Epic Weaknesses

Item from Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Every Epic's Achilles heel — a specific, personal vulnerability that temporarily negates their powers, always fear-based, always unique, and always the key to killing them.

Also known as: Weaknesses, Epic Vulnerabilities

What They Know

• Every Epic has a specific, unique weakness that temporarily negates all their powers
• Weaknesses are fear-based — connected to the Epic's deepest personal terror (which is actually Calamity's fear)
• Examples: Steelheart (fearlessness), Nightwielder (UV light), Megan (fire), Prof (failure), Newton (compliments), Conflux (dogs)
• Finding weaknesses is the Reckoners' core strategy — David's notebooks catalogue every known vulnerability
• Facing your weakness instead of fleeing it breaks the Darkness — the cure for Epic corruption

Connections

• studied_by — david
• derived_from — calamity_entity

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