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Real Name: Illyana Nikolievna Rasputin
Occupation: Student, Sorceress Supreme of Limbo
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.S.R., now living in the U.S. under a special visa, no criminal record, still a minor
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Ust-Ordynski Collective, near Lake Baikal, Siberia, USSR
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Nikolai Rasputin
(father), Alexandra Rasputin (mother), Piotr Rasputin (brother), Mikhail Rasputin (brother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Professor Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, Westchester County, NY, and Limbo.
Past Group Affiliations: New Mutants
Known Powers:
Teleport Discs: Magik’s mutant power is the ability to teleport herself and others through time and space by the use of summoned stepping discs. After a successful Psyche FEAT roll, the disc teleports her first to the dimension of Limbo, then to the desired destination. A failed roll indicates a mis-jump, either in distance (up to one-quarter mile away) or in time. If the FEAT fails, the final destination could be 1-10 days, weeks, months, or years in the past or future. Magik can also summon extra-dimensional life forms (known as demons) from Limbo using her discs. Also using her Psyche FEAT roll, she can make her discs appear beneath other characters and teleport them involuntarily to Limbo. The target may Dodge if warned.
Soulsword: Magik can automatically summon a Soulsword, a physical manifestation of her magical powers. It causes Monstrous damage to any magical creature it strikes, using the Edged Weapon column. The sword does no damage if it passes through any non-magical creature, machinery, or robot. If swung through a character or item that is magically controlled, possessed, or transformed, Magik is allowed a Psyche FEAT roll with a +2cs bonus to break the spell and return the being or item to its original state.
Psi-Screen: Magik’s demonic nature gives her a constant psychic shield that acts as Monstrous protection from psionic attacks, attempts at controlling her, or intrusions.
Body Armor: If Magik uses her Soulsword or magic in combat, shining magical body armor appears on her. Its protection begins with Excellent strength and improves by one rank each time she uses her magic or Soulsword in combat, to a maximum of Monstrous. It remains for up to five rounds without specifically using magic to keep it up.
Magic: Illyana is the Sorceress Supreme of a small pocket dimension known as Limbo (more than one dimension is called “Limbo”). Illyana’s magic has Unearthly power on this plane. On Earth, her magic is limited to detecting magical auras, entering the Astral plane (both with Monstrous ability), and summoning her Soulsword.
Talents:
Magik is well-versed in occult lore and speaks fluent Russian and English.
Contacts:
Magik’s closest friend is Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat). Kitty is the only normal human who can wield the Soulsword or be hurt by it. Magik is also a good friend of Dani Moon star and on relatively good terms with the other New Mutants.
Role-Playing Notes:
Magik is a fallen innocent, a young girl who was corrupted by the forces of black magic. A person at war with herself, Illyana often tries to deny her dark heritage, while at other times reveling in the demonic aspect of her nature. Her chief goal is to maintain her power base in Limbo, but she is a comrade of the New Mutants. She is quite vengeful.
History:
Illyana Rasputin is the younger sister of Piotr (Peter) Rasputin, who left their home at the Ust-Ordynski collective farm in Siberia when Illyana was quite young and became Colossus, one of the X-Men. When she was seven years old, Illyana was abducted from the Soviet Union in a ploy to force the X-Men to go to the eccentric assassin Arcade’s rescue. The main team of X-Men battled a Doctor Doom robot and obtained Arcade’s release, while a team of reserve members of the X-Men freed Illyana and her fellow captives. Unwilling to risk returning to the Soviet Union to take Illyana back to her parents, Peter Rasputin decided to keep Illyana with him at the X Men’s Westchester headquarters.
Some months later, the sorcerer Belasco brought Illyana and the X-Men to his extra-dimensional realm, which he called Limbo. There Illyana met Kitty Pryde, with Storm the only survivor of a group of X-Men from a divergent Earth who had come to Belasco’s Limbo earlier. Kitty had grown to adulthood there and become known as Cat, especially for the inhuman catlike physical characteristics Belasco had given her. As Earth’s X-Men escaped from Limbo, Belasco seized Illyana’s arm. The Kitty Pryde of our Earth seized Illyana’s other arm, but Belasco ripped the young girl from Pryde’s grasp.
Holding Illyana captive in Limbo, Belasco turned a portion of her soul demonic in nature. This part of her soul, which humans call “evil,” Illyana calls her “darksouL” Belasco also conjured a “bloodstone” from Illyana’s soul and placed it within the so-called Beatrice Medallion. If and when Belasco conjures five bloodstones for the medallion, Illyana, who would then be the demonic Darkchilde, would serve as the means by which Belasco’s masters, the Elder Gods, would invade and conquer Earth and its entire universe.
Belasco also gave Illyana’s darksoul considerable sorcerous power. Storm, herself a sorceress, took Illyana under her wing and taught her enough magic to combat Belasco’s evil influence. However, Cat feared that the more Illyana learned of magic, the easier it would be for Belasco to corrupt her. So Cat took Illyana from Storm and taught her how to fight. When Illyana was physically nine years old, Belasco made her his apprentice in sorcery.
The demonic side of Illyana’s soul reveled in serving Belasco, and his influence over her grew stronger, although her true, good personality remained in control. Years after becoming his apprentice, Illyana discovered her own mutant power to create energy discs by which she could teleport herself through space and time.
Finally, in an attempt to save Illyana, Storm fought Belasco, but the sorcerer had Cat wound Storm. Horrified, Illyana tried to keep Cat away from Storm, and Belasco, displeased, ordered Cat to attack Illyana. Illyana found herself forced to kill Cat to save herself.
Finally, Illyana, who had mastered the magic in Belasco’s books, did battle with Belasco himself, using her newly formed Soulsword, the ultimate expression of her mystical power. As the two battled, Illyana grew mentally and physically more demonic while Belasco reverted to human form, losing much of his power. Illyana nearly killed Belasco with the Soulsword but decided not to give in to her demonic side, and she let him live. She drove Belasco from Limbo and regained her human form.
At long last Illyana returned to Earth, arriving at a point only seconds after the X-Men’s escape from Limbo. Belasco’s principal demon servant, S’ym, followed Illyana to Earth, but the girl defeated him in battle and demanded that he renounce Belasco. S’ym did so, and from that time forward Illyana was undisputed master of Belasco’s Limbo. However, Illyana prefers to live on Earth where she has become a member of the New Mutants. Illyana has taken the code name Magik and is the best friend of X-Man Kitty Pryde.
Recently, Magik’s mystical mastery of Limbo was challenged by S’ym, who had been infected by Magus’s transmode virus. In addition, a number of mystical barriers have broken down, and creatures of magic are invading the physical plane. This will undoubtedly affect Magik. Her ultimate fate, for good or evil, may be decided soon.