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  • Aeon14

  • Animorphs

  • The Belgariad and The Mallorean
    • Type 0: Most humans.
    • Type 1: Mandorallen, Hettar, other elite warriors.
    • Type 4: Belgarath, Polgara, and the other Disciples of Aldur; Zedar, Ctuchik, and the other disciples of Torak.
    • Type 5: Aldur, Torak, and the other gods.
    • Type 6: The Purposes of the Universe, the Universe itself.
    • Type 7: UL.

  • BIONICLE (Matoran Universe)
    • Type 0: Some Rahi (like ussal crabs), most Matoran from the rest of the universe.
    • Type 1: Most Mata Nui matoran, Some Rahi, Bohrok Va.
    • Type 2: Bohrok, Vahki, Voya Nui Matoran, weaker Dark Hunters, Vezon (post unpowering), stronger Rahi (like Nui Jaga), Turaga, Rahaga, a shadow kraata, Visorak, Matoran of Light or Shadow.
    • Type 3: Bohrok Kaita, Krekka and Nidikhi, Most other Dark Hunters, wild Rahkshi, Muaka, Toa nuva without elemental powers, Maskless Toa, Keelorak, Exo Toa on autopilot, Toa Hordikanote .
    • Type 4: (Low): Most Toa (including the Toa Mata, Metru, and Inika), Borok-Kal, Sidorak (Mid): the Toa Nuva, Takanuva, Toa Lhikan, Shadow Kraata Rahksi, Keetongu, Roodhaka, Krahka, The Piraka, most of the Baraki, Most Makuta, Nocturne, Helryx (High) Makutas Teridax, Icarax, and Miserix, Tahtorak, Zivon, Fenrahk, Empowered Vezon, Krahka's full potential, Axxon, Brutahka, Kane-Ra, The Shadowed One, The Bahrag.
    • Type 5: (Low): The great beings, Takutanuva, Tren Krom. (Mid): Golden Armor Tahu, Nui Stone Tuyet, the Energized protodermis entity. (High): Mata Nui and any other Great Spirit bodies.

  • The Camp Half-Blood Seriesnote 

  • Captain Underpants
    • Type -1: general Jerome Horwitz elementary kids, Dr. Diaper.
    • Type 0: George, Harold, Mr. Krupp/Captain Underpants before getting powers, Melvin Sneedly.
    • Type 1: Professor Poopypants/Tinkletrousersnote .
    • Type 2: Zorx, Klax, and Jennifer, Wedgie Woman, IQ-enhanced Mr. Meaner, Talking Toilets, Crackers the Pteranodon.
    • Type 3: Captain Underpants with superpowers, Melvin Sneedly with powers,Turbo-Toilet 2000, Captain Blunderpants, Great Granny Girdle and Boxer boy, Mutated Dandelion, Robo-Boogers.
    • Type 4: Bionic Booger Boy, Mr. Meaner as an energy blob, Robo-George and Harold 2000, Sulu the bionic hamster.

  • The Chronicles of Narnia
    • Type 0: All humans characters entering Narnia; Polly, Diggory, the Pevensies initially, Eustace and Jill.
    • Type 1: The Pevensies (returning to Narnia), Eustace (when returning to Narnia), Dryads, Naiads, Centaurs, Gryphons, Reepicheep, Aravis.
    • Type 2: Ramandu, Coriakin, Uncle Andrew, The Lady of the Green Kirtle.
    • Type 3: The River God/Water Elemental (in Prince Caspian), Eustace (as a dragon).
    • Type 5: Aslan, Tash, Father Time, Jadis/The White Witchnote .
    • Type 7: The Emperor Over the Sea.

  • The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

  • Codex Alera
    • Type 0: Tavi in the first book, Alerans who have yet to come into their furies, Vord Takers outside of a host body
    • Type 1: Tavi in the second and third books, Marat who have yet to bond a totem, Canim makers
    • Type 2: Most adult Alerans, most Marat, most kinds of Vord, Canim warriors (the strongest verge on a low type 3)
    • Type 3: Tavi and Kitai in the fourth and fifth books, most Aleran Knights and Citizens, Canim ritualists, the Icemen, immature Vord Queens
    • Type 4: Most Aleran High Lords, mature Vord Queens, Canim ritualists can reach this level with enough blood stockpiled, Tavi and Kitai in the final book
    • Type 5: Great Furies, the original Vord Queen
    • Type 6: Alera

  • Cordwainer Smith Instrumentality of Mankind stories.

