Machinist

Active during the early 19th century, the criminal leader Machinist was a super of notorious malice. With various schemes and a long criminal record across central and northeast Emberly, his identity has not been confirmed in the decades since its last appearance and supposed death.   A strong homo sapiens superia, his powers were of a psionic nature including psychic blasts and faint psychic manipulation. Newspapers and accounts of detailing his crimes talk of charmed bystanders that would regain their senses in a matter of a few months, some cases the manipulation extending to partners in crime that escaped the powers influence during their incarceration.   Chaotic and destructive, the Machinist had no order and his plans, that could be simple heists to elaborated diplomatic transgression, had the aim of only disruption. Often brawling with law enforcement and vigiliant supers that took to stop his dangerous endeavors.   His villainous attempts were rarely sucessful, finding powerful obstacles in the Thorn Star marshals and in vigilants Ghouleth and Revolution Man. These encounters were often recorded in newspaper and reports from law enforcement, but is the records in public letters published in the papers and the few literature that sold itself as true tales but had no corrobatory evidence which historians have a hard time agreeing with.  

Legacy

While the Machinist had a large gang that joined him in his many crimes, after his disapperance in 1821, his influence waned into popular folk and a distant historical figure until the 1970s. The gang called Machinery of Disobedience, formed in Carracosta during the Small Wars.   At the beginning a gang of social criminals violently protesting the Emberly's involvement with the Small Wars, it turned anarchistic and disruptive in nature after gang leader Vergil Forger started to name himself heir to the Machinist's mantle, as the Train Master. His powers of Ferrokinesis were in such a scale that his distructive power would be a match to the original Machinist's large plans and manipulations.   Even after Forger's arrest in 1988, many of his acolytes remained on the mission of chaos and destruction.