Endbringers

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“	The Endbringers were something we all understood. A fact of reality, something that touched everyone, struck a chord of fear in cape and civilian alike.	”
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<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <header>Information</header> <label>Alignment</label> <label>Leader(s)</label> <label>Leader(s)</label> <label>Allies</label> <label>Allies</label> <label>Status</label> <label>Location</label> <label>First Appearance</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> The Endbringers are monstrous beings that take turns attacking locations around the globe, seemingly with no other goal than to cause as much destruction as they possibly can. After sustaining sufficient damage, they retreat to their respective domains to heal, only to attack again months later.<ref>The Endbringers – According to Tattletale’s power, they were never human. Rather, they are monsters (in every sense of the word) who take turns attacking locations around the globe, aiming to cause as much damage as possible. Apparently unkillable, they retreat to their respective domains when they have sustained sufficient damage and heal, only to attack again months later. Their arrival is almost always followed by devastation, including dead capes, massive civilian losses (sometimes ranging into the millions), catastrophic damage to cities and/or large scale damage to landscapes. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>

Overview

Physiology

According to Tattletale's power, the Endbringers have irregular biology, were never human, and have no conventional organs.<ref name="8.y e3">Another try.

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.

Not human: Never was human.

That gave her pause. - Excerpt from Interlude 8.y</ref> Despite their alien physiology, the Manton Effect treats them in the same way as other biological entities.<ref name="8.5d1">He can’t be teleported. Too dense for most people who teleport living things. - 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. - Comment by Wildbow on Extermination 8.4</ref>

With the possible exception of the Simurgh,<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.

I’d seen injuries like that in the re-enactments and recreations too. - Last 20.1</ref><ref name="28.4 e1">The feathers were surprisingly tough and dense, the edges capable of scoring steel.

Not that she really fought in close quarters, where she could help it. - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.4</ref> the Endbringers all seem to exhibit an internal physiology made up of numerous onion-like layers of tissue; 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.

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.
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. - Excerpt from Interlude 8.y</ref> Located at the center of these concentric layers is a "core," a lens that essentially projects the Endbringer's mass into reality. 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,<ref name="8.y e2" /><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. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> and in general the other Endbringers have similar durability. A conventional attacker would effectively have to dig through a galaxy's equivalent of matter to reach their core.<ref name="Rjla e5" /> However, possibly due to the spacetime-warping nature of their core, the mass of an Endbringer does not correlate with the amount of matter surrounding the core;<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...

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.

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, archived on Spacebattles</ref><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).

Said fountain may be more fragile as a consequence of not being wholly here.

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.

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, 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). - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Endbringer cores are not immune to the effects of parahuman powers and can be damaged by them;<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.)
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What I'm saying is that it cancels only Chevalier's power, or a relatively narrow category including his.
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It's not a defensive trump power, just an inconvenient interaction with the space-warping Chevalier uses.
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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.

Wildbow: Yep - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit</ref> however, they employ spatial warping that can overwhelm the warping that capes such as Chevalier uses.<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.

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, archived on Spacebattles</ref><ref name="24.x e7">Space and time distortion were supposed to protect it? He’d fight fire with fire.

Flesh parted as the blade grew inside the wound. He put his finger on the trigger, ready to fire.

Before he could, the sword’s tip touched the core, and everything went wrong.

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. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> The core is generally located somewhere near the bulkiest part of the Endbringer; Behemoth's core is located between his shoulders,<ref name="24.x e4">“I don’t know why the hell not. Where’s his center?”

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. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> Leviathan's is buried within 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.”

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. - 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.

She’d hit his core. - 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.
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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.

The light curved in the air, and punched into Leviathan’s open chest cavity.

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. - Excerpt from Speck 30.6</ref> and the Simurgh's is inferred by Tattletale to be located within 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 assumed to be located 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. - Excerpt from Scarab 25.4</ref> the builds and core locations for Tohu and Bohu are unknown.

Because of their composition, a typical Endbringer is variably hyperdense<ref>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, 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?”

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 portals,<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.

Close it, I thought. Sever it.

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.
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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. - 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.

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.

The outer edges wavered a fraction, as if the stress threatened to bring the portal down entirely.

Then she was through. She flexed her wings, then folded them around herself. The halo came through in pieces.

“That answers that,” Tattletale said. She added a very unenthusiastic, “Yay.” - 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 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-

And strange signals not unlike those he had picked up from Chevalier, when Chevalier had waded into battle.

“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 should their bodies intercept its path.<ref>Sixty-two miles above the surface of the Earth, the Simurgh changed the course of her flight.

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.

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.

“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.

There were more tissues. Flesh. More blood. Hair. Damaged tissues and intact ones. He went through each.

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.

Dust continued to fill the area, plumes of it.

Behemoth lurched forward.

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 to prevent body control powers such as Regent<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.

“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.”

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?”

“Take two or three times as long, probably, if it worked at all,” Regent grumbled. “Fuck, I’m useless.” - Excerpt from Interlude 8.y</ref> and Khepri<ref>I passed beside the Simurgh as I flew. Checking.

No control. - Speck 30.2</ref> from working. 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.

“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.”

“Yeah,” she said. “Fair warning: it’s all educated guessing at this point. Very educated, but no guarantees.”

“Sure,” I said. I looked at the constantly replaying image of the thing emerging from the shadows. “Is it an Endbringer?”

“Nah,” she said. “Smaller in stature, more limited in scope.”

I realized I was holding my breath, and I didn’t release it. I felt like there was a ‘but’ coming.

“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…”

“Broken triggers,” I said.

“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.

We’d hit them where it hurt all of them.

And in the doing, we’d thrown our own powers for a loop. - Infrared 19.2</ref> However, Endbringers can function outside shardspace, as their creator unknowingly took the time to build them for this purpose;<ref>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, archived on Spacebattles</ref><ref>The rain starts to let up, and the static grows stronger, every computer system, even the radio, now reacting.
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.
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.
Endbringer. - 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" />

Regeneration

As long as their core remains intact, an Endbringer can regenerate damage, even in the middle of a battle.<ref name="Rjla e5">Endbringers regenerate (and regenerate faster as you get closer to the middle of their bodies) and fight at peak capacity so long as their core remains intact (keep in mind that you're effectively having to dig through a spiral galaxy's equivalent of matter to reach the core in the first place). - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> After losing around 80% of his body, Behemoth's flesh was seen expanding, swelling, and regenerating.<ref>As much as he was wounded [after losing around 80% of his body], he was healing. Even from where we stood, I could see him healing, flesh expanding, swelling, regenerating. - Crushed 24.4</ref> According to Tattletale's power, Endbringer flesh mends from the inside out, with inner layers expanding to fill in wounds and integrate into surrounding structures.<ref name="8.y e3" />

However, their regeneration noticeably slows down the further away the damage is from the core,<ref name="24.x e3">He conceded to pick up the phone and read what she’d typed.

they regen slower as damage is further from center. simurgh core not in human body. decoy. prob in join of biggest wing instead. Is why body fragile n slow to heal.

His eyes widened. “We destroy the center, we destroy him?” - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> such as when Behemoth had around 30% of his body left.<ref name="24.5 e2">Behemoth emerged from the smoke. He was more robust than he had been, but that wasn’t saying much. Seventy percent burned away, perhaps. The regeneration had slowed, but it was still functioning to a degree. He’d recuperated, built his strength, and he’d used the time to, what? - Excerpt from Crushed 24.5</ref> According to Tattletale's power, Leviathan would need two to three years to make a full recovery from a point-blank detonation of a small nuclear bomb.<ref>“The way the Endbringer’s physiology works? You could detonate a small atom bomb in his face, he’d probably survive. Take him two or three years to recover, but he’d survive.” - Extermination 8.7</ref> Regenerating Endbringer flesh also needs time to be properly dense and is thus more fragile.<ref name="24.x e6">He’d dealt damage, but it was precious little. Flesh had torn at the leg, not quite as dense as it should be, by all reports. Had the regeneration not finished rebuilding the complete structures? - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref>

Vulnerabilities

An Endbringer can fight at peak capacity as long as their core remains intact;<ref name="Rjla e5" /><ref>Behemoth wasn’t any weaker than he had been. Not in terms of what he could dish out. - Crushed 24.4</ref><ref name="8.4 eSpearCharge">Leviathan ran himself through on the chain, the thing spearing deep into his neck and out the back of his torso. Uncaring, the Endbringer continued to charge at Armsmaster. - Extermination 8.4</ref><ref>The Endbringer stood, showing none of the frailty or pain it had been displaying seconds ago. The injuries were there, to be sure, his head hung at an angle because of the way the weight of his head hung on the intact portions of his neck, but he wasn’t suffering, had no trouble putting his full weight on his more injured leg. Had it been an act? - Extermination 8.4</ref> that said, the accumulation of damage to their bodies forces them to spend power to regenerate and recover.<ref>I dove in, prepared to make myself more of an immediate threat. Part of the reason she seemed to have stalled was that she had accumulated a fair bit of damage. That damage was my target.

