Question Avatars and manifestations.

This is one of those things that we often have to remind people - its not an RPG its a story. There doesn't have to be a 'difference' that other people can reproduce to do the same thing.

Remember, even the 'rules' we do have about how mutants manifest and are classed by rank... are only things based on 'what the scientists and theorists have actively measured/scene' ... its entirely possible that a series of mutants will manifest in ways that completely overturns everything that is currently known/believed about mutant powers. They can safely say what PK superman abilities are because they are more or less identical in every mutant with the power... with some variation for technique - like flight, frictional variance, energy reflection, ability to extend it beyond the body, and so on.

Or at least... that's what they thought. And then Shieldwall comes in and throws a PK shell to someone who isn't a mutant at all.

All the background stuff is more about guidelines and keeping you in the right frame of mind... especially when we try to remind/keep people in the "scale way weaker than Marvel and DC" part. That's tough because to some extent, the TK characters that we started off with were at the literal high end of the universe's specs... so lots of fans want to write characters on that level or with combinations of abilities at that level... or higher. When, instead, they should be taking TK as the example of, this is the absolute cap. If your characters can bring down someone in TK... you're too powerful for the universe you're trying to write in.

But... for the purpose of specific interesting point of view characters... obviously we don't want to contradict our world's functional mechanics... but having unique abilities that weren't covered in the backstory releases aren't contradictions... though the fact that we don't reveal the reason why most characters don't have spirits like these, doesn't mean there isn't a reason.

It should be obvious by now that Kodiak and Grizzly aren't just bear totems/archetypes, like Tatanka. They're especially not just general purpose squirrel spirit types, like Aquerna hosts. Neither are they like the spirits/gods that Kayda or Hikaru channel... though, in some ways they may be similar to the spirit-fragments that gods have placed in paladins like Miyet. Mostly though, you need to figure out who they are... as that will probably lead you to the final answer.

Their 'Court' was Atlantis... yes?