The Blade family

The Blades are an Original family of ability users that are lead by Hilston Blade. Although they are not part of the Big Four, they are the strongest known faction of ability users that are known, but for unknown reasons, choose to remain hidden.

## History

The Blades are the strongest ability users, but not many people know about them since the Blades never make themselves known to the public. The only ones that seem to know of their existence are a few select group of original families. Even before the wide spread usage of abilities, these original families knew of each other and the Blades. At one point all the other families decided to go against the Blade family, including the Big Three, but it ended in their defeat, which resulted in all those that know of the blades to fear them. After the Blades defeat all the other families, they made a deal with the families in exchange for their lives to be spared. This deal involved all the families sending their strongest member every 50 years to the Blades to keep chained up as one of their prisoners. This group of prisoners are kept barely alive, and always chained up with blindfolds and gags on, and the Blades refer to these prisoners as the Chained. The Chained that they keep seem to vary in abilities, from the abilities of the Big Three, to other useful abilities like invisibility or the military's earth ability.

The families fear the Blades so much, that when the Dalki attacked the Earth and humanity was losing, the Big Three approached the leader of the Blades, Hilston to ask if they can participate and save humanity. After saying yes, the humans were able to fight back and fend off the Dalki, however the Blades themselves never took part in the war.

When Truedream decided to attack the Blades, the Blades went into action and killed his entire army of ability users and proceeded to destroy Truedream's personal territory, Dreamland city. They destroyed the city very fast and no one, other than those who already knew about the Blades, knew what happened or who did it. The annihilation of Truedream's forces caused the previous Big Four to go back to the original Big Three and this also sparked the civil war that erupted due to the balance between the power houses breaking.

## Ability

The signature power of the Blades, is the ability to copy other abilities. This is not restricted as they can also copy the abilities of other original families. Depending on the person, they can copy more than one ability at a time, Sil seems to be the strongest in this aspect being able to copy six abilities at the same time. They also have a wide collection of ability books, even a library full, for them to learn about different abilities and practice skills.

Other than their abilities, they also seem to have beyond human capabilities. They are stronger, faster, and have better reflexes than most humans, which helps them become amazing fighters.

## Family

Everyone that lives on the island are part of the Blade family and are related. Those that live in the castle are considered to be the main family, although everyone on the island are siblings. Everyone on the Island are children of the leader Hilston, but Hilston assigns family roles for those in the main family to abide by. For example, Vorden's real father is Hilston, but Hilston requires him to call him grandfather while his older brother and sister are made to be his parents. Every ten years or so, Hilston leaves the Island and returns with a group of babies, most of whom share Hilston's trait of having blond hair. No one on the Island knows who their real mother is.

## Temple

The Temple is a school where kids from the Blade family grow up and learn to fight. The kids live in the temple and take classes from teachers. They learn basic hand to hand combat, as well as using abilities. The students learn to use the Blade's ability to copy others, as well as practice using multiple different copied abilities. The teachers bring in one of the Chained for the students to copy their ability and practice. They also learn theory on how to use copied abilities better and make new skills with these abilities so they can use the ability better. All students are well looked after and the Temple also has counsellors to look after all the students mental wellbeing.

At the end of the school, there will be a competition of sorts where one of the kids will be chosen to be a part of the castle (the main family of The Blades). This competition is a Battle Royale, Hunger Games type free-for-all. The students must kill each other and be the last one standing to be chosen. The teachers set up a large earth wall that slowly encloses, and whenever the wall has any contact, spikes come out. In the area that is enclosed, multiple ability users are randomly spread out so that the students can copy their abilities to fight.

## Beliefs

The Blades family believes by putting ones body in dangerous and life-threatening situation will stimulate the body's cell into doing superhuman thing any human usually incapable to.

They implement the believes in the competition. They also keeps pushing themselves until the breakthrough, after that they keep pushing until their body gets used to it. That's why the Blades, especially those part of the main family that live in the castle have a superhuman like speed, strength, and fighting skills, especially the leader, Hilston, who Vorden feels has the same kind of aura as the Vampire King and Arthur.