James Kelly never asked for the life he has, a part-time bartender, part-time artist already washed up in his twenties. So when a new star appears in the night sky and triggers an epidemic of superpowers in Braddock, James finds that the rules of the old world no longer apply and, just maybe, he might finally be able to make a name for himself. Inspired by Worm, John C. "WildBow" McCrae's web serial epic, Empowered follows a select few young adults as they navigate the moral and social politics of a world recently rocked by the emergence of Post-Humans - Those in posession of powers that defy all the known rules of nature.