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Real Name: Danielle “Dani” Moonstar
Occupation: Student, adventurer
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: U.S. citizen
Place of Birth: Boulder, Colorado
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Black Eagle (grandfather), William and Peg (parents)
Base of Operations: X-Mansion, Westchester County, New York
Past Group Affiliations: New Mutants
Known Powers:
Mental Probe: Mirage has the Unearthly ability to detect a target’s greatest fears.
Illusion Casting: Her Unearthly power creates full size, threatening images of a target’s greatest fear. Targets who fail a Psyche FEAT believe that the illusion is real. When used against multiple targets, each victim will see a different illusion. With a Red FEAT, she can create illusions of a person’s greatest desire.
Telepathy: This Monstrous ability is limited to contact with animal minds or shapechangers who are currently in their animal forms.
Death Sense: Mirage has the Unearthly ability to detect the aura of imminent death. Judges should secretly roll once before the game to determine if a “deathglow” was seen. If the first roll comes up positive, a victim should be chosen at random from the characters in the game. The selected victim is unable to spend Karma on Endurance FEATs during that game.
Ghost Staff: This magical weapon is created directly from Danielle’s mind and does Shift-Y damage to god-like beings. It is capable of penetrating even Death’s defenses.
Talents:
Danielle is a trained hunter, survivalist, and equestrienne. Additionally, her skill with bows gives her a +1 CS whenever she employs one. She is bilingual, speaking both English and Cheyenne.
Contacts:
Danielle is able to call upon the New Mutants, X-Men, X Factor, Excalibur, and especially Brightwind, her flying horse, in times of trouble.
Brightwind:
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Winged Flight: Brightwind can attain Excellent air speed (150 mph)
with its powerful wings.
Mind Link: Brightwind is psionically connected to Mirage and will
answer her summons if they are in the same dimension.
Role-Playing Notes:
Danielle is a proud, strong-willed, slightly defiant young woman. She is devoted to her real family and her friends among Xavier’s mutants. She will battle Death itself in order to save a friend. She takes her responsibilities as leader of the New Mutants very seriously, especially since Doug Ramsey’s death.
History:
Danielle Moonstar is an American Indian of the Cheyenne Nation. Moonstar’s mutant powers emerged at puberty, but she could not control her ability to create visible images of people’s greatest fears, and she thereby alienated everyone in her community except her parents, and her grandfather, the chief and shaman Black Eagle.
One night she created a symbolic vision of her parents’ deaths. Shortly thereafter her parents disappeared during a trip to the mountains. Moonstar believed them to have been killed, and her dreams were haunted thereafter by a vision of a demonic bear, whom she believed to be responsible for their deaths. This bear tried to get at Moonstar, but the spells of Black Eagle kept it away from her.
After her parents’ disappearance, Moonstar was taken in by their friends, the Robertses. Pat Roberts, their son, and Danielle were very close friends. But an inadvertent psychic demonstration scared them, and Moonstar fled to the mountains, where she was raised over the following years by Black Eagle. Finally, Black Eagle contacted Professor Charles Xavier, who had been a friend of his son, Danielle’s father, in the army. Xavier and William had become blood brothers, and Xavier had become acquainted with Black Eagle. When Black Eagle asked Moonstar to go with Xavier, she angrily refused, believing all Caucasians to be her enemies. In her anger she unintentionally created an image of Black Eagle’s death, as he had foreseen it in a prophetic dream. Chastened, she agreed to go.
But before Xavier arrived, Black Eagle was murdered by agents of Donald Pierce, a member of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club, who intended to overthrow its leader, Sebastian Shaw. Pierce was determined to kill Xavier as well as other superhuman mutants. Moonstar, unaware of Pierce’s involvement, vowed to take vengeance for her grandfather’s death. Hunted by Pierce’s agents, she was saved by the mutant Karma, who arrived along with Xavier. Xavier told Moonstar about Pierce, and the girl said she would work with Xavier to get her revenge on Pierce.
After Moonstar helped in the defeat of Pierce, she and the other young mutants became members of his new team, the New Mutants. Moonstar decided to remain with them to honor her grandfather’s request. She soon came to regard her fellow New Mutants, regardless of their racial background, as close friends. She became an especial friend of Rahne Sinclair, the mutant Wolfsbane, in part because of the psychic rapport they shared when Wolfsbane was in non-human form. Under Xavier’s guidance, Moonstar learned not only how to keep her powers under control, but also how to use her powers to create images other than those of the objects of people’s fears. Eventually she and Cannonball became the team’s leaders. Moonstar originally took the code name Psyche, but later changed it to Mirage, after the illusions she creates.
With Black Eagle dead, the demon bear was no longer prevented from seeking out Moonstar. She fought the bear outside Xavier’s mansion and it nearly killed her. The New Mutants battled the bear, and one of them, Magik, used her Soulsword to release Moonstar’s parents from the spell they were under, returning them to their human forms.
Amora the Enchantress later kid napped the New Mutants to Asgard. While she was there, Mirage rescued a winged horse from hunters. Mirage herself was rescued from the hunters by Mist, one of the Valkyries. Mirage had an immediate psychic rapport with the winged horse, whom she named Brightwind after her pony on Earth, and the horse selected her to be his rider. When the New Mutants returned to Earth, Brightwind came with Mirage.
Soon thereafter, Professor Xavier left the New Mutants in the charge of his former enemy Magneto. They lost some of their powers in an encounter with the Beyonder. Under the psychic influence of the Hellion named Empath, Magneto closed the school and sent the New Mutants to study with the Hellions’ teacher, the White Queen. Mirage instead went to her parents’ ranch in Colorado. Magneto has since recovered from Empath’s influence and the rest of the New Mutants have returned to Xavier’s school. Whether Mirage too will return remains to be seen.