 N'AstirhStrength 16X Agility 10X Intellect 10D Willpower 13C Edge: 3 Hand: 5 (30) Calling: World Domination Hindrance: Overconfidence, Fatally Vulnerable to Iron SKILLS: Occult Manipulation, Mental Control POWERS: Demonic Armor +7 Flight 10 Magic 13 Stunts: Energy Blast, Mind Control, Transmutation Techno-Organic Virus (Affliction) 16 Limit: Mutants cannot be absorbed by a T-O being. However, they can be infected by the virus. Stunt: T-O Absorption Healing (Life Drain). A victim being drained is first touched or enveloped by N'Astirh, then they take 16 damage contingently each exchange (resisted only by Force Fields or Magic Defenses) until they drop to 0 and are completely drained as a contingent action, or they break free with a Strength action vs. his power. Any non-mutant character who has been partly drained and has escaped will be infected by the T-O virus (see Bestowing Stunt below). If they victim was mutant, draw a card. If the aura is negative, the character is infected. N'Astirh can also heal himself by absorbing non-sentient, organic material (like plants) or inorganic material. Stunts: Shapeshifting, Energy Blast, Computer Link, Growth, Shrinking, Elongation, Phasing Stunt: Bestowing (N'Astirh can give the T-O virus to others. They gain all the abilities listed here, but their calling must change to a villainous calling, unless under special circumstances [like having your remains mixed with a benevolent member of the Technarch race]. These special circumstances allow a Desperate (20) Willpower action vs. the intensity of the T-O Virus to permanently remove the villains impulses. From day to day, the hero can make an Average (8) Willpower action vs. the T-O virus, but this success is temporary. Those who do not escape a villainous calling are subject to Mind Control by the being who infected them. Treat their Willpower as 0 for purposes of resisting the Mind Control. N'astirh was one of a number of major demons in Limbo. Like the other major demon sorcerers, N'astirh coveted control of Limbo, and desired to become master of Earth as well. He waited and he watched. After Illyana became ruler of Limbo, things became tumultuous. Magik did not rule Limbo with the iron fist that demons were used to seeing in their personal rulers; while she was personally intimidating, the Darkchilde spent too much time on Earth to maintain firm control of the dimension. N'astirh began to gather his demonic agents and scheme grander schemes than a demon should scheme. Finally, his machinations came to a head. N'astirh attempted to kidnap 13 babies and sacrifice them in a ritual known as Inferno, which would have given him control over Limbo and Earth. He made alliances (and broke or twisted them) with Taki of the X-Terminators, S'ym, and Magik; and also dealt with Madelyn Pryor, the Goblyn Queen. First, he tried to open a gateway between Earth and Limbo through which his demon horde could travel, using the 13 children's souls as energy for the pentagram-shaped nexus, and manipulating Magik into closing it. He forced Taki to build a computer that would run magic spells as programs, giving him nearly limitess magical power. He manipulated S'ym into infecting him with the Technarch transmode virus, which gave him tremendous power. The gateway was destroyed when Magik rejected her dark heritage and reverted to her innocent six-year old self, which she had been before her initial entry into Limbo. The magic computer was destroyed by the X-Terminators. Eventually, he made an alliance with the Goblyn Queen, becoming her servant (if secretly desiring her power) in a last effort to bring Inferno to life. N'astirh was finally defeated by X-Factor and the X-Men in a fierce battle and seemingly destroyed. Since death is rarely permanent for demons, it remains to be seen whether N'astirh will rise again. |
