by order of succession in a crisis, and I imagined nobody had been brave enough to ask her to leave the role, after.  To her credit, she’d never given them a reason. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/12/01/polarize-10-11/ Excerpt] from [[Polarize 10.11]]</ref>

Two years into her career,<ref name="IRC-1.5"/> she was forced into a leadership position when the previous [[Protectorate]] leader of Atlanta killed himself. She proved herself apt and was allowed to keep her position in the team,<ref name="IRC-1.1">Cinereal<br/><br/>Also Ash Phoenix, Avarshina.<br/><br/>Cinereal leads the Atlanta Protectorate, Wards, and maintains liaison with the Watchdog group. She’s a powerful breaker and shaker, and maintains a peculiar style of leadership. Her power altered her thought pattern and emotions, which would normally preclude being put in a leadership position, but she stepped into the position as a temporary measure after the prior Protectorate leader committed suicide (owing to PTSD from the local war) and nobody truly went out of their way or found cause to replace her. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/32013632/ Link made on the IRC] archived on Spacebattles</ref> in contravention to traditional methods of advancement.<ref name="R1">Capes who are holding their own or who are very on top of their game might start getting pulled away for trips to nearby cities and locations, to bolster numbers or provide backup (or be the tool that another department doesn't have in its toolbox). Or they're left in charge of the team while the team leader is away/off duty. Once this starts becoming regular and they're still proving their mettle, it becomes a sort of informal thing where they end up on a team with Legend or Alexandria or Eidolon, and tackling some real nail-biters. And if they handle their shit then (excuse my French), then their Director calls them into the office and says "The Triumvirate wants to borrow you for a while."<br/><br/>And then they're working as a direct subordinate to other members of the Triumvirate for a short stint each time, which is a final series of checks and balances before they run their own Protectorate team.<br/>[...]<br/>It's not a hard and fast rule. Some teams find leadership in other ways. But before a cape really gets branded and presented to the nation at large as 'leader of [city]'s Protectorate', they'll be vetted and tested and given time with the Triumvirate. Until then, it'll often be something along the lines of... sure, you're in charge of the team until someone says different, but don't go saying you're in charge and if someone asks you if you're leading the team, deflect or be sure to say it's temporary. - [https://redd.it/5ezjhd comment by WildBow on Reddit]</ref>

Due to the limitations of her powers, she was never deployed against the original trio of [[Endbringers]].<ref name="IRC-1.6"/><ref name="10.11 2" />

At some point, a group of fire-themed villains that included [[Coalbelcher]] tried to band against her, and were thoroughly trounced.<ref>“Remind me who Coalbelcher is,” Vista said.<br/><br/>“Uh, was one of the fire-themed villains that tried to band together against Cinereal.  Most of that group got trounced, he didn’t, he became a mid-level boss there.  Careful, camera up ahead.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/25/breaking-14-12/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.12]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
She was likely caught up in the event along with everyone else.

===Early-[[Ward]]===
She survived the events of [[Gold Morning]]. Two years after the event, she had joined [[The Wardens]], one of the [[Protectorate]]'s successor organizations. She is considered one of the key members and has her own statue in HQ's lobby.<ref name="II3.6">Inside the building, statues of key members stood off to either side of the lobby.  [[Chevalier]], [[Narwhal]], [[Valkyrie]], [[Legend]], [[Cinereal]], [[Stonewall]], [[Topflight]] and [[Miss Militia]].<br/>[...]<br/>“Is [[Weld]] getting a statue?” Tristan asked.<br/><br/>“Not for a while,” Sveta said.  “That’s more for people who’ve put in the years, and he only just got in.  He’s got a preliminary thing in the gift shop.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/23/glare-3-6/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.6]]</ref>

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen Fall]]===
Cinereal was not one of the Wardens stranded by the portal sabotage. She appeared prominently with the remaining Wardens at the hero meeting that [[Dragon]] and [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] held, though she was not communicative.<ref>Other heroes had gathered already.  Narwhal and Weld stood out, as part of the remnants of free and available capes from the Wardens.  Cinereal was about as somber and intimidating in a breaker shroud of gray ash as Narwhal was scintillating and bright. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/07/03/beacon-8-1/ Excerpt] from [[Beacon 8.1]]</ref>

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
She returned from her deployment.<ref>The train had arrived.  Soldiers returning from deployment.  Capes wore civilian uniforms and casual clothes, and blended into the crowd.  Her power identified the ones familiar to her, that she might not have otherwise recognized with their masks off or the obscuring details between the camera and the returning people.<br/><br/>''Cinereal<br/>Weld<br/>Golem<br/>Tallboy<br/>aserdream<br/>Rocketround<br/>Typhlosis<br/>Vista<br/>Stank Bank'' - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/24/interlude-10-x/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.x II]]</ref> Along with [[Vista]] and [[Golem]], Cinereal appeared at a meeting of teams involved in [[Breakthrough]]'s hero network about what had happened to the [[Navigators]]. She opted to stay neutral with regards to how to address the attack.<ref>[[Polarize 10.11]]</ref>

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
Cinereal was leading the assembly of the second assault team deploying against [[Teacher]]. She commanded one of the three teams.<ref>[[Dying 15.1]]</ref> She brought [[Vista]] and [[Golem]] with her for massive synergy.

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
Cinereal was in charge of [[the Wardens]] HQ during [[the Second Shin Crisis]].<ref name="II17.6">[[Sundown 17.6]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
When [[Fume Hood]] broken triggered, Cinereal was one of the multiple capes who also broken triggered and became a [[Titan]]. She flash-fried several heroes, that attempted to communicate with her.<ref>We sent an expedition out to reach out and try to open communication, she superheated her ash, and the heated air that resulted killed the capes at the cloudline.  We can safely assume she is no longer on our side.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/19/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.2]]</ref> [[Titan Fortuna]] attempted to form a connection with her,<ref>Lines connected titans.  One between Dauntless and Eve.  Then Titan Fortuna with lines of varying strength to the Ophion, Nemean, and Ashen Titans; to Bough, Victor, and Cinereal, respectively.  Another line seemed to connect Titan Oberon to the unnamed new Titan, Auger. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/19/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.2]]</ref> and presumably succeeded. Ashen Titan arrived late to the fight with Titan Fortuna near Shin [[portal]], but quickly went passive together with others Fortuna's Titans.<ref name="II19.6">[[Infrared 19.6]]</ref>

Ashen Titan was augmented with [[Pouffe]], mover titan, allowing them to wreak havoc all over [[the City]]. [[Dragon]] and [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] made an effort to disable them, which culminated in the upper 3/4 of Ashen Titan being stranded near the [[New Boston]].<ref name="II19.z">[[Infrared 19.z]]</ref>