![[12SaintsN4C.png | 350]] *Twelve Saints #4 cover by Paracelsus.* ***Fissure*** is the third issue of the *Twelve Saints* comic series. ## Quick Facts --- | Credits | ![[12SaintsN4P0.jpg \| 400]] | | -------- | ---------------------------- | | Title | Fissure | | Pages | 20 | | Arc | Apostle Exams | | Next | [[Twelve Saints No. 5]] | | Previous | [[Twelve Saints No. 3]] | ## Summary --- The Saints are bewildered by [[Marie Adonai|Saint Adonai]]'s decision, but watch it play out. [[Zeila Newton]], [[Tini Charre]], [[Decapre]], and [[Maxine Faraday]] decided to split apart and eliminate as many combatants as they can to ensure they make it to the last four spots in the battle royale. Tini displays magnificent prowess in [[Damian Charre|her father]]'s flux techniques, while the others perform competently as well, showing off their skills much to the approval of the Saints. With just the four of them remaining, it's decided that they will have 1v1 duels after all, with Newton and Faraday facing off before Decapre and Charre. Decapre and Charre go first, with Charre only narrowly escaping defeat thanks to magma pellets she planted underground earlier and detonated under an unwitting Decapre. Newton and Faraday are next, with Maxine questioning Zeila's decision to use only physical combat and hide the nature of her flux. Zeila is able to defeat Maxine when she realizes that Maxine's sword actually functions as a conduit without which she is unable to channel any flux at all. Zeila disarms her and forces a surrender, leaving the final to be a duel between Charre and Newton. ## Datapage --- ![[12SaintsN4P10d.jpg | 350]] ### DECLASSIFIED INFORMATION: ENTRY 48: THE FLUX `PEOPLE IN KEDAVAARA ARE BORN WITH AN INNATE CONNECTION TO THE FLUX,` `WHAT THEY CALL THE NATURAL ENERGY THAT FLOWS AND RESONATES` `THROUGH ALL LIVING THINGS.` `THE STRENGTH OF THIS CONNECTION VARIES WILDLY, AND WHILE IT'S` `USUALLY MILD AND UNREMARKABLE, IN SOME CASES IT'S ESPECIALLY` `POWERFUL: ALLOWING THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO HARNESS THE FLUX, CHANNEL` `IT THROUGH THEMSELVES AND MANIFEST IT EXTERNALLY. THIS PROCESS IS` `WHAT IS CALLED ALTERATION- THE CHANGE FROM WHAT WAS TO WHAT IS.` `THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS FOR NATURE TO BE IN FLUX. CHANGE IS THE ONLY` `CONSTANT.` `IT'S NOT YET UNDERSTOOD HOW EXACTLY HUMANS DEVELOPED THE CAPACITY` `TO HARNESS THE FLUX, BUT IT IS KNOWN TO OCCUR IN SEVERAL VARIATIONS,` `EACH YIELDING A DIFFERENT KIND OF ALTERATION. WHILE DIFFERENT` `SOCIETIES HAVE DIFFERENT STANDARDS & CLASSIFICATIONS FOR THEM, AND` `THERE COULD BE POTENTIALLY BE SEVERAL YET UNDISCOVERED, VERY` `GENERALLY SPEAKING THERE ARE TWELVE THAT ARE CURRENTLY KNOWN TO` `MOST PEOPLE` `DISCIPLINES OF ALTERATION` `LIGHT ARTS` `LUMINATION (LIGHT ALTERATION)` `IMMOLATION (FIRE ALTERATION)` `HYDRATION (WATER ALTERATION)` `PETRATION (STONE ALTERATION)` `AERATION (WIND ALTERATION)` `FULGURATION (LIGHTNING ALTERATION)` `DARK ARTS` `FLORATION (POWER OF THE GREEN)` `MAGNETIZATION (ALTERATION OF POLES)` `DILATION (ALTERATION OF TIME)` `GRAVITATION (ALTERATION OF GRAVITY)` `DIMENSION (ALTERATION OF SPACE)` `ISOLATION (SPECIFICS UNCLEAR)` `THE FLUX PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN KEDAVAARAN SOCIETIES. IT` `CONSTITUTES THE SPIRTUAL FRAMEWORK OF MANY RELIGIONS, AND IT HAS` `ALSO BEEN THE BASIS FOR MUCH OF THE SOCIETAL DISCRIMINATION THAT` `HAS EXISTED ON THE CONTINENT- FOR HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS THAT` `PLACED THOSE WITH STRONGER CONNECTIONS TO THE FLUX ABOVE THE` `REST.` `THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF TRANSELMANY EXISTS IN IDEOLOGICAL` `OPPOSITION TO ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION, HAVING BEEN CREATED IN` `REJECTION OF SUCH A SYSTEM.` ## Characters (in order of appearance) --- - [[Gordon Alastair]] - [[Lucia Pao]] - [[Robin Reyes]] - [[Alice d'Arnaud]] - [[Juno Soleil]] - [[Temi Fayowa]] - [[Rhoda Sakhir]] - [[Andrea Tommasi]] - [[Tiana Früde]] - [[Kristof Nikola]] - [[Marie Adonai]] - [[Isaac]] - [[Decapre]] - [[Maxine Faraday]] - [[Zeila Newton]] - [[Tini Charre]] - [[Katya Ross]] (debut)