I couldn’t be sure of anything, but I was reasonably confident that she did need to recover if she was hurt. No way would the Endbringers have operated like they had for as long as they had if they didn’t. No way would the Endbringers slowed their aggression against Scion in the middle phases of the fighting, falling back to change up how they came at him, if they didn’t need rests, in a sense. - Last 20.6</ref><ref name="30.6 e2" /> Sustaining heavy body injuries can hamper their mobility<ref>Dust billowed and Leviathan reacted instantly, swiped with one claw, fell onto his side when the damage to his buttocks and the hampered mobility of his tail screwed with his ability to control the movement of his lower body. His claw swipe went high. - Extermination 8.5</ref><ref>With the effects of my slash of the Halberd combined with the damage Armsmaster had already done, Leviathan didn’t have the mobility with his tail he otherwise would. - Extermination 8.5</ref><ref>Rendered effectively one-legged again, Behemoth crawled forward on three limbs. Alexandria struck him from above, driving him face first into the ground. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> and reduce their combat effectiveness, especially against opponents such as Scion<ref name="17.2 c1">STH: Scion stomps Endbringers like it’s the easiest thing in the world (though Smurfy here does seem to be giving him a lot more trouble than Leviathan, by virtue of dodging).

wildbow: Keep in mind that Leviathan was fairly battered by the time Scion showed up. - Conversation with Wildbow on Migration 17.2</ref><ref>The others [Khonsu, Bohu, and Tohu] were too broken to fight. - Excerpt from Speck 30.6</ref> and the Titans.<ref>I had to hope the damage we were doing was enough. That we could put her down or keep her down for long enough she wouldn’t be up for a fight with Titan Fortuna. - Last 20.7</ref><ref>Titan Skadi was there too, her blade-hand at the Simurgh’s back. Digital readouts read that the Custodian Titan was active in the area.

All dogpiling the Simurgh, who struggled to make contact with Titan Fortuna. - Last 20.a</ref>

Although the durability of an Endbringer is incredible, attacks where some space, time, or reality warping is in play disproportionately damage their bodies.<ref name="SBnotesEB e5">Keep in mind that in virtually every case where a Endbringer suffers a deep and grievous wound, some space/time/reality warping is in full sway. Even for Phir Se, you could suggest there is something temporal infused into the stored energy, giving it more oomph. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref> After Tecton created an opening in Behemoth's chest by launching an object charged by Foil,<ref name="24.x eFoil" /><ref>RazorSmile: Skitter’s idea, Annex to merge the metal bits together, Foil to grant it penetrative powers and Alexandria to throw?

wildbow: Tecton piledrivers set into the bars at the side, to launch. - Conversation with Wildbow on Interlude 24.x</ref> Chevalier inserted his cannonblade into the wound and made his sword grow larger.<ref>He made it grow.

He made the sword grow, from ten to twenty feet in length. It was more by the growth than by any action on Chevalier’s part that it extended into the wound. The weapon penetrated into the scar Weaver’s crew had created, as close to the core as Chevalier could get it.

He made it grow to its greatest possible length, a full thirty feet, his head turned skyward to the monster that glowed silver and black. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> This active use of space warping let Chevalier part Endbringer flesh with his cannonblade until it touched Behemoth's core; the sword then broke because of the core's space warping.<ref name="24.x e7" /><ref name="Rcore e1" /><ref name="Rcore e2" /> Phir Sē's blast of light, capable of destroying India,<ref>“Indiscriminate,” Phir Sē echoed me. “India gone. You die, even down here.” - Excerpt from Crushed 24.3</ref> could tear away around 80% of Behemoth's body.<ref name="24.4 eBehemothEighty" /> He charged up this "time bomb" for three days<ref>“How long has it been since you slept?” I asked.

“Three days. We thought an Endbringer would attack soon, so I prepared, to be ready when the time came. Too early, I had to stop, restart. This time, he came, but I am weary. The talking, is good. Distracting without being dangerous. Continue, please.”

What happens if he nods off? I wondered, looking at the ‘time bomb’. The same thing he’d stated would happen if he were killed or knocked out? - Crushed 24.4</ref> and maybe infused something temporal into this stored energy.<ref name="SBnotesEB e5" /> Eidolon tore into the Simurgh with a reality warping power of some kind to drive her off during her attack on Flight BA178.<ref name="25.6 eWarp" /><ref name="25.6 e2" />

Powers which rely on temporal manipulation are effective at slowing or stopping Endbringers. By touching an Endbringer, Clockblocker can temporarily freeze it in time.<ref>It took me a second to realize what had happened. Leviathan hung frozen mid-pounce, and his emerging afterimage similarly stood there, frozen in time. In the midst of the afterimage was Clockblocker, half-immersed in water. - Extermination 8.3</ref> Although freezing an Endbringer does not damage it, freezing other objects such as wires and then forcing an Endbringer through can pierce their defenses.<ref name="3.3 e1">“The upside is that whoever he touches is also untouchable. Can’t be hurt, can’t be moved. Period. He uses that defensively, and he can do stuff like throw paper or cloth in the air and freeze it in time, making an unbreakable shield. You don’t want to run into something that’s frozen. A car that drove into the side of a piece of paper that Clockblocker had touched would be cut in two before it budged the paper.” - Agitation 3.3</ref><ref>On the monitors, a successful hit on Eidolon’s part struck Behemoth into the grid of wires. It had taken time for the Endbringer to approach the wires, set safely outside of his kill range, and some were already coming free of Clockblocker’s power. Still, they sank deep, cutting a diamond-shaped pattern into his hide, shoulder to heel. Alexandria charged, trying to drive it home, and Behemoth struck out with one claw, a swipe. - Crushed 24.4</ref> When Leviathan charged at Armsmaster, Armsmaster fired out a grappling hook that he then froze in time.<ref>“For the record, that last trick was a temporal stasis trigger, with thanks owed to the cooperation of a subordinate of mine. Drains my battery reserves, but you don’t understand that, do you?”

Leviathan lunged, and Armsmaster fired out the grappling hook, stopped it in mid air by freezing it in time. - Extermination 8.4</ref> Leviathan ran himself through this frozen object: it speared deep into the neck and out the back of his torso.<ref name="8.4 eSpearCharge" /> An Endbringer would also be effectively neutralized if Gray Boy managed to trap one within multiple time loops.<ref name="IRC-1">8:46 PM <•Wildbow> Chances are good Gray Boy's power would bind one of the Endbringer's limbs, it would pull free, doing massive damage to itself.
8:46 PM <soulpelt|> Huh, okay
8:46 PM <•Wildbow> And it would likely stop holding back up until Gray Boy was dead
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8:47 PM <•Wildbow> If you have multiple effects in place and you trap the whole Endbringer, it'll count as dead.
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8:48 PM <Alathon> by rights.. he should be able to solo leviathan with that
8:48 PM <•Wildbow> No. - Answer by Wildbow on IRC, archived on Spacebattles</ref>

Armsmaster's nano-thorn Halberd could sever molecular bonds<ref>“This cloud around my blade? Nanotechnology. Nano-structures engineered to slide between atoms, sever molecular bonds. Cuts through anything. Everything. Like a sharp knife through air.” - Extermination 8.4</ref> and cut deep into Endbringer flesh (i.e., 70 to 80% of the layers) until the nano-thorns reached material too dense to penetrate.<ref>I’d seen him fight Endbringers in that suit, seen how he could move as fast as anyone who wasn’t a speedster, turning his spinning weapon and those shield-like extensions on his armor into a whirling flurry of nano-thorns, cutting through seventy to eighty percent of the Endbringer’s flesh before they reached material too dense to penetrate. - Sting 26.2</ref><ref>Dust rose from the claw as the blade sank deep, blood poured out, but the blade remained fixed in place. Armsmaster tugged, failed to dislodge it. He tried to pull away, but I could see Leviathan had caught onto his hand and wrist with his clawtips, while the Halberd sat embedded in his ‘palm’.

“How!?” Armsmaster roared. - Extermination 8.4</ref><ref name="18.3 eDensity" /> However, the Simurgh's nano-thorn gladius derived from a nearby Defiant could hit Leviathan's core<ref name="28.5 e1" /> because she attuned it to the right frequency or setting.<ref>Lung was the next one to speak. “What did she do?”

“Upgraded Leviathan,” Tattletale said. “Attuned some device to the right frequency or setting, then tapped into his core without doing too much harm to Leviathan. Fed things into there. Knowledge, data, nanotechnology.”

Defiant’s head turned, as if Tattletale had said something.

“Yeah,” Tattletale said. “Nanotech. Why do you think the fins were turning water to mist?”

“My tech?” Defiant asked.

“Among one or two other advancements. If the density rules are in effect, I’d bet those fins are just as hard to cut through as Leviathan’s arm or torso. Disintegration effect, maybe something else.” - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.5</ref> Shadow Stalker could phase her shots inside Leviathan's body;<ref>Shadow Stalker ran within twenty feet of the Endbringer, firing her twin crossbows. The shots penetrated this time, disappearing into Leviathan’s chest, presumably fading back in while inside him. - Extermination 8.5</ref><ref>Her [Foil's] power wasn’t Shadow Stalker’s, from back in Brockton Bay. It went through everything, yes. Shadow Stalker could do something similar. But it left a hole, where Shadow Stalker’s hadn’t. One shot, then two- it created an aperture with the same diameter as the bullet. - Heavens 12.8</ref> however, she must get close to an Endbringer and has other weaknesses, limiting her effectiveness.<ref name="8.5 eFar" /><ref>Shadow Stalker - She wasn't kept around because she's useful against Endbringers. She isn't. Look at that scene again. She's forced to get too close and she gets creamed. She's super vulnerable to energy in her shadow state (nix Behemoth), can't really close in vs. a fast or mobile target (nix Leviathan for the most part, Simurgh), is emotionally imbalanced (nix Simurgh) and doesn't do any meaningful damage.​ - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>

There are several possible ways that an Endbringer can be killed. Scion's Stilling blasts can disintegrate molecular bonds<ref>Scion equipped himself to be able to fight pretty much any threat. His big weapon is a very versatile 'stilling' ability, which lets him cancel out wavelengths, which can be applied in a variety of ways, defensive or offensive - it lets him counteract, manipulate, and cancel virtually any parahuman or human generated effect. He can cancel out heat, eliminate sound, break Grey Boy's ability, disintegrate molecular bonds, etc. He can do so with beams, thrown orbs/bullets, a light he emanates, and a personal forcefield, among a variety of other mechanisms. - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref> and eventually destroy an Endbringer, as seen when his sustained attacks disintegrated Behemoth<ref name="24.x e8">Behemoth’s silhouette thrashed as he tried to move out from beneath the shaft of light, but Scion only reoriented the beam, keeping it fixed on his target.

…sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one…

The light ceased. Behemoth was gone. A plume of dust rose from the earth, at the very limits of their vision.

Scion plunged beneath the ground, heedless of the intervening terrain.
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Again, he held Behemoth in his hands. Thinner than a skeleton, the Endbringer was little more than a stick figure from Chevalier’s vantage point.

Only this time, with a flare of golden light to accompany the movement, he tore the Endbringer in two. The legs came free of the pelvis as two individual pieces, and Scion obliterated them with a pulse of the golden light.
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Scion fired one more beam, and the darkness was obliterated, swept away.

The silhouette of the Endbringer flickered, then disintegrated. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> and Leviathan.<ref name="30.6 e1" /> An Endbringer could hypothetically be killed by an explosion with enough force to destroy all life on the surface of a planet;<ref name="Rplanet e1">

The whole "planet-busting beam" was a translation error. All it really meant was that it would destroy all life on the surface.

Punch that counters said beam & strikes like that one did is still good enough. - Referenced Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><ref name="Rplanet e2"> GreatWyrmGold: I suppose it depends on if you tackle the question from a Watsonian or a Doylist point of view. Doyle would agree with your logic and conclusion; Watson would point out that Saitama's demonstrated feats fall short of those required to defeat Behemoth (assuming his analysis coincides with mine); and then both would ask who the hell you were and where you took them.

Wildbow: Nope.
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viking_: That doesn't jive at all with what you've said about their durability in the past.

Wildbow: Sure it does. Think about it. - Referenced Replies by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> while such an explosion would not entirely destroy a typical Endbringer body, enough force would be transmitted to the core to kill the Endbringer.<ref name="Rfav e1">Put all of that aside and look at his fighting ability, the highest end of what he's done (punch the planet buster [surface wiping] beam, nullify/exceed that energy and have the force of the punch still affect the landscape halfway across the world) puts him on a level equal to or surpassing String Theory's Drive weapons. Could a hit from that heavy a punch conduct enough force through Behemoth to get to the Endbringer's core? I think it's likely/possible and would have to, barring extraordinary evidence to the contrary popping up in OPM, say 'definite kill'. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> Similarly, a direct hit from a String Theory Driver weapon with the kind of power to push the Moon out of orbit could kill an Endbringer.<ref>Dauntless, too, was in the path of the beam. He had his shield, and he was rooted into the ground in a way that resisted being thrust away with the kind of power that could push a moon out of orbit, but the grazing hit still demolished one of his arms, tore out a chunk of the Titan’s side.
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But he had to stay out of the Simurgh’s range. She was weakened, he was relatively clear of her scream, and that weakened her predictive power. It meant his shots landed, and she was forced to choose between destruction and a grazing hit, instead of destruction and a miss. - Last 20.a</ref> As a result, in such a scenario Endbringers would cooperate and carefully plan their appearances to avoid any setup of a proper hit.<ref name="Rfav e2">Not going to happen in any incarnation of the Wormverse, or Behemoth would be built stronger to counteract (Or, as in the case of String Theory, Endbringer cooperation/timing would keep her from ever being able to set up a proper hit). - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> However, the Simurgh did get into a situation in Ward where Defiant was able to fire G-Driver blasts at her.<ref>The benefit of using this weapon was that it didn’t require exceptionally good aim.

An area of the city a fifth of a mile wide and a mile long was pulverized. Buildings were driven into ground, and broke into chunks no larger than a human head. The wavelength of the beam let those chunks lift up for a fraction of a second before the next wave of the beam thrust them down again with the same force as before.

The Simurgh was almost, almost out of the path of the beam. He clipped her, and she reoriented, pulling out of the way even as she was hurled back and down.

Much of the lower body she had been building broke away from the force of the impact. A wing shattered. The remainder was lost in the plume of smoke that rose from the tract of land he had blasted. - Last 20.a</ref>

As Endbringers lack perfect defense, All-or-Nothing attacks can penetrate their defenses and are thus capable of theoretically killing an Endbringer.<ref name="SBabsolute e2">Siberian, Damsel, Scrub, Flechette, and Grey Boy are Worm capes at the 'if anything can penetrate that defense, these guys penetrate that defense' level of attack. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><ref name="SBabsolute e1" /> They are also vulnerable to several other powers that do not fall into All-or-Nothing category, such as Sleeper's storm: when the Simurgh was flung into it, she was fully incapacitated, even after Sleeper had retreated from the area.<ref>The Simurgh lay prone within the storm that was the Sleeper. Unmoving. That hadn’t been him. That had been Dauntless, acting with the benefit of Titan Fortuna’s sight, guiding the direction of the blast.

The storm crackled, boiled, popped, the colors taking on a rainbow sheen that somehow felt it shouldn’t make sense with the way the colors unfolded.

That would be enough to take her out of the picture. - Last 20.a</ref><ref name="II20.10 e1">The Simurgh was out of action. Sleeper had her. - Last 20.10</ref><ref name="II20.b e1">“First of all, the Sleeper is retreating. He is not an immediate danger, and we will let you know as soon as we can, if that changes.”
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“The Sleeper was lured to the city specifically to slow down the Titans and was used to trap the Simurgh. Some of our best minds and strategists are confident the Simurgh is dealt with.”
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“Didn’t you want to be a lawyer?” Presley asked, leaning onto the snow-dusted railing. In the distance, Sleeper’s cloud was receding. - Last 20.b</ref><ref name="II16.2 e1">Naphtha was striding down the hallway, coming in our direction. He stopped us. “Changers?”

“No changers in our team,” Tristan said. “Why?”

Naphtha getting close enough meant I felt the oil touch my skin, as it touched everything in a certain radius of Naphtha. He pulled it away from me as it touched me, but my skin crawled with the memory of the feel of it.

“Another crisis. Similar to the others. Going to announce it to the dining hall,” Naphtha explained. “I don’t suppose any of you feel brave enough to go up against Sleeper? Absolute invulnerability better than Alexandria’s, special brains, absolute annihilation powers?” - From Within 16.2</ref> Similarly, although Rain O'Fire Frazier's power to render a target fragile<ref>“Uh. Mine is a blaster power,” Rain said. “It’s pretty mediocre. I shoot things or people and they’re vulnerable to being broken for a short while after. To put it simply.” - Flare 2.6</ref> is not All-or-Nothing,<ref name="II11.11 e1">A silver blade cut through the air. Precipice’s answer to Love Lost’s scream. It hit the chains that Hookline had made, but it drew no silver lines.

They’re protected by Hookline’s power, I thought. - Blinding 11.11</ref> even when his power was at its weakest,<ref>Rain was over there, I saw. Awake, coherent, trying to help out. But Rain’s power was at its weakest right now. He could create the blades, but he couldn’t throw them. - Last 20.7</ref> his blades can affect an Endbringer. With the help of Victoria Dallon and other capes to close the distance, Rain hit the Simurgh and carved out a silver line from shoulder to back, to hip.<ref>Someone shot one chunk. Others warped, veering out of the way.

A pillar of black-blue Capricorn stone speared out below us, more a barrier than the chunks it shoved out of the way, then dissipated into motes of light a second later.

We closed the distance, and the blade met the Simurgh’s silver flesh, carving out a shimmering silver line, so close in color that it looked like there was no line at all. From shoulder to back, to hip. - Last 20.7</ref> When Victoria made the call to kick this line,<ref>There was a dull rumble as more of our surroundings tore away, ready to smash us, and I decided to make the call. To break away, to say this is enough.

I couldn’t drop Rain, or risk losing him, which meant I had to use me. I kicked out, hard, my foot meeting the silver line. It flared, bright, and the Simurgh’s wings spread out around us, until they were ninety percent of what I could see. The pain of the jolt reaching my ribs and collarbone made my vision split. I couldn’t see straight. - Last 20.7</ref> the damaged Endbringer split along the line; the Simurgh lost more than half of her body.<ref>There was a crash far below us.

I managed to focus my vision on a distant point, feeling like a baby trying to focus her eyes for the first time.

Below us, more than half of the Simurgh’s body, including one arm, some smaller wings, and both legs, lay on the basement level of the facility. The accumulated damage from the Wardens, Rain, the beams, and the temperature shifts had added up enough for it to break away entirely. It lay there, limp and still.

The rest of her had slipped away. - Last 20.7</ref> Other members of the Mall Cluster, such as Cradle, can presumably do the same with their version of Rain's power.<ref name="II12.7 e1">It wasn’t a bullet I had to worry about. I was flying, thinking I was safe, when lines began to appear. Silvery, but crisp, like slices in reality, reaching well over the building.