  • Cthulhu Mythos

  • The Culture
    • Type -1: Some Mind avatars.
    • Type 0: Most humans and sentient aliens.
    • Type 1: Special Circumstances Agents.
    • Type 2: Idirans, Affronters.
    • Type 3: Some Drones, Knife Missiles, people in Culture-level combat armour, Androids.
    • Type 4: Combat Drones, the Iln Worldkiller, some Mind avatars.
    • Type 5: The Lords of Pavuelean Cyberhellnote , Culture Minds and equivalent Alien A.I.s.
    • Type 6: The Excession, the Sublimed.

  • The Death Gate Cycle

  • Discworld
    • Type -1: Early Twoflower, swamp dragons, small gods, any particularly weak human
    • Type 0: Later Twoflower, Rincewind, Nobby, Colon, Brutha, ordinary humans, untrained goblins.
    • Type 1: Sam Vimes, Captain Carrot, Lady Sybil, Vetinari, Cohen the Barbarian, The Silver Horde, The Librarian (Type 3 in The Last Continent, and may well be Type 2 on some level) most assassins, Ned Coates, Carcer Dun, Willikins.
    • Type 2: Susan Sto Helit, most competant wizards and witches, lesser gods and anthropomorphic personifications, elves, Nac Mac Feegle, werewolves, vampires (though Our Vampires Are Different so some go to type 3), trolls, dwarves (lower end of the scale), Greebo from Witches Abroad onwards, Mrs Earwig, Mr Nutt and orcs as a species (higher end of this type).
    • Type 3: Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, (eventually) Tiffany Aching, the Queen of the Elves, the King of the Elves, the Luggage, most gods, pharoahs of Djelibeybi until the end of Pyramids
    • Type 4: Death, other high level Anthropomorphic Personifications (e.g. Time) high level gods (e.g. Fate and the Lady), The Auditors of Reality, Sourcerors, noble dragons.
    • Type 5: Great A'Tuin.
    • Type 6: Azreal and the other Old Ones.
  • The Divine Comedy
    • Type -1: Damned Humans Below Limbo, the Suicides.
    • Type 0: Virgil and the Virtuous Pagans.
    • Type 2: Dante, King Midas, the Shades of Purgatory.
    • Type 3: Cerberus, the Harpies, Geryon, the Malebranche.
    • Type 4: The Giants, the Devil, Beatrice and the Saints, the Angels, Archangel Michael.
    • Type 5: Fortune.
    • Type 6: The Virgin Mary.
    • Type 7: The Love That Moves the Sun and the Outer Stars.

  • The Dresden Files
    • Type 0: Average humans.
    • Type 1: Murphy, Marcone, Hendricks, Charity Carpenter, Daniel Carpenter, White Court Vampiresnote 
    • Type 2: Molly, Knights of the Crossnote , young Red Court vampires, members of the Fellowship of Saint Giles (when tapping into Vampire powers), Ghouls, Sigrun Gard, Hexenwulfen, Werewolves, Mousenote , Kincaid.
    • Type 3: Harry, most White Council Wardens, the nobility of the Red Court, the Knights of the Faerie Courts, most Denarians, Faerie Nobles, Corpsetaker, Super Ghouls, the Nightmare, young Black Court vampires.
    • Type 4: Loup-Garoux, The Senior Council, Cowl, Maeve and Lily, Lea, Knights of the Cross 'on the clock', Odin, Murphy at Chichen Itza, Bob, Evil Bob, Nicodemus, most Angels, Harry from Changes onwards as the Winter Knight, the Lords of the Outer Night, the Red King, elder Black Court vampires, Skinwalkers, Outsiders (or at least the Walkers), the Archive, Eldest Gruff, the Erlking, Molly as the Winter Lady, Dragons.
    • Type 5: Mab, Titania, Ferrovaxnote , the Darkhallow can raise someone to this level, Demonreach within its boundaries.
    • Type 6: Uriel, other Archangels (Fallen and otherwise), The Mothers of Winter and Summer, Misternote .
    • Type 7: The Almightynote .

  • Dune
    • Type -1: Axlotl Tanks.
    • Type 0: Most normal humans.
    • Type 1: Sardaukar, Fremen, Atreides guards, Smugglers, Tleilaxu. Mentats.
    • Type 2: Bene Gesserit, Guild navigators, Honored Matres, Face Dancers, Fremen Reverend Mothers. Lady Jessica. House Masters at Arms.
    • Type 3: Abominations. Miles Teg. Odrade. Lucilla. Taraza. Hwi Noree. Siona. Sheeana. Duncan Idaho. Murbella.
    • Type 4: Kwizatz Haderach such as Paul Atreides.
    • Type 5: Leto II.
    • Type 6: The Golden Path.

