MORGAINE LE FAY

Real Name: Morgaine Le Fay

Class: Human magic-user

Occupation: Sorceress

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Atheron (father), Mordred (nephew, deceased), Nimue Inwudu (Madame Xanadu, sister), King Arthur Pendragon (half-brother), Staegys (mother), Vivienne (sister)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Gotham City, formerly Camelot, England, 6th Century

First Appearance: (DC Comics) Demon I #1 (September, 1972)

Powers: Morgaine Le Fay was an extraordinarily powerful sorceress and extremely long-lived.

History(Demon I #1) - <6th Century> Morgaine Le Fay was the evil half-sister of King Arthur. She assaulted Camelot with her army, which included an assortment of demons. Merlin turned the demon Etrigan to his side and bonded him to the human Jason Blood, but Camelot nonetheless fell.

(Blood of the Demon #4 (fb)) -<September 1, 1666> Morgaine and her demon legion burned London, and the public blamed it on revolutionaries. The Demon found her, and she told him she wanted him back in her control. She drained some of his life-force with a kiss, but he burned down her house. They fought, but were separated after falling into a canal.

(Demon I #1, 2) - Le Fay was rapidly aging and needed to bathe in cosmic fire to restore her youth. The only source of the spell was Merlin’s Eternity Book, so she determined to find Merlin by keeping an eye on his emissary Etrigan the demon. Her protégé Warly met Jason Blood, who had forgotten his past and his life as the Demon, and le Fay followed Jason when he was summoned to Merlin’s tomb in Castle Branek in Moldavia. Her forces attacked Jason and he turned into the Demon, fighting them fiercely before Le Fay turned him back into Blood and absconded with the Book. In Walpurgis Woods she had her coven perform the rite to restore her youth. The Demon interrupted the ceremony and destroyed the Woods, hoping that his actions put an end to le Fay before she restored herself to full power.

(Demon I #16) - Morgaine Le Fay and a horde of her demons captured Etrigan and branded him with Morgaine’s mark, making him her slave. Morgaine’s emissary Warley brought Glenda Marks to her, and she tried to wrest Jason’s philosopher’s stone from her. In the struggle Warly got the stone, and power-mad he turned Le Fay to a statue before being killed by one of her demons. The spell broke Le Fay’s control over Etrigan.

(Demon II #1, 2) - England; Glenda wanted to free Jason of the Demon, but the Demon had enchantments placed on him by Merlin that prevented him from helping. He falsely hinted that Morgaine Le Fay was responsible, so Glenda used the philosopher’s stone to warp the stone Le Fay to the Demon. She asked the Demon to turn her back into flesh and blood so they could learn what she did. Demon revealed that he way playing with her and bit off Morgaine’s right hand.

(Martian Manhunter II #28) - Le Fay need an object of power to restore her youth and beauty, so she tried to claim the philosopher’s stone from Jason Blood. She separated the Demon from Blood and trapped Blood inside a tesseract jewel to keep them both out of her business. The Demon fought the Sentinels of Magic and Dr. Occult made Martian Manhunter’s civilian identity John Jones into a separate person to deal with le Fay. He found the philosopher’s stone in Blood’s apartment, but instead of giving it to Le Fay he hurled it at her, shattering the stone and the tesseract jewel, reuniting Blood and Demon. In revenge she cast a spell to destroy Jones and Manhunter, but Dr. Fate bounced it back on her. Her spell did manage to keep Jones and Manhunter as separate identities.

(Blood of the Demon #3-5) - Morgaine sent her demonic henchmen to find Jason Blood. She told them to get Blood to reveal Etrigan's whereabouts, but didn't warn them that Blood was Etrigan. One henchman approached her after unleashing the Demon, and asked her why she didn’t warn him. She didn't answer him, instead she killed him. Morgaine entered a Gotham hospital and visited a thug that Etrigan disfigured in order to save a woman from being savaged by him. Morgaine offered him a chance at vengeance and empowered him with a mystical mask. He battled the Demon and weakened him before the mask drained him. Morgaine took the mask and put it on the Demon, possessing him. She sent him on a tear until Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman confronted him and turned him back to Jason Blood using Randu Sigh’s mystical amulet. Jason put the mask on Morgaine, draining the last of her lifeforce and causing her to explode.

(Blood of the Demon #15) - Morgaine summoned a group of demons to Gotham memorial hospital and had them battle the Demon. She tried to kidnap Anjeli Singh, but Anjeli used her psychic powers to distract Morgaine long enough for the Demon to get a jump from her. He tore off her arm and almost killed her before Randu Singh forced him off her.

Comments: Adapted to comics by Jack Kirby.

Morgain Le Fay was a character from Arthurian legend. For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay.

Morgaine Le Fay received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #16.

Morgaine Le Fay had a cameo in Blood of the Demon #7, Demon III #2.

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