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Fighting: |
Mn |
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Agility: |
Mn |
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Strength: |
Am |
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Endurance: |
Shift-Z |
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Reason: |
In |
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Intuition: |
Rm |
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Psyche: |
Shift-Y |
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Health: |
700 |
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Karma: |
270 |
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Resources: |
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Popularity: |
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Real Name: Seth
Occupation: God of Evil, Usurper of Death, would-be conqueror
Legal Status: None
Identity: The general population of Earth believes Seth to be an Egyptian mythological character
Place of Birth: Hellopolis
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Osiris (brother), Isis (sister), Nephyts (wife, aunt, sister), Geb (father), Nut (mother), Anubis (nephew), Horus (nephew), Thoth (uncle)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Gods of Heliopolis
Known Powers:
Immortality: Seth has Class 1000 Resistance to aging and disease. He also has Immortality as per the Power in the Players' Book. He can only be killed permanently in his home plane of Hellopolls.
Invulnerability: Seth has Unearthly protection against energy and mental attacks. He has Amazing protection against all physical attacks.
Hypnotic Control: Seth can exert Amazing control over the minds and actions of others. To do so, Seth must meet the eyes of his target, which requires an Agility FEAT against the target's Agility. If a target is actively resisting eye-contact, Seth's attempts receive a -3CS.
Plasma Generation: Seth can release Unearthly rank mystic energy from his hand.
Death Touch: Having usurped the position and powers of death god, Seth can kill mortals with an Unearthly rank Rotting Touch. His touch also acts as a Monstrous rank Corrosive.
Mark of Death: Seth can curse any individual in a way that marks him with a visible sign on the cheek. Only one person at a time can be thus marked, and doing so causes Seth to forfeit half his current Karma score. When Seth meets this character again, one of the two (probably not Seth) will die. This curse supercedes all other considerations, including Immortality or other Powers. The details are left to the Judge on a case-by-case basis. It is suggested that when a Death Cursed character next meets Seth, he can use no Karma, and any healing powers will prove to be unusable against any wounds inflicted by Seth.
Dimensional Portals: Seth can open gates from any dimension to any other. He has Monstrous skill at this power, but need only roll when opening a portal to an unfamiliar or hostile dimension, or when attempting to transport an unwilling passenger. In these cases, Seth succeeds with a Green result.
Telepathy: Like most immortals, Seth has the ability to speak directly into a person's mind, avoiding the nuisance of language barriers.
Stolen Powers:
In his recent bid to extinguish all life, Seth began by draining the powers of the other Heliopolitan gods. In this supercharged state, his Strength was Shift X, his Health was 750, and his mystic bolts of plasma and Death Touch were increased to Shift Y damage.
Luck: Seth had captured Bes, the Egyptian god of luck and good fortune, and used Bes' powers to warp probabilities in his favor. Seth enjoyed the power of Probability Manipulation (see Players' Book) with the limitation that his power lasted only so long as Bes remained his prisoner.
Talents:
Seth has Martial Arts C and E. He is also skilled in Trance, Mesmerism, Occult Lore, and Mystic Background talents.
Contacts:
Seth is commander of a vast army of soldiers and warriors. Furthermore, he commands the respect and loyalty of a great many evil and death-worshipping creatures from several planes of existence.
Role-Playing Notes:
Petty, vicious, cunning, and treacherous, Seth has earned his title as God of Evil time and time again. Lately, he has usurped the title of God of Death as well, and has since sought to end all life in the multiverse. Seth is cunning, happily striking bargains with foes and then striking when they are unaware. He is never completely on the up-and-up.
History:
Heliopolis, a Greek word meaning "City of the Sun" is now part of the modern city of Cairo, but in the time of Ancient Egypt it was one of four major centers of worship for the Egyptian religion. The gods worshipped at Heliopolis constitute one of Earth's great pantheons. When the human pharaohs took over Heliopolis, the gods created their own celestial city of Heliopolis in a dimension adjacent to Earth's. It is there that the gods of ancient Egypt have dwelt through historical times until the present.
Seth was born of the union of Geb and Nut, and he is therefore one of the older generation of Heliopolitans. His wife Nephyts had no issue with him but gave his brother, Osiris, a son, Annubis.
Seth began his reign of evil by attacking, murdering, and dismembering his brother Osiris. Osiris was recovered and returned to life by the combined efforts of several of his fellow gods, and Seth fell from the good graces of his fellow Heliopolitans. Eventually, Seth warred with Horus, a battle that cost him his right hand. The two gods battled for centuries until Seth, through deceit, captured Horus, Isis, and Osiris in a mystically sealed pyramid on Earth, where they remained until freed by Odin in the 20th Century.
While Osiris, Isis, and Horus were imprisoned, Seth began to develop his power base and move toward his goal of ending all life in the multiverse. Since he had stolen the mantle of God of Death from Anubis, Seth reasoned that if all the multiverse was dead, then as Lord of the Dead, he would have dominion over all the varying dimensions.
He found his plans checked time and again by Thor, of the Norse pantheon, often in league with Earth humans such as the Thing or the Avengers. Seth finally succeeded in draining the powers of his fellow Egyptian gods, again by treachery, and so had enough power to make a grand attempt to obliterate the multiverse with his armed legions. One of his first stops was Asgard, Thor's home dimension.
Seth's plans worked well. He had used Bes' luck and his developed military tactical skills to lead his forces against not only the Asgardians but the meddling Celtic pantheon as well.
But Thor, Hogun the Grim, the Black Knight, and a band of Earth people whom Seth had empowered as the Earth Force made their way into Seth's Black Pyramid, freeing Bes and Odin, whom Seth had also captured.
In the final battle at Asgard, Seth assumed the form of a mile-long serpent, dedicated to crushing Odin while Thor battled on against Seth's ally Surtur. Hogun the Grim, marked with Seth's Death Curse, employed the paralyzed form of the Black Knight, himself cursed to be a living extension of his mystic ebony blade, as a missile weapon against Seth. The Death God vanished, seemingly dead himself.