Calamity

Character from Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

The red star in the sky — not a cosmic event but a sentient being who gave humanity superpowers and poisoned them with his own hatred to prove we'd misuse them.

Also known as: Larcener, The Red Star, Calamity

What They Know

• The SOURCE of all Epic powers — grants portions of his own abilities to humans, projecting his hatred as the Darkness
• A sentient being from another dimension, not a cosmic event — part of a group that tests whether species misuse power
• All Epic weaknesses are actually fragments of Calamity's own fears distributed across his recipients
• As Larcener, poses as an Assumer Epic in Ildithia — actually has access to all powers since he's the origin
• Cannot steal powers from Epics who have faced their fears (like Megan) — they've broken free of his influence
• Defeated when shown proof that humans can use powers for good — his thesis about humanity was wrong, and being wrong destroys him

Connections

• source_of — darkness
• empowers — steelheart
• empowers — prof
• empowers — megan
• defeated_by — david

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