Graviticity

Graviticity is the currently extinct Gifted power that controls gravity. Before it became extinct, it was an uncommon power with occasional Houseless manifesters.

Perhaps you have never seen gravity turned into a weapon. Believe me, it is not an experience I am eager to repeat.

— an Everlian noble

Effect

Graviticity allows its user to control gravity. With this power, Gravitrons could manipulate the area around objects, allowing them to lift, move, steady, or crush anything within their power range. Graviticity is similar to Telekinesis because it moves and affects objects, but it is less specific and more widespread. Gravitrons manipulate the area around an object or structure rather than the object itself.

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When Gravitrons were still around, they filled a wide variety of professions, ranging from soldiers, generals, architects, builders, transporters, and nobles. Houseless Gravitrons could be employed by factories, marry into a Graviticity house, or join the army and build strength through military training and prowess. Others became architects, like Noralla Viremont. Graviticity Houses rarely ruled countries, but many had important positions in the courts of the rulers they obeyed.

Side/Secondary Effects

Gravitrons, like all Gifteds, were affected by Downsides. Gravitrons showed particular susceptibility to symptoms such as mood swings, nausea, emotional detachment, and several other physical symptoms such as headaches, stomachaches, retching, and bleeding. Gravitrons were some of the only Gifteds who were known to have ear bleeding rather than nosebleeds.

Manifestation

Like most Gifted powers, Graviticity itself is invisible, but the effects are visible. Other than affected objects being moved or changed, a slight pressure can often be felt in the air, similar to that of Storming. Some Gravitrons manifested a slight aura, which appeared as a faint colored glow around the Gravitron or the objects they affected, sometimes in the air. These colors usually fell in the range of blue, green, or purple.

It's not Telekinesis. It affects the space around an object, not the object itself. Lifting an army but not as individuals, by lifting them through the space. And it's far stronger than Telekinesis.

— a Gravitron sharing their thoughts

Discovery

Graviticity was discovered in the early 500s BEA, around the time that Icing and Metalicity were discovered. Gravitrons were quickly accepted as some of the strongest Gifteds and rose to prominence among many countries. The Bazilian country Hastel was ruled by a Graviticity House before its mysterious collapse.

Applied Restrictions

Before its extinction, Graviticity had very few restrictions, with only the normal limitations for testing and training before employment. However, in 1744, the main Gravitron house of Fitzpatrick in Everlian staged a coup against its rulers. The attack failed miserably, but the damage caused by the Gravitrons was enough for the rulers to order every last Gravitron in their country to be executed. When news spread across the world, many other countries followed suit, murdering any Gravitron they could find until the power was erased from existence and became labeled as extinct.

Famous Historical Gravitrons

Leonard Fitzpatrick of Everlian (the man who instigated the Gravitron Rebellion)
Noralla Viremont of Mechalaria (see sidebar for more)
Theodire Svardohov of Nuskia (some believe he helped build the city of Peshtera Ňaz L'da)

Related Element

None

Effect Duration

Dependent on the strength of the Gravitron

Effect Casting Time

Usually less than ten minutes

Range

Up to a few miles

The Strongest Home

While most remember Graviticity as a weapon because of the Gravitron Rebellion, this extinct Gifted power could be much more than a destructive force to crush enemies. Its users could detect changes in pressure and stability, allowing them to assist in construction and architecture. In fact, many countries employed Gravitrons as builders rather than as warriors. Structures designed and built by Gravitrons were stronger and lasted longer than others.
One of these buildings was built by a Gravitron architect by the name of Noralla Viremont. Noralla was commissioned by a family from Mechalaria in 1652 to build a home for them. She began her designs almost immediately, sketching every detail from the front steps to the storage rooms. For months she poured her time and effort into her drawings until she settled on a building both she and the family approved of. Once the designs were approved, Noralla and her crews began construction. The foundation itself took a full year to build while Noralla inspected every inch. The rest of the building followed at a slightly faster but just as careful pace.
In 1663, over ten years after the initial commission, the house was finally finished. Each and every detail Noralla had insisted on was included, every wall was tested personally by the architect, and each room was furnished exactly as the family requested. The building became one of Mechalaria’s greatest marvels, and yet its true worth was only realized many years later when a new family attempted to have it demolished and found they could not. The foundation Noralla had so meticulously built was not cracked. The walls she spent months reinforcing refused to crumble. Even four hundred years after its completion, it has needed no repairs. Noralla, a quiet, forgotten Gravitron architect, built an indestructible home in only ten years.

No one could bring that building down.