There have been multiple legacy sand each new legacy has all the powers before them plus 1. Has there been a list made starting with the first in the line where each person has added what ability to legacy?
Yes…somewhere…
EDIT: Haha, found a thread where I linked to other threads:
https://greaterthangames.com/forum/topic/a-legacy-of-powers-4130
Would you look at that. We did get a useful post outta that guy. Nice.
Do we know if this list is accurate with the new information we have gotten since then?
I find the Legacy line being started intentionally by some being to be an even more engaging possibility now.
What if the Cataclysm and Iron Legacy crossover were intentional, and centered around Legacy. What if someone wanted Paul Parsons around for the events of the card game's end, or maybe wanted him gone but it backfired?
The peak of the timeline mess involves a whole lot of Parson, what if that was by design, and not just opportunity?
I have to admit, despite all the arguments against it, I find the superhuman charisma for Greatest Legacy to be somewhat legit.
America's Greatest Legacy allows him to inspire a hero to shrug off some damage and use a power immediately, now whilst this makes sense for some heroes (Bunker, Unity, Tachyon, ect.) for others it makes no thematic sense that someone could inspire them to keep going like that (Chrono-Ranger, Absolute Zero, The Scholar, Fanatic, ect.) and I know, I know, there's going to be some level of gameplay and story segregation in a game like this but still...
The bio for Greatest Legacy says that his new power was super-sharp sight, making him very good with a gun. The charisma does make sense, though I prefer to think of it as something that Legacy achieves himself through the way he chooses to act, not a hereditary power.
I find the concept of the Legacy powers fascinating. What ensures that only the firstborn gets the power? It has to be something other than genetics, because genes don't "know" which child is the firstborn.
We don't really know if it is just the first born, all we really know is thst the first born is guaranteed the powers. We don't know anything about the legacy line other than the first born are named Paul and they get the powers. We know nothing of their wives or siblings
Maybe they're only children? No siblings to get in the way that way.
It's strongly implied that Pauline Felicia's death in the Iron Legacy timeline ends the Legacy line forever, in a way that means no powers will ever be passed down again. It's not just losing his daughter that makes Paul VIII despair but the fact that he's the last one who will ever have his family powers. I'm not saying that, if her death didn't end the line conclusively, he'd be callous enough to go "oh, no worries, guess I'll just have another child!" However, it would be a single loss rather than the double loss he seems to experience. That said, I agree that there's a lot that we don't know. Has every Legacy only had one child, either by choice or because, for some weird genetic-magic reason, they could only have one child? If not, did they have some normal children after the superpowered ones? All this and more is in the realm of the unknown.
These questions are one of the questions I posed in the much delayed Letters Page, I hope to see them answered!
I thought we had official word that it is only the first born that gets powers.
The Letters Page seems like a dead dream at this point since the merger unfortunately. I'm sure they would love to do it but it's probably not realistic to expect a regular series.
For what it's worth, we still really want to do the Letters Page, and the delay is a result of contractors delaying office renovations. Glad to hear there's still demand for it.
I think it's pretty high on the "we really want this" list.
I'm not actually sure what this "Letters Page" is.
Yay!
Booo!
Can't you just throw a Community Overlord at them or something?
I don’t think Community Overlords were designed for flight.
Well if Christopher would stop building decks all over the place it might be an easier job.
That is definitely true.