Some are recruited by the guild and some by the "capes". Not long after Tori's recruitment, an event known as a Confluence occurs, resulting in a number of metahumans appearing in Ridge City. If Tori fails, it will be up to Ivan to personally kill her (especially since he's one of the few people who can even touch Tori in her living fire mode).
Ivan alone would determine whether Tori can be trained to be a proper code-abiding villain. Being a Spicy Latina, Tori has trouble fitting in with the standard guild instructors, so Doctor Mechaniacal asks an old friend, Ivan Gerhardt, who in his glory days was known as Fornax, to take Tori on as an apprentice, a practice that has fallen out of style in the modern guild.
She gets an offer she can't refuse from Doctor Mechaniacal to join the Guild of Villainous Reformation, a secret organization, whose purpose is to coordinate, train, and police other villains in order to maintain the tenuous peace with the Alliance of Heroic Champions, a similar organization for superheroes (except the AHC is well-known as respected by the public). The story focuses on Tori Rivas, a young aspiring supervillainess (who eventually adopts the moniker Hephaestus) with fire-based powers and a genius-level intellect. Notably, the series takes place in a different 'verse from the author's Super Powereds setting. Forging Hephaestus cover Villains' Code is a superhero novel series by Drew Hayes, currently consisting of two novels: Forging Hephaestus (2017) and Bones of the Past (2020).
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