Not meant for me, but dangerous all the same. I flew past one, and the Wretch had a limb extended. I felt the Wretch get sliced, felt the dim sensation that was the Wretch’s extended being part. The forcefield didn’t collapse. It cut.

A gaping hole in my forcefield, now, where there had been a bit of torso and shoulder. - Heavens 12.7</ref><ref name="II12.8">I took flight, aiming to go over, and saw Cradle move in the same instant he turned his head my way. I made myself stop, twisting, as the lines appeared.

Sudden appearance, each one sharper than any blade, and capable of cutting through powered defenses. - Heavens 12.8</ref>

Attacks that ignore the laws of physics can penetrate the core of an Endbringer.<ref name="Rjla e4">As a rule, the only things that are actually going to penetrate the center of their bodies are things that ignore the laws of physics. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> Flechette's charged shots can pierce right through an Endbringer,<ref>Flechette, Lily – [...] Her power allows her to imbue nonliving material with the ability to ignore select laws of physics, to the point that they can pass through virtually anything, including Endbringers and forcefields, among other defensive powers. - Cast (In Depth)</ref> as demonstrated against Leviathan<ref name="8.5 eFar">One of crossbow-girl's shots, like a needle several feet in length, speared under the side of Leviathan's neck, out the top. Shadow Stalker's shots, at the same time, failed to penetrate Leviathan's hard exterior.

“Flechette! I’m getting closer!” Shadow Stalker called out, looking back at her new partner.

“Careful!” the crossbow-girl – Flechette, I took it – replied, loading another shot. - Extermination 8.5</ref><ref>Flechette fired a needle through Leviathan’s knee, and the Endbringer’s leg buckled. He collapsed into a kneeling position, the knee striking the ground. - Extermination 8.5</ref> and Behemoth,<ref>He clapped, and a shockwave tore through the area. Rachel was already directing the dogs; they moved so there was cover, buildings between them and Behemoth. The chain, imbued by Foil’s ability to shear through anything, cut through the buildings as though there was nothing there.

And just like that, they made it. The dogs passed Behemoth, a hundred and twenty feet of chain maintained between them, and the chain cut through him as easily as Foil’s arbalest bolts had. - Crushed 24.4</ref><ref name="24.x eFoil">Something flew past him, shearing straight through Behemoth’s chest. A wheel of metal, thin, with two bars sticking out of the center. It cut through the Endbringer like he wasn’t even there. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> and she can potentially kill one with a direct hit to their core.<ref name="Reb e1">Nekron-akaMrSkeletal: I guess that works. I was actually wondering about sting. If Foil had been at the behemoth fight could she have finished behemoth when his core was exposed?

Wildbow: Yep. - Reply by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> Other members of the Subway Cluster, such as March, can presumably do the same with their version of Flechette's power.<ref name="II12.all e1">“I’m invulnerable,” Caryatid growls.

“I blow up invulnerable people,” their March answers.

“She does,” Vista says. “Go. Run. Make sure everyone’s on the same page.” - Heavens 12.all</ref><ref>The likes of Scrub, Damsel, Foil, or March would be able to damage Alexandria. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref> After discovering the full ramifications of Flechette's power during the Battle against Behemoth, the Endbringers changed their methodology to better avoid situations where Flechette could set up a killing blow.<ref name="Rcore e3">The issue was that after they discovered the full ramifications of her powers, the Endbringers changed their methodology. Leviathan made hit and run attacks that meant he was gone and attacking another city before Scion/Foil/anyone else reached a location, Simurgh attacked abstract targets, Khonsu teleported, and Tohu/Bohu were difficult to pin down or find easy answers to. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref>

Victoria Dallon noted that Damsel of Distress III is a heavy hitter against the Simurgh;<ref>For our offensive tricks, our heavy hitters were out. [...] Damsel was injured and uncooperative. - Last 20.7</ref> her blasts can destroy the Siberian (i.e., the highest level of invulnerability<ref name="SBabsolute e1">Can't cite anything, but there's a line that sorta appears in the story, where you run into the perfects (perfect defense, perfect offense) and stuff gets fucky - and the rule of thumb is that 'unless your ability beats -everything-, it doesn't beat this'. For processing power Contessa's ability would be on this level (as with Flechette's Sting, Clockblocker's inviolability, Siberian's invulnerability). - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref>), tear right through a Titan, and are presumably effective against Sleeper's storm.<ref name="SBashley e1">Wildbow:

i really doubt ashley can pop sibby

Ashley could pop Siberian
It's why she came up as a possible thing in relation to Sleeper
Ashley was named in a WoG a while back talking about the 'anything but' powers and stuff like Alexandria Invulnerability. - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref><ref>There were capes with the sort of power where it didn’t matter what the fuck they were shooting, they’d put a hole in that something. Damsel’s power was like that. So was Foil’s.
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Oberon pushed over the building, and in the process, collided with Damsel. She’d been within the upper floor of the building, using her power to hold and contain a large sphere of the annihilation energy.

Sveta evacuated her as the building came to pieces, and Oberon fell over, a large hole in his upper chest.

It didn’t stop him, but one of his arms hung at his side. - Radiation 18.6</ref> Indeed, the Simurgh specifically prevented Victoria from setting up a situation where Damsel could deal a killing blow.<ref>“There’s a truce,” I told her. “The whole idea is we work together. Let me help you kick ass.”

“What’s the point of stopping her if it costs me everything?” she asked. - Last 20.7</ref> She preyed on Damsel's fears of being overtaken by Swansong, making Damsel uncooperative with Victoria.<ref>“Doing this? Not giving an inch? It makes you weaker, not stronger. It’s fragile, being inflexible.”

“Fuck you,” she said. Uncharacteristically vulgar, blunt, with a minimum of pride or herself in the line.

I didn’t really have a response to it, either.

“You just want me to cave, so she comes out.” - Last 20.7</ref><ref>She wasn’t talking about the Simurgh. She was talking about Ashley. Our Ashley. Breakthrough’s.
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“That’s the vector the Simurgh chose to attack you through?” I asked. “Swansong?”

“None of your business.”
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“Will you let me help you? Please?”

She scowled, and shook her head. - Last 20.7</ref>

Known Endbringers

Behemoth

Main article: Behemoth

Behemoth — also known as "Hadhayosh" and "Prathama" — was the first Endbringer to appear. He made his first appearance in the Marun Field of Iran on December 13, 1992.<ref name="interlude24" /> He is a dynakinetic capable of manipulating energy in all of its forms; he can also bypass the Manton effect within a radius of around 30 feet.<ref name="Rjla e1">Behemoth is the first, he's a dynakinetic, capable of absorbing and producing energy in its various forms. Fire, electricity, sound, kinetic energy and radiation, as well as more alien forms of energy. This compounds his natural toughness as he can simply absorb and redirect the energy from a given attack, and can do it for all forms of energy, though he prefers to focus more on offense and leave gaps to draw people in closer/feint. He's a walking, lumbering piece of artillery and he's gotten up from a blast that would have wiped India off the map. If anyone gets within 30 feet of him he can blow past standard defenses and simply manifest energy within them, burning them to a crisp from the inside out (best interpreted as disintegration). Behemoth is also known as 'herokiller' as he's removed several notable heroes using this radius of death. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> Because of this, he gained a reputation as the 'herokiller', possessing a high body count at short range.<ref name="Rjla e1" /> The Protectorate recommended that capes should maintain a distance of at least 100 feet from him, as any closer would mean little chance of escape should he wish to close the gap and vaporize, electrocute, or otherwise kill them; even super-speed capes could be out-sped and killed by his lightning. That said, Behemoth seems to lack complete control over his energy manipulation, as demonstrated in the New Delhi fight, when Weaver and several Wards with her were able to create a large metal structure which acted as a lighting rod and re-directed some of his lighting bolts.

Leviathan

Main article: Leviathan

Leviathan — also known as "Jormungand" or "Jörmungandr" — first appeared in Oslo, Norway on June 9, 1996.<ref name="spoiler-free">Cast (spoiler-free)</ref> He has macro-hydrokinesis, superspeed, and a water "afterimage" that follows behind him and moves as fast as Leviathan himself. He was known for causing immense environmental damage, devastating areas such as Newfoundland and Kyushu to the point of uninhabitability.

The Simurgh

Main article: The Simurgh

The Simurgh — also known as "Ziz"<ref name="spoiler-free"/> — first appeared in Lausanne, Switzerland on December 30, 2002.<ref name="interlude24"/> She has psionic abilities (most infamously manifesting as a "song") and the ability to draw on Tinker powers around her in order to build her own devices. The Simurgh also has near-perfect precognition but lacks the ability to perceive the present; in combat, this strength more than makes up for her weakness. Not only does this precognition make her extremely effective in combat, but it also enables her to target key locations or individuals. When the Simurgh attacks a key target, she is known to adjust the events in places she attacks to set up the survivors to be "walking disasters" that happen days, months, or even years after. Affected areas were quarantined to try and mitigate these effects, such as in the case of Madison, Wisconsin.

Khonsu

Main article: Khonsu

After the death of Behemoth, the existing Endbringers changed their tactics.<ref name="25.6 e2" /> New Endbringers appeared, apparently with a different purpose.<ref name="Rjla e2">The remaining three Endbringers are more distraction than anything else. They were created for a different paradigm and purpose. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> The first of these was Khonsu, which appeared in Japan on January 20, 2012. He can create up to three cylindrical fields of accelerated time at a time that can trap people inside. Outside observers see the field speed up time for anything inside; however, for anyone trapped within the field, time appears to flow normally. Khonsu can also teleport on a global scale, allowing him to attack key locations and installations worldwide.

