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Fighting: |
Mn |
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Agility: |
Mn |
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Strength: |
Mn |
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Endurance: |
CL3000 |
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Reason: |
Mn |
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Intuition: |
Mn |
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Psyche: |
Un |
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Health: |
3225 |
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Karma: |
250 |
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Resources: |
CL3000 |
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Popularity: |
-1000 |
Real Name: Unknown
Other Known Aliases: Satan, Mephistopheles, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Devil.
Occupation: Ruler of an extra-dimensional land of the dead
Legal Status: Ruler of his realm.
Identity: Actual existence is unknown to general public. Humans who know of him believe him to be the Biblical Satan.
Place of Birth: Unknown
Known Relatives: Unknown
Base of Operations: Extradimensional land of the dead, sometimes called “hell” or “Hades”.
Past Group Affiliations: Six-Fingered Hand
Known Powers:
Extradimensional Plane: Mephisto draws his power from the souls imprisoned on his plane. When not on his plane, his Endurance drops to CL1000. Mephisto has Unearthly control over anyone using magic in his realm, and Unearthly control over any physical powers used on his dimension.
Dimensional Travel: Unearthly rank.
Diminuition (Self and Others): Unearthly rank.
Create Magic Items: Shift Z Rank.
Enlargement (Self and Others): Unearthly rank.
Limb Elongation: Unearthly rank.
Forced Reincarnation: Unearthly rank.
Invisibility: Unearthly rank.
Kinetic Bolt: Monstrous energy.
Levitation: Unearthly rank.
Matter Control: Unearthly rank.
Shape-Change (Others and Self): Un earthly
Create Illusions: Unearthly rank.
Neural Manipulation: Unearthly damage.
Induce Sleep: Unearthly rank.
Spirit Storage: CL5000 ability to capture souls. He can communicate with any of the trapped souls.
Summoning: Unearthly control over lesser supernatural beings.
Gateway: Create gateways to any time, place or dimension with Unearthly rank. Takes a FEAT roll to create the gateway, a yellow FEAT if it leads to another time, and a red FEAT if it leads to another dimension.
Undead Control: Unearthly control over lesser undead.
True Invulnerability: Amazing protection from any form of attack except magic.
Immune to heat, acid and disease
Limitations:
Mephisto cannot read the mind of any sentient being and he cannot control another being without that being’s previous permission.
Talents:
Mephisto has CL 3000 Reason in Occult Lore.
Contacts:
Mephisto can ask for aid from Death in crucial emergencies.
Role-Playing Notes:
Mephisto is a being of great power, who loves to use complicated plans to gain new souls. He is constantly contacting people in dire needs to make a deal with them. In return for their soul, Mephisto will help his victims. But Mephisto is the great deceiver, sticking to the exact conditions of his promise, but usually finding some way to corrupt the original deal. Anyone who deals with Mephisto usually ends up in worse shape than he started out in.
History:
Mephisto is the ruler of an extradimensional plane whose origin is unknown. Mephisto refers to his plane as “hell” or “Hades” even though it is not the hell of the Christian religion or the Hades ruled by Pluto. He calls his land “hell” in order to exploit the fears of humans who believe in one single entity of absolute evil. In the past he has used a number of different names associated with devils and demons, and he has even allowed some people to think he is Satan.
Mephisto’s plane is inhabited by the souls of dead people that Mephisto has captured. He places the souls (astral bodies) in the bodies of demons and makes the body resemble the soul’s original body. Mephisto is also served by a number of lesser demons.
At one point, Mephisto was somehow drawing extra power from the Dire Wraith aliens while they were invading Earth. With this extra power, Mephisto was able to draw the spirits of the Fantastic Four and Franklin Richards to his plane. Mephisto wished to gain Franklin Richards’ soul, but the Dire Wraiths were suddenly defeated by Rom and his allies. Weakened, Mephisto was apparently destroyed by a mental blast from Franklin Richards. Unfortunately, he was later able to reform his body.
Mephisto’s main purpose is to make as many intelligent beings as possible submit to his control, allowing him to imprison their souls when they die. He is extremely interested in souls that are very pure and good. This has led him to try several times to gain the Silver Surfer’s soul, but he has failed every time. Mephisto is also interested in gaining the souls of any gods, which has led to several unsuccessful attempts to gain Thor’s soul.
Mephisto was responsible for Johnny Blaze’s transformations into the Ghost Rider, since he is the one that placed the demon Zarathos inside Blaze’s body. Mephisto is also the one who bound demons to the body of the actor Martin Preston, who is now known as Master Pandemonium.
Recently, Mephisto initiated a complex plot that in the end would cause Hela (the Asgardian death goddess) trouble in the far future. Hela had recently stolen some twentieth century souls that rightfully be longed to him. Knowing of Hela’s curse against Thor, he wished to demonstrate to Thor the horrors of living on a plane of the dead.
First of all, Mephisto transported the Fantastic Four and Franklin Richards physically to his plane. There he tricked Sue Richards into believing that he had made a deal with Reed Richards years earlier.
Mephisto then apparently took away Reed’s intelligence, making Reed a drooling idiot. Sue agreed to stay in Mephisto’s realm if he returned Reed’s intellect and returned the Fantastic Four and Franklin to Earth.
A desperate Reed thought that the clue might mean the X-Factor team. He contacted them and asked for their help. X-Factor agreed and answered a report of a female mutant, answering to Sue’s description, causing trouble.
They found Sue Richards, under Mephisto’s control, and Mephisto in a waterfront warehouse. Mephisto tried to get them to bargain with him, but Iceman refused and broke Mephisto’s seductive spell. They attacked but he was able to use his illusion powers to confuse them. He then got Jean Gray to agree to sell her soul, in return for the release of Sue Richards and her teammates.
Mephisto tricked Rogue into believing he was susceptible to her power to absorb other people’s memories and powers. Wishing to save the X-Men, she used her powers to absorb their personalities. Rogue then found out that Mephisto had been pretending that her powers could affect him. He then drained her soul, plus the personalities of all the X-Men she had absorbed.
Mephisto then transported himself and Rogue to where the badly beaten Thor lay, after battling the Migard Serpent. Hela arrived, claiming Thor’s soul as her own. Mephisto somehow used Rogue’s powers to release Thor’s soul from his body. Mephisto captured Thor’s soul and then sent Rogue back to the X-Men. Hela arranged for the Avengers to arrive to fight Mephisto, while she tried to free Thor’s soul.
Mephisto was able to beat the Avengers while Hela was unable to free Thor’s soul from Mephisto’s mystic mylar (a CL5000 mystic substance). Mephisto tried to break Thor’s soul, with temptation and pain, but he was unable to. Realizing that such a soul on his plane would cause nothing but trouble, Mephisto returned Thor’s soul to his body and conceded defeat to Hela.
Mephisto then revealed to the Living Tribunal that he had been shamming his weakening power, and that he never really had any claim over Thor’s soul anyway. The whole plan had been to give Thor a small taste of what it was like on a plane of the dead. When Thor’s soul finally arrived on Hela’s plane, Thor would be more determined than ever to cause Hela as much trouble as possible.