What do you Incarnate?

None of my heroes are empowered by the well, but William Valence is an incarnate of sorts. He is the incarnation of my other heroes potential. A being of cosmic power, his only pourpose is to ensure my other heroes reach their potential. A potential that is not tied to the power source known as the well and is instead deep inside each of them.

They have been advised to pretend that they are regular well powered incarnates, and that it is quite likely that if their true origin is discovered the Well would try to destroy or absorb their power.

Not too sure what I want to do with my villains.

My villain Incarnate, Lord Kron, has become the physical manifestation of entropy and nothingness itself. Since in my weird little personal canon the void itself, despite being literally NOTHING, has a malevolent intelligence.

My hero Incarnate, Kronaros, was created when a benevolent astral being of nigh-limitless power told a story where in the coming storm is averted and Lord Kron stopped. The being then made the story start to come true through sheer willpower. So yeah, he's literally a living story.

And yes, I know all of the above does horrible, horrible things to the established canon of CoH. But I don't really care, because I think it's cool.

He believes in nuffink?

my general take on the powers of incarnates are that they are more a useable form of reality altering material, they can be manipulated by science, magic or intense training, attuning them to some major elemental or philosophical concept. Since all of my incarnated characters are either christians of some form or one shiavistic hindu. so none of them would incarnate a specific divine outside of their faiths.

rian 's power increase draws from him using the iincarnate power to allow the dragon he was magically bonded with to express more of its physical power, making him less human and more dragon-like.

seraph blue is an angel, so her incarnating is simply her becoming a better vesal for the powers of an abrahamic interpretation of God.

atomic angel is simply ascending her consciousness closer to shiva and views her new powers as her gaining the abilities of creation and destruction from him.

violet tendencies is using the reality altering properties of the wells substance to change the "will of the earth" infection that the crey scientists gave her to something now a direct part of her that she can consciously control. in a sense, she is becoming a kind of a second hamidon. Though she maintains control because she is driven by her desire for social justice, rather than hamidons desire for destruction of humanity.

space robot 5 is using the power to alter his basic mechanical makeup to better commune with the nameless entity that gave him consciousness and a soul.

finally dire worg is finally more of a psychological change, having crushed lord recluse and brought about "justice" and freed himself from the guilt that drove him to become a villain in the first place. he now has used the well to turn himself into an incarnate of justice, which he views himself as a physical embodiment of. basically he keeps growing to fight bigger criminals.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I treat the well as basically a Destiny Engine. What it does is supercharge your potential to excel, grant you more possibilities and the probability of reaching them.

That said, Arachidamia is the nearest I have to a "traditional" incarnate (ie. embodying a specific deity or concept.)

Presumptuous, I know, but she is an aspect/embodiment of something that if you squint hard in the right way, might possibly be a slightly more upbeat and cheerful analogue to The Eternal Champion. (Moorcock, for all one of you that didn't get that.)

since conceptually my main got her powers from alien nanotech, I always thought of the incarnate abilities as unlocking some advanced capabilities of the nanotech.

Incarnate origins?

Soulsunder (DM/Regen scrapper) is the literal son of death so obviously he'd be death incarnate. He is still half human so his conscience prevents him from fulfilling all of Deaths duties (such as unfortunate accidents involving children, as a more tragic example) So he steals the souls from evildoers, leaving them nearly dead inside, but also giving them a chance to earn their souls back (Daddy doesn't like that, not. one. bit.)
-His Incarnate powers are simply an extension of his connection with Death

Limitshift (EM/WP Brute) is a Dimensional Hopper/Manipulator, who destroyed(?) his home dimension when his powers manifested. Later he merged two other dimensions when he lost control of his powers again after being hit my a trans-planar bomb. As the multi-planar nature of his powers leaves him immune to time and loosely tied to space, Limitshift will jump worlds and dimensions for the sake of knowing and seeing what is out there. This independence from normal existence has created a person entirely his own, free from the influences of "modern society" aside from the long ago memories of an alternate 1600's England. So, if I had to choose, Limitshift is an Incarnate of Curiosity or Independence.
-His Incarnate powers are the result of his greater understanding of the Multiverse

Those are my two 50's

Psychostatic (KM/Elec Scrapper) is a small man but gifted Psychic who can gather concentrated psychokinetic energy and bio electric fields generated by the nervous system around his immediate person, and use these energies to defend himself. He's currently only level 21 but if he gets to be lv50 I'd probably think of him as an Incarnate of the Collective Unconscious.
-His incarnate powers will deal with delving into and drawing out physical aspects of the collective unconscious

Ash Memories (Mind/Fire Dominator) is a man who worked for the circus, found his love, started a family, and literally woke up one morning to find it burned to ash. He thinks he did it during a nightmare (hint, he didn't) so he's depressed and destructive (hes currently redside, will eventually go blue). In time, depending on how you look at the character he'll either be an Incarnate of Sadness or Revenge.
-No external force, simply a more powerful telepath/pyrokinetic

Astroflux (Beam/Kin Corruptor who I absolutely love right now but that's for a whole 'nother thread) Will not be an incarnate in the traditional sense. In a nutshell he's a war-mech (a... unicorn... mech...) pilot from an odd world where sarcasm crossed a line and began to be taken seriously, so names like Sprinkles and creatures like unicorns are considered dignified and strong.
This background alone means he'll probably be an Incarnate of Sarcasm.
-His Incarnate powers are just new technologies he's developed/salvaged from his destroyed war mech.

Yes long post, I like writing about my chars, even though I don't RP.