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Real Name: Unknown even to herself
Occupation: Empath
Legal Status: Unknown
Identity: Secret
Other Known Aliases: None
Place of Birth: India
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Currently Doctor Strange's Sanctorum in Greenwich Village, mobile the rest of the time
Past Group Affiliations: Jack Russell (Werewolf), Doctor Strange and his allies
Known Powers:
Psionics: Topaz is a powerful psychic whose abilities are constantly growing. She has the following psionic powers, at Incredible rank:
Telepathy: Topaz has Typical Telepathic abilities, plus the Mental Probe Power Stunt.
Psionic Attack: Incredible range and intensity.
Empathy: Incredible rank.
Emotion Control: Topaz can cause or drain an emotion in other beings. She can affect everyone in her area but she can only affect one emotion at a time.
Telekinesis: Incredible range and intensity.
Healing: Topaz can heal herself and others, using her Psyche score to replace the injured person's Endurance rank. She can heal any number of people, but she can only heal each person once per day. She is even able to reunite a body with its soul if the two have become separated.
Talents:
Topaz has the Occult Lore and First Aid Talents.
Contacts:
Topaz is a close friend of Doctor Strange, Wong, and Rintrah.
Role-Playing Notes:
Topaz is a gentle woman who mostly uses her powers to heal others. She has a gentle but sarcastic sense humor that appears at odd moments. She is not the type of costumed hero who goes out to capture villains. She will sometimes accompany Doctor Strange on a mission, if he feels that it is not a dangerous mission.
History:
Topaz grew up in the streets of India, with no memory of her parents. When war broke out, Topaz was captured by authorities and placed in a prison camp. There she met the sorcerer Taboo, who trained her and bought out her latent powers. Using her powers, Topaz and Taboo were able to escape the camp. As Topaz grew up, she acted as Taboo's familiar for his sorcery.
Topaz and Taboo ended up in southern California, where Taboo tried to force Jack Russell, a werewolf, into giving him the book of black magic known as the Darkhold. Russell had no knowledge of the book, so Taboo ordered Topaz to kill Russell. Sensing the goodness in Russell, Topaz refused. Taboo then ordered Topaz to leave him forever.
Taboo later attacked Topaz and stole a portion of her soul. Taboo was killed soon afterward, and the missing portion of Topaz's soul returned to her. For a time, Topaz lived with Russell and his family, and the two fell in love. Unfortunately, the two were never able to admit their feelings to each other.
Russell and Topaz later encountered the vampire lord, Dracula, in Transylvania. Right after the confrontation with the undead lord, Topaz's powers began to weaken. Topaz went to India, hoping that she could restore them there. While in India she met Doctor Glitternight, who somehow stole the dark side of her soul after putting her in a trance.
Topaz recovered, and some of her powers returned. Meanwhile, Glitternight used the dark part of Topaz's soul to create a magical beast under his control. Glitternight's beast trailed Topaz back to California, where it was destroyed by Russell in his werewolf form.
Later, Glitternight returned and turned Topaz into a harpy. She resisted and eventually was able to return to her human form. Glitternight later vanished in battle with some sort of mystical force.
A few months later, the demon Mephisto kidnapped Topaz and brought her to his realm. Mephisto informed Topaz that on her upcoming 21st birthday, her powers would reach their peak, making her powerful enough to destroy even the demon lord. Mephisto then tried to kill her, but the desperate empath gained control of her powers and blasted him apart.
Mephisto later reformed himself and sent demons to attack Topaz. The demons stole the part of her soul that contained her powers, and then they imprisoned her in bedrock. She lay imprisoned as her 21st birthday passed. Later, when Mephisto tried to hold Franklin Richards captive, the young boy released an energy burst that freed Topaz's body. The rock-encrusted form of Topaz escaped to Earth and battled Doctor Strange.
Sensing a human body within the shell, Doctor Strange freed her and took her to his home in Greenwich Village. Topaz still lacked the empathic portion of her soul, causing her to lose control over her own emotions and her sanity.
The alien sorcerer Urthona somehow gained the missing part of Topaz's soul and contacted her. He offered to return the piece of her soul if she would betray Doctor Strange. The maddened Topaz agreed and helped Urthona transport Strange's home to the alien's home planet. Urthona then captured Topaz and Strange's servant, Wong.
Strange, wounded by one of Urthona's attacks, sent his soul, in the apprentice Rintrah's body, to Urthona's planet. The battle between Urthona and Strange's soul caused the release of Topaz's soul portion. Topaz regained her powers, and Strange defeated Urthona. Topaz and her friends then returned to Earth.
Afterward, Topaz stayed for a bit with the Sisters of Glastonbury Tor, female ancestors of the women who looked after King Arthur after his final battle with Mordred. During her stay, the Sisters helped Topaz gain more control over her powers.
Topaz has recently returned to New York and is once again staying with Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is currently trying to free Topaz from Ullikummis, an ancient demon who has taken up residence in Topaz's soul.
The spell to banish the demon needs a number of special ingredients, including the soul fire from the head of a demon. Strange, Topaz, and Rintrah tried to obtain this ingredient from the newest version of the Ghost Rider.
They were unable to remove the fire from Ghost Rider, because of the great pain it caused the vengeful hero. Topaz and her friends then helped Ghost Rider battle the mysterious Zodiak, whose masters were apparently magicians from another dimension. During the battle, Strange was able to gain the demonic soul fire off evil demons from another dimension.
Topaz and Strange then flew to seek aid for Rintrah, who had taken a deadly blow from Zodiak that had been meant for Topaz. Back at his home, Strange was able to save Rintrah, using his magical abilities and his medical skills.
The heroes had already gained one of the other three items needed for the exorcism spell - some werewolf fur, which they had obtained from Jack Russel. They then acquired the final ingredient, a talon of a vampire obtained while the vampire was in bat form. They got the talon from Strange's brother Victor, who had recently become the vampiric hero known as Baron Blood.
As Rintrah, Morgana Blessing, and Victor looked on, Strange began casting the exorcism spell over Topaz. To everyone's surprise, except Strange, the demon in Topaz was not the Sumerian demon named Ullikummis. It was actually Mephisto's daughter, Mephista. Drawn forth from Topaz's body by Strange's spell, Mephista vowed that she would kill them all and take their souls back with her to her father's realm. The outcome of the battle is not currently known.