Fiction:Unified Alliance of Enlightenment/Weighted Bands

The Weighted are those infected by a one of the innumerable fragments shattered into after its defeat. Any powers, skills, abilities, and memories (besides their name) the Weighted once had is stripped of them and they are left a feeble and weak blank slate. However, they do gain one advantage, every 120 hours (five days) they involuntarily create a point that if they die the Weighted will return to that point and be able to try again. While unable to receive genetic or cybernetic upgrades and augmentation, their status as blank slates means they can learn any skill in equal measure, if very slowly. From marksmanship, the swordsmanship, to engineering, and can even learn essence powers as if it were a basic skill.

If a Weighted gives into despair the Qliphoggr fragment that infected them will activate. In this state they gain incredible power that can reduce cities to ash, but at the cost of their morality. Also if they are killed in this state it is permanent and they will not respawn.

Wanting to harness these abilities some less then scrupulous members of the UAE have taken to tracking down these Weighted and forcibly recruiting them, using the fear of the Weighted being taken over by their fragment to justify this. These Weighted are trained, given special equipment, and organized into bands that are often times sent on suicide missions. The Members of Bands share a collective memory and create check points collectively. However, they all must die in order to go back and if they create another check point before that then whoever died is lost forever. Those who are taken over by their Fragment are no longer part of the Band unless brought back from the brink and restored to normal.

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