Tohu and Bohu

Main article: The Twins

Tohu and Bohu appeared in Bucharest, Romania on October 10, 2012. Bohu manipulates the battlefield, setting up traps for defending parahumans and manipulating the area in a set pattern. The full extent of these traps is not fully detailed, but it is heavily implied that, should Bohu successfully alter a city, it would be rendered unsuitable for habitation.  This has not stopped large groups of parahumans from fighting in altered cities, however, as demonstrated by Jack Slash. Tohu chooses three capes and then copies their powers to defend its "sister" Bohu.  For obvious reasons, it tends to copy stronger powers. 

Timeline of Attacks

Date	Endbringer	Location
1992-12-13<ref name="interlude24">Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref>	Behemoth	Marun Field, Iran
1993-07-06<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	São Paulo, Brazil
1994-03-26<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	New York, USA
1994-11-01<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Jakarta, Indonesia
1995-06-18<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Moscow, Russia
1996-01-03<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Johannesburg, South Africa
1996-06-09<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Oslo, Norway
1996-11-06<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Cologne, Germany
1997-04-23<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Busan, South Korea
1997-09-30<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998-01-18<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Sydney, Australia
1998-07-03<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Jinzhou, China
1998-12-25<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Madrid, Spain
1999-07-21<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Ankara, Turkey
1999-11-02<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Kyushu, Japan
2000-04-10<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Lyon, France
2000-09-16<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Naples, Italy
2001-02-25<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Vanderhoof, Canada
2001-07-06<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Hyderabad, India
2001-12-06<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Lagos, Nigeria
2002-04-23<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Shanghai, China
2002-08-20<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Bogotá, Colombia
2002-12-30<ref name="interlude24" />	Simurgh	Lausanne, Switzerland
2003-04-01<ref name="interlude24" />	Leviathan	Seattle, USA
2003-08-12<ref name="interlude24" />	Simurgh	London, UK
2003-10-03<ref name="interlude24" />	Behemoth	Lyon, France
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2005-05-09<ref>Excerpt from Extermination 8.2</ref>	Leviathan<ref>"To Armsmaster, the Guild and the rest of the PRT, Dragon was a woman from Newfoundland who had moved to Vancouver after Leviathan had attacked.", Excerpt from Interlude 10.5</ref>	Newfoundland, Canada
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2009-12-23<ref>Migration 17.1</ref><ref>It was the day before Christmas Eve, Krouse remembered. - Migration 17.7</ref>	Simurgh	Madison, USA
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Nov 2010 <ref> His last attack had been in November. He wouldn’t appear for another five weeks at a minimum, unless he deviated from the Endbringer patterns. - Excerpt from Interlude 10.5</ref>	Behemoth	???
2011-02-24<ref name="scarab25.6">Excerpt from Scarab 25.6</ref>	Simurgh	Canberra, Australia
2011-05-15<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Leviathan	Brockton Bay, USA
2011-07-26<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Behemoth	New Delhi, India
2011-11-25<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Simurgh	Flight BA178, International waters North Atlantic
2012-01-20<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Khonsu	Indiscriminate
2012-04-02<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Leviathan	Lüderitz, Namibia
2012-06-05<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Simurgh	Manchester, UK
2012-08-15<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Leviathan	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012-10-10<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Tohu/Bohu	Bucharest, Romania
2012-12-19<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Simurgh	Paris, France
2013-02-05<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Khonsu	Indiscriminate
2013-05-17<ref name="scarab25.6" />	Tohu/Bohu	Los Angeles, USA
Unknown <ref name="WD Oakland">[1] from WD_Oakland</ref>	Leviathan	Oakland, USA

The Endbringers intend to continue operating for roughly 300 years, the estimated length of the cycle. They can only reach this date by conserving their energy and intentionally fighting below strength.<ref name="Rjla e6">The reason the Endbringers haven't destroyed the Wormverse, in large part, is that they're jobbing every fight. The post that follows will assume that Leviathan and Behemoth are going full-strength and Simurgh is using her powers as detailed in the story (where she's jobbing, in large part). - Wildbow on Reddit</ref> They constantly update their strategies from attack to attack, coming back with new approaches,<ref name="24.x e1">Then he’d taken command of a team, and he’d seen the process of trial and error, as they learned their opponents’ capabilities, saw how Leviathan or the Simurgh could keep tricks up their sleeves for years, before using them at a critical moment. Even now, they didn’t fully understand the Simurgh’s power, how long it might take someone to recover, if recovery was even possible. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> and revealing new abilities that they hadn't shown before.<ref name="29.1 e1">“Way I understand it, she needs to have a tinker in her sphere of influence to borrow their schematics, or a specific device, if she wants to copy it. Thinkers, too, I think she borrows their perception powers as long as she’s tapped into them. Might be why she’s attached to me. Either way, she didn’t have schematics or anything she’d need to modify the guns.”

“Or she can modify them, and it’s a card she’s been keeping up her sleeve for the last while. I mean, it was only three years ago or whatever that she really showed off her ability to copy a tinker’s work wholesale.” - Excerpt from Venom 29.1</ref>

The Endbingers all attack at at set times, with the time between attacks decreases as the number of Endbringers increases. When Behemoth showed up, attack occurred 1 per 8 months; when Leviathan joined, the attacks became 1 per 5 months; when the Simurgh joined, the attacks became 1 per 3.5 months<ref>Confirmation by Wildbow.</ref>; when Behemoth died but Khonsu and The Twins replaced him, the attacks became 1 per 2 months.<ref name="25.4 e1"/> The Endbringers do not have any particular order at to which specific Endbringer attacks next. The only rules they have are that they don't attack the same location twice in a row, and that the same Endbringer does not attack twice in a row. For one example, Behemoth could attack one time, then Leviathan the next, the Behemoth could go again after him.<ref>Comment by Wildbow: - No turns, per se.
The same Endbringer doesn’t attack twice in a row, and the Endbringers don’t strike the same location twice in a row, but beyond that, it’s fairly up in the air.
It could go B L B S B S B L B, for example.</ref>

Each of the Endbringers was created for a specific purpose to conform to their 300-year timeline. Behemoth was created to "break stasis," Leviathan to take away resources in space and land, forcing communities into conflict as they relocated, and the Simurgh to simulate a future where humanity destroyed itself from in-fighting, as well as to forcibly gather information on the planet's resources to provide better data.<ref name="II19.z">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.

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. - Excerpt from Infrared 19.z</ref>

History

Background

The first Endbringer, Behemoth, appeared in 1992 in the Marun oil field of Iran, beginning a series of attacks at various locations worldwide, roughly once a year. The appearance of Behemoth was a major factor towards the creation of the PRT, which labelled the Endbringer as Case 2 in their case files.<ref>Case two was Behemoth, his rise had incited the creation of the PRT.
[...]
The first cases had inspired things, major functions and interests. Committees had been formed and those committees had become something. Even though a whole chunk of the early ones were minor or fabrications in the end, the virus theory included, they’d led to things like a dedicated parahuman science department. - Excerpt from Shadow 5.10</ref> For the Triumvirate, the presence of Behemoth, as well as the potential for future capes of his caliber, was also a major motivating factor for the formation of their team and the continued work of Cauldron.<ref>“The point we’re getting around to,” Alexandria spoke, “Is that even if the Doctor can get better results with time and effort, the explosion in the natural parahuman population is inevitably going to produce an individual with powers that outstrip our own.” - Excerpt from Interlude 15</ref>

Over the next several years, the Endbringer attacks continued to escalate. Once Behemoth began to be "too predictable," the second Endbringer, Leviathan, appeared in 1996, in Oslo, Norway.<ref name="I24y 1">“It’s okay to worry,” Tecton said. He gestured towards Weaver. “Weaver said as much. They’ve got a nasty habit of escalating, in the fights themselves and in the grand scheme of things. Behemoth got too predictable, so Leviathan started to show up. We started to coordinate defenses, get the world on board to deal with them, Simurgh comes.”

“And now we killed one, so how do they escalate from there?” Grace asked.