  • The Elenium and The Tamuli

  • The Empire of the East and The Books of Swords
    • Type -1: Mark in The First Book of Swords, Adrian in most of Woundhealer's Story.
    • Type 0: Most civilians, Rolf, Princess Kristin.note 
    • Type 1: Ben of Purkinje, General Rostov, Jord, Denis, Yambu, Zoltan, Sir Andrew, Duke Fraktin, Baron Doon, Mewick, Chup.
    • Type 2: Mark later onnote , John Ominor, Som the Deadnote , wielders of Dragonslicer, Stonecutter, Wayfinder, and Woundhealer.
    • Type 3: Most wizards, with heavy variationnote ; Loford, Vilkata, Radelescu, Mitspilier, Blue-Robes, Dame Yoldi, wielders of Coinspinner, Townsaver, Sightblinder, and Farslayer.
    • Type 4: Elementals, djinni, most demonsnote , Draffut, ARDNEH before it acquires the magnetohydrodynamic core of the fusion power lamp, the Gods, wielders of the Mindsword, Soulcutter, Doomgiver, and Shieldbreaker.
    • Type 5: ARDNEH after it gets the gem, Orcus, the Emperor.

  • Enter the Farside

  • Everworld

  • Funny Business
    • Fragile Weight: The residents of the Model Towns.
    • Muggle Weight: Lucy, Lewis, Isabella in preschool and the first half of kindergarten, Kylie, Coco, most other characters.
    • Iron Weight: Frederick, Tom Cobleighnote .
    • Extranormal Weight: Isabella after Christmas of 2021note 
    • World Weight: The paradoxical vortex Jeanette accidentally createsnote .
    • Author Weight: Jeanette, the Big Bang.

  • Galactic Milieu/Saga of the Exiles
    • Type -1: The Ramas.
    • Type 0: Normals. Uncle Rogi as he appears.
    • Type 1: Felice Landry before acquiring a torc. Most metapsychic operants, some latents, grey torcs, many silver torcs, chalikos, bear-dogs. The non-Remillard Hydra units.
    • Type 2: Most Tanu and Firvulag, some operants and silver torcs, Squishy Wizard masterclass operants and Grand Masters who only specialise in farsense. Most gold torcs. Remillard Dynasty members and senior associates.
    • Type 3: High ranking Firvulag (Sharn, Pallol, etc.), high ranking Tanu (Nodonn Battlemaster, Kuhal Earthshaker, etc.), some gold torcs (Mercy Rosmar, Gomez Nolan, especially Aiken Drum, and Felice in their early stages), Brede Shipspouse, some masterclass operants. Hydra as a unit, Grand Masters.
    • Type 4: Paramont Grandmasters, Fury, Marc Remillard, Jack the Bodiless, Diamond Mask, Elizabeth Orme, Aiken Drum at the start of Book 3 and ESPECIALLY late in Book 4, Living Ships.
    • Type 5: Exceptionally large metaconcerts. Marc Remillard and Elizabeth Orme in his x600 psycho-enhancing cryogenic suits, Uncle Rogi at peak output, only achieved a few times under extreme duress. Felice Landry at peak power. Lylmik.
    • Type 6: Marc Remillard as Atoning Unifex.
    • Type 7: The Cosmic All.

  • Goosebumps
    • Type -1: Most transformed/cursed protagonists
    • Type 0: Most protagonists and humans.
    • Type 1: A select few, like the Lord High Executioner and Billy from Welcome To Camp Nightmare
    • Type 2: Slappy, Mr. Wood, The Haunted Mask and its brethren, Plant-clone Dr. Brewer, Dark Falls Residents, Werewolves, The Creeps, The Beasts, Mr. Mortman, the Dark family, Jack Johnston and Wilson Schlamme after taking the flying formula, Erin and Marty, and various monsters and ghosts.
    • Type 3: The Masked Mutant, Della Raver, Jack-O-lantern aliens, Abominable snowman of Pasadena, Count Nightwing(after taking Vampire Breath), Camp Spirit Moon ghosts, Graveyard Ghouls,Keith
    • Type 4: King Jellyjamnote , Monster Blood, The Blob that Ate Everyone, Rip the Cat.
    • Type 5: Clarissa the wishgiver, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom.

  • Good Omens
    • Type 0: Ordinary humans (Mr. Young, Newt, Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell).
    • Type 1: The Other Bikers of the Apocalypse.
    • Type 2: Agnes Nutter, Anathema Device.
    • Type 3: Crowley and Aziraphale.
    • Type 4: Metatron, Beelzebub.
    • Type 5: The Four Bikers of the Apocalypse.
    • Type 6: Adam Young.
    • Type 7: God.

  • Harry Potter
    • Type -1: Disembodied Voldemort, many non-magical creatures.
    • Type 0: Muggles, of course.
    • Type 1: Dudley Dursley in the later books.
    • Type 2: Most young wizards, Seers, Half-Giants, Centaurs, ghosts, many magical creatures.
    • Type 3: The Trio, most adult wizards, Dementors, Basilisks, Acromantulas, Giants, Nundus, other powerful magical creatures.
    • Type 4: Voldemort, Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Obscurials, House-elvesnote , the Four Founders, anyone who wields the Elder Wand, Merlin.
    • Type 6: Deathnote , Love.

