The Succesor Crisis

Aurelian Vance, the world's greatest hero — a figure who'd held the title of "the Balance" for over twenty years, single-handedly deterring wars, natural disasters, and large-scale supervillainy through a power that let him perceive and correct imbalance wherever it appeared — is found dead. No battle. No visible cause. Just gone, in his own home, with no explanation. Within days, his power doesn't pass to a chosen heir. It shatters — ten fragments, each a different psychological aspect of who Vance was, embedding themselves into ten different people scattered across the world, seemingly at random. Within weeks, it becomes clear it wasn't random at all.