“It’s a concern,” Tecton said, “And it’s one that people all around the world are going to be discussing. Rely on them. Don’t take the full weight of the world onto your shoulders. We fought, you guys made a good show of it,” Tecton said. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.y</ref> Attacks started occurring roughly every five months.<ref name="25.4 e1" /> Worldwide defense efforts began to coordinate forces against Endbringer attacks; apparently in response to these efforts, in 2002, the third Endbringer, the Simurgh, made her first appearance, appearing docile at first before attacking and revealing herself to be an Endbringer.<ref>"It’s what happened in… what was that place called? Lausanne? Switzerland. She showed up, and nobody wanted to pick a fight with her, and they were curious, so they studied her, and tried to communicate with her. Tons of people gathered. Then she… sang? Screamed? Whatever this is. There was chaos, people didn’t know what was happening, so they weren’t able to evacuate that well. Roads clogged. And then they started flipping out...." - Excerpt from Migration 17.3</ref><ref name="I24y 1" />

The three Endbringers continued their worldwide attacks over the next decade, creating immense destruction. An attack from Leviathan on Newfoundland sunk the entire island, killing the tinker Andrew Richter, whose creation Dragon later joined the Guild<ref>Interlude 10.5</ref>; a separate attack from Leviathan sunk the island of Kyushu, despite resistance from Lung.<ref>Interlude 22.y</ref> The benevolent tinker Sphere was turned into future Slaughterhouse Nine member Mannequin by an attack from the Simurgh; another Simurgh attack on Madison, Wisconsin brought the Travelers to Earth Bet, later bringing about the Echidna.<ref>Migration</ref>

Leviathan Attack on Brockton Bay, 2011

Main article: Battle against Leviathan

On May 15, 2011, Brockton Bay was the target of an attack by Leviathan; Miss Militia believed the attack to be in response to the recent gang conflicts plaguing the city<ref name="I7">“Nothing’s truly random,” Colin explained, his voice tight, “Any data shows a pattern eventually, if you dig deep enough. Dragon started work on an early warning system for the Endbringers, to see if we can’t anticipate where they’ll strike next, prepare to some degree. We know there’s some rules they follow, though we don’t know why. They come one at a time, months apart, rarely hitting the same area twice in a short span of time. We know they’re drawn to areas where they perceive vulnerability, where they think they can cause the most damage. Nuclear reactors, the Birdcage, places recently hit by natural disasters…”

He clicked the mouse, and the image zoomed in on a section of the coastline.

“…Or ongoing conflict,” Hannah finished for him, her eyes widening. “The ABB, Empire Eighty-Eight, the fighting here? It’s coming here? Now?”

Colin didn’t have a reply for her. “Dragon? Brockton Bay falls within the predicted zone, and the city is on the list of locations that rate high enough on the sensitivity or negative media scale. Add my data, the correlations between abrupt microshifts in temperature, air pressure and-”

“The data is good.” Dragon’s voice, synthesized to mask the most telling details about her identity, held no trace of doubt. - Excerpt from Interlude 7</ref>, while the Travelers suspected Noelle Meinhardt to be the target of the attack, a theory which Tattletale later agreed with.<ref>Coil shook his head, “One thing at a time. If he is here because he’s seeking someone who could harm him, the only individuals on site who would be capable are Sundancer and your Noelle.”

[...]

“Shit,” Trickster swore. “That’s why he’s here. Just like Leviathan, Crawler’s coming after her?” - Excerpt from Interlude 11f</ref><ref name="24.3" /> Early-warning programs operated by Armsmaster and Dragon were able to foresee the attack and give local and foreign capes a chance to organize against it.<ref name="I7" /> Leviathan still devastated the parahuman resistance, only retreating with the appearance of Scion, and destroyed a large part of the city. The number of casualties was the lowest for an Endbringer attack in years, however, leading Taylor Hebert to later reflect on the attack as a "good day" compared to other attacks.<ref name="24.5 e1">The fight with Leviathan in Brockton Bay had been a good day. We’d lost people, we’d lost good capes, but we’d more or less bounced back, made it three-quarters of the way back to where we needed to be, in a matter of months. There had been ugliness, infighting, a hell of a lot of doubt, but we’d started to make our way back to where we should be. It had been the lowest number of casualties we’d had in an Endbringer attack in years, not counting a few of the Simurgh attacks. A good day.

This? This isn’t a good day. - Excerpt from Crushed 24.5</ref>

The Leviathan attack nevertheless had significant and long-lasting consequences for the city; large swaths of it were left without power and resources, while others were destroyed entirely. The local Protectorate team was weakened by the death of Velocity and the retirement of Armsmaster, while the deaths of Aegis and Gallant severely hurt morale among the local Wards and required the arrival of Weld and Flechette to bolster their ranks.<ref name="9.1">“...This young man has been observed in the south end, moving at over a hundred miles an hour with the assistance of a mechanical suit. His inclusion on a local team would help fill gaps left by the death of Velocity, a local Protectorate member, and Armsmaster’s retirement.”

Weld nodded.

“Others may make themselves known, and we will approach each of them in turn. To help fill the gap in the meantime, Flechette is arriving from New York.” - Excerpt from Sentinel 9.1</ref> New Wave was also hit hard by the deaths of Shielder and Manpower, and the injury of Flashbang. Meanwhile, with the city's major gangs removed from power and the heroes still recovering, the Undersiders and the Travelers were able to claim territory, furthering their employer Coil's plans to take over the city.<ref>“In the meantime, we move on to the next phase of my plan,” Coil spoke. “You may be wondering about this location, how it is similar to the new headquarters I provided you. I have outfitted these areas to be your stations, points from which you will operate, work to seize and keep territory. I have several more. If you’re amenable, I would have each of you take one of these stations for yourself. Grue, this would be your station, shared with Imp, which I assume is alright?” - Excerpt from Parasite 10.6</ref>

Despite these issues, the city was able to recover to a reasonable position within several months.<ref name="24.5 e1" /> However, its poor state soon after the attack ultimately attracted the attention of the Slaughterhouse Nine, whose presence in the city eventually set the stage for the end of the world.<ref>“Priority number one, I want the data on the Slaughterhouse Nine.”

I felt a chill, but didn’t say anything. Was he intending to hire them? It would be a huge mistake in my book, if he was.

Regent asked the question for me, “The Slaughterhouse Nine?”

“At least some of their members have been seen in town, preying on the locals, disrupting recovery efforts. The recent chaos makes the city a playground for them,” Coil spoke. “One of my teams is bound to run up against them soon.” - Excerpt from Parasite 10.6</ref>

Behemoth Attack on New Delhi, 2011

Main article: Battle against Behemoth

The next Endbringer attack occurred on July 26, 2011, when Behemoth attacked New Delhi. The battle was attended by both the local cape groups of the Garama and Thanda, as well as capes from the Protectorate and the Yàngbǎn, as well as the Undersiders and Ambassadors. The Endbringer's goal was likely a "time bomb" operated by local 'cold' cape Phir Sē, composed of light looped repeatedly through portals, accumulating power.<ref name="24.3">Another note:

they want to lose I think. set themselves up to fail. but not fail so bad they risk dying. levi was after something, noelle I think. but why didn’t he show up closer to downtown?

“I don’t know,” I said. I felt a little chilled at the idea that this was the Endbringers pulling their punches.

big b wants something. not at india gate. somewhere past it. why not come up right underneath it?

“I don’t know,” I repeated myself. “It doesn’t matter.”

matters. looked at past attacks. pattern. small pattern. behe attacks nuclear reactor, appears some distance away. attacks birdcage, appears in rockies, no sign he was close or beneath cage. pattern says he wouldn’t emerge this close if he just wanted to attack india gate. He attacking something north of it. - Excerpt from Crushed 24.3</ref><ref>“A weapon,” he said. “A… how do you Americans say it? Time bomb? Only this is joke.”

“He makes portals,” Kismet said. “Using them, he can send things back in time. Something goes in portal B, comes out of portal A a few minutes earlier. Or the other way around.”

“Or, as I discover, I make loop,” Phir Sē said. “Weaponize. Simple light, captured in one moment, redoubled many times over. I move gate, and that light will pour forth and clean.” - Excerpt from Crushed 24.3</ref> Phir Sē eventually deployed this energy weapon, dealing the most damage to an Endbringer ever done, but it only succeeded in removing the Endbringer's outer layers, leaving his 'skeleton' intact.<ref name="24.x e5">But Behemoth… the Endbringer was little more than a skeleton with extensive padding. He’d never seen this much damage delivered. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.x</ref> After further fighting, Scion arrived, and having been instructed by Kevin Norton to slay the Endbringers, he killed Behemoth.<ref>“Those Endbringer motherfuckers. I told you that you need to stop them, that you need to fight and protect people. And you have been.”

He clenched his hands, stared down at the ground, “And god help me, maybe I wasn’t specific enough. Maybe I didn’t realize you’d interpret me literally. We need you to kill the things. Destroy every last trace of them, throw them into space. Don’t know. But fight to kill, don’t just… God, I hope I’m wrong, that I’m remembering the words I chose all wrong, and that you didn’t hear my suggestion and take it to mean you should fight for fighting’s sake, or fight to stop them, but not to stop them for good. You understand? Don’t just stop them from doing what they were doing. Stop them permanently.” - Excerpt from Interlude 18.x</ref><ref name="24.x e8" />

In addition to the deaths of numerous civilians, the attack saw the deaths of noted capes such as Regent, Rime, and Accord. Alexandria's body, possessed by Pretender, notably made an appearance at the attack. In addition, the Chicago Wards, after cooperating with Weaver, made the decision to let her onto their team.<ref>Interlude 24.y</ref> The largest consequence of the attack on New Delhi, however, was the death of Behemoth. The Endbringers, long seen as a fact of life, were shown in this battle to be killable, prompting questions about the next steps forward regarding the other Endbringers, as well as what they would do to escalate next.<ref>Tecton ventured a reply instead. “I think I understand what Cuff means. It’s hard to believe he’s gone. It’s like, you’re five years old, and Leviathan appears for the first time, and your parents have to explain that a bunch of people died, and it’s because of these monsters and yet nobody has figured out why.”

“Yeah,” Cuff said. “What happens next? Leviathan or the Simurgh? We kill them? Stop them from blowing up or doing their version of blowing up? I can’t really imagine that we’d beat them, give our all and hope that Scion shows up and fights like that again, kill them, and then have everything be okay.”

