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Sersi (gh)

Fighting:

Gd

Agility:

Rm

Strength:

Am

Endurance:

Am

Reason:

Ex

Intuition

Rm

Psyche

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Health:

140

Karma:

90

Resources:

Rm

Popularity:

25

Real Name: Sersi
Occupation: Actress, dancer, former stage magician, hedonist
Legal Status: Citizen of Olympia, naturalized citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record
Identity: Although Sersi’s existence as an Eternal is public knowledge, it is generally disbelieved
Place of Birth: Olympia, Greece
Marital Status: Unrevealed, but presumably single
Known Relatives: Helios (father), Perse (mother)
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: Eternals of Earth, Avengers
Known Powers:
Invulnerabilities: Sersi has CL1000 Resistance to Heat, Cold, Energy, Electricity, Radiation, Toxins, and Disease. She does not age. Though she is affected by Stun and Slam results, only a Kill result that scatters her atoms over a wide area of space can harm her.
Cosmic Energy Manipulation: Sersi can manipulate Cosmic Energy at Amazing rank, allowing her to perform the following:
  • Metabolism Boost: By bolstering her metabolism with cosmic energy, Sersi does not tire from physical exertion.
  • Energy Beams: At Amazing rant she can project beams from her eyes or hands. This cosmic energy can be used as force heat, light, and possibly other forms of electromagnetic energy.

Psionic Abilities: Using the vast powers of her mind, Sersi has the following abilities:

  • Flight: She can fly as Shift-X airspeed (50 areas per round).
  • Image Generation: Sersi can create illusions affecting all five senses at Unearthly rank.
  • Levitation: By mentally manipulating gravitons (subatomic particles carrying the force of gravitational attraction between atoms), Sersi can levitate herself along with other persons or objects at Shift-X ability,
  • Matter Transmutation: With the Unearthly ability to rearrange atoms and molecules, Sersi can change a creature or object’s shape (turning a man into a pig, for example). She pan even transmute one substance into another by rearranging sub-atomic particles.
  • Mind Control: She can control the minds of humans, Eternals, and Deviants at Excellent ability.
  • Immortality: Like all Eternals, Sersi’s life force is augmented by cosmic energy. She has total mental control over her physical form and bodily processes even when asleep or unconscious. As a result she is immortal, and can die only through an injury that disperses her atoms through space, or if her mental control over her body is somehow broken and she is then fatally wounded.
  • Telekinesis: She can use her mind to lift objects at Incredible rank or create an Excellent rank force field.
  • Telepathy: She can read the minds of humans and Eternals at Excellent rank, but cannot read Devi
  • Teleportation: Sersi can psionically teleport herself at Shift Z rank. but must succeed at a Red Psyche FEAT roll to do so. If the roll is successful, she arrives at her destination, but must succeed at a Red Endurance FEAT roll or be paralyzed with pain for 1-10 turns. No Karma can be spent on either of these rolls.
  • Uni-Mind: Like all Eternals, she can join the Uni-Mind (see Uni- Mind).

Talents:
Sersi is a talented dancer and connoisseur.
Contacts:
Sersi is currently an Avenger and can call on any of her fellow teammates. She is also a member of the Eternals, though she seldom meets with them except in times of trouble. Sersi has many social connections around the world.
Role-Playing Notes:
Sersi and enjoys everything pleasurable in life. She is well known for throwing unusual and memorable parties. Even in mortal combat she never wavers from the finest of social graces. Since joining the Avengers, however, Sersi has become more responsible. She is a staunch ally. willing to lay down her life for friends and innocents.
History:
Born to Hellos and Perse, Sersi is a third- or fourth-generation member of the Eternals, evolutionary offshoots of humanity who possess indefinite life spans and superhuman powers. Although she is at least 4,000 years old, Sersi is still considered a young woman by her fellow Eternals.

Even though Sersi has always loved the pursuit of pleasure, and she has been known for giving unforgettable parties since the days of ancient Greece, she has always been equally dedicated to her work. Having spent centuries developing her talents for psionically rearranging and transmuting matter, Sersi has gained greater mastery over this discipline than any other Eternal. She had already perfected her psionic abilities by the time of her meeting with Odysseus (the legendary hero known to the Romans as Ulysses) in the 13th Century B.C.

Returning from the Trojan War, Odysseus and his crew landed on the Mediterranean island of Aeaea, where Sersi lived in a villa. Some of the crew went ashore to explore, and Sersi was pleased to have them as dinner guests. The ravenous sailors gorged themselves with little regard for manners. Becoming drunk, they menaced the beautiful Eternal and her servants. Disgusted, Sersi transformed the sailors into pigs. Her anger having passed, Sersi took a liking to Odysseus when he came to see about his missing men. She turned the pigs back into sailors at his request, and bid them welcome once again. Though initially reluctant, Odysseus and his crew ended up spending an entire year feasting and celebrating at Sersi’s villa.

Sersi also visited Camelot during the reign of King Arthur Pendragon. While there, she helped to expose the mutant Maha Yogi, who was at the time impersonating the thenmissing sorcerer Merlin.

In recent years, Sersi has been living in Manhattan. She rents a large apartment on Manhattan’s West Side and a huge loft in Soho. She is famous in New York City social circles and elsewhere around the world as a hostess of lavish and bizarre parties.

When the Eternals and another evolutionary offshoot of humanity, the Deviants, decided to reveal their existence to the rest of the human race, Sersi publicly revealed herself to be an Eternal. The general public, however, tends not to believe in the existence of these hidden races of superhuman beings.

At one time Sersi had a close relationship with Professor Samuel Holden, a man with a strange insight into how the origins of the first Deviants, Eternals, and humans were intertwined. In his lectures, Professor Holden spoke of how the god-like Celestials descended from space and tampered with the genetic structure of early primates, fostering two offshoots of the human species— Eternals and Deviants. For some reason, the Professor’s audience quickly forgets this knowledge when the lecture has ended. Only Sam Holden remembers the Celestials and their visits to Earth.

When the Eternals decided to leave Earth, their collective consciousness in the form of the UniMind decreed that a small number of Eternals who were particularly involved with Earthly matters, including Sersi, remain behind. Although Sersi prefers not to involve herself with the Eternals’ battles against the Deviants, when those conflicts require her participation, she always joins her fellows and proves to be a formidable adversary.

On one such occasion, Sersi joined her fellow Eternals to battle the Deviant Priest-Lord Ghaur, whose army attacked Olympia, the Eternals’ mountaintop retreat and sanctuary. Ghaur acquired his army through heinous means. As part of the Deviant religion, those citizens found to be genetically unclean were consigned to die in the sacred flame pits. For countless years, Deviants walked solemnly up the temple steps to face their fate in the flame pits, all at the command of Ghaur and his priests.

In actuality, however, the PriestLord had been taking the best of the Deviants for millennia, condemning them to death under false pretenses, and then secretly storing them in stasis coffins where their minds were slowly wiped clean. The millions of Deviants supposedly sent to the fire pits suffered absolute thralldom so that Ghaur’s dreams for conquest over the Eternals might come true. Ghaur’s army was defeated, however, when the machinery granting them life was sabotaged by Thena, the leader of the Eternals on Earth, and Warlord Kro, a rebellious Deviant.

Most recently, at Captain America’s invitation, Sersi joined the Avengers. Although her prime motivation for joining was the desire for a romantic relationship with Cap, Sersi has become a dutiful and reliable Avenger. However, she is not alone in her desires, for the former member of the Serpent Society called Diamondback also has her eye on Cap. As of this writing, the consequences of this potentially explosive love triangle have not yet unfolded.