  • Heralds of Valdemar
    • Type -1: Herald-Chronicler Myste, Kechara, Karal (post-Mage Storms).
    • Type 0: Ordinary Valdemarans.
    • Type 1: Shin'a'in, battlesteeds, soldiers, mercenaries.
    • Type 2: Heralds (with useful Psychic Powers), Bards, priests, Change-children, Companions, Shin'a'in Swordsworn, Tarma, Alberich (before and after being Chosen), Karal, Kerowyn, weaker mages (Journeymen and Masters).
    • Type 3: Stronger mages, Healers, Talia (when using her Mind Rape abilities), Firecats, Solaris, Grove-born Companions, divine avatars, Thalhkarsh, gryphons, any wielder of Need, colddrakes.
    • Type 4: Vanyel Ashkevron, Firesong k'Treva, Mornelithe Falconsbane, high-end Adept-level mages, the Guardian of Iftel, Lavan Firestorm, Thalhkarsh during his ascension to divinity.
    • Type 5: Urtho, Ma'ar in prehistory, Emperor Charles during his Final Strike.
    • Type 6: The Goddess, Vkandis Sunlord, the Wind Lords of Iftel (according to earlier books, it gets more complicated later).

  • His Dark Materials

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • Type -1: Marvin.
    • Type 0: Humans, Arthur Dent initially, Trillian.
    • Type 1: Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Vogons, Slartibartfast.
    • Type 2: Arthur Dent later in the story once he learns to fly.
    • Type 3: The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, Dolphins, Arthur's brain.
    • Type 4: Mice.
    • Type 6: Deep Thought, Earth.
    • Type 7: The Guide Mark 2.

  • Hyperion Cantos
    • Type -1: Rachel with Merlin's disease, Bikura.
    • Type 0: Most humans.
    • Type 1: Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad.
    • Type 2: Some Ousters.
    • Type 3: FORCE:GROUND soldiers.
    • Type 4: Pax Swiss Guard soldiers.
    • Type 5: Nemes Siblings.
    • Type 6: The Shrike, the TechnoCore.
    • Type 7: The Ultimate Intelligences.

  • The Iliad
    • Type 1: Regular soldiers note 
    • Type 2: Mortal heroes: Odysseus, Aias and Aias, Hector, Patroclus, Achilles.
    • Type 3: Centaurs, demigods, and typical gods: Herakles, Aphrodite, Athena, Ares, Apollo.
    • Type 4: The strongest Olympian gods: Poseidon, Hades.
    • Type 5: Zeus
    • Type 6: The Fates.

  • InCryptid
    • Type -1: Aeslin mice, though they can take down large enemies when working together.
    • Type 0: Normal humans.
    • Type 1: Covenant members, (human) Price-Healy family members, and the Thirty-Six Society.
    • Type 2: Martin Baker, Lilu, tanuki, sylphs, jinks, waheela, lesser and Pliny's gorgons, female dragons, werewolves. Ghosts and routewitches generally straddle the line between this and Type 3, depending on type and circumstances.
    • Type 3: Sorcerers like Thomas, Antimony, and James, Johrlac, male dragons, greater gorgons.
    • Type 4: Johrlac queensnote , the Crossroads.

  • Inheritance Cycle

  • John Carter of Mars

  • Keys to the Kingdom
    • Type -1: People infected with the Grey Spots.
    • Type 0: Humans, Arthur Penhaligon (starting out).
    • Type 1: Human soldiers.
    • Type 2: Ordinary Denizens and Piper's Children, Raised Rats, Not-Horses, most creatures employed by the Denizens, pieces of The Will.
    • Type 3: Sorcerers, several specialised types of Denizens, Captain Feverfew, Nithlings, soldiers in the Army Of The Architect, most of Arthur's companions by the end of the series, anyone with a Key.
    • Type 4: Powerful Sorcerers, Dawns, Noons and Dusks, the Doorkeeper, Dame Primus, Arthur by the end of the series, the Ancient Mariner.
    • Type 5: Trustees (with their Key), the Piper, Dame Primus (later on).
    • Type 6: Lord Sunday, Nothing, The House itself, the Old One.
    • Type 7: The Architect, Arthur as the New Architect.

  • Lensman

  • Masks of Aygrima
    • Type -1: The unmasked slaves and, the child guard who are all sickly, weak, and typically have short lifespans.
    • Type 0: Most ungifted, some ungifted watchers.
    • Type 1: Edrik, Chell, Antrill, some ungifted watchers including the Sun Guard.
    • Type 2: Most gifted including all gifted watchers.
    • Type 3: All of the gifted in The Circle ( the child guard would be this if The Autarch didn't suck the magic out of them)
    • Type 4: Mara, The Autarch, The Lady of Pain and Fire and, many of the old gifted.

  • Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
    • Type 0: Simon (initially), Binabik, Rachel, Josua, Maegwin, Tiamak
    • Type 1: Simon (later), Miriamele, Deornoth, Isgrimnur, Sludig
    • Type 2: Doctor Morgenes, Cadrach, Sir Camaris, The Sithi
    • Type 3: Geloë, Ingen Jegger, Amerasu
    • Type 4: Pryrates
    • Type 5: Ineluki/The Storm King, Utuk'ku
    • Type 6: Gods (Usires Aedon, Udun One-Eye etc.)

  • Mistborn
    • Type 0: Skaa, nobles.
    • Type 1: Hazekillers, elite soldiers, Koloss.
    • Type 2: Kandra (OreSeur, TenSoon), Mistings (Breeze, Hammond, Clubs), fully-grown Koloss, Ferrings.
    • Type 3: Mistborn (Kelsier, Vin, Elend), Feruchemists (Sazed, Tindwyl), Inquisitors (Kar, Bendal, Marsh), some Twinborn and all Compounders (Wax, Wayne, Miles).
    • Type 4: The Lord Ruler, Ruin's Inquistors, Vin, while drawing upon the mists.
    • Type 5: The Well of Ascension, Ruin and Preservation, Vin when she draws upon all of Preservation's power and takes His place.
    • Type 6: Sazed, as Harmony.

  • Monster Hunter International
    • Type -1: Gnomes, Zombies (though their bite will inevitably turn their victims into zombies except Owen).
    • Type 0: Iliana Pitt, Mosh Pitt.
    • Type 1: Most Monster Hunters, most MCB agents, Auhangamea Pitt.
    • Type 2: Owen Pitt, Julie Shackleford after receiving the Guardian's mark, Orcs, Renfroe.
    • Type 3: Werewolves (including Earl Harbinger), Wights, Vampires, Gargoyles, soldiers of the Old Ones, Agent Franks, Nemesis soldiers.
    • Type 4: The Shadow Lord (Martin Hood), Master Vampires, Thrall, Koriniha, the Nachtmar.
    • Type 5: Old Ones, Lord Machado or Owen Pitt with the full power of the Kumaresh Yar.
    • Type 6: The World Maker note 

  • The Mortal Instruments
    • Type 0: Mundies, Simon as a human being, servant of vampires.
    • Type 1: Very strong mundies, untrained shadowhunters, ifrits, half-werewolves, Mortmain.
    • Type 2: Trained shadowhunters, most fairies and half-fairies, weak warlocks, most werewolves, most vampires, weak demons, the steampunk robots from Mortmain, weak angels.
    • Type 3: Very strong shadow creatures, powerful warlocks, strong demons, strong angels, Johnathan Morgenstern, Jace and Clary, Simon as a "daywalker"-vampire.
    • Type 4: Demon lords, very strong angels.

  • Myth Adventures
    • Type -1: Jahks, Wuhses, Markie's unnamed race.
    • Type 0: Klahds.
    • Type 1: Deveels and Imps, Skeeve in the original series, Guido and Nunzio, Badaxe, Jahk athletes, Vic.
    • Type 2: Assassins, most Vampires, Garkin, Berfert.
    • Type 3: Trolls and Trollops, Gargoyles, Pervects, Skeeve in the new series, Massha, Gleep.
    • Type 4: Pookie, Aahz before losing his powers, Markie.
    • Type 5: Isstvan, Primeworlders.

  • The Neverending Story

  • The Night's Dawn Trilogy

  • Old Kingdom
    • Type -1: Southerling refugees, Nick.
    • Type 0: Humans, Lesser Dead.
    • Type 1: Soldiers, weak Charter Mages.
    • Type 2: Ancelstierran Scouts, most Necromancers, Shadow Hands, the Clayr, Possessed!Nick, Lirael before becoming Abhorsen-in-Waiting, Guard Sendings, most Greater Dead.
    • Type 3: The Abhorsen, powerful Charter Mages, Mogget, Chlorr of the Mask, The Disreputable Dog a.k.a. Kibeth, Sam, King Touchstone.
    • Type 4: Kerrigor.
    • Type 5: The 7 Bright Shiners, Mogget Unbound a.k.a Yrael.
    • Type 6: Orannis The Destroyer.

  • Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
    • Type 0: Fallen Humans (can die and feel pain in their work).
    • Type 2: Humans in Paradise (immortal).
    • Type 3: Fallen Angels (immortal shapeshifters who are ever decreasing in power).
    • Type 4: Regular Angels (invincible mountain-throwing warriors).
    • Type 5: Death, Sin.
    • Type 6: The Son (able to defeat demonic legions with a rude thought), Chaos and Old Night.
    • Type 7: The Father.

  • The Quantum Thief
    • Type -1: Prisoners of the Dilemma Prison.
    • Type 0: Most unaugmented humans, Martians and Oortians.
    • Type 1: Isidore, Jean and Sumanguru pre-Collapse.
    • Type 2: Jean Le Flambleur, most Quiet, jinni, ursamorphs.
    • Type 3: Mieli, most Zoku.
    • Type 4: Raions, Hunters.
    • Type 5: Perhonen, Oblasts, Holeships.
    • Type 6: Founder Primes, Dragons, The All Defector.
    • Type 7: The Kaminari Jewel.

  • The Reckoners Trilogy

  • Revelation Space Series
    • Type 0: Most of baseline humans.
    • Type 1: Main human characters, hyperpigs, Denizens.
    • Type 2: Military servitors, heavily modified Ultras.
    • Type 3: Captain John Brannigan, Clockmaster, Grubs, Aurora.
    • Type 4: Conjoiners, Jumper Clowns, Scuttlers, Shrouders.
    • Type 5: Inhibitors, Nestbuilders, Greenfly terraformers.
    • Type 6: Shadows, builders of Hades, Greenfly from Shadow universe.

  • The Riftwar Cycle
    • Type 0: Any number of civilians, guards, and the like. Pug and Tomas at the start of 'Magician.
    • Type 1: Prince Arutha, Moredhel warriors, Baru the Hadati Warrior.
    • Type 2: Tomas after gaining Ashen-Shugar's armor. Most magic-users.
    • Type 3: Pug after his training as a Greater Path magician. Tomas after fully growing into the Valheru heritage provided by his armor. Most Greater Path and some Lesser Path magicians.
    • Type 4: Pug as of Shards of a Broken Crown. Miranda, Macros the Black, Nakor the Blue Rider.
    • Type 5: Pug as of Wrath of a Mad God. The combined power of the Valheru during the Chaos Wars.
    • Type 6: The Controller, Greater, and Lesser gods of Midkemia.

  • The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions

  • Shadow of the Conqueror

  • Skulduggery Pleasant
    • Type -1: Remnants without hosts, Tesseract without his mask.
    • Type 0: Mortals.
    • Type 1: Cleavers, Rippers, Hollow Men, Batu.
    • Type 2: Untrained mages, magic-users with specific abilities (Teleporters, Sensitives, etc.), Ghastly.
    • Type 3: The majority of sorcerers and mages, most other people with supernatural abilities.
    • Type 4: Anyone who knows their True Name, anyone with the Sceptre Of The Ancients, Mevolent, the Grotesquery, Darquesse, Lord Vile, Melancholia as the Death Bringer, Argeddion.
    • Type 5: The true potential of Darquesse and the Death Bringer, Argeddion while using the Accelerator.
    • Type 6: The Faceless Ones.

  • The Space Trilogy
    • Type -1: The Un-man, the Head.
    • Type 0: Ransom, Weston, Devine.
    • Type 2: The Green Lady, the King, Jane Studdock, Withers, the Director of Logres.
    • Type 4: Merlin.
    • Type 5: The Eldila, the young Oyersu (Malacandra, Perelandra, Viritrilbia).
    • Type 6: The elder Oyersu (Lurga, Glund-Oyarsa).
    • Type 7: Maleldil the Young.

  • Starsnatcher

  • Sten Series
    • Type -1: Rykor (need for water limits her to places she can bring a tank), Cnidaria (same).
    • Type 0: Most humans, like Sam'l, Privy council members. While Sr Ecu, and other Manabi can fly, they are true neutral pacifists.
    • Type 1: Imperial Guardsmen, most elite Tahn, Cind, Mantis soldiers, The Jann, The Companions, Baron Thoreson, Lisa Haines.
    • Type 2: Guardsmen in power armor, Alex Kilgour, Bhor, N'ranya, Spindars, Pvt Kurshayne, and of course, The Eternal Emperor, Sten, (debatably because while Mantis members are BadassNormals, in-universe Sten is described as "the best there ever was").
    • Type 3: The Resurrection Ship's computer.

  • The Stormlight Archive
    • Type 0: Ordinary humans.
    • Type 1: Most soldiers.
    • Type 2: Parshendi, Shardbearers with only blade or only plate.
    • Type 3: Shardbearers with plate and blade (Dalinar, Adolin), Surgebinders (Szeth, Kaladin, Jasnah, Shallan).
    • Type 4: The Heralds.
    • Type 5: The Shards of Adonalsium (Honor, Cultivation, Odium).

