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Real Name: Daniel Rand
Occupation: Adventurer
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States, honorary Tibetan citizen
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: New York City
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Wendell and Heather (parents, deceased), Yu-Ti (uncle)
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Former partner of Luke Cage, Heroes for Hire, Inc.
Known Powers:
Chi: If Iron Fist spends one round of action concentrating and makes a successful Psyche FEAT roll, his Fighting, Agility, Strength, and Endurance ranks are each increased by +1cs for 10 rounds. Afterwards, his Health drops 25 points.
Iron Fist: Once per day, Iron Fist can use his chi to deliver a devastating blow. Make a Psyche FEAT roll to determine the damage done by the blow; a green result does Incredible damage; a yellow result does Amazing damage, and a red result roll does Monstrous damage. If he lands an Incredible or Amazing force blow, he temporarily loses 50 Health points; if he lands a Monstrous blow, he loses 50 Health points and loses consciousness for 1-10 turns.
Talents:
Iron Fist has Martial Arts A and E.
Contacts:
Power Man, Namor, Nightwing Restorations, and the X-Men. Iron Fist is a friend of numerous superheroes, including Spider-Man.
Role-Playing Notes:
Danny Rand’s original motivation was to avenge his parents’ death by waging war against renegades from K’un-L’un. After this was resolved, he joined Luke Cage in a partnership, which then developed into a close friendship. Now that Danny has been rescued from imprisonment by the H’ylthri, it remains to be seen which direction his life will take.
History:
Daniel Rand was the son of a business man named Wendell Rand who had a mysterious obsession to find the fabled city of K’un-L’un, a paradise he believed to be located in the mountains of Tibet. When he was nine, Daniel Rand traveled to Tibet with his father, mother, and his father’s business partner, Harold Mea chum, in search of K’un-L’un. Toppling off a treacherous mountain passage, Daniel dragged his father and mother with him. While he and his mother land ed on a ledge below, his father dangled over the sheer drop of the mountainside, calling to his partner for help. Hoping to take Rand’s share of their business, Meachum instead caused him to lose his grip and plunge to his death. Though Meachum offered to help Heather Rand and her son, they spurned him. Attempting to make it back to camp on their own, Heather and her son spied a long suspension bridge just as a pack of wild wolves attacked them. Heather tried to hold them off long enough for her son to get away to safety, and was killed in the effort.
Soon thereafter, denizens of K’un L’un found the boy and took him to their city. There the young Rand was brought before the ruler of K’un-L’un, the August Personage of Jade. Seeing the boy’s de sire for vengeance, he apprenticed him to the martial arts master of K’un-L’un, Lei Kung the Thunderer.
Rand’s training under Lei Kung was rigorous. At age 16, Rand earned the Crown of Fu-Hsi, king of the vipers, vanquished four foes in the ritualistic Challenge of the Many, and defeated Shu-hi, a mechanical being whose name means “Lightning.” Rand diligently conditioned his hands by thrusting them into tubs of hot sand, then gravel, then finally rock. At age 19, Rand was given the opportunity to gain the power of the Iron Fist. Opposing the fire-breathing serpent called Shou-Lao the Undying, Rand grabbed the serpent’s body and received mystic emanations from the dragon-shaped scar that marked where the serpent’s heart had been ripped out years before. In the embrace, the scar imprinted itself on Rand’s chest. Killing the serpent, Rand plunged his hands in to the now unguarded brazier containing Shou-Lao’s molten heart. When he was through, his fists shone with a mystical force, and he earned the title “Iron Fist.”
Declining to stay in K’un-L’un eternally, Danny returned to America to seek revenge on Meachum. Meanwhile, Mea chum, having learned of Rand’s training at K’un-L’un white recovering from frost bite suffered white in the Himalayas, re turned to America as an invalid to await Rand. Clad in the ceremonial garb of the Iron Fist, Rand finally confronted Mea chum, but took pity on the invalid and spared him. Minutes later, however, a mysterious ninja murdered Meachum.
Danny was blamed for the murder, and undertook a mission to find the ninja and clear his name. This led him into conflict with a number of costumed adventurers, and eventually, to a career as a crime- fighter. He met Luke Cage (alias Power Man) and joined Cage’s professional Hero for Hire Business. However, during a visit to K’un-L’un to heal himself of radiation poisoning, Danny was kidnapped by the ancient enemies of K’un-L’un, the H’ylthri, and replaced with a duplicate made of plant tissue, which was to act as agent for the plant creatures’ invasion of Earth. Shortly afterwards, the duplicate of Rand was stain and Luke Cage was blamed for the murder.
Daniel Rand reappeared recently, or more accurately, the Super-Skrull who had assumed Rand’s likeness and his identity as Iron Fist appeared. The Skrull used Rand’s contacts and friends to advance a scheme involving the Savage Land. The Skrull battled Namor, the Sub Mariner, his cousin Namorita, of the New Warriors, and Misty Knight, Rand’s former lover. The SkruIl dropped his ruse, was defeated and fled, his scheme wrecked. Rand’s friends, perhaps buoyed by Rand’s bogus reappearance, set off on a search to find out what had really happened to their friend.
Rand was freed from his imprisonment by the H’ylthri some time later by Namor, the Sub-Mariner, and brought back to Earth by its Sorcerer Supreme, Dr. Strange. At present, Daniel Rand is recovering from his long ordeal. Apparently, meditation and the energy of the Iron Fist has cured Rand of the cancer he suffered from earlier in his career. What direction his life will take now is un known.