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Real Name: Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla
Occupation: Student
Legal Status: Citizen of Nova Roma
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Nova Roma, Brazil
Marital Status: Betrothed
Known Relatives: Lucius Aquilla (father)
Base of Operations: Massachusetts Academy, Nova Roma
Past Group Affiliations: New Mutants, Hellions
Known Powers:
Earth Control: In addition to the normal uses of this Monstrous power, Magma has established the following power stunts:
- Create earthquakes and miniature volcanoes in a 4 area range, that can do up to Monstrous damage.
- Turn any type of stone into molten lava, shape it into any desired form, and cool it down again.
Lava Blasts: This Monstrous intensity energy attack has a 3 area range. She has established only one power stunt to date:
- Tunnel through any material with Monstrous Material Strength or less at a rate of 2 areas per round. This is slowed to 1 area per round if she is cooling the passage down so that others can use the tunnel immediately behind her.
Costume: Made of unstable molecules, a Remarkable Strength material, it provides Good insulation from heat/cold, and has a built-in electronic Psi-Screen of Amazing Strength.
Limitations:
If Magma is not in contact with the ground, or something affixed to it, her powers weaken. For every 10 rounds without contact, she uses her powers at a -1cs, up to a maximum of -3cs. The penalty disappears after 10 rounds of direct contact with the ground.
Talents:
Amara has the Sword, Resist Domination, Computer, and Jungle Survival talents. She also speaks Latin and English.
Contacts:
Amara has contacts with the government of Nova Roma, the X-Men, the New Mutants, the Hellfire Club, and the Hellions.
Role-Playing Notes:
Amara was trained to be a noble, in action and thought. She always tries to be a lady, but sometimes her air of nobility comes across as arrogance. Deep down inside she is scared, afraid that her powers will run loose and hurt people. She has not learned to control her temper yet.
History:
In the First Century B.C., a large number of Roman citizens feared that their republican government might be replaced with an imperial one. They journeyed to South America, and eventually built a city in the jungle near the Amazon River, Nova Roma. The original colonists of Nova Roma intermarried with a group of Incan Indians that were fleeing Spanish invaders. Then, in the Twentieth Century A.D., a faction rose among the people of Nova Roma, that wished to change the government into a monarchy based on the ancient Incan government.
Senator Aquilla, a member of the plebeian class, was the leader of a faction opposed to the imperial faction. Senator Aquilla’s wife had disappeared a few years earlier, leaving him to raise their daughter, Amara. Fearing for her life, Senator Aquilla sent Amara to live in the jungle out side Nova Roma, disguised as an Indian. Senator Aquilla feared that a mysterious fire cult and its Black Priestess wanted to use Amara as a human sacrifice.
Amara was captured by the New Mutants during a visit to the Amazon jungle. Robert Da Costa’s (Sunspot) mother, an archaeologist, had heard rumors of Nova Roma, and she wished to find the city. Amara’a disguise was revealed at about the same time that she and the New Mutants were captured by Nova Roma soldiers. Amara explained the political situation to the New Mutants, and they all soon found themselves being used as pawns in the political struggles of the city.
Amara and Dani Moonstar (Mirage) found themselves in the clutches of the Fire Cult and its Black Priestess. The Black Priestess turned out to be Selene (Black Queen), the wife of Senator Domitus Gallio, leader of the imperial faction. Amara and Dani soon found out that Selene was a mutant and a psychic vampire, and that she had killed Amara’s mother years earlier. Dani tried to attack Selene mentally, but Selene easily bested her and threw Amara into a sacrificial lava pit.
The immersion somehow awoke Amara’s latent mutant powers. Amara rose out of the pit and attacked Selene before she could throw Dani in. Amara and the New Mutants were able to defeat Selene and her husband’s imperial faction. Selene disappeared, showing up later in New York City and joining the Hellfire Club.
Senator Aquilla felt that it was time that Nova Roma learned more about modern society. He ordered Amara to go with the New Mutants, so that she could learn more about modern civilization and also so that she could learn how to control her powers from Professor X. She agreed and joined the New Mutants and Xavier’s School for Gifted Children.
Since the New Mutants’ current mentor, Magneto, had connections with Emma Frost, Amara asked to be transferred to Frost’s Massachusetts Academy.
A few months later, Amara received a letter from her father. He ordered her home to meet with a Prince that he had arranged for her to marry. Empath accompanied her on the flight to Nova Roma. During the flight there was a bad storm and the plane crashed in a swamp.
Amara and Empath found themselves being drawn closer together during their trek through the wilderness, without Empath even having to use his powers. Amara was wounded while saving Empath from a jaguar. He soon realized that Amara hoped that they would not be found by her father, because of the marriage plans her father had in store for her. Empath, knowing her wound was getting infected, used his powers to upset her so that she caused an earth tremor and raised a small volcano.
A few days later, they were found by her father, who had located them due to her earth tremors. A little later, while Amara and Empath were still in Nova Roma, Amara was captured by agents of the High Evolutionary during the Evolutionary Wars.
The High Evolutionary’s agents teleported her to a secret base, planning to remove her powers permanently. Emma Frost called Magneto and told him about the kidnapping. The New Mutants overheard Magneto talking about Amara’s kidnapping. They also heard Frost tell Magneto that they had located the base where Amara was being kept.
The New Mutants used Magick’s teleportation discs to get there be fore Magneto and the others, hoping to rescue Amara. They arrived in time to rescue Amara before her powers were taken from her, and they then defeated the High Evolutionary’s agents.
Then Magneto and the Hellfire Club arrived. Fearful of being discovered, the New Mutants and Amara teleported back to their school in New York. Before escaping, they overheard Magneto mention some special plans he and the Hellfire Club had for Amara.
The New Mutants begged Amara to stay with them, but she gently refused. She knew that she had to face her father and deal with the plans he had made for her. She also felt that she would be safer in Nova Roma, away from Magneto and the other Hellfire Club members and their plans for her.