Precisely. I'm sure that by Halloween or the Autumn Equinox, there's gonna be some sort of "Granola" occultist that is going to be the first non-Virtue "high-level" mage. But there may be some "skript kiddies" earlier if any of the technomages from among the Virtue pool start "open sourcing."
Again, the total number of "Virtues and Vices" is fixed. These are going to be the "S" to "A" tiers of VIIOR Superhumans, at least initially. Most other folks from new origins are going to enter the scale at "C" or worse.
OF course, this refers to power alone. The scale starts at S for "Over the top" powerhouses like Superman, Marvel's Thor, "Rainbow Lantern" Hal Jordan, and the like.
A represents "big name" heroes of "wow" power like the entire Fantastic Four, Iron Man, The Flash, etc.
C & D represent the Great Lakes Avengers, or Joke characters. MAYBE the hero of a small city in the DCU or say the only hero in Abilene, Kansas, in Marvel-616.
As far as the "origins" fluff from the game goes... Our earth, prior to the Event, had only two (comparatively) weak origins: Natural and Technology. You could almost say that there was a "Level Cap" of 20 and not a lot of power sets.
The event blasted out all five origins to "respectable" levels, it's just going to take a while for some of them to kick in. In order: Natural - as high-level martial artists and athletes discover MUCH more useful ki techniques, Magic and Mutation - About the same time as each other, as folks work their way through spell books and puberty to get to stuff that WORKS. And then Science and Technology, as folks try to reverse engineer some supers gear, etc etc.
Specifics:
Mutation -- Will kick in on a small number of kids undergoing puberty after the event, as what is "junk introns" in RL genetics are marker for "YAY POWERS!" under the Mutation origin. And of course on every subsequent generation, newborns, etc.
Magic -- the biggest reason this takes so long is trying to separate the wheat from the chaff of bad mysticism. Also, there's a strong amount of the missing "sixth origin" (divine/Incarnate) clouding the issue for "bookstore mystics."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Again, the total number of "Virtues and Vices" is fixed. These are going to be the "S" to "A" tiers of VIIOR Superhumans, at least initially. Most other folks from new origins are going to enter the scale at "C" or worse.
OF course, this refers to power alone. The scale starts at S for "Over the top" powerhouses like Superman, Marvel's Thor, "Rainbow Lantern" Hal Jordan, and the like.
A represents "big name" heroes of "wow" power like the entire Fantastic Four, Iron Man, The Flash, etc.
C & D represent the Great Lakes Avengers, or Joke characters. MAYBE the hero of a small city in the DCU or say the only hero in Abilene, Kansas, in Marvel-616.
As far as the "origins" fluff from the game goes... Our earth, prior to the Event, had only two (comparatively) weak origins: Natural and Technology. You could almost say that there was a "Level Cap" of 20 and not a lot of power sets.
The event blasted out all five origins to "respectable" levels, it's just going to take a while for some of them to kick in. In order: Natural - as high-level martial artists and athletes discover MUCH more useful ki techniques, Magic and Mutation - About the same time as each other, as folks work their way through spell books and puberty to get to stuff that WORKS. And then Science and Technology, as folks try to reverse engineer some supers gear, etc etc.
Specifics:
Mutation -- Will kick in on a small number of kids undergoing puberty after the event, as what is "junk introns" in RL genetics are marker for "YAY POWERS!" under the Mutation origin. And of course on every subsequent generation, newborns, etc.
Magic -- the biggest reason this takes so long is trying to separate the wheat from the chaff of bad mysticism. Also, there's a strong amount of the missing "sixth origin" (divine/Incarnate) clouding the issue for "bookstore mystics."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll