OldRoot is a growing superhero universe built around distinct origins, memorable visual identities, and characters who do not all trace back to one cosmic explanation.
Enough context to start exploring without reading a continuity encyclopedia first.
St. Dorsey is the launchpad for the modern public superhuman age, but OldRoot is larger than one incident. Genesis was an accidental Abyron catastrophe that changed a small, finite number of survivors into Ascendants. Their exact total is not treated as public in-universe knowledge.
Other heroes, villains, anomalies, technologies, experiments, artifacts, magic systems, aliens, and future forces can come from entirely different origins.
OldRoot is not locked to a traditional twenty-page comic-book rhythm.
OldRoot stories use prose to carry the full narrative, interiority, and detail, while selective illustrated sequences or collage-style comic pages take over for the moments that should hit visually. The format can breathe like a novel and detonate like a comic when the story earns it.
The complete narrative remains readable without requiring every beat to be illustrated.
Illustration is concentrated around reveals, transformations, fights, and iconic moments.
Character dossiers, locations, events, and stories remain connected through one shared continuity.
Start with the people: identities, powers, equipment, personalities, and complete public dossiers.
Open Registry →World IndexExplore the cities and places already connected to OldRoot through the interactive geographic index.
Open World Index →HistoryMajor historical events belong here only when their consequences extend beyond one character or one small cast.
Open Events →SystemCompare capability categories without pretending a single number decides who wins a fight.
Open Analytics →The current public registry already shows how far apart OldRoot origins and combat identities can be.
Detective Adrián Zúñiga: bioengineered, nocturnal, desert-specialized, and equipment-minded.
Read Dossier →Chicago / Human · TrainingJa’Kori Benson has no powers. His edge begins when a clean fight stops being clean.
Read Dossier →San Juan / Slightly EnhancedNico Vélez Rosado stores his own physical actions in space and triggers them one additional time.
Read Dossier →Baltimore / SuperhumanMicah and Naomi Ellison share one heroic identity across a human gunfighter and a two-dimensional shadow twin.
Read Dossier →Baltimore / Experimental Enhancement / VillainGilmer Simpson was forcibly transformed before Genesis into roughly two tons of metallic superhuman biology and now operates as a mercenary in Baltimore's underworld.
Read Dossier →Seattle / Human · Technology · VigilanteRemington “Remy” Hampton combines engineering, guided weapons, integrated mobility, and predictive tactical fighting while targeting Hillfred Hampton’s corrupt infrastructure.
Read Dossier →Seattle / Human / Technology-AssistedNikki Knotts, nineteen, fights with six deployable mechanical discs, two reserves, explosive athleticism and more courage than patience.
Read Dossier →Australia / Human / UnenhancedLatch Boswell is a former 2nd Commando Regiment team leader who becomes a post-Genesis recruiter, security operative, field agent, and marksman for the developing core hero organization.
Read Dossier →Hilo / Demi-God HeroKalani Kane combines Takaro-derived physical power, mystical force control, explosive movement, and twin ritual hatchets while operating from Hawaiʻi Island.
Read Dossier →Brooklyn / Unenhanced Human / Field OperativeA composed human tracker and reconnaissance specialist recruited to locate dangerous people after Genesis. Her official OPI is 10.02.
Read Dossier →Southern Arizona / Human / UnderworldVeronica Devoodas is a feared poison specialist and former chemistry teacher, dangerous through preparation and territory rather than raw power.
Read Dossier →Boston / Human / Wearable TechnologyMandy Ledger pairs magnetic, force-redirection gauntlets with a light external exo-frame—and learns to use the weapon she built for revenge to protect others.
Read Dossier →Warehouse / Supporting Character / No OPIMono Russo is a 21-year-old online student and well-meaning warehouse support worker who jokes about being “Security” while helping everyone else get things done.
Read Dossier →Boston / Human / Supporting Character / No OPIA quiet, stubborn exoskeleton-controls engineer whose human-first mobility systems become crucial to Mandy Ledger / Remedie.
Read Dossier →No villain, invasion, missile, theft, or deliberate superhuman experiment caused Saint Dorsey. A newly discovered element and reasonable safety systems combined in exactly the wrong way. Read Genesis →
Ax-126 is a naturally occurring superheavy element discovered by Hampton Dynamics, not a magic rock or generic reality-warping substance. Open Abyron → · Read its discovery →
True Ascendants belong specifically to the original Genesis event. Their manifestations can appear long after Saint Dorsey, and the public does not know an exact total.
OPI measures individual capabilities. There is no canonical overall OPI score and no single fight-winning number.