  • Sword of Truth

  • Tairen Soul
    • Type -1: Non-magical Fey women, Lillis and Lorellenote .
    • Type 0: Ellysetta in the first book, Lauriana and Sol Baristani, Den Brodson, Melliandra.note 
    • Type 1: Celierian and Eld soldiers.
    • Type 2: Fey men in general, Celierians with Fey blood, Elves in general, hedge wizards and hearth witches.
    • Type 3: Fey warriors (Kieran, Bel, Shan), shei'dalins, dahl'reisen (Gaelan, Farel), Elvian warriors, Mages, revenants, Mharog, Light Warriors, dragons.
    • Type 4: Tairen and Tairen Soul, the dragon queen, Rainier, Ellysetta, Vadim Maur, The Eye of Truth, Grandfather, the Tairen of Light.
    • Type 5: Seledorn.
    • Type 6: Adelis.

  • Tolkien's Legendarium
    • Type -1: Hobbits unless 'aroused.'
    • Type 0: Most humans, elves, dwarves, goblins/lesser orcs.
    • Type 1: Uruks and Uruk-Hai, some human and hobbit and most elf or dwarf warriors, Dunedain, Hobbits of the Took clan, Durin's folk, Giant Spiders, High Elves, The Fellowship of the Ring.
    • Type 2: Elven Princes and Lords such as Legolas, Gildor and Glorfindel, Ents when aroused, Huorns such as Old Man Willow, Trolls, Wargs, Mûmakil, a Nazgûl, the Great Eagles, Fell Beasts, Werewolves, Wraiths, Wights, Vampires, Beorn, Gollum, Hurin, Turin, Beren, Tuor, Aragorn wielding the sword Anduril.
    • Type 3: Elven Kings such as Thranduil, Gil-Galad, Finrod, Turgon. Earendil. Lesser Dragons and cold-drakes. The Wizards, The Witch King of Angmar, The Nazgul when together at night, Fangorn when aroused, Draugluin, Shelob, Sauron (after downfall of Númenor), the One Ring.
    • Type 4: Maiar, Balrogs, Greater Dragons such as Glaurung, Ancalagon and Smaug, Tom Bombadil, Sauron with the One Ring, Gandalf the White, Feanor, Fingolfin, Galadriel, Luthien. Huan, Carcharoth. Earendil with the Silmaril.
    • Type 5: The Valar. Ungoliantnote 
    • Type 6: Manwe, Varda, Melkor/Morgoth.
    • Type 7: Eru Ilúvatar

  • Tortall Universe
    • Type 0: Ordinary Humans.
    • Type 1: Raoul of Golden Lake, Keladry of Mindelan, Queen Thayet, weakly Gifted humans, Spidrens, most trained soldiers, George, Coram.
    • Type 2: Gareth of Naxen the Elder, Faithful, Aly, Nawat, Ochobu, Centaurs, Griffins, moderately Gifted humans.
    • Type 3: Duke Roger, King Jonathan, Alanna, Thom, Daine, Ozorne, Tristan.
    • Type 4: Numair, Dragons, Daine (with the power of Hag), King Jonathan with the Dominion Jewel.
    • Type 5: Weaker Gods.
    • Type 6: Greater Gods.

  • A Touch of Madness
    • Fragile Weight: Luna (Pre-Divine Revelation), by her divinity creating incidents in which she injures herself without knowing it, the people in San Fran during the Virus From Hell.
    • Muggle Weight: Normal People.
    • Iron Weight: Agatha, Cindi starts here.
    • Extranormal Weight: Sophia.
    • Super Weight: Tobias, Cindi is here most of the story.
    • World Weight: Cindi, during the final battle.
    • Author Weight: Luna (Post-Divine Revelation), The Author.

  • Trinton Chronicles
    • Muggle Weight: Some Undergrounders who have no powers at all.
    • Iron Weight: Some Undergrounders, Members of the Silence Cult, or members of the Relic Link who are trained at fighting or have unique skills.
    • Extranormal Weight: Rex, Renard, Elisha, and some Undergrounders, the Silence Cult, and lower ranks of the Relic Link whose powers are not as useful or powerful.
    • Super Weight: Xiion, Coatl, Jay, Sabella, Boris, Elijah, Sakura, Frost, Kalinda, and the mid-rangers of the Relic Link.
    • Hyper Weight: Sara, Dan, Robert.
    • World Weight: Aurora, Jasmine.
    • Cosmic Weight: Isis, Grala.

