Extent Of the 16's Abilities

Each of the main characters in the saga have abilities that are based on a physical trait of the God in the hebrew and Christian Bibles. The abilities are metaphysical. This means that they can't be stopped or affected in the physical world. So, no person can stop the effect or performance of any of the 16's abilities; their would only be a possibility of that if said person was also using a metaphysical ability.

## What's Special about "The 16?"

Nothing. Actually, the reason they're *the* sixteen is a result of chance--for now until the narrative is changed by the author. Anyone on earth could have, and can have an ability. However the abilities of the sixteen and also any other person who could potentially have one are connected to their personality. It's a reflection of who they are as a person when you get down to it. ￼

## The Entent of Each Person

### Stacey

After discovering that the plant growing ability can bring any dead thing to life, except people, she learns the core of the ability is to show love and mercy, and for the world to be whole. It's the "Heart" of God.

s it manifests, the ability allows Stacey to instantaneously bring life to anywhere in the Universe. Conversely, Death leaves that area, sort of like a positive and negative energy exchange. As with all the sixteen, at the end of the first saga, Stacey learns how to control both life and death, thus having control over the positive and negative elements.

Practical Uses:

Near the end of the Silent war, Stacey shelters herself from the world, hiding from life, inside of a "life bubble." It is literally just her putting the her ability directly around her--not forming a physical bubble, but making a place where no death can enter, i.e. nothing can die around her. Since her ability is metaphysical, it doesn't matter how forceful any threat it. She can't die. For example, even if Death itself, i.e. the grim reaper was tasked by God to take her soul, he couldn't. Because her "life" ability is governed by laws of the universe--and on and on, even outside of her "universe."

### Nathaniel

Nathaniel Moore uses his ability to fight in the Viking wars, and also save Ailios. His "Arm," trait makes it so that, if anyone needs him, nothing can stand in his way.

Following this to it's ultimate extent, Nathaniel is the final piece for defeating the Silent. Basically, since nothing can stand in his way by natural law, and because the human race needs him, he is the bridge between Stacey's ability and Thomas Mann's (how this plays out is still undetermined).

Practical Uses:

Obviously in his origin story, Nat just uses a sword. He could do more if need be. He doesnt know this until later.

## Unstoppable Force and Unbreakable Wall

If there's a scenario where, for example, Stacey was surrounding a person with death, but Nat decided that person needed him and wanted to save her, what would happen?

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## Auras

In the Face of God, an aura is a field of energy surrounding anyone with a special ability. When someone is on proximity of a person with abilities--regardless if they have abilities or not themselves--can illicit a reaction in the universe based on whatever aura it is. This can be intentional or unintentional, but intent is important in factoring what aura the effect will have.

For example, say if someone is near Thomas. They may unintentionally cause harm to someone else by being angry at them for whatever reason. Perhaps the person of interest will have bad luck in the pull lottery that day or something.

The aura ability is never as strong as the person emitting it. It's just a shadow of it. Regardless, the more time another person spends in a particular aura--particularly if the person is spending time there *intentionally,* the extent to which they can effect a response from the aura will grow.

Auras also have an effect on objects, and will be absorbed by objects the spend a long time near said person. Again, intent is important here; if the person of interest uses an object intentionally, the aura translates more strongly. A good example is Stacey's phone (or anyone's phone really, but the tongue-in-cheek comment is in regard to how often young adults use their phone). Her phone carries a heavy aura compared to many other things she's around, however the aura of her phone is still less potent than her actual ability.

If someone were to find or steal her phone, they could tap into quite a bit of the "heart" ability that she has; her phone would serve as a creative medium.

As another example, Eli's wedding ring has more aura power than his pillow or laptop...it may be that emotion also increases the power of the aura.

These auras will be instrumental in explaining how scientists exploit the metaphysical abilities in the future books, if this does indeed happen.