“And now we killed one, so how do they escalate from there?” Grace asked. - Excerpt from Interlude 24.y</ref> As information about the attack spread to the public, it was similarly met with both celebration and skepticism about the defeat, with some expressing concerns that Behemoth was not actually dead, or that the defeat would provoke the remaining Endbringers.<ref>“All around the world, people seem to be celebrating, but it’s a markedly cautious celebration. Early polls on the UKCC web site suggest that a full eighteen percent of people who voted are waiting for more information or verification before celebrating the heroes’ victory, and ten percent of people don’t intend to celebrate at all.”

“Not at all?”

“No, Lizbeth. In the comments thread of the poll, a common trend seems to be the feeling that he isn’t or can’t be dead, that the heroes were mistaken, or that this might even provoke a response from the remaining Endbringers.” - Excerpt from Interlude 24.y</ref>

Post-Behemoth Defeat

Main article: Battle against Khonsu

The first Endbringer attack following the death of Behemoth was an attack from the Simurgh on November 25, 2011, on Flight BA178; unlike prior attacks, the fight lasted only forty minutes, with little lead-up and no casualties besides the passengers of the plane.<ref name="25.6 eWarp">A fire started on the body of the ship as Eidolon tore into the Simurgh with a reality warping power of some kind, complete with lightning, fire, distorted light, and ice. The Simurgh cast the craft aside in the following instant, letting it flip, burn and tumble before hitting the water and virtually disintegrating.

That done, the Simurgh ascended, rising into the clouds. A few capes tried to follow, but Scion wasn’t among them.

“How long was the fight?” I asked.

“Not long enough for Scion to show,” was all Wanton said.

“Forty minutes?” Tecton asked. “About forty minutes.” - Excerpt from Scarab 25.2</ref> This attack marked a change in strategy for Leviathan and the Simurgh, both of them beginning to use guerrilla tactics.<ref name="25.6 e2">Flight BA178, November 25th, 2011 // Simurgh
Notes: Loss? Plane destroyed, Eidolon/Pretender drive off Endbringer. Marks start of guerilla tactics from Simurgh and Leviathan.

[...]

Lüderitz, April 2nd, 2012 // Leviathan
Notes: Loss? Driven away by Eidolon. Secondary targets Swakopmund, Gamba, Port-Gentil and Sulima.
Target/Consquence: Moord Nag. Guerilla tactics continue, losses in notable but not devastating numbers, but his target survives. - Excerpt from Scarab 25.6</ref>

The most notable development regarding the Endbringers occurred with the appearance of the fourth Endbringer, Khonsu, on January 20, 2012. In contrast to prior Endbringer attacks, Khonsu teleported to attack multiple locations worldwide for a period of three days, requiring intense negotiations and coordination from Cauldron to drive off.<ref>Three days.

Nearly three days and we hadn’t managed to kill him.

A new target every thirty minutes, give or take. Ten to twenty minutes for the defending forces to get their shit together. The remainder of that time was our capes trying to hurt him. Chipping away at him. - Excerpt from Scarab 25.5</ref> In addition, the proximity of Khonsu's attack to the Simurgh's only two months before suggested not only an altered schedule, but given the precedent, the appearance of a fifth Endbringer.<ref name="25.4 e1">She took my cue. “New costumes, a new group. Behemoth is defeated and it looks like the Endbringers might have reverted to the schedule they had pre-2002. An attack every four to five months.”
[...]
Two attacks, two months apart. Had their schedule changed? Would the next attack come in a mere two months, or would it be more unpredictable than that?

No, I thought, with a dawning horror. No, it was worse than that. The Endbringer’s schedule of attack had always depended on the number of Endbringers in the rotation.

If they were keeping to their usual rules, it promised a fifth, waiting in the wings. - Excerpt from Scarab 25.4</ref> On October 10 later that year, this fear was confirmed with the appearance of the Endbringers Tohu and Bohu, collectively The Twins.

Over the course of the Timeskip, the now-five Endbringers continued their attacks, making use of hit-and-run tactics and other strategies to counter and avoid Scion.

Gold Morning

Following the death of Eidolon, the Endbringers began behaving strangely. The Simurgh and Bohu appeared at the same time on Earth Bet, something never before seen, but both remained motionless.<ref>Defiant scrolled through the images of the Simurgh, floating in the air above the ocean in the middle of the day. The last one was from just an hour ago, showing her in early evening, utterly still.

[...]

And Bohu had situated herself in the middle of a field. The ground was only beginning to reshape beneath her, twisting into structures, walls, a maze of stone, soil and grass, of arches and pillars without anything to support.

She simply loomed, her impossibly long arms hanging at her side, head slightly bowed, her eyes shut.

The other images showed the same thing from different angles. One from the other side, then another from directly above, showing the alterations to her surroundings as concentric circles.

It was daylight. Going by the times of the photos, she was on the opposite side of the planet, roughly, from the Simurgh.

“Holy fuck,” Canary murmured. “Two at once?” - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.2</ref> Reviewing footage from Eidolon's last minutes before death, Tattletale concluded that Eidolon's death had caused their unusual behavior and attempted to communicate with the Simurgh, asking her to organize the Endbringers against Scion.<ref name="28.4 e2" /><ref name="28.4 e4">Tattletale continued without pause, not responding or reacting to this information. “All I’m saying, all I’m proposing, is that Scion’s a better bet than we are. You want to give someone a fucking hard time? Make that someone Scion. You want to terrorize people? Terrorize Scion. Bigger challenge, and you’ll probably have the rest of us fucking scared out of our minds if you pull it off. You want to fucking end the world? Get in line, chickadee, because Scion’s going to beat you to the punch if you don’t stop him.” - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.4</ref> After several attempts, Tattletale appeared to have successfully convinced the Endbringer, managing to get the Simurgh, as well as Leviathan, to follow the group and attack on command; in addition to having the Simurgh 'imprint' on Tattletale, soon later Khonsu imprinted on an individual in Teacher's group, whose services were sold to Cauldron.<ref>Well, we knew who she was following.

“Fuck me,” I could hear Tattletale muttering with the bugs I’d planted on her. The Simurgh came to a stop directly above her. She repeated herself, as if for emphasis. “Fuck me. - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.6”</ref><ref name="28.5 e3">“The place Khonsu or Tohu were supposed to appear,” Tattletale said.

“Quite. It was Khonsu. The Endbringer has imprinted on Teacher’s group, and he has offered to sell that squad, along with the Endbringer, to a sufficiently wealthy buyer. We agreed, if only to keep this from becoming a monopoly on Endbringers.” - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.5</ref> The Simurgh modified Leviathan, incorporating nano-thorn technology into his body.<ref name="28.5 e2">Fins. Leviathan had fins.

They were like blades, points sweeping backwards. A fin rooted in the side of his arm, from wrist to elbow, the point scything back. Had it not been limp enough to trail on the ground, it might have reached his shoulder. More at the sides of his neck and along the length of his spine, forming an almost serrated pattern where multiple fins overlapped. Perhaps some at his legs. The fins ran down the length of his tail, and ended in a cluster at the end, like the tuft of fur at the end of a lion’s tail, exaggerated many times over in size.

He flexed a claw, and I could see webbing between each finger, mottled in black and an iridescent green that matched his eyes. It made me think of the bioluminescence of a jellyfish in the deep ocean.

In synchronous motions, the Simurgh unfurled her wings, stretching them to their full length, and Leviathan flexed his fins, letting them unfold in kind. Each fin was the same as the webbing, mottled black and a eerie green, and the echo-image of water that accompanied his movement produced mist as it washed over the fins. It obscured him almost completely, and as much as the pouring rain served to drive it away, the rainwater produced more mist as it touched the fins. - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.5</ref>

The Endbringers, sans Khonsu, later held off Scion during the rise of Khepri.<ref>Which was the moment the Endbringers made their move.

The Simurgh plunged from the clouds, hitting Scion.

Leviathan, healed a touch, emerged from the water.

Bohu rose from the earth, going from a human sized head and shoulders at eye level to a tower.

Tohu, for her part, had Glaistig Uaine, Eidolon and Myrddin’s faces.

The Endbringers, come to the rescue. I wished I could have felt relieved. It was a reprieve, a chance to get our footing. But there was an ominousness to it. - Excerpt from Speck 30.5</ref> The four Endbringers were able to distract Scion as Khepri made her moves, but eventually were incapacitated, with Leviathan killed and the others severely damaged.<ref name="30.6 e2">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.

We’d taunted him. Teased him with the one thing he wanted most in the world, then we’d taken it away.

He turned his attention to the winged Endbringer and her smaller companion. The towering Endbringer was already so damaged that she could only pull herself together. The fat Endbringer was gone.

No, he was alive. He’d created a time field around himself, and was healing in a more distant location. - Excerpt from Speck 30.6</ref> Following Scion's defeat, the remaining four Endbringers were largely dormant.<ref>“I’ve never been one to couch my words. I’m direct, like my lasers,” Legend said. “It’s beautiful and it’s frankly terrifying. The Endbringers are, we’re praying, dormant. The major players are busy recovering and rebuilding, giving us six straight months of peace for the first time in twenty years. If you count non-parahuman conflict on a global scale, well, I don’t know how long it’s been. It’s been a hell of a while, if ever.” - Excerpt from Teneral e.1</ref><ref>Video footage showed a replay of Lung’s fighting retreat from an area in downtown New York B. There was footage of the PRT base, Valkyrie standing off to the side, trying to look far less interested than she was as a young man tried on a white bodysuit. One window showed the various Endbringers, all of them motionless, but for the Simurgh, who was airborne. The last of the original three. - Excerpt from Interlude: End</ref> The Simurgh appeared to be active, however, apparently having used Tinker technology to grow a baby with an unusual resemblance to Eidolon.<ref>Over and over, the Simurgh had protected the weapon. He’d seen it, had checked the footage, had seen her go out of her way to shield it with her wings. She’d done it subtly, most of the time, events contriving to make it look more accidental than anything.