  • The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign

  • Unsong
    • Fragile Weight: Many people in Hell.
    • Muggle Weight: Ordinary humans.
    • Extranormal Weight: Ordinary angels and demons, most kabbalists and placebomancers.
    • Super Weight: Malia Ngo, Samyazaz, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Starspawn.
    • Hyper Weight: Thamiel, Archangels, the Comet King, Neil Armstrong as the Right Hand of God
    • World Weight: Uriel with the Divine Light, Sohu West with Celestial Kabbalah.
    • Cosmic Weight: Anyone with the Shem haMephorash.
    • Author Weight: God, Metatron.

  • Vampire Hunter D

  • The Wandering Inn
    • Type -1: Ghosts, particularly weak Goblins, Maviola El without Potions of Youth
    • Type 0: People without levels, people with noncombat classes at or lower than level 10 or so.
    • Type 1: [Warriors] and similar direct combat classes at level 20+, Ryoka Griffin (arguable)
    • Type 2: Erin Solstice in Volumes 1 & 2, Low-level [Mages] and similar; Ryoka Griffin with wind powers.
    • Type 3: Erin Solstice in Volume 3 and onward, People in the level 30-40 range and similarly powerful entities fall into this category
    • Type 4: Some Named Ranked adventurers (Saliss of Lights, Shriekblade, etc.). Teriarch, Bevalier, The Necromancer, The Death of Magic, etc. are at the higher end of this scale. In general, people at level 50+ get into this territory
    • Type 5: The Dead Gods (presumambly), the monstrosity stalking the afterlife (presumably), the Dreaming God in Rhir (presumably). People of extremely high levels are arguable additions to this category.
    • Type 6: Whatever magic ritual allowed the Blighted King to bring Earthers to the Innworld.

  • Whateley Universe
    • Type -1: Puppet
    • Type 0: Most baselines
    • Type 1: Bladedancer (without the Tao's assistance), Jobe (outside his lab), Aquerna, Loophole (unarmored), Jericho (same)
    • Type 2: Generator, Shroud, Murphy, Heyoka
    • Type 3: Chaka, Phase, She-Beast, Silver Ghost, Loophole (armored), Diamondback, most of the Alphas
    • Type 4: Lady Astarte, Fey, Totem, Deathlist, The Necromancer, Bladedancer (with the Tao), Jobe (with his full lab), Nimbus, the New Olympians
    • Type 5: Tennyo, Carmilla, BKCRMWDJVG and other mid-tier demons, Aunghadhail (prior to the Sundering)
    • Type 6: Gothmog and other major demons/minor gods, The Star Stalker (prior to being bound)
    • Type 7: Tao, Outer Gods.

  • The Wheel of Time
    • Type -1: Tinkers.
    • Type 0: Most normal people.
    • Type 1: Ogier, Trollocs, Tam al'Thor and the other Emond's Fielders, Aiel, Borderlanders.
    • Type 2: Warders, Fades, Perrin Aybara, Mat Cauthonnote , Min, Bair.
    • Type 3: Channelers (Moiraine, Siuan, Elaida, and others), gholams, Padan Fain/Mordeth.
    • Type 4: Powerful channelers (including Rand al'Thornote , Mazrim Taim, Egwene, Elayne, Nynaeve, and others), the Forsaken, The Green Mannote , anyone who channels the One Power with an angreal or sa'angreal, Shaidar Haran, Perrin in the World of Dreams.
    • Type 5: The Dark One bound, Randnote  with one of the keys to the Choedan Kal.
    • Type 6: The Dark One unbound, Rand with the full power of the Choedan Kalnote .
    • Type 7: The Creator.

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    • Type -1: The Munchkins, Toto, The Scarecrow (initially), The Tin Woodman (initially)
    • Type 0: Dorothy Gale, Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, The Scarecrow (after Dorothy helps him), The Tin Woodman (after Dorothy helps him), The “Wizard” of Oz
    • Type 1: The Cowardly Lion
    • Type 2: The Winged Monkeys
    • Type 3: The Wicked Witch of the West, The Good Witch of the North
    • Type 4: Glinda the Good Witch of the South

  • Worm and Wardnote note 

  • Xeelee Sequence
    • Type -1: Neutron star humans, Sculptor 872, Cilia of Gold.
    • Type 0: Most humans.
    • Type 1: Spinner of Rope, Jim Bolder, Pirius.
    • Type 2: Silver Ghosts, Qax.
    • Type 4: Spline without starbreakers.
    • Type 5: Spline with starbreakers, Photino Birds.
    • Type 6: Nightfighters, the Anti-Xeelee, the Transcendence, Callisto Microbes, Monadsnote .

  • Young Wizards
    • Type 0 or Type 1: Non-wizardly sentients of various kinds.
    • Type 3: Most wizards, most of the time.
    • Type 4: Especially powerful and skilled wizards, groups of wizards working together.
    • Type 5: Planetary wizards, abdals.
    • Type 6: The Powers That Be, including the Lone Power.
    • Type 7: The One.


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