[...]

There was fluid inside.

The light caught the glass, at first, obscuring the contents.

A baby. Male. With large ears and a large round nose. Not attractive, as babies went.

One or two years old? Accelerated aging? Where had the Simurgh been in contact with a tinker with that particular knowledge? Bonesaw? - Excerpt from Teneral e.5</ref>

Impact

The Endbringers have killed countless people in their attacks and wiped out several notable heroes. They have caused demographic and political shifts and environmental degradation on a scale not seen outside natural disasters. In addition to the physical damage and loss of civilian lives, their attacks have had the effect of killing or otherwise removing parahumans who served as luminaries and leaders willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good, perhaps contributing to more prevalent cynicism and hopelessness in the general population.<ref name="15.5 c1">Fantastic question, and one I’m not sure I can give a fantastic answer to.

Why is that? Well, primarily, there’s the issue of trying to quantify ‘damage’. As stated in Legend’s pre-battle speech (early in arc 8) there’s almost always grievous losses but they aren’t always the same sort of losses.

You have the events that left the world reeling: Lausanne, Hawaii, Kyushu, Newfoundland, Moscow, Sydney. The attacks that left major areas uninhabitable or unrecoverable, with wide-reaching effects on the rest of the country/region/world. In this setting, for example, Japan isn’t a world power and it’s still dependent on international assistance 12 years after Leviathan’s visit to Kyushu.

But even there, where do you say, “Ok, that’s the sum total of the damage done”? The disaster at Kyushu, the number of refugees seeking living space/work and the pressures on the rest of Asia’s pacific border might have led to some more unrest and tension. Some friction, some ‘small’ wars, infighting and intermingling. Refugees and immigrants. Many settle in major cities across America because President Bradley’s Preservation Act gives them a hand in getting on their feet.

Do you factor that last point into the damage as well? Lung comes to Brockton Bay in part because of the booming population of Asian immigrants (which hasn’t yet set down roots). Bakuda was born to a Westerner mother and Immigrant father. Do you count the damage they’ve done? Ditto for Mannequin and the Simurgh.

But that’s only the major hits, the broad strokes of the brush and all the repercussions/spatter that follows from that. Attacks end in other ways, for example. Legend mentions mass loss of life. There’s economic damage that follows from that, disease and explosions in the population of vermin when a quarter million people die in a concentrated area.

There’s the deaths of countless heroes, and how that biases things further towards the general villain population. If the selfless throw their lives away for the greater good and it’s primarily the selfish (or the very powerful) who are left, how does that skew things?

And I should stress that weak points aren’t necessarily just areas which are geographically vulnerable. There’s places where there’s ongoing conflict (like we might point to the middle east over the past decade), places where it takes little effort on the part of the Endbringer to deal maximum devastation (ie. a nuclear power plant, military bases) and spots where a great many resources are invested (be they great minds collected in one place or major projects like Dr. Gramme’s major projects in trying to save the world). Did anyone else catch the mention of the water crisis? Leviathan isn’t always attacking cities, and the world has only so much accessible freshwater.

I digress.

To answer your question in the general sense? Relatively few places have been hit as hard as the major examples listed above. But figure this has been going on for 20ish years. Behemoth shows up in the early 90’s, attacking once a year, roughly (twice in 1994), Leviathan shows up in the mid 90’s (now we’re up to 2-3 Endbringer attacks a year), and Simurgh comes in just after the turn of the century (now 3-4).

I mentioned in a comment during the Endbringer arc, but I said something like ‘Behemoth is the cape-killer and Leviathan levels cities’. Figure each Endbringer has attacked 16 to 20 times so far, account for the bias towards killing capes (Behemoth) vs. wiping out landscapes (Leviathan) and that Brockton Bay is pretty middle-of-the-road for the kind of aftermath you see, and maybe you can make an estimate.

Ballparking it? 8 or 9 Endbringer attacks in America over 20 years. - Comment by Wildbow on Colony 15.5</ref> Leviathan alone has precipitated a water crisis.<ref name="15.5 c1"/>

Conversely, without the Endbringers there would be fewer parahumans organizations than there would otherwise be, and much of the coordination in the Cape community is because of the need to repel Endbringer attacks.<ref>Pandemonious Ivy [...] 9) Are there any internationally known capes of the beneficent variety, besides Scion, that aren’t affiliated with a group?

Wildbow: [...] 9) Not really, unless you count, say, a European cape in a geographical region with lots of individual, smaller countries as being ‘internationally known’. It’s a result of the Endbringers, related but not directly linked to the Protectorate. It’s not feasible/economical/efficient to contact a bunch of big-name solo operatives in a time of crisis and arrange to bring them to a specific location, so they either band together/gather others under them and fall in line with the basic preparations that have been set in place, or they fall by the wayside. - Comment by Wildbow on Imago 21.1</ref><ref>Shadow 5.10</ref><ref name="II12.x">Heavens 12.x</ref> 

Origins

Eden's simulation of an ideal future included 'superweapons' implied to be Endbringers. 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.
  
  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.
  
  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. - 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.”
  
  “I do,” the entity responds.
  
  “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.”
  
  “Maybe more we don’t know about,” Arsenal speaks.
  
  [...]
  
  The entity responded, feigning emotion, “…There are eleven more.”
  
  It could see the reaction among the gathered heroes of the Wardens. Fear, alarm, a kind of dawning horror. - 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.”

“And you believe it is the Shepherds who are responsible?”

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.” - 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.”

“Yes,” the entity agreed. It didn’t miss the curious glance Arsenal gave it. - 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, but after her death, this future did not come to pass.

Had Cauldron ceased to exist soon after killing Eden, the Endbringers would not have existed.<ref>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. - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref> The Endbringers began behaving strangely after Eidolon's death; this led Tattletale to speculate that Eidolon may have created them, perhaps inadvertently, or perhaps as an excuse to "flex his abilities to their fullest".<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."

Tattletale let the words hang in the air.

"Maybe a parent-child relationship? Maybe he created you. [...] 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." - 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?"

"…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." - Excerpt from Cockroaches 28.4</ref>

{{#if:Tattletale on the Endbringers <ref>Cockroaches 28.4</ref>|

“	The outer shell, the concept, the execution, they’re tapping into religious metaphors. The devil, the serpent, the angel, buddha, mother earth, the maiden, each connected in turn to fundamental forces. Flame, water, fate, time, earth, the self. Things deep-seated and fundamental to their creator’s belief system, because that’s how the passengers interpret our world. Through us. But deep down? Beyond that surface, beyond the basic programming that drives them to do what they’ve been doing for thirty years? It’s the passenger’s brush strokes.	”
{{#if:Tattletale on the Endbringers <ref>Cockroaches 28.4</ref>| —Tattletale on the Endbringers <ref>Cockroaches 28.4</ref>{{#if:|, {{{3}}}}} }} }}

The four words which Scion says to Eidolon in Interlude 27.y may confirm Tattletale's theory that Eidolon created or, given Eden's plans for her superweapons, merely awakened the Endbringers, but it is unknown whether Scion was telling the truth or just used the words in order to achieve his goal.<ref>“You needed worthy opponents.” - The entirety of Interlude 27.y</ref>

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Trivia

• Echidna was thought at first to potentially be a nascent Endbringer.<ref>“She’s a nascent Endbringer,” I said.
  
  “Bullshit!” Triumph shouted, not a half second after I’d said it.
  
  “Fuck me,” one of the Wards said. It was only after he opened his mouth again that I saw it was Weld. “Please tell me this is another one of Tattletale’s mind-games.”
  
  “Explain.” Miss Militia demanded.
  
  “She’s maybe a nascent Endbringer,” Tattletale said. “It’s one theory. Her powers are transforming her, and she’s getting less human, getting tougher and more desperate every day. Coil was keeping her contained, with heavy vault doors and promises of a fix. Now she’s free and she’s pissed.”</ref>
• A popular theory among some of the Worm fandom is that the Endbringers were once parahumans, who either snapped or couldn’t handle their powers, gotten out of control, transformed into gigantic monstrosities. With the full reveal of their origins this theory has been disconfirmed.
  • The epilogue chapter Teneral e.4, however, does introduce a similar concept.
• It is speculated in-universe that some tinkers (Bonesaw, Rattenfänger, Jamestowner, Mosaic, Monstrum) and other non-tinker capes like Chrysalis or Nilbog may have the potential to create Endbringers,<ref name="18.1">“Someone’s doing their level best to make their own Endbringer.”
  [...]
  “Yes. There’s also any number of megalomaniac tinkers out there who might have tried something. Bonesaw, Rattenfänger, Jamestowner, Blasto, Mosaic, Monstrum, some non-tinkers like Chrysalis and Nilbog, bunch of others.” - Excerpt from Queen 18.1</ref> (or, given what we now know about their origins, beings of comparable power) if they could find some outside means for cooperation or a power boost/second trigger.<ref>They're explicitly stated as not being strong enough, but the theory goes that they could find some outside means for cooperation or a power boost/second trigger. - Wildbow on RPG.net</ref>

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